PingRoundTheWorld

Was thinking the same thing- what kind of idiot posts on social media while cheating? the ironic thing in all of this is that the idiocy was rewarded - some random guy she just met was sacrificed, but her husband has been successfully removed from her life for good. Would be an interesting plot twist if she actually planned for this to happen.

His behavior was inappropriate - true - but if he simply grabbed her without anything more perverted then going to the police over this seems a bit excessive. The guy didn't rape or sexually assaulted her, yet he may be prosecuted for sexual assault which is disproportionate to his "crime". To begin with being out on walking street at 3am alone "enjoying the vibe" is weird - almost sounds like she was waiting for someone to harass her so she can teach them a lesson.

It's pretty insane that businesses can go after customers for negative reviews - even if the reviews are correct. A while ago I bought a perfume from an online platform starting with L, the perfume was very obviously fake or old and smelled terrible - I felt cheated and didn't want them to continue cheating other customers, so I posted a review. Very shortly after I get a message from the platform that my review was removed. So buyer beware - when you buy anything in Thailand the reviews are not necessarily reflective of what you're going to get - the negative ones get deleted. Lesson learned.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. He's already been warned to stay off (public) politics, and now he's off to Bangkok to attend protests? Sorry, but no sympathy here for what's surely to come - I hope his wife likes Germany because that's their next stop. I'll never understand why some people come to Thailand and think they're a special snowflake and can do whatever they want without repercussions - he thinks he has the RIGHT to protest, but this is Thailand and as a non-citizen he has no rights. (not to mention even citizens' right to protest is barely tolerated)

What a load of ****. It's pretty clear by now monkeypox rarely spreads through surfaces or even normal human contact - the grand majority of cases have been through intimate (sexual) contact - and almost exclusively gay at that. So unless the good doctor is envisioning a huge gay orgy taking place somewhere - there will never be a "superspreader event". The link he's trying to make to nightlife is 100% nonsense and probably trying to push his own agenda and/or fight the push to open nightlife until 4am. Some people just won't rest until they can make the rest of the world as miserable as they are.

What for? We know the story - she flipped through a passport full of Thailand stamps (even though they were years old) and her "you come too often" lightbulb went off. Didn't even bother to look at the dates - just knee-jerk reaction to the stamps. Funny enough if the OP came with a new clean passport she wouldn't have asked him anything.

In my past experience female IO are always best to avoid if possible. I've always had worse experience with them as they get nosy and rude when they think you "come a lot". And heaven forbid you tell one you have a Thai wife or girlfriend - she will kick you out of the country! I guess they're really annoyed with dirty farang coming to Thailand and stealing the women (while she probably lives alone with her cats - the only creatures who can sort of stand her).

So you've basically had a bunch of elitist educated Thais who do not rely nor care about tourism money tell you how inconvenient tourism is for them? These are not "average Thais". The average Thai was sitting unemployed with no money while tourism was dead during Covid. Be it hotel operators, cleaners, nightlife staff, or even freelancers and food vendors - the average Thai in tourism areas (Phuket, Pattaya, Bangkok's Sukhumvit/Khao San/etc) very much benefits and depends on tourism revenue directly and indirectly - those areas were ghost towns with everything shut off while nightlife was banned. I'm sure some educated doctor in Nonthaburi couldn't care less about tourism - but that's not "Average Thai".

I have literally never been to any of those places, except a couple of beaches like twice. Zero interest in those. I come to Thailand for the nightlife, at least when it was good. The current closing times are way too early and essentially promote illegal places to open which are fire hazards and overall shady. Let the clubs close late for the safety and enjoyment of everyone.

I dare you to find one big nightclub on bangla road in Phuket that isn't full of shisha smoke. Yes- you could go to a smaller nightclub that has no people and therefore no smoke, but that kind of defeats the purpose. In Bangkok I can think of a few clubs that have non-smoking sections, but that doesn't exist in Phuket or Pattaya AFAIK.

You realize those "Indian" restaurants are actually located in Thailand, right? Even if they are owned by Indian expats - they still pay taxes and employ local people, not to mention spend their profits locally. I agree they're not big spenders and they're bad for some businesses (if they crowd the place without actually spending), but them eating at Indian restaurants is actually good for the economy. (plus some of the food is quite good lol)

You do get SOME high-spending Indians now - probably more than before - but they're definitely a small minority. I met this lawyer recently who would buy bottles and was paying for several girls to drink with him every night - so they do exist. However in almost all other cases they travel in huge groups and buy very little. My friend who manages a club was complaining the other night that he sold 4 guys a table on the condition they buy a bottle - they told him they're only 4, but they ended up bringing more friends and totaled 15 for a table that's meant for 3-4 people max - all sharing the same one bottle (they did not buy more). At the end of the night he told them please don't come back. In another case he got a group of guys who wanted a table, and he told them they needed to order a bottle to get the table - so the geniuses went to the bar, ordered a bottle - of beer - and came back to claim their table!???? No- they did not get it. Bottom line is they create a lot of problems and bring in little revenue for venues (and whoever's working in them...) - maybe better than nothing but definitely not the golden goose the government is trying to portray them as.

