JamesPhuket10

The justification is what Iran have already stated, they have been attacked by the USA and clearly stated a while ago they would attack as many ships as possible which passes nearby, how much clearer could it have been? What we should be asking is why the ship was there in the first place. It is a bit like people wandering about in a city where the air raid sirens are ringing out stating a bombing raid is taking place eg London WW2. Sounds harsh but it is true!

Why get married and complicate things at our age when we are retired ? My long term partner has her own income from a number of properties she rents out in Thailand. My income is from England from rental property, a pension and I still write iPhone apps from the house office in Phuket which generates a good income, I 'work' when I fee like it and it keeps my brain in gear. I get a year by year visa extension with just 800k baht in the bank. It takes 30 minutes a year to process in Phuket. Keep it simple, stress free is my motto.

Thanks for the info, I have been flying with Eva for many years now but if the business class return trip form Bangkok to London for only 119k baht with Qatar then I will look at them when I go back to the UK next ( a couple of years from now), that is very cheap, is it the same as Eva Air with a two metre long bed and great food, champagne etc in business class?

I know it is terrible, I was stuck in Phuket in 2020 during the covid period, I arrived in January, should have left in May but I was stuck here until the end of August, how terrible it was for me 😂

Sorry boss I can't come back to work yet as there are no flights, good one.😃 I know some people who bought a one way ticket on other airlines which have direct flights around the war zone, they are for this week. They did have to pay 60k baht though but it is just a one off cost so should not be any bother as our lives are worth a lot more than that.

I see so you showed them flights which go through or near the war zone, I think those flights will also be cancelled. I wonder whey they are so cheap, erm cos no one wants to fly to that area.

I could write one for you if you pay me enough, it would have to be on an iPhone though. 😃

No he will not I bet, but it will still not stop people like him moaning at what goes on in Thailand every chance they get, they do not understand how any market/commodity is driven by simple supply and demand. 😃

But the passengers in question are not flying the route you quoted, they are starting their return journey in Bangkok to Europe, I know of someone struggling to buy a ticket from Bangkok to Frankfurt, their return ticket should have been on the 10th March via the middle east. Even if they stay one month extra in their house in Thailand they will still have to pay 55k baht for a single flight in tourist class. But there are lots of tickets selling for 19k baht, but that is via the middle east 😀

86,000 baht for business class return that was a cheap deal compared to Eva Air, I think I paid 76k for premium economy class and upgraded to business with airmails. That was March 2025 until 8 September 2025. I will have a look at that airline in 1.5 years time if the war in the middle east has been solved by then. Have you flown with them before? Good luck with finding the replacement flight at a good price.

You said, "And yet, there are LIARS among us who claim they pay nothing for their women, because they are so likeable. This is the people who I called out for fabricating a story." We are the people who are in mutual relationships where money does not come into it as we both have it, I have, she has, it is probably hard for you to understand as all of your relationships seem to be based on money otherwise the woman would not be with you. Give it a try, take up my challenge and prove the woman is still with you when the money is taken out of the equations as I described in an earlier message. What about when you were young and went to parties, dance clubs, pubs and met young good looking women, did you have to pay for them as I certainly didn't. You have a very strange attitude to relationships, eg if we men do not pay for a woman to be with us we are automatically liars, such a weird view of the real world, you probably just have a view of your world. Or as I keep on saying you could just be taking the pisssssss out of us and we are falling for it, if so, then well done as you have won if that is the truth. 😀

Also Cannelloni made up the concept of 'upper-tier' women and introduced that concept, you or I have never mention the word or anything about class, we have just been talking about women who got off their backsides, pursued a business or a career and the effort it takes to succeed and then marry, be with whoever they wished to be with without needing financial support becoming part of that relations ship which was the aim of their success in the first place. But that would not suit Cannelloni as such women would not want to be controlled, have their messages checked, asked about where they have been and with whom all day long, they worked for their financial independence to avoid such mad men. Of course he will claim well off women are boring and he does not want to be with them, I bet the truth is it is the other way around, they do not want to be with such a person. And being a good looking woman and being financially independent are not mutually exclusive. I should send Cams an invoice, the hours I have wasted on this chat when those hours could have been spent on finishing my current iPhone app earlier and putting on the App Store for sale. 😃 But it is a laugh in-between taking 'work' breaks, notice the word 'work' is in inverted commas.

