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i remember well about 8 or so years ago making the mistake of sitting down in a crowded with locals nothing special bar in sin and order a draft beer...it was about 6 oz if that and if i recall it was $14 usd.....i left the equivalent of 15 or so and the waiter told me it was not enough tip....i think if you went to a bar with gals and wanted to buy them a drink you might have to take a mortgage...singapore is indeed clean and orderly but no thanks...i will take thailand every day in every way....i do have some good sin memories from about 30+ years ago before it became sterllized and over the top expensive...zero desire to return now

I will use the 60 day on arrival with two extensions at immigration and one cambodia trip as the easiest way i have found to get 180 days Yes a bit of hassle to have to leave the country but realistically it is not all that bad....do one of the van companies ( i used champion on soi 13/2) that pick you up and drive you to camboida border where you walk across and then re enter thailand...they handle it all for 3500 tbh...leave abut 5 am...about 4 hours there with a pit stop...maybe 2 hours max around border...4 hours back with a lunch stop and back in pattaya by 3 pm....not all that bad. Of course u still have to go to immigration at end of first and second 60 days to extend 30 days.. No $$ in bank required and pretty easy to do...i used to do it with 60 day tourist visa but then you had to leave after 90 days and go to a thai consulate somwhere like vientiane and spend a couple of nights waiting for processing...

When you can't handle the truth verified over and over and over...just claim for going on 4 years that the election was rigged. Got any evidence it was rigged? Then by all means lay it out and lets take look at it...not talking bat <deleted> crazy right wind garbage like space lasers changed votes.....if you cann come up with real evidence you will be a hero to fox and trump will likely appoint you as ambassador to la la land. If you have no evidence, which obviously the right does NOT have after four years of looking then shut the f up with the BIG LIE and admit you are wrong.

you an nearly always find a bar in pattaya that is cheaper than most...you can also find a bar that is more expensive than most....overall 80 baht or a 2 for 120 baht before 8 pm is a pretty good deal for soi buahkaow especially if a/c and assuming the gals don't nag the piss out of you to buy them drinks.. lots of places in usa and around the world now where a beer will be $7-9 plus expected tip for something like a bud draft...and no pretty gal is likely to tell you how powerful and handsome you are...go have a few beers in a singapore bar and be happy you can have a 60-80 baht beer anywhere anymore.

who won the election for potus in 2020? the truth or the BIG LIE of maga morons who have zero proof of any significant election fraud going on 4 years later but still parrot the same ole lie of dear leader....can't handle the truth is a good description.

let us know if you get stamped the old 30 days or the "proposed" new 60 days please....it is now a week past the first announced deadline of june 1 so hopefully the word has been passed to the airport immigration guys with the stamps...or not.

yes we do know re deplorables comment....she hit the nail right on the head but maga can't handle the truth....

8 more pages on this post and still more questions than firm answers.....not exactly a smooth "rollout"

..so 4 books total? not a lot of books ....somebody will want to read them...i read one and it was weirdly interesting Fifty Shades of Grey 4 Books Collection By E L James

lots of hotels have a bookcase in lobby or near the pool where people leave one take one paperbacks....just put them in one if these and those that want to read them will....

The problem with maga and right wingers who want to prosecute joe biden is after years of BS hearings all you have is a lot of conspiracy theories and maybes but no EVIDENCE.....believe it or not the criminal justice system requires EVIDENCE ...you know testimony text messages email videos audios etc...like the EVIDENCE that got trump a convicted felon...just like the "stolen election" that magas have been harping on for years the problem is they have no EVIDENCE...its' not complicated....want to indict biden then put away all the tin hat theories and lay some solid corraborated EVIDENCE on the table...otherwise go sit in the corner and whine more about how unfair it is that trump gets convicted by evidence and biden does not...or an PS maybe you should have a few hearings and sniff around how kushner got 2 billion from the saudis and ivanka got very valuable patents from china if you are worried about corrupt kids/family of politicians....why you might even find some evidence where they can be indicted....

i love thai hotels that have signs....check out time 12 AM so leave at midnight?

never one time had any problem getting deposit back in thailand...i did however have all sorts of tenants from hell in usa who left owing rent and trashed the place....

There are lots of older guys in pattaya that seem to go into a funk...often they seem to get depressed over some gal that they fell for and then down the road figure out she loves not him but his wallet and leaves for a bigger wallet..and then he does the exact same again with a different gal.....others may well have some kind of terminal disease and rather go sooner than drag it out with lots of pains. Add in all kinds of potential nightmare problems back home with alimony payments or wild kids or you are wanted by cops or any of dozens of other reasons people do get depressed and often if you add in a big bottle of booze and stand looking over a balcony all it takes is two seconds of screw it and over u go and all problems end for you. Sad but true. For some reason it seems in thailand that many always want to gin up some story that he was pushed or drugged and tossed over. My guess is the vast majority either do it on purpose or get drunk and fall....and yes some balconies are low but normal not drunk people can see they are low and are careful not to lean over too close to the edge. RIP to the hilton jumper.

also define "prostitute".....there are many ways to receive $$ for sex especially when the gal is hot with a great body and the guy is old and wrinkled with a great wallet.

