Brewster67

Just had a weird convo in our local Facebook group... It is really funny how whenever you have something positive to say about Thailand you get the farang mob who will gang together and try to convince everyone that Thailand aint a great place and then start to point out all the faults with the country and especially the people. I had one guy who seems to think there is no law and order in this country, I am not talking about police corruption, that exists in many parts of the world especially where they are paid very little... I am talking about him insisting that police do virtually nothing to fight crime... Right on queue the mob arrives and takes his side... So let's have a look at it from a statistical point of view... If a country's police are apathetic to crime, then wouldn't it be logical that there would be a massive problem with criminal activity in that country?... Seems logical to me... I come from the UK and trust me, crime is rife there, especially violent crime. In some cities you will see fights almost every Friday or Saturday night.. You literally can not walk the streets of a major city on your own at night. Yet in 13 years in Thailand I have seen 1 fight and that was between two rival villlage youths which was broken up by police very quickly and all were arrested had their hands zip tied and carted off. I can walk almost anywhere at night here and I feel totally safe... A cousin of my wife got caught stealing a tube of toothpaste from 7/11 and was handed a 2 year prison sentence.. In the UK you would be let off with a caution... Yes let's look at the stats... Thailand prison population is almost 370,000, in the UK with a similar population size it is around 90,000. In the UK I have had 2 cars stolen, I have been burgled twice, my car broken into and the CD player nicked 3 times and have been assaulted half a dozen times by drunken idiots. I have parked my car out on the street for 13 years here and nothing has happened to it, I have never had my home broken into and have never been assaulted by anyone ever. I am not saying Thailand is perfect, I know some crime happens as does everywhere but to say law and order in Thailand is non-existent is stretching it a bit..... Yet the mob tried their best to back up the Thai hater... There is a certain type of farang who want to live here and tear the place down at any opportunity and no doubt some will show themselves on this thread to tell me how wrong I am, and some will probably lie and make up fake anecdotes to reinforce their narrative... That is also very apparent about this type of person. For all its little faults I would rather live here than in that sh***** I came from.

I can't agree... The world is changing fast, the east is rising and the west is declining... Countries like the UK have swept across the world for hundreds of years slaughtering people and stealing their wealth and resources and the UK was at the forefront of it. The multipolar world is taking off and the unipolar world led by the USA and their European sycophants in tow are in real danger... The multipolar world is made up of all the countries that have at one time or another been victims of the west and they have a huge axe to grind. The BRICS is about to explode with over 40 countries ready to join and another 50 countries interested... The 5 current members of BRICS have a collective GDP that is bigger than the combined G7 countries.... The BRICS countries within the next 2 years will hold up to 80% of the global oil and gas export markets.... The multipolar world is where the resources are that the west can't live without.... I see a seperation happening where the west will be cut off by the rest of the world which makes up 85% of the global population and they have a massive axe to grind with the west, they won't forget history... I can see them cutting the west off from trade and that will be the total collapse of the west. Nobody needs the west, they are drenched in debt, they live off the printing press, they are a fading market... The UK is probably going to take the biggest hit of all... They are cheerleading the USA on for war with China and ther Brits are desperate to be involved. If they think the sanctions on Russia backfired onto themselves, wait to see what sanctions on China does to them.

Read my other post where I say that a video showed a half mile queue at a single foodbank... Then work out the stats yourself, In 13 years I have seen no starving people and i just asked my 40 year old Thai wife and she hasn't either. If you want forum users to do a full statistical study before they can post anything, I suggest you go find a forum of statisticians.... Or do your own research... I am not here to serve YOU.

Yes, outpatients in government hospitals are crowded which is down to the fact a doctor's clinic might charge 300 baht where many would rather pay just 30 baht and clog up the hospital outpatients dept. ???? If you want to go to outpatients, the best time is after 6pm, the place is almost deserted and there are more doctors, as they tend to come from the private practice clinics to do a couple of hours in the government hospital, many docs in outpatients are from private clinics.

My wife is Thai and used the government hospital twice in the 13 years I have been here and both times she was seen almost immediately... She paid 30 baht. Anyway, what you are referring to is almost certainly outpatient care, which usually has long queues due to the fact that many people there should really be at the doctor's clinic... Go into an A&E department and you will get instant care. In the UK, go to A&E and you are in for a long wait, where you go to outpatients and it is relatively quick because outpatients use an appointment system which you can wait weeks for an appointment.

I broke my arm 4 years ago and went to the government hospital and was taken straight in and treated, within 10 minutes I was was given a morphene injection, I had my xray done within 10 minutes and my arm set and put in a sling within 30 minutes... This being the main government hospital in Korat city with a population of about 130,000 and double that number when you take into account those living in the outlying villages this hospital serves... In the UK when my daughter broke her arm we sat in A&E from about 6pm and didn't leave until 2am and that is in a small town of no more than 25,000 people.

