Adumbration

This is all just white noise. Anutin will be the next PM. I have been telling you guys that for twelve months. The outcome was already decided long ago by the person in charge.

Thonglor and close to BTS line. Lots of nice boutique hotels and restaurants in that area.

Many years ago when I lived in Phuket I had a house in a high end gated community. It was almost entirely other middle class Thai owners. Property developer, doctor, headmaster of private school and so one. There was one other farang, Greek, with a Thai wife that had bought a house but it was not visible from my house. I was dating a young Thai lawyer at the time and she was riding to my place after work to stay the night. When she arrived at my place she was visibly shaken and had two flat tyres on her motorbike. The Greeks wife had done the runner with another bloke (house in her name but paid for by the farang). He was <deleted>faced and had thrown every single item inside the house out on the the main access road running into our community. The road was littered with broken plates glass light bulbs furniture tvs, computer....everything. My GF saw how deranged this MF was and so chose to ride over the broken glass to get away from him. She told me what had happened. I grabbed one of those wooden pestles you make som tam with and slid it into the pocket of my cargo pants. I then walked to the guy's house with the frightened GF in tow. By this time the police had showed up. They were doing absolutely nothing. Not even attempting to calm the guy down or clean the road. GF (young lawyer) told police what had happened to her bike and that we wanted compensation. And here is the hilarious part the Thai cops said because I was also a farang I should go speak to the guy (he only had very broken English). I told the police to get f**ked. Then they saw the pestle in my pocket and tried to make out I was the trouble maker.....unbelievable....if the GF had not been there I am sure I would have been extorted. Anyway....cops did nothing....then left...Greek guy eventually passed out. Security guards cleaned the road. Next morning I went back to the Greek guy's house, again with GF in tow, he was out front having a coffee, sitting on a step because all of his furniture was trashed. He came to meet me at the front gate and I told him very clearly in simple English that he had to pay for two new tires and tubes for my GFs motorbike. His response was to fire back up and say: "Owww f**k you. Buy yourself. Why you not have money to buy. Why your prostitue not buy. She can sell her c**nt." I dropped him in his driveway with a very neat right cross to the jaw. Don't know what happened to him after that.... But about three weeks later his wife showed up with a new Italian guy and started refurnishing the house.

Hammock swingers often gather at the house next store to mine to talk about lottery numbers. Actually... to shout about lottery numbers. Endless hours of circular substanceless back and forth. 735..no...143... and so on. I sympathised with them at first because they all have such tiny little lives. Most of the guys live alone in shacks and do not even have TV or a smart phone. But sometimes, I just crack. I have a high end very loud aluminium blue tooth speaker. I sit it out in my front yard next to the gathering, and on top of an upturned big stainless steel dish (this maginifies the bass and resonance a good deal). Then I play this Youtube clip on loop until the group leaves: They are all quiet well trained now and leave almost immediately when i fire up the speaker. Oh. And it would be remiss of me not to mention that they all <deleted> hate me.

Good grief. The thought of giving Rolls Royce parts to a Thai panel beater sickens me. No better example of strawberries to a pig. To be repaired propery lead wiping, not 200 baht per tin TOA bog must be used. Guess which option the Thai panel beaters will use. As if the owner would not have the best first class insurance. Because, of course, Somchai driving the pick up will have none, and the truck will be on lay away. Probabaly better than 60% odd the pick up driver does not even have a licence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s7MhoCjxQc

Could be what you say, could be BS on his part and getting a deal from a friend or relative, or he could be way out east of Perth in the saltbush and mulga. Regardless, he is in a world of hurt if he loses tenure on his current abode. Hundreds of stories now in the Oz press about the huge new wave of homeless OAPs. Used to be they would just have enough money for rent if they switched off all the lights and eat no brand dog food in the dark. Fact is now there is just nothing at all in the rental range that is remotely affordable on the OAP. At least the homeless might have better food options.

This thread is very misguided and ill informed. Bargirls are, in fact, a much cheaper option than a "good" Thai girl. Here is a working example. I have a friend in Isaan. She is well educated with degree from Chula. She works in management for a big medical equipment factory in KK. She ditched the husband years ago. Worthless sitting around all day playing computer games. Lives with her mum in mum's house. She has two kids 10 and 14. She is on 45K per month and is flat broke and has 320K in credit card debt at 20%+pa interest. Unsolvable financial situation IMHO. She is very actively looking for a Farang to ride in on his white stallion. She is a stunning lady by the way if anyone is interested.

She is worth exactly the advertised price. 65thb.

Realestate.com.au is the oldest and most popular realestate website in Australia. Here is a link to a filtered search for rental accommodation in greater Perth area. Filters are for $250 per week and 2 bedrooms. Search result: zero properties found: https://www.realestate.com.au/rent/with-2-bedrooms-between-0-250-in-perth+-+cbd+and+inner+suburbs,+wa/list-1 You need to pray your landlord does not terminate your lease to get a higher paying tenant in. I hear that is all the rage nowadays back in Oz. What exactly is your plan if you get kicked out of the place you are currently renting?

You should have moved all of it into THB and USD. I should have also. No way but down for the AUD. China is doomed due to unsolvable inverted population pyramid resulting from one child policy. It is frankly terrifying to think that the AUD is now trading at a level normal reserved for huge risk off events like 9-11 or Covid. If it is trading at circa 60c and there is another black swan event it will break 50c resistance for sure. Those living on the Australian OAP here need to start working on their plan B right now. Australia lorded itself as the wealthiest country on the planet because of ponzi scheme house prices. A three bedroom fibro ex housing commission house in Mt Druitt is not worth a million dollars..not by a long shot. But now the game is up. Yes the meth lab house in Mt Druitt will still be worth one million dollars. But that will only equate to 300-400 USD. The RBA has also halted raising interest rates because the mortgage cliff has arrived. That will apply further downward pressure on the AUD.

Wow. Collapse really picking up steam now with poor economic data coming out of China. A full 1c decline overnight. AUD now trading at 64c. Next stop 60c.

Yes. 3% surcharge. You might like to claim the amount that shows up on your credit card statement as a business expense....

Worthless topic in the absence of photos of the bar girl.

AUD USD now 65c with no black swan event. Next stop 60c

This Forbes article is entirely wrong in every aspect: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/au/investing/currencies/aud-to-usd-forecast-and-trends/

Collapse back on track as predicted. Some analysts are now predicting 40c to the USD.

I had acid tipped on my head by a group of youths during Songkran. Does that count?

So the old bird has 100K in her handbag and complains when it get stolen. Go figure.

Bot. There is only a tiny handful of real members remaining on this forum.

He is a fictional poster. Most of the new topics on this forum are now created by bots. They have to do this because there is just a tiny handful of real members remaining on this forum.

And the cash registers at the ED Visa Language Schools go KA CHING!

Poorly drafted survey. It should read what percentage of foreigners are worth talking to face to face.

This is not a chinese guy. It is actually Bam Margera in a costume. It was filmed as one of the skits to be included in the next Jackass movie.

There are hundreds of them available on shopee and lazada. And they are very cheap. Just keep buying and trying to you find one that you like. That is what I did. Just have a look at the ones that are cheap but have high 5 star ratings. You can convert the Thai language feedback into English using Google translate. If you do not want much of a scent you can also buy lightly scented alcohol by the litre. There was lots of it online following covid. Super cheap if you head down that path.