So funny, "boring long term relationship loveless relations ship", you do know how to invent things, you should write children's books as a career. 😃 In my case I am fully financially independent as is my long term partner, she or I could leave at any time we wish, we are just having such a good time being together it is great fun even after all of this time. The qualities of loyalty, friendship, honesty and the rest never fade, relationships like yours based on money, control, mistrust and the rest do not last long, that type of life is not for me and most other people, people do not stay together because they are forced to, they do it as they love that life, it is something you will never comprehend in a lifetime. You said, "First of all, I'm not old, I'm in my early fifties. And unlike Richard, I'm genetically blessed and still get plenty of looks, also from younger Thai girls, just saw it today again." (and later directed such comment to me). There is one simple test to prove that, let us see if one of these lovely young women want to stay with you if you tell them you will not pay for their travel expenses, their day to day living costs, their 'pocket money', mobile phones, clothes and the rest, that is the only real test, any one of us can buy a 24 year old woman at any time if we wished, if we were desperate enough. And what's with the show off of how your met government employees etc, I met loads of them when voting at Oxford University over the decades where in those days we would have to go in person to vote for a new chancellor etc. I could also meet up with ex-prime ministers of Thailand, top business and other officials if I took up the offer of the invites I get each year to the Oxford_Cambridge group in Bangkok for their annual Christmas dinner, I have yet to accept. I bet many of us could band about such claims, but that does not make you or I important. Now let us see your next funny reply which will make us all laugh where you ignore the points I made and go into a mad tirade of attempted insults and make up claims about us which do not exist, they will make us fall off our chairs even faster than we normally do. 👍

I had a so called medical check with a local doctor working in his own practice in Phuket in order to get my first 2 year car licence. I was at the counter and received the bill from the receptionist, I gasped out loud and I said, "100 baht", she asked me if it was too much, I said it is so cheap, she said I can pay more if I like, what a bargain, it was funny.

I didn't bother replying directly to Cameronis rant, when someone mentions Nazis completely out of the blue, or goes on about Russians and accuses of us of saying things about Russians which we have not said, then goes on about menopausal women we know he is completely nuts. I have mentioned Russians in other discussions but in order to defend them as the Russians I see in Phuket mostly consist decent looking Russian man, wife and kids, they all seem to be nice people as far as I can see, in fact I was talking and dancing with a Russian woman at a party probably a month ago, very educated, pleasant and friendly, after all they did put the first man into space, who is calling them dumb and stupid, certainly not us? I have no experience with women from Isaan apart from the, "Hello where do you come from" in bars in the past, what I am told about them is via Thai people who do not see them in a very good light, so that must mean it is the non-Isaan-Thais who are the Nazis as it is they who look down on them. But we know there are no Nazis anymore, this is all part of Cameroni's mind. As I have said before, if Cameroni was to act as my defence lawyer in a court and the charge was speeding down the M1, the judge would be so frustrated with the illogical, confused, self contradictions coming out of Cameroni and so would sentence me to prison for a long time as Cameroni would have convinced the judge I committed armed robbery. 😃 Oh and I just glanced at my bank account as I paid for something online, yes, I could get a 25 year old in a shot, but if I was to buy one I would not go for a Mick Jagger style face with feet that require no skis on a down hill Swiss mountain race. Also, I would know she is not with me for the good looks and charm which I had in my younger days but realise those days are well past and know the deal is purely based on money. Maybe the whole thing is, he is afraid to realise he is old and is trying to hide this by pretending the 25 year old wants him for who he is. Maybe he is in a post-midlife-crisis. Life can still be good at this age, we can go out and enjoy ourselves, walk, ride bikes, have real friends, parties etc but lets not kid ourselves we have the pulling power over women as we had in our youth, that is just plain silly.

Yes you covered the essence of what I wanted to say very nicely. The thing is I spend a lot of the day writing my iPhone apps as it is really interesting, keeps my brain in gear as I learn something new every day plus the extra pocket money it brings, it also beats roaming on the beach every day, suppin' beer at bars as that lost my interest a long long time ago as a way to fill the day. But I do walk around the reservoir each day in Phuket with my partner she likes a good walk too and I have a bicycle ride every day, go out with friends now and then, visits from family from the UK and NZ. And so I visit this site when I take breaks and so do not have that much time to go into detailed replies as the day goes by in a flash. But you seem to be doing a good job of that and we all find your comments hilarious, very logical, you are a master pisssss taker. Well not everyone feels that way about your comments as we can see now and then.😃 I find it funny when I write something which is based on my opinion and is not nasty but does not fit in with other peoples view of how life in Thailand is and they try and drown me with the negative down thumb icons, that is even funnier as they would in no way annoy me.