Yes, of course there are going to be exceptions, but my point is the societal direction of both countries, Thailand is 'developing' which means life is improving, while in the UK it is 'declining' on a national level. A lot of the people at these food banks are actually working people who can't get by without it. I watched a video just yesterday of the queue at a British foodbank, it was at least half a mile long, you don't see half miles queues at temples in Thailand for food handouts... I also just an hour ago read that of all the places Ukrainian refugees fled to, those who turned up in the UK have the most regrets, they can't get work anywhere and are exploited the most... In Thailand any Thai can get a joib almost anywhere that will give them a living, in the UK jobs are like hen's teeth and it is about to get a lot worse. Even if you can get a job you will struggle to live... Food inflation in the UK is well over 20% and is set to continue at that rate with some common staples having gone up by 175% in just the last 3 months alone. I read last year that some supermarkets were putting anti-theft tags on CHEESE.

The benefits system is in more decline than the coiuntry in general, it is becoming harder to qualify for them, as for the NHS where my sister works is on the edge of total collapse, when I was young if you got sick you could get to see a doctor the same day, now you have to wait up to 3 weeks for an appointment depending where you live. They kick you out of hospital way beforte you are well enough to leave because they have lost 60% of hospital beds, and they basically let elderly pensioners just die without any attempt to keep them alive under 'Do Not Revive' legislation which kills 50,000 a year so yeah cradle to grave, but you might get to see your grave a lot sooner than you plan... and if all that wasn't eough 20 years from now you will have a US style private system with all NHS infrastructure sold off to big Pharma. The reason you don't need to root through garbage is the fact you have a recycling system, if there was an ability to make money going through bins, you would be doing it. Finally, what is it about the word 'declining' you don't understand.... EVERYTHING you just bragged about in your 'supremiscist' way will be a thing of the past very very soon. You are all BANKRUPT, you are hanging on by the printing press that is soon to disappear. Your economy is about to totally IMPLODE... I give you 5 years tops....

The UK considers Thailand a 'developing country'... The UK has over 2500 foodbanks with around 500 being added every year, while Thailand did have a few dozen during Covid, I believe these no longer exist. So if Thailand is a 'developing country'... What the hell is the UK? I have been out of the UK for 13 years and living all that time in Thailand. Every time I visit the UK every few years I just see more and more decline. I would rather live in a 'developing country' than a declining one.

You don't need to be a mystic to see the polls are putting PTP waaaaaaay ahead of the pack and in second place is another US groomed and funded party.... Below that you have everyone scraping along the bottom. You only need to have an IQ above 60 to see that which is in your face OBVIOUS.

Obviously the US puppets are going to return to the throne tomorrow after the US putting in so much effort for the opposition. So can we safely assume that first order of business is going to be to withdraw their application for BRICS+ membership?.... Also cancel the high speed rail project and just about every other project that involves China. All to appease their masters in Washington DC. I give it 2 years maximum and we will have millions back on the streets and this lot will go the same way as their overlord and his Kith and Kin.

Oh he could list them and so could I but why should we sift through internet archives so your lazy ass can't be bothered. If he is crime free ask yourself why he fled the country and can't come back????...... Because he is a corrupt serial criminal.... End of story.

Couldn't move in town today with all the traffic coming in to sell their votes to Thaksin, ooops, I mean sell their votes to the US State Department.

That's the thing, I have known him for 30 years, back in the UK he is never like that, he only went out once or twice a week and would just sit in the bar have a few beers and chat. he has even been here before, he was here 10 years ago for my wedding and he wasn't anything like that but he was with a few others who maybe kept him grounded... He seems to have changed// I won't be inviting him back. That is for sure.

Well that was a 10 days from hell I won't be wanting to repeat. I invited my friend over from the UK to visit Thailand and within days of his arrival I began to regret it. There is something about the British that whenever they go away, alcohol forms the central plank of their experience. Admittedly I was the same in my younger days but I am now in my late 50s and I am not here on holiday. This was a big miscalculation on my behalf. I had anticipated that I would be going out more and drinking more for the next week or so, but my friend just wanted to go out and drink every afternoon and evening... It was a very tough experience for me I can tell you. But if this wasn't bad enough, once my friend got a measure of beer into himself his behaviour changed for the worse. There is a catalog of things I can write but I won't bore you, I will pick out just 2 of many examples that made me literally wince. One evening when we were sat in a restaurant and he had a few beers down him, a car pulled up outside pumping loud Thai music from the stereo and the 2 occupants got out to greet a crowd of people they obviously knew. My friend looked in their direction and waved his fist in a faux masterbatory gesture and shouted Wa*k*ers, I was mortified, they definitely knew what he meant... I almost lost my mind, I had to grab his arm and pull it to the table, you just don't do that here, we could have easily ended up in the local emergency room. On another occasion I took him to a regular restaurant that i use a lot, and am rather friendly with the family who run it. The matriach of the family served us and my friend obviously took a liking to her and as she walked away from the table he grabbed her butt right in front of her twenty-something son who was in the army... The look on his face, if they hadn't known me so well I think it would have been all out war. You just can't do this stuff here, as you know Thai society is very conservative and polite. They will restrain themselves up to a limit but that limit is finite. The British have a bad reputation abroad especially across Europe, when they step on a plane, many of them leave their brains at home. I am almost ashamed of my countrymen... Don't get me wrong, not all Brits are like this in fact the majority are not. But there are enough of them that give us this reputation that brings the whole country to shame. Anyway, after I dropped him at the airport it was like a huge weight had come off my shoulders. I had to apologise to my Thai family multiple times. I won't be inviting anyone in the future unless i have had a long talk with them how to behave here. I think I now need a holiday to recover from my Friend's holiday.

