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“my passport was thicker”.
No idea what you are talking about? No point in posting about your experiences and then talking in riddles. Does that mean you gave him some money?
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You put too much emphasis on personal issues like whether someone smiles at you or not and not enough on systematic changes to the terms of living here for a foreigner ... new immigration rules that give the impression that they want to get shot of as many westerners as possible, with the exception of those foreigners who are willing to pay for the privilege through elite visa system or by leaving large sums of money dead in a Thai Bank account. And constant monitoring through TM30 ... they will soon be microchipping your arm at the airport.
Although the rules have constantly changed over the decades we’ve only really seen this since the military’s coup ... with a growing emphasis on nationalism.
My conclusion is that the rules are designed to make you feel unwelcome ... because you are.
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32 minutes ago, Stupooey said:
Of all the pathetic replies I've witnessed over the past few years this must be the most pathetic. If you can't say anything intelligent then don't say anything at all.
If you impose that rule, he’d never be able to post again. All he’ll be left with is his equally vacuous smiley faces.
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9 hours ago, Laughing Gravy said:
No. It was pleasure dream to rid all the traitors out of the country so they can join the EU countries..
Do you even live in the UK?
The traitors are those that take Russian money to fund Brexit campaigns, like Farage and Banks.
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6 hours ago, Laughing Gravy said:
In your dreams.
In your nightmares ... Brexit was a vote to dissolve the UK.
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The only saving grace is at least this nonsense is coming to a head ... faced with a “no deal” Brexit will Parliament simply revoke Article 50 on the eve of that calamity?
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Boiler room scammers can breathe easy ... but that’s my plans to run a Tuk Tuk service abandoned.
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Burger King's burger is superior to McDonald's I suspect because they use better raw ingredients, that they have to pay more for. So the price is higher for a legitimate reason. If you go to a specialist burger restaurant they use even better raw materials, and the burger is therefore even more expensive.
You get what you pay for.
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10 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:
Yes, my house is the last in the soi, then there’s a sort of no mans land ( full of rubble and thorny trees) about 2 metres wide then a tall fence ( 3 metres ) before a soi of town houses continues .
Standing on my garden wall this evening I could see, what looked like, his car in the distance.
Tomorrow I plan to have a drive round to check it out.As weird as your experience was it might actually have been a legitimate story. I reckon you just need to be more vigilant for a few weeks, but otherwise don’t be concerned about it.
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5 hours ago, soalbundy said:
It's right up there with his hate of Obama a great president of whom Trump is insanely jealous, for him it is impossible that an Asian country could rival and overtake America.
Correct, and his infantile policy of destroying anything initiated by Obama has lost him a key strategic move in this area, the Trans Pacific Partnership would have given the US significant influence in the area, instead of the Chinese Belt and Braces initiative. His policy of bullying and humiliating allies is playing into China’s hands. If Trump survives in 2020 he might find that these countries join together and push back on the US. The follow up to “Art of the Deal” is entitled “How to lose friends and alienate countries”.
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I’d be surprised if you had any issues ... you are moving around a lot and not staying long in Thailand during any period. I’d qualify that if you have an extensive history of long stays in Thailand.
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1 hour ago, steffi said:His plan will be to hit people with pain now and just before the election they will magically make a deal and hope that everybody forgets how erratic the policy was and how it was always about a popularity contest.
Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa ConnectI think that may be his thinking, but China may have other ideas, and prolong it through 2020 to get rid of him. They might start dumping US Treasury Bonds in the run up to the vote.
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10 hours ago, Bluespunk said:
That term in itself is a lie.
You can’t reverse or prevent ageing.
Benjamin Button might have something to say about that?
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The only positive is that by trashing the stock market and pushing the US into recession he’ll be a one term president ... winning.
The US tried tariffs before, during the 1930’s, with all the same clowns cheering them on ... towards the Great Depression.
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As mentioned above, Central Food Hall has a great selection of healthy foods, and unhealthy stuff for those who enjoy that too.
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2 hours ago, Essex Reject said:
Yep, decent enough point and good luck to him, but ultimately that still involves going out to bars and doing the bar girl thing, if he's not doing that I would bet he's either in a shopping mall or stuck at home, besides the gym that is which truly are boring places.
I think he’s picking up girls who give him a massage. He invites them out for dinner. Or he goes out to dinner with his group of friends. They are all similar to him. He doesn’t stay out late and he’s not a bar crawler. At home he’d be largely ignored but here he keeps fit and healthy and has an active social life with friends. He also travels to nearby places like Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc. He’s doing exactly what he wants to do and that’s something few people ever get to do over their lifetime.
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2 minutes ago, Essex Reject said:Mmm, good effort but ultimately that is pure BS. As for being bored back home, is that a joke? There are a zillion more things to do back home than there is in this sauna. Even Thai's look completely bored here.
Let's take one category, the middle aged divorcee or widow and the retiree. Back home it would not be so easy to find a partner or get out socially, they are largely ignored in society ... so they can sit at home watching TV or come to a place like Thailand and feel young again. There was an elderly guy at my gym from the US who fits that category, and he loves it in Pattaya. He's a former executive and wealthy, but he likes going out and he can find a younger and prettier girl here, as opposed to an old lady in the US. For him it's a simple calculation and he's genuinely happy.
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On the whole I think people that uproot from their own country and spend considerable time in another culture are pretty adventurous, and from my observations come from every walk of life. The fact that people engage with you and talk about things that would be considered private back home is because you are a stranger who shares their language and culture, and they might not meet very many of them on any given day. I wouldn't, but I can understand why some do.
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On 8/18/2019 at 4:31 PM, Cadbury said:
<snip>.I use taxis almost every day in Vietnam and have done for 12 years find them a very honest lot. Maybe an odd one occasionally tries it on.
Look like a sucker, behave like a sucker and you will be sucked.
Go to a different part of the world, where you haven't been for 12 years and have no idea what the rules are, and you'll be a sucker like everyone else. 12 years anywhere and you know every scam in the book ... but don't misinform people on here that Vietnam taxi drivers are "a very honest lot" ... the majority who spend time there know thats a <snip>
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She's busy with her other sponsors ... go with your gut feel.
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If you are buying a quality computer, like an Apple, it's unlikely you'll have an issue within a year, so I'd buy at home, the US or Europe.
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24 minutes ago, Loiner said:
So the Remainers could all chose if the want to go and live in Scotland or London? Isn’t that where they already are?
Better just lose both bastions of Remainerism off to a far flung corner of federal Europe.If the UK was to create two nations, split by remain and leave voting areas, the remain economic area would be the powerhouse ... and the leaver area would be an economic wasteland, full of numpties, wastrels and old age pensioners.
The sad truth is that leaver areas are packed full of life's losers.
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2 hours ago, DannyCarlton said:
And the winners don't want one because they know that they will be the losers.
Quite correct ... their fear of a second referendum, based on the known facts, is at the heart of most comments.
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Opponents of 'no-deal' Brexit defeat PM Johnson, who promises an election
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Boris Johnson single handedly destroys his own party ... instead of "taking back control" he completely loses control ... and his transparent ruse to force a General Election is likely to back fire badly ... he won't get that until "no deal" is off the table.
Rejoice, Rejoice, Rejoice!