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28 minutes ago, Watchful said:

 

On another forum I read that Thai wives have a simple formula for a happy marriage:

 

Keep beer full and balls empty.

 

A good one !

Hello,

Do you think that this year 2017 Songkran week will be safer ?

Songkran 2016 = 442 Killed in 7 Days

What about this year, now that happiness has been brought back ?

7 hours ago, Skeptic7 said:

Came thru mid March at 1030 pm and the usual bored looks and all arrivals strolling by with nobody being screened. That said however, know a Thai gal with a German husband and she got randomly screened last year and had excessive bottles of wine. They confiscated all of it. She took great pride in the fact that she insisted on seeing the bottles emptied, as she assumed that otherwise those 2 cases would be going home with with those doing the confiscating.

But no fine ?

Some people could be cheated by a goat.

Anybody knows that ALL BANKS propose sms service ? Every single transaction is sent to your phone, so if you are not even able to check the messages, you are really hopeless....

Funny people :-)

"Yes, I am an idiot. Yes, the guy lied through his teeth. Yes, I should never have signed anything I couldn't read. No need to beat me up about this, I've self-flagellated at length."

The beginning is true, but I don't believe that you have been intentionally scammed, you just o not understand what people explain you like most people I meet who do not speak Thai and don't even understand each others when speaking with their girlfriend or wife.

The problem with markets in Thailand is that they don't have any brain to sell something that is not already sold by someone else.

So it's only crap and crap and crap.

9 hours ago, Jingthing said:

From the new Vietnamese restaurant --

 

Stuffed w/ beef fresh rice rolls (fish sauce dip not shown)

 

The fish sauce dish including chunks of Vietnamese sausage

Beef Pho (I'm missing add in leaves)

Sorry but I cannot find where is located this new vietnamese restaurant ?

5 hours ago, BarnicaleBob said:

There is a cure to make massage girls stop asking you if you want a happy ending.  Just bring your wife into the massage room with you, maybe both of you get a massage at the same time in the same room. 

Are you crazy !

Even more exciting if wife is watching when doing the young massage girl !!!

2 hours ago, simon43 said:

 

 

 

This is totally off-topic and you surely must be joking.

 

... and don't call me old

Sorry no offense, but I don't think that I will live this way when I will be 50. Especially when having money.

2 hours ago, Catoni said:

 

    Nobody mentioning Cambodia ?    Like Siem Reap?  Or laid back Kampot, Pursat, or Battambang, Stung Treng, Trapeang Prasat etc. ? 

       (I think I would avoid Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville except perhaps for short visit.)

Lucky that most still don't think about Cambodia ! Don't tell the, and let them enjoy Vietnam and PI...

2 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Well, contrary to what often gets put forward here, people of a particular nationality do NOT always hold the same views on every issue.

 

On the point you raise above, for a long time, my Thai wife always told me (an American) that she had no interest in living anywhere other than Thailand and that included not living in America. Of course, she had never lived anywhere or traveled anywhere but Thailand before we met.

 

Then last year, I took her on our first trip together to the U.S., and she had a good look around Southern California. Now that we've come back home to BKK from our travels, suddenly, it seems, she's reconsidered her prior staunch view and now is at least willing to consider living in the U.S. at some future point.

 

Sometimes it may just take a bit of direct personal exposure to cause people to reconsider their views about someplace they've never actually been to or lived.

 

The problem does not seem to be your wife but you:  bring her to live there few years and understand how wrong it is to think that she is able to live there.

4 hours ago, rlopes said:

 

Who says Vietnam doesn't have thieves? The Vietname are just as prone, or more, than the Thai, to double price you, serve you stale food or take advantage of you in any way they can. In fact, I feel that they are not ashamed of that, due to their culture of "caring for family only", while in Thailand they might at least try to hide that.

Their language sound like something that came from hell and their food is too bland.

And seriously, Thais can be great. The more you avoid tourist areas, the better. The problem is getting away from those areas nowadays, as they are spread everywhere.

Exactly what many will understand later when dying there.

10 minutes ago, Foghorn Leghorn said:

I have shared my life between Vietnam 65%and Thailand 35% over the past 10 years. I have finally made my choice and have settled permanently in Vietnam with occasional visits to Thailand.

