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Yes Ko Chung has always been a Favorite of Mine also, like Development + ... ( Though if they build their restaurants on the Beach ? ... Well just walk through them, !!! to get along the beach ??? … If you can, ? … As that really pisses them off !!! … As the sand Flips up nice and high, ... off of your Flip Flops !!! … Right ?) … Yes The Development Might make you sick, BUT it is a Community based sort of afare I feel ??? … Like nothing Like Ph or Pa ... as it is an Island, … AND a pretty Geographically rough one also, so not much room for Unban Splats, behind the beach either Right ? And Yes, Ok back in about the 90's I guess there was this Great little Kutoi Restaurant, about half way down White Beach !!! ... Which, Yes ! ... Had the Most Absolutely Clean and Best set up men’s Toilet that I have ever seen !!! ... Really nice Water Features, and just Great photos of ... Other Men of course, all around on the walls !!! … Like this was back when it still as Illegal I think ? or well just well ostracized any way !!! ,,, And these Guys were Local also I think ? ... Well local Boys, … And their friends !!! …. So well though not Gay. ... I WAS REALLY pleased to be on a South Sea Island !!! But also in a very socially Cutting Edge, and Progressive one, ... Like both the Restaurant ! … And it's Bathroom. ? Right ??? And I would not mind betting that White Beach is still that way, socially progressive !!! ... Like maybe with ganga now as you found out Rooster. Yes, Great Photos to Rooster !!! ... Yes though, just still to be Mark mark, right ? (The Protagonist ? ) ... You ought to try out these sort of Places in the Monsoon Season, on the Windward Side, for which ever season !!! … Like as the boat gets in towards the Beach you notice that it is strangely Very Quiet !!! .... And as you get closer you just see that this is because there is Just NO one on the Beach at all !!! .... You ask the Boat driver about this and he just says, "Oh the rainy Season, everything closed" ... ... Like Hmmmm, well they did not tell us this when we bought our tickets, and got on the Boat !!! Did they !!! .... … And well, getting ashore pretty wet, as yes about 2 to 3 M waves !!! (Like Varrrr as the Europeans would say) ... But you found One guest house open, and they opened a new wing for you, Like “Oddur De Bird <deleted> closed for 6 Months smell, … But well hey you have you own Total wing !!! …. and one restaurant at the other end of the Beach !!! …. ... AND well Hey !!! What just a Friendly, Interesting and great Crowd !!! !!! …. The little dark skinned Thai girl with the Foreign Boyfriend, (Like a very VERY Beautiful little lady, without going on” And a full blood !!! … Like archetypical Asian, Island beauty !!! … Right ? ... So you sneak in a "Speaking English" ??? … (When her boyfriend has turned away, ... and SHE still is most obviously is the Attention of the whole Boat any way !!!) … And the slow answer .... "Errr, Oh ??? .... Danish ??? " ... (An ethnic Southern Thai girl, who's Father was a Southern Thai police man, but who’s Mother married a Dane, and took her to live in Denmark, when she was 2, … And she now has Lived there all of her Life. ) … ( Like beats new York ? Right ??? ) … And so few People that everyone was just so friendly and we ALL got on, Like Phulu Pharenti (East Coast Malaysia, just over the border), and "small beach is it" ? ... ("Pantai Kessel" I think ) In the Monsoon Season, Like a bit of a different twist on the Life Lost Holiday, on the tropical island !!! BUT I have done one very similar to that on Ko Chung as well ... Want to get away from the Crowd ??? Tourism !!! ??? .... Well just Go on a Holiday to one of those Thai or Malay Islands, in the wrong Season, right (Well the wrong season for Tourism right ? The Monsoon Season !!! ) ... (Like I was thinking about my Visa requirements when I was planning the trip !!!, … And Not the Weather !!! Right ?) .... But want to see something of a Different take on Life ???... Well Take a trip like this !!! and there are PLENTY of them available ! ? .. (But Be Very VERY Careful if you swim !!! ... !!! Like a song tow load of Young men from Bangkok ? Pulled up when we were Wrong Seasoning it, on White Beach, Ko Chung, ... They all just dropped their bags and 4 or 5 of them ran in to the surf !!! and close spaced High waves (And rips !!!) ... swam out to water far too deep for them .... and only 3 came back. Their Patents came the next Day, and they sat on the beach for another 2 or 3 Days I think ...before their Bodies popped back up !!! almost at the same place that they had euphorically run blindly in to the high and closely spaced seas. There was a very nice English Woman running an Old Bungalow style place right up the North end of the Beach back then, by a little Creak coming out of the Jungle, like you had to walk along the Beach to get there. … There was a robery of sevaral places while we were there that time, a cat burglar at night ? ... He banged the Posts of the Bungalo with a stick so it shook slightly ... then put his head in the window to see if you were still asleep ??? ... ( Some Indonesian Thieves driped water on my Face for the same purpose once, to see if I was heavily asleep as I slept on my camara !!! and just laughed when I woke up, ... Like TIIS (This is Indonesians), they always laugh, as they try to rob you ? Right ???) ... Any way, Luckily I was not asleep .. Still had a half bottle of San Son left didn't I ! ... The one case I have had, I suppose of being Saved by the Bottle !!! ... Rather than Just <Deleted> by it and Crucified ??? I saw him, a Older teen or Young Man with Long hair I think. ... and he ran and back down the beach also I think ? When I sat up in bed. !!! ... But those that were asleep even lost their money belts out from under their pillow AND their mattresses also !!! ... Like these people are good at what they do you ought to know !!! .... The nice Englosh Woman Owner ? said that all the Bungalow owners knew who they were, ... But that they had left early the mourning, after they had been Robbing places all down the Beach that night. Yes I should have gotten up and made a fuss, and shouted Blue murder shouldn't I ! ? .. To stop him doing more ??? ... But well I am Not even close to being that perfect either you know. ... I went back to sleep, ... well closed the window first right !!! ... … Yes I nearly Died as "Smart Ass Mark mark", by bravely going swimming a bit later on in life, when the Weather was also like this, and the warning signs saying “NO SWIMING”, on Kata beach in Phuket in the Monsoon season once, … and YESS ... I Was very Very VERY Lucky, not to have drowned. ... And for Tough Auzie swimmer ! Mark mark, This was a VERY BIG !!! Surprise, I can tell you. And I put this in here, as it is a very VERY Good warning, for any one even contemplating swimming in the Monsoon, the wet Season. If the wind and Seas are High. … I had got caught in a rip and was going backwards, and out to sea faster than I could swim, I could not touch the bottom, … the rip pushed me quickly out of that area !!! ... Like YES I HAD GONE OUT TOO FAR !!! … and the powerful and closely spaced 3 to 3 M ? Monsoon waves were Hitting me about every 5 Second, …. and Pounding me down to the bottom again. … (Like it probably had done to the 2 Unfortunate Thai school boys, on that other Trip to White sands in the Wet season. ) … Yes Lesson Learnt Mark mark. … But only just !!! ... As the rip was not as powerful as the others. ... As if it had been !!! ... Well I would not be here now. Still, better get on, Things to do. ... Nice Job Rooster !!! and good to see you back. ... Have fun with you family. ... (I always did on that Island too !!! … Though well I did not have the Kids to worry about with me back then.) … ( Or to save me either !!! right ! ? ) Mark mark

