NanLaew

Thai was worse than Aeroflot via Delhi and Moscow? Pull the other one.

I left the UK in 1977 and between 1980 and 1990, Thailand was home; Pattaya specifically, then it was about 12 years in the USA and Brazil. I returned to Thailand around 2007, settling down again, briefly in Pattaya before moving to Isaan. I visited the UK at least three times a year during those periods, more often when I was US based and apart from the Covid hiatus, still spent around 2 months per year in the UK. I only have a nice and nephew surviving there, and I see them every second visit. They are in their late twenties now and never bring up or talk about Britain being "lost" when we meet. The UK has changed, some good and some bad, but I don't see it as dire and hopless as some here. Chances are that I will go back there for my final years.

Oooh...nice. Let me me guess here. Burnley? Yes! A dingle!! Result!!!

And me. Neither a student nor unemployed. Amazing, eh?

Great place in the 80's but Oswaldtwistle is more fun these days. No need for speed.

Preston at the moment. Where are you?

I agree and it's good that common sense appears to have prevailed here. But there's nothing I thought and even less that I said or did, that helped this come about. So back to the topic at hand, there's nothing, absolutely nothing I can do to "save" the UK that in my opinion, doesn't need saving, except maybe from those living in absentia that think it's "lost" already? Maybe they should embark on some sort of reverse crusade to spread whiteness and Christianity again?

Totally. "lowest class of islam"...LOL

Your quoted cancer survival rates are based on what?

Do you feel safer, less persecuted, now that you're here in Thailand among all these non-whites?

Dictionary Time for @Nick Carter icp

If things "usually" change for the better, why are their increased global conflicts. Why is there more flooding, more wildfires, more weather extremes. Why is there more political extremism? Back on topic, unless you blindly believe everything you read and see in the mainstream and social media, I don't see how 25 years of self-imposed 'exile' on Samui allows you to comment on the "here and now" in your homeland. I agree while there are towns and regions in the UK where there are chronic issues, for the greater part of the UK, it is the opposite. Like the stories of drunk British people in Pattaya are grabbing the headlines here and, for some here, paints an inaccurate picture of both the Brits and Pattaya, the truth, the good news, is that most British visitors aren't drunken hooligans.

I don't see how a personal sickness or disease and a country's socio-political change can in any way be considered analogous. I can seek treatment or a cure for my cancer or sickness, or not. I have that choice. I can do absolutely nothing to effect change in a) my birth country where I no longer live and can no longer vote, or b) my present country of domicile where I don't have a vote. I have no choice.

We also had the best of Thailand when we came here in the 70's and 80's. Things change and so do people. Deal with it.

Whatever.

'bout right. And some here reckon a vote for Reform UK will fix things.

Were the kings of England back then more English than the current one? You know, the chap with a Greek dad?

Yes! Now we can force ourselves on brown women. Proper winning.

Well, @CharlieH started it.

Condescending conjecture aside, perhaps you have no real clue about the people you are speaking about? No offense.

Of course your better educated Thai friends may just be being polite and don't want to cause offense and are just parroting your thoughts and opinions? Maybe they don't like the idea of a non-Thai banging on about the need to change but prefer to be non-confrontational as that in itself is quintessentially Thai behaviour. As for suggesting that the ones you don't know are ignorant, that's not very nice.

Of course they'd like it, but probably not as much as farangs think they should.

Or cocaine?

Good points, well made. Some of my long non-stops have been better of late. On my way to get one now. Managed to find some money down the back of the sofa for window seat Eco+ upgrade, so with two large glasses of house red before i left the hotel, I'll enjoy the legroom and the snooze. Safe flying out there.

And once upon a time, I was FL-class diamond-encrusted Rhodium with KLM before they climbed into bed with Air France. Now I've got a two-dozen points on ThaiVietjet that their website doesn't recognise, but good to know my Priority Pass allows me to rub shoulders with the more entitled at the satellite Miracle Lounge at BKK.