Trip Hop

Read the OP's question.

It used to be about £10/gram sold singularly for green, so about £4500 based on that. I haven't smoked it myself for years though and have never asked the current price from any friends that still do.

As a very wise Irish friend told me many years ago when I first started visiting Thailand, never show or tell anyone about any wealth you may or may not have as it will only make you a mark for everyone from ladies, thieves, con-men and the BiB.

That would be known as harassment in the west. The right to "quiet enjoyment" has been enshrined in UK common law for centuries.

My bet is on that as Sustanon wouldn’t be hard to get hold of as it’s common amongst bodybuilders. Either that or claimed todger enhancement if the local plod came to find out about it! 🤣

Usual hot air from someone who wants to make himself look intelligent but doesn't understand the complexity and restrictions of rolling out a program such as this. If they want to go down this route they'd be far better off with static cameras strategically placed but as others have said, they need to be prepared for a decline in tourism due to some objecting to having their every move watched. I suppose anything for the BiB not to have to leave Soi 9 on a hot afternoon though!

I didn't "recommend" anything but if he was going to do it why not go somewhere more out of the way with no houses with direct access? It's not as if he's a tourist who doesn't understand the locals and the need to respect them. It's a quiet fishing village where a lot will be up at 4am and the guy is a guest in the country, so act like one. Maybe deportation is a bit too much but you don't know the history on this as there may have been complaints against him or other farangs previously? You should know yourself that when the authorities feel that they need to make an example they will and he just might be the unlucky one on this occasion.

If you check the video you can see the large house like building shown below containing several shophouses immediately behind the vehicle. To the right of that where the vehicles are parked there is the main soi leading into the beach from the centre of the village which is reasonably narrow and also full of small shophouses. The fact that in the video you can clearly see the white ticket booth like building to the left shows how close he actually was? Apart from weekend daytimes, Ban Amphur is a sleepy fishing village which is dead after 9pm, so why he felt the need to do this here whilst Legend Siam's car park is only down the road is beyond me? Maybe small dick syndrome made him want to show off to the youths which sometime gather at the other end of the car park? Either way, he deserves what he gets!

I struggle with this too. As primary school students a few of us suffered at the hands of a bullying teacher who used to grab me by the back of the hair. I never said anything until one day my mother noticed the redness on my scalp whilst cutting my hair. The following day, she didn't bother going to the head teacher/principal and all 4'11" of her just marched straight into the classroom, grabbed the near 6' teacher in the exact same fashion and marched him outside in front of all of us, where she proceeded to tell him the way that it would go if he continued. It was strange to see this as my mother was one of the most gentle, forgiving persons in the world and until then I had never heard her raise her voice, let alone use physical force against anyone. Needless to say the bullying stopped before my father got to hear about it.

If you're a refugee or asylum seeker in the UK, you get free entry to all English Heritage sites. Wales have gone one further and you can get free bus travel there and back!

Not allowed to charge in the UK to the best of my knowledge too but once cash is completely gone, you're at the mercy of the banks and they could start charging for every transaction like they did back in the 70s/80s/90s. Hence why I was always try to keep cash alive.

Cash only here unless it's something big at a reputable store and still like my cash in the UK too. Perhaps someone can enlighten me here but I thought the Thai payment QR codes only work with for those with Thai bank accounts?

If this is from an existing structure things like this don't happen immediately and cracks would have been visible first. I'm not sure how close this is to the ongoing works but in the west when we are building anything similar near to existing structures, they are inspected regularly as well as being continually monitored for the slightest movement. A similar process here could no doubt have saved this man's life as well as others.

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Look I could harp on about the £35k that the government cost me over Covid that would be worth double that now if it was invested with my other money. Or the £40k that my LA cost me with their lies about 15 years ago which similarly would have now been worth 3-4x that amount. I just don’t because it’s only money and in the words of my very wise father, you won’t be the first and you certainly won’t be the last. Life is too short to be bitter, so as said, get over it!