Yes. I think that it is, Tourism = Money ... Money = Corruption, At All Levels. = Attracts the wrong sort of People ? ... From Politicians, Down to the Street. ... and Including Women, ... If you go by Road from Poipet to Siam Reap You probably will get cheated before you even get on the Bus ! ... but go 10k either side of this road things are poor, but they revert to normal and you probably will not get cheated. And then there is Southern Thailand and the Transport Monopolies (like at Poi pet) ... where you get dropped 20 k out of town and have to pay almost as much as the bus ride just to wait on a shared Taxi in to town. ... etc. And then there is Pattaya. ... It is all due to ? About Tourism.

If you are Very Drunk and pass put, I am sure that you could..

There has had to be Over 5 cases ? (I think) of People with Friends, who had BAD mental Health problems, that DID slash their own Throats who reported this, in the last 2 Threads here I think ? ... And that is jus the People that Viewed them !!! If you are so Down, ... have a Knife ? ... and read about how others have done it that way !!! ??? ... (Even if as you say some of them might just have been murdered any way ? ) ... Well why not give it a go !!! .... "They all will know that you are Upset and feel betrayed that way Right" ??? ... Thai Men use their Prakama Like there Loyn cloth, like when that is all they have left, they some times hang them selves with it. ... Our old / Previous Village Head man, was having An Afaire / sex with another mans wife from this village, ... (Like Breaking Ruel 1. any way ... Like do not F' around on your own Turf. Right ?) But he was taking her to short time Hotels !!! During the Day !!! ... When he felt like it !!! ... leaving her Husband home with Nothing. ... So She was going out with him again, ... and the Husband (Duan) tolde her he would commit suicide if she went !!! ... And she just laughed at him, and said something like "Go for it" in Thai. ... He was a quiet man, but also a Low Cow alcoholic so well ??? ... Destitute AND On his way out any way ... but well, he Hung himself with his Prakama, like about all he had left, in the bath room while she was out. (And the Village Head man did a few Months in the Monastery to make amendz for it.) ... (I Liked the Village Head man, as he DID Help his Villagers when he Was in Power !!! The Older Woman used to line up all over his yard, sitting under Trees, to get him to read their Documents, and fill their forms out for them !!!) ... And well a Hansom and Clever <deleted>, ... But I honestly reckon that he must have roggered at least half of all of the Married woman in town also !!! ... But well Why Hold that against him ... even if he did not have the White mans Card to play, while doing it !!!) ... So it does NOT just happen to Foreigners. ... any way.

