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neeray

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  1. 15 hours ago, Gecko123 said:

    Not sure if we're on the same page regarding "wokism" but thank you for speaking out about the word 'farang' not being a racist term.

    "Woke or wokism" can be on any page, IMO, best if on no page at all.. The word is now meaningless as it has being overused. It's generally used now by people who aren't able to express their thoughts using a greater vocabulary, or they think they're being trendy.

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  2. 1 hour ago, Mike Teavee said:

    Oh I agree with you but  just can’t see an elected government discriminating against its own people by banning them from casinos even if it is for their own good (which smacks of Nanny State). 
     

    Given a choice between dropping the idea or banning Thais I think they’d choose the former.

     

    I guess one answer is education & deterrents, unfortunately I don’t see this as being enough to prevent the things you described in your post for some people 😔

    An elected government ? ? ?

  3. 1 hour ago, Mike Teavee said:

    There would be uproar if they banned Thais from the Casinos so I can’t see them doing it.
     

    When they allowed Casinos in Singapore, Citizens & PRs had to pay a S$100 entry fee to try to dissuade the “Poorer” people from going, but people who wanted to go still went & looked at it like they were starting off at -S$100.

     

    To make it worse a 2nd casino opened shortly after the 1st & if people were losing in 1 Casino they’d often go over to the other one to see if they were any luckier there. 

    They DID ONCE TALK ABOUT banning Thais, as I recall (maybe I recall wrong). If they give Thais a free hand (pun intended), the loan sharks, which I read recently they are trying to reign in, will have a field day. Pawn shops will be overfilled, evictions will sky rocket, starvation will increase, crime will increase, the temples will need new rules to turn down loans, prostitution will increase (if that's possible). The downside of letting Thais play (and lose) in casinos is endless. Everybody knows already how Thais think they will get rich by playing the lotto and other gambling games.

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  4. 13 hours ago, Moonlover said:

    Well if he's the same guy that I've found on Linkedin, he certainly seems to have his smarts about him. Better qualified than I ever was.

     

    Former President of Reading University Kickboxing Society | Bsc. Economics graduate from the University of Reading

    United Kingdom.

     

    He doesn't strike me as the sort of guy who'd just strike out without having some sort of game plan. Good luck to the young fella. I hope Thailand delivers what he's striving for.

     

    https://uk.linkedin.com/in/riyan-ruparelia-279b99172

    I wouldn't believe anything that I read on LinkedIn anymore than I'd believe a sexy little Thai girl that I met in Pattaya who whispered in my ear, "I LOVE YOU LONG TIME".

    They're both out strictly for themselves.

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  5. 43 minutes ago, Georgealbert said:

    Maybe it should be a lesson for a lot more expats in Thailand, and that includes a few members on this forum, who suffer from their own superiority complex issues, and show the same characteristics in their postings.

    Ahh, you've noticed that too. I thought it was just "angry old man's disease".

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