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On 5/12/2022 at 3:38 PM, Lacessit said:

Why do Brits eat cold pork pies and drink warm beer, and Australians have to have their Vegemite on toast? Same reason as the Thais, it's what we are brought up to do.

Don't you know that the tired old jibe about Brits and warm beer is decades out of date. Very few under 50 have ever drunk anything not ice cold and gassy. 

On 5/12/2022 at 2:06 PM, RamenRaven said:

Want to change your front door or paint your house purple? You'll be destroying the character of the neighborhood and will get lectured, fined, and forced to make your house exactly the same as every other McMansion.

 

Some suburban homeowners have even been hassled for growing edible plants in their yards.

 

No loitering in front of your own house in hip-hop attire, or else the paranoid neighbors would call the cops because of a neighborhood watch mandate.

 

But in Thailand, you can burn all you want, let the dogs loose, dump Chang beer bottles all over your front yard, play loud music, park motorcycles anywhere. Your fence or house can be as weird as you want it to be. No one cares. "Free at last, thank God Almighty I'm free at last!"

 

You forgot to add you can (if you're Thai) run a business from home, starting work at 4.30 am making as much noise as you feel like. 

7 hours ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

You can ask it is Perth

And is everywhere experiencing a similar reaction. 

On 5/12/2022 at 10:09 PM, Meat Pie 47 said:

So explain one thing to me I live in a city of 2 million (in OZ) had the mask mandate and only had a handfull of infections. Now that mandate has been dropped no mask any where and the infections has sky rocket to 17,000  per day and you are saying masks don't help? Get a life

Interesting, is that a general thing or is it peculiar to where you live.? Dare I ask the name of the city.? 

I thought pre-Diabetes started at 110 Big Star.? 

57 minutes ago, Guderian said:

Ai farang!

"Many farang dress dirty and don’t shower. As hosts we have to be very careful."

 

https://thethaiger.com/coronavirus/thai-health-minister-has-a-slash-at-dirty-farang

 

https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/2020/02/07/anutin-farangs-who-dont-wear-mask-should-be-kicked-out/

 

This guy has form!

 

Nobody likes Celtic supporters. 

17 hours ago, swm59nj said:

 so many people in the forums seemed to have moved to Thailand expressing dislike for their own  and other western countries.   But it appears they dislike and complain about living in Thailand also.  
 

And so many people who have moved to Thailand dislike and complain about other people who have moved to Thailand. 

7 hours ago, Neeranam said:

They are visiting a foreign land, so obey the laws. 

We don't want the sort that are entitled to their rights, 

Deport them all.

Including Scottish Republicans. 

8 hours ago, jaideedave said:

 

 

Get rid of those stupid face diapers for good. Inside a shop maybe but now its just bullying and not necessary. My own Thai family are wearing them inside our car when we venture out. I try to reason with them how silly they look but the "sheep" do it anyway?

"bullying and not necessary" is nowt to do with it. This is Thailand they do things differently here, one way of ratcheting up the xenophobia is for a farang to walk around maskless with a know-all, supercilious smirk on his face. 

If you're looking for a bit more sophisticated nightlife try Thonglor or Ekamai a bit further along Sukhumvit. 

13 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Well , he wasnt my mate , never met him or had anything to do with him and just read about him in the news , and I was asking the O.P , rather than you, but it seems I quoted you and not the O.P

Ha ha no offence meant, I thought you were winding me up over a previous mention of Tachilek. "your mate" was an attempt at humour with you living in Chang Mai.

Ah well, is it time for my Horlicks yet.? 

46 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Was he going up to Tachilek in Myanmar ?

He was your mate not mine, I've never lived up your way. 

48 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

A Prayer in the Morning

Come 'ead ammo, he was the under age participant, was the gist of the joke. 

They probably get bored eating them. 

29 minutes ago, pmarlin said:

I hope everyone reads the OP and learns from it.  A lot of lessons of what not to do . Retirement extensions are easy and fast if you just follow the rules and stay away from agents.

Even easier if you stay away from immigration and use an agent.

So a fella in the bar says. 

20 hours ago, Mavideol said:

and you have been here for 16 years  555 .... you should known how Thailand IMO works

16 years and still talking about "retirement visa" and "visa on arrival". 

Just been to a pharmacy here in the Nakhon

1 box (100) amlopine 5 mg  165.00 baht

1 box (100) zimva (statin) 10 mg 75.00 baht.

I do not understand the low price on the statins it's always been about 250 in the past. 

2 hours ago, pagallim said:

Very much a Scottish term.

And woollybacks. 

Do many people take only Amlodipine.?

Are the other 2 not necessary.? 

1 hour ago, it is what it is said:

 rarely went there but always found it a kind of depressing place; crappy tourist market mingling with sex tourist bars. an urban developer with some imagination could make it quite a pleasant couple of pedestrian streets.

I think you'd be happier in Singapore or Warrington.

I'll be in BKK next week, can't wait to have a mooch around and a few drinks in Patpong.

It's nothing like the Patpong we first knew but that's life. 

31 minutes ago, Hummin said:

From my point of view, he did put himself in that situation! 

 

 

From what I read he deserves no sympathy, but not many places would see you behind bars for it. 

6 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Yes they do. It's a silly  vaguely racist assertion. My friend  takes her Merc for regular  maintenance. My British  friend Never takes his truck  for maintenance

Well I suppose that proves it then. Irony alert. 

You object to generalisations but base your own racist assertion on one Thai and one Brit. 

I don't think it was the driest of dry seasons in most parts.