Jonathan Swift

No doubt at which time when heII freezes over we can all go skating

Brilliant comment. Maybe if you wore a shirt that said “I’m not Russian”, or maybe a tattoo across your forehead, you’d then be safe. Or, if you were nice and respectful to Thai people they might like you, you’d find out they don’t think the way you think they do, and you’d feel safer.

Poor guy. Going home to bed at midnight. Is Pattaya turning into America? Sounds like a bunch of cowardly predators had their eye on the old guy as a frail and easy target.

Sounds like you may have spent your share of nights sobering up in jail, so those of us who know our limits and how to behave in public are now looking down our prissy common sense noses at your comment. Common sense is something you seem to have confused with being unforgiving and puritanical. You should have asked Santa for a dictionary for xmas. Not all drunken behavior is bad behavior. We know that, do you even know the difference? Some people who drink actually know how to behave. Ponder that. Pattaya, and the world in general, can do without drunken fools whose behavior causes nothing but problems for responsible people having a harmlessly good time, who may or may not be drunk. Capisce?

Could be. Or just emotionally incapable of dealing with it. Lots of things

If you’ve been reading here much you know this isn’t exactly great literature. But that’s where the comedy comes in when they try to embellish with 1940s style phrases. Happy holidays

“would of”?

The Chinese left and instead of replacing them with well behaved civilized people this is what we get. Badly behaved tourists are not discriminatory by country. American tourists in America can be atrocious. What's sad about it is it brings shame and a bad reputation to that country, meanwhile I have met the nicest and politest Indians in and around my building, they are perfect gentlemen/ladies and speak good English and are always up for a chat. One even taught me some things about my ipad that I didn't know. But my high rise is home to a lot who come here to work and go to school, so you don't get the misbehaving tourists. And people here are probably right about them thinking they can behave just like on a bus. If I had my druthers I would hope that the departing airlines from India would give a speech about behavior at the time they gave the speech about crashing and ditching. If I lived in India I would give it a try by approaching the airline execs with that proposal, it's a win/win for all. Happy holidays to everyone. PS, my nephew lived in India and Nepal, taught there for a few years, and he and many others say that, in spite of all the bad things you hear, it is a wonderful place to visit and the people are great. It looks like only the dregs of misbehaving ignorant ones come here as tourists, which reiterates my point about tourism tending to attract touraons (tourist morons>

We're ALL "content creators". When we pour beer into a pint mug, the content of the mug is beer, then it becomes the content of our stomach. In some cases the content comes back up, and the doctor can search those contents, or it then becomes the content of out bladder and then the content of the toilet, and off to the sewers. As to the content of our bowels, well that's pretty similar to these oniine tiktokkers' and youtubers' content.

Exactly right, oh wise one. Insight into human nature will save you from a lot of holes in the road. It's too bad they don't teach about scammers' tactics in schools, along with basic human nature and emotion.

Blame the victim? Really? No, because it's in human nature for a naturally trusting person who is not sour on life to have emotions get the better of them especially when dealing with a skilled con artist. Have you ever had your emotions get the better of you?

Good people with big hearts don't suspect that people can be this bad, and they have an overabundance of sympathy where there needs to be caution. It's not that they're stupid, which is possible, but incredibly naive about what a bad world of bad people are out there, and they are generally not suspicious of anyone especially if it's a love interest. The scammer know how to play these people like a violin.

I once turned the tables on a scammer and told her I was rich but dying of cancer. She started calling me in America every day and telling me she loved me and would come and take care of me. Then I pretended to die, pretended to be my lawyer and sent her a fake photoshop check which said things like First Fake National Bank of America and In Fraud We Trust, and along the bottom with the numbers it said "000000fakecheckfakecheckhahahahah00000". She ran around Bangkok trying to cash it (she was stupid) and when she was told it was just a copy and needed the original she believed it and contacted Attorney Greg and thats when I told her it was all a ruse to teach her a lesson not to scam any more. My intent was to have her arrested for cashing a fraudulent check but I guess the banks didn't want to make a fuzz for one of their won. At first she thought I was another scammer and was mad until I convinced her that I was all one and the same person and that I had done it to teach her a lesson. She may or may not have learned, but she said she repented and we chatted for a while afterward. She had even sent me her Thai ID so I could cut the "check" . The name was her married name and I asked about it, she said she was divorced and got upset and didn't want to talk about it. So she probably had an abusive husband and a horrible divorce and (maybe) left with no money and resorted to this as a result. MAYBE. She kept me posted on her job search and eventually got one at a hotel, so she said. Pretty odd story though, but that's how I roll. I know the language of scammers, I've heard them all. Happy holidays folks, and may you never be scammed.

Singapore would give them the death penalty, if memory serves (it doesn't always, at Easter I get to hide my own Easter eggs - bada boom!)

Absolutely right. One incident here and there means nothing in the big picture. Most of the commenters here come from violent crime ridden countries, mine the US included. I came here to get away from everything American

And you were there? Saw it? One incident doesn't mean anything. I'm sure plenty of Australians stab people, exponentially more than Thai people.

Not naive, I agree, and I've been here 11 years. Never felt unsafe

Spoken like a bigot. Filipinos are very nice people. How many do you know? I've known quite a few. One incident doesn't make for a pattern nor is it statistically significant.

Why don't you go back to secondary school and pick up where you left off? Maybe even get a diploma!

OK, we'll send them an email, and I'm sure they'll stop

One incident doesn't mean anything statistically. Plus, we have no idea as to your credibility

It won't happen. No white supremacists like yourself here. The battle cry of Neo Nazis: "you will not replace us". Please self deport, your poison is not welcome here.

Hahaha. I used to play that song in piano bars

I'm with you brother. I'll take Thai people over obnoxious entitled disrespectful tourists any day of the week

Happens in the US all the time. But they usually get prosecuted now in our world of phone video