Iron Tongue

57 minutes ago, Aussie999 said:

I'd really like to hear the tourists side, before, like of you, jumping to any conclusions  we already know many tuk tuk drivers do scam tourists. 

So your typical course of action is to start choking someone when you don't agree on the amount paid?

So every time you go to a venue where Farang pricing is double that of the locals, you start choking people?

The UK does have anti money laundering laws which require immigrants to prove their source of wealth.

For her to show-up and probably buy a multi-million £ mansion in London, she would need to show how she got all that money when her husband only made around 60,000baht month salary.

3 hours ago, webfact said:

After reporting the incident to the local police, Abdulloh and his father were instructed to summon the foreigner to the police station. However, when approached at his hotel, the tourist declined the police meeting

So the police are so lazy now that they want the victim to summon his attacker?

7 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

No, I can´t recommend anything made in China.

...as you type into your "Made in China" device, phone, PC, laptop, tablet.

12 minutes ago, neeray said:

"L" ........ He must have rocks in his head. He'd have been better off doing his selling in Canada (my home country) where all he would have got was a slap on the hand and back out on the street the next day, if not the same day. Maybe the competition here is too great for him

If you had read the article, you'd know that he was the buyer, caught in a police sting.

Wow, a police Sting to sell this transvestite 0.3 grams of cocaine for personal use.

I guess they have nothing else to do now that planting/busting tourists for one marijuana joint is no longer possible. 

Eating many small meals was the norm for people living in high temperature, humid environments back when there was no refrigeration or electricity.  Preparing too much food caused rot & wastage.  Also helped regulate the carbs load to maximize energy needed for farming.

Unfortunately, the habits of a mostly agrarian society didn't change with the introduction of refrigeration, sugar,  packaged foods, and a more sedate lifestyle.

6 minutes ago, freeworld said:

Those basing Khazakstan on a Borat movie and what Cohen clarified and was reported on sky news.

 

Cohen said in an email to the newspaper: "This is a comedy, and the Kazakhstan in the film has nothing to do with the real country.

"I chose Kazakhstan because it was a place that almost nobody in the US knew anything about, which allowed us to create a wild, comedic, fake world.

 

Doesn't matter.

The Kazahks now think positively of the Borat movies and have used it to create a world awareness campaign to promote Kazahk culture and tourism.

Those images above ^ were filmed in Romania IIRC.  Kazahk villages are better organized, not shabby-looking, and are clean.  

There's a lot of good, decent Chinese people.  Unfortunately, the bad ones catch the headlines and creates the prejudice against all.

Same reason why so many Thais think Brits are a lot of fat, pink, male pattern balding, drunken, whoremongers.

I've travelled to Kazahkistan before for business. 

Because of their oil & mineral exports, they have a relatively high standard of living.

And, they're much cleaner than the Russians!

Roids + meth will do that.

5 hours ago, retarius said:

I can't for the life of me understand why this vile creep wants to stay in Thailand. Not Anutin, the Swiss guy. 

Simple enough.

He's a Big Shot in Thailand.  Runs an elephant sanctuary.  Lives a luxurious life on the beach.

He thought he could wriggle-out of this by greasing the right palms. 

He probably has nothing left in Switzerland except missed alimony payments.