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"Pattaya is dead"
Not having been since low season, I can't judge for myself, but................
If it is, it has exposed the myth loved by city hall that if they can only get rid of the bar scene the rich people will flock to Pattaya- obviously not many rich people have arrived.
A few suggestions as to why Pattaya may be dead:
hard times in home countries has prevented the usual numbers of mongers from arriving.
lack of talent in the bars is turning mongers off
cheap hotels thinking they can put up their prices despite still being rubbish is putting mongers off.
cheap restaurants putting up prices despite selling the same low quality food are putting mongers off.
concentrating on the Russian market when they don't use farang bars has put mongers off.
the Chinese package tour invasion is bringing no benefit to the bar scene and putting mongers off
the disastrous Beach Rd walkway project that removed the shade and the seating is putting mongers off.
Pattaya has nothing to tempt the really rich, being a decrepit run down 'hole with a rubbish beach. All the attractions that are worth while can be easily reached from Jomptien or elsewhere. Just sticking up a Central mall and a Hilton hotel isn't going to turn a pig's ear into silk.
Pattaya has been a mongers town since the 80s and driving them away is a huge mistake, the results of which are being seen now.
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If The Hill is playing the 'woman's card', The Don should play a Trump card.
Trump assaults and belittles women regardless of political party or views and regardless of whether he knows them.
In September, following a GOP debate, National Review editor and Fox News contributor Rich Lowry said that Carly Fiorina had schlonged Trump in the debate (actually he said that Fiorina "cut his balls off," but the message is the same). This shocked Trump's tender sensitivities and he demanded an apology and called for Lowry to be taken off the air and fined by the FCC. That's just more evidence that he can dish it out, but crybaby Trump simply can't take it.
http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=30480
Trump is in fact exposing his rear flank, so to speak. After all, Trump is a serial adulterer. He is on his third marriage and the public record of his cheating ways is well documented. Trump has broken two marriage vows (so far) while flaunting his flings in the faces of his then-wives. HR Clinton, of course, has done none of that.
Donald Trump is in fact the character who has stated his carnal lust for his own daughter, Ivanka. This is a typically grotesque revelation that the crude Donald Trump has made repeatedly and publicly. Shamelessly. Proudly.
Trump is a serial adulterer
Better watch out- you're in danger of blackening the name of the greatest US president of my lifetime - Jack Kennedy. There was a man that gave real meaning to "serial adulterer".
HR Clinton, of course, has done none of that.
Seriously? What man would be desperate enough?
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.
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Thats her only card she can not really fall back on past achievements now can she.
I dunno, being the subject of an FBI investigation and still being your party's leading candidate is quite an achievement.
Hillary Clinton is not the subject or the target of any FBI investigation. That is a gross error to continue to say at this point.
The Republican party hadn't ever defined itself with as much global attention as it is now drawing. Donald Trump has given high global visibility to what many Americans had already well known. That is, the Republican party is a bunch of far out whackjob and menacing loudmouths. This is true from Donald Trump and his walls and bans to Ted Cruz with his carpetbombing and sand glowing in the dark and so on.
Foreign female heads of state or leaders of allied governments and US partner nations plainly see what an obnoxious and crude bunch of jerks the Republican candidates are, to include the majority of Republican party voters that support these idiots.
How would a prezident Trump deal with foreign women leaders and allies, among whom include::
President Park Geun-hye of South Korea.
Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Federal Republic of Germany
Prime Minister Baeta Szydlo of Poland
Prime Minister Ema Solberg of Norway
Yulia Tymoshenko, former PM of Ukraine recently released from political prison under the new anti-Moscow government.
Helle Thoorning-Schmidt, prime minister of Denmark until June and a continuing political leader.
Prime Minister Laimdola Straujuna of Latvia which is under direct threat of Putin.
Tsai Ing-wen, currently favored to become president of Taiwan in the January election.
