IslandLover

The Daily Mail UK article gives a bit more detail and in less juvenile language.

 Horrifying moment British backpacker almost bleeds to death after he's attacked and stabbed in the neck in Thai bar 'after telling another tourist to leave his female friend alone' | Daily Mail Online

It reminds me of the time, many years ago (early 1980s on my first visit to Phuket), when I was sitting at a beach bar and a drunk German next to me smashed a beer bottle on the bar and started threatening someone with it - again over a girl.  Fortunately nobody was injured but it was a scary incident.  The police were called and my husband and I beat a hasty retreat, having been warned not to get involved with the local cops. 

13 hours ago, Kinok Farang said:

What about the "bum fun"?

Well, I wouldn't know about that.  :-)

3 hours ago, Kinok Farang said:

Morocco used to be the place to go in the 60's and 70's to smoke hash in peace and also if you wanted a bit of bum fun.

Now they seem to produce more radical murdering islamic lunatics than the rest of north Africa.

They must all be in Europe then because I didn't come across any when I was in Marrakech not too long ago.  On the other hand, many of the Moroccan troublemakers in Belgium and the Netherlands were not born in Morocco, and instead are the children of immigrants.

10 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Missing British artist Millie Young is 'believed to be trapped inside' sunken tour vessel that is now 180ft beneath the waves after capsizing off Thailand

She is not trapped, her body is. Not difficult to say "The body of missing British artist Millie Young is 'believed to be trapped inside' sunken tour vessel that is now 180ft beneath the waves after capsizing off Thailand". 

Very poorly witten headline from I suggest an under educated person.

What do you expect from the Daily Mail/MailOnline?  

5 hours ago, Ajarnbrian said:

Surely the issue is under-age sex workers and the sex tourists exploiting this. What consenting adults do in Pattaya is otherwise their own business. 

Absolutely!  The whole point of this story is that the man in the German documentary was having sex with children.

4 hours ago, Dogmatix said:

Actually a nice little group apart from one flyer on the left.

A rather good impression of the Pleiades (Seven Sisters) constellation. ????

4 minutes ago, david555 said:

True,

but in my country Belgium the Banks  need  from June 30  2022 to deliver the balances of each 6 months to the national Bank of Belgium , only the total balances from each citizen not all details , so 30 June, 31 December 2022 and on ...., but strange enough reciprocal also for the year 2021 .....30 June & Dec. 2021

 

This as a decision from Gov.

I don't think the banks are doing that here in NL but as you say, it is a government decision not an EU one.  I know that France, which is also in the EU, has a much tighter control over its citizens' finances.

19 hours ago, Paris333 said:

Banks in the European Union formally require depositors to update their personal data every year according to the law.This means that depositors submit to the Banks all their tax information and the Tax Return of each year.

Ηave you heard Communist of New York? This is Russia European States!

Not true!  At least not where I live.  I have never once submitted my tax information to my bank in an EU country.  From time to time they will send you a compliance letter, to check that you are who you say you are and not some criminal involved in money laundering.  American Express does the same.

4 hours ago, 747man said:

Well Your Ex-Pat Network is WRONG, I'm with the Halifax which is part of The Bank of Scotland....

Why is my "ex-pat network" (I used that term loosely, it is just a group of British people who live in the same EU country as me) wrong?  Numerous people where I live had their British bank accounts closed post Brexit.  The Halifax was among the banks to do so.  HSBC and Santander (headquartered in Spain) were the only ones to still offer banking services to those with UK citizenship who did not actually reside in the UK.  This has caused a lot of problems for those affected - those with private pensions, mortgages, rental income etc. which had formerly been paid into their UK bank accounts.

Barclays, whom I used to bank with, have now decided to extend this idiocy worldwide.  No doubt other banks will follow suit.

7 hours ago, HK MacPhooey said:

Nothing to do with Brexit - if anything these repressive international banking rules (that assume we're all drug dealer and money launderers) probably were introduced by and thrust upon the UK by the unelected EU dictators. Unfortunately the Remoaners throughout all the British Government, Establishment and Civil Service are doing all they can to put the UK back into the EU      

It was due to Brexit initially when several UK banks (including Barclays) closed the accounts of Brits resident in the EU a couple of years ago.  This was because the banks concerned never bothered to get the required banking licences to do business in the EU.  Only HSBC and Santander did.  Banking compliance regarding money laundering etc. is a separate issue entirely.

