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The Pattaya News reported that love was in the air in Pattaya's famed Walking Street [ ] in addition bars and entertainment venues had set up booths [ ] to add to the feelings of love.
Pattaya promoting love. A city made entirely of girlie bars and scams, all glued together by the tears of career criminals cheated out of their life savings by 21 year olds. Can't fault the place for trying.
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to improve tourist safety standards nationwide
This is funny because it implies that there are actual standards in place that merely need improvement.
My daily quota of internet giggles is now filled, so early in the day too.
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Light fingered foreigners on the rampage in Krabi
Do you even know what the word rampage means?
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Make up your mind Samui, you want to be awash with drugs or raw sewage? Can't have it both ways.
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1 hour ago, NCC1701A said:Pinkaew roughly translates to "Sand Blast Face"
You win post of the day, I sniggered a little bit into my hand.
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5 minutes ago, brokenbone said:
the average tourist spend far and away less than 300k in thailand per year.
its highly unlikely the average expat spend 25k or less per month, just take a look at your own spending and then give me any reason anyone from the west would tolerate much less
So I'll say it again then "What did I just read? There are in excess of 35M tourists visiting spending up to 2 trillion THB or somewhere near 60B USD. The total income is the point being made. The average spend is a meaningless comparison. My theory is that the retiree impact to the economy is not hugely significant. Thailand's 2017 GDP was 455B USD."
What amount is larger? 1 billion, or 60 billion?
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8 minutes ago, brokenbone said:
nah...someone did bother to calculate,
a very modest 25k/month is a very low estimate,
that turns out to be 300k per year, that is many times more than nearly all tourists will spend
What did I just read? There are in excess of 35M tourists visiting spending up to 2 trillion THB or somewhere near 60B USD. The total income is the point being made. The average spend is a meaningless comparison. My theory is that the retiree impact to the economy is not hugely significant. Thailand's 2017 GDP was 455B USD.
Also, who made the calculation of 25K per month?
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4 minutes ago, Teddy3943 said:
I experienced that actually many Thais hate the farangs, although they seldom express this openly. Times will change if the businesses get less dependant on farang spendings...
What will change? Are you predicting public lynchings?
Thailand makes significant money from inbound tourism. Not so much from a large handful of retirees of mostly modest means. The contribution to the country's economy from this small group is going to be negligible if compared.
There are hoops to jump through in order to be able to retire to any country, not just here.
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What's wrong with having expats who wish to live here provide actual evidence that they have the means to live here, without becoming a burden?
The actual amounts of money required by law have not changed unless I missed something. The procedure to prove it has changed somewhat, inasmuch as you have to actually really prove it, rather than swearing on your dog's life to your embassy official that you do have that income coming over.
The toys-out-prams tantrum on here that it is all some kind of xenophobic plot to rid the country of all foreigners is laughable. It's simple, when you're in another's house, you respect the rules, you don't cause any trouble.
The number of expats living here on retirement or similar is around 100K, that number doesn't move the economic needle much.
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56 minutes ago, NaDu said:so many replies for so many people who have nothing useful and interesting to say.
care to read the title ?
how much profit on a 300 thb pizza in Thailand ?
At best you are being naive, at worst you are willfully trolling. The question is so vague, it is almost the same as asking how long is a piece of string. Let's help you though anyway, because you need help:
1) what mozzarella do you intend to put on the pizza, Makro bulk brand, a locally made fresh mozzarella or something imported and high end? Have you checked those prices? This impacts your costs
2) how much cheese goes on a pizza that you will sell? That impacts your costs...same question for the tomato sauce, how much of it? Is it a freshly made tomato sauce or from a bulk can at Makro?
3) what flour will you use, what quality? How thick will that crust be as the volume of dough impacts your costs also
I think from your question you are turning to the people of Thai Visa to provide you with numerous variations of recipes and ingredients, with cost breakdown for each.
What makes you think that this will happen?
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On 1/18/2019 at 2:59 PM, scottiejohn said:
Is "Major cock- up" a friend of "Side"?
PS: See OP! I am buggered if I will repeat it.
Now look who's getting buggered... ????
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Thanks for that. I can never un-read this ....
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Bugger me, what are we gonna do?
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What's an expensive watch to you?
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On 12/17/2018 at 8:02 AM, spidermike007 said:
.....We spend more than the average Thai, most of us put a far greater value on honesty than the average Thai, we are far safer drivers, and we behave with dignity and respect towards the local people.
Got any stats to back up your anecdotes? The overwhelmingly foreign hordes roaming Nana, Cowboy, Bangla and Pattaya beg to differ in your claim that they treat the locals with dignity and respect. Obviously it's six of one, half a dozen of the other, chicken and egg etc etc but that doesn't mean you can claim "we behave with dignity...", with the we being so spectacularly over-generalized it is a front runner in this year's Asinine Awards.