This is a partial list. The list of female leaders of countries gets long. Women leaders of US allied and partner countries are many. They are professional and respected and they know former SecState Clinton. They have never met Donald Trump....and one can suspect they don't ever want to meet Donald Trump.
How do these prominent and respected women leaders of the present and of the immediate past who remain active deal with a POTUS who is a dick head.
President Park Geun-hye of South Korea. Who ( outside Sth Korea ) cares what she thinks?
Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Federal Republic of Germany Many people would like to destroy her, especially the Germans suffering because of her stupidity over immigrants- perhaps Trump is the man to do that.
Prime Minister Baeta Szydlo of Poland. Who? Who cares ( outside of Poland ) about the PM of Poland?
Prime Minister Ema Solberg of Norway. Who? Never heard of her.
Yulia Tymoshenko, former PM of Ukraine recently released from political prison under the new anti-Moscow government. Former being the relevant word.
Helle Thoorning-Schmidt, prime minister of Denmark until June and a continuing political leader. Who?
Prime Minister Laimdola Straujuna of Latvia which is under direct threat of Putin. Who? Latvia- LOL.
Tsai Ing-wen, currently favored to become president of Taiwan in the January election. Who ( outside Taiwan ) cares?
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What's scantily clad about those dancers? They are positively overdressed compared to the coyote dancers they have at the Sunday night market in Lamphun.
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Keep it up Israeli right wingers, the day when you are ostracised by Europe for your policies comes nearer with every similar law you pass.
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And from what I hear, from friends who have seen it, it is not that good. Great production values, but even less character development than in the previous films that Lucan directed. Any thoughts from the peanut gallery?
Clearly a matter of opinion, but I thought it was the best Star Wars ever. Not the best sci fi ever, but the best of the franchise. Both in terms of story and special effects. It'll break all records....but will not please everyone.
Only Star Wars has been great IMO. It was entirely plot driven and succeeded despite wooden acting from Hamil and few special effects.
The latest is an example of what you can do with an unlimited budget and massive CGI input, but it had no sparkle for me. The female lead and the stormtrooper turned rebel were IMO totally miscast. She never got me invested in her character and he was just faintly annoying. Surely they could have found someone more menacing for the part of Han's son- he looked as though he wouldn't hurt a fly. The evil guy without a mask was the most realistic of all the baddies.
The best to be said about the film was no Ewoks or Jar Jar Binks.
Obviously Harrison Ford was asking too much to be in the films, LOL.
Finally, we never got to find out who she was waiting for- bummer.
The fact the film is minting it is down to hype rather than the movie itself. They managed to make it a must see movie, and that has been successful.
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Even if she is playing the woman's card, it seems fair enough to me. I'm sure many people (esp. men) will vote against her because she is a woman.
If I could vote in the US, I'd vote against her because she just lies and lies and lies. Also, she is responsible for the ambassador's murder and won't admit it. If Palin was standing, I'd vote for her ( oh, there goes your misogynist argument ) because she's got bigger balls than all of the men standing, other than the Donald.
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"What America needs is a young,charismatic leader who does not care about politics and can really fix what ails America." Take out "young" and how about Bernie Sanders?
Trump is playing the Dick card, one he has been working on for years.
He's not young or charismatic, cares deeply about politics and can't fix America. Why would you even think he's the one?
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Clinton told the Des Moines Register the billionaire had "demonstrated a penchant for sexism."
An understatement if I ever heard one. He's just a terrible human being who appeals to the racist, xenophobic fears of his poorly educated followers. He's America's embarrassment. All these clowns are an embarrassment.
The lunatic fringe is now the base.
HRC is a terrible human being that just lies and lies and lies. She appeals to the greed of her followers that live on benefits. She's America's embarrassment. All these clowns are an embarrassment.
The lazy and the ignorant are her base.
It's a choice between a bombastic reality show host and a lying incompetent. Which would you rather have?
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Is there a sticky that tells folks exactly what is needed to extend a retirement visa? Why the confusion about not having the right documents?
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.
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Interesting reading.