A no brainer decision really considering the hassles of visas in Thailand. In Vietnam it much easier, less inconvenient and less costly  to get a work visa or a 12 month visa and in my case a marriage visa exemption (5 years at a  cost of US$10 and a visit to the local Immigration office every 12 months for a passport stamp). In all cases there is nothing about proof of money/earnings or personal photos or all the nonsense they go on with in Thailand. With a work visa your employer deducts the tax and pays it to the government.

Cost of living is less than half that of Thailand. Booze is incredibly cheap (no taxes or duties apply except on wine only). 

Food costs next to nothing. Rents might be slightly dearer in Vietnam. Girly beer bars are virtually non existent in Vietnam.

To meet up with girl/lady and form a relationship is much harder than in Thailand especially if you are in the older age group. Introductions are the usual way or internet dating sites. Younger men who live there as teachers and in other jobs don't seem to have much trouble finding a g.f.

The Vietnamese people are exceptionally friendly and the men don't seem to have the hangups and losing face sensitivity that Thai men do. It is a very safe place as compared to Thailand and we all know what is unsafe in Thailand.

I am not knocking Thailand and I have mostly enjoyed my time there. I am merely passing on my opinions about living in both of these particular countries.

Thieves are everywhere in Vietnam, it's the only place in Asia where my friends have been robbed.

Hello,

Am I the only one to this that Thaivisa newsletter is one of the worst in the universe ? Full of useless stupid ridiculous news that nobody cares about and almost nothing from the forum.

It's a forum newsletter, not a newspaper newsletter, so why posting 90% news that we can find everywhere else ?

Cheers.

What about the uniform men there, are they as bad as in Rambo 4 ?

I think that you do not tell it, but the pressure from the army and police is everywhere. I'm impressed that an old man like you can accept this jail term.

8 minutes ago, Phatbeets said:

Cebu city is one hell hole just like manila city.  They make 9 kids per family but cant feed them. If you ever make the mistake to give some coins to one kid walking around completely naked you'll have a regiment following you and begging even trough the fence of a restaurant.

 

Also who in his right would move in a country controlled by THE most crazy leader among all the other crazy leaders worldwide?

As long as this no class murderer is still in power this country is getting boycotted.

 

 

Totally agree ! Thank you for saying !

4 minutes ago, lungnorm said:

Utter rubbish. Obviously you have never been to Cebu.

Obviously he knows better than you hahaha

Only Cambodia is similar and will be the new Thailand within 20 years.

What is your fav hotel at Chanthaburi ?

Nothing has changed and nothing will change.

1 hour ago, The man from udon said:

Yes Thais are crap at telling lies,you need to have some sort of brain to be a good liar.to me it looks like the trucks pulled over to the right hand lane and sandwiched the car against the central wall.

Yes, totally agree !

On 1/26/2017 at 9:59 PM, NanLaew said:

True. Since lazada was bought by the Chinese, they are flooded with loads of Chinese rubbish. Multiple pages of the very same crap cameras with prices from 800 baht to 2800 baht for the same rubbish. Better buying on amazon or be very selective on eBay, avoiding stuff coming directly from China an both instances.

Funny, I can't san't stop laughing, as if Amazon was better ! Full of fakes and knock off exactly like lazada. The problem is not sellers, it's customers who have no idea how to choose.

9 hours ago, kkerry said:

In a hot country like Thailand, one problem with the cheaper dashcams is they use a built-in battery for when there is a loss of power. In a baking hot car, batteries are much more likely to fail than the capacitor you find in more expensive models.

Ridiculous statement read everywhere but wrong. Dashcam under sun and powerbanks under sun for years, and still no problem. Stop repeating what you have no idea about.

On 1/26/2017 at 3:26 AM, chiang mai said:

 

Which part of my post was not clear to you, I wrote, " The G1W sold on lazada is not the same one that is sold on Amazon, a quick read of the instruction manual confirms this is a Chinese knock off - mine lasted two weeks"!!!

You just don't know how to choose a correct seller. I also bought it on lazada 2 years ago and still no problem.