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40 minutes ago, daveAustin said:

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That's the thing when you offer up visa-free travel. If the Thais had that here, there's be far fewer deadbeat farangs in the country. It's not genuine Thai tourists causing this issue, it's the bottom of the barrel type (as above). by the way, I do hope the Japanese are charging the Thais 10x the entry fee to their national parks.  

  People showing sme ambition and travelling to other Countries to seek work are , IMO , not the "bottom of the barrel" types .

   The Japanese economy needs workers , and the Thais need jobs .

Ive have been to Japan and worked myself illegally .

There were huge demand for workers at the time and the authorities turned a blind eye to the foreign workers, even welcomed us .

   I arrived there with $100 in my pocket, spent three years working there , illegally and on an overstay , left with a much more healthy bank balance and used the money to set myself up  back in my own Country , as did many of of other foreign workers there .

   "Bottom of the barrel"? , maybe arrived that way, but certainty didnt leave that way.

It was good for everyone all round, no harm done to anyone

10 minutes ago, Wilsonandson said:

I've heard many rumours whilst being over here that if you peev off the wrong person this very thing can happen. Oh and by the way this works both ways. If you help the right person a mistake can be overlooked.

  That is a common human trait and it happens everywhere, not just in Thailand .

If you upset someone, they may take retribution 

21 minutes ago, MasterChief86 said:

how flexible are australian lawyers? for that matter, how affordable are they?

   Why Australian ?

1 hour ago, Saastrajaa said:

Whenever paying with a 1,000, I make eye contact with the server as I give her the bill, and say, in Thai, "1,000 baht note".  I won't let go of the bill and let it pass to her hand until she 1) makes eye contact with me and 2) repeats the words "1,000 baht note."  In 15 years coming to Thailand, six of them living here, I have NEVER had a problem with the wrong change being given.  I suggest you practice my method (and it goes without saying, if you haven't learned to speak Thai yet, do it).

   14 years and its only ever happened to him ONCE .

Rather then going through your routine above, everytime I spend a 1000 Baht, I would rather lose 500 Baht every 14 years

There was a group of Chinese people and neither you or any of your friends witnessed any bad behavior ?

   Thanks for that interesting report 

22 minutes ago, lostinisaan said:

When I saw that you gave an obviously suicidal poster your very helpful advice that we all have to die, I thought you might consider a little change of your username by adding an i and an n right before your username. 

  You completely missed my point .

Seems that you want to or need to get angry or annoyed about something today

My point was that we all die in the end, so theres no need to bring it about prematurely . 

16 minutes ago, lostinisaan said:

 

      My holy Christmas day kept me busy behind my screen for the whole day creating my work for tomorrow and reading your post again gave me some thoughts and a great idea, I don't want to keep for myself. 

 

  When I saw that you gave an obviously suicidal poster your very helpful advice that we all have to die, I thought you might consider a little change of your username by adding an i and an n right before your username. 

 

   Typing in a state where all humanity seems to be gone, it will help you to find yourself. G'night. 

Try understanding humour , irony and sarcasm (about typical posts TV)

1 hour ago, Bonobojt said:

yeah I was thinking about being homeless in Thailand, only because I'm going through some depression and suicide thoughts because of an health issue I'm going through

ok if anyone here was depressed and/or was having suicide thoughts, what would they do ? 

  Dont worry about it . Everyone dies in the end

You may as well stick it out as long as possible .

Dont worry about what other people think, just think about yourself

1 hour ago, lostinisaan said:

 

 Here you are, sir:  12.9360° N, 100.8828° E

 

  I hope that i could help you out. And my regards when you go there. 

   Thanks, I'll get the authorities on to him .

Working without a working visa is against the law

3 hours ago, lostinisaan said:

 

 You're asking the same question already in post # 7. Is that all you can produce? 

 

   My friend's working without a working Visa. He lives at the 7 Eleven in Pattaya, right next to the snitchplace. 

   Which 7/11 is that ?

Could you give me the exact location , co ordinates would be better .

Thanks 

1 hour ago, WhamBam said:

this is going to impact a lot on filipino's working as maids, teachers, hospital assistants and similar.

