Hokeus

Without meaning to sound cynical, many Thai girls come with a set of obstacles. Following are a dozen of the common ones. Most of them have some and hard to find one without any of them. It’s a matter of figuring out which ones they have (hopefully they don’t have too many) and then deciding if you can live with the issues they have or not. Nobody is perfect or expected to be, and we certainly aren’t either, but some come with too many issues for things to work out well. 1 - Financial problems 2 - Emotional immaturity 3 - Inability to be honest 4 - Family pressures 5 - Don’t like western food/culture 6 - Unintellectual 7 - Superficial 8 - Act on superstitions 9 - Lazy 10 - Unfaithful/Unreliable 11 - Don’t like to communicate openly 12 - Drug/Alcohol problems

The freezer M.O. is becoming a repeating theme. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/24/man-with-uk-passport-charged-in-thailand-after-body-found-in-freezer https://news.sky.com/story/dismembered-body-hidden-in-bangkok-freezer-for-three-years-10595100

“After questioning people living in the area, officers discovered that three people were living on the premises including the dead German” A murdered dead body hidden in a freezer at a crime scene is counted as a resident and considered to be living on the premises? ????????????‍????

Presumably as a means of storage until investigations and searches have subsided and then to quietly dispose of it later. Seems like the only logical reason, but I could be wrong.

So to summarize, your suggesting not to have contact (more or less) with anyone other than maybe some necessary food vendors, otherwise just keep yourself to yourself for general safety reasons, and then you should be happy, thus leading to lots of enjoyment in LOS?

Chances are the drugs they are offering are fake and just another West African scam. Another reason it makes it harder for law enforcement to catch them breaking the law.

When a bank starts pulling out ATMs in high traffic areas it’s definitely an inconvenience. Yes, so many transactions are now done via digital payment platforms and via online banking apps, but there are times we still need some cash and SCB has definitely made it more difficult if you bank with them. Luckily you can still use other bank ATMs so that fills in the gaps. I’ve noticed in one major area though that SCB used to have an ATM at the 7-11 next to the BTS station, then another one up on the BTS platform itself, a third one on the other side of the road in the shopping center next to the BTS station, and a fourth one inside the super market within the shopping center. Now 3 out of the 4 SCB ATMs are gone in this location and only the one at the 7-11 remains. Perhaps that one will eventually go too. And this is a highly foot trafficked area. I guess the real message is that many people don’t really need access to physical cash anymore. I don’t use much cash anyway, I’m practically all digital since 2020, so not really an issue for me, but I’ve started withdrawing larger cash sums now from the ATM and keeping a bit of cash on hand. Then the cash usually lasts me quite a while and I rarely ever need an ATM anymore. Adaptation.

This is probably more of an issue of SCB in cost cutting mode than a trend across the Thai banking industry. For example, SCB is the only major Thai bank to have closed their branch in the large government building where the CW immigration office is. Meanwhile, there are close to 10 bank branches on that floor, including many banks smaller than SCB. And I think SCB closed that branch 3-4 years ago. So this cost cutting policy has been going on for a while.

The fake passports are likely real and government issued, only the alias is fake. Also, presumably the system doesn’t do an automatic search to match every newly entered face or set of fingerprints against an entire existing database to look for duplicates. That would require too much processing power and put a constant heavy load on the system when there are up to 50,000 new entries per day and an existing database in the millions. So duplicates might only be discovered (if at all) under a manual search when someone is arrested.

Some may be protected in some way. But the reality is that most or all come in on fake passports showing they are from South Africa or an East African country, thus the government doesn’t know they are West African. So when they eventually do get deported and black listed for overstay, they just come right back in under a new fake alias. That’s why they never seem to make much progress in getting rid of them. What’s worse about them though is that their scam offers to sell illicit drugs are often used as a means of starting a conversation with an unsuspecting tourist which then might lead to a larger scam involving black money, Bitcoin investment, or one of their other common street scams.

If they want to clean up the illegal foreigners, they can start with the dozens of jobless West Africans sitting around on Sukhumvit Road at night aggressively offering illegal drugs for sale to people as they walk by. They are certainly doing more harm and contributing nothing to the country than the undocumented food sellers who are providing a low-cost service to the locals.

My Gay Date? My Taint Nape? Why Tempt Fate? WHO?

Unless it’s Chuwit Kamolvisit approved.

Seems like the number of places where you can pay to touch a vagina in the “land of vertical smiles” is always increasing.

The majority of people already get a bottle of their favorite slip and slide and worship their own genitalia at home daily. Now that’s no longer good enough?

Indeed. And not only that, high school students don’t have a lot of money. So they aren’t going to buy from a high-end weed shop that has high retail overheads and charges tourist prices. They will buy online and in bulk to get it a lot cheaper. So it’s all a red herring.

The guy became a billionaire owning and operating prostitution businesses. Now he appears to have too much free time and has become the beacon of morality. You can’t make this stuff up.