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Not really much of an answer, Chivas. By your reckoning Pattaya is dying because of a 'lack of a certain type of tourist which will go unnamed'. Well, the 'unnamed' are being supplemented by other tourists. So, Pattaya really isn't dying. And, anyway, the 'unnamed' still seem to be going fairly strong and are not on life support just yet. I walk around a fair amount in central Pattaya and, even though I am not a bar person, I'll notice one bar will be packed and the one next to it will be nearly empty. A mystery to me but I suspect the strong will survive and the weak will fold and Pattaya will end up with the number of bars it needs for the 'unnamed'.
No one wants to be the only punter in a bar, so they go where the people are, and the regulars know which bars have the best girls. It has always been so. In the past, Soi 8 etc were packed end to end as too many to just hang out in a few bars. If the mongers aren't coming now, for whatever reason, that will change. No one wants to stay in a bar with unattractive staff that are more interested in their phones than them.
BTW, even in the glory days, only the bars next to the street got the crowds- the ones in the back always struggled. Many bar complexes have been opened in places where people don't go, only to have one or two punters in a complex of 10 or 20 barbeers and eventually call it quits, and that happened in the 90s. I always felt sorry for the girls that made the mistake of working in those places.
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It affects all vehicles with engines over 2.5 litres.
Damn good job too. There is no reason for anyone to have a car with a petrol motor over 2.5 litres. They should be paying through the nose for the wasted petrol they are using if they want to use a big car.
I'd like to see all private cars be taxed off the roads in cities, as they have ruined them for people. As long as good public transport systems are put in place.
It's possible to go without a car in Thailand, as I did for a long time- a motorbike was sufficient, and intercity public transport is excellent. It's only in countries like NZ that a car is essential, as public transport sucks or is non existent and m'bikes cost a fortune because of tax etc.
Oh yes, let's control everyone. Big Brother is watching. The smallest engine I own is 5.4 liter in a Ford F150 Supercrew.
I love freedom. I hate a nanny state.
Cheers.
I'm pretty sure I didn't call for big cars to be banned or for your freedom to be curtailed, I'd just like you to pay a LOT more for the privilege of wasting petrol.
I do want private cars to be taxed out of using city centers as they ruin the quality of life for people that live/ visit there. However, go live in the Australian outback and you can have the biggest engine you can buy.
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It affects all vehicles with engines over 2.5 litres.
Damn good job too. There is no reason for anyone to have a car with a petrol motor over 2.5 litres. They should be paying through the nose for the wasted petrol they are using if they want to use a big car.
I'd like to see all private cars be taxed off the roads in cities, as they have ruined them for people. As long as good public transport systems are put in place.
It's possible to go without a car in Thailand, as I did for a long time- a motorbike was sufficient, and intercity public transport is excellent. It's only in countries like NZ that a car is essential, as public transport sucks or is non existent and m'bikes cost a fortune because of tax etc.
You drive a scooter because that is what you can afford.You probably haven't had a good car or proper motorcycle with a large engine displacement and are just jealous of people that do. So your opinion is just like your scooter "a bit small."
Except that forum rules don't allow I'd call you a rude word. You have no idea what I have had or not had. I used to drive big 10 wheeler trucks- I think their engines would piss over whatever you drive.
Back in the day, I drove a straight 6 Torana- it wasn't particularly large, but probably show your heap my backside.
Used to ride big British m'bikes, probably before you were even a twinkle, and had a Honda 4 for years.
Jealous! 55555555555555555555555555555 I just grew out of the desire to waste petrol on big cars when all I need is a m'bike, and I'm certainly not going to drive one of those big things that are completely unsuitable on Thai town roads for doing the shopping.
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I wonder how this is going to work out when they can't afford to fund the Hajj?
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The haj is a huge moneyspinner for the Saudis. They get more than 18 billion $ from religious travellers. Did you think it was free for them for hotels and travel in SA. Then there is the flight on Saudia.
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I hope some of the unknown ones are still alive so they can be humiliated, and hopefully prosecuted.
