ChipButty

Thats a serious amount of cash, is it not about time they legalized gambling in the land of scams? 

That's more like it, 6 years he's a professional overstayer, I'm sick of reading about these guys getting caught after a couple of months

I hope the hotels or whatever are investigated for at least allowing such things on their properties, 

9 minutes ago, Gecko123 said:

 

I've had Thais who know me alert Thais who don't know me that I can speak Thai but it's usually in order to let them know "knock off the pigeon English" rather than"be careful what you say, the walls have ears." I've also had Thais test to see if I understand what they're saying by saying something unflattering and seeing if I understand that they've just insulted me. But I've never sensed someone wanted to say something unflattering but were biting their lip out of fear that I'd understand what they were saying. If someone wants to say something nasty about you, they'll just say it under their breath or wait for you to leave before ripping you to shreds.

I get that places I go, they know I speak Thai or they tell them I have a Thai wife you can tell one of them has said something the atmosphere changes, although she very very rarely comes out with me if I just go for a couple of beers, she doesn't follow me around like most of the farangs in the bar every where they go the mia farang goes, 

20 odd years ago Thai's did not like a farang learning to speak their lingo, I picked it up pretty quick but I did go to school, so much so I could understand more, I remember having my lunch one day in some place in BKK and 4 Thai's sitting on the next table saying how dangerous it was farang speaking Thai, the look on their faces when I asked for the bill in Thai and as walked past them I said to them don't gossip in front of me, many farang can speak Thai, 

Here in Phuket if they were born here can switch to south language 

They dont want you to die in their hospital, looks bad on their year end stats 

Now there's an arrogant bunch of sheeeeets, Dont call the Russians again to me, 

Not enough as far as Im concerned, 

10 minutes ago, Bazerino said:

Has the Irish guy passed away?

It all went quiet, like usual here 

3 hours ago, Tequila makes me happy said:

Maybe also look into hospitals price gouging farangs in disress.

My thought were if these polices were issued by Thai insurance companies that would actually stop as they know all the prices, A good friend of ours is a broker here in Phuket and she has a list of the cost, 

I'm always lost for words when I see things like this happen I have no explanation as to why would someone do this, poor defenseless little thing, may she RIP little one, so sad.

Makes me always think of my little grand daughter who is also not 3 yet and how she brings so much joy to the house every day even though she is in the UK, she's a little monkey it's lovely to see them growing and developing everyday, thank god for what's app and Facebook, we get our daily dose of photo's and video's and put's a big smile on my wifes face, 

Once again little one RIP, 

Give me a knife I'll cut his head off, 

19 minutes ago, smedly said:

you think it's the agents making most of the money ?, they get a cut maybe 30% and the rest of it goes to #### #### 

I know where it goes but I didn't want to say here, one guy here in Phuket has been at it for years still at it as far as I know and has been raided a couple of times, there was a time here in Phuket were they had dodgy stamps, 

Huge project coming up right on the beach front in Rawai, Russian money Im sure behind there is all Russians be like little Moscow soon 

13 minutes ago, anandra said:

not as much as Thailand, but plenty of them are there as well, because Cambodia has better and cheaper visa policy.  China is Hainan island only but just tours, to South Korea russians go to work as Cambodians or Lao go to Thailand to work at the factories or agriculture, lots of them are in the Phillipines. But the most infested country is Turkey

I heard also Bali has a few, Russians 

11 minutes ago, bob smith said:

I think the inevitable post high season clean up by immigration will require an extra large net next year.

 

could even be a case for big joke, you never know!

There has been a couple of places raided were Russians are involved one was tour shop and the other car rent, and they had work permits, 

7 minutes ago, anandra said:

Few drunk russians killed people while driving cars.

Happened here in Phuket a few weeks ago right near where I live 2 of them on a bike, Dead, 

9 minutes ago, bob smith said:

you're havin a laff, right?

I met one a couple of months ago and he was here studying English I didn't think it was possible, 

I have met a few over the last 18 months, one worked for a oil company, another owned a crypto exchange who lived in Dubai, a few work online doing what I don't know, then there is the dodgy ones, 

Here in Phuket there has been a few of these taxi app's started up looks like Russians, one I know definitely is, if you watch FB groups, many car rent and bike rent, properties for rent anything to make a few quid. 

A friend of ours is a hairdresser (Thai) and she was telling us that we have Russians hairdressers working from home also doing nails, earlier this year up around Bang Tao area 3 of them got caught running a salon from home, 

25 minutes ago, Chongalulu said:

The overheads in a 5 star hotel are just a tad higher than the mama and papa shop in the local soi, just as everywhere else in the world. ”My wife and I ”,as do others wot speak proper ,understand that .. 😜

I'm not as smart as you