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On 25/02/2018 at 4:37 PM, DDBKK said:

Are you reading the same thread as I am?

I don't think he is

1 minute ago, elviajero said:

The post you are questioning is wrong. A Work Permit is not a visa.

 

The Elite PE Visa is effectively a 'Tourist Visa' and as such cannot be used if the holder wants to work. You need a Non-Immigrant Visa/entry before you can receive a work permit and work.

well yeah. So let's see what humbug says.

10 hours ago, humbug said:

elite visa should never ever be associated with a work permit in any forum topic as they are 2 completely different visas. It would be great if people can understand this as it seems some dont want to.

Can you elaborate please? You say Elite visa and work permits are 2 different visas, but a work permit is not a visa. So I am confused. I must be, because I thought the posters above were discussing a relevant issue and was actually keen to see who was correct once they'd read the bumf associated with it... as I couldn't be bothered. 

Anyway, you seem to be making a point that might put the matter to rest. What is your point please?

A lot of 'top ten dangerous places for tourists' include Thailand.

From my experience 'dangerous for tourists' reads something like this:

Hoards of sheltered youngsters travel to a country where there's limited resources to scrape intoxicated people off the pavements and beaches and return them safely to their beds to sleep it off (unlike their home towns). 

Amongst the hoards are the many huge and hunky men with big biceps and rippling six packs (the norm these days) blissfully unaware that all their protein guzzling has made them far too heavy to be carried to a place of safety by the well-meaning, but small, Thai volunteers (usually female) at events like the full moon party, the giant Viking's huge frames littering the beaches like drift wood, oblivious to any attacks due to 5-too-many buckets.

The tourists forget that the bar staff and humongous bouncers of their home countries are not there to refuse serving them that one more drink and escort them safely from the premises.

To top it all off, The 'hard men' who are feared in their local towns back home make the mistake of fighting a Thai guy who either swiftly kicks the living daylights out of the 'hard man' because the 'hard man' is intoxicated, struggling with the heat, jet-lagged and not used to dodging swift, accurate and deadly volleys of kicks to his face... or alternatively he does ok in the fight, but then faces an entire army of locals.

etc

etc

etc etc etc.... 

tldr: Idiots and man-children die and get robbed quicker and easier in Thailand than in Europe.

21 hours ago, colinneil said:

I hope your comment was an innocent quip, and not directed solely  at me.

Paraplegics cannot walk .

I don't know you, but I assume what you are now trying to tell me is that you are a paraplegic?

Either way my comment wasn't directed at you. It wasn't a 'quip' either. Also, you'd have to go to great lengths to contrive that it was possibly directed at you because you're a paraplegic. I clearly don't know you're a paraplegic, and 'traipsing' around shops isn't limited to able-bodied people.

However, if you are a 'paraplegic' as you seem to be telling me, surely you, of all people, could emphasize with the OP; knowing that every time he has to take an extra trip to the shops it's a massive pain in the a*se. (Sorry if you don't possess an a*se, comment not 'directed solely at you').

12 hours ago, colinneil said:

Cheapskate moaning about a 30 baht broom, get over it.

He wasn't moaning. And even if he was, he'd be entitled to? Maybe you like wasting your time traipsing round shops....

1 hour ago, observer90210 said:

"throw away"?.....allow me some doubts that they were thrown!!...or can you be 100% sure that they were thrown????

My first thought too.

I think, yes, it will go up a bit (against Euro, Dollar and Baht) but only slightly.

20 hours ago, bbi1 said:

Ok I'll admit it, I drink too much water everyday. But not enough to die from water intoxication. What should I do to cure my sickness? Is there a "Water Intoxications Anonymous" somewhere in BKK I can go and attend? Please help be Wilson Smith!

If it's the water they use during Songkran I guess it would be easy to get intoxicated due to it's rankness

Ah, good news, I like a drop of Bud. Hopefully the price will go down a bit if it does well.

They should send the pretenders to Craggy Island I say

On 2017-5-23 at 9:20 AM, morrobay said:

I'm waiting for the report that the bomber was on the "radar"  Isn't high time for those on radar be rounded up and put on a boat. 