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It affects all vehicles with engines over 2.5 litres.
Damn good job too. There is no reason for anyone to have a car with a petrol motor over 2.5 litres. They should be paying through the nose for the wasted petrol they are using if they want to use a big car.
I'd like to see all private cars be taxed off the roads in cities, as they have ruined them for people. As long as good public transport systems are put in place.
It's possible to go without a car in Thailand, as I did for a long time- a motorbike was sufficient, and intercity public transport is excellent. It's only in countries like NZ that a car is essential, as public transport sucks or is non existent and m'bikes cost a fortune because of tax etc.
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What a shame, the king might have to stop building new palaces that he'll never live in. You wouldn't believe the opulence the royal family live in unless you'd seen it.
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Karma really exists
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there is no end to the amount of people fleeing, its what they are fleeing from that's important
Often nothing more than poverty which is caused by them breeding too many people and not enough jobs because of overpopulation.
Good on Finland.
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I remember about 1973 when the oil cartel (OPEC) including Saudi cut back the supply of oil to drive the world price up. Prices skyrocketed and gas stations ran out of gas. Stations that had gas had long lines and limited purchases to 10 gallons. Then they started selling to cars with even numbered plates on even numbered days and vice versa. It was common to see stations with signs out that said "no gas." OPEC was rolling in money even though it hurt the other economies.
I have to wonder if some of this is that the US has discovered more proven oil reserves than all of the rest of the world combined. Surely the US was a big buyer from the cartel where now it is actually a net exporter of oil. They don't know where to put all of the oil.
The US economy isn't based on pumping oil although it's a bonus. But countries like those in OPEC and Russia and Argentina are sucking air right now.
Somehow I'm really not "sorry 'bout that". They brought it on themselves by driving prices so high that people went hunting for more, and a lot has been found. They turned oil into gold that people went looking for and they found it.
Cheers.
hopefully their economy will collapse completely, and they can go back to living in desert sandstorms, eating with right hand, wiping butt with left.
Hmmm They still eat with right hand etc. They even use a stick to clean their teeth because that's what Mohommed did, LOL.
However I'm with you on the let them eat sand bit.
After 4 years in SA I would be happy to see the whole lot go broke. That doesn't include the Bedu, who were lovely, but they still lived in tents and were poor, so it won't make any difference to them.
The reason SA is in the poo is because the parasite royal family takes most of the money to live a lifestyle none would believe unless been there.
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What about the famous coffee table book on The Mosque's of Japan ?
Google mosques in Japan- you'll surprised how many there are. Certainly enough for a good sized coffee table book.
Obviously they have Muslims in Japan, so not anti Islam, but they don't want so called refugees rocking the boat.
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He is just doing what any good Republican does: trying to divide the country.
He seems to finally consider himself a part of the GOP.
Trump is definitely 'of' the GOP, they created him in point of fact. The dog whistle politics the GOP establishment have employed to stir up fear, hate and bigotry in an increasingly disgruntled white working class base, has finally come back to haunt them.
Great article in the Washington Post today, echoing a lot of what I have said in previous posts regarding, very entertaining if somewhat scary prospect of DJT:
Interesting article. If he is right, the Donald will win the nomination simply because the others will eliminate themselves ie not because he deserves it but because the alternatives just vanish. I never for a moment thought that a possibility when it started.
So it seems as though it might very well come down to a choice between the Donald and a lying establishment politician. At this stage I'd expect the liar to win, simply because most of the GOP will stay at home on voting day. Not a happy prospect, unless Bill can be pulling her strings. If she is just Bill's glove puppet, it might work out.
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Odd, they have always said to have the bank letter from the day before, since you can't really expect someone to line up at 4:30am and then somehow update your passbook and get the bank letter before you make it to the immigration officer.
Maybe they were just giving you a hard time.
The bank letter is for up to 7 days before. You can't expect people to get a bank letter on Sunday if going on Monday.
You can use an automatic machine outside banks to update your bank book, but I'd be terrified it would get stuck in the machine at 4am!
Giving me a hard time or not, they wouldn't give me the extension without complying.