Will there be a mass suicide if the Trump gets elected President ?
You'd think so from some people's rhetoric. I hope the Donald gets elected just so I can rub people's noses in it.
you would cut your nose to spite your face? do you think you would be insulated from the results?
Only his praises of a despot like Putin should be of concern to you.never mind the rest.
I think he'd be far, far better for the world than HRC who will be Obama version 2. We need someone to stand up to China before they realise that Obama/ HRC isn't going to stop them doing whatever they like in SEA.
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I was there a lot early to late 90s, and I fail to remember it being aimed at family holidays. Also, Jomptien was well developed from at least 1990. Those big condo buildings didn't just spring up overnight.
Certainly, there were a lot of resorts that catered to families on Beach Rd from Central Rd to North Rd, and on the south end of Naklua Rd, but they were of the sort where you didn't leave the resort except on an AC bus tour. I recall no families in the south Pattaya area or Walking Street.
It wasn't till the Russian invasion that young children were seen on WS at night.
Pattaya has always been a big boys playground, till recently.
Anyone claiming that Pattaya is becoming a family town had better take themselves on a walking tour of Soi Buakhao and see how many "families" they can count, LOL.
In 1997, take notice that is almost the end of the ninety's, there were 2 condominiums on Jomtien beach road with the latter one still under construction.
The one under construction half way beachroad is called jomtien beach condiminium, I think, and consists of 3 low rise buildings
Sale prices were about 10K a square meter.
Furthermore there were some newly constructed shophouses near the beach road Soi 5, but they were all unoccupied.
In the daytime there was little movement at Jomtien beach, but after 5pm it was completely deserted.
Everyone who had lived in Pattaya for some time couldn't imagine that the shophouses would ever get sold.
Are you sure Jomptien wasn't developed before that? The Royal Jomptien Resort hotel fire was on 12 July 1997. It had to have been around a few years before that, but you don't mention that a 17 story building was in existence in 1997, and they don't build luxury hotels at an undeveloped beach anyway.
It was renamed Jomptien Palm Beach after the fire.
The Royal jomtien hotel is/was at the very entrance of beach road, which is several kilometers long.
One swallow does not make spring.
I know exactly how long it is because I walked it all back in early 90s.
I repeat, they don't build luxury resorts on undeveloped beaches, even if the development only extends a mile.
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the tuk tuk's are dangerous so no question there, they likely take drunk people home all the time, this was not a journey from a pub to a hotel around the corner, it was out on a main road connecting two different resort areas of Phuket, I would blame the driver of the tuk tuk as he was likely driving too fast and had little regard for the safety of his drunk passengers, round a bend at speed hit a bump passenger loses grip on handrail and out she goes - no helmet head hits the curb or post and dead
These drivers should be well experienced driving drunk people home that is what they are there for, the couple are on holiday doing the right thing and getting someone else to drive them home, should they have been drunk ? well yes up to them they are on holiday, should the tuk tuk drive have been more careful and perhaps driving slower instead of racing for his next job ? well I say yes
Another pointless avoidable death of the roads of Phuket
RIP
I have a different scenario. Pissed out of her brain, she climbs out of the back of the moving tuk tuk to have her face in the air, having a good old yahoo, but loses grip and falls off.
It's what I do all the time on songtheaws ( minus the yahooing ), but I'm not pissed when I do it and don't lose my grip.
The truth may be different from both our scenarios, but it's too early to be blaming the driver without the facts.
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Damn, gotta' agree with you beachlover. Just remember, the crash occurred under the Cheney/Bush et al regime, not Obama's. And for a little kicker, I don't like Obama's policies. A tool of Wall Street criminals and banksters, codifying and enlarging the previous regime's shredding of the Constitution.
I don't recall saying Obama caused it, but whatever. It's worth noting that Goldman Sachs was in it up to it's dirty little neck and many ex GS employees are now "advising" the wonder boy. It's little wonder why many Americans hate establishment politics and would vote for the proverbial newt if it ran.
