SW Happy

17 hours ago, RafPinto said:

Taking a 1/4 of Viagra everyday, does it help?

 

It could help, but you might get a stiff neck

You would be better trying the confession box in church.

Seems the Thai Burglar got his just deserts.

Thats it. Im outta here.

On 9/15/2021 at 8:23 AM, KarenBravo said:

After a lifetime of excess, suddenly, your health becomes important to you.

Sooo true. Thats me.

Has to be a good thing right.

They've had your blood, now looking for new stones.

You mean to say you don't have any Jok with your breakfast Fayre. How boring.

17 hours ago, Pedrogaz said:

I don't really like Phuket. I went there only once in about 2013 and hated the place. I'll never go back, despite the beaches.

So the last time you were there was 8 years ago. its changed so much since then. Theres tons more plastic and rubbish.

On 9/10/2021 at 11:17 AM, Orinoco said:

I think this one is called,  Aqua world condo  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL.

Think the drain needs unblocking.

 

 

Taken from Riviera. ????

On 9/10/2021 at 10:05 AM, CM Dad said:

I have lived here for more than thirty years.  I think I have been to a beach once during that time.

Sad.

On 9/10/2021 at 3:10 AM, Walker88 said:

Funny you say 'invest'. If you mean literal investment, as in buying a company, the visa requirements ARE difficult.

 

They would be difficult even if tributes were not demanded in a most blatant fashion, but tributes are regularly demanded. As for the official requirements---not the ones enacted merely to enhance bureaucrats' income---a typical application is more than 100 pages. It requires everything from university and grad school transcripts, lots of data re owners and directors, pages of 'action photos' of the applicant pretending to work or mulling over business ideas, lots of photos at the place of business, with the address clearly visible and staff surrounding the applicant, and other such things, all of which must be signed by the applicant.

 

In a post I made a while back, I was told or contacted about others' experiences that included such things as 'declined for not wearing a business suit in the photos' or other silly things meant to extract a payment. In my first instance, sitting with my accountant who has years of experience navigating the system, the officer thumbed through the stack of docs without even looking at them, then announced something missing, but the oversight could be ignored for a special fee.

 

For this visa, the applicant is given an initial 3 month visa, then a second one, and a third trip yields the one-year. Each application requires the same onerous document stack, despite the fact this is redundant.

 

To most people, this system would be categorized as 'difficult'. It's also quite expensive when one factors in the agent fees, 'tributes', etc. I also think the size of the tribute is a function of the amount invested, as those who put more money into the country are viewed as capable of being more 'generous' with their tributes.

 

Now if you meant 'invest' as in an Elite Visa, perhaps the system is easier, as the Elite Staff apparently handle the 90-day reporting requirements.

And not helping the declining Rainforests with there vast paper trails??

On 9/10/2021 at 2:06 AM, ChipButty said:

They have got that much money they dont care about luxury tax, when you see the amount of BMW's Merc's around where I live, Last week a German guy rented one of my apartments he turned up a brand new Merc 250 coupe, it had Bangkok plates on it and I asked him did he drive here he said no he paid someone to drive it here for him. That Merc would be at least double the price of what it would be back in Berlin,

Hmm interesting regarding driving the Mercedes to Thailand,i often pondered doing that, please can you enlighten me more.

On 8/30/2021 at 7:05 AM, BigStar said:

Nov. 28, 1997. Barry Kenyon should be credited as the author. Another of his:

 

Why did my guidebook say they drive on the left here?

         —Barry Kenyon, "Unanswered Questions About Pattaya", Pattaya Mail, July 4, 1997

 

And another of his, paraphrased, addresses a burning question:

 

    QUESTION: Are there any truly “nice” girls in Pattaya?

    ANSWER: YES! They convene once a year in the phone booth at South Pattaya and Pattaya 2 Roads.

 

Remember that phone booth?

 

A random crime report. You've wondered why Thailand became less farang friendly:

Kinky Massage Methods Gets [sic] German Deported

 

Police arrested a German man, Martin Heger, who had been forging diplomas from the Thai Institute of Traditional Medicine. . . . He also damaged Thai traditional medicine’s reputation by adding text to the forged certificates which certified that oral stimulation by the masseur to the sex organs was part of the Thai pharmacopoeia and resulted in “deep relaxation.” . . . He said the “oral-genital” relaxation massage was particularly popular in Hungary. . . . .

