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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.

Most email programs allow you to back up your whole mail account to a file (if you have set the account to keep the data on your computer as well as on the server of your mail provider, using IMAP protocol and not POP for incoming mail) which you can export from the program and then import into the same program on your new computer. But if you don't want to learn this then send hundreds of emails to the same email address, after you have set up the account on your new computer. Remember to send with any attachments included.

They threaten this every few years and nothing has ever happened. I doubt this will be any different.

Some countries do. Japan only abolished theirs in 2010.

No country should have a statute of limitations on murder. This is premeditated obstructive delay and is barbaric. When the murderers return to Thailand after leaving until the statute expired, they'd better stay away from the south of Thailand.

Yes, it's not a renewal of the visa, but my previous lazy shorthand can in no way be taken as advice to others that a visa can be extended. They should always seek proper advice, not rely on a post in a forum by someone they don't even know, otherwise they deserve everything coming to them. Good grief. That applies to any online open forums, including 'latest expat tax advice' and the rest. As an example I never even leave the country without rechecking the latest regulations on re-entry in case they have changed since the last time I left (usually a matter of years). Ignorance is no excuse.

He needs to stick a rubber tube up himself every night? My god. And I hope he sleeps alone.

Look at the number of 'sad' responses to your silly pedantry, and maybe take a look at your life? Anyway, as others understood, I was referring to yearly renewal of extension of my O-A visa, using the very unoriginal TM7. General comment to forum users: Thinking a little about other users of this forum, the Asean News 'newsletter' headlines I saw on my phone this morning make me sad, it's become very juvenile. The 'Featured Topics': loud farting at night, 'falling' for marriage and ruining your life, white people smell like wet dogs, wetting the bed a lot, do Jews have high IQ.... The little value I get from Asean News is becoming drowned in a sea of puerile drivel. No need to tell me not to let the door hit me on the way out, I'm too quick for that. Sad though.

You're dreaming about water sports, just buy a rubber sheet for better enjoyment.

Look back through the recent posts here. Emojis under your comments only show people are saddened or confused by you....

There you are doing it again. You're self-obssessed. I've told you already, it's not all about you. 😊