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1 hour ago, AustinRacing said:

It’s another reason why I don’t want her here. Although they claim legit creditors issues, who’s to say whether they owe money to non-legit outfits. I suspect some gambling related debt although they don’t admit it. Nevertheless we’ve done our bit and now it is time to sort out issues themselves. I just find the mentality unacceptable. Rather than addressing it she claims to be a victim “why my husband do that to me”. Well it’s been a year and they’ve done nothing not even show up to court and ask for consideration. Lack of foresight. Same as not wearing helmets with 4-5 on a bike including infants in arms. When they have horrible crashes “my baby dead. Why happen to us?”

yep, just figure your burning a bridge. if you ever need their help they are not likely to be interested.

4 hours ago, tingtong said:

Don't want to spoil the party, but even keeping this speed of 300k a day jabs...

130 days = 40 million 1st shot

+

130 days = 40 million 2nd shot

 

Take out 1 day a week, and some public holidays....that is a full year...

And only if, and that is a big IF everything keeps on this speed, which it may not.

the transmission rate starts going way down before every last person is vaccinated, so it's good news.

????

was not a big fan of the water. it felt safe, but not something i would want to drink in and kept my mouth closed.

any reason why you can't get in and test it out? can you do anything?

not really, you don't know where the bottom is in pricing (and when) until it starts recovering. ????

the photo op is set up to imply the officers are slapping the back of his head with their di@ks

On 6/4/2021 at 3:49 AM, thweshfoyo said:

Please PM me a condo with gym and/or pool open in Pattaya ? I need to stay there few weeks. Thank you.

some people just can't do anything themselves.

it's really sad, really.

2 hours ago, kynikoi said:

 

What??

 

Thailand for all intents and purposes that has been locked down tighter than a drum.

 

What let loose this covid was Burmese border crossers. Nothing to do with International jet setters.

there were people coming in from china via airplane for quite awhile.

i'm talking early on when it counts, not band-aid measures now when it's already spread.

12 hours ago, Poet said:

No, that is your word, not mine.

The word I used was "raging", like a storm.

A storm can dramatically sweep through a country, but it does not necessarily cause a lot of damage. Almost everyone in those countries will catch Covid-19, some of the most vulnerable will die, and, then, it will burn itself out.

The problem, in the meantime, is that some of the people from those countries migrating into Thailand will bring the storm with them.

Covid is more prevalent in Thailand because it's more open to international travel.

Your safer going to Burma, as long as you don't get shot in the head!

7 hours ago, samtam said:

 

He can't be in the US more than 35 days for tax reasons.

he could live in tijuana and walk over the border into san diego in the usa to use the toilet.

if its brown he can flush it down, and if its yellow let it mellow (saves water).

i will keep a long story short and say forget mexico. go, have a great time for a week or two, but come home to the usa to use the toilet.

we need lockdowns until everyone is vaccinated. its not rocket science.

16 hours ago, kinyara said:

 

I thought an interesting snippet In the interview was that he mentioned that his landlord is Toyota corporation.   

he said everything was through a property management broker, not him communicating with the landlord directly. i could hear his frustration when he mentioned this, and i know why.

a broker typically gets a cut on each months rent, so you never know what they are/are not communicating to the landlord. usually if they have a contract they won't bring up any problems, and/or play each side.

i tried this personally with a property i rent and it causes more problems then it's worth, the broker collecting fees from both sides, and also using their own vendors for costly repairs which the tenant is convinced to need and relayed to the landlord in a way suggesting it's urgent etc. the list goes on.

mine was not in thailand, but it's interesting how these things cross cultures, just like old scams that are the same anywhere you go.

10 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Like gambling or trading stocks and crypto, emotions dictate, bad decisions are made, and money and businesses are lost. 

Not just with that, but everything. At the root it's lack of flexibility, or inability to admit you are wrong and change or to let go. You just get more in the hole the longer you fight something that's not working. It comes from the suffering of being to attached to things (Buddhism).

The more attached you are to something the more likely the situation is to snap back the other way.

17 hours ago, Leaver said:

 

One of Nick Dean's better interviews with Steve, the owner of Triangle Bar.   

 

Steve gets quite emotional when asked, 'When do you throw in the towel?"    

 

Main points are, no reduction on rent in Soi Pothole, which in my opinion is a disgrace. Triangle Bar costing him 80,000 baht a month, with currently nothing coming in.   His key money was paid for 3 years, but we are now 18 months into that 3 years, with no sign profits will be returning anytime soon.  He's been propping up the business with funds from the UK, but admits there may come a time when he will have to make a hard decision.  

 

I do hope he survives.  He runs a good operation.  

 

 

 

When you don't cut things right away it becomes harder to close down later. You have already lost money so you just hold on hoping it's going to bounce back. How long can it last, right.

What happens with most people is they end up getting frustrated and closing at the worst possible time (right before things start turning around for the better).

