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12 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Any guy who's decent looking, has a fair amount of game and a great sense of humor can achieve a fairly good success rate with Thai civilians in malls, on the streets, at outdoor cafes, and elsewhere. I have friends that have proven this over and over again but it does require some game, one needs to be bold, and you need to get them to laugh within the first three or four minutes you're talking to them. At that point you're golden, the percent of success rate is pretty decent. You will not experience nastiness or total rejection like you do in the West. 

If you are a handsome clean good looking guy within 20 years of her age and have a good sense of humour you may well do ok with meeting regular non bar girls in a mall.  Yes it may be easier in Thailand but it does apply in many countries around the world.  In some places maybe the age difference is more like ten years but there are a lot of gals who do enjoy being recognized by handsome young men.  But many of these gals likely already get a lot of attention from a host of guys both thai and farang but may be semi interested in what you might have to say/offer.  At very least she can tell her girlfriends all about the farang who approached her in the mall and they can all have a good laugh.

And yes i know that there are always exceptions so if you are 75 y.o. and hitting on a 20 y.o. girl be aware she is probably not much interested in anything other than your wallet.

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13 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Advice already taken, before I started the thread.

Show me where in my posts I say I attempted to argue with him.

Gumpy old man?  Take a deep breath and move on.

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Please explain how a shop 50 meters further down the street had an amply supply of AUD, then.

Thanks for the advice. I'd follow it if I thought it was useful.

I don't know and i wish you luck but consider if you might be happier to just accept it as it is and not worry about how, why, who etc.  You will not win an agrument trying to tell a thai person how to run his biz...that is some useful advice for you.

On 3/22/2024 at 12:08 AM, Lacessit said:

To me, it's just plain silly that posters think it is OK to not stock a currency, while advertising the availability of said currency on a large sign in the shop window.

So he shows an AUD exchange rate and likely the vast majority of his biz is changing USD GBP and AUD to thai baht which is after all by far the most common transaction....take a chill pill if that bothers you so much in very laid back chiang rai....did you expect an apology because he did not run his business to suit you?  Exactly how many AUD should he sit on and for how long hoping somebody would ask to change baht to AUD?  Might be waiting a long long time as i suspect most people would do that at the airport exchange places where it is no doubt much more common.

On 3/17/2024 at 11:11 PM, still kicking said:

Nonsense there is more Aussies in Chiang Mai than whinging POMS.

Chiang Rai is not in Chiang Mai and actually is a very different place in many ways.

On 3/7/2024 at 12:48 PM, spidermike007 said:

This world is just chock full of scammers these days who refuse to work for a living and prey off the naivety of others. We just simply have to be smart enough and display sufficient survival skills to be able to thrive in the world these days.

 

Just say no to idiots, just say no to strangers, just say no. I would rather give 20 or 30 baht to a homeless person in real need, than give 100 baht to some idiot who professes to have psychic ability. 

there is apparently no end to the number of people who will fall for liars and conmen and their scams....it is truly amazing how gullible some people seem to be and the conmen will continue to take their money til the end of time....most amazing of all is how many people fall for the same lies and cons over and over and over.

18 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

Trump was rejected by about 30 companies that provide appeal bonds. None will go near him with a ten-foot pole. He has been summarily rejected and his facade as a wealthy successful businessman fully exposed. None of his wealthy billionaire buddy will step up. Stick a fork he is ruined. 

  Maybe even the maga morons will finally figure out that the conman is  conman. 

I am somewhat surprised he has not sent out a massive email grift to try to get the maga morons to donate $$ for him to begin to pay a few of the judgements already levied with more to come....maybe he is afraid that the grift well is running dry or his cult has finally grown a brain.

No cheese, No beef.

Skip both in Thailand unless you like spending a lot of $$.  Up to you but I try and stick with local and not imported foods.  Never had a problem finding lots of great food in Thailand so save my cheese and beef splurges to west as personally i think it is absurdly overpriced in Thailand.  Sort of like wine which I enjoy in the west and don't drink at all in Thailand. 

 I understand that not everyone is willing to forego cheese beef wine while in Thailand...to me just not worth the cost when so much local good food to choose from.  But first thing i do when back in west is buy nice block of cheese and nice wine.

7 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

Chiang Rai is smaller and maybe more intimate than Chiang Mai, which is just a big city. Both are too big for me long term. OK for a day or two.

Looking at condos in CR and thinking that is how most people live would totally miss the way most people in chiang rai live....Until a few years ago there was ONE condo in all of Chiang Rai that I was aware of...now there are several new ones but part of CR living that makes it special  is having a house on a piece of land with a yard and  usually out in the rice paddies and small villages around CR city center.

So are "woke" people the same ones who seem to be offended by certain books in libraries and want them banned?

Or are "woke" people the ones who do not want them banned.

Are "woke " people offended by someone using a derogatory term or are the "woke" people the ones who defend their right to say things that may offend someone?

Very confusing and i suspect the vast majority of people either don't know or don't care.

