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    New year's eve - I will drive after drinking, what about you ?

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    Cheers, of course the title is just to push you to read this page, I won't drive at all because I sleep where I drink.
     
    But how many of you will have to drive after drinking, even long time after ?
     
    Do not lie ! Foreigners keep talking about Thai who drive drunk, but how many of you are doing exactly the same thing ? And you really think that you are better than Thai ?
     
    If you think that it's ok because you will stop drinking many hours before driving, you are just lying to yourself and to people who will be in your car.
     
    Anybody who hasn't decided to sleep where he drinks or to go by taxi is plain stupid. And if you rely on someone who is supposed not to drink, you are the same.
     
    Just interested to know if someone is going to tell the truth...
     
     
    Here's some facts for you

    - not everybody drinks
    - there's plenty of people that dont feel the need to get drunk on NYE
    - not many people will admit publicly to a crime in advance

    You sound like you have a drinking problem. You seem to set your sleeping arrangements around your habit.

    Is this thread just to make yourself feel better by finding people with bigger drinking issues you can look down on?

    Personally I think its better to start the New Year with a clear head.



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    Need a criminal Lawyer Been Scammed

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    4 hours ago, amigodaddyo said:

    Late 90's Subaru Sambar with a VW kit

     

     

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    Well - the chance of that car being stolen are almost 0 - it's hardly going to blend in, is it? It's not as if the original owner wouldn't recognize it. I don't think any self-respecting criminal would steal something so distinctive, whilst being worth so little...

     

    The number plate looks illegal - but doesn't mean the car is - just that the ordinary plates look crap and people sometimes get prettier ones made.

     

    The number 6789 is probably worth more than the car - I'd check that out first. 

     

    Windscreen is illegal - you should get some bull bars so the pedestrians/cyclists you hit at night won't scratch the paintwork.

     

    Apart from those minor issues, it's hard to see what the crime is here, other than your shocking lack of taste. The vehicle is horrific. Perhaps the original owner is still having fits of laughter and will send you the blue book when the tears streaming down his face dry out...

     

     

     

    bar ripped me off, sick of walking away

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    Your comment makes pretty clear that you don't know what you are talking about.
    Go on then genius. What did I write that wasnt true?

    I have a number of Thai relatives that run bars like this. I know exactly what goes on, who gets paid off, rules for the girls employed. Ask away.and I'll educate you...

    Is it the fact 90% of the girls have Thai boyfriends/husbands that bugs you?

    Money lenders, drug dealers... so many ways to fleece the girls working there. It shouldnt be a shock when they fleece the punters...



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    bar ripped me off, sick of walking away

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    I think "necessary" is relative. Sometime when I am in a bar (where I am a regular), sitting together with other regulars, friends order a round, and then they order a drink for a girl, and then maybe someone else buys a drink for this or that person, it can get confusing for the staff and for the punters. Some guys feel more comfortable when then sign their bills, and with some of them I think it's good that they do that. Because maybe later at night they don't remember anymore so clearly who bought a drink for whom. There doesn't have to be cheating involved. Sometimes it's just a question of who gets the bill for the last three beer and that lady-drink...
    I think the key here is 'order a drink for a girl'

    These establishments are by definition criminal enterprises. Run by pimps, they are (from the owners perspective) simply places to extract money from people with their dicks at the helm

    The customers are, by definition 'marks'. 90% of the working girls have Thai partners yet white knights regularly 'rescue' them from their plight.

    You go to such places, there's a long line of complete idiots that have gone before you, throwing crazy amounts of money around for lub.

    Presumption is that every guy in through the door is a patsy (even though there's no doors)..

    Better off going somewhere nice if you want to be treated with respect. Beer bars really are for the desperate...


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    bar ripped me off, sick of walking away

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    Why? Obviously a non bar visitor.
    Easy way is to sign the check each time you order and make sure the staff know you are doing that, then only pay for those that you sign, saves any arguments or nasty situations.
    It boggles the mind why anyone would enter an establishment where they felt thisnecessary.