2 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

If i take the example of the French people (I know well, being french myself) there was a big community of them in Pattaya in the past with their restaurants, their bars and their associations and clubs.

They are not in Pattaya anymore, most of them have returned in France or in europeans countries around (Spain, Portugal or even north africa)

where they can access to free health careand being not far from the family.

 

In the last 10 years. the french money (Euro) has lost 30% of his value against the baht, and in the same time the prices have incresed of 30% in Thailand.

 

Imagine a guy on a fixed pension (That was the case for most of them, due to the visas requirment for the age) losing 60% of his buying power in 10 years?! 

 

Plus a lot of them were on the income method for the visa, and they were just above the financial requirment. With the change in the x change rate, they are not anymore able to justify a 65 000 bahts\month 

 

With a pension of 1500 euros\month (The medium pension in France)

it was 67500 bahts\month with 1 euro= 45 baht, it was just but ok

with 1 euro = 38 bahts its 57 000 bahts, and it's not enough

(I take 1 euro = 45 bahts as an example, but keep in mind most of these guys were here when you had 1 euro = 50 bahts or even more)

i had a neighbor two units over in pattaya, french guy, who used to cook meals (some kind of soup) on a small propane stove on his balcony. always looked a bit odd to me like he was destitute or something. could hear the spoon clanging on the pan as he stirred it. also he was always in just boxers with no shirt on. i think he was one of the pensioners you mentioned.

18 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

You still have few guys enjoying to go in an open bar for a drink

myself i do it sometimes, but nowadays (I mean in ''normal time'' before covid) in Pattaya the western tourist is a guy in his 30-40 who enjoys having fun with his mates (Coming with him or meet here after a chat on a forum or FB) in a fun place

 

it could be a Soi 6 bar in the afternoon, surrounded by young attractive girls or it could be a disco (I-bar\insomnia, 808) at night, and the rest of the time he is chillin around the swimming pool or in one of the shopping mails, or traveling to Koh chang for a day at a decent beach

 

the lonely 50-70 years old guy with his beer during hours in an open beer bar with no aircon and an unatractive and relatively boring farm girl from morning to night is something of the past, they were also the ones occupying the chairs on Pattaya beach so this business have also lost his customers base

lonely 50-70 year old guys don't just die out, they get replaced by new 50-70 year old lonely guys.

do these new old guys still prefer insomnia nightclub, or what's the new old guy scene?

2 hours ago, Phillip9 said:

Phuket is even worse.  More than 95% of the restaurants, bars and shops in patong,  karon and kata are closed and boarded up.  It looks like the end of the world has come.  I think the first tourists to arrive will be seriously disappointed.  At least the beaches are still nice.

there's also the food issue. i rely on local joints to eat when im in los. im sure grocery stores will be open, but its just not the same.

if local markets, vendors and mom and pop food joints are closed people may want to reyhink a visit unless they are aircon western type people who just hole up in a luxury apt somewhere.

i lived in cm a long time and after watching the vids going out to eat would be problematic, though still possible looks like obe would need to trek around for it.

i would watch some youtube vids first. i just watched one of chiang mai. it's a ghost town. everything is shuttered.

5 hours ago, covidiot said:

say hallo to my little friend ... my police badge.

that seems to be what the picture implies, minus the badge

Your getting old and flexible.

17 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

The girls you cantact on the dating site can come directly to your room

but you can also meet them before to be sure everything is ok

and the young guys prefer to meet them in a stardust coffee or in

another random place in one of the shopping malls in Pattaya

1\ that makes the girls more comfortable (They are not forced to identify with the

others prostitutes working in the bar, the face thing and so on) and the guy doesn't

appear like he is roaming in the girlies bars on a regular basis (It's not very a rational thinking

 but it's a fact for hygienics reasons the girls love to believe that you are not a prostitutes addict)

 

no need to go in a girlie bar to meet your rent girl for 1 hour or 1 day

there are a lot of more comfortable and often cheaper places to go for it

 

i understand, but when i'm in pattaya i like to go out for a beer once in awhile, not just sit in my room.

are you saying that the bar scene is dying altogether in normal times and that it was old timers who enjoyed that (covid aside), or it was just that type of open air bar that is dying?

1 hour ago, kingofthemountain said:

You could but in fact you are not going to do it

 

even before covid. all these bars were dying

 

The only one with few customers reamining was the one at the soi 8 corner with the live music band inside (The musicians and singers were often really good)

 

This model of open beer bar was very popular in the 80'\90' with the western customers used to drink in a stadium or village fair ''buvette'' style in their country of origin

 

Since the begining of the century, and particularly in the last 10 years

they have seen their traditional customer base melts like snow in the sun (Mainly because of the old age\death of the former customers)

 

The new generations, younger and used to buy or rent their stuff on internet are not really intersted anymore to play connect 4 with an overweight  uneducated bargirl in her 40' simping an overpriced bad beer while listening at music from the 70' in a place with no aircon

where are the customers drinking/meeting at then, just regular bars?