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This thread is cheering me up no end. I've been saying for years that the anti monger policies of city hall would cause a downturn in numbers, but the Russian invasion delayed that a long time. Now I seem to be able, at last, to say "I told you so".
BTW, I'd been saying that the same thing would happen to Samui, and a thread on the Samui forum seems to support that too.
It's elementary- you can't charge more for the same rubbish infrastructure every year and expect people to still be happy to turn up and pay through the nose.
For both destinations, expect to see more package tourists staying in self sufficient resorts, and not venturing out to support local restaurants and shops. The only view Pattaya barkeeps will have of them is as they drive by in the AC bus or van to/from the resort.
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Actually I couldn't care less about your selective updates, and I think that NewNative already sufficiently explained what it means if the car parking system at Central displays 500 free car spaces.
I selected this date to prove the point that...
It's pretty clear there's no correlation between free car park spaces and the number of international tourists. An empty car park during one of the busiest weeks of the year demonstrates that rather well.
I think you are saying that the lack of cars in a car park does not mean there are few tourists. However, that is self evident as tourists don't tend to drive in Thailand- perhaps they drive long distance, but few would be brave enough to brave the traffic insanity in Pattaya just to drive locally.
The only real means of monitoring the actual numbers is the notification hotels have to send to the government when a guest checks in. How to get that info I have no idea.
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The Japanese are so wise, with the best will in the world the developed world could take enough refugees to collapse their own infrastructure without making a dent in world poverty.
True. No matter how many "refugees" the west takes in, the countries where they come from will breed even more people to head west. It's a never ending supply.
Ethiopia has even more people now than it did during the famine. Interestingly, countries like Germany and Sweden didn't let millions of Ethiopians into their countries back then.
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The Japanese are proving themselves to be way smarter than stupid Euro politicians that think millions of people from an entirely alien culture can be absorbed without causing problems in their own countries.
Genuine refugees should be supported as long as they stay in Turkey- I do agree that the Euro zone should help Turkey financially to do so, but given that most so called refugees are actually illegal economic migrants, they should be promptly returned to their own countries. Perhaps then, they will stop overpopulating their countries and expecting the west to take them when they can't get jobs because there are too many people.
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Classic government incompetence. Allow people to build on floodplains and then be surprised when it all goes wrong. There's NOTHING unexpected here. I believe the only reason they got insurance was because the government came to an arrangement with the companies, but unless the government ( taxpayer ) is prepared to foot the bill, I doubt any company will agree to do so in the future, and they should NOT do so. Building on floodplains is just barking.
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In densely built-up Britain- classic BS. There's loads of unbuilt on land- I've seen it myself.
There is plenty of land in Britain not on floodplains, but because it probably belongs to the rich and powerful, it's not going to be built on.
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No. Ever since Obama's election all the Republicans have done is trying to boycott him. They simply have never accepted him, and their attitude is the cause of the divide. They're polarizing.He is just doing what any good Republican does: trying to divide the country.
He seems to finally consider himself a part of the GOP.
Think again steveni. The great divider is Obama. Obama put America in the toilet, and if Hillary (God forbid) were to be elected, she would flush it. Trump is heads and shoulders above both these individuals.
I'd say most of that is Obama's fault, as he has never tried to work WITH the GOP. Clinton recognised that it wasn't working for him and worked WITH them, very successfully, but Obama would rather ( IMO ) bring it all down than compromise. That is why IMO Obama is a very bad president. Nothing is achieved by fighting all the time and demonising the opposition, but he just won't try and compromise.
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Donald Trump is in fact the character who has stated his carnal lust for his own daughter, Ivanka.
He never said that, but you probably just heard what you wanted to hear. You're not one to let the facts get in the way of a put down.
Trump has made comment after comment in that vain. Listen for yourself: Donald Trump Obsessed with Daughter's Body, Would Have Sex With Her
He says that if he WERE NOT her father he would like to date her- that's not saying he would have sex with her if he got the chance, just that he recognises that she is indeed extraordinarily beautuiful and every guy she meets would be lusting for her, which must be true. He says that while she is right there next to him and she's OK with it- do you think she wants to sleep with daddy? He is probably proud that he produced a daughter that men lust after, as it says he has good genes.
