Bohemianfish

2 hours ago, thesetat said:

Tourist Brawl in Jomtien Sparks Growing Concerns Over Pattaya Image

 

Haha a few street brawls from drunks does nothing to tarnish Pattayas image. Those ladyboys robbing foreigners. Street fights with Thai ladyboys angry a foreigner does not want or like them, teens robbing and beating foreigners to get money to fix their bike, security in packs beating down foreigners who are drunk, these are the things to rui the city's reputation.. Which by no means is a good reputation anyway. Corrupt police. Laws applied to foreigners but not to Thais as well as more severe punishments for minor indiscretions. Pattaya's reputation has nothing to fear from a measly street brawl amongst foreigners. 

That's all? lol

I do Keto Intermittent Fasting. Just eat dinner. Trying to do a more intense fast so eating less.

Trying to avoid triggering insulin and increasing insulin resistance. Do take a day or two off when my wife is not working. Had frozen pizza the other day.

Chicken thighs, sardines, grass fed butter, leafy veggies, green beans. Keep under 20 carbs per day. 1/4 cup of walnuts. Extra virgin olive oil. A small steak. Eggs. Mixed nuts.

Adkins low carb is similar and I refer to their food list mostly: https://au.atkins.com/why-atkins/the-phases/

Trying to walk briskly for a period in the mornings, weather permitting.

Hard to comment when only 5 or 6 facts without any context are given. Sounds like a one-sided story.

Hope that when we move there we can adapt okay. Wife is Thai, but she doesn't like hot. She prefers the cold of Puget Sound. Doesn't get too hot or too cold, but colder than Thailand. She had a hard time on a trip there and I was perfectly happy with the sun and heat. But after 3 weeks, we looking forward to leaving.

Were they taking requests?

Here in the states, I found Kerrygold (from Costco) to be a butter a lot of people, myself included, love to eat. I eat it daily for a keto-ish diet.

Is there a similar brand in Thailand? I assume it is imported from New Zealand?

And how much are butter prices for high quality grass-fed butter? Tolerable? How is domestic?

We try to be on the healthy side with food (organic as we can, food with fewer additives if any) and mostly cook at home - and its cheaper to do so.

My wife is Thai and we plan to move there eventually.

Wife and I will have a shared budget from savings, but she works and will take early retirement and not have social security for awhile - if it is still around.

I will admit traveling to Thailand in the past without proper insurance. Found out later company insurance didn't cover being abroad. Luckily, was not on any scooters and upcountry and fairly responsible, mitigating some danger.

When I was let go from my last company, I thought I had, by default, 3 months of insurance. Unfortunately, were supposed to call them and opt-in.

At the time, I was in Europe and was unaware, not trained, about bicycle lanes. I bike with basically a battery ram, a V-shaped welded arrow on the front of me, nearly nailed me in the ankle/shin. That could have put an end to me ever walking again. Could have snapped the shin right there and the bike rider didn't seem to care. Then after Europe was off to Thailand, solidly, no insurance.

This will continue to happen. These accidents. Unfortunately. Insurance or not. And people don't mitigate the dangers by wearing a helmet, proper clothing, gloves. You will see it here in the west, USA, most people don't seem to wear helmets riding bikes, scooters, going at high speeds. Sad its not enforced. 

I read the Earth is flat for 20 miles in any direction, then there's curvature setting in. It's all relative.

If not Thai, a nobody sort of. Not in Thailand, but abroad and live with Thai wife and we have some Thai housemates. It's a struggle trying to get things done. They know better and need no instructions and there's no follow-up. Mai Pen Rai is all I can say, even if it is your house.

I'm expecting it to be boring and will be lucky if that is the case. We need to keep ourselves entertained no matter where we care.

Thailand is the center of the universe, at least that's the impression I'm given. A huge amount of ego and pride among themselves.

On 2/22/2025 at 7:31 PM, The Legend said:

 

I was coming home about 10pm from Cowboy which was unusual. Very few farang get off at my stop but two 20 something women did just that. Also kinda revealing clothes. I immediately thought it odd - but then they continued up the main road which there was nothing up there except maybe trouble. I was better than 25m away from them and called out ... Girls...do you know where you are going?? They turned and then ignored me. I then said... bc there's nothing up there! They walked on.

 

Another time this stupid feminist looking group of young women were squabbling with a tuk tuk. The TT was in my area where zero farang would hail a TT. I asked if they needed help and they too ignored me.

 

Even 60+, Im not an unattractive guy and dress better than 95% of farang in this city. I get glances from Thai women half my age at times = I doubt I look threatening, but I guess all males are seen as threats to farang women these days. Fk em all 555

That's how the ladies act in the States. It is really odd. Every man seems to be a creep to them and you just have let them be. It's not even worth it to talk to them in any capacity for whatever reason.

I feel its unsafe for any American to travel there. May as well go to Russia and become a potential political pawn. There's a channel Sabbatical where the guy goes all over the world seemingly randomly and he was detained in Russian long the border for at least a month it seems.

I lived in Korea for a few years long ago, was fully fluent, etc, etc,

On 2/18/2025 at 6:36 AM, still kicking said:

 

So Queen plagiarized a song and now we find out?

On 2/20/2025 at 4:05 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

 

I don't have the numbers, but I remember reading articles that end the end of the day many immigrants in Europe do actually work and pay taxes. And because many of them are young they help to keep the pensions going.

 

I think many European politicians have basically two choices: Let the foreigners in or reduce the pensions, increase the retirement age, etc.

The voters don't want A and they don't want B. But in reality, they have to accept that having everything just doesn't work.

 

I think it is obvious that many foreigners in Thailand work without work permit or have not really enough money to retire here and pay hospital bills, etc. In other words, they are illegal in Thailand - but obviously they want to stay here. But back home, ... 

 

I was in Austria last year and migrants (non-white) were doing much of the work. And lots of them had their own shops, as well as selling on the streets - goods, vegetables. Handymen. Housekeepers. Cleaning people. Moving guys. Checkout stand workers. On and on.

Most of the interesting commenter have simply disappeared over the years. I've been on and off for the last 14 years, from the days of Thaivisa, and people are just stop posting. You wonder what happened to them.

People have other outlets and more going on in the world with the internet. This was probably a big place back in the day and now it's just another site about Thailand.

There surely were some interesting times on Thaivisa a decade or more ago. Wasn't sure if Thailand was for me after reading the forum topics and posts.

More sterile now. There's not much to say, anymore. Or YT channels have covered it a million times.

Much of the internet is boring now. No real single community or two anymore. Homogenized as well.

Done fighting the world and tuning out. Let the young people fight for change and justice. Do what you can in daily life to make the world better. Change yourself to change the world.

Neil Young - Walk Like a Giant lyrics (partial):

Only experienced the olden days of Korea. Missed the boat on Thailand.

America is pretty broken with race no matter when it comes to this topic. Also, most people are struggling. The cost of living is crazy now.

Sound like they were broke, using credit cards from the get go to pay for the bills. And she has COPD along with rare 0 negative blood. And 69 years old. Traveling in India. This according to him in a Mirror article. I guess some people are real risk takers. 

Credit him for only asking for the common "$10,000" number for donations.

Plus repatriation would be 42,500 pounds up to 140,000 pounds (private air lift).