Baron Samedi

You gotta give credit to Thai people for their resilience.

They seem to be back in business as Europe gets ready for a nice testicles freeze for the winter...

1 hour ago, phantom51red said:

No one is forcing you to enter gogo bars ????.

Never said someone did.

6 hours ago, Lemsta69 said:

You can keep your social standing, I'll talk to whomsoever I please. My Dad was a taxi driver, it's an honest profession, so why should I be ashamed to talk to a Thai cabbie?

 

ps. A Thai business man is the last person in the world I aspire to be like.

Yes, yes and yes !

2 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

He probably didnt understand you.

He did. I gave him the name of the different cities, he asked me why Isaan, then he suggested Chiang Mai as he went there and liked it. Honestly, I think a lot of Thais might think Isaan is a shxthole and don't understand why anyone would want to spend time there. I might be wrong be each time that happened to me I had the feeling the message was "what the fxxx, man... lol"

39 minutes ago, Maha Sarakham said:

A lot of people you meet in your journeys may originally be from Isaan.  The laugh is usually their way of being pleased you are visiting.

The taxi driver was from Phuket. Born in the cape Panwa area.

39 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

It would be better to ask the person as to why they giggled , how would you expect other people to know why a certain person giggled about something ?

Fair point.

19 hours ago, Sparktrader said:

Cut and paste into a translator ap.

Doesn't work unfortunately.

Is there a way to translate GrabFood offers from Thai to English ?

12 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

There are just so many new adjustments that we must make if we wish to return to our former world, pre-pandemic.

There will be no return to the pre-pandemic world.

That's something that most people don't understand yet.

There is another recession coming as well as a real-estate crisis.

We are experiencing a dead-cat bounce right now.

Winter is coming...

where do they come from?

Other Asian countries or the West?

Plenty of Russians in Phuket btw.

Microsoft Translator.

Great app ! And free...

I have it on my phone.

Never lets me down.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/translator//

Taking about gastro tourism...

2 hours ago, tandor said:

If you opened it and took steps to locate the owner (which is entirely up to you) you run the great risk of being accused with tampering or stealing contents.

Yeah sure. Find me an article that states that a farang was arrested without proof for bringing back a wallet to its Thai owner.

Thx

3 hours ago, tandor said:

I would strongly advise you didn't intefere with the item, but leave it as is and hand it in. Human curiosity is a strong temptation. I don't care whom you trust, nor your derogatory remarks. The Law in Thailand states you must hand in found property to your local police station within 3 days, over and out.

I care roughly as much about you strongly advising no interference as you care about me not trusting the police. My first move would be to try and contact the owner directly. Police would be the very last option I consider. Period.

People losing stuff and getting called by those finding that stuff is something that happens everyday in every civilized country in the world including Thailand.

Happened to me 6 months ago in Europe. Received an Amazon order that wasn't mine, looked up the person on the internet, couldn't find her but succeeded in finding a relative. Got in touch. Eventually gave the parcel back to its owner (it was a neighbor).

Happy ending ! *

As for me being derogatory...
It probably as true as you being patronizing.

*No, not that happy ending...

No.

Got my order.

Everything went smoothly.

Delivery guy arrived around 3PM.

Nice guy.

XL clothes are about the right size for me (1.90m/slim).

Thanks to all of you guys who participated in that thread ????

1 hour ago, tandor said:

You said it was 'good thinking' to look inside someone else's property, when it is none of your business but to hand it in. or just leave it where you found it if that is too confronting....as suggested, take a photo of it as is, where is; then hand it in...the RTP will trace the owner as that is their job...that's why!

@Sparktrader wrote that the hypothetical wallet contains 50000THB. His thought experiment implies that you opened the wallet at some point. So you might as well try and find information about the owner and contact that person if possible. Plus I don't trust the RTP, never have, never will. Too many thugs in their ranks.

The way you're doing it won't work.

It has been studied many times over.

You shouldn't torture yourself psychologically to lose weight.

Reduce the amount of stuff you eat/drink but allow yourself some pleasure.

Drink half a beer instead of one.

Keep the other half for later instead of having another beer.

Reduce the size of your meals a bit.

AND !!!

Move your body.

Go for a walk every day.

Get sweaty and tired ????

Give it a month or two and you will see the results.

No need to inflict high levels of frustration on yourself.

Counterproductive in the long run.

I wouldn't stop and pick it up. Who knows what could be inside ?

Drugs, dirty money, human remains, snakes, dead puppies, weapons, explosives...

????????????

1 hour ago, Sparktrader said:

You copied my question.

So weird ????

Same moral dilemma kinda thing...

2 hours ago, tomyami said:

Left my wallet down at a fruit market went back not see

I always use a wallet chain.

A must-have imo.

8 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

There is a price to pay by not treading the well worn path though, and it's not an easy life.

True. But it's a life worth living.

I couldn't be a married wagecuck with an obsession for consumption.

I'd rather kill myself ????