Cheers @richard_smith237 , that was a very good reply, much more detailed than my reply to Cannelloni, very in depth, I have run out of patience with longer replies to him comment as they are ignore and some nasty comment is posted instead, but he does make me laugh. I don't mean to say all Isaan women are like that but it has been my experience that in 99% of cases in the past 30 years while in a bar and we got the usual "hello, where you from", question and then we asked the same question back it would be "Udon Thani, or Isaan". The majority of the stories told to me first hand of guys being ripped off involve Isaan women, I am just stating what I have come across. I also know lots of farangs married to successful Thai women as those are the circles I move in due to the fact like attracts like like anywhere else in the world. Also many men know when they they are with a 'brass' as you sometimes call them and know the game and do not try and pretend they are special and when told the truth of the situation lash out at others and use terms like 'Pig Man' etc. But Thailand is great fun and a good place to live as long as we stay on the right side of reality, one of the plain truths is no girl of 24 anywhere in the world would fancy a guy old enough to be her father, they are there for the money, simple as that. In Phuket there is such a shortage of restaurant and other workers they now employ whole teams of people from Burma who speak English only as a second language, when I hear of many Isaan women saying they have to work in bars as there are no jobs then that is not true, the Thais for southern Thailand work in those places in Phuket, what they mean is they do not have the skills or education to get money quickly which they can do when working in girly bars, I am not being nasty when I say this but the locals hate those type of girls. You said ...."dangling off a bar stool on Bangla Road?...." I 'dangle' three times a year when friends who like the rush of such places come on holiday for a few days while travelling around Thailand, it can be good fun now and then.

No problem, some guys have no choice but to select from the poor uneducated ones who just look for a guy to support them for the rest of their lives, some of us have a choice.

Total random noise based on no facts whatever, just because such 'facts' appear in your head does not make them true, but carry on as you are good for a laugh and half of Thailand are already laughing at you, keep up the good work. "Crypt keeper" good one, funny. I could go out an buy an nice 25 year old within ten minutes here in Phuket, of course I will not give her cash but by her clothes, smartphone, pay for her living expenses, her travel expenses and her two kids back up in Isaan, that would of course mean she is with me for free, haaaaaaaaaaaaa. The next time I do a software contract I will ask the company to pay me in cars, holliday/living expenses and declare to the taxman I have have not been paid as no direct cash was involved, would he believe me, of course not he would fall off his chair laughing. 😀

A bit late I would say, it is like bolting the stable door after the horse has already done a runner.

Sorry but we became bored with the egotistical self promotion and tangle of self delusional rants, we are having our own party now. I think the quality of posts have gone up, at least they are more realistic, not based on fantasy. Now we are having a real chat about how some of the women from Isaan are like.

What is a the yellow booklet thing and is it useful, how long do we have to live here to get one? Last year we went to the largest an aquarium in Thailand here in Phuket, I paid the local price which was around 600 baht instead of the tourist price of 1300 as I have lived here for over three years and there is a so called expat price which is the same as the Thai price. No proof was asked for.

I don't get a salary here, my income comes from England, I was talking about how cheap it is for us farangs to live here , I may have overestimated the price so I checked, a Toyota Yaris Cross for example costs 789,000 baht in Thailand and would cost 1,300,000 in the UK, so that means they are 65% more expensive in the UK. But many other things are cheaper so if a farang has a pension of say £35,000 per year coming to Thailand then the buying power is like £60,000 which is easy to live on here especially with no kids for wife to support.

I go no where near women from Isaan except when I go to some bars in Phuket a few times a year when farang friends come over for short holidays, they like to go into bars like that, it is up to them but they do know the game and all the tricks the women play in such places. I was chatting to one a few months ago, on the second night of us drinking there she told me she loved me, I did have a good laugh over that, she was after the bulge in my trousers, that is what she was after, my very very large bulge, it was my wallet. I said no one is going anywhere that. 😃 I remember a few years ago, I met some new people from different European countries, they were married to Thai women from Isaan. They were talking about what they had bough for their wives and the wives families and how much they gave them each month etc, the house they had paid for and had built in Isaan. I asked them why they gave them money each month and also looked after the wife's family and they looked at me strangely and said yes, you know, that is normal. I said it is not normal for me, my partner has her own money as she earned it while running the tourist business she had for years, they looked at me, but they did not believe me as they though the stystem they followed was the only system as they all did it, I laughed to myself and left it there.

I don't think it was the posters who have caused Cannelloni to disappear, he realised what he was saying was contradictory and all in his head, he finally realised what the rest of use were saying makes sense, but in any case none of the content is these chats mean anything, this is not the real world, for me it is just a laugh in between my 'work' as a programmer, I find it all really funny.