freethinker

Does any liquid asset count? Not going to sell stocks just to have 500k THB lying around my bank account not generating any interest or returns. 

Even so this is a terrible idea. Young people and backpackers spend money too. Some of them spend a lot. 

Meanwhile local tourism in my country is booming because all of us cheap Charlie low class tourists decided to spend our money back home instead.

But hasn't Thailand reported only like 100 cases or so? lmao what a JOKE country. 

On 9/1/2019 at 7:17 AM, Matzzon said:

I sincerely hope you are joking! Iconic slice of Pattaya? Since when does the sleazy bar and bargirl scene become iconic. Must only be iconic to the ones that degrade themself to frequently indulge inthe forever boozing and eating a piece of flesh a couple of times a week. So, as asummary. We should be very sad if the sex expat and the sex tourist are leaving Thailand. As I said, you must be joking.

Thailand in general and Pattaya in particular has nothing worthwhile to offer anymore except whores. 

6 hours ago, bangkokequity said:

Well then .. that is great ... we are on the same page ... an adult who decides to cross a 4 lane at night and get hit is the PROBLEM ... not the "innocent victim"  Happy we agree.  Have a good night, and look both ways before crossing in well lit designated crossing areas!

Well lit designated crossing areas? What a laugh. Have you even been to Thailand? I feel like i'm a contestant in Death Race 3000 every time i have to cross the road here. 

The Khao Lak road is a death trap. A highway that goes straight trough a tourist area. LOL. 

Not a pedestrian crossing, tunnel or bridge as far as the eye can see. 

6 hours ago, ChipButty said:

A pint of Hoegaarden in Phuket town 290 Baht how much back in Europe? 

That's absolutely insane. It can't have gotten that bad can it?

1 hour ago, Odysseus123 said:

'murderous savages..'

 

Well the 20th century would surely indicate where the murderous savages come from-in abundance.

 

Ah yes, the Phil Sheridan textbook used in Anthropology 101.

Ahh the old white people bad so that absolves everyone else from culpability school of thought.

At least we don't murder everyone by default unlike these aggressive savages. "teach us peace" ????

12 hours ago, neeray said:

Let the natives live in peace.

I read of these self contained, indigenous tribes around the world, many in Brazil which are supposedly about to get wiped out as a result of the new right wing President-elect Jair Bolsonarno.

I'm sure many of these tribes could teach us a thing or two about living in peace and harmony.

Perhaps some of the tribe have visited "the outside world" and returned to tell of the horrors of modernized society.

 

As for the "American missionary", he knew that his trip was likely to not end well.

Teach us how to live in peace? How dumb are you? They've literally murdered several people in cold blood who posed no threat to them. What could they teach us? How to be murderous savages? Lol

On 5/26/2018 at 5:14 PM, snowbak said:

I’m not really sure where you are looking expat staff.   I have been looking for a good expat position in Thailand now for years.   When I say good I mean longevity and pay.  It seems everything I apply for is either term based or low pay.   

Maybe if the positions you are referring to were long term and pay which is decent it would be easier to find quality employees.   

Me, US education (master degree) 25+ years project management, project engineering and business capture.   

Exactly this. They don't want to pay or offer good job security and conditions then they get surprised they don't get quality applicants. 

On 5/28/2018 at 8:11 PM, Davmaac said:

That's the very attitude Dan is talking about ?

The attitude of knowing your worth and not wanting to get taken advantage of by greedy business owners? "Can't keep up with me," means don't want to answer my emails at 2 in the morning. 

Why would a quality farang accept such working conditions? 

Business owners always think their employees are lazy. Somehow they always seem surprised that their employees won't want to work themselves to death for them or don't care about the company the same way the owner does. 

I do the work i'm paid to do, you want extras you offer something extra in return. 

The "new swedes" (and their entourage) in Sweden frequently fill up our ER's for everything from common colds to sore elbows then they get aggressive when the doctors prioritize actually injured people and start fighting. This is why all ER's have security guards these days. 

You're NOT supposed to go there for trivial shit. The ladyboy doctor was right though she could use some people skills. 

9 hours ago, simoh1490 said:

You don't do humour or sarcasm, do you, I can tell.

I guess not lol. 

1 hour ago, simoh1490 said:

How can you travel 0.3 times, how does that work, do you start to travel then change your mind and go home again, one-third of the the way through the trip? Regardless, I've been a member for 15 years and I haven't been targeted once that I can recall.

 

Travel is the subject: about four or five times a year sounds right to me, we like a change of scenery about once a quarter.

Do you honestly not understand how statistics work? You must get quite puzzled when you read something like that the average couple have 2.36 children.

The only thai who has been openly very rude to me are younger bkk thais. Like 15-18 year old. 

One of them was shockingly rude to me on the Skytrain to the point i considered dragging him out at the next stop and beating him up but he was just a kid and he had his girlfriend with him. I still don't know why he starting saying racial slurs and insults to me in English out of the blue. 

For the record most random Thais describe me as "Hi-so" so i'm not exactly walking around with a Singha singlet on me and i'm young-ish.

Still i try to be patient with young men since they usually don't have a clue about anything (neither did i at that age).

Being well presented certainly seem to help but it also seems to make some rural Thais very uncomfortable around me, even those in the entertainment business. 

On 2018-01-22 at 2:40 AM, ELVIS123456 said:

This paragraph below from the OP speaks the truth - and it is not only Sweden suffering.  Most EU countries are being slowly corrupted by the influx of the corrupted - except Poland who refuses to accept EU or UN refugees.

 

"This is the new Sweden; the new, exciting dynamic, multicultural paradise that so many here in this assembly ... have fought to create for so many years," he said sarcastically.

 

Lets see if the People of Sweden will reject liberal lunacy this year, or be like France and be lost forever.  

We're lost forever unless the Swedish Democrats somehow get enough votes to rule alone which is very unlikely. Instead the majority party will form a coalition with the fringe nutcase parties such as the green party and left party who in return will receive extraordinary power over our national politics even though they only have a few percent voter support. 

The moderates will make a show of how they are tough on crime and how the immigration problems are going to get addressed under their administration but they are all loyal to the Kalergi plan and will follow any directives set in the Bilderberg meetings. 

Globalism is the new religion in Sweden (and Islam). 

14 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I am at a loss how the army can solve this, unless he envisages a permanent Northern Ireland troubles presence in every city troubled by gang violence, and do they even have the resources to do so? That would take a lot of soldiers to do.

If he's talking about a "lightning strike" operation, using the military, is he prepared for a lot of ''collateral damage"?

By definition soldiers are trained to kill people, not police actions.

 

Seems to me like a politician speaking about things he thinks will sound good in the media, but are in reality a nonsense, like Blair sending a tank to Heathrow when there was a terrorist attack there.

I assume he is talking about small special forces units or military police, not mechanized infantry divisions or anything of the sort. 

About time, these scum need to be dealt with. I'm sure SOG is up to the task. 

5 hours ago, wotaplonker said:

ive been going to pattayas since 2004 and i have never seen any girl even remotely underage working in a bar or gogo,

not that im 'looking' for young uns, but surely the pervs who do this will be targeting in the sticks villages with nearby schools that due to poverty may be vulnerable to exploitation

 

 

 

Same here. I know of only one instance in Cha Am where the girl was under 18 and she was there willingly and worked in a cop owned bar. 

Everyone already believes that it's only pedos in Thailand. 

I've had friends relay stories on how on their first Phuket trip they saw an old farang walking hand in hand with a child on the street suggesting he was a pedo and that it happened that openly. I told him it was most likely his own half Thai son.