Scouse123

Oh dear, Another dafty. A man can't even go to a 7-11 without being accused of involvement with drugs. You take the biscuit for silly comments, are you just trying to keep your posting count up?

Slightly off-topic, They are forcing us into this cashless society on the pretence that customer habits and preferences are changing. My Barclays bank branch in the UK, in a busy town centre high street, introduced a number of cash paying-in and withdrawal machines in the foyer. As customers entered, they were directed to these machines rather than counter service. They even had a designated staff member assisting them in their use. Three months later, they closed the branch and said people's choices and preferences had changed, and customers were now more focused on doing their banking online. The nearest branch now is in another town and is eight miles away.

They never could stand them.

Spot on. The sparkle went off Pattaya a long time ago. You can call it nostalgia, but the Pattaya of today is a dump of poor-quality tourists compared to the Pattaya of the 1990s.

Sounds like an adventure, can I package a deal up to include Venezuela and Afghanistan?

You would think they would find something else to moan about; it should be clearly obvious that this is going nowhere. Find another cause, this one is lost.

Buy Vietnamese coffee. Nestle and the other big coffee movers and shakers have tried forever to enter that market but have struggled.

Trump has an oversimplified way of looking at tariffs, the experts, NOT ME, say he hasn't taken so many things into account, and the trade deficits are nowhere near what his charts are showing. I also think it's a load of bluster to intimidate the Chinese, and that will not work.

A military that spends loads of money on serious hardware with no regional threats. AN ARMY USED FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF CONTROLLING THE POPULATION. Then they moan they are struggling with their budgets, which I don't think they are.

What about when they refer to black people as ' negro', is that considered a cultural non malicious, non offensive norm in Thailand as well, in 2025?

Nowhere near Grandpa status, old fella. I jog at the local lake for an hour every night and go to the Gym five days a week. No alcohol for the last three months. I certainly look better than I did. I prefer Danang, Siem Reap, Vientiane, Nakhon Phanom, etc. I also like where I live, with a slower pace, and don't feel the need to be ogling women or listening to the SAS exploits of pot-bellied foreigners in the bars of Bangkok.

Thank you for that. That's Bali. Well, it's genuinely off my list. I'm not a fan of massive crowds and traffic jams these days. I can cope with Phnom Penh or Bangkok, even Hanoi, for a maximum of three days. I have always believed Bali was an exotic beach destination, without seriously googling the place.

Yep, Plenty to agree with in this paragraph. Many of them set off from home with the intention of sending money back to take care of the kids they have left with their parents, etc. However, they become enamoured with the bright lights, restaurants, easy money, and fast living. Family then takes a back seat, and sex, drugs and rock n' roll take over.

It's just a boring, repetitive video blowing his trumpet and calling everyone who drinks in beer bars on the beach losers. No content, just repetition and loves the sound of his voice. If that's his best effort, he needs to quit YouTube. He has nothing interesting to say and no originality. I think later on in the video, he strikes me as ' under the influence '

Yes, I can see, You are all heart with a post like that.

She may not be stupid, she may have been simply desperate.

There is a maximum rate on borrowing money; over that limit, it is illegal and rightly called loan sharking. At this point, the government bodies can intervene. It was supposed to be getting overhauled under Prayuth. All too often, they have been turned down by normal lending sources. Yes, sure, it's poor education, unable to manage money, call it what you want. Plenty of people in the world can't manage their money. However, it's a desperate state of affairs to set fire to yourself, and I feel sorry for her, to think there was no other way out.

He's a lonely old man, and this is one of the only ways he can get people's attention.

With free internet, there are not many excuses these days not to let people know you are safe and want to be alone. We have Messenger and WhatsApp, not to mention just a couple.

Looking at his accommodation and appearance, he didn't appear to be heavily involved in remote working. He looked more like a dishevelled man who didn't know what he wanted. As you say, he's an adult so his family now can just like it or lump it, they know he is not in harm's way, end of.

So what are you talking about? My post agrees with everything you have just written? I've pointed out already with a degree of sarcasm calling him an unruly tourist simply because he either made a joke or was being friendly, was a stretch!!! Where's your issue? And the tourist wasn't Scottish, he was Italian. The official who chastised him was half Thai and half Scottish. Read the post properly before making uninformed comments.

I have just had the same and am awaiting my complaint response. My guess is they will credit it to the most recent years; I mentioned in my complaint the year I wanted it credited to. It says online ' pending ', so I'll wait and see.

I think the job title and badge has gone to his head a bit.

Agreed, A bit of light relief and harmless fun. I've said, and got away with far worse in jest, and it's been taken that way.

There seems to be far more to this story, and the guy is well educated and apparently ' well heeled '—he is the great-grandson of the Singha corporation's owner. He was angry at corruption and attempts to oust him from a position he refused to take a salary for due to his love for the sea and the environment. So, it seems the OP was light on substance as to the full facts. With regard to the Italian tourist, if he had told them about deportation, that would have been out of order. The job seems to have gone to his head, maybe passion, maybe arrogance. https://www.nationthailand.com/sustaination/40048923