richard_smith237

Stay away from the bars !

So, do Thai guys get upset that Mongers called Malcom scape the barrel picking up Bars Girls?… … most are likely bemused….

Just when you think you have seen it all along comes this OP. Indeed - never have read such halfwitted idiocy…. one really has to wonder what goes on in the minds of some.. Its good that we get to see such posts so we are aware such people exist - it helps us understand and be more tolerant of those who aren’t very bright.

Not only do you appear poorly travelled, you appear poorly educated. Some airlines do permit the booking of a second seat.... There are now 7 Airlines who offer 'sleeper rows' also called 'sky couches' where you can book 3 seats in economy, bedding is provided - its cheaper than business (which is usually about 4x Eco)... and also cheaper than premium economy on some flights. https://www.businessinsider.com/airlines-have-lie-flat-beds-in-economy-class-2023-4

If in economy class... You'll be told to put your seat upright, window-blind open, tray table secured and seatbelt fastened... and you'd better listen or you'll have problems with the flight attendants. ... The same goes at meal time... You'll be told to put your seat upright until meal service is over. If you are not listening... You'll have problems with the flight attendants and face some consequences depending on who is behind you and how they want to handle the issue.

I think thats the only way to a handle it... Accept its going to be a crappy spell, and be as little trouble to anyone else around you.... As far as seats going back - some people just have too much to worry about, its pathetic. If the seat goes back its someones right to put their seat back, and if the person behind wants to put their seat back as a result, thats also fine. If at meal times, put the seat upright, if someone doesn't, ask the flight attendant to intervene - its not a tricky thing,

I refuse to pay tax here. Currently, I'm working a lot overseas, so spend less than 180 days per year in Thailand, as things stand, this excludes me from having to pay tax here. I'm not sure on the 'bringing in money from overseas issues'... We have plenty of bills here, School feels, Mortgage and plenty of other monthly costs, Healthcare etc I transfer money into my Wife as a 'Gift'... (I think that can be up to 15 million baht per year) I estimate about 3.5 MB gets transferred into Thailand each year. If I had to pay tax on that, I just wouldn't - we'd leave for a country where the tax actually does something for us.

Same, this year... Injured a few days before travel.. E-mailed Thai Airways... got nothing, called Thai Airways, put in holding for way too long. Wife ended up pulling strings and contacting a friend in TG. We got the Wheel chair service as soon as I'd arrived at the check-in area - through to the gate, then used crutches. The same getting off the flight in Bangkok. I think one of the primary issues is that we can exit the plane in an emergency under our own power - clearly using crutches or hopping showed this. If I'm not wrong, depending on the size of plane and number of crew only certain limits of impaired passengers are permitted - i.e. only 10 deaf people / 10 blind people etc and they need to be travelling with able bodied people etc (or some such similar requirement - I think its down to FIA regulations).

Did you made this post from your barstool n Pattaya at Soi 6? Making a hop over the border would have been a BIG PROBLEM FOR ME. I was recovering in the hospital from a recent OPEN-HART surgery and was lucky to get a taxi to the Brussels airport. Go on border-hopping was totally out of the question at that time. And jumping on a train to "Brexistan" was also totally out of the question at that time. How was I supposed to go buy a railway ticket or all these Mumbo-Jumbo your are brabbling from your barstool from my hospital bed? By your own admission you are so unfit to travel you would not take on the 2 hour 2 minute road journey from Belgium to Amsterdam after recovering from Open Heart Surgery - but want to take a 12 hour flight to Bangkok? Are you sure they didn't thrown in a lobotomy too ? Exactly, what an utter gobledigock you are brabbling from your barstool in a bar in Pattaya at Soi 6. Did you find that out with the help of the bargirl in Pattaya? yes, you are brabbling utter nonsense. But you knew that already, or not? I'm still at a loss as to how the Airline knew you were unfit to fly... but, it seems, going back to your earlier 'short tempered comments'... (clipped and highlighted below)... You were clearly in no condition to travel anywhere, let alone in no condition to fly anywhere. So.... How did the Airlie know you were unfit to fly ?... If a few hours in a taxi or on a train is too much for you to handle, My guess is that the airline staff took one look at you and realised you were unfit to fly.

