Phil1964

On 12/29/2023 at 2:49 AM, 2baht said:

Eat more rice! 

Or send more daughters away to work as w****s, sorry bar girls!

🤔

Is that 4 boat / ferry accidents in a week?

Chinese social media reporting these then that's going to hit!!

15 hours ago, proton said:

3/4 kids in tow, must be hell

One Thai kid is enough.

My Mrs kid was petulant, argumentative and downright violent towards her mother from the age of 10, assaults, knives drawn, pushed her down the stairs. Only way the mother found any peace and respite was when a child therapist in a Bangkok Children’s Hospital prescribed Prozac for the daughter!! 🤪

And her mother smuggled a 12 month supply back here to the UK to quell her daughter's temperament. Funnily enough giving a child Prozac here in the UK is illegal and not freely adminstered like in Thailand!! But then even English kids would have a job keeping up with some Thai kids moods and anger issues!

Some of them look like they need to be registered with Weight Watchers.

22 hours ago, Cardano said:

Not in this country, for most their brain doesn't seem to get past the development stage of a ten year old.

I think you are being too kind there refering to having the brain development of 10year old, Cordano! 

(I'd be thinking more aling the lines of a primary school kid @ 7 years of age. 😊

The UK suspended the tax breaks for foreign tourists reclaiming their VAT, (20%), a few years back. Now all the big stores and retailers are lobbying government to restore the benefit as unsurprisingly foreign tourist shopping spend is down, and data suggests it has moved to other European countries where the tourist can reclaim tax / duty.

1 hour ago, koolkarl said:

There would almost no tourists if they knew how toxic the  air they are breathing.

Chinese urban air is way worse.

Perhaps TAT could sell 'Clean Air Tours' - by an aptly named tourism company, "Oxygen Tours"??

 🤣🤣

Right Thailand listen up.

Your country is expensive for us Europeans to fly too. Since 2019 average airfares have doubled after the pandemic and still.remain so, eg: In August 2023 I paid £1,100 to fly Eva LHR > BKK return. In contrast in June and September and November 2019 on all 3 occasions I paid under £600 rerurn to fly with Emirates from Birmingham to BKK, (car parking and fuel to Birmingham airport was half the cost of going via Heathrow for me too).

When we get there hotels are similarly 2 to 3 times 2019 prices. Plus many hotels look nice on Agoda etc but when you arrive they are tatty, tired and dirty because Thais don't seem to.understand the point of maintenance and reinvesting, (to keep up with the times)!

Food in restaurants is expensive now, comparable to UK prices in 2019, (ok inflation in UK has increased our prices).

Tours and excursions are expensive.

Driving is bad for your stress as all Thais think.all roads are Silverstone / Le Mans.

Thai Beer is frankly awful. I realused how bad in 2023 compared to.all the micro brewery offers we have in the UK now.

Okay your girls are pretty but I have had one for 5.5 years and just f****d her off because she and her 11 year old daughter were both schizophrenic utter psychopaths.

You can't have a life remotely resembling any independence when you shag a Thai girl and what money you had before she bleeds out of you like a leech, then once it's obvious you are running on empty you will find her swapping phone numbers down the gym, outside the school gates and with the white van.who pips his horn at her when passing. 

Avoid!

23 hours ago, malibukid said:

up here in CM they are hanging down on the sidewalks.  the stupid phone company repair men do not clean up their mess.  

Simply because they're too lazy and too poorly trained to do anything properly and finish a job correctly. Add in Thainess attitudes of it all be okay because Buddha looks after us and hey ho, that's why infrastructure and utilities are so messy, untidy and poorly maintained.

On 11/16/2023 at 2:59 AM, Irish star said:

Scammers

thieves

liars

cheaters

did I get it right ? 

 

Nail on the head. Especially the Thai variety!

Well said Irish Star.👍👍👍

In the same period that Asean News reported Chinese police coming to help Thai police.

Oh dear oh dear.

Time to think of holidays elsewhere, methinks..

On 11/2/2023 at 9:43 AM, Charlest1971 said:

That is an absolutely disgusting response from the little girl’s father. In most cultures, with an ounce of humanity, your courageous act would have been met with applause & gratitude. 
It seems that this thread stands testament to the fact that Thai culture is embedded with sadism and a propensity to enjoy other people’s suffering. 
I am appalled by this behaviour and will think long and hard about ever visiting Thailand. 

