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All the Thais at my workplace this morning are talking about the latest predictions from the fortune tellers in the local newspapers... 30 days and 30 nights of wind, rain, storms, and maybe a tsunami... starting from 1st October (tomorrow).
Anyone else heard about it?
Note: I'm not usually one to start rumours or post gossip, but this has got everyone really animated...
It's a load of <deleted>, don't listen to it!
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Yes, yes, yes yes, yes!
In other words, yes!
But one is always the most important!
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No Crackdowns=No News!!!
No crackdowns, no 'breaking' news!!!
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One more crackdown should be good.
I suggest a crackdown on back to back tourist visas.
That might ruin a few marriages...
That WOULD ruin a few marriages!
Thailand is not worse off with foreigners spending their money in Thailand, as opposed to in their home countries.
If this was like Britain for example, where people can come in, get residency fairly easily because of some crap reason why they don't want to go home, and then live off taxpayers' money then I would support the back to back tourist visa idea.
But because Thailand is not and never will be a welfare state, and is a third world country then I do not support this idea.
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In all of my eight years in this country, I have to say that farangs are the most unfriendliest bunch of people here that another farang could ever meet. I have lost count of the amount of times that I have walked past a farang in the street and have tried to get eye contact in order to exchange a friendly nod, or even said hello and just been completely ignored.
Why would you go ahead to assume this applies to everyone? My guess is that these folks just didn't want to have anything to do with you and, on the available evidence, I applaud their choice.
Did I say that I assume that this applies to everyone? Can't remember saying so.
How would folk not want to have anything to do with me, without ever having spoken to me and finding out what a nice chap I actually am?
Actually, you are the kind of farang that I would avoid at all costs in this country. Also, it's people like you who clog up this site, in terms of sending in pathetic replies just for the sake of it.
Go away, please!
You sell timeshare?
Secret code for knowing another TV member.
DUH.
Answer:
DUH.
No, my good friend. I do not, and have never sold, timeshare.
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there are so many crackdowns going on , so will they have next a crackdown on any further crackdowns ? This cannot go on ! Thais can only take so many crackdowns !
Well spoken!
All of these crackdowns are getting out of hand. A lot of them are wise crackdowns, such as the drug trade for instance. But crackdowns on bars closing even earlier? On massage parlours?
I understand the need of the Thai government to think that they are 'doing what's right', but eventually, if it's not already happening, less and less people will just want to stop coming here.
I wonder if anyone from the Thai government or police reads this site, to find out what expats and tourists think of their policies?
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I have never heard of anyone called Ple
Which part of the world does this come from?
Thailand
I have known a lot of "Ple"s.Comes from the word "apple"
Sometimes it is pronounced "pen", other times "pill"
Now I understand, if it had been written as "Pen", I would have recognised it as a Thai name. I would also have had a clue if it had been written "Pel"
There IS a popular Thai nickname 'Pen', but it is spelled this way and pronounced differently from 'Ple'.
This is getting rather confusing, isn't it?
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I have never heard of anyone called Ple
Which part of the world does this come from?
Thailand
I have known a lot of "Ple"s.Comes from the word "apple"
Sometimes it is pronounced "pen", other times "pill"
Now I understand, if it had been written as "Pen", I would have recognised it as a Thai name. I would also have had a clue if it had been written "Pel"
There IS a popular Thai nickname 'Pen', but it is spelled this way and pronounced differently from 'Ple'.
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A disturbing story just put out. A drastic departure from the "normal" violence occuring in the Deep South on a daily basis. Hoping extremely strongly that things are resolved peacefully....
Villagers take two soldiers hostage
Published on Sep 21 , 2005
About 200 villagers held two Thai soldiers hostage inside a mosque Wednesday after the soldiers went to investigate a deadly ambush in Narathiwat province, according to the military.
Late last night two soldiers were detained in Tanyong Limo village of Ranae district after their car broke down as they were investigating the ambush in which four villagers were wounded and one died, said Major General Pongsak Tntharasuangsak, a miltiary spokesman.
Pongsak would not identify the two soldiers, but said they were in plain clothes and were in a car chasing a pickup truck used by militants.
The villagers have formed a human shield around the mosque in which the soldiers were being held, according to news report.
