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I got nicked twice here (driving my car) for "staying too long in outside lane" whilst overtaking a line of slower cars in the inside lane. I thought it was ironical being that most locals use the outside lane at all times, even when the inside one is empty. I suppose they have to make up some reason to earn their 200 baht.

"Those outraged said the pictures and posts hurt the family friendly image of Sattahip and Pattaya." ???????????? I live in the next village. I'll have to pop across to see whether or not this is true. Don't want them lowering the tone of the area you understand.

I've feeling that there's more to this story then what we've seen or heard and I haven't a clue who was at fault. One thing is certain though and that is if you're a foreigner here and you want to have your visa extended when the time comes, you must keep your nose clean. Whatever the provocation, unless your life is in danger, just walk away. Trying not to put locals in intensive care is a given.

Here in the Banglamung district, I forgot to pay on two separate occasions and was cut off after exactly one week both times. It's a house though, not a condo.

MG was a British car, it's now Chinese. Doesn't matter where the headquarters is.

Say that enough times and the Ukrainians might believe you, although I doubt it. They aren't as susceptible to Kremlin propaganda as the common brainwashed Orc. The Russian bear has a big mouth but no teeth, as everyone outside of Russia now knows.

Thais sitting on the fence as usual, they may as well not be there. Softest job in the world, Thailand's ambassador to the UN.

"The chief of defense forces ruled out the possibility of a coup and confirmed that the military stayed away from politics" ????????????????????

You obviously think that everyone who comes to Pattaya either lives near or spends all their time sitting on the beach. Though even if they did, it'd be better than spending all their time in a jungle clearing in Nakon Nowhere. A walk along Pattaya promenade is incredibly entertaining and is lots of fun, like the rest of Pattaya. Even though I live in a lovely area outside of the city, I think it's wonderful to be able to visit every few weeks for a bit of excitement. Puts Bangkok into the shade. You ought to pay Pattaya a visit sometime. Like all the rabid critics, you've obviously never been. Always assuming your missus will give you a pass.

There are people people on here who for some strange reason think that locals can do no wrong and should be given free rein to scam "rich" farang without any criticism at all.

Can't imagine there was one person didn't believe you.

Poor little round boy was just a seat warmer after all.

A coup to oust a coup, that'd be a novelty.

My Thai missus won't go outside without an umbrella if there's the slightest bit of rain. Says it gives her a headache! My stepdaughter's the opposite, she uses an umbrella when it's sunny. RIP the father and I hope his daughters have a speedy recovery.

I'm married to a Thai lady and have an adopted daughter so not racist against Thais. However, in my opinion, I think that for some reason they have very little common sense and that adult Thais are like children in the body of a grown up. I can't come to any alternative conclusion. Talking of adults with the minds of children, I have to pay immigration a visit this afternoon.

"Where are all the trillionaire Indians and Arabs who were going to save the tourist industry? Oh more hot air out of TAT." In Pattaya, but hardly trillionaires.

Sad, but I'm not even slightly surprised.

This whole country's run on corruption. It's a fact of life which everyone who comes to stay should realise in a short space of time. If you want an easy life here, you have to comply with the system. I actually prefer it to too much law and order like there is in the UK. If you want to buck the system here, you will either end up disappointed, deported, or dead, depending on how much you rock the boat and whose boat you choose to rock.

It is if you're married to one.

Some people just deserve to be put to death, especially those who murder innocent kids. However, I suppose the leftards will have their way and get it commuted to life imprisonment. She'll be another burden for the taxpayer and will be free to kill again when she gets paroled.

I don't. I finished my time in 1971 so missed out on a pension by four years.

I'm ex army, eleven years man and boy. The last village I lived in here had a walt who was supposedly an ex sergeant in the SAS. They're never just troopers are they? In fact one guy I worked with in the UK claimed to have been the youngest sergeant major in the SAS which would've put him at about 15 when he achieved that rank. The thing is, this guy in my village knew that I was ex army, but still persisted with his story even though it was obvious from our conversations that he knew beggar-all about the army. He was in his 70s at the time so he'd been ex SAS in his own mind for so many years that he probably thought of it as fact.

Only my opinion, but drug takers are mentally ill by their own choosing and if brought down by a stun gun, then they have only themselves to blame. "Mentally ill" seems to be an excuse for too many misdemeanors these days.

I think that now Indian men are coming here in large numbers, it's wise to have a large deterrent and 200,000 baht is just that. They don't like parting with their brass.

I don't know, but during my four years living and working in Delhi, my blonde daughter was groped several times, always in crowds so you couldn't pick out the perpetrator. She was thirteen years of age. She was with me or another adult each time, I wouldn't allow her out on her own. At least the Chinese seem to keep their hands to themselves.