metempsychotic

5 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

One did his last excursion to the power supply.

Cost me a new one.

Others seem to have suffered smoked AC control units.

I had halogen lights blowing regularly a while back. Always a fried gecko or gecko eggshells inside the ballast.

Black elecrical tape over th holes and a switch to led sorted that out.

Why not shatter the monopoly and expand the existing facility.

Currently anyone who wants to can fly into surat and bus and boat over. 

Still a hell of alot faster than road travel.

One can only hope the bridge will not extend to koh phangan.  

On 2/9/2020 at 3:02 PM, canopus1969 said:

Wht bother with a Thai Passport - just get her a passport from your country

And why not get her both?

34 minutes ago, WalkingOrders said:

My wife is a local.... the baht is at 31.25 per USD, she doesn't give a hoot about Speed boat operators, or dead people in China.

 

She has become very adept at watching the USD/THB and knows the fundamentals pretty well. Were building a damn house. Good times bad times! Gotta take care of your own and not worry about what is outside of your control.

 

The Thai health minister, disparaged caucasion tourists at a time of crisis with tourism falling , and it went around the world. My wife was reading about that in Thai websites before I did. Interstingly the Thai comments were savaging him for his stupidity.

 

Having said that,  as Tourism falls, so will the strength of the baht. That will clearly hurt some Thai, and clearly benefit other Thai. A weak baht? Easy to sell rice! Difficult on speed boat operators if coupled with no tourists. I will side with the farmers.

I have no idea why you chose my comment for that brain dump. 

I cannot see how much of anything you said there relates to what I wrote, but hey thanks for coming out.

1 hour ago, BobbyL said:

Finally, a good decision. 

 

 

How is it a good decision?  Proper quarantine procedures and its relatively low risk, does it say anything about an outbreak on this plague ship?

On 2/5/2020 at 4:04 PM, DrTuner said:

I can really feel the love in the air in this thread ????

Hard to fathom why some of the locals may not be too enamoured of western tourists. 

Sadly the demographic on thai visa while limited to a number of disgruntled geriatrics mourning their privleged way of life is quite visible and does none of us any favours with their incessant negativity.

I have no issue with constructive criticism, but his thread and many like it ate not critical they are downright abusive if not outright bigotry.

To take such joy in a complete loss of income by an entire group of people and their families - no matter how distateful you find the service they provide is just plain petty.

Why not outright wish their familes and children starve for your personal entertainment.

Perhaps you dont like the speedboats, but who ultimately is at fault for letting the service they provide become unregulated. Lets shoot the baht bus and taxi drivers next - they are all bad right?

What you seem to neglect to consider is this is just one aspect of how folks are going to struggle in pattaya over the coming months.

These boat operators are a single ink in the chain, the people they ferry stay somewhere, eat somewhere, get transporeted by someone, they buy their tat souveniers and spend their money with someone else. 

They only thing thus entire debacle is proving is how very low on the food chain the sexpat, week long millionaires and threadbare retirees truly are in the grand scheme of things.

Taking your petty pleaure in this is watching pattaya decline yet further, the <deleted>hole that it is. 

1 hour ago, GeorgeCross said:

5 brits in a ski resort right now, infected by another brit returning from singapore business trip and another brit on the cruise ship. but lets be frank i don't think the virus cares about skin color

No but most of thaivisa does.

On 2/6/2020 at 6:51 PM, TheAppletons said:

It has lost value vis-a-vis the USD, from approx 29.8/1 to approx 31/1 in the last month or so (31.08/1 as I type.)

 

That's over a 3% drop in just over a month.  

I got 31.15 at vasu yesterday. Seems some movement is occurring.

Thoughts and prayers.... 

38 minutes ago, gk10002000 said:

I do not understand why they do not send in some police dogs.  They usually are pretty well trained to go after the bad guy that is holding the gun, or smells like gun powder.  At least you will know almost exactly where the guy is.  And if the dogs have a collar or dog cam, you can get a pretty good view of things.

Could have ended the post with:

I do not understand.

38 minutes ago, Liverpudlian said:

Incredible the amount of folks here sitting around the tv transfixed i can imagine the country will almost be at a stand still, very very sad afair indeed.

