Mr Meeseeks

Is she a doctor like I am a retired special forces operative living in Pattaya?

I saw some of the material they were teaching the kids on social media yesterday... 

Errors all over the place. A lot of it was gibberish.  

11 minutes ago, champers said:

... or an expat being scammed by a compatriot running a boiler room operation in Thailand. 

Beat me to it.

Most of the scamming of elderly pensioners in Australia and the UK was happening in Thailand in the 90's and early 00's with the boiler room boys, protected by local plod and influential persons.

British and Aussie Police tried numerous times to deal with it, but because it was sanctioned here at high levels, and local important persons were benefiting from it immeasurably, and on the take, there were no serious attempts to shut it down.

There was next to no reporting on it too, all the journalists that were brave enough to comment were threatened, taken to court and eventually chased out of the country. Some even had their families threatened. 

Millions upon millions of Pounds and Dollars were extorted from elderly and naive people, and invested in well known entertainment businesses in Bangkok, Pattaya and elsewhere.

When I used to be a bit of a bar-fly in the late 90's and early 00's I used to choose where I frequented very carefully, the ones owned by boiler room scum were pretty well known, especially the infamous Irish bar up from Soi 22 with the faux IRA cowards pretending to be hard and the Antipodean place on Soi 8. Loads more and we could be here all day naming them. 

Let's hope this elderly gent is found well and safe and if there's a problem he gets help if he needs it.

Funny, having lived and worked here for 30-years, trust is not a word that immediately springs to mind when I think of Thais or Thailand.

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6 minutes ago, giddyup said:

True? Who knows. Maybe he just ran out of money.

In the video it is alleged that the Thais have him prisoner and they are using his ATM card to withdraw his pension. 

Let's see what transpires.

11 minutes ago, timendres said:

We are now beginning to see the ripples. The lockdowns were the stone tossed into the water. The ripples have now begin to spread. Like dominos, this absurdity is going to cause waves of economic spectacles that are going to surprise many.

It is going to get real nasty once the sociopaths and mentally unstable, money worshipping lunatics understand the true gravity of the situation. 

Listening to Motorhead - Brotherhood of Man. 

2 hours ago, Canuck1966 said:

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Not sure the Germans are going to listen to a dictator about some spurious claim

They did before.

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1 minute ago, hackjam said:

Cannot risk opening up all bars right now, those Thai style late night pubs, where Thais get totally legless, would be impossible to manage social distancing. As would open air beer bars with drunken foreigners.

I doubt there's enough foreign punters here to matter. Might be one or two in a bar if that.

3 minutes ago, Walker88 said:

So I'm guessing you don't work in the tourism industry.

 

In 2019, Tourism accounted for 17.7% of Thai GDP, perhaps more if gray money was counted.

 

The tens of millions of foreigners who came to Thailand in 2019 supported upwards of 8 million Thai jobs. It also allowed hotel owners to make debt payments, which in turn helped banks keep bad debts lower.

 

A year or two is okay with you? Those 8 million Thais, hotel owners, and banks might have a different view.

They will have to adjust to the reality and adapt as nobody will be travelling on holiday for a while.

Those heavily invested in the hospitality industry will suffer.

As I and others suffered during the oil and gas downturn in 2013.

It happens. 

10 minutes ago, time2093 said:

So people are in favor of packed BTS and MRT trains everyday but pubs and nightclubs are dangerous. Typical Thai logic.

There's the perfect emoticon to describe that kind of logic:

I edited this as I have done a bit of research and it appears TUI is in big trouble.

May 11th - Announced measures to curb COVID-19 transmission when things get back to normal

May 12th - No travel until 12th June 2020

May 12th - Announced 8000 job cuts

May 15th - Critical travel advice issued including refund credits with bonus incentive or cash refund

May 16th - TUI announce doctor's notes required for refunds

May 18th - Thai hoteliers appeal for help after being stiffed

I wouldn't hold my breath for payment if I was a Thai hotelier. It's going to get very interesting how bad this crisis is going to be for the Thai tourism industry. Personally I think everyone is underestimating the situation... this is like an apocalypse for tourism and that is 20% or so of Thai GDP.

16 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Would you like to substantiate that with factual comparisons? 

 

 

You substantiate that Thaksin was the worst first.

A cursory glance at Thai political history and it is clear to see he is and was nowhere near the worse.

Really, I shouldn't have to be on here explaining this, it's obvious.

On 5/15/2020 at 6:19 AM, OneMoreFarang said:

Because it seems most Thais don't follow the news.

There's that contempt for Thais as I alluded to in an earlier post.

I bet most Thais are far more informed that the vast majority of expats.

Other than myself I know very few expats that can read, write and speak fluent Thai, so they can't even read a newspaper or understand Thai news on TV or social media.

From my experience, it seems that foreigners that mix with the lowest class of Thais that work in the sex-industry, this will be your opinion, that all Thais are peasants, all Thais are paid to vote and only interested in money and a whole host of other distasteful stereotypes.

Just now, RichardColeman said:

I imagine the fat cats that have managed to get billions of baht out of this, will be quite happy to leave and make way for a new lot of government trough feeders.

 

One could only hope that if they did file, then no bank on the planet would give them a line of credit

Which is exactly why it will never succeed, never be profitable, never pay off the existing THB200+ billion of debt (not including this latest bailout) and why the truth about this airline will never be admitted.

The show must go on. 

More concerning is that if they cannot be taken seriously or trusted to be fiscally responsible, how can anyone possibly trust the management at any level, including maintenance and inspection regimes?