Obama certainly didn't cause it, how his administration dealt with the aftermath I think is deplorable. That being said, no POTUS of any party really has that much authority to do anything if Congress won't play ball.
The documentary 'Inside Job' is a pretty decent watch. It goes through the crash without the Michael Moore style hyperbole. It contrasts the aftermath of the S&L crisis and the 2008 crash, and the fates of those implicated in both. Funny there just didn't seem to a Charles Keating figure amongst any of the players in 2008, who basically blew up the world!
7 years on and not a single major player has been prosecuted. No wonder people are sick to the back teeth of corrupt establishment politicians. No doubt part of the reason the Donald is getting so much support.
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Interesting reading.
Will there be a mass suicide if the Trump gets elected President ?
You'd think so from some people's rhetoric. I hope the Donald gets elected just so I can rub people's noses in it.
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We've been over this too many times. Most in Malaysia have never met a Jew. Yet they are instructed by their political leaders, and Islamic leaders to explicitly HATE JEWS. In official communications. Now whether they listen or not, what difference does it make as there are almost NO Jews in Malaysia.
Is it safe for Jews to travel in Malaysia? Sure very much so, as long as it's not easy to tell they're Jews. Would it be advisable to walk around random neighborhoods in KL wearing a kippa and Star of David pendant? Duh. It's not safe to do that in much of the world these days.
So why insist the athletes wear the Star of David?
Duh.
Why do so many Muslims wear a hijab.
Duh.
They don't wear the hijab because they are Muslim. The hijab is cultural dress. Like Chinese women wear cheong sam and Vietnamese women wear ao dai.
It just happens to be that many of the countries in which women wear a variation of hijab are Muslim.
Muslims are only supposed to dress modestly, and in some countries don't wear any sort of dress denoting culure- don't even cover their hair, and that's not compulsory anyway. Even Christians used to cover their hair in ages gone by.
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Yep, it does appear that many people seem to think this is a new concept, not just the reported increase in families visiting.I have always laughed at this notion that families visiting Pattaya is something new.
Between 1988 & 1999 I knew Pattaya intimimately, before Jomtien was even developed. Pattaya, during that time period was always aimed at family holidays. But this seemed never to have been recognised by those who frequented the areas that weren't 'family friendly'. Seems nothing much has changed over the years.
Oh, and during that particular period, there were very few restrictions endorced, very few rules and boundries yet the families kept coming back year after year. The only thing lacking was the violence.
Sure, different times I grant you, but Pattaya didn't build the shopping malls, restaurants and all the 'western conveniences for the sex-pats or the retirees only......
From the 70's, it has always been a family holiday destination.
I was there a lot early to late 90s, and I fail to remember it being aimed at family holidays. Also, Jomptien was well developed from at least 1990. Those big condo buildings didn't just spring up overnight.
Certainly, there were a lot of resorts that catered to families on Beach Rd from Central Rd to North Rd, and on the south end of Naklua Rd, but they were of the sort where you didn't leave the resort except on an AC bus tour. I recall no families in the south Pattaya area or Walking Street.
It wasn't till the Russian invasion that young children were seen on WS at night.
Pattaya has always been a big boys playground, till recently.
Anyone claiming that Pattaya is becoming a family town had better take themselves on a walking tour of Soi Buakhao and see how many "families" they can count, LOL.
In 1997, take notice that is almost the end of the ninety's, there were 2 condominiums on Jomtien beach road with the latter one still under construction.
The one under construction half way beachroad is called jomtien beach condiminium, I think, and consists of 3 low rise buildings
Sale prices were about 10K a square meter.
Furthermore there were some newly constructed shophouses near the beach road Soi 5, but they were all unoccupied.
In the daytime there was little movement at Jomtien beach, but after 5pm it was completely deserted.
Everyone who had lived in Pattaya for some time couldn't imagine that the shophouses would ever get sold.