Totally agree.... Although I do register the cynicism of an earlier posters who suggested the foreigners might be fined for 'touching' sea creatures, as it often seems there often exists an exaggerated response of outrage when a foreigner does 'something' as innocuous as picking up a piece of dead coral... I remember being warned by hotel staff after my Son took a small jar of sand and shells from the beach in Koh Samet for his school project - apparently, the previous week tourists doing the same think were fined a huge amount (50,000 baht)... meanwhile we have all the local businesses dumping their litter in the island etc... It is of course great that people (Foreign or Thai) will help... but what is really done about these issues? - enforcement of the fishing industry etc ?... Is anything done at all ?.. I think the easier more profitable targets are the innocents who 'touch the wrong' thing... while such issues as polluting the seas and simply binning offcuts of net and rope and not enforced at all which leads to the issue we witness here.

Impressive if she can do a good job of cooking that. Alternatively, why not order from Grab ?..... OK, so you asked your wife, why could she not have ordered from Grab ? Exactly how much have you be pi44ing off your wife lately, Bob ???... a Wife who has no interest in supporting her husband whenever possible is either a) just along for the ride and doesn't care, or, b) furious with him about something.

How hard is it to order something decent from Grab.... Sit down, have a beer and food will have arrived. To be fair, given Bob's anti Thai sentiment in many threads if he's verbalised any such impressions to his Wife she may very well have had enough and is simply there for the financial security and no other reason - why run around after him at all (possibly not though, but given Bob's posting history that would be my guess). Not only that - but did Bob actually ask her to cook something, or just expect that his wife would 'know' that he want's food at 10pm at night?

True.... Having driven in numerous countries, Thailand is not the worst.... The Middle East is absolutely awful there - the aggression on the roads in the UAE and Qatar is astonishing, not outward agression, but a degree of 'pushing and assertiveness' that makes driving in Thailand relaxing. In other area's, we can't drive - its just too risky and laws are no fit for foreigners driving, so we have 'security escorts' etc.... Driving in Japan on the other hand is a pleasure... Both Wife and I have driven there, no issues, everyone follows the rules, the roads are easy to navigate with a logical layout, the signage is clear, google Maps works well etc... everyone on the road is polite. The UK seems to be getting worse, with half the people driving aggressively or assertively, with the other half getting upset if they witness a perceived sleight by you been in the imperfect lane at a large traffic island etc... I find driving in Thailand very easy too... but thats simply because I learned not to worry about motorcyclists getting 1mm from my mirrors, rear, or cutting in front of me... it's for them to work out of there is space or not, yet on daily basis I have to brake hard to avoid a motorcyclist who 'got it wrong'... The real tell for me is: - Driving in Japan I don't see anything silly and end up thinking - blooming fool !!!... - Driving in the UK, on the two hour trip from the Airport, I may see a couple of people on the motorway driving stupidly, tailgating a lorry or sticking in the middle lane. - Driving in Thailand, within minutes of being on the road from the airport, I've seen something that makes me think 'woah - idiot.... what a pi!!ock, he nearly took them out'.... and this is before we even reach the motorway where I see numerous more examples... people on phones, babies being held in the front seat, delivery pickups swerving through traffic... What does surprise me is how few accidents there are here compared to the manner in which people drive - on that I have to compliment the Thai driving skills, as they drive too closely to each other, cut each other up, force their way in... yet there are few accidents compared to what one would imagine there would be when looking at the manner of driving here.... Another compliment is the temperament of the drivers, while there much reason for it, there is actually very little road rage here.

Should be easy to see in what lane the bike of the British driver was and the lane of the pickup truck. True... But the deceased could have been 'pushed / nudged' into the oncoming lane by the other motorcyclists.... plenty of reasons that could explain the crash was not the fault of the deceased, equally so, plenty of reasons to suggest he could be solely at fault. The picture below shows the bike of the deceased on the wrong side of the road. https://www.thephuketnews.com/british-tourist-killed-in-motorbike-accident-92537.php Witness statements suggesting the deceased was riding (over taking) and heading directly towards the oncoming pickup and rode straight into it - which IMO, seems very odd, but every odd things do happen on the roads here. I'm wondering if it wasn't more that, the decreased was over-taking, passing a line of vehicles down the centre-line of the road, and another motorcyclist pulled out either hitting the passing rider and / or forcing him to swerve into oncoming traffic... for who actually rides directly into oncoming traffic ???? (I know, we've seen examples of this too in Thailand)...

