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3 hours ago, asanee said:

Quite simple: the army/airforce owns that airport. As they also do with a few others.

Actually it is the Navy which also owns most of Sattahip including all the best beaches which farang is either charged to visit up to 100Bhatt a day or banned from completely on grounds of security, but if you wish you can see really good pics of the area on Google earth so no need to send the spies in.

2 hours ago, nausea said:

Faulty brakes? I'm no expert but I don't think so. I'm guessing the brakes failed cos he was using them to navigate a steep slope rather than gears. Happens time and time again here, Patong Hill being a prime example. You'd think they'd learn by the experience of others, but I suppose if they keep going with, and accepting, the faulty brakes narrative no-one will learn anything.

They never learn because they are never taught. Thailand the land of the blind leading the blind into an ever darkening chasm.

Anyway no problem see accident thank Bhudda not you new amulet at the next set of lights.

I have been in Thailand 18months now with my Philipino gf who is qualified English teacher as opposed to the ones who just speak english which in Thailand seems to be the only qualification needed.

I came here to retire with a completely open mind but on the whole I have found Thais to be very insular, downright ignorant and uneducated most times at checkout I will always greet the person to be greeted back by nothing not even a look, the same when paying change and receipt pushed into your hand without any kind of recognition that you were ever there.

 Impoliteness bugs me even just a smile helps I'm not saying this happens all the time but it is in my experience the norm.

I think that the only subject Thais excell in is rudeness and ignorance especially the men.

Customer care and satisfaction is non-existent I had a problem with my 5 seater 2 recliner settee purchased from Pattaya for 54k Bhatt when I got in touch with the store about problem theirs answer was for me to bring it into them to check it how the bloody hell do they expect you to do that. 

Talking about understanding English my gf and I watch many Brit programmes together she gets and understands the humour completely including things like Dave Allen, only fools and horses and Tommy Cooper which all brits know not many foreigners get.

On 10/29/2019 at 5:02 PM, scottiejohn said:

I conduct many transactions with Lazada and of course like most Companies, especially online, one can have problems.

Anytime I have either had faulty goods (returned them) or non delivery my money has been returned after a short chat on line with one of the staff.

 

I think that all in all they do a very good job.

I have many dealings with Lazada never had any problems concerning refunds in fact when 1 Chinese supplier seemed to be slow in shipping my goods Lazada automatically refunded my credit card payment without me having to request it.

As i say never had a problem.

On 10/11/2019 at 9:15 PM, Dmaxdan said:

The positives and negatives I have with regards to living in Thailand all come from my own personal experiences. Reading TV just makes me realise that I have a lot more positives than many other expats here.


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Exactly my feelings makes me so happy that I am not as negative as most on here.

On 10/11/2019 at 9:15 PM, Dmaxdan said:

The positives and negatives I have with regards to living in Thailand all come from my own personal experiences. Reading TV just makes me realise that I have a lot more positives than many other expats here.


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15 minutes ago, neeray said:

I am quite certain that they are referring to an "actual bike license".

 

A little story: I do not have a bike license. While in CM on several occasions, Xgf and I rented 2 bikes. She would ride fifty or a hundred metres ahead of me and pull over if she saw a spot check (she had an uncanny ability to sense where these would be). I would then dismount and pass through as her pillion rider. She would park just past the spot check and walk back to retrieve my bike.

WOW and you think that's clever makes you part of the problem methinks. Confiscation is the only answer start taking the bikes away and destroying them as they do in the UK would really hurt. 

As a UK truck driver of 40 years the last 20years working nights this was one of my greatest fears, you would see kids on bridge waving to the drivers then suddenly would launch some item at you eggs were fairly common.

A driver for Ford was killed on the M3 few years ago when someone hung a brick on a rope from a bridge, thats why many bridges now in U.K. have high fences or caged in.

Thanks for the info looks like a visit to the hospital for me.