Are you sure Jomptien wasn't developed before that? The Royal Jomptien Resort hotel fire was on 12 July 1997. It had to have been around a few years before that, but you don't mention that a 17 story building was in existence in 1997, and they don't build luxury hotels at an undeveloped beach anyway.
It was renamed Jomptien Palm Beach after the fire.
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Yep, it does appear that many people seem to think this is a new concept, not just the reported increase in families visiting.
Between 1988 & 1999 I knew Pattaya intimimately, before Jomtien was even developed. Pattaya, during that time period was always aimed at family holidays. But this seemed never to have been recognised by those who frequented the areas that weren't 'family friendly'. Seems nothing much has changed over the years.
Oh, and during that particular period, there were very few restrictions endorced, very few rules and boundries yet the families kept coming back year after year. The only thing lacking was the violence.
Sure, different times I grant you, but Pattaya didn't build the shopping malls, restaurants and all the 'western conveniences for the sex-pats or the retirees only......
From the 70's, it has always been a family holiday destination.
I was there a lot early to late 90s, and I fail to remember it being aimed at family holidays. Also, Jomptien was well developed from at least 1990. Those big condo buildings didn't just spring up overnight.
Certainly, there were a lot of resorts that catered to families on Beach Rd from Central Rd to North Rd, and on the south end of Naklua Rd, but they were of the sort where you didn't leave the resort except on an AC bus tour. I recall no families in the south Pattaya area or Walking Street.
It wasn't till the Russian invasion that young children were seen on WS at night.
Pattaya has always been a big boys playground, till recently.
Anyone claiming that Pattaya is becoming a family town had better take themselves on a walking tour of Soi Buakhao and see how many "families" they can count, LOL.
Why would someone want to take their family to Walking Street or even Soi Buakhao at night? They have their own reputations.
A line from my original post: "But this seemed never to have been recognised by those who frequented the areas that weren't 'family friendly'."
And sorry, as for Jomptien being developed in 1990? Seriously? The lights used to go out at about 21:00 every night. Check your photo album for 1990................................
Hmmmm I used to take the girlfriend over to Jomptien to spend the day at the beach and swim. Loads of people and plenty of beach umbrellas over there. Don't know what time the lights went out as gone back to Pattaya by dark.
I certainly will see if my early photos of Jomptien are on the computer, but if not, can't check as have thousands of pics of Thailand stored and would take ages just to find a few.
Sorry, earliest Jomptien pics I have on the computer are 2000.
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We've been over this too many times. Most in Malaysia have never met a Jew. Yet they are instructed by their political leaders, and Islamic leaders to explicitly HATE JEWS. In official communications. Now whether they listen or not, what difference does it make as there are almost NO Jews in Malaysia.
Agree that we've been over this too many times, so I'm out of here.
Till the next time on a different thread.
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OK, so most of those groups named have been responsible for criminal acts.US hasn't had an American brand of "extreme left" since the Weathermen, the original Black Panthers of the 1960s (not the BPP since), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and a few other assorted like minded groups.
The present far out right thinks Sen Bernie Sanders and his political-economic platform actually constitute socialism.
And that Barack Obama is a socialist. HRClinton doesn't get much of that because there is just no getting around over under or through that HRC is and always has been a capitalist. So Trump has to talk instead about schlongings.
Given that as somebody named Einstein noted, everything is relative, everyone could discuss relativity forever instead of discussing issues substantively or procedurally.
Sophistry does have its welcome place as such. Used as a smokescreen to cloak one's actual point of view, it however becomes transparent. Specifically, people who question everything about the left but question nothing about the right fool no one when they claim the questioning necessarily makes them "independent." An interrogatory is after all a statement. Whether the interrogatory is genuine or bogus.
By the same token, wouldn't the same criteria be required to categorize Far Right?
What Far Right groups exist in the US today?
And beofre you immediately accuse me of being far right because I don't agree with you, let me say I am no more far right than I am far left.