I wish they would just charge a flat fee of say $1 per day for all visas with max of 1 year at $365.  As long as you do not get arrested or into any trouble of any kind (checked online against police/immigration data base)  allow extensions up to one year online and without all the drama and BS of having to go to immigration and fill out a zillion forms and stand around all day or be semi forced to pay an agent to take care of what could and should be a simple five minute online form and payment.

For those who have a history of overstaying or working without permits or  police records etc then let them go to immigration and deal with it in a different way but for the vast majority who cause no problems, follow the rules, and have a history of coming to thailand with zero problems then cut us some slack?  What a concept. 

On 2/25/2024 at 2:53 PM, Red Phoenix said:

Because older not so healthy people who work with and interact with these unvaxxed "young healthy " people would be more likely to be  infected and spread the virus to others who could very likely have a very bad hospitalization and maybe even DIE. 

Yep, suggested perhaps likely maybe...

But more relevant > When infected by Covid the symptoms are suppressed in the vaccinated so they are actually MORE likely to unwittingly spread it, than the unvaccinated who simply would stay home when feeling unwell.

Sure the unvaxxed just stay home like good little boys and girls...hell most people don't stay home from work when they have a bad cold and want to go to work to prove some idiotic "warrior" mentality and end up getting everyone in the workplace sick. Personally i used to despise those people hacking and coughing and spreading germs all over the workplace.

I was vaxed and like many others still got covid though it was a mild case.  But i tested myself as I knew full well I had something that was giving me a cough and bit of temperature and since covid was raging I had enough common sense to test myself and stay home when tested positive.  Not sure how many unvaxed people who got covid had such mild symptoms that they did not think they had anything at all but i suspect most all had some kind of symptons that something wasn't quite right.

Likely means there is a very good chance it will happen so not sure what you want...SURELY is a bit strong.  Likely is a good word to describe the situation but if you have a better word lets take a look.

20 hours ago, johng said:

I actually myself with my own eyes  saw 0  bodies piled up

how many did you see ?  not on the TV  but in real life ?

 

There is no point begging for a shot/vaccine if you already have the disease is there, the point of a vaccine is to prevent you getting the disease.

incubators ??

Well i never saw the bodies of the holocaust or hiroshima in person but i am pretty sure that they happened.

Ventilators is what i meant to say....you know those machines that were in short supply and big demand for a long time to try and save some of the antivax idiots who ended up in really bad shape and often died. 

Covid was a nasty disease that killed millions worldwide and would have been even worse had the vaccines not been developed so quickly.  The fact that many refused the shots often because it became "political"  resulted in a lot of unnecessary deaths and misery...for that I blame the politicians who pushed their conspiracy theories and nonsense and the people who were so dumb as to believe them...and yes i do realize that maybe a small small percent of the vaxed had some kind of reaction but overall i do not think any serious study has shown that everyone would have been better off if the vax had not been produced so quickly.

4 hours ago, dinsdale said:

As oppposed to so many other countries where people were forced to get vaccinated otherwise they would lose their jobs. Young healthy people. Why? 

Because older not so healthy people who work with and interact with these unvaxxed "young healthy " people would be more likely to be  infected and spread the virus to others who could very likely have a very bad hospitalization and maybe even DIE. 

On 2/23/2024 at 4:54 PM, johng said:

Yes that narrative was pushed very heavily.

 

At "the speed of science"

 

That IMHO was due to the totally overboard reactions of certain governments who totally ignored "accepted"  pandemic protocols  and instead followed China's route.

 

The "experts"  have estimated with their computer models that millions where saved.

If you didn't see bodies piled up around the world as well as people begging for shots and hosptial beds and incubators  or anything to stop the carnage then I can't help you as it was everywhere  with live reports on the web and tv daily. 

I suppose u would prefer that they moved very slowly to try and come up with a new vaccine...maybe run clinical trials for a few years til a billion or so people were dead? 

It was a horrible disease worldwide so you can either sit on the sidelines and do nothing for fear of not getting a vax 100% safe (never happen) or claim it was all some big hoax and everybody would have been better off to just let it run its course.

22 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Yep. Studies and research funded by big pharma.

so in your expert opinion how many more people would be dead from covid if no vaccines had been given?

i have no doubt that there will always be a few people who have an adverse reaction to most any shot or medicine...but does that mean that "big pharma" should not continue to try and come up with vaccines that have saved untold millions of lives and mitigated or prevented the severtity of a variety of diseases because nobody can claim 100% effective or 100% no side effects?

Truly amazing how many people who as kids got polio and measles and a wide variety of shots and avoided lots of diseases now as adults say no shots for me and it is all some big made up BS as they watch millions of people worldwide begging for shots and being piled up like firewood in piles of dead people.  Yes it was a new type of shot that was developed quickly because people were dropping dead like flies and worldwide economies were crashing.  One of the few good things Trump ever did in his presidency/life was to push hard for an effective vax to be developed quickly  and then rather than take credit for it and encourage people to get vaxxed he does the opposite.  Of course Trump himself was vaxxed and there is a very good chance it saved his life.