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20 minutes ago, webfact said:

A 41-year-old male freelancer returned from Kuwait

Would that be the gender equivalent of female freelancers who work the bars in Pattaya?

4 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

I thought the ugly part was that he was wearing togs with a Stetson.An Akubra would have been much more stylish.

Akubras are great especially with a few corks on strings around the rim. Unfortunately these days the hat of choice for ugly Americans is a red baseball cap with MAGA on the front. Uncool, sub-zero.

1 minute ago, Tagged said:

True, but still we are all african, right? 
 

 

Not me. I'm white Anglo Saxon.

2 hours ago, Tagged said:

Ugly american is racist, 

American is not a race. I believe that the US is a conglomerate of a number of races.

1 hour ago, Ventenio said:

You should be banned from America.

I already am. 555

Just now, Tagged said:

Wannabees ugly americans can be from any country mentioned

But the majority are from the US....IME.

23 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

We also have met the Ugly Aussies the ugly Poms the ugly Europeans and the rest maybe they're just ugly people from anywhere.Maybe the are just normal people that occasionally behave in an ugly way.

Never seen any of the other nationalitys you mention wearing Stetsons with an obscenely phallic cigar stuck in their mouths.

18 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

I just did a circuit round Central Pattaya, one of my go to massage shops on Klang has closed, furniture gone, also a complex bar in Buakhao just down from Diana which might have been called Pook has also closed

Mainly ladyboys, who have been hit particularly hard. Pharmacys are reporting a gaping hole in the KY jelly market.

9 hours ago, Purdey said:

Yes, I am one of those who actually remembers a good holiday and have a big Excel spreadsheet of where I stayed, for how many days and how good it was. I share with friends.

Your holiday slide shows must be legendary.

1 minute ago, kingdong said:

we did ,england voted to leave the eu,thanks to nigel farage

I couldn't think of a better reason not to vote leave. 555

8 hours ago, vinny41 said:

Here is 

An  Hotel Owner’s Story on Fake Reviews on TripAdvisor and how long it takes Tripadvisor to review fake reviews before removal

https://tripadvisorwatch.wordpress.com/trip-advisor-fake-reviews/

 

Unfortunately there are many times more fake positive reviews on TripAdvisor than negative reviews.

According to TripAdvisor, 3 of the top 10 restaurants in Pattaya are Indian, including Number 1. (ask an expat if there are any decent Indian restaurants in Pattaya) Their reviews are littered with fake reviews. Easy to spot, many reviewers have only the one review and contain the same stock phrases throughout the reviews, No:3 on the list is on 2nd Road, never has customers and one review was clearly by the manager posing as a customer.

As a user, I'd rather see a few overly negative reviews than reams of blatantly fake positive reviews.

3 minutes ago, TaoNow said:

Please understand that the so-called "Ugly American" in the book by that name was, actually, the hero.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_American_(pejorative)

"Ugly American" is a stereotype depicting American citizens as exhibiting loud, arrogant, demeaning, thoughtless, ignorant, and ethnocentric behavior mainly abroad, but also at home.

The term was used as the title of a 1948 photograph of an American tourist in Havana by the Cuban photographer Constantino Arias 

By no means does this apply to all Americans but the guy in the OP does seem to fit the bill. We've all met 'em.

3 hours ago, johng said:

I used to get Kow Mun Gai from them  it was quite good  but nothing compared to my wife's version.

Yep. just another tin cup restaurant. OK but not the best I've eaten in by a long way.

3 hours ago, champers said:

You must be rich if you can afford a tin of corned beef in Thailand. Don't forget the piccalilli.

I usually use it to make Irish corned beef hash. Served with ketchup although I do have a jar of piccalilli in the fridge. One tin feeds a family of 4.

4 hours ago, anto said:

Covid is finished already .The real death rate is now a very low flat curve  Worldwide. 

Check out the UK and US. Its far from over. Check out the charts. The number of new cases globally is still rising exponentially.

26 minutes ago, CG1 Blue said:

I did you a favour and corrected a few typos:

 

I listened to both sides of the argument and came to the conclusion that the Remain campaigners had ulterior motives and the campaign was riddled with blatant lies. My opinion was that leaving the EU would be best for the UK so I voted Leave. You took the opposite view and voted Remain. We both voted for what we thought was in the best interests of our country. We're not enemies, we both voted with our hearts.

 

As the withdrawal progressed, I became more and more certain that I'd made the right decision and now it's pretty obvious to everyone that a no deal Brexit would be better than staying subservient to the EU and that all along Johnson has stayed resilient. It may happen, no one can bully Johnson now.

 

Yes, I'm delighted and I suspect many brexiteers are too now that they realise they made the right decision. However there's no way that remainers will ever admit their mistake. They blunder on spouting endless meaningless rhetoric to try to cover up the part they have played in trying to drive the country we love onto the rocks to prove a point. I pity them.

I see some common ground there. It's a move in the right direction.

13 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

I will do my review of corned beef sarnies sat in the sand with a can of Chang next week..... lovely sunset.

Now I'm getting jealous. Must drop into Siamsbury's today for a tin of corned beef.

1 minute ago, StefanBBK said:

In a way, I do like having a legal recourse against defamation.

Really doesn't bother me. I get defamed all the time on this forum and I've yet to sue anyone.