I am that rare American one seldom finds in this polarized nation--I am just a guy who thinks some liberal policies are good and some conservative policies are good. That appears to be a difficult concept for you and thus your need to accuse one of using a "smokescreen".
OK, so most of those groups named have been responsible for criminal acts.
True to only a certain limited extent, varying among the named groups and others. The groups' purpose and 90% civil means opposed a criminal and profiteering war in Vietnam and a government criminal apparatus, such as Counterintelpro, to spy on Americans, blacklist Americans, to stop our opposition to the war in Vietnam.
By the same token, wouldn't the same criteria be required to categorize Far Right?
Ahh, another innocent sounding interrogatory statement. For one thing, the statement conflates two different periods of time in American history, i.e., the 1960s-70s vs the post 2008 election of Barack Obama.
The more direct response to the presumptuous questions is, not necessarily so. Gun laden anti Planned Parenthood jihadist-equivalent madmen are criminals similar to Daesh mass murderers. The groups I mentioned didn't fit any such category. People who shoot and kill doctors at abortion clinics are extremists, yes, but they are criminal extremists. Misogynists besides, just less extreme in their misogyny than are their circuitous apologists Trump, or Huckabee, Santorum, Cruz, Rubio et al.
What Far Right groups exist in the US today?
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/05/southern-poverty-law-center-patriot-groups-_n_2814768.html
The links are not inclusive but they do come close to being definitive. So it is indeed pleasing to meet the occasion to provide some answers to an individually unresolved obvious. Once someone becomes better informed, perhaps he can start interrogatories of the right whingers that proliferate. Failure to do so could place one's self claimed innocent and genuine sophistry at a serious risk of exposing a certain political bias.
I am that rare American one seldom finds in this polarized nation--I am just a guy who thinks some liberal policies are good and some conservative policies are good.
Most women and men in the USA think in those terms. Nothing rare about it so do come down to the normal air pressure of ground level. It's just that the decisive majority of the population things more liberal policies are good than conservative policies are viable or desirable. Those Americans who disagree can state and argue otherwise. They could do that in either direct declaratory statements or in pretentious interrogatory statements.
P.S. One "Far Right" group in the US that might need to be included on the list is the 2016 Republican party. Moreover, those who ask questions of liberals and progressives, but do not make it an equal and balanced practice of questioning conservatives or the far right, reveal a definite political bias.
That was my immediate reaction as well. One "Far Right" group has become the 2016 Republican party. They are SO far out there. That why most of these posts by Republicans are SO ludicrous.
And the Republicans are SO dug in, SO entrenched in their ridiculous hateful, fearful positions.
All in lock step, over the cliff, into the abyss.
The thought of Republicans getting into the White House and being able to chose the next four Supreme Court Justices should scare everyone. The end of the world as we know it.
Not going to happen. There are enough normal people left to see the Republicans go down in flames next year.
Donald Trump, ye gods.
There are enough normal people left to see the Republicans go down in flames next year.
You mean enough people that live off benefits that are afraid the GOP will make them get a job that will vote Dem.
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ive just returned from a 3 week stay in pattaya, in the bar areas there is often an 'illusion' of business, via the bright lights and music, for example i walked up and down soi 7 and 8 and to all intensive purposes there were a handful of customers, in fact how many of those girls i saw get a bar fine is a mystery to me, when i first went in 2004 during the low season those sois were packed, and i was mobbed by gals when walking there,
many ladies are tuning into the social networks, staying in their rooms and getting customers via line, Thai friendly etc.
the cheap food halls seemed quite busy though with tourists of all colours, the town seems to be very eclectic now
There have been few bar patrons per bar for many years now. It's not been unusual to see bars with one or two, or even no customers. They built too many bars from the late 90s and that hasn't changed. It won't either as long as stupid farangs think owning a bar is a great idea.
The bars that do well are those that provide what the customers want. Just having a few bored girls that would rather talk on their phone than talk to the customers is not a recipie for success.
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Good news.
There will be consequences.