Beyond BS ...so far in my life there is only ONE presdental candidate that refused to accept defeat...yes gore v bush was very very close but when the court ruled in the end gore shook W hand and said congratulations..he did not try to foment a coup or whine like a five year old about how unfair it all was..... Trump not only lost but lost by the exact same electoral count that he won over hillary but of course he called that a landslide...but when trump lost four years later he whines like a five year old then immediately went to work to try and overturn by claiming fraud...next after losing 60 court cases and recount after recount almost all done by republicans and still no evidence of fraud he tried to foment an evil plan to have a bunch of moronic state officials submit forged signed slates of electors to claim falsely that he won...when even that didn't work he tried his best to stir up his moronic red neck thug base with lie after lie to storm the capitol and stop the counting of votes...and when even that was failing he sat on his fat butt and watched on TV and did nothing for hours on end while his thugs beat cops and were looking to hang his lapdog vp pence..now he calls the thugs hostages and promises to pardon them if he were to win again ..now here we are almost four years later and trump is already banging the drum that 2024 will be rigged and here we go again.. trumps actions do not surprise me as he has certainly shown anyone with even a sliver of a functioning brain and a set of eyes and ears who and what he is... what surprises me is how many trumpers absolutely refuse to believe what they have seen and heard and have enough sense to say ok u fooled me once but not again ....people get taken by conmen all the time and trump is perhaps the best con man ever...but there is nothing wrong with admitting you got conned and stop trying to defend the indefensible...i won't hold my breath for magas to have the courage to admit that were and are wrong and got conned.

THE WHINER IN CHIEF

IF IF IF IF IF....what repubs don't seem to grasp is that a conviction on crimes require EVIDENCE....trump was convicted because an investigation turned up a lot of evidence of a crime...so this EVIDENCE was presented to a grand jury of regular people to review...after reviewing the EVIDENCE they said yes it was strong enough to indict. Then a jury of regular people sit and look and listen to the EVIDENCE and lsiten to all the lawyers try anc convince them what they should believe and they then decide whether the EVIDENCE is sufficient beyond a reasonable dout for ALL 12 jurors to agree to convict. It is hard to get 12 people to agree on anything so when 12 look at evidence and all 12 say yes he did it you can be pretty sure that yes he did it. Prosecute all you want but without EVIDENCE it would be very very rare for anyone to be charged much less convicted. Reublicans don't like to hear this but it is a FACT. They have hearing aftter hearing trying to drum up crimes but their problem continues to be that it is mostly a lot of grandstanding/conjecture/wishful thinking but in the end they do not have sufficient evidence to indict much less convict. Trumps problem was/is: A. He did criminal acts B. He and his minions left behind a trail of evidence a mile long most of it provided by his own inner circle as well as texts, emails, documents, audio and video recordings all neatly organized and corraborated by witness after witness as welll as document after document. C Trump wants to pretend to be like a mafia DON but he has a lot to learn about how to commit crimes with no evidence left behind.

other them him refusing to accept election results (despite court cases and recount after recount) and attempts to foment a coup to stay in power along with cheering the idea of hanging his lapdog VP....along with leaving with box fulls of classified docs then lying about it over and over and refusing to return them? all came to pass and still ongoing.

says the trumpers who worship a guy that mocks handicap and calls women horseface and worse.

At phi phi island the monkeys lived on the high cliffs near the beach and were experts watching til tourists went for a swim then run down grab their bag and up the cliff they would scamper...i have no doubt that some thai guys prob climbed up the very high cliffs there once a week or so to collect some wallets phones etc...monkeys wanted food as far as i know weren't making phone calls. Probably still same same decades later.

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Not just thais that get taken. I won't name names or places but 15 years or so ago there was a farang who along with his thai wife met with some thais who owned lots of farm land in a pretty place along a river...they went there and met with a farmer and made some kind of deal to allow them to drive some stakes with yellow ribbons indicating a series of ten or so very pretty river front lots....they then promoted it all with nice pics online and in bars to bunch of expats to come and take a look at this beautiful development....the farangs came and saw all the nicely outlined official looking lots with yellow ribbons and nice thai farmers no doubt waving and smiling...but of course if you wanted to get in before they were all sold you had to make a deposit....next thing you know a lot of farangs made a deposit on a lot...then they waited and waited for the next step which never came...and of course after a while it all turned out there was no land to be sold to farangs/girl friends and the money was all gone. I am not sure if the pitch was some kind of fake company where farang could "own" land or what but several fell for it hook line and sinker....all based on fear of missing out on the deal of a lifetime but need deposit right now if you want..truly amazing but farang had a pretty thai wife who was also involved who talked to thai gf and wives and who knows what she told them as all they saw was maybe farang buy and build nice house on river.... Not a lot of happy folks,but surprise surprise he was gone as was their money....i would bet the farmers were trying to understand why the yellow ribbons and all these people looking at it but they prob got a few thousand baht just to let them hang some yellow ribbons on their land to take pictures...those farangs are certainly strange they likely thought. a fool and his/her money can soon be parted

What a shame that the corrupt supreme court is assisting in delaying the more serious trials til after the election. You know those little things like trying to overthrow an election, stealing all sorts of classified docs then refusing to give them back and lying and obstructing justice....both of those cases have massive amounts of evidence....obviously about 35% of the maga bunch would vote trump if he crapped on their head and laughed at their ignorance....but if the trials were held and he were convicted for a second or third group of felonies where prison was much more likely sentence? The supremes have found time to review all sorts of cases over the last two months that have little or no national signficance but they have not been able to deal with a very simple legal quesion of should and ex president have total immunity from any and all crimes? DUH.. The supremes have pushed this issue to the last possible day of the session....perhaps they are too busy accepting luxury vacations from right wing billionaires or having to raise trump friendly flags at their homes....disgusting in every way possible.