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Nah. Definitely Trump.

People like myself who love living in the Pattaya area don't actually live in town. We live just down the coast or in one of the rural areas. I can't blame people for choosing Pattaya over Phuket, it has everything. Folk who hate Pattaya, I think you'll find, have never actually visited here, but wish to hell they had.

Got done for drugs? He's lucky to still be walking this earth. Whinging goit.

It is relevant. If you'd been charged 800 baht at an office that normally charges 200 baht my reply would have been to speak to a supervisor to find out why. However, if your office always charges that sum, then I'd say that you have no option but to pay up. I was shocked when Jomtien put up the price to 300 baht, it's hard to imagine anywhere charging 800 baht. Talk about kicking the aris out of it.

All the cheap scotch whisky brands I used to buy seem to have vanished from the supermarkets, except for one which has risen dramatically. Seems like some sort of plot to me. I now mix imported spirits with scotch to give me a rough whisky taste. Beggars can't be choosers.

There's a blindingly obvious reason why immig like us using agents, which I won't say on here.

I had my 80th birthday yesterday and in my 18th year of residence here. Never been in trouble with the law here or anywhere else, yet have several tattoos which I had done when in my late teens/early 20s when I was in the forces. Should I now be banned?

Being that he was responsible for the overthrow of a democratically elected government and paving the way for the military to take power for donkey's years, I reckon his sentence should have been drastically increased.

Apart from eating babies and drinking their blood, you got my view of Dems spot on Mike. Don't know how there are enough of you to win an election in the US though, thought you were all here.

Another "I hate Trump thread". The spam woke crowd seem to be getting windy, bless 'em.

I too always feel safe in Thailand. Many places in the UK I wouldn't venture near the town centre late on a weekend evening. I once stayed in Carmarthen in South Wales on a Saturday night, thinking that it would be a sleepy place. My goodness, it was bedlam, something like what Dodge City must have been like in its heyday. Of course, there's always the chance that you could be attacked in any place in the world.

I too always feel safe in Thailand. Many places in the UK I wouldn't venture near the town centre late on a weekend evening. I once stayed in Carmarthen in South Wales on a Saturday night, thinking that it would be a sleepy place. My goodness, it was bedlam, something like what Dodge City was like in its heyday. Of course, there's always the chance that you could be attacked in any place in the world.

Last Monday I went to the Jomtien Tax Office to request a tax number and the lady there refused point blank to issue me with one. I had my wife explain to her all that i'd been reading on here about how foreigners staying long term had to be assessed for tax, but she wouldn't budge. Said that if I paid tax in my home country I didn't need a number, it was only for farang who worked here. I had a copy of my last P60 with me but didn't get the chance to present it. I did push her a little more but I left empty handed. Guess I'll be sitting back and keeping an eye on the news from here on in as a lot of others appear to be doing.

At least he's wearing a genuine lumberjack shirt 🙂

I had one of those in my globe-trotting days of the 1980s, mainly for the sports news from the UK. Great bit of kit for the pre internet/cell phone days.

This morning (12 June), with my Thai wife in tow who speaks fluent English, I visited the tax office in Jomtien to obtain a TIN. When I presented the lady with my passport, she told me that because I paid tax in my home country (UK) she could not issue me with a TIN. My wife outlined all that had been written in the news the last few months about long-stay expats bringing money into the country needing to be assessed, but she was adamant. No TIN! Up to them. I'll just keep an eye on Asean Now to see if anything comes of this. One thing seems certain, if we do all need to be assessed for tax here, then it hasn't come to the notice of the Jomtien Tax Office yet.

A few years back I would have agreed with you, but these days because of its woke hierarchy enforcing two-tier policing, surveillance cameras everywhere, rampant knife crime and shoplifting and burglary ignored, they are more in line with a third-world dictatorship.

You forgot noise! Dirty great speakers blasting out bass-heavy pop music every time someone goes to do his national monk service.

I've lived in the Pattaya area for over 17 years, strange that I've never met any of the 98% which you refer to. Methinks that you're one of the 98% who've never visited the city.

We all know why that is, don't we? It's actually endangering the public because every identifying characteristic known to the authorities should be made available to the public to help in the arrest of the perp.

Yes please!

If there's a WW3, someone has to be trained to do the fighting. If you have mainly civilians once the conflict starts, you may as well hand the country over to Mad Vlad on a plate. You're always playing catch-up if you try to train a military after the war has started. I can't see many gen Z or woke types being keen on the idea though, nor the hoards heading across the Channel in small boats.

So, if the cops read this forum, they'll be looking for a Brit who's escaped from Pattaya.

I had 20 treatments of radiotherapy on my larynx in 2000, which so far has been successful. I will admit though to a slight feeling of trepidation each time I get a sore throat or lose my voice.

Last time I took a cab from Pattaya to Bangkok I think I was lucky to get there in one piece. The driver was an absolute maniac. I've sworn that in future, if not driving myself, I'll use a big bus.