Thanks Crikey. Yes I have backed up your Kind Words ... and will remember to take it down to Bangkok the next time that I can escape from my wife and get down to Bangkok on my own again some time. Still 67 and a Loose Canon ! ? ... I will also have to be careful as well Right !!! Ps. I sm not Quere. But well as 67 ! As I say, we doo have to watch our selves now, don't we.

So well ? What is the Answer ! ? ... Maybe just do not try to buy them in the first place. ... ???

It's just the Brave New World Right !!! ? ... and all of the Dictators are now taking advantage of their Opportunities also !!! Post CV 19.

Yes I went to a Suicide Prevention Symposium in, better not say, Australia once, a small a fare, but well I was not there by accident right ? ... And I knew it ! ? ... ( After my Own disaster after the CV 19, US funded, China virus disaster, ... Like the Finish man that toped him self went through also, the CV 19 Disaster, so it seems I think ? ) ... (Though I now think that he was Murdered by an assassin Hired by the wife I think, like I agree with those intelligent men, that are coming to this opinion. ?) But well at the Community meeting, .... I was More Focused on the <Deleted> Irish Catholic <Deleted> who had all of the Government Money, ... OUR Tax Money !!! ... Who was Pretending that it was His !!! ... And having all of the CEO's of the Charity Organizations bleating, and putting their stories forward, as to why they should be getting some of it them selves !!! ... Right ? ( Can I say this ? ) ... So well now I do have a mission !!! ... Right ??? .... To get all of those <Deleted> <Deleted's> and the <Deleted> Government Charity Thieves !!! .... ... For just being just Callous <Deleted's> ... and <Deleted's> ... So well I guess that you could consider the Community Discussion a success for me I guess ! ??? ... Right ??? Har Har ... ... Though well I must say that their organization, DID save me though, ... as well. ( In the end ! ) ... Yes, the Real answers are BOOTS on the ground. ... Right. ... Like my Non Practicing, Bosnian Muslim Councilor. ... Some one who has been there !!! ... AND made it back !!! ... Like he was Ostensibly a Drugs and Alcohol Councilor, though I thought that after escaping Bosnia as a 12 Year old refugee, during the war, ... He probably could have done very well, In Anger Management also, ... Like he was not in Prison any more either right !!! - So well, Yes, 100 % Boots on the Ground, ... and well my Best ever councilor, ... Even though I really have only had one, ... Officially at least. ... ... Like Suicide Prevention. ! ??? ... Like, ... "Improving Peoples lives" !!! ? !!! ... Well that is a good place to start, Right ? ... My Addition to the Community meeting. ... And there's gotta Be a lot of people around here, ... And in Puket ? BKK and Pattaya like that ??? Also, ... Just to start off with ! ? ... That could do this also I think, and maybe Improve their own Lives at the same time !!! ... Maybe This could be an angle that AN might like to add, to these stories of our Folang Community, Suicides ? ??? ( Did anyone see what happened to the 74 Year old Brit that was alleged to have Jumped in to the River in Phitsinoluk, oh 6 Years ago maybe now ??? ... As the British Pound went down, so his pension did, and well His wife !!! DID NOT help him either by the sound of it ??? ... So well ? ... No news, so No charges against the Wife ? I supose, ... so probably Suicide ? or left that way ? ??? ... 74 !!! ... It must get hard to organize things around here ? ... When you get that Old ??? - ( Like 6 years from now for me and I CAN feel it coming on !!! )

Very Sad ! ... VERY Sad, .. 58 ! This man was No Where Near the end of his Life. ... But just off the cuff now, ? …. I do think that this one was Probably Genuine Suicide, ... Like the Blood, the Cops description of it, .... The Knife on the Floor, and the Fact that he has just Lost his Girlfriend,… Like it says that, He lost her !!! ... So she was Gone, ! ... So this puts her out of the Picture, in this case ! and probably no gain for her either ! … and the stated, Clearly no trace of a fight in the room, …. Like this was a youngish man, ( And a Noggie !) … So I do not think that he would have gone down without a Fight, in his case. And only a week after the Other Case, of self-Throat slashing, with the much Older Finish Man. ( Norwegians and Fins are sort of Close neighbors you Know. ) ... … So well he felt like Absolute <Deleted> and had Read about the Finish Guys sadness, … and supposed Suicide by Knife, and his own hand also ??? ... So ? A Copy Cat Suicide ! ? ? ... More Obviously than a Murder here I think. ? ... Like does anyone know if he Read about the other Supposed Suicide ? or Not ??? ... Like his Friends ? ??? ( Nothing you guys could have done though of course either Really. ) … Like We Foreigners should help each other to try to overcome this problem I think. … Though not being a social worker OR Health worker, well I would not know how to do it, other than by my usual Geographical Correct, the world is what the world is way. ! ? …. Which really CAN, just gives us all, … no other Way Really, than to go on with it !!! ??? Right ??? ... Like there IS no other way ! it is just Life and the world, ! ... So you just get on with it. ... ... Like the rocks and the Trees do. ( And the Animals and usually the Humans also ? ) ... ( Like some one is rude to you on AN ! ? (Or your Girl Friend Leaves you ? ...) ...So what do you do ? .... Consider the Situation, make some changes !!! and just get on with it !!! ??? ) ... Like be in the News for being the one that is Bankrupted ? … Fleeced by a lot of bad Woman ? ??? … Cheated by the Right ? ... Or just Hopeless, and forced to Over Stay, .. and being Deported !!! .... ( BUT Still with some Friends to write to about it ! ? ) … So, you are Not, ... the one that Tops himself ??? ... ???

