PingRoundTheWorld

And you are a clown who cares about no one else but himself. Zero empathy. Great human.

Do you not understand English? I am allergic to it and it leads me to violent fits of coughing, gagging, and nearly vomiting for days after being exposed to too much of it. Gasoline vapors are in open air - not indoors - and they don't affect me the same way (likely because it's outdoors so the concentration in the air is significantly lower). I'm guessing you're a vaper and it's inconvenient to accept the truth that it's harmful. Speaking of concentration- it would be an interesting experiment to take a PM2.5 meter to a venue that allows vapes. I bet it'd be off the charts. Google it. I don't work for you. Vape juice is mostly unregulated, you have no idea what some Chinese company put in it, and even the substances we do know are in it can be toxic, especially at high temperatures. I know- inconvenient truth.

Of course they'll say that. It interferes with them being able to control, manipulate, and financially rape men. Anything that even remotely threatens their monopoly on sex is vilified. Funny though- in Thailand they reach for your pocket before marriage, back home they'll take your pants and shirt too after. Don't think I'll ever remarry. What's the benefit to me? I can have all the sex I want at a fraction of the cost, and if I want emotional connection a gf will do just fine.

I just wrote I'm aware of that in a subsequent post. Obviously foreigners working in forbidden professions like waiters and bartenders are responsible for their own choices and actions. Getting a work permit for a DJ, performer, manager, etc shouldn't be a problem for a business that cares about their employees. The specific people I'm thinking about are mostly club managers, security managers, PR team managers, DJs, etc. I don't think I know any westerners working as bartenders or cleaners - and it makes sense since the wages are too low. I do know some Burmese and such who do, but I have no idea what their visa status is.

What a ridiculous woman. She is either after money, or revenge, but one thing's for sure: you don't get PTSD from a minor kick - that's just BS. While it's understandable she wants the guy to be punished, giving him a harsher sentence than a Thai would have been given for the same crime is discrimination and sends the exact opposite message Thailand should be sending: that foreigners aren't equal under the law. We all know this is true to some degree, but the guy shouldn't rot in jail for years over a minor incident that a Thai would've gotten out of with 500 baht and a wai. The guy might be an <deleted>, but this affects all of us. Every time this ***** is on TV it creates more hostility towards ALL foreigners. It's ironic that she lives in Phuket - one of the richest provinces in Thailand thanks to the foreigners she seems to hate so much. During Covid the place was a wasteland without the tourists.

Both. Yes I am aware that it requires 2mil baht registered capital and 4 Thai employees per foreigner sponsored, which is exactly why they avoid and delay sponsoring their employees until a quota clears up (either they hire more Thais or a foreigner quits). Of course a lot of foreigners are being employed in jobs that cannot legally be employed in like bartenders, cleaners, wait staff, etc - but in that case why are they hiring foreigners for jobs they could hire Thais (and probably pay them less) for? Want foreign managers - get them a work permit. If all your other staff is Thai then no problem.

It's amazing how some people think their right to smoke supersedes everyone else's right to breath clean air. This is true for both cigarettes and vapes. Send that entitled POS to jail and deport. Trash out.

Tell her you want a divorce, she'll lose weight real quick... 😜 Seriously though- my gf gained quite a bit in the last few months and she's unrecognizable. When I met her she was skinny 45kg, now she's 60kg. She asked me before if I would leave her if she got fat - I said yes - that's not the only reason but I'm planning my exit strategy already.

I'd take a hot bar girl over a "sophisticated" business woman any day. Fact: most successful business women in Thailand are fat, ugly, entitled, snobby, and think the world revolves around them. I am sure there are exceptions, but I have yet to meet them. I've met a lot of hard working business owners who are great people, but they're not "sophisticated". Men don't give a **** about how rich or successful women are. We care how hot they are, how faithful they are, and whether they're crazy or not. My money is our money, her money is her money, so why should I care how much money she has?

Doubly-stuid. First of all for marrying a 47yo - what is the point? she can't have children, there are much better (and cheaper) sex options - why get married to begin with??? And yes- paying a dowry is stupid. You are not Thai. You are going to provide her a much better life than she'd get otherwise - she should and would say thank you and shut up without a dowry. And if she demanded it? boot her out and find someone who isn't a gold digger.

And what about the employers who chose to hire them without arranging for proper visas? I know a lot of foreigners working in the nightlife industry, the majority of the cases they would love to become legal, but the company they work for does everything to avoid and delay sponsoring their visas. One of my friends took two years(!) before he was able to get one, others had to resort to questionable agent-bought visas because management didn't want/bother to arrange a proper one. If they prosecuted management and owners instead of employees things would get fixed real quick...

Update about last night: Asian-American douchebag on the dancefloor vaping nonstop for 2 hours. Had one drink the whole time. Russian hooker vaping like a chimney for hours, also just one drink. She is one of many I've seen lately. Again- how is this good for business? people vaping and not drinking. Driving away heavy drinkers to accommodate one-beer heroes does not sound like a winning strategy.

