Mr Meeseeks

That is not a racist comment. It is an observation of a behaviour which seems to be common among Indian visitors. Many Thais dislike Indians and view them as rude and dirty. Hence the outrage at this video of Indians urinating in public. Hope that clarifies.

They could spend all of that budget and it would still be a sh*****le.

Who to replace them all with? More corrupt, selfish criminals? All the same, top to bottom here. They get exactly the government they deserve.

It was under Thaksin that the nationalism and xenophobia against foreigners became apparent. Prior to his government in 2001, we were mostly left alone. Paying off the IMF loan was one such example, and his other comments about UN not being his father etc. Also, many of the visa restrictions including limits on PR and citizenship happened under his watch.

Many companies use broken / inaccurate gauges on dive equipment. One such example from my own experience is a well known offshore safety training company on the Eastern seaboard that was using broken gauges on their Compressed Air rebreathers when I did my offshore survival training there. 'Mai bpen rai' was the usual excuse. You really think Thai companies are bothered about lawsuits? 🤣

Absolutely spot on and has been forever thus.

I hope he lost the maximum amount of face possible.

Happens all the time in many Thai companies without unanimous authorisation. Signatures are often fakes, as we see in this article. I have faced a similar situation for a company I used to work for, where two of the directors stole all the company assets including the foreign owner's houses, condos, and land owned in company name. Problem is, the foreigner was a w⚓️ and deserved it. 😉

I hope he's got a permit to film all these videos as Thais don't like folk exposing their dirty little secrets online.

The Swiss guy was the one attacked with a weapon by a cowardly drunk Thai. Also, Swissman David was acquitted of kicking the Thai doctor. 😁

The lesson: don’t drink with low class Thai males in bars.

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.