Well there WAS I think. ? ...

Also.

Yes like RIP greatly Sir. ... But also there is a bit of a danger here I think, as it might not be that emotionally easy, but it requires little infrastructure or Planing. ... And Copy Cat Suicides ARE a real thong I think, if you ask Psychologists or Forensic or violent crime police officers also I would expect. And I think we all know of some. Like some time ago now, but with the kids living in the Isolation on Kangaroo Island in South Australia !! ... several Copy cat suicides with in a few weeks I think ! ? And well as I say ? Well it actually sounds like it IS pretty easy all round i think. If you get that desperate. ...!!! So well Quite a Danger for all of us Bangkok Burnouts ! Here in the land of "Smiles" ... Right. ? ( Maybe time for the press to try to head this off some how ? ... Those Reportets being Clever people also after all ??? )

Well, that is just the way that it is here. ... You Just better be tough before you Dip in around here I think. ? ... Like basically just picking up the Woman for Money ! ? ... It does Cut both ways you Know. Sounds like this one is Real. ... He dropped the Knife on the Floor, ... Where as the Fins wife in the other Knife suicide here just recently ? ... Should refuse to pay her assassin, as he Prissly lay it on his Chest ? .... Possibly quite a give away Really I think ???

Yes, ! .... Sounds Pretty Likely to me also. !!! ... Thanks.

Probably because it sounds like he was talking about the Case of the UTube Fitness Guy, and not the Finish man ? ..

This sounds like, and following your thread ? ... the Autopsy for the Utube Fitness Guy, ? which would be logical as it sounded like it would come out pretty easily in an Autopsy (What was in his system ? ? ... And not the Autopsy for the this Finish man, ? as this sounds a bit harder to prove any thing with an Autopsy. ? ???

Auzies are still Basically English Speakers, and Pro English in Social ways also. Nearly ALL of us. ... And still over half of us are decedents of the English. ... Captain Cook put the English flag in First, up there at Cape York, … though the Dutch and French had already been there, but well to the Dry and Baron, or monsoonal Tropical bits, ... So they must have thought that it was not worth having I think. ... And GOOD !!! ( F’ being a Frog, or a Cloggy !!! ) Right ??? … Like Russia, China, the US or The UK ??? Which place would you prefer to have come from !!! … and Our southern European brothers know this also so though possibly keeping touch with their own Language, and Culture ? Like hard working and Clever bastards most of our Southern European Brothers and sisters !!! …. But Socially ! We are all English in Australia pretty much, as well …. I do not love them overly having been persecuted by a few of their Stuck up ones, but well, IT WORKS !!! … So we all do follow, being English Really in Australia I think, even if Ethnically Diverse. … Being English About things, WORKS. … So it IS Followed.

But the Esan Farm Girls are better !!! Up scale = Corruption ti me ??? ... up scale Prostitution ,! ? !!! ...No thanks. ...

