thaigrifter

On 8/5/2023 at 8:40 PM, sherwood said:

Yer and I only come for the culture and temples.

Grow up.

I must have hit a sore point, I'm guessing you married a bar girl.

On 8/5/2023 at 9:38 PM, brewsterbudgen said:

Perhaps you should come here and you might find out!

I've lived in Thailand for over 6 years so I know the score. Prostitutes are for having a bit of fun with, not for marrying.

On 7/26/2023 at 3:41 PM, BarraMarra said:

No Fruit pudding they stopped Hussein gassing his own men woman and Kids and stopped Gadaffi putting bombs on Aircraft. and stopping Isis beheading westerners.

I don't remember anybody invading Zimbabwe when Mugabe was slaughtering thousands of his own people...There's no oil in Zimbabwe though is there?

13 hours ago, mikebell said:

There are 50 greedy Thais with a million to burn.

 

 

A bit like the greedy Farrangs who got scammed by that crooked bank official who offered them an unrealistic interest rate.

On 4/30/2022 at 3:43 PM, RobU said:

Sorry for your loss, she seemed to be a good friend to you.

I'd be a good friend to him as well if he built me a four bedroom house.

On 2/3/2022 at 3:42 PM, BritManToo said:

Can't blame the Germans ...... they keep losing wars to us.

Can't blame the Ozzies ......... they were our prison colony.

The Germans tend to beat us in the penalty shoot-outs though.

13 hours ago, Straight8 said:

The "horror" part I guess is how much extra its going to cost these numpties.

 

2 ways to learn, the easy way or the hard way. Take your pick!!

It probably won't cost her anything, I'm sure she will be begging her gullible followers to foot the bill.

On 12/14/2021 at 10:08 AM, pagallim said:

Beer prices at a beach bar in Phuket (from one week ago), demonstrating that tourist areas need not be expensive.

 

 

Some of the posters on this thread would have a seizure looking at the prices on that menu, they would be asking for the location of the nearest 7/11.

On 10/17/2021 at 11:07 AM, bbko said:

Here in Pattaya a lot of bars and go-gos are using the lockdown to remodel their places. I wouldn't too much about them going away. This isn't the middle east.

It's easier to get a beer in the middle east.

On 10/16/2021 at 7:53 PM, StreetCowboy said:

I hope to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather, not screaming in horror and terror like his passengers

One of Bob Monkhouse's jokes, great comedian was Bob.

On 10/16/2021 at 9:02 AM, clivebaxter said:

Cut out spuds, rice, pasta, cakes, chocolate, sugar and bread and it will fall off

You'll lose weight, but you'll be as miserable as sin.

20 hours ago, lolalol said:

Why is Thailand relying on foreign donations? 

To save their own money.

12 hours ago, Khun Yogi said:

These hair brained, pipe dream schemes are an insult to many of us foreigners who have invested 10's of millions into factories businesses etc over 2 to 3 decades only to to see our investment now worthless while "new money" gets all the benefits. You can now see why many foreigners are closing up shop and leaving.

It's a bit like companies in the UK who trample all over their loyal, long term customers, by offering good deals for "new customers only"

23 hours ago, perconrad said:

I don't understand why you and foreigners with your view of the Danes will live in Denmark. Why not move to a more welcoming country.

 

 

But perhaps it's the high taxes in Denmark that you like.

It's the same as members of this forum who live in Thailand, but never have a good word to say about the place.

22 hours ago, Nomoneynohoney said:

Wouldn’t it be better to make sure that the whole of Thailand has got 2 Jabs before storting with

boosters in Phuket or do Phuket citizens have some sort of elite status compared with the rest of Thailand

 

The thai government treats Phuket like it's Eldorado, putting the rest of the country on the back burner for the sake of a few thousand tourists.

 

 

On 9/4/2021 at 12:09 PM, Phuketshrew said:

500K baht on the promise of money from Afghanistan? Greed is blind. Doesn't get much more stupid than that.

I hope that's not the same guy that sold me a Black Hawk helicopter from Afghanistan, it hasn't been delivered yet.

3 hours ago, LivinLOS said:

Depends.. My mum lives in uk.. 

Lovely 2 bedroom house with a garden, with a river flowing along the edge, in a leafy small town in Devon.. Paid for by the government. 

No council tax, electric gas etc all covered by her income support.. Her entire cost of living socially funded. 

Doctors surgery 200m from the house, attentive care (she had a stroke) with multiple visits from social workers, physios, etc etc. 3 supermarkets within 500m.

If she leaves UK she no longer get any of it.. So to replicate her life, with carers home help, etc would be 60 - 75k a month at a minimum.. Then where do you do that 200m from an on call doctors ?? Then medical insurance for an elderly person with lots of issues ?? 

When we tried it in Thailand (when she was in her 50s) she was conned, tricked and scammed (thanks Phuket).. Caused her to lose confidence and have a breakdown. 

Climate in UK is not ideal but the support, free housing, socialised care funds.. Doctors.. Social workers.. etc etc.. Really no comparison. 

Then your Mother is an extremely lucky lady. A high percentage of pensioners are probably enduring a pretty miserable existance living in a council flat in a rundown inner city area.

1 hour ago, Sparktrader said:

I see you hate Thailand. Go home then.

Most people on this forum very rarely have a good word to say about Thailand.

14 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

and just who is faking any  bank statement?

So you tell me how they convince immigration that a client has 800,000 in the bank when they clearly don't.

8 hours ago, possum1931 said:

See an agent, and don't listen to anyone who says that they do things illegally, they do not, TV/AN even sponsors one of the better agencies.

So faking a bank statement that states that you have 800,000 in the bank is not illegal?

On 8/2/2021 at 12:16 PM, Thaiwrath said:

He thinks "DENIAL" is a river in Egypt !

That joke wasn't very funny when I heard it about 50 years ago.

10 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

They were in a hotel room, I would have thought that that would be regarded as being *In* rather than being "out".

  Were the guys in or out ?

They were "in" and "out" quite a lot by the sound of it.

11 hours ago, sqwakvfr said:

The winner of the grand prize that sums up the Vaccine rollout in LOS:

 

"Even the hookers don't ask you to pay up front"

 

 

They take a deposit though with the lady drinks.