 

   I was at the Thai embassy in Vientiane last week and out of the 500 or so people getting tourist visas , over half of them were Filipinos and they all didnt seem to be tourists 

4 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

I sometimes pass a farang that is selling tissue paper on the sidewalk. I am not really in the tissue buying business on my way for my daily morning coffee, so I never checked with him what his P&L is and I am not sure if he is homeless, but there he is nevertheless.

   Does he have a working Visa for that  ?

Isnt that already a rule in UK football ?

The days of players all shouting at the ref whilst surrounding him stopped about ten years ago .

  Now a days, its mainly only the Captain who confers with the Ref

1 minute ago, 55Jay said:

So everyone you spend time with are miserable?  That's gotta suck.  Doesn't that make you miserable too? 

  Not really, because I was already miserable long  before they became miserable 

2 hours ago, tropo said:

Regarding taxes: Millions of Thai people run small businesses without paying tax. We have no idea of the OP's turnover, but it's unlikely he was over the tax paying threshold.

  Didnt he buy a house/land and pay for numerous family members to go to school and university with the proceeds from his school?

   He must have had quite a large income, supplemented by non payment of taxes

5 minutes ago, 55Jay said:

Everyone?

Seems that way to me, but there again , the people whom I come into contact with are a very small fractional percentage of the entire population

7 minutes ago, jeab1980 said:

 Thailand is always pleasant  

   Thailand really isnt pleasant these days , it certainly isnt the Land of Smiles anymore , everyone just seems so miserable these days

3 minutes ago, 55Jay said:

The people who use the visa exempt entry as intended will still come.  

 

Those who come and go on tourist visas will still come. 

 

Those who live here long-term on Non-Os will still be here. 

  And people who stay in Thailand long term on tourist visas will still come , if they really want to .

   Three tourist visas and two VES with extensions will last one year .

Thats not too difficult for people to do, if they really want to stay in Thailand

14 minutes ago, 55Jay said:

"might deter a lot of people"

 

Probably what they had in mind.

  The Thai Government may want it , but the Thais who depend on tourists do not .

But lets face it , Thailand isnt a very pleasant place to be a  the moment .

And it will suit both the Thai Government and the long tern tourists if they went elsewhere

10 minutes ago, Anon999 said:

What is your definition of quality?

  Honest, Not lying , financially independent, got her own job , never worked in a bar , doesnt have a child in the village to support , her whole life doesnt revolve around eating, drinking and watching TV , has some ambition in life , thinks about the future, rather than just thinking about the next thing they have to do .

    That sort of thing .

Then you can build a relationship which can progress

13 minutes ago, calbear09 said:

All falangs including those in their 20's and 30's? Not sure what the future holds for me but I do think my prospects with finding a solid relationship in Thailand is better today at 29 than if I were to migrate at say 40+...And yes a girl would not be my SOLE reason. If I loved my job here, I wouldn't want to leave..

   You would be better off going to somewhere else in Asia, where the females are of higher quality  like Japan or Korea

4 minutes ago, TunnelRat69 said:

BTW  I voted NO...............think it should be limited to 3...........very few true tourists enter/exit/re-enter/exit more than a couple times on one vacation...........its the others then want to limit, I stand by my comment 'long termers, get the visa'  The subject is visa at the border, not choice of transportation.   Merry Christmas

   Some of us long termers are unable to get long term visas .

I ve been here six years on short term visas .

I am also not desperate to stay in Thailand .

With all the constant clampdowns and restrictions Thailands no longer a pleasant place to be .

  Im just looking at other Countries to go and live , hopefully I should have decided by the end of the year and be gone somewhere else quite soon

37 minutes ago, lostinisaan said:

 

 Yep, I was just thinking, well, a great happy end. I've just received the three months occurrences of an institution that helps a certain nationality in emergency situations where I'm volunteering when something comes up in my area.

 

  Really bad news from a guy who came to LOS to commit suicide but survived and finally landed in a psychiatric hospital to an HIV positive guy who also wanted to die here and stopped taking his Antiviral medication.

 

  It must be nice to jerk on the keyboard when reading such a story of a homeless guy who finally made it. Those guys who ask such questions wouldn't have a problem to inform the authorities and that's very sad.

 

  I have to say it again that foreigners in Thailand seem to be the biggest enemies of foreigners.

 

   Merry Christmas to all the snitches on this so festive forum. 

 

   

 

    

  I did that post and it was meant to be tongue in cheek , a bit of subtle humor directed at people who usually post such things seriously .