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    bar ripped me off, sick of walking away

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    PAYG (pay as you go) was someone's advice! My partner who is 100% Thai has always informed me "DO NOT TRUST ANYONE" so I have lived by that Mantra as sound advice. All part of the learning curve sadly.

    I think better advice is... dont hang out in crappy beer bars.

     

    There's plenty of decent places to go out in this country and life's too short to hang out in some dung hole where the highlight is having your neck massaged by an octagenerian in a mini skirt and boob tube.

     

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    Traffic cop job restricted to thais only?

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    actually I think the Brit copsucker you met was quite right
     
    he says and you say that a fulll motorbike license is needed to carry a pillion pax
    I understand this as you do not have a full UK motorbike license
    if that is correct you can not have a pillion in Thailand
     
    you quite simply do not have the license to carry a pillion pax
    that being in Thailand or Zimbabwe or wherever
     
    based on your UK license, get a Thai motorbike license and ride with pillion pax
     
     
     



    No, he was definity an a$$hole - his eye rolling Thai colleagues said as much.

    Not a single receipt was given that day.


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    Traffic cop job restricted to thais only?

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    and for interest only what is the correct type of UK licence  ??


    I asked him the same question. Actually I first asked him Brit to Brit to let it ride.

    He said that in the UK I'd need a full motorbike license to carry a pillion passenger. He is absolutely correct but we are in Thailand...

    He came on with 'pay a 400 baht fine here or it'll be 12,000' at the station. At that point the wife intervened and told the cop what he'd threatened. Thai cop said it was nonsense and to just ignore him.

    200 baht and we were off.

    Apparently the western 'cop' is a retired British cop. Not the best type of British Bobby either.


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    Traffic cop job restricted to thais only?

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    Please don't take this the wrong way but are you retarded?


    No but you are rude.

    I got stopped in Phuket and there was an English police volunteer checking licenses and levying fines if you had a pillion passenger withou the right type of uk license.

    What a total <deleted> the guy was.

    Wasnt alone but was definitely an integral part of the team.


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    Why does it seem impossible to get a decent mixed drink in Thailand?

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    We normally drink beer but occasionally feel like a mixed drink. We have ordered mai tai's, martini's, and even something as simple and a gin and tonic but all seem above the bar tending skills of anyplace we have visited here. When we ordered the gin and tonic the bar person broke out a menu book for the drink. It consists of four ingredients (one of them is ice), gin, tonic, and a wedge of lime. The drink we eventually received was nothing like a simple "gin and tonic". We have since given up and just buy the ingredients at Tops or Big C and make our own when we are in the mood.


    Drink somewhere they dont advertise happy hour draught beer for 35 Baht and you should be ok.

    It ludicrous to imply that all drinking establishments in LOS cant make a g&t


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    wet/cool this year

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    Normally by  now its  like a desert  here, the ground like concrete the heat 40+c  many days the water turned off  locally.................this years been much cooler and very wet,  any difference by you.........Im in Prachuap Khiri Khan, el nino or  summat  like that to blame
    Been trying to concrete now for  about 8  days but had to give up due to soft ground and frequent  rain, never  seen my lake  full this time of year before, not in the last 4-5  years anyway  although the last 4  have been VERY VERYYYYYYYYYY dry.
    Pranburi dam  finally  filling up which is  a  good  thing


    If the concrete is too hot for you, don't lie on the floor.


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    Thinglish: Why professional Thais still use ‘ka’ and ‘krub’ when speaking English

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    The short answer to the article is 'they don't'.

    It is not the norm in English speaking Thais.

    There is an older gen of wealthy Thais (in their 80's now) who speak wonderful English. They don't do this.

    Middle aged and young Thais I've worked with very very rarely do it. If they do, it's usually as a little bit of emphasis when a favor has been done or is required.

    It is very far from the norm. It just adds a bit of emphasis when they know that you know the meaning.

    It's a bit more common if you are giving them a list of instructions, then male and female will often give a heart khrup between each instruction.



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    Where do you live

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    Came here on a 6 week assignment in '98. Only stayed because I couldn't face going back to work in Japan...

    I am from UK, I live in Saphan Sung, just a few mins walk from the airport link.

    Work at home, wife, 2 kids, 500 gekkos...


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