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On 9/29/2021 at 3:02 AM, bangon04 said:
unless you have read the many stories about immature Thai men with guns or machetes who kill people while drunk to save "face".....
I have been wondering what (if anything) ever happened to the off-duty cop who got into a fight with a French national (Arab), didn't take his beating well and proceeded to shoot the guy dead. Any update on that? Slap on the wrist? Wink and a nod? B500 and a wai?
Farang life cheap.
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On 3/13/2015 at 1:01 AM, MrWorldwide said:
PP was a bit of a shock for me having spent most of my time in BKK and Pattaya - walking out of Sharkey's Bar at midnight to find myself on a pitch black street didnt thrill me one bit but fortunately my hotel was only a few doors down on St 130. The aptly named City Centre Hotel might not have the best views in the world, but it was my sanctuary for roughly 36 hours of hell when I contracted food poisoning the morning after that first visit to Sharkey's. That's the one thing I'm hoping has improved since 2010 - hygiene standards - but looking at a few blog entries I'm inclined to wonder if that is the case. I did have another nasty night driving the porcelain bowl here in Pattaya a few months back but nothing to compare to the incredible eruptions of black bile that literally had me wondering which end to point at the bowl. I wouldnt have made the airport in a cab without soiling myself, much less got on a plane to BKK - many will laugh, but there were periods in that hotel room when I wondered if I would succumb to whatever nasty bacteria were having a party in my intestines, and that's not a good feeling in a country with such a poor reputation for medical care. Little wonder Sheryl is a walking encyclopaedia or medical knowledge !
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Considering the pathogens found in crustaceans I am surprised anyone eats them in these hot, slack, not-particularly-hygienic countries. Friend had his stomach pumped in Manila after eating oysters (forget if they were raw) as well.
Eating mostly 'mangsawilat' is by far the safest way to stay healthy. You eat an animal, you don't know where it's been, what they've fed it, how it was slaughtered and dressed and how old the meat is.
To me this explains why the telly is choc-a-block jammed with stomach medications.
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On 7/20/2018 at 10:50 PM, oxforddon said:
Some interesting points. I came here 52 years ago so have seen most of the changes that people don't like but somehow the very "essence" of life here has not changed drastically. I don't have much of a choice about staying on since the UK offers no pension or benefits for me having left so long ago that I am not entitled to anything there. And having been a contract player when working, when contracts finished there was no pension there either after retirement. With my two grown up half-Thai daughters having done well in schooling, marriages and careers etc. I am supported and live quietly and divorced these days and just flow with it all - gravitating to the things that I like and avoiding the things that I don't like. Thing is, we are all different in past experiences, personalities and circumstances that there are no strict guidelines for life here - or anywhere else for that matter.
Your observations are most interesting. I too first arrived in the late 1960s and visited frequently until the mid-1980s, when I worked there.
I wonder whether the apparent degradation of classical culture has not been much more exacerbated in the big cities. Living in Hua Hin or Khon Kaen might be much more like "the good old days" perhaps...
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On 12/29/2016 at 9:37 AM, Sphere said:
There are options.
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On 2/24/2018 at 3:01 PM, ezzra said:
Why don't they fingerprint everybody who comes into Thailand at the airport, just in case you know,
who knows what else will necessitate fingerprint in futur so might as well....
That is precisely what they do at Changi Airport Immigration, with an electronic fingerprint reader.
My last time there I was sent to the Immigration Office at the side of the lineup because 'your fingerprints do not match' what was already on record (been visiting Zinger since the 1980s). Passport, signature, face, everything else match up, right Ossifer?
So much for their vaunted technology.
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On 2/2/2018 at 6:20 AM, inThailand said:
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Don't believe 98% of the stuff posted on expat forums. For the most part, its down right false and hersay.
Oh that is fabulous. He could be saying 'hearsay' or 'heresy'.
Why not both?
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On 8/31/2017 at 3:04 PM, Thaiwrath said:
The sad thing is, a lot of wives actually put up with their husband having another woman !
Famed Swiss artist (& drunk) Theo Meier lived many years in Thailand; he was fortunate to have been adopted as a "pet" farang by a prominent royal at the time. He had been forced to leave Bali in the late 1950s, when President Soekarno declared that any foreigner who refused to take up Indonesian citizenship should leave the country.
He reportedly organized great parties and was much-liked by Thais and the foreign community.
His Thai wife at one point decided Theo needed a little fresh action so she arranged a "miya noi" for him (I suspect his impotence was a symptom of the alcoholism which eventually killed him).
The girl sweet young thing who came to live with them was twelve. Nobody remarked on it.
The relationship endured for a number of years, until Theo went back in Switzerland to die, and the girl, now a woman in her thirties, succumbed to lung cancer. Funny thing was that she had never smoked.
Theo's widow undoubtedly lived well on the income from his paintings. One recently sold in Hong Kong for US$ 688,000.
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Why should I inject a vaccine that could kill me when I have no risk to be sick with covid ? A Thai boy told me, what can I reply him to push for vaccination ?
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If you bring up a recommendation from the AMA, you are not making a strong case for yourself. Big Pharma, governments, hospitals and the AMA receive huge volumes of money from the pharmaceutical industry, sometimes routed through disguised channels.
Doctors - increasingly treated as technician employees by big corporate hospitals - will freely admit they have been prohibited from discussing the vaccines and what they might do to you. "Get the jab" is the mantra. Is that the nature of science these days?