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5 hours ago, mikebell said:

Meanwhile 2nd Road drainage project is expected to last another FIVE years.

 

 

Or the sidewalks on Pattaya Klang where numerous parts are still incomplete with missing slabs creating a tripping hazard.

11 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

My first visit was in 2004 and I can't remember anything but one way.

I've seen some decades old videos from the late 80s or so when there was both way traffic.

What I seem to have missed: there were some exceptional days with two ways for special events?

Beach Road 1 way 2nd Road the opposite way unless Beach Road is closed for an event.

Even before the roadworks wasn’t 2nd Road always one way  ?

29 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

Perhaps you have 20 back to back visa exempts? Lots of dodgy border crossings? Could be anything, and it is their job to check, same as anywhere else. A visa doesn't guarantee entry.

I have a valid ‘Retirement Visa’ renewed in issued in August, I have a multi entry re entry permit, if I had anything dodgy the ‘Retirement Visa’ wouldn’t have been issued at Jomtien, they would have checked my passport for anything ‘dodgy’.

Whats in my previous pages in my Passport should be no concern of the I.O.

1 hour ago, josephbloggs said:

Because that's their job. Do you think an IO in any country should only look at the page yo want them to look at?

I have a valid visa and re entry permit on that page, what else is there to see in my passport, only visas from other countries and expired visas for Thailand ?

23 minutes ago, NextG said:

I don’t have a keyboard ☺️
It seems that you do ???? 

Neither me, keypad then.

1 hour ago, NextG said:

Were you intimidated? ☺️ Diddums… how so?
It’s seems to me that you are the ‘keyboard warrior’ here… with your ‘personal’ attack. I post in good humour. 

Ha ha your the keyboard warrior, I bet you were lurking around your keyboard and couldn’t wait to reply.

17 minutes ago, NextG said:

A fight? Erm….

Yes, people can air their nonsense and have it swatted out of the air. 

Always a mister know it all on the forums, all they do is intimidate posters, can’t have much of a life.

9 minutes ago, NextG said:

So just an opinion without any basis in fact. Got it. 

Everyone has a fight to an opinion do they not ?

26 minutes ago, bamnutsak said:

I think I said as much in my last sentence?

 

 

Anutin is not the Health minister now, he is the minister of interior.

36 minutes ago, bamnutsak said:

The new Minister of Health, Cholnan Srikaew MD (PTP) seems woefully out of touch...

 

He assured that cannabis will not be reclassified as a narcotic under Category 5 of the country’s controlled drug list, noting that cannabis with a THC content of more than 0.2% by weight is already regarded as a controlled narcotic.

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/public-ministry-to-set-up-national-health-security-board/

 

 

Many in this new government will have to work very hard get out of the bottom quartile.

 

 

I think BJT, as part of the coalition, will simply re-introduce the Cannabis Control Act in Parliament. It overwhelmingly passed the first reading last year. This essentially enables a Cannabis Control Board to manage all aspects of Cannabis  production, sales/marketing, use.

 

DTAM (Traditional Medicine) within the MoPH will sit on that board and be responsible for Medical Cannabis solutions.

 

Not much will change re: normalized personal use.

 

 

Nothing will change as Anutin was the Health minister who decriminalised cannabis and is now the Deputy Prime minster.

Because the type of women who come to work in Pattaya are more promiscuous and prepared to do anything to earn a few baht to satisfy the mongers who come to Pattaya.

12 minutes ago, stevekrabi said:

I think having it behind closed doors and away from the beach will work wonders in cleaning up the image, what a great idea these Gents Clubs are.

 

Let's face it, the industry isn't going anywhere but keeping it more low key will help the image. Soi 6 is a prime example of the opposite.

I can agree about Soi 6 but from posts on here what actually goes on in Gentlemens clubs, they are brothels where sex starved older men praying on mostly vulnerable young women forced into prostitution because they don’t have a decent education to find a real job.

7 minutes ago, stevekrabi said:

Yes, everyone knows what goes on in places like this but you seem to take great pleasure in pointing it out at every opportunity. Be a gentleman ????

Why not, Pattaya is trying to clean its act up but the Gentlemen's Clubs are not doing much to help. 
Desperate bar owners who can’t make a living from running a normal type bar are opening Gentlemen's Clubs.

23 minutes ago, champers said:

Subscribing requires nothing more than pressing a button.

The bar/club on Treetown that Buzzin Trevor was involved with failed pretty miserably. 

Nick Deans bars on Soi 7 are very quiet unless he holds a birthday party for someone.

The Buzzin Bar in Treetown was only using his name, it was in the ‘wrong’ place as there was no footfall, it might be different once the bars in Made in Thailand open up again, 60 + bars. 
You can’t push the subscribe button multiple times, if you push it more than once it unsubscribes you.

10 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

You should tell that to the hordes of Koreans jamming some gogos.

They be jamming the Go Gos but not the normal type bars.

The buy me a beer/coffee or even donating money is very popular, some are making a good living from it. I used to watch some of the YouTube stuff whilst I was stuck in the U.K.with my Thai partner and son during Covid as there was some good advice on how to go through the procedure of getting a Thailand Pass which I eventually did spending 2 weeks in quarantine in hotel in Naklua.

Bar owners have introduced bar girls on their weekly blogs encouraging people thousands of miles away to buy them drinks obviously a good earner for the bar owner. I do find they also give a lot of misinformation out about visa rules and other stuff as well though.

I don’t watch any of the bar owner blogs now, no interest of watching bar girls getting p***** or some one walking endlessly around the same Soi’s week in week out or telling me if I go in a certain establishment I will come out with a smile on my face. 
 

If the government latch on to the fact bloggers are classed as working they might say they require a Work Permit which will curtail them from making blogs.

3 minutes ago, JimTripper said:

I saw some packed coming from Jomtein but It’s not a lot relatively speaking. They would be picking up groups from the night market or along the whole beach stretch. Any city that was halfway crowded the trucks would be packed each time.

 

I think people are inflating the popularity of the place, or like you say, it’s goofballs hyping YouTube channels to make it sound exciting.

I have said to Buzzin Trevor a few times you are doing a great job for the Thai Tourist Authority always talking Pattaya up. Nick Dean is constantly promoting Soi 7 as he is in the process of opening up his 4th bar on the Soi, how he manages to pay the rent on all them during low season is beyond me not unless he has some big backers behind him.

58 minutes ago, retarius said:

The "Thai education system" needs a huge over haul, almost anything would be better than it is. It was a bit better but Prayut hammered the final nail into the coffin with his (whatever it was) 12 point student reference program. Thai education needs a serious enema, which involves getting rid of a huge number of totally useless and incompetent teachers. You could replace these teachers with dodos and get better results. How can you have English teachers who can't speak English? 

Our son has English and Chinese at school, the teacher doesn’t speak either, I think the kids only learn the spoken words but nothing else. The school has an English teacher who is Thai and on the one occasion I spoke to him his English was very poor.

12 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Unfortunately, Farangs jam Pattaya during Songkran.

You live in Pattaya, in my 10 years here I have never seen Pattaya jammed with farangs only Thais.

11 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

The shortage of ladies was only temporary, as High Season began. After the peak of High Season, Pattaya was flooded with ladies.

 

Don't forget that a lot of online ladies work sideline at bars, leaving when they hook a customer.

Then why were the bar owners complaining they couldn’t get bar girls then complaining again when they did they moved on to another bar who were paying a better salary.