thaibeachlovers

The rich sucker she married and divorced.

LOL. I agree. I wasn't interested in sleeping with them, so why would I want to know any? Also, the males in my Thai family put me off even trying. Having said that, most of the Thai males I had encounters with during normal life ( in m'bike repair places, neighbours, shops etc ) seemed like perfectly normal pleasant people, and most were helpful when they could be. I never had a problem with Thai men per se, just not interested in making buddy friends with any.

My rule #2 in Thailand. Never ever be around Thais drinking alcohol. My Thai BIL used to turn violent after a few glasses, and throw the furniture around.

Long past the point of no return IMO. Forcing us to drive electric cars ain't going to fix it either.

IMO the real risk is from overpopulation, not climate change. If the population had not increased from less than 3 billion to 8 billion and increasing in my lifetime, would we be facing the same problems? https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=world+population+1950s The world's population increased from 2.5 billion in 1950 to around 7.3 billion in 2015, and is expected to continue to rise until 2050/2100 under most UN projection variants.

In NZ they pretty much are, and the restrictions just a bad dream we had a while back. Other than a few wearing masks, one wouldn't remember it had happened. No requirement to have had the jabs for most, and other than on public transport ( I think that is still in effect ) no mask mandates.

I seem to remember some time back that they had to admit that it didn't actually stop people getting covid, hence the need for jab 3, 4, 5. etc.

LOL. If all the posts that are about "probably" never happened, there probably wouldn't be many posts left to read. It's a forum, for people to post probably's on, not an international news organisation.

First bit of good news I had today.

It's nice to see the racism and naked bigotry on the forum admitted. So, we'll give you that, and hope that more of our Brits (most often) and Commonwealth members will come out as well. Maybe preface statements with something like, "I'm a racist bigot, so here's what I think." So much more honest. In the rush to post a sarcastic comment per your usual operating procedure you failed to comprehend what I actually posted, which was that my comments only refer to farangs. If you want to make that a racist statement, carry on- you just make yourself look foolish. Exactly. In turn, they should feel no responsibility to make your life better. Yes, but if they want my money they need to give me something worth paying for. I never expected them to love me while taking my cash. But as noted, I do feel my life is also better than in the old days, overall. Sure, as long as YOU are doing OK, that's all that counts. Never mind that Pattaya isn't doing well, despite it could be better with competent administrators. Next? Still no reply to that question I see- can't think of anything that is better for tourists perhaps.

That's only the ones you know about. In NZ before brothels became legal many "massage" places were fronts for prostitution. In the UK it's in private rooms, not brothels per se.

It's when the money doesn't go to Thais, ergo zero money to Thailand, regardless of the cost of the tour. However, probably associated with the cheaper tourist as seen on Walking Street behind a ( presumably ) foreign tour guide.

Nothing to do with the amount of money they spend. It's about most of the money going to non Thai companies.

Only to people that don't know better. PS I'm not including the ladyboys that harassed passersby. They were a hazard the cops should have done something about.

I personally know someone that was so sick after his second jab that he thought he was dying. I refused to take pfizer and waited till an alternative was available- just happy I didn't get bad side effects.

Congratulations of the relevant question. I didn't have a "booster" shot as soon as the government stopped making our lives miserable to force us to have one, and will not unless they do so again. I did have the covid infection, despite the first 2 unwanted jabs, and lasted about 5 days, no worse than a cold, few weeks of long covid after, and back to normal. Extremely happy I didn't have to take a third, unwanted, jab.

I omitted to say that, but that's what I meant. They would be buried under the sand.

No brothels in your country then?

Some posters are only into ridicule. I guess they get off by attacking other posters with sarcastic inanities.

You are deflecting. There is no excuse to be bringing up things I said many many years ago, that have nothing to do with present realities, other than to be offensive, and I am offended.

Quite right too. Pattaya never needed the big malls that only brought in the day trippers from Bkk clogging up the roads. It was doing fine with the three it had in the early 90s. People apparently forget that farang mongers made Pattaya, along with the girls and boys that catered to them.

Excuses, excuses. Can you think of anything built recently that benefits "tourists"? Simple question easily answered without deflecting. You are never short of a sarcastic comment about other posters, including myself specifically, so perhaps you could enlighten us with an actual answer. I'll give you a hand with the projects that DIDN'T benefit tourists. Marina- fail Present beach walkway- fail widening Beach Rd- fail Flood prevention works- fail Allowing too many tourist buses on Second and Beach Rds- fail Too many big malls- fail Allowing speedboats to destroy the walkway to the lighthouse- fail Big eyesore blocking the lookout- fail The big blue concrete expanse in front of the big eyesore- fail the car park building that destroyed the Bali Hi park- fail A pier that is falling apart- fail Beach reclamation that washes away when it rains- fail Walkway that collapses- fail

My definition of "people" would apply only to farangs. LOS ain't my country, and I felt/ feel no responsibility to make their lives better, as it's their country, and their responsibility. For sure, Pattaya made a lot of Thais better off than they would have been without it and good luck to them that it did, but without happy farangs, it wouldn't have done so. Let's remember that without farangs, Pattaya today would not exist. It may no longer rely on farangs, but without them in the 80s and 90s it'd be just another <deleted> town on the coast. IMO social media has been the worst thing that happened to humanity, short of world wars and plague on the scale of 1918.

I'd never say that the traffic was a nail in the coffin, but when it's un necessary to have congested traffic, it's a blight on lives, and causes massive pollution. Is it un necessary in Pattaya? Absolutely, as the administration could have prevented it, but obviously hasn't. Put traffic in the same category as floods, which could be eliminated given a competent administration, but Pattaya apparently doesn't have such. I don't need to explain why Pattaya administration doesn't solve problems, as any that care would know the reason. Hint- the word begins with "c".

Just what was "bad" ( for farangs ) about Pattaya in early 90s? The great stink was gone, the beach walkway was actually pleasant to walk along, traffic was within reason given size of roads, no wanabe farangs dressed up like cops, though Walking Street had yet to eventuate, and even when it did they didn't for some years, crime against farangs was minimal, baht buses were cheap, I don't recall floods on the scale of now, Buakhao was just a narrow street somewhere, and people were mainly happy, far as I saw. While it was many years ago, my memory isn't so bad that I'd only remember the good bits. If I had any complaint about those times, it was that the bus service from Ekamai took over 4 hours and the buses were apparently rejects from other companies.