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10 hours ago, Sundew Giggleglow said:

Sundew has a lot of power over you.  Why is that? 

Because Welsh are conquering the world and Pattaya...????

20 hours ago, treetops said:

 

Yes, as an example go and ask immigration for a refund of your unused re-entry permit fee from last year.  I think they may even add interest to the refund.

Maybe he can get a voucher for this year's?? 55555

27 minutes ago, elgenon said:

I remember the post from the guy who was going to Pattaya for the first time and insisted the proper way to dress was in 3-piece suits. Never heard a follow-up though, dang! I wanted to party with him.

 

Yes, different strokes for different blokes. Thank goodness.

3-pieces: underwear, socks and condom???? 5555????????

On 6/19/2021 at 11:33 AM, Chris.B said:

 

Wow, a somewhat racist statement!! ☹️ 

 

I'll have you know, I haven't touched a drop of alcohol since breakfast time and its nearly 12 o'clock now!  ????????

 

And not all the ' drunkards' are white......

On 6/20/2021 at 7:16 AM, Peterw42 said:

OP, it may sound counter-intuitive but you may be able to increase the overall efficiency with fans. At the moment any hot air will rise and any cold will fall etc. If you force the hot air down or the cold up, it will become more like a single space rather than two spaces.

Or find the highest point and extract the hot air out.

Extract the hot air?? Open the windows upstairs. ????????????

20 minutes ago, Nanaplaza666 said:

I hope you have an appointment for the vaccination and not for the covid-19 as in the headline . 

There would be more profit in it for the hospital. 555555

9 minutes ago, Kinnock said:

Well ..... not the Chinese owners, but there's a very high probability the 'tenants' will be Chinese, and nobody wants Chinese neighbours, especially other Chinese people who headed to Thailand to get away from the noise.

Did Confucius share all his wisdom with you?? 

25 minutes ago, CLW said:

I heard goose or goats will deter snakes. Maybe an option.

I think you need a new hearing aid...55555

1 hour ago, rudi49jr said:

Why do rich people always get the breaks? I mean, they are already rich, they don’t need it. And they probably got rich by getting breaks. Why not make it easier for the average Joe to come and live in Thailand and buy a house or condo there? 

Because that's the way the world turns. The rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer...

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

We don't use dollars here in Thailand.....

I know many ladies accepting Dollars, US, Ozz, Sing......????????

2 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

my cat kills anything thing that moves. 

 

my property is completely devoid of all lifeforms.

 

 

And yet you still are. ????????????

6 minutes ago, sipi said:

Aha. The riddle finally solved.

Thank you.

Too much fun around these 4 pages, I'm getting outta here. Going to buy a beer across the road.????????

15 minutes ago, sipi said:

Anyway JayClay. I'm not being confrontational or defensive. This is me. Let's shake hands and settle this like men.

Hey Transam, what year did they change the alcohol shopping times.. ????

Just go talk about it around a beer. 55555????????????

16 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

 

I like the kind with feet on one end and p***y on the other...

With or without hair in between???????????????????

44 minutes ago, Harry Om said:

 

Was my joke too subtle for you?

Not for me.. Maybe the person I responded to. But if you read it correctly you would have known...

1 hour ago, sipi said:

I have no idea when the bill was introduced to Parliament, and I don't care.

Checking in with the others up here, we could still buy alcohol in the local shops until at least 2010, possibly late 2011.

Boots on the ground not some google clap trap.

You can still buy any time of the day, as long as it's a shop that doesn't have a clocked cash register....

14 hours ago, tinca tinca said:

a shop other than tesco, makro, 7/11, family mart. There are 5 so called warehouses not far from me....

one on thereppasit road, one on wat boom, one on second road 3 down chairypreuk road

OK. I see what you mean.. We call it wholesale shop, just a matter of words and not important. By the way that's where I go too.

14 hours ago, Scott Tracy said:

 

Yes. As memory serves, the fine for a pillion with no helmet is twice the fine for a rider with no helmet. The latter is 400 baht, the former is 800baht.

Since recently.....

12 hours ago, bolt said:

I’ve just gone through most of the posts, and would you believe it “Doom Mongers everywhere”

·        It wont happen

·        It’s a waste of money

·        Nobody will come

·        Go somewhere else or Stay home its better

·        No bars forget it

·        Lots of paperwork, tests and extra costs

 

Its happening

Thailand are using Phuket as a test

Other countries have worse restrictions but let’s not talk about that here.

