Marco51

Start looking out for curtain hotels and the number in any town or city is staggering and they don't really ALL function as tax write-offs, do they? In my direct residential middle class area I know of , say, 6-8, and when driving past cars actually do enter and exit, probably just to make a U-turn. Taking the secretary along for the ride. Hey, guys, nothing wrong with these figures , as far as any statistics that I did not fake myself may be believed, good on them. Think of the smut places you need to go to (after convincing your "partner" of fresh bed sheets) for example in Hamburg or London or A'dam.......in the US in some places you'd likely get arrested for sex per se not used to multiply under the gods' eyes. And here you always have an additional service bloke filming or fotographing you in the act, even with a zoom or night goggles......where else do you get this?! And the author is wrong : since Modi sex in India has quadrupled, just not voluntarily, at least for the women being participated.

....oh, they were chinese ?.......and here I am thinking the eejit tried to film to see if someone else's dick is large than his teeny one, can be no other reason to film something that one despises.............or he is Christian? Or Taliban? They have that habit too, the devil lurks in any type of fun....that others have. The land of the curtain hotels strikes again!

There are "stupid" farang who have lived and worked there for decades and have no choice unless they give up all they have invested here and go back to the street in Europe.....all for the greed and incompetence of an unelected government and a handful of unusually rich .....

right, and apart from CCTV following you around, face recognition, fingerprinting at immigration, reporting when you go play golf in another province, it is now that the banks and the government knows every chewing gum you buy and how many bottles of wine , etc etc etc. Next they will "ask" you to wear4 the bracelet "for your health of course and personal safety" that reports where you have been and to your insurance wether you exercise or need a higher premium. Aaaah yes, cars also have a reporting system already and newer ones even record if you are tired by checking your eye movements. Who needs an evil emperor when we are already doiung this ourselves..............ooops, and I was not only talking about China's latest satelite Thailand but most of Europe.

Sell Phuket to China, they can then let the triads and the russian mafia fight it out, the evil emperor can take over from the winner and send in some gunships with water cannon to swart renitent tourists. After all, China is always in need of islands that belong to other people thousands of miles from China(incl. occupied lands) and Russia loves to go to war about the same thing......... and maybe Thailand will get some 2nd hand unmotorised submarines for it from China or oil from russia....ooops, already. Israel comes to mind, they also love other peoples' country, but they leave so few buildings standing, although the people problem is definately gone afterwards...... OK, not an option. That's what can happen when your major part of income is focusing on mass tourism , come what (pollution, garbage, corruption, greed, violence....) may, figures and statistics are all that counts. Oh, nostalgia, I spent a honeymoon on Phuket almost 40 years ago and shared Patong beach with 4 or 5 normal people .............enough said.

The problem for many expat apartment owners or interested parties who actually intend to live in one will be that most of at least the chinese owners buy these as investment using them as Air BnB apartments with constant in and out and party and noise and and and. This in Thailand completely unregulated market is already fact in almost all apartment buildings in the low and medium priced section in Chiang Mai and even Thai owners being not so touchy about their peace and quiet are completely unnerved meanwhile. And the question is here : making money in this way in Thailand, then Air BnB transfering it out to a Bank, probably in Hongkong or Cyprus or Malta: no tax, ey? Not like the petty pensions of the unshowered farang, right ? Those Must be taxed 1 way or another.

You apply for your yearly Non-B ? Then just wait. It will be additional documents s.a. tax declaration, declarations from your bank here and (as the international ones eventually get reported ) the one abroad, then the ID has a list of (crooked, almost impossible to understand ) boxes to tick off. Ticked: fine, 1 left out: bring more documents. I predict the expat community and the amount of pensioners will slowly disappear to Vietnam, the Phillip Peenes and be replaced by Chinese and Privilege Card holders. Hey guys, maybe Europe is more expensive but fair and the pollution....... Wasn't it Thaksin 20 years ago who came up with this Privileged card in the 1st place? Hmmmmm............