Agree with your comments - we can remove ourselves from most of the risk factors through our riding behavior, however that its not always possible. Yesterday I was riding and a car was about 1m behind me on a slow road, they weren't bulling me out of the way etc, he / she was just an idiot driving too closely for comfort... I had to speed up to get a little more space between us then pull into a 7-11 to let them pass... they probably have no idea that they were 'too close'...... poor driver training is rampant.

Best of luck with that... if living here long term its a smart option to take IMO... However, changing your nationality does not remove bigotry...

Completely agree... There are lots of different types of riders, and while riding here in Thailand clearly carries an elevated risk compared to driving a car or riding a motorcycle in our home countries, we can remove ourselves from the elevated layers of the risk profile by riding within certain boundaries.. (not riding at night, not speeding, not drunk, wearing kit, riding defensively all the time etc) - thats not to suggest this guy wasn't following common sense rules... the story could be a complete fabrication, the deceased can't defend themselves... or he could have been riding recklessly, no one knows... ... but I think most of us know by now that witness statements are one of the most unreliable forms of evidence. RIP to the Brit....

Heroin addict too ??...

I am a British person and you admit you are biased against me and have made several negative comments about me now. People in glass ceilings shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bath water. Oh dear... you are unable to prevent your lack of critical thought from betraying your true absence of intellect... My bias is against fools, regardless of nationality... and yes, I've made several negative comments about your comments, not your nationality.

What was that about snitches ???

Well I don’t want be accused by the hyper sensitive of “Aussie bashing”. It wouldn't be if you didn't fit the pattern of ONLY posting negative comments about one nationality. Because he doesn't ONLY post negative comments or threads about Aussies... Nothing strangely silent about it - just not 'strangely-bias' as you are... The bias I now have is against you, as whenever you make a negative comment about a British person in any thread, its not accompanied by similar comments about other nationalities in other threads because you have ONLY been focussing on negative stories about Brits. Have you posted any negative comments on other nationalities since you have been in this forum ?... You read, yet failed to comment anything about the Aussie, instead choosing to focus on the 'bad-brit'... You are Brit-basher (verbal sense on this forum) and can't even recognise your own bias.

I'm not making excuses of any Brit... Your binary thinking cannot deal with that - I'm calling you out on your bias so you may recognise it yourself - instead you are burying your head further into the sand. You have no idea the Brit snitched, possibly he did... you have already judged. Now you bring other Brits who've done something wrong into the discussion... and now you dream of them fighting the Aussie and hope they loose.....

Yes. So you are worried that other Thai's and other foreigners will look at you and treat you with some negativity because an idiotic minority of British reach the second rate social media headlines ?.... But you have no concern whatsoever that other 'Western looking' foreigners don't attract similar negativity towards you? Can people tell you are British just by looking at you ? Additionally - its very fortunate that most people are not bigoted and don't tar all with the same brush... Hence, I have no concern what other white-guys, Brit or otherwise get up to, because I don't believe it reflects poorly on me because I believe most people aren't stupid enough to be as openly bias as some posters here are. As a Brit in Thailand obviously I will be drawn to the Brit in Thailand threads. And none of them have been good. Not a single one. Yes, you are drawn to the 'Brits in Thailand' threads... thats because of your negative bias, you don't even know you are bias. You've only been a member for a couple of weeks - how many negative Brit stories have you found ? There will be a story every week... thats the nature of this forum, a lot of it report on what foreigners get up to. Also, when looking at 'news'.... negative stories attract more attention, thus more ad revenue... this is why most of the stories are about someone behaving badly... and that includes people of all nationalities. Why would you be proud of someone you don't know ? There have been plenty of stories in the past of foreigners doing good deeds in Thailand, plenty of Brits etc... but all these are by far outweighed by stories of foreigners reaching the headlines for doing the wrong thing - you seem to be concentrating on one facet of that bigger picture and only focusing on negative stories of Brits.

No comment on the Australian then... only comments that a Brit was also involved and that (you think) he 'squealed like a pig... .. your anti-brit bias again...

No excuse - the Brit was also scum... You failed to make any comment on the Australians situation, your input was only about the Brit... this is where your anti-British agenda is clear for all to see. I don't make excuses for anyone who behaves poorly.... And now, I'm calling you out for doing the same thing on this forum, only your negative behavior comes in the form of bigotry. Anyone of an intellectually critical and balanced mind would share similar opinions on other stories involving different nationals, instead you focus on the stories involving the British.