I'm CERTAIN that every normal man with a gorgeous daughter thinks the same, it's just that only Trump is prepared to say what he thinks, because he doesn't give a monkey's what that guy, or any of you think about him saying it.
That's the main reason I'm a fan, because he doesn't care what the PC obsessed think, and he's going to say whatever he wants.
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I was far more hyped after Spectre than this run of the mill sci fi movie.
Speaking of another disappointment.
The only good movie I saw this year was Sicario.
...and that says a lot because I try to avoid anything Canadian.
Yes, that was great film. Pity all the really good films nowadays seem to be so violent. Used to be that dramas were great.
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You should try Googling "non muslim terrorist attacks". The global research page and the loon watch page make for interesting reading.Not all terrorists are Muslim,no ,but most areIn today's Papers
European capitol cities step up security amid warnings of terror attacks between now and New Year . wonder who the attackers could be , Jews , Crazed American gun fanatics , Bhuddists , Fringe Christian Groups? hard to tell ,oh it may be those peacful Muslims ,you never know .
Heightened security posture is a standard response to information or intelligence received. Nothing extraordinary about this. Let us hope that such measures prevent any atrocities. However, now that your incisive mind has tarred all Muslims with the same brush in the context of this anticipated next even, what is your solution? Ban all Muslim travel? Require all Muslims to stitch a Green Crescent onto their overcoats? Forced relocation to secured areas with armed perimeters for their continued 'happiness'? How about forced conversion to another religion of your choosing.
Seems to me these solutions have been tried before.
Here's one that hasn't been tried. Require all school students to learn the tenets of Islam to ensure that they understand the character of Muslim people. Do you think that would get much support from the right wing nasties?
Who were the terrorists threatening the UK and Europeans before WWI? Who were the terrorists threatening UK and the Europeans in the 70's? Was there similar bigotry agains Serbians, Irish, Japanese, disaffected Northern European youth as there was against Palestinians and now the blanket islamophobia that infests the right wing, the chauvinists and the ignorant?
Till fundamentalist Islamic countries give equal rights to other religions in their countries, I do want their citizens banned from settling in western countries.
Require all school students to learn the tenets of Islam to ensure that they understand the character of Muslim people.
What character would that be? That unrelated males and females have no more control than dogs and should never be allowed in the same room without being chaperoned to stop them copulating, that women are worth less than men, that all other religions are inferior and their practitioners should be converted to Islam, that if a Muslim converts to another religion they should be killed, that females should never be allowed out without being chaperoned by a male, even if the male is a 7 year old boy, that if a male rapes an infidel woman and she gets pregnant it is her fault for tempting him. I could go on, but that is enough for my point. 4 years in Saudi was very instructive as to the character of Muslims.
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I don't know why making a lot of money is equated with a film being good. This film is probably drawing in people that never go to cinemas, just to see what the hype is all about. It's only average as films go, but the publicity has been genius.
I was far more hyped after Spectre than this run of the mill sci fi movie.
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The requirements change everytime I do an extension. It's best to start asking on TV about a month before to get the latest version of what is required.
Can you elaborate?
I've been here coming up on 10 years, and I recall one change, but it's so long ago I can't remember what it was. I seem to recall it being that they didn't want something that they had previously.
I'm curious where you did your extensions for retirement and what exactly changed every year.
I get them at CM. Going by the first as a base line, second time they wanted bank passbook updated on the day- didn't first time, third time they wanted proof of residence- didn't first 2 times. Now apparently, they want TM 30 and different photos. By my next extension, who knows what they'll have dreamed up.
Pattaya is dead
in Pattaya
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Yep, fly all the way to Thailand only to eat the same western cr*p as they eat back home. Monty Python did an excellent sketch about that, except it was to Spain.
However, the Thais are the ones that really like that garbage, plus all the other fast food places- hence the expanding waistlines of the once slim BGs.