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I really miss those chocolate milkshakes from Carl's.

I wonder if Thailand would introduce an alternative minimum tax if too many people report zero income.

tourists >>> immigrants

Pretty useless security guards.

Upset Trump after verdict.

Meanwhile, one of Mr. Mahoney’s friends chose not to report the crime or identify himself due to safety and privacy concerns and is reportedly no longer in Pattaya. This is believed to be the man on video seen shoving another customer out of the bar before the confrontation with the guards.

Watch the video of the interior carefully. The Brit goons harassed 3 farang bar patrons in addition to the Thais.

Brit black shirt charges and pushes himself against a bar patron. Brit white shirt grabs a phone from another bar patron and throws it on the table. Then Brit white shirt threatens the cashier. Later Brit black shirt shoves another bar patron right out of the bar. Brit grey shirt moves aggressively against 2 security guys. Brit white shirt threatens security guy with his elbow. Then <deleted> kicks off. But before it did the Brit goons harassed 3 bar patrons, the cashier and the security guys.

Some aggressive bullying louts got beat up by even more vicious bullying louts. Nothing to see here.

First the Brits need to apologize for harassing 3 other tourists.

It is a satchel. Indiana Jones had a satchel.

No one knows the 3 lads' names. If they lodge a formal complaint then everyone will know their names and that they paid for the company of prostitutes. Imagine someone doing a Google search on your name and the first thing that comes up is a Daily Mail article about you getting your ass kicked after a night out drinking and whoring. Perhaps the Thai police are counting on this.

Just a typical Friday night for these lads. Easy enough to walk off.

The Thai are descended from a much larger group of Tai-speaking peoples. The latter are found from extreme northeastern India in the west to northern Vietnam in the east and from southern China in the north to as far south as the central Malay Peninsula. In the past, scholars held that a parent group called the Proto-Tai originated in southern China and pushed southward and westward from the China landmass into northern mainland Southeast Asia. Most scholars now believe that the Tai came from northern Vietnam around the Dien Bien Phu area and that about 1,000 years ago they spread from there northward into southern China; westward into southwestern China, northern Myanmar (Burma), and northeastern India; and southward into what are now Laos and Thailand.

Getting a stronger core helped with back pain. Crunches and leg lifts.

Once that farang keep pointing at the cashier I knew it wasn't going to end well.

Just Soi 6 things on Soi 6.

I'm comparing the two here because it seems that a lot of AN posters that live in Thailand believe that if they leave, Thailand will be in a lot of trouble economically. They are delusional. They also believe that Thais focus too much on attracting Chinese tourists. I also linked a report on Thailand tourist income by country of origin. I'm just using actual US Dollars to show that Chinese tourists > European tourists > farang immigrants. Oh, if Thailand made casinos legal, Chinese will spend even more money in Thailand.

People do love to blame the messenger.

A tough measure lasting all of 2 months.

So the Chinese still spent 18 billion USD in Thailand vs 15 billion USD from ALL European tourists in 2019. Thailand does seems to be trying hard to get the rest of the 232 billion from the Chinese though. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1140714/thailand-value-of-tourist-spending-by-region-of-origin/

If 250,000 farangs living in Thailand spent $3,000 per month that would be $9 billion USD per year. Thailand's annual GDP is 500 billion USD per year. All those farang "supporting" the Thai economy makes up 1.8% of it. In 2019, Chinese tourists spent 250 billion USD overseas, beating out American tourists. I'm not surprised Thailand is more focused on getting Chinese tourists and less on keeping farang immigrants.

Yeah, only certain foreigners are greeted regularly at the airport with flowers and wais.

I heard that a taxi driver in Bangkok got fined 2000 baht for killing a farang pedestrian. That's it. 2000 baht. When I cross the street my head is on a swivel. I probably look left and right 6 times before I get to the other side of the street.

I always verbally confirm with the driver when I get into the car.