thecyclist

It recently occurred to me that the weekly, usually Saturdays, Rooster column hasn't been around for a while, probably a year or so. What happened to the Rooster? Did he quit, was he fired, did he follow the legendary Night Owl, Bernard Trink, into the great beyond?

Buddhist monasteries might put him up and feed him.

It doesn't really exist here, but it is probably one of the easiest country in the world to get a ride if you are a farang, better even a farang with a bicycle. I have been doing it for ages, and most of the time I get a ride in under 30 minutes. I don't do it to save money, but because of convenience. riding my bike in the countryside till I get tired, and then hitch a ride to my destination, which used to be BKK. No fun cycling into BKK. I often ask the driver whether he would have picked me up if it had been a Thai man, and 90 % say no way, too dangerous.The reverse happens in farangland, where I have spent up to 7 hours waiting for a ride. Farangs are scared of farangs, Thais are scared of Thais. I assume that the Turkish fellow didn't look " farang" enough, more "kaek" /Muslim. Also he tried to get a ride in the city, BKK of all places, which is much more difficult than getting one in the countryside heading back to the city.

Written by Adolf residing in an insane asylum for the mentally challenged.

Because they are mentally ill themselves.

If you voted for the clown, you are much more likely than not, to be an ignorant idiot, low IQ, score high on the F-scale, a misogynistic racist... in short not a pleasant person to be with.

They have the money in the bank, it's just not "their money", it's borrowed money, borrowed from the agency.

So she is fully qualified to work in the porn industry, or as a stripper. Small brain and heart, big boobs, good for the sex industry, bad in politics. Some Milf clips located in a mock up of Downing Street 10 with an intruder overpowering her.

A weaker Baht would be great. Should be around 40 to the $.

So there would have been a lighter sentence if a bicycle had been utilised in the commission of the crime? A Jogger would have gotten an even lighter sentence. A person in a wheelchair just a 100 Baht fine. Good to know.

There are just too many bars, a massive oversupply of beer bars. If you want to lose money, open a beer bar.

He gave me a 100k Baht. I have a video of the money.

Appears Placebo isn't trendy anymore. Only 5000 at a concert. In their heyday it would have been at least 10 times that number.

I found the bigger pharmacies near the central market in Phnom Penh fairly reliable. Never seen anything from Pakistan there, though. Lot's from India, Malaysia, and the more expensive stuff from France.

And, most certainly, also in Rayong.

Maybe he was in the shower, or asleep. Ladyboys sometimes hide under the bed. There was a story, years ago in a Pattaya hotel , of a corpse "hiding" under the bed. The new guests were unable to sleep because of the stench in the room, and found the source of the stench right under them. It's Pattaya, anything is possible.

Compared to fighting on the front lines in Ukraine, most certainly.

That's exactly right. In the eighties the visa exemption was only 15 days, so very few long term farangs would do regular border runs. It was down to the Consulate in Penang for a double entry non-immigrant visa, which required no paperwork whatsoever.

I assume this will be in addition to the already existing Roong Rueang Suvarnabhumi to Jomtien route. Not much of an improvement, as Roong Rueang runs every hour.

Exactly, Bob would never lie.

It's not Bob. It's a pretender.

Have you considered changing your name to captain retard.? It would be more reflective of the inner workings/or lack thereof, of your cognitive potential.

Very little, if anything, to do with 'free' visas, unless you make visas so expensive that only his holiness, the supreme jerk Elongus Maximus Mask and Co can visit, like 20 mil for a one day visa. If you can afford a week in the overpriced pearl, you can afford to pay for a visa, and then do the fighting with a visa. A fighter without visa and a fighter with a visa, same fists, same punches, same brainless skulls. IQ tests before you are aloud in might help. By the way, the locals fight, and stab and shoot, a lot more than visitors.

Yes you can tell how long they have been in the (farang) business by their English proficiency. I stay away from the ones whose English is very good. Too "contaminated".

Singapore Philippines. Malaysia,are, of course way, way ahead of Thailand (the advantages of having been colonized by an English speaking nation. But Vietnam, really? They have even greater problems learning English, just like most farangs find Vietnamese even harder than Thai.