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Jeremia Juxtaposed
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4 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:
The perfect dumping ground, that is until the body surfaced in the bag.
I hope it was a quick death. RIP
Why is it a perfect dumping ground?
OK , The river around that "island" was dredged about 10 years ago to remove silt and improve river flow but it was always gonna get caught up some where there ...The next bridge down would have been better. Faster river flow and less eyes...
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Just now, madmen said:
So you pay less than $3 a day for your <deleted>hole and you expect us to believe you have ever seen the inside of a KFC/Burger King ?
BHAHAHAHAAAH!
Of course I don't use either but I presumed that they were the things that were important to somebody that comments like you...
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3 minutes ago, faraday said:
Yes Jeremia, of course you do, I believe every word.
You in Pattaya? Meet me tomorrow, PM me the time/location to meet on Soi Buakhao. But you donate 5,000 Baht to Father Rays. I will bring my rental/utilities bill.
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6 minutes ago, bwpage3 said:
Have you ever lived in Isaan?
8 years in an Isaan village around '97...Another 8 years in a village in central Thailand area....
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3 minutes ago, madmen said:Enjoy ????
You must be proud
Hahahaha Is that a picture from inside your brain? I would hate to have such a negative attitude to life. I am very happy where I am which must really upset you. I get my pleasure from the people around me having normal day to day fun. Whereas you seem to be the opposite. Which is OK by me of course. Upto you..
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1 minute ago, madmen said:Soi Buhakao 4k fan rooms above run down bars will be all empty next year. The desperate pensioners will be hard pressed to even pay for a bus ticket to phnom pen and secure a lease and new visa
Its A good cull IMO but awfully bad news for cambodia who will change their own cheap charlie visa quick smart when the poor expats start to clog up their unpaid hospital rooms as well
Hahaha ..people like you just love putting people down. I pay less than 2,500 baht for two rooms with aircon inc leccy and water with an outside patio/drinking /cooking/eating/hammock area big enough to have a party. Yes I speak Thai, yes I speak Isaan Kmer/Laos but really there is no need. I can walk to soi Buakhao in 30 minutes. Big C /KFC/Burger King in less than 10 minutes and Bangkok Pattaya Hospital in 5 minutes (for which I have health insurance).
I feel myself getting upset again so I am off to comment on moderating so that I can be put back in my box with all the doors and windows shut so that I may laugh insanely to myself. Sorry Charlie but no ill feeling intended ...
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4 minutes ago, BestB said:
In that case Charlie might have to give it a miss ????
And it costs 200 baht.....
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5 minutes ago, BestB said:
Do not worry, i struggle with English sometimes. The other week jumped in the pool and screamed out" F....k this deep is so pool." Naturally got a few stares and a few laughs
Yes...but not quite the same as asking for a 17 year old student rather than a banana leaf thingy...
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22 minutes ago, BestB said:
Yes you can, but only if you apply for a membership card????
The membership card only gives you free refills on the coffee/tea .....daily specials are all 99 baht....even if they are 99 baht ...if you see what I mean..
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22 minutes ago, BestB said:There is a difference between not having the money and having the money but being a tight ass.
Thailand is not cheap and has not been for a while.
As i have said a few times already on many other threads, Thailand is not a poor country either and thus no longer wants or needs pensioners living from month to month.
Personally, i do not consider anyone being cheap charlie if they seek out a cheap meal, what i do consider being a cheap charlie is when they seek out cheap meal and then expect and demand to have the full size portion for a third of the price what full size would cost.
Someone getting 500 baht room and complaining service is not good or included breakfast either too small or bad because its not a buffet.
99 baht breakfast with coffee and oj, not having enough beans or double bacon or whatever.
Yes, if one living month to month, Thailand may not be ideal destination any longer, that is not to say things may not change in the near future the way Thai economy and governing is heading.
They say history always repeats itself, can always look at Spain and how it all worked out to predict what awaits here, can also look back 30 years ago and you may have an idea of what possible to come
Totally agree. I ENJOY my life here. Whenever I fancy Thai food I will eat it where Motorcy taxis etc eat. I don't give a toss what farang think of me. I do,however, enjoy interacting with Isaan Thais whilst ordering the food and just generally having a smile on my face and having a laugh at myself when I get mixed up with words. My most common mistake is asking for Mau Hok rather than Hau Mok .... (just waiting for a linguistic spanking now but buckit!). It is so bloody easy to live cheaply here and still be happy! Too many miserable <snip>around that would complain at a balloon party at the quality of the food!!
