Speedhump

Phuket beaches are actually dangerous close to shore when breakers are very strong (red flag conditions,which so many people just ignore). Very uneven bottom and people trying to walk to shore are being pummeled off their feet by big breakers from behind whilst in quite shallow water. Sea and sand create a soup meaning you don't know which way is up until the following wave is already coming in, meantime the strong ebb of the last wave is sucking you away from shore and the sand bottom is like quicksand as it's all in motion. Finding your feet on almost liquid sand can be very difficult, and body strength is the important thing, not swimming ability. RIP to the several swimmers who have already died in the sea at Phuket this year.

Some people are both blind and stupid.

Ludicrous idea. Plus the worst abusers of alcohol are Thai themselves. How many drunken farang kill their neighbours, wives, friends etc. with guns, axes, and knives while boozed up? Traditional values indeed....

Why don't you strongly request that they do? Krungsri in Hua Hin do it without being asked.

I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was. As the song goes.

I've met Thais who believe this restriction is for cars only. Go figure! 😁

Ask any bar girl; your Western farang is usually bigger (yours in particular). The regular women I've dated say the same though. Poor lad.

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Happened to me. My wife was walking our dog on green space opposite our house. Two very gentle Soi dogs had died mysteriously over the last previous two days, she saw another one that day and walked our dog away quickly, but our dog obviously ate something without my wife seeing it. Our dog was frothing and shaking within 10 minutes. Died even before we got to the vet. I wouldn't be able to control myself if I knew who it was. People who poison are themselves lower than animals.

This was not a scam, there was no deception involved, the girl acted in the full knowledge what she was doing. It was very nasty though.

You're just wrong because when a Thai gets into to a fight, there are always more joining in and they only fight mob-handed. And there's likely a gun available in the neighbourhood too.

Well I only spend on bar drinks, not bar fines, so not sure 😁

It's, simply that many people are racist which can be fuelled by feelings of financial jealousy. Not just in Thailand. In an alcohol fuelled situation a slight mistake or offense given by a foreigner which is not apologised for (as of course it should be) can lead to trouble. Also Thai men can be problematic with their refusal to admit when they are wrong and I challenge anyone to argue with that. Of course it takes a foreigner not to understand this too

Bar girls call you 'papa'

Half a Xanax is my son's solution. Business class used to be mine.