Yes TBL I did say that as I Was getting Tired, Like over the week end, I got very Tired. And well the Initial idea behind this Thread, being the Pick Pocket Robbery and Ripping off the night before, allegedly in Cowboy, of the Nice American that I met in the Pool at the Nana, got enough good People replying, to given me the hint at Least, to research it. … Like about how Soi Cowboy had been going, re the Arrival of the Infamous Iranian American “The Arab” that bought a lot of the bars up, well some of them anyway, Some strong arm tactics implied ??? … Though well the Leases and NOT the properties as they all still belonged to the Chinese Thais, …. He Glammed them up, probably made them in to double and triple Fronted … ( Like got the bars next door also, possibly to be able to do this ??? ) … and then, what is that Stupid American term ? Mede then in to “Cyodie” bars ??? … … And then charged more for the beers. … Which I am a lot of the other old Regulars did not like, …. and I followed their Links and Read up on it a bit, also. Found out that Cowboy is now Dead, died of Cancer right and was ??? Well a Drunk ? though with his American attitude ? … and at that time, after the Vietnam / American war ??? And He was a successful one so it seems …. And well also nice seeing a Black American Service man Really making it also. … … But I decided after my Reading and consideration, that when they made it a walking street, well, this was the Point that they ruined it I think. … Then I remembered all of the other walking streets !!! … Now, Only clear Lines of sight for the Rich I think ? … and more Money for them, and the Politicians that do their dirty work also I think. … And well I see that Rooster made a pact with an Auzzie friend some time ago that they both would never go to a Floating Market either !!! … And well Brother R ! … I also would like to join that pack !!! … ( Though well I might probably not be as trust worthy with it, … as you other Auzie mate. ) And well as here I WAS just getting off Topic just ALL of the time and my Idea of how to write in the English Language ? Like in Strine and idiom, and Not Granma school Grammar. ? Was not going down to well either, so well, I DID want to just finish it then. ? And well, then the story about the 48 Hrs. with the Ya Ba addicts, in the tower block Flats, by Petu Nam off Pechumbury, possibly in the BH Hospital Nurses Accommodation compound I think ? … That pretty Painful ? ??? Hard ???... Story probably almost did end it also I thought. …. But well then this one here from ? Bangkok Ready, about Australians, and the English language and in reference to Dialect and Strine !!! Did set me off a bit again ! ? … … Yes this DID interest me quite a bit having worked on Exploration Boats with English Crew men, of all ages, and from ALL over that country, and well Yes !!! Just Really Enjoying their Really Good, and Most Varied Dialects !!! Strine !!! and Stories !!! … Like the English Can mess up their Own so called, Popper Language far FAR better than any Simple Australian or South Africans can !!! (Well maybe we better Leave the South Africans off here as well F’ !!! Like Afracarn !!! Varrrr !!! Right ??? Well going off topic a bit, but I befriended a South African medic in Singapore once, he has left the Defibulator batteries behind in the ship, to charge them, so when an older Norwegian had a Heart attack on the dock !!! … and the Defibulator was rushed down there, …. The batteries were still back on the ship !!! … Well the Nordic <deleted> did rather hit the fan !!! (And those Bastards CAN do this pretty well, !!! IF they want to also. ) So he WAS in a Lot of Trouble. … Still all my Life when they gang up on people like that who had just made a mistake ( Like we ALL used to make a LOT of mistakes out there !!! – I could write 10 books on making Mistakes doing off shore Scheismic !!! …. But well I never lost a Streamer, tangled up the Guns, or the Gear, Hit anything, …. or lost a man. … And some other Poor Bastards have. …. So well I COULD write that book, as well If I had lost any of them well I should not have. Anyway, I always used to Pick up people like that, that had just had bad luck and made a mistake, and Lift them back up. ( Like that are the people that are still my Friends, Bad Grammar and also a bit if a dick head, … Or not. ) Any way we were going out with this South African medic in a taxi, and I was taking him to one of my Back Packers really Great Roti Chani ( Indian Gee pancake and Curry) … But Varrr… his accent !!! That African just right over the top English Pomp, and Plumb in their Mouth Right ??? … But the Malaysian taxi Driver!!! … Like YESSS what a Card !!! He just laughed and as we all talked about where we all individually had come from, …. HE, … Put in an imitation South African English Language accent on just So well ….. and said something like “Oh Yes, you come from Over There where the “Bleck” people come from" !!! ??? (And he, the taxi driver was Black also, adding to the Joke !!!) … Right !!! … Like we all picked it up and I could hardly control myself … Like god bless the English Language for being Flexible !!! and Just a hell of a lot of fun !!! And the English ! ? Right ??? Like the one when I met an Old Woman in a Pub in ? Aberdeen, (Like a Real, Scottish Woman) near the Infamous Moray Firth, where the Seismic Exploration ships used to just sail around in Large circles, for several days, while sheltering from the bad Weather when it was around, up there in the North Sea. Like every Scottish Pub has a resident Old Woman Drunk ! ? I think ??? … Sort of a Celtic style Matriarch ! ? Right ? … Like put two of them in, the same room and well Just watch Out I would say !!! ??? Like these people worked out that “I was a Boozer” to use their own Northern England Vernacular ? … Real quick, … But it was pretty obvious that I also worked on the ships as well, so well I DID have a Free Entry and acceptance card also … Like not their people … but a Sea Person and worker of some sort out there ! … Like A Modern Sailor, … that now we are called technical Crew !!! Right … But I still did get the Pass. … Any way this old woman said that she was a Welder, on the Giant Oil platforms and Rigs !!! … That they used to construct ? and Repair in the Infamous, Murray Firth !!! Right, and being a woman, so smaller then a Man, she used to have to crawl right inside the Tubular steel legs of the Platforms, and Weld them up from the Inside. ! … And then she swore a bit, in something soundly Like Welsh ??? (Which was Scottish ??? I guess) … And recounted the time when some Young Dim Wit had got her Oxeye and Oxygen mix set wrong, … and when she light her torch, it all just exploded and Burnt her Upper body Badly, as she was still trapped inside the Rig legs Pipe !!! … And well probably just ended her career right there and then, ! ? I think …. And “Foo’nk Hell”, she said, “And that wasn’t it all, …. It melted me Bloody Brarr, and it all stuck on to my skin” !!! … Like F’ I just said Quietly to myself ? still being Young and ballsie, like it all was just such a Great Hoot back then … “God” I said !!! And thought of the Fact that her job WAS a man’s Job, but SHE had just taken the risks, and Stuck on with it !!! … AND Done it !!! Right up until the end !!! … Like “F’ WOW” I thought … Wow man !!! … I have just met a woman, who was better than me, or any other man also, … and well, One that I could NEVER be better than !!! Either ! ? … !!! So well yes, I just thought that I would put a few more Posts in, about the English Language, and it’s Great flexibility AND the love of it in all of it’s Dialects. … And well it seems to have become On Topic now I think ???