 

People will come, because they miss Thailand, (they don’t miss the whinging Poms), slight digression

The ‘Prisoner of Mother England’ thing is an etymological myth. It seems that the word ‘pom’ actually comes from ‘pomegranate’ – the red-skinned fruit – because that’s what the British people’s faces looked like when they encountered the Australian sunshine

Was it on purpose you forgot the South African sun????

4 hours ago, WingFat said:

Agreed. My town opened up in September LAST YEAR as cases and deaths dropped dramatically BEFORE the vaccines became available. What baffles me is the EU and Canada supposedly have robust socialized health care...yet they sure are slow to get their population vaccinated and their countries opened up. So much for socialized health care.

That may be very well correct, then again none of the vaccine manufacturers or governments pretended to be socializing. 

19 hours ago, khunPer said:

A little improvement for tourists looking for a nice vacation. Perhaps getting rid of the wristband, making folks feel like a criminal, also would help on improving the interest...????

 

Hotel bookings of 20 percent and a total of 100 airline seats booked on combined THAI flights for first week, according to other news articles today in Thaivisa, won't help much to the nation's lack of tourist income.

You forgot to mention that ' according to some previous news' you might get hotel rooms at 1 USD / night.555555 Ladies and massage included...????

31 minutes ago, hwt said:

The past one year, I watched quite a lot of YouTube videos from Chinese nationals residing in Thailand.  It is possible Chinese nationals have bought a lot of apartments.  Some "bought" landed properties, both legally (basically long-term rents), and illegally (through companies and human proxies).

 

There are a few reasons :

* Some are trying to escape from China, especially for the education of their kids.  Because to them, the Chinese education is so bad that any international or private school in Thailand beats it hands-down.  Some say the air and food qualities in major Chinese cities, especially Beijing, are a joke.  These intend to stay in Thailand for ten years or longer.  So, they naturally buy.  Some rent a house near the school.  They buy an apartment in a tourist area for AirBnB to (help) sustain their lives in Thailand.

* Some got rich when being evicted from their old houses in major Chinese cities.  The compensations are usually in millions or tens of millions of CNY.  Some of them complain that they do not get enough money to buy an equivalent house at the same place.  Some migrate to suburban areas with lower house prices, so they have free cash.  A few who can accept foreign lives use the money to buy "vacation" homes outside China.  2 million CNY, which is a pretty common compensation, is almost 10 million THB, enough for the vast majority of Thai apartments.

* Some migrate to outside China.  Most of these are likely to have received tons of money from the evictions.  These should be mostly staying in landed properties in Thailand.  But they are likely to buy apartments to generate income.

* Youngsters who cannot afford apartments in the Chinese cities they are staying in.  They are likely to be renting or staying with parents.  They have seen how apartment prices in China went up hundreds of percent over the past ten years.  Now most of them cannot afford.  They think Thai apartments, which are currently affordable, are also going to give such a lucrative return.  So, instead of using their income to buy Chinese apartments, they buy Thai apartments.  In China, it seems easy to borrow money, as credit control appears to be very loose compared to even developing countries.  This may be the reason many of them got into financial difficulty.  It is probably also the reason why some Chinese can pay tons of money.  It is not their money.  They do not care much about financial security (almost all Chinese these day demonstrate this behavior).  They think salaries can only go up, house prices will only appreciate, and the trends will continue for decades non-stop.  Non-Chinese usually have seen upturns and downturns in their own countries, so they are more conservative.

 

Just about a year ago, a Chinese complained about the Bangkok Posh-12 apartment project being abruptly terminated, and her 2-3 million THB virtually lost.  That may be one of the examples of a project sold mostly to Chinese nationals.  They have basically no clue what is happening outside their country, and just blindly charge forward, following the footsteps of other Chinese.  This may be a reason why they snapped up so many Thai apartments.........

You should watch more YouTube and find out how many ' farang ' got F.....d up by promoters over here.... 

8 minutes ago, khunPer said:

No thanks...????

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7 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

 

I can tell you with certainly that all the cars in the US, or at least every vehicle I have owned, rented or otherwise driven in the US in the last fifty years have all had turn signals on the opposite side of the steering wheel than do any of the vehicles I have driven in Thailand in the last twenty years. There are some other hand controls that are different, but none of any consequence I can think of. The foot-pedals all seem to be the same.

 

I've never tried to change gears with the window crank, although grabbing a girl's knee by "accident" when attempting to change gears happened a few times....

 

That the gear-pattern seems to be the same makes sense as they can use the same transmission  in all countries. 

 

Please note  I said turning on to not so busy roads. You look both ways on a busy road, the traffic tells you which way to go. You look both ways on a not busy road, there is no traffic to tell you which way to go....

I enjoyed reading the ' accident ' part.5555