Mr Meeseeks

As it says on the tin. I need a good tiler to retile a small bathroom and fit new toilet, heated shower etc. Anyone have experience with a competent bloke to do this in Pattaya area?

Funnily enough, I have high level meetings in Cambodia this week about this. They are terrified that the Thais will do them over. I am working with them to ensure that doesn't happen.

For some of them it is not about the money, but an attempt to gain some superiority over someone else. A power play. We see this in Thai culture often, demanding deference or respect to the person further up the food chain. Other examples of this behaviour can include gibbering on in Thai when they have a foreigner they think cannot understand in the cab, taking alternative routes other than the one requested by the passenger (because they apparently know better than the GPS or the passenger), and lewd/rapey behaviour when they have a woman in the cab.

Still attempted murder stabbing someone in the head with a knife. 🤷‍♂️

I would say a significant percentage. Most motorbike riders do not have insurance. I caught my ex-gf driving her car without insurance for about 6-months.

The 'fitness to drive medical' here is a complete joke and can be purchased for 100thb. Even still, the physician that issued it for the deceased was negligent and the deceased must have lied about his conditions.

The coups merely postponed another corrupt Asian gangster dynasty taking over completely, such as they have in Cambodia with the Hun family, Soharto did in Indo, Marcos in the Phils and even in North Korea. That is the reality. Unfortunately, in Southeast Asia money talks, and he has bought his way back in. He may have been viewed as the lesser evil over Peoples Power Party but that is definitely a shortsighted move that the establishment is now beginning to regret.

Isaan peasants love him.

Violence comes easy to those lazy and worthless sods living in such filthy and squalid conditions. Surely charges of attempted murder are appropriate for stabbing someone in the head, regardless of the provocation?

Don't forget the basket of chicken essence presented to the victim and the subsequent feelgood stories of taxi drivers returning hundreds of thousands of Baht that some forgetful tourist left in a cab. 😉

Thankfully, the taxi driver is a dying profession. Ride hailing apps are taking over, and soon self-driving vehicles will negate the need for any human interaction whatsoever, eliminating incidents like this. Adapt, or die.

Outside the city centre, Pattaya is the best place to live in Thailand. Subjective of course, but that's my opinion based on 33 years experience living in Thailand, mostly in Bangkok.

Rightly so. It's one of the reasons Thailand remains a great place to live. The UK should follow Thailand's example to be far less tolerant of the foreign hordes infesting our ancestral homelands.

Shouldn't have been driving in the first place. Lucky no-one else was injured or killed due to his selfish actions and negligence.

There are a number of reasons why this incident could have happened. The article suggests that he was working without proper fall arrest equipment at height (at the edge of the shaft). The time take to effect extraction of the casualty and the fact a crane had to be used probably means the rescue equipment wasn't in situ, thus a rescue plan was not in place. Really basic stuff that could have easily prevented this happening.

I have fond memories of the footlong hotdogs from the 7/11 in the late 90's early 00's. They were proper footlong hotdogs in buns! They even had a dressing station with mustard and onions!

Neither is your US Dollar, nor any other currency not backed by precious metals.

Indeed. If he knew about it previously then he is definitely negligent and caused this child's death. I suspect he has just tried to do a runner though, as usual.

I agree, they are similar scenarios, but one is extremely rich, connected, and able to pay his way out of trouble, the other is poor. Remember Thailand has one of the biggest disparities between rich and poor on the planet. Hope that clarifies.

Good luck deporting her from the UK. 😂

That's what they all say until you yourself actually know top coppers, politicians etc. and find out Thai birds are full of nonsense. 😁

She probably can't or doesn't drive, and doesn't want their lifestyle disrupted.

They will never learn that it is not safe to ride in the back of a pickup, especially with the amount of idiots on the roads here. Honda CRV clearly at fault, driving without due care and attention.

The only reason is that it is a captive market. People are flying out and have no other choice, which is why all the food vendors airside are overpriced. They don't pay their staff much more for working at the airport, the rents are no excuse as I mentioned before, and they probably have a higher footfall than other locations.

Phuket has been a no-go area for me for 20 years because it is full of rip-offs and dislikeable local oiks. I reneged on this vow during C***D so I could have a week in a 6-star resort almost alone with empty beaches for pennies, but the embargo is back in force now. 😂