The Israelis who were denied visas AND ALSO subject to racist discrimination are indeed very high level competitors. In other words, gold potential. You know, where national anthems are always played.
So the government of Malaysia, due to their odious racism, has not only been exposed internationally for being totally unworthy of hosting international athletic events, but also this current one they are hosting, they have basically ruined, as two of the quite probable top placers won't be there.
Malaysians investigated after Israel unable to send youth to sailing championships World Sailing President insists that the organization will not accept a situation in which one nation is unable to compete....
"World Sailing expects the organizing authority of its events to allow sailors from all nations to compete on an equal basis. This expectation is made clear in the bid process and is set out in the contractual documentation governing our events.
You keep saying racism, when Jews aren't all of a particular race. It's putting over the top falsehoods like that about that turn people off your argument.
Malaysians may have a problem with Israel, but given the multi ethnicity of Malay society I doubt if any non high level Malay has a problem with Jews, as long as they don't parade around KL condemning Muslims. They are not alone with that either, as most ( not many ) peoples in most countries have a problem with Israel.
To be quiet frank, if Israel is banned from a sporting event in any country most people would be having a silent chuckle and thinking that that was justice. The days when most people supported Israel have long gone, and caused entirely by Israeli policy in the illegally occupied territories and against Gaza. While the world sailing president obviously feels obliged to comment, I doubt many give a monkey's, and I'd be very surprised to see any real repercussions. However, who knows- the US could be pulling strings somewhere, and something might happen.
Having been to Malaya recently, I can categorically state they have no Nazi style rallies calling for all Jews to be exterminated
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Damn, gotta' agree with you beachlover. Just remember, the crash occurred under the Cheney/Bush et al regime, not Obama's. And for a little kicker, I don't like Obama's policies. A tool of Wall Street criminals and banksters, codifying and enlarging the previous regime's shredding of the Constitution.
I don't recall saying Obama caused it, but whatever. It's worth noting that Goldman Sachs was in it up to it's dirty little neck and many ex GS employees are now "advising" the wonder boy. It's little wonder why many Americans hate establishment politics and would vote for the proverbial newt if it ran.
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Such a lovely, warm human being.
I don't think he has it in him to go the distance to the actual election. As it gets closer to the election and the nation gets tired of his shtick, after losing a couple of primaries, he'll declare victory and bail. I give him another couple of months.
It doesn't matter who the Republicans prop up there. They're toast.
What a fun election. Fun like funhouse fun.
Compared to Hillary, Trump is a" lovely warm hearted human being." Besides being inept, Hillary is less than truthful, foul mouthed, and down right dangerous. Actually, that is some of her more endearing qualities. Whoever the next president is going to be, it won't be Hillary.
Totally agree (and, strangely, had a message similar to yours deleted).....
with the caveat that it really doesn't matter who becomes POTUS, cos the 'military/industrial complex" (thank you, Gen. Eisenhower) controls the ultimate agenda.....with that caveat, one can still point out that a woman who lies (in the Pinocchio sense) so much will not make a better President than Mr D. Trump) -- if you believe that telling lies is worse than casting insults
For her record of lies, see this article from the British Specator which compares Trump and HRC:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/12/hillary-clinton-cant-be-that-bad-can-she-well/
and yet, even on this very forum, there are those that would vote for HRC. Democracy is going to have it's achilles heel exposed come the election- if there is no one standing that is a statesman, you end up voting for either a lying incompetent or a bombastic reality show host.
And that Barack Obama is a socialist. 
Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton is playing the 'woman's card'
in World News
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So you'd vote for a proven LIAR, someone that allowed an ambassador to be murdered, and that no one really likes for herself, just so you didn't have to vote for Trump?
Given that millions will also vote for her if she's the nominee, it shows how sick politics is in the US. Is there no one wanting to run for president that is a statesman rather than a loony tune?
Given that my country is also run by unfortunate people, I think "democracy" is in danger of being superseded by a more dictatorial method of government, simply because people have had enough of the BS.