BritScot

Not at all! Kow tao is spelt many different ways like many Thai words including places. Khow Taow etc. I speak very little Thai for two simple reasons: first when I was teaching I witnessed foreign teachers using their class who they were meant to be teaching English practicing their Thai which I felt was very wrong. Second my children are bilingual as I have only spoken English to them and their mother speaks Thai to them (even now living in the uk). I also found when living in Bangkok there is enough English words now in Thai vocabulary than understanding conversations is easy.

Now they are and have been for a few years. Have some advice for you which I was given as a newbie in Thailand "Never invest more in Thailand than you can comfortably just walk away from".

Think you need to check your memory. I was living and working in Thailand during Taksin and the coup. Life was great when Thaksin was the big boss then the coup!!! things changed including attitudes towards expats. English teachers were replaced with "pilipean" teachers. Visa rules changed and droves of expats left me included.

Probably because they do not qualify and if they were there when brexit happened they obviously didn't bother to do the paperwork. If you have the money/income visa's are not a problem in most countries. I have a good friend who has a great retierment in the med (yes eu).

I can't read this cult nonsense. We used to laugh at the man in the street with billboard saying "The end is near". Since the 1940's the world had been going to freeze, burn up, no ice sheet to much ice now climate change (which is and always has changed. 40 to 0. Is the definition of madness believing this time!!

One day your rose coloured glasses will clear and by then it will most likely be to late for you and like many become trapped. In your eyes I probably know nothing but with only first landing in Thailand in 2002, living island life on Kow Tow which then was a paradise (not anymore), living the Bangkok life and also rural southern Thailand and things are not rosey at all. TAT are a joke, Thailand should be a holiday wonderland and not far off perfect but greed and theft of funds it regressed instead of progressed. Roads and infrastructure are non existent (being disabled and holidaying in Thailand is a no no then there is the Mafia in the form of police, taxi military and the risk of being attacked or bitten by rabid dogs or thai men oh and the deadly roads. If I did not have family there I would never set foot in the place but hay I know nothing.

The dog should be put down and compensation paid (million plus) as those are lifetime facial scares. I hate seeing dogs not on a leash because you never know. I hate idiots who say "I have total control of my dog" No you do not as the unexpected can happen. My dogs were always lashed unless working on a shoot.

Really! Subs, aircraft and tanks they the people who were arrested for daring to protest about corruption even before they went anywhere, just sitting on a train.

I can't believe people cheer cashless society! Have they not learned anything? Canada freezing Bank accounts was bad enough just imagine governments with specific power like "you have had your 2 beers this week so no more beer or your carbon credit exceeds your allocation as a nothing person so no heating/aircon/electricity or no meat... wake up for heaven sake!!!

Crazy statement.

The quote there is high risk groups. That's where the child is already at risk of dying. REALY!!!

Try educating yourself. First go research direct to places like UK. GOV website where facts are shown and not spin from vested interest xxxxx (can't call them people). Even the UK had to stop this nonsence about children getting vax.

Thailand is a third world country, why baulk at that? It is part of it's charm sometimes.

Gangsters not soldiers.

Bats as well? Even GB with it's very strict checks and animal movement regulations and is classed as Rabies free has had deaths from Rabies from Bat bites etc....

Yes. Try watching a senior member being interviewed and admitting the vax had not been tested for transferability. Plus if you think 12 white mice is good enough for you then crack on have you seen the report? Well its just blacked out pages. I got 2 vax and regret it so much. My wife got every one and became iller and iller till she had to stop work oh and about a month after her last shot she got covid. Note I got it as well (last vax was over a year) Mt symptoms lasted a few minutes then was gone. There are so many damaged now and I have several family members injured (try looking at the official uk government figures 1 in 800). The truth will always come out good or bad.

It must be joyous being so squeaky clean. Never cutting your own grass, washing or driving your own car/motor vehicle and many, many more jobs reserved only for Thai's. Sorry but no foreigner in Thailand can survive in Thailand if a vip takes a dislike to them or is jealous (ask the Duch guy and his wife)....?....

It cost me more to get 11 packing boxes out of Bangkok Dock then 30km to the sister in laws than picked up fromour home in scotland via Singapore to Bangkok. Held everything hostage and was not allowed even to pick it up from the Dock.

Being only a master scuba diving instructor with about 400 dives in the gulf of Thailand (2002 - 2005) I have seen vis of 30~40 meters at Sail Rock looking down to the sand bottom from a couple of meters off the surface. Watching people do their skills. Great dives there and yes I dove in very bad vis where seeing more than a couple of meters was challenging also encountered inversion of bad vis to clear vis plus had several great dives with whale sharks. But yes the photo as I said looks photo shopped.

How many dives have you done and where? I will admit it wasn't common, however in the early 2000's I often dived in perfect vis especially around Sail Rock in the Gulf of Thailand. But, the photo does look photo shopped. Both Kow Tow and the diving were perfect back then with very few dive experience world wide coming close.

Please explain this bizzare statement? I served in a western military where commissions were not purchased and officers were educated and well trained . I never saw officers drunk infact the few I served with hardly drank. I did only serve 10 and a half years, 3 of which were active service.

Having 12 teeth taking out in one go seems excessive. Then there is the approximate 1/2 a gallon of blood pouring into his mouth without drowning and then no transfusion given (mentioned). The whole family have a right to be angry and asking questions.

What a shame, the poor bird doesn't look in very good condition. I hope it finds a good falconer to take care of it for the next 30 years or so, (Raptors live nearly twice as long with a good falconer taking care of them). The eagle will not last long in the wild and probably never will if its been owned from a chick (nest robbed) If it is rope around its leg then this poor bird has had an idiot owning it. Hope it doesn't end up in a Thai zoo.

Just RACIST. Why is Thailand getting away with this? If this happened in the uk OMG the uproar, the protest and riots.

I already did. Best move I ever did for my family.