JensenZ

It's a bit premature to be talking about suicide.

What an incredibly stupid statement. She's fallen 4 floors with all sorts of catastrophic injuries, and they're expecting a coherent account from her while she's lying on the ground.

Did this happen in Pattaya, or are you assuming that and using it as an excuse to tell us how you feel about it? Pattaya attracts all kinds of people, as does every other place.

You obviously do care, as you went to lengths to explain it to me twice, and apologise for the obscene response from a twisted member who was trying to be funny. Although it is possible, if taken in the literal sense, to mean that a gf had contracted some people to carry out the murder of her brother on the streets of Bangkok, and cover it up as a random robbery/murder... and then tell me all about it. That is so utterly inconceivable that no person would seriously consider this as the actual meaning. As I said, context is important, and in this case, would have solved the ambiguity and saved you the trouble of offering a lesson in sentence structure.

Thanks for the English lesson, but informal writing here is often ambiguous; however, the idea that a lady I was dating had commissioned her brother to be murdered by armed robbers on the streets of Bangkok would not be considered remotely possible by anyone. Even if she did, she'd hardly be admitting it to anyone, and then even if she did murder her own brother and told me, I wouldn't be writing about it on a public forum. Context can help solve the mysteries of ambiguous sentences. English is my first language, but I don't often proofread my comments on this informal forum. Your analysis of my grammar was correct, and I should have worded it differently. You might want to consider Muphry's Law, a deliberate misspelling of Murphy's Law. I'll let you look it up.

You're judging the quality of a lady by the unfortunate tragedy of having a brother murdered randomly on the streets of Bangkok. The lady you're referring to is a very good woman.

I was dating a lady who had a brother murdered in the streets of Bangkok. Shot by armed robbers. This happened a long time ago. Sometimes it's a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, no matter how smart you are.

LOL. It's not worth the effort to park and walk up the stairs of that 7-Eleven, assuming you mean the one shaped like a ship on Pattaya Tai. I had no idea it was the world's biggest, and the inside is not the biggest I've seen, if you don't count the seating upstairs. 7-Eleven's are getting bigger by the year, so there's some stiff competition.

Not only that, he's looking for noodles in a food court, some of the cheapest food around.

That's why I suggested it was bad timing, walking there on a bad day, but it was absolutely disgusting on that day, and I didn't go back again, as Pattaya Beach was a lot cleaner.

Probably only from pretty, young, entitled Western Girls LOL

I think the Songthaew driver was hilarious. The guys in the back were quite amused too, and probably glad to see the back of her. Note that only the girl used foul language.

When they have over a million subscribers, a lot of people do take notice of what they say, and over this story, a lot of people do care. In this case, there might even be a potential defamation case if she visits again.

Really? It must have been a bad day, but the only time I walked (I was barefoot) on Jomtien Beach was early June last year, and it was absolutely disgusting, full of trash in the water and washed up.

The major problem I see in Bangkok is taxis refusing to accept metered fares in busy tourist areas. They got their stats from 450 Reddit posts and associated comments? I wouldn't take too much notice of the results of that survey. Just for starters, the Philippines is way ahead of Thailand in taxi scams, but probably because of much higher tourist numbers in Thailand, they are not getting as many posts about it on Reddit.