Well you only have to look at how the English Speak it as it comes from about ? 6 other languages ? ... and is spoken with some Really REALLY different Accents, all over the UK, and in quite close Proximity to each other also ! ... To know that Native English has a LOT of Bed Fellows !!! ... Though well German is not one of them right ??? Yarrr ... Unt, a Thai Friend of Mine's Daughter went and was an Exchange student in Bristol !!! ... And jeezzzz, I nearly fell over Laughing, !!! ... When she, just this little cute Thai girl, ! ... Just opened up on me with this Really REALLY GREAT West Country accent !!! ... Like it made the Vicker of Dibley's TV series very strong strine (?) almost seem Understandable !!! ??? ... and then there is the Jordies up north ! ... Like Varrrr ... Like the bar man with the 5 inch gash in his face that was stitched up with Fishing Line !!! ... Sayin .... "Yeeearrr" .... "Weeelll Yuuu Shoold have Seen th otherrr Guyyy" .... !!! ??? Right ?

I extended my Visa myself this Year, at the Ayutthaya Immigration Office which is an Easy and Friendly place to do it. BUT I now think ? That I DO see new Wording in the Extension Requirements ? … I saw it in an ASIAN NOW piece on the 10 Good things about Retiring in Puket, in it’s Thai Immigration section, of that article, so I then looks at the Standard Thai Immigration Web site to check it !!! … AND YES, it looks like that have Changed the wording re the Funds that have to be kept in your Savings account to be able to do it yourself., … And in the Documents required section they say a “Certificate of Deposit” from your bank is required now I think ? Well on the Imm site this is there now I think. ? Well it was Implied before, that the 800,000 in the bank probably should have come from OUT side Thailand, … but they did not say that ! Precisely, I think. ? … Until now as I see it ? … I think. ? The ASIA NOW article – https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#advanced-search/from=ASEAN+NOW+DAILY+NEWS&subset=trash&within=1d&sizeoperator=s_sl&sizeunit=s_smb&query=in%3Atrash+from%3A(ASEAN+NOW+DAILY+NEWS)/WhctKKXpWhPsmKbZSDnktWtHksmxffGqwJqKpCWVFhpPkJNMpJtPMqVtXCNcNCNRpxtZFBB “Retirement visas (O and O-A visas) are available for foreigners over the age of 50 and requires a minimum bank balance “and monthly income requirement.” … … Nb. AND !!! “ANDmonthly income requirement” And then I found this link to the Criteria and Requirement for Visa Extension from the Thai Immigration Department site. ? https://www.immigration.go.th/en/?p=14714 And In the extension requirements for NON O and OA visas. “Must have an annual earning and a deposit in a commercial bank located in Thailand with totaling of no less than 800,000 baht as of the filing date.” … Nb. “annual earning” and a deposit … “Annual Earning” New words to me ? with no, … OR’s in it ? And then in the Documents Required also new words re this “Fund deposit certificate” issued by a commercial bank located in Thailand” and a copy of bank account of course as usual. … Like a “Fund deposit certificate” … It always has have the Bank Account details for 12 Months, … but I have not seen the Requirement for the “Fund Deposit Certificate” before ??? … Any Ideas on this if you have the time Fellows ? (Like it could affect Your Visa Renewals also Possibly ???)

No. ... It is Just Life. It just has to be done !!! ??? Thanks Bobbin ! ...