Yep should have waited a bit then tripped the kid back into the pool. Walked over and tapped the dad on the shoulder, "Your daughter's drowning"! Then walk away.

1 hour ago, billd766 said:

Also, if they are honest and declare that they now live in Thailand, their pension will be frozen.

 

But the little things add up.

 

They will have, at least IMO, a better and more comfortable life than in damp and dreary UK. Life will be better for them.

Yep. Seeing as the UK retains the triple lock on pensions then the last two year's of state pension increases, awarded in line with post covid inflation rates, have been a welcome boon to British OAPs. However, in 2 years whoever is in government will need to make some nasty decisions about UK pension provisions, especially while we spend billions sending arms to Ukraine and public services and infrastructure is falling apart / overloaded due to lack of investment over the last 20 years.

£1500 / month for full time care is a steal, but it's not the whole cost which the artivcle omits. 

And 'flocking to Thailand', I'd guess no more than 100 retiree couples a year make such a bold move to foreign care, especially against family wishes etc... 

6 hours ago, bbbbooboo said:

hmmmm... he had an "elite" aka "privileged" visa. The irony of this is beyond words and i suggest pokes enormous holes in the vetting process of the thai elite visa system. One might also wonder how many other similar cases there are ? This is a shocker to put it mildly

Vetting procedure?? 

Oh that'll be....

"Sawadee, you got monnneeeee, sir?

Ah good, you can stay loooong time if you give money me more. Khrup kuhn khrup/ka"!

Sawadee..

12 hours ago, harleyclarkey said:

Of all Nationalities the Nigerians scheme and scam their way into any country where they can cheat and defraud. Am I exaggerating? Their own president stated on TV that Nigerians are utterly corrupt.

We have an inordinate number of them in Ireland.  How? As there is no direct flight to Ireland from Nigeria.  You claim asylum in the 1st country you land in. 

I honestly have no respect for the majority of Nigerians as they have fraud and scams in their DNA from birth. 

Pity for a country with a lot of resources and oil reserves of 36m barrels. 

Why does the West, especially,  take the junk from such countries when their despot tyrant leaders steal all the resources? 

 

What? More utterly corrupt and scheming than your typical Thai??? 🤔🤫

So Gold medal to Nigeria and only a Silver to Thailand, boy Thais will be disappointed!

2 hours ago, ArtVandelay said:

I'm on Koh Tao right now and I've never seen so many tourists crammed into one tiny island.

Been coming here for 8 years and this is the first time I'm not renting a motorbike.  Too dangerous, too many places renting them now, and too many people who would never even think of getting on a motorbike back home plunking their 200B down and clogging the main drag.  

So from your 'man on the street' perspective in Khao Tao which nationality(s) are the majority tourist visitor(s)?

29 minutes ago, hydraides said:

People are so blind.....Wake up!! this is another tip toe .......actually a big one for the cult agenda

 

Start introducing people to Digital Money............tick

 

Cause hyper inflation in the coming months ..........tick

 

Hyper inflation will be an excuse for thailand to raise interest rates to levels of others nations (E.g 5%+) .....tick

 

Thailand citizens have some of the highest debt/earnings per month in the world.......................outcome = many thais default on loans, mortgages interest payments etc .....tick

 

Many Thais basically losing future freedoms and won't be able to borrow money from banks etc

 

America did the same during COVID ($1000 or something for each household) - There GDP is much higher of course) - It caused inflations to go over 10%

 

Wow people are so freaking stupid........people of thailand should protest so hard over this scheme

Same in the UK too. Government printed and threw money around during covid.

Then after lockdown inflation started. 

Then the bloody Soviets kicked off on their war program and hey ho, interest rates and inflation all headed north!

Looks like the international money markets approve then? NOT!

https://www.nationthailand.com/business/banking-finance/40031561

5 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Quite a simple minded thing to say. Perhaps he is less intelligent than one would presume. 

 

It is going to take a lot more than wishful thinking to elevate Thailand to upper income status. Outstanding, effective, intelligent policy, great planning, lowering luxury taxes, lowering import taxes overall, making Thailand the dynamic nation that it once was.

 

After the Prayuth  decimation all bets are off. 

You forgot the two key things to add on your list...

1) A skilled labour force for the modern era.

2) Eradicating widespread, top down corruption.