richard_smith237

IF the antibiotics worked, you had a bacterial infection not a viral. Its of course possible that the viral infection led to an additional complication of a bacterial infection in the lungs... but Antibiotics is not going to work on the Covid virus itself.

Yes... you’ve been off topic all thread.... IF you ran a restaurant and advertised your sandwich 99 baht, and IF there was anyone who wanted to eat it and came to your restaurant, and you told them, the 99 baht one wasn’t available, but the 250 baht one is.... Their irritation would be perfectly understandable. There... On topic ! You can now go back to learning about manners in Thailand !!!

Outstanding hypocrisy.....

Agreed... Its a government issue, but no one in the government or a position of decision making power on a national scale cares enough to do anything about the soi dog issue. Ultimately, this requires a solution involving people who are prepared to do the things most of us do not want to do. There are too many strays and not enough places to ’take them in’... Additionally, you are not taking these ’soi dogs in’... You are simply feeding them and allowing them to run around your area... Can you feed 200 dogs ??... will your area be safe when they become territorial and aggressive because they can’t get enough food ?... There are stray dogs in city centres, in the Soi’s and Sub-Soi’s.... we hear them barking and howling... The city is no place for a dog. What do people do outside of their ‘high walled private area’ ???... they still have to step over the stray laying outside the front of a 7-11. Go to the beach... In some area’s my child cannot play because there are aggressive stray dogs. I know you believe the dog has more of a right than humans to be wherever they are because you seem to believe that this is the dogs ’natural habitat’ and we are not part of nature.... but the reality is, these dogs are also a product of human intervention (breeding) and thus it is up to us to control their numbers so they don’t present a risk to our children. You have used how humanity has a detrimental impact nature to justify the rights of ’soi dogs’ but you have muddied the waters bringing in a separate issue... Dogs are here because we are, it is therefore our responsibility to control their existence. I think this is where you and I may differ - I’m prepared to go to extreme measures to protect children all over Thailand from any attack and would argue that ALL dogs wear an identifying collar. Any stray without a collar is removed (and euthanised - harsh, but this issue requires a harsh solution). OR... Any stray dog without a collar is spayed (un realistic as its more expensive). And the owner of any dog with a collar found unrestrained on the streets faces a fine, or their dog is removed. A very harsh solution, but sometimes the softly softly approach does nothing to protect our children.

What could possibly go wrong with that? LOL. Ok... what could possibly go wrong with that ??? It is any less safe than a Handbrake and cable ? IF the parking e-brake requires electric power to release it and the battery dies etc.. the car isn’t going anywhere anyway, without electric power... So.. I’m not sure what could go wrong unless you’re implying some ‘power surge’ could disengage the e-brake ???

While ignoring the ‘possible’ venom in your post there is an element of truth... ... not to the ‘developed superiority’ but in general to the shift in underlying mental process in those Thai's who have lived overseas. While living in Thailand and other countries outside of our home nation allow (most of) us to see the world through an alternative lens, the same can be said of Thai’s... While we may return to our home countries having learned to ‘let things go’... Thai’s may well return to Thailand and look at things through a more critical eye. Similar can also be said of ‘mixed marriage’... I have learned follow my Wife’s lead and not take issues out of my control too seriously... Meanwhile, my Wife has also learned not to accept some of the ‘silly stuff’ which unfolds around us... Perhaps a degree of Westernisation has slipped into the underlying attitudes of my Wife, whereas an element of ‘extra tolerance’ has slipped into my own underlying attitude. I suspect thats both partial de-assimilation and partial assimilation for both my Wife and I.

True its bread plus a couple of cheap toppings. That depends on the Pizza of course... Quality pizza requires quality ingredients and wood fired pizza oven... The ovens are costly to make or buy... but that aside, the ingredients and time required to make a good pizza vs the type of pizza pictured (earlier in this thread) are not the same... ... it may be called pizza - but its not the same pizza... Additionally... Toppings vary... from quality cheese, quality tomatoes... there is even a significant difference between rubbish and quality pepperoni... This... If I just want ‘bread plus a coupe of cheap toppings I’ll have a ham and cheese toastie !!!... But if I want Pizza... I’ll have something such as Massilla Pizza... ...or even Pizza Mania... But thats Bangkok. There must be some excellent Pizza restaurants in Pattaya too... But... for 99 Baht, my exceptions would be so low I’m not interested... That said, this thread is not about the quality of Pizza being served..... Its about what appears to be either deliberate false marketing by the restaurant to get people in the door... Or a clumsy mistake by the restaurant to continue marketing an expired promo.

I'm beside myself with grief...

Now... I don’t know what standard of accommodation you usually stay in... ... so I think I have to quote Liverpool Lou...

This is Thailand, not Australia. Get used to it. Silly response... theres a valid point in there. In other countries there are Unfair Trading laws in place which protect the consumer for a reason. In Thailand such similar laws do not exist... We could (and do) just deal with it, after all, its not a big deal, is it ???, or is it ????.... IF I see a promo advertised, travel to a restaurant that then executes the ‘Bait & Switch’ telling me that promo is no longer available, its false advertising and its wasted my time. Imagine a large group of friends book a table for 10 for a 1000 baht per head meal... then once everyone arrives and is seated they are told the meal is 2000 baht each... Extreme example?.. perhaps... but it highlights the issue of ‘bait and switch’... Personally, in similar circumstances I just move on and walk away and of course not bother making an aseannow post about it as I’d face a number of asinine ‘if you can’t afford it.... ‘ type posts... But... I understand people can get irritated by this misleading behaviour.... Its tantamount to the restaurant calling its customers suckers and just getting them there, they’ll be too weak to go elsewhere once they find out the real price.

the same as Rumpy pumpy.....