It's certainly time that MI5/GCHQ/PM etc were maybe a bit more open about what they did know, that way me and you could make informed suggestions. At the moment, we can only guess how on the radar they were and then what could be done. That said, I don't have any idea how the intelligence community's games work, for all we know, they literally are sh*t-hot and doing an amazing job... who can tell? If they are, imagine how many potential attacks they may have privately foiled already. Could be loads, I know they publicize some, but a lot, for better or worse, is kept well and truly under their hats for strategic purposes. 

On 2017-5-19 at 5:04 AM, BangkokTony said:

I have close ties with Khao San road and can confirm it closed about a year ago and is still closed today.

 

It was very busy 5 years ago and it was difficult to walk to the toilet  from the entrance due to the mass of bodies encountered. One had to squeeze past many clientele; some times I did not mind doing so.  It was packed with young Thai ladies and younger male tourists and also older males, of which I was one, and I knew many of the ladies who frequented the establishment.

 

In the last few years it went downhill due to, perhaps , bad reviews on TA, charging persons of colour entance money. Whether true or not I don't know.  See link....https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/ShowUserReviews-g293916-d546026-r135767210-Gullivers-Bangkok.html

 

It did not help that they did not have a happy hour to entice the early customer. It would never get busy til after 11pm or later.  Eventually it never got busy. Small beers were priced at 110 baht for most Thai brands.

 

Similar clientele can now be found 50 metres down the road at a large bar on the same side.

 

 

Thanks. We got a solid answer in the end, I've been asking for a while and no one knew for sure. I remember it 5+ years ago, those were the days for some shenanigans.

15 hours ago, Panda13 said:

I haven't drunk for 20 years, pissed on tequila tonite cause of brown skinnned temptress. What ever. Heaven won't take me and Hells afraid I'll take over and Death don't take boarders.

Ye, what's the score now? If you want to talk....

Are you officially 'off the wagon' or do you think it was a momentary 'blip' ?

4 hours ago, moe666 said:

Everyone goes to Hooters now paying big money for their beer

What, the people who used to drink at Gullivers on Khao San Road now drink at Hooters!???? Ok. 

I go on week-long benders of beer and sometimes the odd whiskey, smoking fags too. I feel so bad and my body is emaciated from not eating properly, my guts completely scrambled.

Then I abstain for a week and a half, go running on the beach, swim, pump weights, eat a ton of fruit and veg, feel amazing. Then I binge drink, smoke and eat little/ eat cr*ap again.

This has been my life for about 10 years and I can't find a way to stop. It's not too bad. Bit of each side of the coin.

Smoothie containing blueberry, raspberry, strawberry, banana, and SPIRULINA - that green algae stuff.

Just watch your backside.

13 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Their website still lists KSR as one of their locations. But then again, their website also shows a 1996 copyright. So I'm guessing it's safe to assume, the website is long out-of-date. The way whomever built it, not so easy to simply remove one of their (original) location listings.

 

 

I had assumed the same, I don't think that website will ever be updated. The website also lists the Mayompuri Gullivers... remember that anyone?? A huge, swanky Gulliver's bar, literally just around the corner from the Khao San Road establishment. That closed ages ago and will not be opening again either. I doubt many ever even knew that existed, but it will no doubt be captured forever on the website which will clearly never be updated ever again, TiT.

On 2017-4-8 at 3:54 PM, 6thST said:

I heard it was closed for the Songklan? I always had a great time there...

Quite possibly that's all that's happened.

Although it did close some time ago, it re-opened. When it re-opened it didn't really have the same Gulliver's format, ie instead of being open all day for food and everything else, it was now a nightclub, opening after 21:00. Whenever I went in there it was pretty dead and I wonder if the new, possibly misconceived format was in fact the end-doing of the place, if it has closed for good. Maybe it has just closed for Sonkran, or perhaps the low season.

I think it also had fire damage. It certainly lost the smoking area a long time ago, that used to be a bit of a balcony. The tuk tuk above the door went a while ago, and the signage and lots else has gone and covered by suit seller's scaffolding etc.

I don't think we'll ever see it back to a proper Guillivers, and that is a shame, as it was a place where the less smelly non-hippie type with a few quid could enjoy aircon and beer.