jesimps

How is it possible to stand amongst a crowd of people all doing the same thing (throwing water), from early morning until evening, without getting bored? Then rinse and repeat the following year, and the year after etc? I was bored ....less after an hour during my first and only Songkran appearance and have stayed at home for the last sixteen.

I can't criticise this guy. I remember when I was in the Brit Army in Hong Kong in the late 1960s the wife and I locking ourselves out of our 12th floor flat. We were struggling a bit for cash in those days, so rather than pay someone to gain access, I climbed down from my friend's flat above to our balcony, the door of which was always unlocked. I did take the precaution of tying a rope to his railings and around my waist. After climbing onto dock roofs when I was a kid in Liverpool, I had a good apprenticeship for tasks like this. Hope this guy has a speedy recovery.

What I do hate is waiting outside a shop in the heat for it to open late in the morning. Central Plaza in Pattaya a case in point with an opening time of 11am. They can see a large crowd waiting to be admitted, but no way on God's earth will they open those doors even a second early.

At least here they have the two-tier policing the right way around. In the UK, the cops tend to favour the incomers. I say that even though I have a daughter and son-in-law-to-be in the Met.

When I applied for C of R at Chonburi for opening a bank account, they said I had to get from my embassy. They only issued them for driving licence.

Probably the same reason that you can't get fresh bread early morning, they're too tight to employ a night shift.

I've yet to come across any of that 10% here.

They don't go much lower than Putin's lot. Awful people. They hate the world, so the prospect of causing a waitress to lose her job means nothing to them. These two should be instantly deported in my opinion.

I only eat the ones the wife makes. Those you get in restaurants and roadside stalls are usually full of sugar. Taste more like desserts. Same with the curries.

Call me stupid, but I've tried a couple of famous Soviet writers and found them to be incredibly boring. Never seeming to get to the point. Give me a good modern novel any day.

The only change that I want them to make is to allow the sale of alcohol early morning so that I can buy my booze at the main supermarket along with the groceries early on. It's really annoying when I know that my favourite tipple is within reach, but I have to settle for something else at my local shop later on.

I saw a Thai woman doing the same opposite Dongtan Beach in Jomtien at 1030 in the morning and she appeared to be a sober beach vendor. Also, on most days of the week, you're likely to pass a Thai guy having a squirt by the side of the road. I've also seen several guys at various times peeing opposite my house and outside my back gate. However, I think this particular woman should have found a more secluded spot to have a sprinkle.

I get a sore ring cycling once around the golf course perimeter, so long distance stuff isn't for me.

Being that I see and read examples of misandry on an almost daily basis, I don't think men ought to be ashamed of being misogynistic, it tends to even things up a bit. Also, call me old-fashioned (I'm nearly 80 yoa), but as someone who never feels 100% comfortable in a car being driven by a woman, I'd much prefer it if the person flying my aircraft was male.

I disagree. In your house you allow your family a certain amount of leeway for their transgressions, but if a visitor came and got out of order, especially of the violent sort, you'd turf them out on their ear. Similar situation here, visitors are expected to exhibit good behaviour in a country where they are guests, whereas locals are as a rule shown a bit more leniency.

The Thai woman is 8 months pregnant and the Russian kicked her in the groin twice, as well as giving her a load of verbal abuse. She should be jailed for violence and then deported imho.

Going by the angry expression I see on the face of every Russian I encounter here, I'd say that most of them are capable of replicating the actions of this hellcat.

I don't mind tattoos, although if I had my time over again I wouldn't repeat. What really disgusts me is those awful nose rings. Must be hell trying to blow your hooter. They make people look like they should be tethered to a post.

Yeh, we have a bit of catching up to do 🙂 We've been knocked off our pedestal!

I've often wondered that myself, there seems to be a "take it or leave it" attitude among a lot of local businesses.

In my 17 years of driving my car here I've been stopped and fined 200 baht each time on made up violations. Each time I gave them a wry smile, paid up and got on my way. What's the point in causing a scene for a couple of hundred baht? Even if these guys hadn't been speeding and all over the road, they had no motorbike licence so were breaking the law. Why risk a barney with a copper resulting in possible jail time over paying a small fine?

We all get seen off by the Thai fuzz at some time or other, it's part of living here. Why didn't they just smile, wai and cough up the couple of hundred baht tea money? Whatever the cops did, it's never a good idea to physically grapple with them and make them lose face by nicking their gun. I should imagine there'll be long jail sentences awaiting these two and I for one will applaud.

I'm the same. I'm a whisky man and I try to save my first drink until around 9pm, but if my pouring arm gets a bit heavy between then and bedtime around midnight, then I suffer the next day. I'm 80 yoa in June and am trying to resign myself to the fact that this is only going to get worse.

My 50-odd year old Thai missus is the same. She also dyes her hair in the shower and as you'd expect, the tile grout ends up the same shade of black.

I'd have volunteered to do the job, with pleasure. In my opinion, anything that bites, stings, poisons or eats you should be put down. At least make these dangerous breeds illegal, in fact all breeds wandering around the streets unsupervised should be dealt with. That goes for the horrible creatures around my community which have owners (some are farang), which wander around messing on my outside grass verge, barking half the night, chasing motorbikes and intimidating pedestrians.