Yes, but I can choose to put that in my body or not. With secondhand vapor I have no choice (other than to avoid the venue). This argument is the same as cigarettes - if cigarettes aren't allowed in a room because secondhand smoke (may) cause harm then why are vapes allowed? Wrong. Read up about it. Not all vape juice is made alike, and plenty of them contain toxic substances including paint solvent, formaldehyde, metals, etc. Regardless- personally I seem to be allergic and it's affecting me severely. This is a fact.

Thanks for the laugh 🙂

That depends on your criteria of success. Financially speaking I'd be alright either way as not spending money in other venues would offset losses, if there are any. Having said that- I wouldn't enjoy nor want to operate a nightclub that isn't at least somewhat successful. If there's no people there's no fun and no point. I do have some ideas about how to bring in customers, but it'll be an uphill battle for sure starting from scratch.

How exactly is this prioritizing profits? They already have a smoking area - all they need to do is ask vapers to go there. They are losing revenue from people who do not wish to be around vape vapor, and I'm sure that will only increase as people become more aware that it isn't harmless as the tobacco/vape industry would have you believe. I just it doesn't take as many years and as many deaths for people to wake up that it's dangerous too.

I would be surprised if they're not making "revenue" for avoiding those raids. Forbidden and illegal, but has been gaining in popularity recently and it's become a big problem for non-smokers who were "safe" before in no-smoking areas - which are now effectively nonexistent as the air is full of PM2.5/vape vapor. Police enforcement has gone down to zero, and staff at the venues I talked to are instructed by the owners to allow it (which is bizarre in itself - you'd think an owner who went through the trouble of establishing a no-smoking room would realize that a significant portion of their clientele does not want vape secondhand smoke either).

Amen to that. I think we're still quite far from realistic sex-robots, though that will happen for sure when the technology is there, at least in countries that won't ban it (because you know women will fight tooth and nail to get it banned). But interactive porn is already a thing, and it'll only improve with AI. There's definitely already content out there (TikTok etc) generated by AI, and when the technology improves and it becomes realistic you'll basically have more and more MEN putting out fake content out there once they figure out it's profitable, and since it's fake women they can create an unlimited supply of them. That will start a race to the bottom where there's too much content and not enough simps so the payouts will decrease rapidly, pushing most real women out of business. My guess this is coming within a few years, tops. Would be interesting watching the monumental change in attitude and desperation levels of women with no other skills than their looks. No doubt they'll fight to ban and outlaw such content, but did we mention no skills already? they won't be able to stop progress. The collapse of hoeflation is coming!

The thought has crossed my mind- yes. Financially speaking if I liquidated some of my portfolio I could probably start a small club, however having to actually manage it and deal with staff and police and connections and other such factors is a deterrent. I could hire a manager for the day-to-day stuff, but at least in the beginning would want to be involved in managing it. You can't just open a club and hope people will come- you have to advertise, you have to run word of mouth, you have to hire staff and dancers and PR to bring people in. So now you got me googling "costs of starting a nightclub in bangkok"...

I'm sick and tired of sacrificing my health so inconsiderate people can smoke in my face. My favorite clubs in Bangkok used to have a no-smoking room and a smoking room, and when people were smoking real cigarettes that worked out great. Now, instead of banning vapes in the no-smoking room and allowing them in the smoking room they allow them everywhere. Every 2nd person puffs questionable fumes nonstop and this gets everywhere. It's insane that in Thailand where everyone is so obsessed with levels of outdoor PM2.5 they are pumping PM2.5 into the air indoors where it is much more harmful. And before someone says vape vapor is harmless: it is not harmless, and not all vape juices are created equal - plenty of them have actual toxic substances in it. Inhaling it can and does cause harm whether you like it or not. Is it less harm than a cigarettes? depends on the juice and depends on the vape, but a large number of people pumping it into the air all night long cannot be healthy. Personally I get throat irritation, nonstop coughing that lasts days after exposure, and in extreme cases after being around too much of it I gag and nearly puke. So the bottom line is: I go out very often, I would like to continue going out often, but coughing and nearly puking every time someone in the next table chain-vapes is not an option and needs to stop. Are there any nightclubs in Bangkok or Pattaya where the owner actually cares about the health of his patrons and BANS vaping in the no-smoking room? I'd be sad to ditch my favorite venue, and they're stupid for sacrificing the literal millions of baht I spend there every year, but enough is enough. I'm sitting home now because my throat is too irritated to go out after a particularly vapey weekend. And if there are any venue owners in the crowd: why are you allowing this??

Sounds like a sound business plan. It's been working so far!

Streaming should be illegal, and streamers should be arrested and deported, not tolerated. Oh wait- it actually IS illegal - they're working without a work permit. Police should arrest, fine, and deport this human trash. Unbelievable that this is an atual "job" - even OnlyFans hoes have more dignity. That particular idiot actually tried to mess with construction workers. They're not exactly Yakuza but the Yakuza is heavily into construction in Japan. Most Japanese are very patient and tolerant, but you don't mess with construction workers there.

Ugh. Just realized that too. Not funny though considering it might as well be real.

What the actual ****? Racist much? Hope Thailand gets NO tourists, at all, this is just a re-run of 2019-2020 when too many tourists = price gouging, and now "dirty foreigners" talk again. And meanwhile in Nana plaza they're talking about raising bar fines to 6k a pop - absolutely insane and stupid. Moving to Pattaya, screw you Bangkok with the stupid prices.