Brigante7

What a compassionate bunch here on TV.

You're all probably feeling better now that you can bring someone else down.

Sure, he should be put away for many years but for God's sake, the man has a mental illness.

Seriously? If found guilty then he should be used for new drug testing along with every other paedophile and if they survive then they should be tortured very very slowly and thrn shot in the head. There is no cure for paedophilia so why waste time & money trying.

I am happily married to a Thai, she has many friends who are gay; l am not threatened by them being gay ...

Pattaya is known as a sex city; tourism is way down, so maybe business is bad for sex trade and even more so for ladyboys, respect for them and others rarely results in a beating

I think you'll find he was disgusted with them not threatened.

You get what you ask for. I've never had a problem with them. But then I don't go calling them names and shit. There was a popular lady-boy bar right across from where I used to go drinking in Chiang Mai. Some of them looked very beautiful and could sure fool you.... and I saw the lady-boys beat a couple of guys up over time... but those farangs also asked for it.. Those of us across the street at the bar I drank at cheered the lady-boys on...(They only beat them enough to teach a lesson.... no horrible damage.) The farangs acted like total idiots and swearing at the lady-boys and insult throwing.. ( I'm a farang myself of course)

Show a little respect, smile.. don't go throwing insults and name calling to make them lose face.. You will get it back in spades...

Sometimes one of them would come over to visit the people that ran the bar I drank at... we respected each other and could joke around and share a drink. They knew I was strictly heterosexual... and that is fine..

People need to calm down.... that guy that got beaten up asked for it... He shouldn't be surprised at what happened.

And they need to show respect and not assault people with the intention of robbing them.

What an idiot, he got what he deserved, after it would seem he started the confrontation by hurling verbal abuse. Either ignore them, or smile and shake your head, or say no thanks, crazy to antagonise what are effectively young men. I'd like to know why he has a hatred of ladyboys, maybe he had a bad experience once, he's certainly had one now! I guess he'll know better next time.

So it's ok for a group of men, dressed as woman, to assault a person and when he defends himself they can asssault him again? Get a grip.

He wasn't "politically correct" (polite) and expressed his hatred openly to their faces.

And got his ass kicked, 555

You mean he expressed his opinion after being accosted by a bunch of men dressed as "Ladies"

Another idiot in paradise...

That's no way to talk about ladyboys.

Serves him right...maybe he's learned to keep his foul-mouthed transphobia to himself!

LOL, no such word as transphobia, yet another made up-word to try and shoot down free speech. Stop being a bigot and accept people have different views and as such are entitled to express them.

HOping the killer will spend 25 years in jail. How ever the law is what they decide it is today. Article 44 prevails.

And if the scooter rider is at fault?

Thanks Richard, yes my daughters Thai passport will be renewed asap, we brought her Thai BC but were not asked for it at immigration, we also have her UK BC with us for the journey back to the UK.

Left the UK yesterday (December 10th) for Thailand with my wife (Thai) and 2 kids (Thai/UK passports), 3 days before we left I realised my daughters Thai & UK passports had both expired ( UK 10 months previous & Thai 1 month previous), yes I know I'm an idiot, we checked in at Edinburgh (flying with Qatar) with her Thai passport and explained that she is going home to Thailand to renew her Thai passport "No problem on you go sir". Arrived in Bangkok today and logged onto British embassy site, 4 weeks to renew her passport or we can get an emergency travel document, but my question is, can she be refused entry to the UK with her expired passport if we don't get the travel document?

In a cashless society, it is easier to implement capital controls.

The whole idea of eliminating cash is very Orwellian.

worse!

100% money (flow), and therefore, complete income tax control.

Eventually it will happen in Thailand. Cashless society, Europe is almost there.

Poor excuses from the banks.

I don't know where you live but in Scotland we are nowhere near a cashless society. Yes many people can and do live a cashless life but many don't, my life is around 90% cash based.

Crap video, turn your phone to landscape mode.

The right people not been compensated I think.

Perhaps, but does an intense desire for money or a big return on your invested money make you a dishonest person?

If I had £1 million and the return from everywhere was between 4 - 5% but I was offered 15% then I would know that it was most likely illegal and that would make me a dishonest person hence I could be conned but if I accept the return of between 4 - 5 % then that makes me honest and as such couldn't be conned.

You can't con an honest person.

Ask Bernie Madoff, he conned dozens of very honest hardworking people out of their entire life savings!

No, he conned people who were greedy and believed him when he promised returns that were crazy and couldn't be delivered.

You can't con an honest person.

It's a lot easier to con an honest person than it is to con a crook.

I disagree, it's easier to steal from an honest person yes, but the reason these Thai woman were conned was because they thought they were getting something for nothing.

You can't con an honest person.

Cheers to all for the replies.

Brigante7.

Can any TV members point me in the direction of any bars where the ladies are freelancer's, I'm in Pattaya from 14th - 21st December and it's against my religion to pay a bar-fine, cheers.

Brigante7.

When will people learn to turn their camera to landscape mode, it's a massive improvement.

Bagpipes?

I recall a story my brother told me years ago (many years). He was in Kings Cross, Sydney, and he and a mate picked up a lady of the night.

One of the two mates got in the back of the car and started getting amorous, when the guy in the back exclaimed, "She's got balls!". The two mates then beat her and kicked her out.

In my early twenties at the time, I had little idea about LBGT issues, but my brother's story disturbed me. It's as if they thought the prostitute had tricked them and so they used violence, but in reality they felt ashamed and thus resorted to unthinking violence. And it had everything to do with the pervading male culture of the time. Little has changed.

And therein lie's the problem, your brother and his mate picked up what they thought was a female prostitute but was in fact a man dressed as a woman, maybe if the man had been honest with them to start with it would have saved a lot of trouble, but then again kicking the shit out of him was extreme.

The only people to blame are the muslim terrorist's.

What makes a muslem terrorist? That is a question that has many answers

Lack of general world knowledge, blinkered education.

Actual weakness of external government bodies, by allowing pervasive Islamic elements to have a voice in non Islamic societies, and so poisoning the minds of uneducated Moslem people.

Actual weakness of Western governments (excluding Russia) to react to Islamic terrorism, or to be strongly proactive to deter Islamic terrorism. This is mainly due to our society relying on Oil/Gas from countries controlled by various forms of Islamic rule.

Percieved persecution by external societies.

Rejection of Islamic ideals by non Islamic nations, so deterring the assimulation into those societies by those who will not modify their beliefs to concur with the society they CHOSE to live in.

Not being able to question the holy book of Islam, in that what was written over a thousand years ago, is still applicable today. It was purportedly wriiten by an uneducated, violent warlord who wanted to conquer all before him. A definite thousand+ year plan. I could have worded this more strongly, but must be careful not to OFFEND too much.

Jealousy of western freedoms.

Stupidity.

And on and on.

What makes a muslim terrorist? That's easy, a terrorist who is a muslim.

The only people to blame are the muslim terrorist's.

In Dubai cameras that see a rule infringement flash and within minutes the ticket appears on your mobile phone

What happens if you don't have a mobile phone or it's a PAYG?