Out standing Business back Home CAN haunt you you know, and even Follow you in your own Head, For a LONG time if you are that sort of person (Which I would not mind betting that this Finish guy was.) ... Like the Experienced Protagonist can Plant the Seed for it, ... Like a Threat of legal action ! ? For instance ? ... Like they can not get you here, ... BUT if you did go back ! There always would be the Threat of it ? ... Like they do not have to communicate or even follow you ... They sowed the seed of you mental trauma, with the Threats, ... And while you are here YOU can not defuse them !!! ... You just basically sit here, and wait for them to ??? ... Hopeful dealt with ! Some time ? ... but well while you are here !!! You can NOT deal with them and THAT is just how the Protagonist ? E.g. His Finish wife ? would want it ! ? ? I guess ???

I Think that "Varrrrr" is the only thing I can say to this one !!!! and Sorry Mate !!!

Nice Job Rooster, and Congratulations on the Scrabble Win UP at Korat, ! And Doing the Journey on an Old ? Honda 250 Cub isn’t it ? Enough power for a big man, but not too much. (I want one of these new 4 stroke Yamaha 360’s right ? and also I to would be big enough for me.) And I always am in great Awe of people that are good at Scrabble, as I just cannot spell at all myself. ... Though the opportunist in me, though of, Maybe I could make up Better words ? …. BY Not being able to spell, ? … and just Jag it ? ... Like Mark mark, the Eternal Rose Colored glasses, Optimist … and, Opportunist ? …. But well yes mate ! … I really do not think so, Right ? … And well I must admit that it is really just too close to School work for me, … Spell or get Whacked over the Knuckles with a Ruler for me ! ? … Which Luckily ? (I guess) never did happen for me as they all gave up pretty fast. … You missed out the Story about the Finish Man who was said to have committed Suicide by Cutting his own Throat ? ... I think ? … or maybe I just did not see it … maybe a Time lag thing I guess, … and it was after you finished the Piece possibly. ??? … I was a bit interested in this just from the Point of view that it Really IS just a Great "Who Dun It" … The stuff that makes up a Lot of the modern TV. Cop and Detective shows all over and well around the UK I suspect ? ... ( Thanks to my Mother for my Great education in those ) I posted a pretty brave Geographic View ? … That Fins might have less practical Suicide methods available to them, because of their .... Geography ? Right ? … Quite a brave post given the Depth of disagreement waiting for me in the Wings ! … But it Survived, but Some of my Others that were a LOT more Moderate (Well I thought so) disappeared ? ... No new Notifications in their place, of why ? … But well I WAS getting up to just about “AN” Burn out by then, !!! … Due to the stock markets not being back Down again ( Well the Australian and Thai ones just now ) … So nothing better to do, … so I was posting too much, … and I was descending into IT Computer, … “Net Tunnel vision” … So I just might have posted them somewhere else by Mistake ! … Or just not pushed the Submit Button right. … Like I do this on the last Stock trades of a day, quite often. But well I DO think that the Thai Cops WILL work it out ( If they want to ) … By using their usual method of Getting Intelligence from all of the other Thai’s that were around, … or just by social and well The usual Plod’s methods. … (Fess Up, OR ELSE ! Right ? ) … Finger prints on the Knife ? Well unless she wiped them off ? … DNA ? well she lived there so it would be all around the Place any way. … No what they can get out of her Family ? And her friends I think ? Might work it out. … So well the Week that Was, is Back and Great. I have a Really GOOD Link to a Discussion with the Iranian Writer / Journalist Behrouz Boochani, that was Bailed up in Australians Manus Islands Immigration Detention center for over 6 Years I think, ... Like you lot also being Journalists, I am sure that you all would like to see it, … Though I cannot see it being on Topic here. ... ??? … Even if interesting. But well, I might just post the link here, and see if any one comments on it. … On Roosters “Urbane” … With some Really nice English Slang, Column, Right ??? … I think that someone called what I write Strine ? but I do not Really know where to draw the Line, between Strine ? …. And English Slang ? right ? ( Arfwerr ??? From the Minder ??? might have said ? ) … But well I guess that you could say that Strine, … Has English Slang in it !!! … But well Like, You Goota get the Accent in to it also I think !? … To make it any Good I think ??? … Like Boochani wrote his very Poignant bit about the New Worlds Problems and Immigration, and 2 Boat attempts to get to Australia, and now, Freedom for refugees I guess … In Iranian ? … Well Persian which has a different Name like Fasi ? I think ?