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9 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:
Most guys came to Thailand because it was cheap although many guys on here pretend otherwise. They also came for the women but again many guys on here pretend they don't pay for it
Everybody I know came here to work. I arrived in '96 from Jakarta as a PM in Bangkok ...You need to widen your circle of friends if most of the people you know only came here because it was cheap and only came for the women. Unless of course you are talking about people that you have never met or spoken to.
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4 minutes ago, grego49 said:
My 89baht breakfast at cheap charlies,so i guess i am one,5555
Pffft - Big spender you!..Thai food just before Areca Lodge 20 baht a portion... and bloody delicious it is too!!
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10 minutes ago, Dexlowe said:Message me. I think I can still save you.
I can't afford to send a text message
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1 minute ago, SteveK said:
It's a lot easier to spot a naked girl in a gogo bar than a genuine bargain in Big C.
True. Anything on special offer in most supermarkets means that somebody somewhere has been paying too much or the goods are reaching their sell by date ......
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3 minutes ago, Gecko123 said:
Feigning poverty is not a bad strategy for acceptance in rural Thailand. You're perceived as more humble, more approachable, and you're less likely to trigger class resentment, or get hit up for a loan. Don't look down on Cheap Charlies; some of us are just faking it.
Well Said!
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7 minutes ago, baansgr said:There are actually more now than ever, with XE as it is, most have seen their incomes almost half and daily costs rising....those that had new pick ups and the latest phones are now scuttling around on a rented moped ecking out bargains.
Totally agree. I am determined to live off my military pension here although I have savings to fall back on. Y'see, I enjoy a challenge.Always have done. I have greater fun spotting a bargain in Big C than seeing a naked girl in an agogo but that is just me.
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16 minutes ago, wgdanson said:I take it from you post that you consider yourself a Cheap Charlie. So why not leave now before you find it too expensive and difficult to enjoy Thailand and leave us others alone. Thanks.
Phitsanulok eh..? I lived up that way for a few years. Great hospital albeit a 2 hour drive away ...But for the life of me I can't think what I would need 40,000 O/P coverage for ...... and yes I have no doubt that your current visa doesn't require it, but it will ...it will....it is a massive increase on the premium to include it.
Empathy is not strong on TVF but I hope that you live a very long, healthy life and sometime encounter a situation that requires you to pay an extortionate amount of money to live here for something that you will never need. If I was like you I might even enjoy seeing you crying at the airport saying goodbye to things and people that you love. Y'see when the devil comes calling and pisses in your cornflakes no matter how much preparation and planning you have done The Beast will find a way through your defences. I somehow think that you are not mentally prepared to live in poverty though wherever it may be.
Personally I enjoy living a cheap charlie lifestyle. I have found that I mix with people that are more ready to smile and have a laugh, and less ready to criticise others different to themselves.
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18 minutes ago, CharlieH said:
I was watching a program the other night where they were discussing "Pokemon Go" and the CIA. An interactive game on the phone, actually funded by the CIA (apparently) and uses thousands of unwitting participants and the data they see etc. They had all these location points placed directly near foreign embassies and so on, interesting to watch but how much is fact how much is artistic licence, the viewer can decide.
If it were possible to extrapolate Government agencies' misinformation and technology available at that point from WWII, through to what I know happened in the 80s, through 9/11, through the Gulf Wars to the obvious newspeak of today I don't doubt any of it.
I would go as far as to say that some of the more bizarre "conspiracy" theories are placed on Social Media by somebody wishing to make the more credible theorists look barmy!
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10 minutes ago, CharlieH said:
Dont have to wonder, ots probably in your pocket on near you right now..........the mobile phone, that tracks everywhere you go, camera and microphone that can be activated remotely, drive you nuts if you go into that rabbit hole ????
One of the main differences between Analogue and GSM is that Analogue phones reacted to the Base Station Sig channel whereas GSM phones were more proactive in that they actively reported signal strength etc etc bla bla to the Base Station and during call set up. Having said that, when I commisioned and integrated analogue sites, part of Integration testing was to call 999 and confirm your location on the bottom of their screen.