8 hours ago, robertson468 said:

Try HSBC.  I bank with them and find them very good - up to now!

HSBC and Santander are the only two UK High Street banks which continue to allow non-UK residents to bank with them, according to my "expat network".

10 hours ago, Expat68 said:

Will see what happens to my HSBC account!! Mine is an account especially for people living outside of the UK, opened before I left the UK. They still know I have a house in UK

You should be OK.  HSBC and Santander are the only two High Street banks in the UK which have continued to allow Brits not living in the UK to bank with them.

9 hours ago, Goat said:

Probably a result of the Brexit.

I see the economy is tanking similar to Russia's.

England the only country in history where the people actually voted to have sanctions placed on themselves.

Barclays and some other banks (Lloyds, NatWest etc.) closed accounts of Brits residing in the EU a couple of years back.  The reason was Brexit.  The banks never bothered to take out the required banking licences to continue to do business in the EU.  Now Barclays is extending this worldwide, unless you have a "global" (usually offshore) account with them, but you have to maintain a balance of £100,000 at all times to avoid the monthly charge of £40.

I'm told by fellow expats that HSBC and Santander are the only high street banks in the UK which continue to allow Brits resident abroad to maintain accounts.

7 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

The article referred to him as having worked in Moscow in IT, he probably still works in IT now in Phuket.

If you read the article properly, you will see he's still working for the Russian IT company.  He's become a digital nomad.

2 hours ago, bbko said:

Maybe those cops were highly trained Muay Thai fighters and knew they could take that clown down in a second if they wanted.  I've seen bouncers with extensive MMA backgrounds act calmly and level headed with dealing with rowdy obnoxious drunks.

In various European holiday spots they usually beat the s**** out of them, according to the tabloid press.

8 minutes ago, transam said:

The bloke was on a zillion video phones, bang-to-rights, nicked, and so he should have been..... 

If you are talking about Mizzy, it doesn't seem to stop him.  ????

3 hours ago, glegolo18 said:

May I ask, Is he really a chinese in blood. He look well enough like a brit or at least like a westerner in his body........

I thought he looked quite tall for the average Chinese, and yes, there was something about his physique that made him different.  Having said that, China is a huge country with many different ethnic groups.

54 minutes ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

Quite agree, once this gets on social media, maybe already has?

I suspect it was filmed on Tik Tok for a reason.  You should see what's happening in the UK at the moment with these so-called social media pranksters.

6 hours ago, Adumbration said:

This is not a chinese guy.  It is actually Bam Margera in a costume.

 

It was filmed as one of the skits to be included in the next Jackass movie.

It was filmed on Tik Tok for a reason. ????

8 hours ago, IamNoone88 said:

Confirmed as Chinese in later press.

Yes, I saw that, thanks.  Also an explanation of what really happened, i.e. he was denied boarding due to his disruptive behaviour.

8 hours ago, Toby1947 said:

Grow up, anyone over 9yrs old on a skateboard needs treatment ????????????

Notice the two little boys watching on in the video?  The skateboard may have been theirs and the man attacking the cops may be their father.  Likely scenario - the kids were causing mayhem with the skateboard and the cops intervened, which in turn set the father off.

9 hours ago, IamNoone88 said:

A foreign man of Asian decent ........ yelling in Chinese! Nuff said.

Not Chinese.  More like Japanese, or as other posters have suggested, Korean.

On 7/28/2023 at 7:04 AM, steven100 said:

 

They go for the throat and won't let go.  This is why they are so lethal.  There was a recent attack on a police horse in the UK.  Fortunately it survived.  I'm not sure about the dog (an American Bully) though.

Horrifying moment out-of-control dog attacks police horse as brave onlookers try to help - Mirror Online

3 minutes ago, cardinalblue said:

If you standardize the data, people kill people at a much greater rate than dogs kill people…

 

Do people belong in society too?

Some certainly don't.