And you could be sued in Thailand under Thailands Defamation laws. Of course, the optics of such a response are so poor that no self respecting international hotel chain would respond in this juvenile revengeful manner, they’d accept the criticism, learn from it and thank the American for his candid feedback. This exact scenario occurred just over two years ago.... an American was sued by a hotel in Koh Chang after leaving a negative review on Trip Advisor. He [the American] was arrested and spent a handful of days in Jail. If I’m not mistaken the case was dropped only after TripAdvisor agreed to remove the review, and only after the American apologised to all staff for the review and to Thailand’s Tourism Authority. https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/expats/koh-chang-resort-sues-american-over-bad-review This is the TripAdvisor page for the hotel in question - note the warning at the Top of the page. https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g580110-d594766-Reviews-Sea_View_Resort_Spa_Koh_Chang-Ko_Chang_Trat_Province.html

I haven’t said you ‘should’... I also agree that we can easily play the ‘farang card’ and get away with our social misgivings. Speaking Thai is welcomed, although Thai’s understands and don’t mind if you don’t - the same can be said of the Wai... it is welcomed but not a unconditional requirement for foreigners as it is for Thai’s.

That last 2 sentences are very important. I believe the first one is wrong, though. Even if you're right, by Thai defamation laws it doesn't matter, to what I understood. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, please. Correct... Thailands defamation laws are concerned with intent rather than fact. A BBC journalist (Jonathan Head) faced 5 years in prison for factually reporting on a fraud. An Activist (Andy Hall) was sued by a Thai Fruit company after accusing (and proving) sub minimum wage and slavery by the company - the case was thrown out of court based on a technicality.

I can pay 200 baht. Im not giving money to liars. Advertise 99 baht give it or throw sign in bin. Last night i ate salmon on the beach. 189 baht. No lies on sign. I'm with you on this one.... I was taking the pish out of the posters who’ll argue the price and completely miss the point (as many often do on these sorts of threads).

You’ve made an illogical assumption that they don’t appreciate the effort. Its human nature in any culture for people to appreciate efforts to be respectful. It is not an astronomical leap of logic to recognise that Thai’s also appreciate it when we are polite with them.

OK... we got there !!!.... ????

"if you can’t afford 200 baht for a pizza you really have to question what you are doing here”... OK, OK... so I don’t mean that at all.... But isn’t that the kind of reply such a topic would usually attract ??? I guess we nearly got there...

They saw him coming and figured... ‘this is the type of guy who avoids farangs’.... did him a favour so he didn’t have to eat in a place where other ‘farangs’ may start a conversation !!!

Not at all - IF sizes were accurate to the description then you’d have a point but they never are... ... Its somewhat of a lottery when ordering from the UK where there is more consistency. But even shoes from different brands size out differently. Ordering from China takes this sizing guess-work to a whole new level - if I couldn’t return the item, I wouldn’t bother buying at all, neither would many people. Its china... the size charts are hilarious and what we get very often is nothing like the size chart !!.. Recently I purchased a couple of beach shirts based on the ‘chest size’.... I ordered 3XL and 4XL... both too large but acceptable for ‘walking / sitting on a beach’... I kept both of them anyway. Previously from the same Shop I’d ordered an XL T-shirt based on their size chart... I had to return the item, it was like a Medium in the UK (in the Uk I’m usually an L or an XL). In fact ‘over ordering’ is the way to shop online... People have been doing this for decades. i.e. Next online, something like 70% of the orders are returned. I do a shop each year we go home... I order loads of stuff online, various sizes, styles etc for myself and my Son... My Wife does the same for her stuff. We try it all on at home (parents) etc... and return anything we don’t want.... This is the shopping norm now and certainly beats the hassle of walking around the shops.

Your takeaway from very noteworthy post which makes a highly valid point was just that that single solitary line ????? While we are discussing ‘assimilation’ what is it with posters on this thread unable ‘assimilate’ the point and context of a whole post ????? ????

I am guessing you are not Thai. Erm... well.. I nearly went for the handle ‘somchai_sukkasem237’.... but figured it may confuse some people....

Well... from the ‘king of one line comments’..... I get that... I do also see your point... its easy to scroll past a post... whereas in a bar its harder to scroll past someone talking with you, there are more places to meet people than a bar though. Most of the people I know are through work, sports or introduction... avoiding any of them because they are ‘farang’... is just odd... ... avoiding the lone drunk farang in the beer bar trying to strike up conversation is perhaps better understood.... (apologies if that post being longer than one line was too much for you !).

Thats something I’ve always hated to see.... I’ve seen friends do that to their children.... My Wife started doing that to my Son.. I asked her if I should also force him to shake someones hand. I pointed out that anything we force him to do he won’t want to do and will act against it... We can parent better. We did encourage manners, eye contact, conversation with adults etc... but not the forced Wai... we did have to ‘remind’ our son to 'come say hello’ and he would... but never the forced Wai. Now he’s a little older he seems to know when he needs to Wai and be polite as do many other children his age. IMO - that forced Wai is doing nothing for children's manners, its simply putting them in an uncomfortable situation and doesn’t help their confidence. I suspect ’some’ parents think its cute, others see other parents doing the same thing so think thats the way they should teach their children to do it....

Perhaps it is just better for you to avoid every white man (farang).... but then I’d have to question why on earth you’d bother with this forum... ... unhinged and irrational indeed.