Having been in Thailand 12 months now I require an eye test, as there is a history of glaucoma in the family I need to be tested for that also do the opticians here do the glaucoma test or would I have to visit a medical facility, I live in Ban Chang so Pattaya through to Rayong area would be fine.

18 hours ago, DavisH said:

Never previously committed a crime huh...so this is the first time he has ever been drunk behind the wheel at a reading of +0.2. I find that hard to believe. Money buys everything. 

Should read 1st time apprehended committing a crime.

Update I have discovered 2 places for the Biometrics Bangkok or Chaing Mai, so off to Bangkok for us plus another 50 quid on top of the £80+ for the visa christ only going for 10 days. Don't you just love Oz.

My Filipino gf is applying for a visitor visa to accompany me to Oz, Home Affairs need her to visit a Visa Application Centre or Biometric Collection Centre. We live in Ban Chang can anybody advise us where the nearest Centres are as we have to get it done in 14 days.

1 hour ago, DPKANKAN said:

If they were still in vogue you can be dam well sure that the Thais will choose the betamax system!!!55555

Betamax was a far superior system to VHS but for some reason VHS become popular with the masses probably due to price of the machine but even early betamax machines had features you could never get on VHS many years later 

5 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

They're idiots on the freeways....there have been so many fatalities from idiots going flat out in the emergency lane....and as always, no-one cares.

Never get out of a broken down vehicle, and if on a freeway, expect to be rear ended!

The rules in the UK are to leave the vehicle and get well away from it behind any safety barriers. I was class 1 goods vehicle driver and we were not allowed to stay in the vehicle under any circumstances despite the size of the trucks we drove 44 tonnes.

4 hours ago, Youlike said:

Thailand needs 750 Aldi supermarkets to get real pricing....they will be half price of the Tesco's...

Agreed or Lidl both are great quality and value mind you I would be ecstatic to get a Big C here in Ban Chang where the Tesco has regularly been described as the worst in Thailand deservedly so it's small stinks around the meat counter fridges dont seem to work correctly and stock is so unreliable invariably we end up going to the new store at Pluta Luang 

11 minutes ago, johng said:

How many millions of baht ?

If you need to ask you can't afford it ????

On 5/26/2019 at 11:15 AM, CharlieH said:

I can entirely relate to your post !

I too used to visit the UK regularly, often for months at a time, I had another home there it was easy, BUT as the years went by it became unrecognisable to me, the place I grew up in and called "home" had gone, a sad and uncomfortable realisation. As you say, so many rules/cameras/enforcement etc its suffocating. The local stores actually had Polish sign writing. other areas had become ethnic enclaves.To say nothing of damned expensive !

I walked the length of the High St and didnt hear 1 English conversation.

I felt totally out of place. 

Not long after that realisation I sold up and quit the UK for good. 

The strange thing is, it actually made me happier and more content in Thailand as a result.

The subconscious mental comparing had stopped and I became more accepting and tolerant of how things are here and that this was truly my home now. I feel so much more relaxed and contented here in my quiet rural village than I ever would back there.

I relate to your sentiments totally I am coming up to 64yrs old lived here for almost 12 months now not well off by a long chalk but comfortable have really not had 1 second of regret, yes it can be difficult here but I find elation in achieving here can't see me ever going back to the got to be PC life that is the UK now. 

17 minutes ago, TEFLKrabi said:

I’ll give you a clue. I’ve never seen a poor head teacher. 

Hope you mean financially poor.

10 minutes ago, StevieAus said:

A one liter bottle.

Thanks hardly worth the effort though ????????

I'm off to Oz in a couple of weeks will be able to drink decent wines again at a good price 11aud for a 4ltr cask of Stanley's cabernet sauvignon last time I was in Murphy's grog shop.

As a relative newcomer in LOS am I allowed to bring any wine back home with me is there a duty free allowance.

The thing that most seem to be missing here is the fact the victims were a cop family and his correctly enraged colleagues were calling for murder charges.

How much influence did this have on his compensation, if his victims had been a lowly 7/11 worker whose family and colleagues didn't have the influence of the police force behind them would he have been as contrite?