If that is the case I should have the whole wakepark to myself, though I doubt it.

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

I'll have to disagree with you.

I've certainly had thoughts of 'killing everyone' when I've suffered injustice (as does probably everyone), but because I'm not a 'mad, drugged up nutter' I didn't do it.

Actually, I have never once wanted to kill everyone. 

7 hours ago, KhaoYai said:

Come on, OK reports are varied and conflicting at the moment but from what I can make out, this was an unplanned attack. He shot dead a Colonel and the Colonel's mother in law in some sort of dispute and then went to the amoury shooting dead staff there. I have never visited an amoury in the west where access to weapons/ammunition can be gained simply by shooting the staff.

 

 

Soldiers planning an attack in a corrupt country may well be able to gain access to weapons/ammunition but on the spur of the moment? It should not be possible. The fact that he was able to gain access to the armoury, seemingly quite easily, smacks of slackness. If the normal, universal military procedures were followed, it would not have been possible for him to get his hands on anything - even with a gun. Heads should roll but they won't.

Why do you keep talking sbout what should not be possible? This is happenining, so it MUST

This is not the west.

You have no idea who this man is or what his access to weapons was.

Get over it. As for heads rolling, that too has already happened.

7 hours ago, morrobay said:

Who cares what they say. Its a two way street. Look at all the negative/ condescending comments about Thais by foreigners around here.

It is indeed true, but folks here are for all intents and purposes irrelevant, and he is an elected and high ranking government in charge of narional policy.

3 hours ago, darksidedog said:

After yesterdays performance, I don't think there can be many foreigners who will respect anything that comes out of the health ministers mouth. I note that when being interviewed he wasn't wearing a mask, not even one of the crappy ones he was trying to force people to wear yesterday.

He was indeed, it was just around his neck.

The constant fidgeting with and adjusting of the mask is potentially as "dangerous" as not wearing one.

Then of course is the possibility of being infected through the eye, but never mind.

3 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

Ummm, that qualifies as "wearing"?

 

Can I keep mine in my pocket?

 

 

Where did I say he was wearing it correctly?

18 hours ago, Vacuum said:

 

Why don't you wear one?

Ummm he has one on in the photo. 

19 hours ago, SpanishExpat said:

My experience has been....the richer the girls family,  the less they prefer/or are interested towards farangs.

this is simply stating the blatantly obvious.

and it is no different for well-off indian, japanese, english, jewish, catholic etc, etc families.

people want to continue their lineage and financial dynasty within their cultural group.

sure, inter cultural relationships are becoming more common, but parental pressure and the opinions of older generations will always put pressure on an offspring to marry within the culture. 

3 hours ago, GinBoy2 said:

Interesting question, although probably the answer is rather complicated.

 

So apart from the obvious, that it appears that rather than the usual norm of 10% of men being Gay, Thai men seem to hover around 50%.

 

Then you get to attraction. Well walk down any street in San Francisco and I guarantee you, half of the couples will be a white guy with some version of Asian woman!

 

Then add in the Thai factor. My wife is a little odd since she grew up in the US, and only moved back to Thailand when I wanted to retire. But, her cousin is typical of many.

 

By the age of 20 she had already had 3 kids by three different guys. You know how they think..'I have his baby, he love me more more more'. Total <deleted>, of course she ended up alone, and ended up in the 'entertainment' world while dumping the kids off with Grandma.

 

So she met Claus, a Swede who despite his own better judgement took on her and her kids. 

 

I think it's instinctual that woman crave anything that will protect their children, thats why Thai women, in certain circumstances prefer farang men, not for our dick size or nonsense like that, but we tend to regardless of circumstances protect and stand by children, unlike Thai men who seem to be able to drop their offspring quicker than a pair of dirty underwear 

the answer is not all complicated.

the answer to the question "Do Thai women prefer ‘farang’ or Thai men?"
is "Yes".

22 hours ago, Tagged said:

Oh my G, you keep statistic? 

no, he makes them up.

why am i not suprised.

who would have tought america could get even greater - again.