ChipButty

According to another news outlet, for the month of September just over 40,000 Russians landed in Phuket alone

Apart from the Russians, Phuket people are know by other Thai's as being Jai Dam, in my experience of living here a long time Thai's are racist's towards black people,

I quite like the 1812 Overture, by Tchaikovsky

A young lady sitting near to us in the coffee shop the other morning when it was raining heavy, she called Grab for less than 1 km away, the fare was 300 baht, My wife said to her we go by there we will drop you,

Lucky he didn't get his head kicked in doing things like that,

He's got a lot of condo's to sell in Phuket

The ones I know do, they are driving the rents up here in Phuket,

I think they need to be spending that money on improving what we already have, Improvements are greatly needed in the hospitality industry, the infrastructure, try pushing a buggy around then you see what I mean, The standards are very poor, food hygiene should be a priority, training should be given to staff, not pay the authorities to go away, shut the places down if they don't comply. I had my family here for a couple of weeks recently 5 in total they booked to stay in a 5 star hotel in Karon, the hotel was fine albeit only 5 rooms were booked out, they were really cutting back, the food on the breakfast buffet was bought from 7/11, I kid you not, One day the little one was hungry, my daughter was about to order a Hot Dog, my grand daughter is not 3 yet, I looked over at the menu and it was 350 baht ++, cancel that it's only for the baby, I'll walk across the road to 7/11, We tried to take them to different places to eat in the evening lots of food was left and sent back being poor quality or under cooked, I think my family would have struggled if they didn't have me or my wife with them. That two weeks opened my eyes the place has gone backwards, Lets not talk about the lack of English.

Bank of Thailand released data showing fewer tourists entered Thailand in August but they comprised more long-stay tourists from Japan, Germany and Australia who spent more. They forgot to mention the Russians who make up the bulk of long stays in Phuket

Lots of free publicity for his restaurant

I think if you walk around with a face like thunder people will put you on the ignore list, in my soi is pretty mixed local Thais a few Burmese and a few farangs, everybody seems to let on, The Thai's always say sawat dee papa when I pass bye, A couple of times a week we take a walk down the beach and see the same people around even the miserable Russians nod their head,

Thai's are crap at giving directions, dont ask better

I would imagine if people are taking their dogs to the supermarket they would get followed by the soi dogs that control that area, could get nasty

some do

It used to be 23 years ago, my first ever night in Bangkok and the young lady was kneeling down infront of me pouring me a beer, when she asked me would I like Head sir, best I don't answer that

Loads of them,

Thai people have a good idea who it is, Im not saying here

enhance their services rather than opting for lower prices. Does that include staff training and food hygiene? buy a toaster that works

They dont worry about lttle things like that here

Don't let them search you on the street it has been known to plant something on you,

I'll just put this one down to really slow news today,

The police asked him how low can you get? well I had a chihuahua,

Thailand was bared from the world cup years ago, everytime they got a corner they wanted to open a shop

I will be long gone bye the time that happened,

Do you have a link to that? I doubt that very much,