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A Russian ex-pat who was living in Sri Lanka has fled the country after attempting to organise a 'white party' event, which was met with huge backlash, branding it 'racist' and 'disgusting'.

The advertisement for the party specified a white dress code for guests, but also had a line that read: 'Face control: White,' which was largely understood to mean only white people could attend.

After the advertisement circulated online, the party that was due to be held at Sarayka Lounge in the southern coastal town of Unawatuna, was urgently cancelled.

If you are ever in Phuket town go to some of the nightclubs it's full of them, Toms I mean, 

She's definitely not Thai, they're not having on the beach and only  once in 24 years of being here had some boom boom in the car, I remember it well it was in Cha Amm 

27 minutes ago, retarius said:

A mama-san in Pattaya told me that Russians were cheap and wouldn't pay bar prices for alcohol and so bought their booze at 7/11 and then drank on the beach or at home. I think if they drank in bars you wouldn't hear the noise. 

I was sat in a pub one evening in Patong having a beer alone, some Russians who were sat outside came in and bought a bottle od Sang Som, 1500 baht they got charged they paid no argument, I was thinking to myself at the time if they saw the price in 7/11, could have bought 5 bottles. 

They are making their own rules from what I can see, An old guy I bump into occasionally he must live in one of the soi's near me, he has been asking for advice recently, he has a 2 bedroom pool villa for rent, he has rented it out to 4 Russians I think he lives next door and he was telling me now there is 12 people there, partying every night and having sex around the pool, very noisy and now the neighbours are kicking off, he's asking me what can he do, he said he has called the agent who is supposed to look after the place and they are not interested, I think it's time to call the police before one of your neighbours does. the other thing he said was they are coming and going all night long on their bikes, 

27 minutes ago, david rucker said:

A water analysis should reveal reason of color. Walking upstream should reveal origin

Follow your nose, 

What do they expect? with the amount of construction going on around the island, more people = more <deleted> 

Give this place a try right on the beach road facing the ocean "Poached" if you fancy a breakfast, If just me and my wife go we normally order a "Big Al's Breakfast" we share it, and they make all their own bread, they have HP sauce, good coffee well worth a visit, last Sunday I ordered a bacon and egg roll 

https://poachedbreakfastcaferawai.com/menus/  

WHAT I will eat today,

Delicious Moo Hong

Moo Hong is a traditional Phuket delicacy, tracing its roots to Hokkien immigrants from Fujian, China. This southern Thai dish combines the warmth of black pepper with rich ingredients like coconut sugar and fatty pork, offering a harmonious blend of sweetness, richness, and spice.

He should come down to Rawai especially Rawai water park 

He said that with a straight face

I'm amazed there is not more deaths this place has gone nuts, This weekend my wife's brother and his girlfriend came to Phuket for the weekend the first time for both of them, he said this place is worse than BKK and he rides his bike everyday to work from Nontaburi to MBK area and back, we did a bit of driving around over the weekend he couldn't believe how bad it was. especially around 7-30 pm as we were driving home guys coming over on to the wrong side of the road trying to jump the traffic, mostly farang I might add, 

10 hours ago, LivinginKata said:

My wife talk to the owner. He was apologising to all the neighbours. Seems 10 lads staying. Damage 200,000 baht. They paid in cash after all visit ATMs.

I see now it's saying they were from Manchester, 10 lads is asking for trouble, more than likely was self checkin, 

Some of the worse cases of food poisonings I've had has been from 5 star hotels 

I need to go out shortly and go towards Chalong from Rawai I dont know where all the traffic comes from, I will have to go almost to Chalong to do a Uturn back towards Rawai to get to a hotel I need to get to, 

4 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

Why not set up a BTS system of some sort between the various beaches?  I then could be extended around the island. 

They have talked about it, building a monorail system, all talk I'm afraid, 

5 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

Agree - the tap & go on with the card is very efficient.

 

But there will still be people taking out their wallet only after they’ve been told the amount. 
The same characters are slow with cash too….

….. perhaps even slower with promptpay.

 

 

 

We have a friend and she's having none of it, she's got money and plenty of it, she likes to travel quite a bit, China and Japan she always come to my wife to do the booking online and pay my wife cash, 

Next week she's going to Turkey, 

I used to always tip but these days my wife pays for everything with the phone, we were talking about it last week when we went for a meal, if we added a tip to the bill do the staff get it? I had 40 baht in my pocket so I left that on the table make sure they got a tip,

My daughter back in the UK has 4 Kebab and Pizza take always she said to me they get hardly any cash these days, she has her own delivery riders

I suggest a trip down to your local Orbortor see what they say

On 2/19/2024 at 3:25 PM, Gandtee said:

Back fifteen years, my foster son came back from school and said his English teacher said you pronounced giraffe, giraffee because it has an e on the end. When he politely said it's giraffe she told him not to argue with her. He came second in a National English speaking contest and even now is called upon by his Thai international company to do their presentations for them. Perhaps his teacher should have listened to him. Until the Thai education system is elevated from marching, haircuts and dictatorial teaching, and encourages imaginative and lateral thinking, not much will change. But then it's not my country.

I remember some years ago a friend of ours asking could she come around with her daughter because she had been given some English home work from a Thai teacher, her own father was no good he was Dutch and didn't speak good English, The homework you could tell it had not been written by a English speaker, I cant remember exactly what was written but none of it made sense, I did my best for her and explained to her that these questions are not right and we wouldn't ask the question like that, Another problem was the daughters English was also not good.

They would be better training them for the hospitality business,