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44 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Really?

 

There is peace in Bangkok without all those red-shirts. 

 

Yes, the losers should learn. And the winners should also learn that winning a democratic voted doesn't allow them to do anything they want. They are not above the law. And they are not supposed to enrich themselves. And last but not least they are supposed to work for the whole country and not just for part of it.

Thailand is bigger than just Bangkok. 

3 hours ago, thailand49 said:

If it is like Pattaya,  all talk but try finding a trash bin! 

Then you got the drainage system which is non existing when it rains goes into the drains which all leads to the ocean everything drain there including the garbage.

You don't know Pattaya and have no contact to the locals if you don't even know how to find a trash bin. 

The sad fact that too much goes into the ocean is not a Thai issue but an issue for global environmentalists. 

3 hours ago, KhunLA said:

And yet except for the 'Heroes', I never see them.

 

Seen plenty of farangs throwing trash on the ground, I've yet to see one picking someone else's trash up.

Now you've seen some in the OP. 

11 hours ago, Onerak said:

Desperate people who fled their own country because their voices are not heard and women in their own countries have rejected them  come to Thailand, survive on "wife visa" and complain in this forum only because that is where their voices are heard amongst their own kind. And it provides entertainment for people like me who don't not have anything constructive to do. 

Sorry, I left my own country last not least because I <deleted> by lazy greedy women of my age who in fact wanted me to stay so they can grab money out of me in GerMoney. 

16 minutes ago, billd766 said:

I am a bit confused. I always thought that formal labour is having a full time job for 5/6/7 days a week and a salary at the end of it. Informal labour is day labour hire, part time work, cash in hand but not necessarily work tomorrow.

 

There is more work available in the planting and reaping times and less in the growing times.

You're right, exactly that is the difference between formal and informal labour. 

13 minutes ago, BritScot said:

What has that got to do with my statement? Unless you mean prostitution is informal Labour? However, there is no prostitution in Thailand and if there were it is illegal hence criminal.......

It has much to do with your statement, because if informal labour is counted as labour then unemployment isn't so high.

The question whether it's illegal or not is a completely other question, and I'm not about to condemn Thai females.

On 11/22/2022 at 3:14 PM, BritScot said:

Everytime I see Thailands unemployment figures I switch off as they are simply nonsense from what I've seen when I lived in Thailand.  Unemployment in Thailand must technically be above 25% if you also count the nonexistent Prostitution and young adults one sees in every village who you never see working but always have booze and cigarettes........

Did it ever come to your mind that informal labour is also labour? 

On 11/22/2022 at 1:08 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

Why should I, or anybody else, like criminal who like to show off that they are above the law?

 

Obviously, there were and are lots of corrupt people all over Thailand. The main difference was that Thaksin made it in your face. Look, I made all this money, and you can't do anything about it.

Look, I am above the law.

 

And now he is in the desert and dreams about how wonderful it would be to be in Thailand.

I hope he comes back, and they put him behind bars for the rest of his life. Karma! 

Is it a crime to make money? 

38 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

My ex wife was my last hope, which was why I held on for so long, but eventually I realised she would not take care of me if I was incapacitated, so that was the end.

I'm glad I never married in the West. If I would be incacipated in GerMoney they would hand me over to one of their nanny state homes for the elderly (aka mental hospitals), and then all kinds of German women would only care for one thing: how to grab as much money out of me as possible. I avoid this in advance by simply not going back. 

4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I pray every time I think about it that I never see my 80th birthday.

Might be different if I had a family that loved me, but I don't.

 

To be honest, the idea of being reduced to living in an understaffed so called "rest home" fills me with horror. I actually know people that work in such places to know what goes on.

Being stuck in front of day time tv or eating the muck my father had to eat is not my idea of a decent life.

I found a family in Thailand to take care for me and keep me busy so I will certainly not go back to disgusting GerMoney where I come from. 

No idea how old I'll get, but as far as I can see I've never been sick except for some accidents. 

14 minutes ago, topt said:

Not in the UK you don't

In GerMoney where I come from you have to be able to identify yourself. 

35 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Have a heart, maybe they stole the car to sell it for the ticket home !

That wouldn't make it any better, would it? 

1 hour ago, arick said:

I think Pattaya doesn't need help. Looks like it's shutting down or falling down on its own. 

Pattaya has been declared dead many times, and it has reinvented itself every time. So don't worry. 

41 minutes ago, scorecard said:

Where is/was the 35 year old German Wife? and can she speak Thai or English? 

Bottom line: Would she be able to help him?

Bottom bottom line :

Would she be willing to help him? 

57 minutes ago, Celsius said:

I'd be distraught and upset too if I had to go back to Germany

So would I. But I wouldn't behave like this. 

6 hours ago, JeffersLos said:

I can understand why he was so upset, with German immigration policies being so free and open over the last 100 years or so. 

If he's upset about German immigration policies, he should stay in GerMoney and solve his problems there. 

55 minutes ago, geisha said:

There are some setbacks to allowing foreigners to buy land. First, China being very near and needing land to feed their hungry billions back home., Secondly, opening the door to all sorts of foreign criminals who can then live the life of Riley in the land of cheap smiles knowing that some welcome them.  Thirdly, places like Phuket, Samui, Pattaya, becoming half dead areas, not a light to be seen 7 months of the year.  I live in the South of France, nice beach town outside  Antibes  / Cannes.  Many wealthy foreigners have bought apartments there, all sizes from the small to the mega mansions with their yachts docked nearby. Problem is, they only come for a few months in summer , the rest of the year it’s a blackout , not a light to be seen. Certainly it brings in a huge amount of local taxes,  work for housekeepers, gardeners, cooks, chauffeurs etc , it also leads me, and a lot of other people who don’t have kids, to flee the place come October as it’s as dead as a dodo. Practically everything closes down. From day 1, bored to tears , I moved to a Thailand /Bali/ S.America rented 2nd home until life came back to the place end of March . This system manages to work in an area that is relatively wealthy, but I doubt very much it would help the common people of Thailand. I do agree that a foreigner should be able to buy a house with his Thai wife under the condition that it belongs to both of them, and not only the wife , and sale money split if divorced. 

There's a difference between owning a house and owning the soil that it was built on in Thailand. And that's correct. Because Thai soil is unextendable. 

2 hours ago, jaiyen said:

How pathetic that the government would come out and say such a stupid thing. There is no comparison between the 2 places. Prayut just poking his nose in trying to seem that he cares. Bet there wont even be a large crowd at Khao San Rd

How do you know about the crowd in Khao San Road? 

1 hour ago, kennw said:

It seems that your "facts" are coming from comic books, Russian propaganda ones at that. The Ukraine leader is a Nazi ? Read the facts he is Jewish. 

If you want to know how the real German Nazis roamed around in Ukraine in WW2 then read the story about Babi Yar (google for it) 

1 hour ago, kennw said:

It seems that your "facts" are coming from comic books, Russian propaganda ones at that. The Ukraine leader is a Nazi ? Read the facts he is Jewish. 

If you want to know how the real German Nazis roamed around in Ukraine in WW2 then read the story about Babi Yar (google for it) 

2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

This guy should be sacked for being completely out of touch with the Chinese communist party and reality. For them to come early next year they would have to abandon their absolutely lunatic zero covid policy and forced lock ups, and to do that would mean admitting they were wrong all along and the rest of the world right  - never going to happen. Going to be very few Chinese I expect for 5-10 years if they carry on

OP is about Indian tourists. Chinese tourists can come later. M