Check my bio, been here 13 years, think I have a grasp of the place by now. If you are referring to time on this forum.... 8 years. You are clearly running out of steam with that last comment..... Bwahahahaha

You are taking too much sun with your Leo. Calm down, you will give yourself a stroke. Don't forget to check under bed, you never know what evils are waiting for you. Hell, A life in constant fear is no life.

Another crazy expat that seems to think there is a Thai behind every lamp post with a machete or a gun.... Where do all these farangs live that shows Thailand is such a violent place?.... It sounds like Pol Pot's Cambodia from the late 70s where you live. So you are saying that my wife accidentaly rolls over a stupid animal and all of a sudden someone is going to shoot her husband in the head who wasn't even in the car but sat innocently at home and THAT is a good way to get murdered by all those gun toting Thais in this Mad Max style hellscape I have moved to????? You need to write for Hollywood.

Civilized behaviour is not letting your dogs <deleted> all over the place so you get your neighbours to do the cleaning up for you, Civilized behaviour is not standing on your porch watching your dogs snapping at the heels of your neighbour and don't even attempt to call them away. Civilized behaviour is keeping your pets safe and not allowing them to lounge in a place where 1 tonne hunks of metal are regularly going. Civility is reciprocal, it aint no one way street.

Or MAN UP and teach the dumb idiots a lesson. To say if my wife can't go because of a dumb animal into her own steet trying to get to her house and you say 'Don't go'.... So what?.... You want my wife asnd kids to go stay at a hotel because of a stupid animal that is a historic nuissence to the community can't be arsed to get up and walk away??? A special kind of stupid

Way over the top and over-dramatic post... The wife didn't DELIBERATELY run it over and there is no proof, the dog isn't visibly injured and you live in a very different Thailand to me, because I have been here 13 years and I see more violence in the UK in a year than I have seen here in all my time here.... YOU must live in a part of Thailand where lunatics are running all around the place with machetes and guns... I would leave that place right now if you have two braincells to rub together. There will be NO compensation, the Thai family is way too well connected to the police for that to be enforced. Soi dogs have ZERO value to us, but you are right about one thing.... I AM happy.

Funny you should say that, I said the same thing to the wife, and she said if their dog bit somebody they would say 'not my dog'.

Its like being back in the 16th century sometimes ????

Well, I could see this one coming. The house three doors down has two dogs, from 6am to about 10pm they open their gate and leave it open all day. They let their dogs just come and go as freely as they please. These doge use anywhere they wish to use as their toilet and this is probably the reason they keep their gate open, so their neighbours have to clean up after their dogs. Another thing they do is lie bang in the center of the road and you literally have to creep right up to them before they can be bothered to get up and move away. They also are quite viscious, I literally can not walk round the corner to the shop without them barking and snapping at my heels.... Needless to say I am anything but fond of these creatures and I have nothing to do with that ignorant heighbour who will just stand on their porch watching their mutts harrass people and do nothing to stop it. My kids are literal prisoners of the garden. Well a few days ago my wife was returning home at about 8pm and as usual one of the mutts was lying in the road, she slowed right down to let it move out of the way, then after she thought it had moved she started too drive forward again when she heard this noise coming from under the car that sounded like a humpety bumpety sound... she stopped the car and then saw the dog coming out and dissappeared into the neighbours garden. It didn't look like it was limping and it didn't yelp or anything, so the wife parked the car outside our house and came inside and told me. I have to say, I smiled quite a bit and congratulated her, especially when she said there was nobody around to witness it. I told her to just forget it. Last night the wife got a message from our next door neighbour saying that somebody had seen her drive over the dog and that the neighbour was pi88ed off that she hadn't bothered to come to see if the dog was alright. The wife replied saying she didn't even know she had run over the dog, the wife then told me.... I just said DENY DENY DENY, if it aint on video it didn't happen and this witness must be mistaken, and with no actual evidence then nothing can be proven. The father in law says they will probably come to ask for compensation, I said they get nowt. Apparently the dog isn't even injured yet has not eaten any food for days. In summary... If you let your dogs out in the street all day terrorising your neighbours and letting them cr@p up and down the steet and just let them lay in the road, then when something bad happens to them..... THEIR FAULT. Compensation?..... yeah right, I wouldn't give 50 baht for those flea bitten Heinz 57 Variety soi dogs. I have no animus to dogs, in fact I am quite fond of the house pet variety owned by responsibe people, but those two.... Different matter.

Yeah, I probably will do that. Usually I would bring back a large quantity of Yorkshire Tea every time I visited the UK, but have not been there for years and am now exposed to the Thai market. But yes, I won't be buying Liptons again, I will be certainly taking your advice, until then I will be double bagging the cup till they are gone.