Scouse123

39C in Kalasin and no breeze!

I have never been and always been curious. Friends of mine put me off when describing the levels of poverty and they said particularly in Manila, they always felt on edge, and unable to relax. I have met many Filipinos on cruise ships, working in Thailand and the UK, as well as Cambodia. I even have a Filipina tenant in one of our houses, but I just don't fancy going there. Stories of machine guns at shopping malls, and guys who have been there 20 years suddenly cross the wrong Filipino mafia at some random beach resort. My tenant says she feels the stories are exaggerated, but she agrees Manila is a dump and she prefers living in Thailand herself. The Philippines is way too big to judge on its capital. I have heard the women can be downright vicious, and things can turn very ugly, very quickly once they get a hold of you over there, there is none of the ' Mai pen Rai ' attitude there. I like my breaks in Vietnam and Cambodia, with a bit of Koh Chang thrown in.

Whatever you do, don't tell Doctor Tom, he thinks this hero is only missing his cape!

He should, he helped make the bent rules.

Yeah, Because that was a great photo opportunity to further his career. Why mess about with Immigration corruption when there is far more money to be earned in online gambling? When he gets up to nonsense, you allow him to play the victim and commend his previous ' deeds ' as though one cancels the other out. He tried to stamp out nothing, but none of them did, it's a pure deflection or somebody up the pole isn't getting their perceived share and you class this as an ' honest cop '

Do you honestly believe he is any better than the others? I suggest it is you who doesn't know what they are talking about.

OR You can pay somebody in an office outside the test centre 300 baht to sit in the mundane classroom bit and fill out your necessary paper forms. I did it yesterday. That leaves the difficult bit of handing in your old licence plus yellow book and Pink ID, copy passport and extension, doing the 2-minute competency test for depth and colour blindness, paying your 505 baht for a CAR driving licence, and off you go! I am not sitting through all that nonsense when I have had a full UK licence for the last 40-plus years, which is far harder, when we go through proper testing to pass, than a Thai driving licence. 🙂😆

Are you for real? He is a Joke, Joke by name, Joke by nature.

Are you for real? He's as bad as all the others.

He used to love talking to the press, I wonder why it's changed?

Yeah, But it's got this lot fired up on a warm Tuesday! Nobody outside, it's too warm, so they're all frantically getting their opinions across about somebody nicking egg fried rice! 🤣

I just don't like a hanging without a trial

Yep, What time's the stoning? I want to make sure I have some good rocks.

And how do you think they should be dealt with? They were informed they were in the wrong and therefore returned and paid the bill. Also, before we all gather for the stoning, we haven't heard the flip side of the argument, or aren't you interested?

You'll be missed terribly, when do you leave?

So a person shirtless in 40C is scum to you? All people with tattoos are scum and so are people who ride bikes without a crash helmet. It must be difficult living up to your standards of perfection when everything is rosy in the garden, and we all pop around next door to share our parsnips with the neighbours.

I wonder how many newspapers and messageboards we could fill if we reported in the UK every time somebody left a restaurant without paying? Even going so far as to include video stills as evidence of the misdeed. A public flogging is warranted for such a heinous crime.

And how did you arrive at that conclusion Sherlock? You need to get out more.

Not sure if I believe this story. I don't. It's too far-fetched IMO. That aside, if it had been an 18-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl he would be in jail facing severe charges of rape etc

58 years old, Australian, 3 am, drunk on alcohol and high on weed. What could go wrong?

And what use in the scale of things is that?

Yeah, Beer goggles.

I heard the policeman sat on the restaurant owner's steps!

What are a load of condo building owners and builders and Estate agents going to say on a forum, unless it paints Thailand's real estate market in a good light? They are not going to say don't spend your money in Pattaya people, it's full of sewerage, prostitutes and drunkards It's like asking Anheuser Busch if beer tastes good.

All mine as well, I've been trawling through gullible answers and posts to find them to no avail.