Denim

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

They've been looking at India for months now... even they don't want Thailand!

Hmmm....Ok then , make that

Sri Lankans .

10 hours ago, ukrules said:

I've got one of these masks on its way to me from the US right now :

 

 

 

This is mine. It was the only one I  could get ( all sold out ). 

Seems to work. People see me coming and give me a very wide birth. The crowds sort of just part in front of. A bit hot though. But hey, any port in a storm. Better safe than sorry.

Mae Sot used to be a great place for a border bounce. Frequently, apart from Burmese migrant workers I would be the only person in the queue.

Not any more. The last two times I have crossed here ( December 2019 ) the whole area was thronged with Chinese. The queue at immigration has been about 30 Chinese ( and me ) on both sides of the bridge. Bad enough on the Thai side but the little immigration room on the Burmese side is now a scene of pandemonium. To avoid getting stuck there for a couple of hours I had to make my way to the front of the queue and explain to Burmese immigration I only wanted an in out stamp not a Burmese visa like everyone else.

Back on the Thai side I asked a Thai immigration officer what was happening and he said China has leased a big chunk of land on the Burmese side and built a little Chinese city there with factories , casinos , hotels ...etc.

Even Robinsons was busy with Chinese shoppers.

Avoid if possible

20 hours ago, SERGERAMOS said:

Just got off a half empty plane from Manchester to swampy and I can't believe how quiet it is got through imigration I kid you not 5 mins 

Ah....so when they announce the February tourist arrival figures we can expect a year on year increase of 5% on account of tourists being attracted by the efficient airport immigration officers.

20 hours ago, galenjones said:

I have over 1500 friends on Facebook.

25 minutes ago, DannyCarlton said:

Does anyone take any notice of the reputation score?

The POTYs , don't forget the POTYs.

35 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

The same could be said for any of them, the answer is simple, dont use them, this is a discussion forum forum after all, not a sticker forum  or comic, despite the content posted by some at times.

 

If you have a thought or comment, articulate it, dont be lazy !

But then if a lot of people found a post amusing there would be 50 riposte posts along the lines of :

555

There is a lot to be said for brevity.

On sale in your local 7/11 next week.

The super safe 5 ft condom that slips easily over your shoulders. Comes with filtered breathing tube.

1 hour ago, URMySunshine said:

"When people are greedy be fearful and when people are fearful be greedy."

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

22 minutes ago, drbeach said:

That's your opinion.

 

I find the houses in my moo baan to look quite lovely and in fact, much nicer than some of the dumps back home.

 

Making a blanket statement like you did is ridiculous in the extreme. There's both beautiful and ugly architecture in Thailand just as there's beautiful and ugly back home.

 

AND BTW, in Australia, garbage like discarded electrical items and old furniture is dumped on the side of the road for the council to pickup a few days later. No different to Thailand in that sense.

Is yours a detached property or terraced ?  We are mostly discussing terraced townhouse properties here. 

as you move up the housing ladder things do get better and the situation in a village of new built detached properties is a lot different than the lower end where there is less money sloshing around.

Here are some very typical examples of what we are talking about :

I presume you don't live somewhere like the common examples shown of terraced housing in the Bangkok suburbs.

As for garbage collection , I am talking about broken household items that the owners have no intention of throwing away because they want to keep them. If they did put these larger items out for collection by the local authority they would likely remain there a long time.

And yet , some of these places when they are new look fairly reasonable but since there are no planning laws the owners can do anything they like with them providing it does not go high or over their boundry.

TIT where ugly is beautiful.

Everything the OP says is true and nothing can or will be done about it. On the plus side , when you come to sell prospective buyers don't seem to care much being more interested on the inside than out. They grew up in places like this so it is normal for them . They can blank out ugliness and focus on other things.

Go to any of these villages and you can see plant lovers with a display of flowering plants. Nice plants sitting on old tyres or broken cinder blocks. They only see the pretty flowers and not what they are placed on.

The front of the house is where you pile up your discarded items like old electrical appliances and unwanted broken furniture etc.

I saw a Porsche burst into flames right before my eyes on the exit ramp to Ngam Wongwahn road last year. It just rolled to a halt , the driver got out and then up it went , much to his obvious chagrin.

5 minutes ago, ianezy0 said:

They used to be blue years ago. I think it was late 80’s when they changed to red.

My first was black.