Now then, I admit to being a stickler on this, but I still believe that GSM stands for Group Speciale Mobile which was the European group set up to establish common protocols. So my summary is that even using the old black brick phones "they" knew your location....Then with GSM it became more accurate......All of this with European technology (Motorola was based in Swindon not Chicago despite what the yanks pretended).
Your phone's location has ALWAYS been easy to track since the late 80s.... But 4G and 5G will allow, anybody that pays, access to far more than just your location.
Leave your phone in your trouser pockets ladies and gentlemen or you could be appearing in Pornhub Amateur small penis videos .....
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3 minutes ago, CGW said:
Point taken! how about replacing "infancy" with cheap and affordable?
Computers have been around since 1946? but they have only become "affordable" in the past twenty years or so. Relevant to the development they are still in their infancy even now as I see it.
The biggest thing with CCTV is being able to use the information, software has only been available in recent years that make mass surveillance possible though no doubt the military have had advanced systems for many years, which goes part way to explaining the huge costs that the military industrial complex incurs year on year.
Have to wonder what they are working on now that will help them control and herd the masses?
I'm sure if we knew what was being planned for us? most of us would indeed be "shocked"
I think the key is the distance from which we can be monitored, in what detail and the method used (body heat etc)....Shocking indeed ...!!!
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36 minutes ago, CGW said:
CCTV and all the paraphernalia that goes with it is in its infancy, if you don't understand that it is being and that the ultimate aim is that it will be used to "control" people your being very naive. ????
The social divide continues to increase, the ultra rich have plenty of money to invest in their long term security, don't want the "peasants" revolting - again!
Look how CCTV is being abused in Hong Kong, where they are not even trying to hide the fact that the "Police" in plainclothes are initiating the violence.
If those in power that are putting these systems to "use" were even vaguely trustworthy.................................................
I agree with everything except the word "infancy"..
I did a Heli Tele course at Marconi, Chelmsford in the late 70s before getting posted to NI. I was heavily involved in monitoring the Hunger Strike riots of the early 80s. Even at that time it was easy for the equipment to pick out an individual face in the crowd from the chopper, although it needed some manoevering skill.In the late 80s I served out my final 3 years with "The Det" and I can assure you that if you think CCTV is now in its infancy you would be shocked at what was being done then.....
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9 minutes ago, neeray said:Criminals aren't the brainiest bunch around. But anybody thinking about doing a crime needs to "smile for the camera". They're everywhere. And without question IMO, they surely must reduce crimes (and help solve many).
Totally agree! Otherwise the following purely ficticious incidents could possibly occur:-
1. On a little island somewhere in never never land a CCTV clearly identified a person leaving a bar but the tape "disapeared" only to be closely followed up with another CCTV showing the same person elsewhere with the same date/time stamp.
2. In a small town in Smallesville,Smalland a person is clearly shown driving into and killing a stationary individual.
Thank goodness for CCTV that criminals are caught and brought to justice.
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15 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:
The point was 2-ways. You can't force someone to connect to something that doesn't exist. So when you make it mandatory, you're forced to do your part and actually build that. I could not believe anyone would encourage dumping raw sewage into canals, roadside flood drains or directly into the sea.
Of course you are correct but blaming local communities is just wrong!
My house and all my neighbours have our own underground septic "tanks" with overflow into the drainage system which becomes a problem in rainy season (I shan't describe it). I know that if there were sewage pipes run in down our street we would all connect to it........!!!!!
But what I will openly say...If a connected entrepreneur wants to make a fortune in Pattaya, buy a couple of shit sucking trucks and run them in direct competition with the Government one(s)
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5 hours ago, tomazbodner said:
Why urging them? Make it a law. Fine them if they don't do it.
Every condo/hotel building is EIA approved by law so of course there is sufficient infrastructure to handle waste according to law......Oh ...it is the smaller communities that are at fault.??? ..y'know, the ones that were there before the high rises were built.....Ah yes I get your point...
Murder victim in suitcase: He is Chinese and came with a group of 15 that stayed in Pattaya
in Central Thailand
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Of course you are correct in that sense but a stabbing and killing outside the Phet hotel from the nightclub wouldn't have carried any news because it happens so often ....and certainly wouldn't have been news worthy for Thaivisa..
Unless you are an undercover journalist investigating the illegal exportation of hazardous goods to Africa.....Nah!