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4 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Always a few gullibles out there...……..well maybe more than a few!!

 

 

 

 

You'd know!

Self operating people could become popular

Arch Bishop Pell, Chief of Rome's money now in secret child sex abuse trial in Melbourne. He's too important for the public to know.

1 hour ago, billd766 said:

 

The problem with growing organically is that first the land needs to stand idle and organic fertiliser needs to be applied for 3, 4 or 5 years to become pesticide free. After that you can claim organic farming but what does the farmer live on meanwhile.

 

You can get higher prices for organic food but the market is not that large for it yet.;

<deleted>! It takes 10 years but can claim chemical free in first crop. It doesn't need to stand idle either. There are a range of Grades a farmer can qualify for and be certified for each. Thai Organic Rice is in huge demand and it is one of the few big organic rice producers along with Australia, India, Pakistan, China is coming along too. The King invested many years and THB Billions in Organic farming and Permaculture. 1,000s of real experts from all over the planet helped the King's plan to make Siam the first mostly organic farming country.

The market for Organic/Biodynamic Rice is HUGE!!! 

Seems you have an interest in downplaying organic farming!

They're trying to make it like China so the Chinese feel more at home

#MeToobkk

Dream on. 

What about double billing at the MESS?

Long term VN visas in Cambodia, short visa in Bkk Vn Embassy

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By the look of the pics the farang were dressed like Police, not students! 

When in LOS don't do as they do. Looks like it was a set up. Who'd leave their iPhone in a public area as that? Wouldn't surprise me if the phone was insured,

Sounds like he was set up. The boys went to their Police mates and got him done for not paying. Did they get done for soliciting? No. Why not? They are Thais that's why. All Farang must pay for sex with Thais even if their was no charge stated at the outset, as I found out in Pattaya once.

The commentors on here going on about pedophilia need to go to take a look in the mirror. Most Western countries have age of consent at 16, Japan is 13. In Philippines and Thai it is very common to see young girls with local males so how do you decided that a foreigner is a pedio but not a local? Isn't that reverse racism. Isn't that why so many if us leave our western countries to get away from dykes and their male lackies?

This is like the Bali and Oaklahoma bombings, find some local or Asian patsies, get Mossad or some spies to do the mini nuke. Has all the trappings of a

False Flag. Say for example it was jihadists, well they are all on the NATO Payroll, so some one would be paying them to do it. Follow the money. Who has an interest in destabilising Thailand? They are joing BRICS aren't they?

Do they do to each other what they do to farang? My guess is that they do so farang are treated just as they treat each other. That is what I have observed when there. They expect farang to pay more because we must be richer than they are to be able to get there or so they have been told. Why would they not expect a rich Thai to pay more? Because just like back home the lower classes want to be rich too so they propitiate to rich with some hidden idea that if they give the same deal to the rich they will too become as they.

I had an odd experience in BKK in 2009 when I was studying there. Every time I went back to the food shop, can't call them restaurants, they gave me half of what I got the first time for the same price. This just kept happening evwery where except in 7/11 and in the malls where you pay with an IC card. I asked our school foreigner handler, and she told me, "Oh, you are thin so you don't need to eat as much!" I replied, "How come I got a twice as much the first time for the same money?" She said," Oh that is their welcome gift." So I tested it out. I took a Filipina student to lunch, we went dutch and she got twice as much as me and she was very thin. She told me,"They think I am Thai and I aways get more!"

Then I asked my unfriendly fellow students if they'd had the same experience and none of them had. One said, "Well, you are old so you will die sooner so you don't need it." I punched him out! Almost got thrown out of the school.

Then I decided to go the Thai-Chinese eateries, well, every one gave me not only what I paid for but but also free seconds, and more, just like back in China. Each of these Thai-Chinese eateries had very low patronage too so they were just so happy to have more customers. So I took some of my fellow unfriendly students there and they did not like it because the cute Thai girls gave them bad looks.

But I found afer a couple of months the ripping off stopped as they saw me as staying there not just passing through. Some even aplogised too and gave me freebies for their error.

So what I learned from that is act like you are staying long term, even if not. Be seen out and about in the places you like to go to, often. If there is a Chinese-Thai business there you most likely will not get done, not guaranteed. The Thais will see you going to the Thai-Chinese often and get jealous and will stop ripping you off.

As far as doing things for people there are just as many free loaders back home as any where, I know.

For big invites of extended family have a party some where away from restaurants and ask them to bring a plate. Or if in a restaurant just be clear that you are only paying for yourself and your family/gf from the start.

I have also been treated to huge sumptuous feasts in Thailand, big drinking sessions, taken out and had my offer to pay refused, even had them get upset with me for trying to pay, and been invited to places for farang are very rearely allowed to see or go into. I've had drinking sessions on the streets from dusk to dawn with cheap Mekong Whiskey and not been asked to pay or even refused my offer and the next day given hair of the dog.

If you hail a tuk tuk and they say it's 100baht then just thank them and step back and soon one will come along and you get it much cheaper than you expected. Just be patient and polite.

Now I have some advice for being in a life threatening situation, when cornered by lady boys who had a low take night and you know they are going to do you in if you do not pay some thing. I have used this many times around bar areas. Just put your hands together as they do and say the usual Thai greeting with your head down. Do it fast, and they will automatically reciprocate, and by the time they look up you will be gone!

Another one I found good to do is throw maoney down and they will all try to get it and fight with each other for it, so you just leave, quickly.

This really says it all: LOS - Land Of Scams, since 2008! Before then it was great! (accidental rhyme).

If Thais are doing these scams to outsiders, imagine what they are doing to each other.

I was in Pattaya once in 2009 and they all tried to scam me but you got to choose your vendor; are they are they able to chase you if you run? What I always did was go out with about 500Baht on me. I'd stash the rest with my CCs. If I needed more I'd have to get back to my stash which was always further then Thais are willing to walk. It is the same in Cambodia and Vietnam. Another way I found works is that if you know you HAVE to pay, then you just throw notes down, as many as there are people and they all dive for them, and you are gone and into your quick change of clothes. Easy to do on a crowded beach.

Poipet will be getting very busy

I always remember that retiree in Pattaya who, tho' confined to a wheelchair, was found dead under his chair at the bottom of low rise. His arms were tied to the arm rests with electirical wire and to have jumped from the top of the building he would have had to gotten up on a 70cm wall to jump from. Coroner said it was suicide. So yes, Thailand is safe if you are not suicidal. Remember that Russian suicide where he chopped off his own head and hung it in a carry bag off a bridge in BKK?

All this talk about Thaksin. It was the rulling elite that backed him for a large kickback on his scams. They turned against him when they realised that he was going to sell their land out from under them, land given to them by a former supreme person whose name we cannot mention. How do I know this? Well, at the time it was all over the media and also I know a family that has a large swath of that land given to them by a former supreme person who once told me that in spite of the land given them by the former supreme person they had no cash, and they could not sell the land because no one would buy it at the time.

The Elite backed Thaksin until such times as he became a threat to them, then they outlawed him. Did they return the proceeds they got from his schemes?

Thaksin escapes to the UK with case full of cash, still conducting his schemes and doing very well. He had to pull his head because he could not get away with the activities the elite allowed him to do outside Thailand. Makes you wonder if he was allowed to run off to save face for certain group of people. He must have paid off the right people to be able to run off, or was it his reward?