… So it had to be Translated. … I lived with an Iranian Guy in Germany once, (Who’s name was Reza incidentally, and well that was the Shar’s name also, … So well you can guess why he left the country after the Islamic revolution, and now cannot go back, … So he will never see his mother again before he dies. … Like the world is a terrible place I think …. If you are borne on the wrong side of the Poverty, or Political Insanity Line I think. He spoke them all those languages I think, … And he said that the Language all the way from Syria to Morocco were just various Dialects of Arabic anyway, so he said that he could speak them all, … And Persian Yes Fasi I think, his native Language, and also the southern and Predominant Afghani language ? Pashtun I think, … so well he worked long shifts with the German Refugee agencies, processing the Syrian arrivals at that time, … and on an Extra pay, for no breaks basis, for a Long time, … ( Yes God Bless those Germans ! Right ? – But he is back in Poverty again now as the Syrians are not coming any more he says ? Well not very many ? ) Hence he was a very Interesting man to be Living with there for a while ! ? Right ? … Ps. He did not speak Urdu, the Kashmiri Pakistani one I think. … (He says that they all told him they were going back ! ? But I would think that they would not be. – it all was secret and he said that he could tell me None of their stories. … Like Arabs ? Well, Iranians and Arabs, having lived with one for a while I just have to say that they ARE very secretive People !!! Like coming from a very Dog eat Dog back ground I think. Not giving anything away to strangers seems a very VERY Heavy element of their Survival I think ??? ( Yes Not Australian at all right ??? ) Any Way Behrouz Boochani https://www.unisa.edu.au/connect/hawke-centre/events-and-exhibitions/events/2023/freedom-only-freedom/#BehrouzBoochaniYoutube It is Probably worth Fast Forwarding to the 17.51 minuet mark here to get to the Main part of the Man, and the Interview. Well he is Kurdish … Hence quite In trouble Living in Iran I guess ? … So Fasi is only what he learnt at School any way. He would have spoken Kurdish at home, another Dialect of Arabic I think. … … I also have a question regards a change that I Saw in the AN 10 good Reasons to retiree’s Immigration section, seeming to have been made in the wording, for the Cash in the Bank section on the NON visas extension requirement ? ... It probably IS on topic as you have a note here about the Immigration department. Like it actually Now, specifically implies the 800,000 in the bank, should be “Income” ? right ? Like Put there each Year ? … And with a “Certificate of Deposit” is it ??? https://www.immigration.go.th/en/?p=14714 And Visa Extension - In the Case of Retirement. Have any of you others seen this ? … ? Any Ideas ? Like it Could be Important to us NON Visa Holders ? TV’s Grace answered me, when I asked her Like she IS a pretty good Visa Agent I think, and she said it always had been required to have been sent in from outside, … but I think that they just did not say this in Writing I think ? It was just Implied, … but now they seem to have made it specific and in Writing ? So the Immigration Departments can now take off after you for this Possibly ? In Requirements for Retirement Visa Extension, “Must have an Annual Earning, and a deposit” … … and in the Documents required “Fund deposit certificate” issued by the Bank, which I am SURE is New words here ? Grace said that different Immigration departments do things Differently. … which I think that we all know, so well I just have to hope that Deposits from my Stock Trading account to my Savings account will do ??? They always are Just making it more and More difficult aren’t they !!! Yes good to have you back and a Nice Write also ... Like, "Jeezzz Maaateee Yooor Utteee Neally wen up in Smooke " … .... Yes got bless the Snows and all of the other, Real People over there ... The ones That are Still are anyway ? I worked as a Mine Surveyor for some Years, in Telfer Gold mine, right out in the Great Sandy Desert, a Newmont mine back then, …. and then the Union Debacles of Panawonica in the Robe River Iron ore mine, so well I have worked with and Met a Bloody Lot of “Snow’s” myself Mate ! … Great People unless they Role their car right ??? And well treading on Dangerous ground here again, and I note that you have mentioned Russians here, … But I do note that they had a “Freedom Rally” outside the Parliament in Adelaide South Australia, Ostensibly about Anti Vacksing, … Not my Favorite people, and as well, we had to have Oh was it over 86% of the Population Vaccinated, … so that I could get back here to be with my Family again !!! … But a week or two ago, … a Group of People with Russian Flags turned up at this protest, and said that they were just taking the Opportunity to joined the Protest, to protest, about the Discrimination of Russian Speakers Rights ! … Right ! … and then media discussion broke out, about whether they had basically Hijacked the protest or not. ? But well Fix their rights up I say ! … By sending them back to Russia, so Putin can look after their Right to speak Russian all around the world ? Right ? …. And then can speak as much Russian as they Like right ??? … ( Like possibly to his secret Police also Right ???) … Yes, … A very Annoying situation all round there I think. ( To put it Lightly ) Well I worked with a whole lot of Ukrainians on an Exploration Boat once, and they used to casualty call them “The Russian Crew” … despite them Not being Russian, they were just speaking it ! … The Russians who were there, were all very Competent Technically though well (Stuff their Supervisors ! Right ?) … … I used to have to watch them on the Cameras so I did not move the ship in an Incorrect direction while they were working out on the back deck, and for safety also. … and heard them switch to Ukrainian once ! and Brought this up casualty with them when they were back in the Recording room, …. And well they told me not to be so thick, ! … As they also spoke Polish in the West, as many of them were actually Ethnically Polish there. ! … So fast Rose Colored Glasses Mark mark, was Socially Fixed up again !!! Right ??? … But well let’s all just get on right. … … Monday and a Holiday ! … And On On !!! Mark mark