....and every ATM withdrawal gets reported?...................

what do you dream at night after the 11th beer chang? The Chinese are pressing the point and our dear self-elected leader will stand to attention, apart from .......berttter cancel that. Have you not heard that at times returnees to china get tested wether they have consumed? Probably running out of space at the "reeducation camps"................the only religion is the stalinist party, the only drug is the e vil emperor. By the way, do more tourists come to parts of the US of A , Canada or soon Germany because they don't have to queue up at the corner for a hit? Legalise all drugs , public health education and let everyone be responsible for him/herself. Down with nanny states.

...........yes, german style : exact regulations meaning everything is sooo bureaucratic that it makes more sense to get pissed or keep buying the dope in the dark corners................

Chinese as the observers mentioned. Can we please differentiate between farangs and maoists/ putinistas ..................

He isn't in charge, his puppet master and the chinese ambassador tell him what to think. He is there to grin and wave.

As "farang" are the ones who are immediately visible as foreigners, my guess would be this is another great idea the chinese ambassador came up with to facilitate the sinoisation of Laos, sorry, already done, Cambodia...ooops, also done....Thailand. Dirty, criminal tourists and worse : expats? Farang expats! Just leave your money, don't forget, and piss off. Let us run every 90 days on the "inmate presence" report, within 24 hours on the "return to the paid home from wherever report", file for ever more complicated stay permits after decades, push the boulevard media and social smutworks to show en detail every "misdeed " of a (yuk!) whitebread, if they insist on staying, tax their already taxed pensions and life savings, check very very closely if anyone who does not look SEA or Han has possibly bent the medieval property laws a little (with the most competent "help" of a local lawyer or something in kind) to be able to keep control of the little company (that does employ and pay taxes) or his/her living quaters, etc etc etc......what? Still want to be here? OK, now put on masks as a public nuisance, sorry, health risk because everybody knows the dirty West is responsible for the Wuhan Virus, the put it in the lab to smeer the brothers and sisters of the ....whatever.... and now same same but different in supermarkets or airports or otther public places the constant squeek " doo see, farang not put mass, to pai tamruat reo reo.... bad man" Then public shaming ? Way-ing to man in way too tight brown uniform? To boulevard press, then pay huge fine and agree deportation. Health minister is invited to a personal handshake with the evil emperor. Tourists will leave $ and Euros in Europe and Philipines and Vietnam. Mission accomplished. This story and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or preferably dead is coincidal and intended by the author.

it does keep Netanyoohoo out of jail though. Afterwards he will join Kissinger on the right side of satan at the table. Serving gonads I'd guess.

That is a chinese habit everywhere. Europeans do this only in car at red traffic lights...........

Ever heard of statistics? When "ordering" more and more tourists to come and spend forex in the country, give certain nationals 90 days on arrival (some of which should actually follow their big mouth and join the invading forces of their country or others that found a much more convenient way to triad around than at home under constant camera survellance) the chances are that the amount of weird and/or criminally inclined rises to the same proportion. By the way, the call for more quality tourists who stay in 7star places and spend millions and hold a Privileged spender card only means the percentage of high profile gangsters is also rising..................but with those we are all acquainted from the news daily. You cannot have both: tourist $s and Xenophobia, at least not for long, But no worries, the hordes will eventually move on after having ruined the Costa Brava, costa blanca, riviera, adria, santorini, Goa, Bali, Lombok, Cebu, Phuket, Samui, Pattaya, Chiang Mai they'll find a new victim that will believe to be doing everything completely different and muuuuuch better. And looking at who ruled or rules all those places , big policing is always the easy answer. The paradox is the international notion that in this context borders mean anything, the same borders that were somewhere else some years ago (don't exclude yourself, mates, also and especially in Europe) and people that are now foreigners, bad per definitionem, used to be compatriotes and neighbours and who knows in some years to come........they might all be chinese and have a government chip implanted, after all the whole of Eurasia has ALWAYS been chinese for thousands of years including all the oceans and islands and resources and the will of the people has always been overrated. Note for the less humour equipped : this is a satire.

Right! Any local inhabitant I know goes to the supermarket at the beginning, well before 11 AM when the hillbillie pickups with water barrels and drums start rolling in, stocks up for 2 weeks and locks himself in. Hoping of course not to have another open air karaoke , live "music" beer sales, band stand to promote the surrounding shops and malls and other "happy partying tourists" anywhere near their nightly accoustic circus they already have from racing motorbikes and screwed up, sorry, tuned up cars. And surely the opening hour zones are just a slight idea , nothing serious, after all who needs to sleep or watch TV or even, the gods beware, read a book. Cheers and down the hatch. May the boozers run each other over and leave the grown up people alive. Chaio!

