williamgeorgeallen

1 hour ago, schlog said:

NAI YANG

Congratulations you found your new holiday home base. BTW don't worry to much 4 month are quickly over!

it is a great spot and close to the airport. great advice.

champ, take a red pill and go MGTOW. she is your ex for a reason. hope you can afford to write off what ever money you put into the businesses.  dogs on the other hand are loyal but there are many more of them out there. adopt a street dog when you move back. yours is being looked after already.

just another excuse to be milked for money and goods. my girl asked me what i was getting her for her birthday and i said i was getting her the same as what she got me. that was the end of that. birthdays and xmas presents are for the kids and romantic chumps.

1 minute ago, tomwct said:

I have a 225 SQ met home in a nice housing development. I rent for 8000 THB P/m for 14 years. When I moved in my rent was 7000 THB p/m. My home was 1 year old and new when I decided on this house. I have been very happy and I will continue renting this house for the foreseeable future. I am very happy!

smart. wish someone told me to just rent when i first moved to thailand. seems renting in pattay is getting better and better value all the time.

1 hour ago, diehard60 said:

they will go free in a couple of years because they confessed and said they were sorry. you watch

depends how much they can pay in cash for their crimes.

On 31/1/2560 at 4:30 PM, Phuketboy said:

What happened to the days of a disagreement, punch up and then both shaking hands and having a beer together?  Now everyone needs to use weapons, in this case a bottle and fight in groups like the Thai's etc.  Society gone mad.  

would be better if we were moving away from fighting all together. childish behavior and does not solve anything.

9 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I think the Chinese visiting en mass probably think Pattaya is better than whatever s***h*** they come from. I certainly don't think they will be deterred.

they seemed to be deterred by the govt last year when they cracked down on zero dollar tourists. the number of buses on the roads seemed to drop off a lot. i have been out of pattaya 6 months now, not sure if they came back.

10 hours ago, tryasimight said:

you haven't checked the NZ/Baht exchange rate lately have you?

i have a business in pattaya and have not had to take any money over to thailand. looks like this year was a bit slower and i might have to take a bit when i go over in sept. it is so cheap it does not make a lot of difference if it is 25 or 28thb to the nz$. 

2 minutes ago, CLW said:

And if some foreigners want to do these jobs, just let them do. As long as they pay taxes, where's the real problem?
The law states from the late 70's, that says all...

thais could use these foreigners desperate to stay in thailand the same way america uses mexicans to do the crappy jobs there.

5 minutes ago, topt said:

Ok thanks that makes some sense. I still think the concrete part would have had rebar but only seajae can say if he saw it being done before the concrete was poured or not?

no reason to put it in one side and not the other right?

this was a poll carried out on thai people? i doubt this reform which is still many months away will achieve anything. it is almost doomed to fail due to the way the system operates. lack of funding and job buying are just 2 of the components that make reform all but impossible. 

15 hours ago, tonray said:

A moron eating a roach...now that would be something !

can watch bear grills eat all sorts of horrible insects, then wash it down with his own piss.

1 hour ago, topt said:

Seajae your pictures seem to show one half of the road in concrete with rebar. You say it has been drilled in but are you sure it does not run all the way across as that is how they normally lay it, all be it still laid on the red clay base? Not much point in drilling in rebar if joined to tarmac?

The bit worked on looks just like tarmac on top of the earth. This looks level with the concrete from your pics so presumably that's it. If I am seeing it correctly do you know why the 2 different construction types for the same bit of road?

the rebar is just pins between the 2 sections of road. the forming used has holes and they go along and poke short bits of rebar into them to stop the concrete leaking through.  hard to believe they are not putting some mesh rebar under this road.

pattaya and jomtien are great value. condo with a pool for 6000thb/month. an hour or a night of companionship with a girl half my age  for 1000thb. beers in a bar for 60thb. sounds like it will remain cheap for years to come. its paradise.

the first world status could be determined by the countries police force.  thailand will have to wait 9 more months to become first world as the reform is not being carried out till then.

4 hours ago, khunPer said:

What about the Koh Tao trash mountain..?

too late, they are already infamous for something else.

10 minutes ago, PeCeDe said:

The first point requires too much self control for a normal male. You may think you've learned but just wait... You'll see. 

i never made the mistake of getting romantically involved with a thai girl, i made the other 2 mistakes.

9 minutes ago, carstenp said:

It's fun because everybody is complaining about its a lie, every time the numbers get out. Who to believe you or TAT ?

 

some say 50000 a head used in the economy on there vacation. Do we now if they stay 1 day or 3 weeks. We don't know right

 

we can all say it's a lie, but do we have figures to back the statement up?

 

on the other hand, who cares, if they lie or telling the trues 

 

I don't, properly because I have living here  for 6 years now

of course it is impossible to get actual stats which is why they can lie all they want. i have been following tourist numbers for 10 years as i have a vested interest in it. the numbers continued to go up 1 million per yer regardless of floods, military coups etc.  there is just no way it can be true.

1 hour ago, USNret said:

"Sayed is the third Islamic State leader in Afghanistan to be killed since July 2016."

 

Short life expectancy in that job.

dont worry there is a line of guys waiting for their turn as the boss. this war on terror is perpetual. doubt the yanks will ever try another tactic, not as long as the weapons factories are doing good business.

1 minute ago, impulse said:

 

I didn't want to start down this path, but I can't imagine anyone making a career of teaching at 1/8-1/4 the salary they can make back home doing the same.  A few years as an adventure?  Sure.  But the power of the poon seems so often to change that year or two adventure to a career.  

 

Gotta admit, my life would have looked a lot different had I tasted it 30 years earlier.  Maybe a good thing I didn't, maybe I missed out.

 

i didnt discover thailand till my early thirties and it was shortly after a job came up on samui. if i discovered thailand in my early twenties i probably would have misspent that decade visiting thailand. dont know if i would have been desperate enough to teach english however.

4 hours ago, carstenp said:

Well done. Thailand is still a Tourist hub after all 

 

 

hub of lying about statistics. has madam TAT been on holiday? have not been getting the usual inflated monthly head counts.

i am going to suggest that nothing should be done. what, they are going to take my advice?  ha and i am not even an expert.

4 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

I've seen western guys that will do just about any menial thing to keep their cheap sex coming.

 

yea i have seen it as well. english teachers earning 30k per month going round trying to bang bar girls for free. 

get romantically involved with a thai girl, buy property start a business. broke 2 of these rules. anyone reading this should learn from my mistakes.

wonder how much the guy has paid to keep himself free.  good to see the story is still alive but the number of clicks will reduce unless something actually happens.