"We spend more than the average Thai", how do you know? "We put far greater value on honesty than the average Thai" is an insulting generalization at best. See also, Asinine Awards.
The other side of the argument could go: the number of foreigners (vs Thais) staying in the country is statistically very small. The number of problems involving foreigners is statistically disproportionate. Let's do something about it. Seems sensible actually.
You could even take it further... are there a meaningful number of problems involving, say, Korean and Japanese expats vs Westerners and Africans hanging around here?
Westerners are better drivers than Thais, that's not difficult so you got that one spot on...
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4 minutes ago, Barty said:
Not the same company. The CEO of ITD has nothing to do with Italthai Group.
Also not totally accurate, he's a shareholder of both but active within ITD.
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I can second the praise for HH Immigration. I went through a relatively complex process. All done with relative ease, little pain and reasonable time frames. Friendly too, if that matters.
To the keyboard warriors who berate and put down all across TV forums, a major part of the process is you, the applicant, having all your sh!t together, documents, copies and so on. It's their laws and customs, not ours. Inform yourselves. Secondly, seeing as many of the posters here are masters of whataboutism, if you are under the impression that immigration documentation processes are more streamlined in our countries, then you have never been through such a process. It is not easier, or faster in the majority of countries. Go ahead, take your Thai wife through the same process in the UK, USA, Europe etc. I dare you.
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Only on page 2 of this esteemed forum and barely anyone made the effort to get the facts:
"According to the lawsuit, Unsworth is seeking $75,000 (£57,000), plus punitive damages, and he has denied all of Musk's claims."
Below points of the lawsuit.
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20 hours ago, monkfish said:
Mmm didn't Unsworth say on his CNN interview Musks Sub was nothing more than a PR stunt?
I think he did, yes. Do you mean by that, that Unsworth is potentially guilty of defamation?
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14 minutes ago, Wake Up said:
I believe many people don’t care about Vern and anyone who does care about him knows the comments were untrue and just a stupid mistake all humans make. Going for the money and fame makes think Vern is nothing more than a gold digger. Hope he gets nothing.
And still very few really get it.....
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10 minutes ago, Artisi said:
Reasonable summary, with exception "if the world thinks he's a pseudo" that's equivalent to personal opinions and irrelevant.
Fair enough point though a lawyer would have to question whether, say, a school would ask him to come speak about the cave experience if there were the suspicion of being a pedophile hanging over his head. I guess what I'm saying with that is that a lawyer must demonstrate a level of certainty that the defamatory statements will have/have had a negative on Vern's public persona's ability to make some sort of gain.
I phrased it wrong so it kinda sounded like my opinion. Hope that makes more sense.
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Ah, internet forums, where researching your opinion is for snowflakes and facts are optional. What I said many pages ago remains fundamentally correct:
1) It's a Defamation Lawsuit. Both sides have a burden in civil cases. It has nothing to do with "insulting someone"
2) It’s up to Vernon's lawyers to prove a. Musk said something defamatory, b. it was published, c. Vernon was identifiable as the target, d. Vernon suffered or will suffer reputational and/or material damage.
3) And conversely, it’s up to Musk to prove what he wrote was factual.
4) In a civil case, you need only meet a preponderance of the evidence, ie 49/51 on the scale. Can Musk get to 51% on the evidence scale that Vernon is a paedo?
So no one here needs to waste internet bandwidth on suggesting Vern toughens up to this simple insult, or that Musk is too big to be sued (plenty of famous people are sued). Insult is not illegal, defamation of character IS. Vern needs to present evidence that points 2)a. to d. are fulfilled. Seems relatively obvious that they are. If Musk cannot demonstrate that Vern is in fact a paedo, then it's done.
It's also incorrect that Vern is not a public figure as some on here say. He most certainly is now (not as famous as Musk but still a public figure) and he stands to make money from his cave saving contributions. Book anyone? documentary? Talk show circuit? Whatever. He can do none of that if the world thinks he's a paedo.
Our personal opinions don't enter into it.
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2 minutes ago, wvavin said:
The AMLO should start investigating where this Vernon guy got this much money to sue.
You haven't really being paying much attention right?
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2 minutes ago, Artisi said:
If Musk is so sure of himself and the suitability of this toy sub, I would suggest be gets himself inside it, organises a team of divers and immediately proceed to trial it while the cave is still flooded, Unsworth might even come up with a map of the cave system to assist the exercise. .
Exactly!
Surat Thani governor orders action against 400 invading monkeys
in Southern Thailand News
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Could almost be a Trump headline. Close enough.