Narathiwat governor Pracha Taerat and navy Captain Trikwan Krairish were
attempting to negotiate with the villagers for their release, but were not allowed to cross a bridge leading to the mosque.
Villagers assured them that the two hostages were safe.
"The villagers demanded Malaysian reporters come to cover the incident, not Thai reporters, because they do not trust the independence and credibility of Thai journalists in the area, one villager said.
I do not agree with hostage taking, nor for that matter, what many muslim extremists the world over are doing right now, in terms of violence.
But I do agree with their need for Malaysian reporters to cover the incident as opposed to Thai ones, as I agree with their mistrust of the independence and credibilty of Thai journalists overall, let alone in the area.
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Take a look at this http://www.lostinthailand.com/thailand-gui...eal-estate.html. Then take a look at this - http://lannarealty.com/faq.php #4. They are the same! I wrote the text for lannarealty.com but I now see it in lostinthailand's website. They copied it directly from me without giving any credit and when I contacted them I got the standard answer "we are looking into it and will get back to you" which they never did. Is there anything I can do?
I notice this isn't an isolated incident - http://www.lostinthailand.com/thailand-gui...chiang-rai.html and http://www.thailand-lawyer.com/land_purphase.html - probably lots more!
(Sorry, title should be copyright not copywrite)
If the information in your site is valuable enough, why don't you file a lawsuit? I'm sure that you can prove that the information in your site was established before theirs.
From past experience, just the threat of a lawsuit could make them 'get back to you' quicker, or at least take you more seriously.
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Dr Patpong, I indeed appreciate the need to keep law and order in this forum. However , friendly, and polite warnings are much preferable to indirect threats of getting kicked off the site.
Just a suggestion from one of the forum's users!
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I have never heard of anyone called Ple
Which part of the world does this come from?
Thailand
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why can't we all just.....get along.
okay, time for a group hug mrreality.
OK, let's have a group hug.
Can you stop pointing your finger at me that way please though, it's intimidating!
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AGREED Coz they won't like the other options
What other options?
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In all of my eight years in this country, I have to say that farangs are the most unfriendliest bunch of people here that another farang could ever meet. I have lost count of the amount of times that I have walked past a farang in the street and have tried to get eye contact in order to exchange a friendly nod, or even said hello and just been completely ignored.
Why would you go ahead to assume this applies to everyone? My guess is that these folks just didn't want to have anything to do with you and, on the available evidence, I applaud their choice.
Did I say that I assume that this applies to everyone? Can't remember saying so.
How would folk not want to have anything to do with me, without ever having spoken to me and finding out what a nice chap I actually am?
Actually, you are the kind of farang that I would avoid at all costs in this country. Also, it's people like you who clog up this site, in terms of sending in pathetic replies just for the sake of it.
Go away, please!
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In all of my eight years in this country, I have to say that farangs are the most unfriendliest bunch of people here that another farang could ever meet....................................................
whatever gave you that idea you miserable daft fck faced cnt.
Whatever gave me that idea?
a) Read my post again, because I already explained why, in it.
People like you.
c) Question: How do you know I'm ###### faced? You've never seen my face!
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Another classic example, is the spelling of the name 'Ple', which is pronounced ''Bun'.
This is because Thais pronounce 'apple' as 'appun', so they immediately think that 'Ple' is 'Bun'.
Crazy!
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Frankly, I don't care if a farang I see in the street is a tourist, expat or otherwise.
In all of my eight years in this country, I have to say that farangs are the most unfriendliest bunch of people here that another farang could ever meet. I have lost count of the amount of times that I have walked past a farang in the street and have tried to get eye contact in order to exchange a friendly nod, or even said hello and just been completely ignored.
For this reason I live in areas where there are next to no farangs, as I find the Thais much better people to get on with. I also only go into Sukhumvit or Silom whenever it is that I need to get some half-decent farang food.
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A culture shock for me, that continues to be one, no matter how long I live here...
EVERY Thai TV program MUST have a token lady-boy, otherwise it's not fit to be on the television.
On the subject of lady-boys, if anyone sees one on the streets in the UK, many people will stop, stare, and a lot will want to throw up (males (real men) of course!) But in Thailand, nobody looks twice, like it's a perfectly natural thing!
Oh, and in the UK, nose picking in public is very rude but in Thailand nobody looks twice, even if someone has a pick-axe up their nostrils.
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