Phil1964

You're right. But at least here we don't give false smiles to pretend we like farangs!!

But wasn't he arrested on arrival back in the UK? So he'll get a 1 month suspended sentence, fine of £100 for punching the airline steward and a collection of Man U DVDs of the post Fergie years to watch on repeat for 7 days as his proper punishment!! 🤣🤣

What Thais fighting over money, gold and an inheritance, I never, really! Who'd have thought? Thailand one big soap opera of false smiles, greed and avarice washed down with a nod, (and a Yai), to Buddha for redemption.

Those peaceful, considerate smiley Thais yet again.. Freakin' psychos.

Hopefully! Confiscate his passport. Put a block on The Passport Office issuing a new one to the idiot. Register them on airline's block lists. I'd say for 20 years so his holiday choices are extremely limited. Might be a lesson to others intent on causing trouble and / or even endangering lives of other passengers and airline crews.

1st you need a police force and civil service that is not totally riddled with corruption and no accountability. Mind you not that those of us in the UK can comment seeing as our police authorities are found to be sadly lacking in transparency and integrity in many areas.

I will / I am and there will be a better woman somewhere in the future, but I shan't bother marrying.

Black Rock, Vanguard, Goldman Sachs and the other large international money players run governments and countries. They ultimately control everything, not puppets in government.

Download bank statements in pdf format from the bank's website. These will download in the 'traditional' bank statement format that you used to get in the post, complete with name, address, postcode and account number / type. Nationwide Bank, UK, don't make it easy navigating their site to get such a statement in pdf form, but the facility is there as I've done it for the visa purpose.

At last some nod to parity and 'fairness' in relation to visitor visas and duration of stay for other tourists from some of Thailand's traditional visitor / customer base, (UK, North America, Western Europe). However, while flights from Europe and the UK are still expensive to SE Asia, unless you fancy the Chinese airline routes with layovers, I see the market being limited to well off, free spirited early retirees in good health. Yes there's lots of these around, but also they do have plenty of choice in where to overwinter and cheaper flight costs for how to get there! But overwintering away from UK winters, politics and the high cost of basic living these days, somewhere sunny and cheaper than here, (ie: UK), does appeal to me. 😊

Absolutely correct. My Thai Mrs and her 11 year old daughter both explode without warning, zero build up, zero empathy or regards to safety. Never seen such a lack of personal self-control in people. I asked other farangs of their experiences with their Thais and sure enough apart from one of them, they all admitted to enduring dangerous episodes of Thai psychosis in the female form!

Porn Hub. That's deffo on it's list of 'achievements'! 🤔😂

Brilliant. Bang on the money, honey Thais are shallow and deceitful, well my ex is and her daughter's in the same mould. Wonder what the follow up single will be?? What a ****** s**fhole would be pertinent to many places !! 🤣

FFS Thailand move on. We live with it now. Still anything adverse about Thailand quells the Chinese hordes from visiting! Oops, but there's a vital revenue stream for your economy, or so it would seem. Tomorrow's headline, "TAT reviews Chinese visitor numbers in light of covid battles".

Was awful to get to get around Phuket when I visited in 2018. Even more of an incentive NOT to visit now the Soviets and their corrupt money has turned up.

Sounds a good place to own a condom kiosk, cum shop?? "Dick's Raincoats". (No pun intended in there). 🤣

You forgot to add that middle class Chinese with money are prefering to visit places where there's a 1,000 times more culture and things to see other than Thailand's basic offering of temples and girlie bars, plus some nice beaches..

Allure?? 😂 Concocted - would be about right?? Brimming?? 😂 Please enlighten us what first rate tourist attractions there are in these bland, 'same same but different' concrete post WW2 built cities devoid of architectural or artistic culture, barring a few Buddha statues and temples???

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!!

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!

Good job the ferry was not full of Chinese 'TikTok'ing tourists', or Chinese social media would have killed TAT's latest tourism projection figures stone dead.

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

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.