.............what does the bank account say? First these 36 million tourists (quote TAT), they will take most of the pm2.5 with them in their lungs, just don't tell them...............average cough sputter spending per capita wheeze, spew is THB cough cough aaargh !!! ...it got me....wheeee......zzzzz..........oh god, look at .......the piles .....of ..................baaaahhhh...t.......

Here's Luigi's story who shared you attitude towards women and ended up like this : Luigi is sad, his friend Giorgio talks to him . "Luigi, you are so successful in all you do, why are you not happy? " "Listen Giorgio, I have built most roads in this town, everybody knows , they are good and do people now call me Luigi the road builder? No! Now look at all the houses around you. Remember what it looked like 10 years ago? I renovated and built almost all the houses in the center. Do people call me Luigi the house builder? Of course not. But when Luigi once in his life <deleted> a goat......."

....well, of course not, they consider the costs , the beauty of the buildings, the managed unchallenged kickbacks, the opinions of politicians and other dinosaurs , the revenue by Kingpower, the amount of people forced through the funnel and the quality of the Kuai Thiao in the cantene............all reasonable criteria stupid eejits in , say, Singapore , would not consider. Hah! Uncorruptable, polite Taxi drivers ? Anyone can do that but adventurous, sticky ones ....? Who has that? Oh yeah, Chiang Mai airport. Rather they go for obsolete ideas such as customers' satisfaction, processing time, modern and functioning equipment, baggage handling and equally silly things. Then there is Schroedinger's cat: when one talks about it (negatively) the condition changes automatically and the report becomes inaccurate. I haven't flown anywhere for several years if I had tp pass through Suvarnabummi and my wife is petrified every time she has to go home to Isaan via "that one" despite so far no one asking her for fingerprints and face scan or immigration hours. And in anticipation of the generally accepted level of humour : this is a parody of course and in no means mirror the Thai reality.

nope, mistake, hard power first, soft power later. Heard there were 69 opponents on each side?

use pegasus from Israel, you have it . just no idea what to do with it except follow Move Forward members around so far, so you know where these damned tourists are that complain......then allow the evil empire to assist in the QRC scanning of every passenger that boards a taxi and install cameras with AI face recognition ind mikes in all taxis , one with noise filters in TukTuks (after all Pi must also know what they are talking about, <deleted>, English, damn................).........................oh, I misunderstood, sorry. Maybe some specialist could hop over to Singapore and see how it's done? (people actually queue up for a taxi patiently and a sign says NO TIPPING and please report any discrepancies) ? And when Indonesia doesn't accidently burn, the pollution is very limited despite being an industrialised nation. Seriously ??? The dickering, the clogged sidewalks, the potholes, the nana plazas, the free round trips to "my cousin's very cheap gemstone gallery" while one wanted to go eat...................why was it again you guys came to Asia on holiday? To see a hotter version of your own country and more shopping malls ?

Living in a residential , upper middle class area, I cannot stop noticing that within a diameter of maybe 2 km there are no less than 1 dozen curtain hotels that do thriving business daily, these hotels that foreigners rarely know about and where one can drive his or her car into a port, the employee pulls a curtain in front of it, hands out condoms und unlocks the door to the dimly lit room , often a jacuzzi and the TV with porn movies .....well, the quality is rather rabbit style, Pornhub is better, but then again the attention is more on the......jacuzzi of course. Years ago I remember, there were even motif hotels with rooms like Snowwhite , Star Wars, Dungeons and Dragons, Little Red Riding Hood (hope there are no Texas Chain Saw Massacre rooms) and the like.............of course all this was not for Thais, they would not know what to do in all these places 😜 and would shudder at the TV program😃 and call for a monk to let the bad spirits out. It is time for an asteroid to eliminate the dinosaurs , the pope and the talibum would be proud of you guys (yes, almost always guys with almost always mia nois from some school or uni).

public disorder ?????????????hmmmm..............next is a green/yellow/red signal system as in China which will bar publicly disorderly from certain areas

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