Actually neither are legal to smoke in public. Unfortunately that doesn't stop anyone. I wish they enforced this law better because hookahs have become a huge nuisance and health hazard in most nightclubs - you simply cannot escape the smoke. I'm in favor of businesses running as they please and patrons voting with their legs/wallet - but in this particular case non-smokers have no other option if all venues are full of hookahs.

Another day, another ****. Kinda like that celebrity lawyer that got the Bay Hill parties closed (for a week) - really accomplished nothing except being a party pooper. I doubt this guy will ever work in Phuket again - who would hire him after this? As far as the complaint itself - it's not very valid - in most venues "simple" jobs like waitresses and receptions are almost exclusively filled by Thais, I can't think of a venue where it's not. It's the more skilled jobs like DJs and managers in foreigner oriented clubs that are being filled by foreigners and that's simply business - a foreign manager understands the needs of tourists better and able to communicate with them better than a Thai would in most cases. DJs there are both foreigners and Thais - there aren't many DJs so variety is good. I doubt any Thai DJ is sitting there whining about foreigners taking their job, lol. I do agree venues should be more proactive in securing valid work visas for their managers - there's definitely room for improvement there - it's not that the foreigners don't want to secure legal status - it's that venues are very slow at actually getting the proper visa. (I have many friends in the industry and most of them waited a very long time before finally getting one)

You're in Thailand- women can be men too.????

So basically you pulled a hooker (holiday girlfriend) out of a bar and took her on a trip, then when she asks for money you're shocked? She came back because she still thinks there is potential to squeeze some money or value out of you. Just don't be too surprised when she disappears for a few hours here and there - if you're not paying then she'll find someone who will. And yes- she is a hooker. A normal girl would never ask you for money. If she asked for it then it 100% means she's used to getting it.

How about starting with actually enforcing current laws? Smoking weed in public is already illegal - but you can't go two meters in any nightlife venue without getting some stink in your face. And while they're at it they should enforce the shisha law too - it's a huge nuisance and makes any venue that allows it like being inside a chimney. It's illegal but they're openly selling it.

This clown again? Covid is no longer available so he's moving on to the next "crisis"? Monkeypox is very easy to control - don't have gay sex - problem solved. (and for those who are gay or into chicks with ***** - limit your sexual partners and make sure they are clean - which is kind of good advice regardless...)

Sounds like a good way to get yourself killed.

Whatever happened with that guy? Did he walk or get some sort of sentence? Anyone know?

Very likely an inside job then- if they just got back from France how would the robbers know they were there and had money and watches with them? What likely happened is they carelessly left money and watches out in the open while the "friend" was there, and they told someone. But regardless- that house does not seem expensive - especially in the middle of nowhere - I doubt anyone who's actually wealthy would stay in the middle of nowhere in a house like that, with no security and no cameras. But then again according to Thai media we're all "rich" so I guess it fits in their world. Anyway- makes me happy I choose to live in a condo, with security guards and access keys and cameras. And even then I don't leave valuables visible for others to see.

Just another day in Thailand- a young lady manages to get 1mil baht in debt, gets tempted by an easy "job offer" (most likely some form of prostitution) that would solve all her problems (until she creates new ones), then whines about her dire situation (that she created to begin with) to media. Funny how normal Thai women who hold normal jobs and don't drink and gamble manage to make ends meet, but not this delicate snowflake. It always astounds me how terrible with money some of the women here are- I know a woman who was living on next to nothing (a few thousand baht a month), but when she got a foreign boyfriend (sponsor) she started spending more and more (gambling, drinking and buying drinks for ALL her friends, buying gold, unnecessary shopping, etc etc) to the point the guy was spending over 100k baht a month on her and he had enough. Now she's back to living on next to nothing and all she's managed to "save" was the gold (which is probably already gone too as it's the first thing they pawn when they get dumped).

It's quite amazing how they don't understand this. I remember pre-Covid on our vacations in Pattaya, me and my friends made it a point to visit the 100 baht drinks bars and the ones who had 2-for-1 specials every night, while mostly avoiding the bars that were double priced (or more). It's not that 100 baht extra will kill us, but if we drink 10+ drinks each the difference adds up fast. Also it helped that the cheaper bars were always full and lively while the expensive ones were struggling to get customers in...

Was the price not clearly displayed on the menu, or did you not bother to look? 55 baht is a little high and personally I might think twice before ordering if I saw that price and maybe opt for a water instead, but I wouldn't go as far as calling it greedy. You can always vote with your wallet and just not buy.

Are they sure it's monkey pox and not an STD????? Joking aside, my friend recently nearly died from Syphilis complications, which he acquired in Phuket. There's some scary **** out there.