     —Pattaya Mail, May 16, 1997

 

 

 

Whats that. popular if your hungry

9 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

Come on guys, we know it's just another day in the LOS, wai, reinstatement to a lessor position because of how much of a great cop he was in the force and how he "saved" thousands of kids from these drug dealers.

 

He didn't mean to kill the drug dealer, just scare him while trying to extract information, and just because he forgot how long a person could breath for with plastic bags over his head shouldn't make him a bad person,  he killed the drug dealer, and because he tried to cover the murder with a death certificate showing the death as a different cause and he ran away because he panicked and was inexperienced, shouldn't make him a bad person, we are all humans and he had a very stressful job and we should accept that mistakes happen, suffice to say if he had killed more of them, think how much safer Thailand would be.

 

He deserved to live in such a mansion and drive 29 luxury cars so that he can destress, 10,000 baht fine and court costs should do it.

 

His demotion to a police teaching instructor on how to treat suspected drug dealers with plastic bags will send a clear message to drug dealers into the future thus, making Thailand a safer place to live for our kids.

Spot on. Love it.

Apparently 29 luxury high end cars.

Can I have my 400 million baht owed to me please,i need to buy some more super cars

What if he can't pay the fine.  ????

13 hours ago, mikebell said:

They are if they don't come!  Why would ANY tourist want a holiday where the air is carcinogenic; the police allow cop-killers to walk free; there are violent protests on the streets; multiple daily deaths on the roads?  It would be like trying to  sell two-weeks-in-Beirut breaks a few years back!

Seems many Farangs will put up with all that s--t for sexy girl, now they're all back farming in the villages Farang not come.

13 hours ago, smedly said:

I don't see a problem opening up to fully vaccinated tourists provided they drop all the stupid red tape that currently operates in Phuket, they focussed testing on the tourists when in fact it should have been the general population (locals) in Phuket that were tested (at least once a week) - test trace and isolate - the tourists were not the problem yet multiple testing was focussed on them.

 

Then the other problem they have is with their own people and vaccine rollout and being able to provide enough vaccinated locals to support and staff the services tourists require.  

 

Another issue is - how many locals have had a shot of sinovac which offers little to no protection from delta - that is a huge issue

 

The fully vaccinated tourists are not the problem

Dirty Farang, bring virus to Thailand.

Laap it up.

On 8/12/2021 at 9:21 AM, pacovl46 said:

The US should spend some money on the clean-up there instead of playing war elsewhere! 

On 8/12/2021 at 4:00 PM, Burma Bill said:

With respect, if you think I am American, you are very wrong. I am a true "Brit" from the UK and my post was reflecting my personal comments based on my visit to the Museum. I do not get into politics regarding the Vietnam War.

Dead right. They just wasted 1 Trillion dollars in Afghanistan.

Actually you need 4 masks

On 8/10/2021 at 10:41 AM, Moonlover said:

I was warned off mouthwash many years ago by a dentist who wasn't afraid to tell the truth about them. Like you say, they kill off the friendly bacteria along with the bad.

 

I also read a few years that rinsing ones mouth straight after cleaning with toothpaste is another bad habit that almost everyone does. Most of us use fluorinated toothpaste and if we rinse straight after cleaning, we wash away the fluoride, which requires at least 15 minutes to absorb into the tooth enamel.

 

I stopped rinsing about 4 years ago and my teeth have never felt and looked cleaner than they are now.

 

Yes, They look amazing.

15 hours ago, joecoolfrog said:

Assuming you mean non prescription narcotics only , millions of otherwise law abiding people ( including myself ) would now be dead .

If widening the net to include ' all drugs ' the human race would all but cease to exist.

A truly remarkable post , perhaps the most ridiculous I have ever read , anywhere !

Of course I don't mean prescription drugs. Im obviously referring to these crazy drug taking addicts on ice, Yabba and the like. Truly remarkable you would have thought I meant anything else.