TheMekon

1 minute ago, oldhippy said:

If the IOC ever recognizes whining as an olympic discipline, you will be a top candidate for 2 gold medals - summer & winter games.

 whining is when you do nothing to improve your situation and continue to complain while you suffer.

I left them to it and enjoy a far more pleasant lifestyle as a result.

Stupidly high income tax and continual punishment of hard working and responsible people.

Wasting that tax on the lazy, feckless and foreign

Council tax - a family of two pays the same as a family of ten in same sized house - Services are poor and over complicated (sorting rubbish into 5 types of container and only having it collected every other week.

Massive tax on fuel

The failure that is multiculturalism

The left and the whiny self entitled

Minority interest promoted ahead of the majority

Adverts and TV programs filled with unrealistic representations of minorities and "alternative" types

Crime - especially youth and gang crime

LGBTQ stuff promoted in schools and in the media - Over representation of a tiny minority.

Begging adverts on TV and unsolicited begging phone calls from charities

The same old faces on the BBC for years

The joke that is the House of Lords

The joke that is bloated civil service and local govt pensions when compared to the average working mans

The joke that is football players and celeb salaries when compared to teachers, doctors, police, ambulance and firemen's pay 

Football every 8loody day

Immigrants from Africa, The Middle East, Pakistan, Afghanistan etc given housing and cash ahead of more deserving Brits..

I could go on ... But after 30 years overseas I do my best to ignore the terrible mess that the UK has become. 

My yearly pilgrimage to visit my elderly parents just reinforces my thought that leaving was the best thing I ever did.

8 hours ago, CGW said:

This could turn out to be interesting, the country where the most visitors come from is China, Chinese like to smoke - a lot - anywhere, in China it is a daily fight to stop people smoking in undesignated areas, they are not going to take kindly to be told to put out their smokes on the beach!! throw in the language barrier, should be fun trying to enforce a fine, no matter what level of authority they have!

Yep, very true. Eastern Euros and Russians are also very keen on a durry. Good luck telling Popov he has to pay 100K for lighting up.

Wonder what their wives will say ?

Why would "good Muslims" want to visit a country where scantly dressed women are in view, most meals contain pork. Alcohol freely available along with open bars where people can be seen consuming it. Then you have pigs being spit roasted in the street. Girls dancing semi naked in GoGo's as well as massage and other intimate acts available on any street. Seems to me all this temptation and immorality would be considered a hell on earth by most of Mohammed's followers ? Do they come for the temples ? (unlikely as being an apostate could get them killed )

Maybe it's the sunshine ?  - No, they are mostly hypocrites here for the booze and women and the odd surgical procedure. 

Buy a Mazda, Nissan or Merc. Chinese brands are best avoided until they have more experience and market history.

It's cheap for a reason.

I'd been considering one of these myself. Good to see it works well. Next step is to find a good quality sealer to prevent the mold and dirt returning.

1 minute ago, observer90210 said:

Well this could be some good news for Victoria's Secret, who could recruit some fine ladies for their next wonderbra campaign !!!..

 

Just don't forget to hand out some invitations to the fashion show for TVF forum members !!

Unfortunately huge baggy backsides and thunder thighs accompany any size increase in the ( . ) ( . ) dept

Wouldn't put my worst enemy in a minivan driven by one of the suicidal local drivers.

Fly there from Utapao ?

Only have to see some of the monsters dancing in WS GoGo's to realize that Thais are getting bigger.. 15 years ago girls that fat wouldn't have been employed even as cleaners let alone "sexy" dancers.. TBH I'd pay for them to cover up rather than dance.. What a contrast when compared to the hard-bodied girls that used to inhabit the bars of BKK and Pattaya.

"Pavina was later arrested and admitted that she had been soliciting customers for the girl via the Line application"

Thais are certainly early adopters when it comes to technology..