Tropicalevo

There is not much point in trying to identify just one thing that is bad for you. Life style, diet, exercise regime, taking drugs (yes, cannabis/smoking as well), even genetics all get into the mix. I am almost 74 and have two regular check ups every year. Work permit and life style. I have been drinking alcohol daily for 60 years. Too much when younger, not so much now. Results from the medicals - very strong heart, could go on until I am 100. Liver OK, but the rest........ oops. Stage 4 COPD, Stage 3 kidney disease, bladder issues (prostate gone now) oh, and I was found to have 'inherited' gout when I was in my early 20's. Usual old folk's tremors and forgetfulness - tryping (sic) is tricky these days. Cannot exercise so much - cannot breath with the COPD but still do daily walks and running around looking after guests. Still riding the ancient scooter- love going around the island on a sunny day - except in high season (now) and even go across to the mainland for a 'blast' now and again. Which is more dangerous? One drink per day, or the roads in Thailand.

Sorry, I dozed off after paragraph 3.

When you are poor and have very little hope, guess what. You cannot afford to have kids.

I think that the real problems are the Thai officials that are illegally changing land titles and sell off the elephant's forests.

Oops. Overstepping your authority captain?

The poor lad wasn't kidnapped. He was sold. His seller (family?) should be ashamed of themselves. Slavery is alive and well in the 21st century. 😟

I have been here for 25 years now. Planned to retire and rent out a few properties on the land that I 'bought'.. Came here with my wife (Brummie lass) as she chose Thailand when I asked where we should live next. Retirement never happened. I ended up starting a small business and run that with 14 staff. Now approaching 74. Still work 7 days a week. Take holidays whenever I want as I long as the staff can reach me when they need help and a bit of farang wisdom. No desire whatsoever to go back back 'home' - UK. The place sounds terrible when I talk to my wife's relatives back there. Most of my relatives are dead anyway - just a daughter who can barely wish me Happy Birthday. (We fell out when I refused to change my will when my wife died. Daughter wanted everything.) Back to the plot. Thailand has changed a lot in the 30 years when I have worked and lived here but as others have said - so has everywhere else. (I came and worked/lived in Bangkok in 1993.) To me, the winter (6 weeks?) is cold and the summer (April) is hot. The rest of the time the weather is pretty dam good. I live on Samui - away from the tourist areas. Wife said 'I do not care where in Thailand but I want a swimming pool and sunsets so I have sea breezes for six months of the year. Plan B was going to be Tanzania but I would not go and live in any of the African countries now. Anyway, I cannot leave Thailand, as the memorials for my wife, son and a good friend are in the local temple. I still have to put the flowers and incense sticks there every week. A bad day here is still better than the a good day in the UK.

This is terrible. Just $2.3 million USD down to less than $1 million. And instead of sorting out the country's budgets, the MP's fight and bicker with each other. Always after 'their cut'. How much are those useless submarines again?

Make legal gambling available to the masses. What could possibly go wrong.

But does Prawit have an alibi?

Try telling that one to all of the foreigners that have (much younger) Thai girlfriends. Age is just a number. At 16, I was a part-time professional dancer with many older girlfriends. (28 years old was the record.) 16 in Thailand is old enough - with permission.

You are correct of course, and I am sorry to burst your bubble, but the USA's influence here in Thailand diminishes daily. China's is Thailand's best friend. Anything that China wants from Thailand - it gets. Unless it's own needs overwrite that. Marco Rubio's statement is just a publicity stunt following on from the orange buffoon’s claimed success in Gaza. (Now that is an even bigger joke.) By the way, she/he/it does not have the job yet. History.

Dear MP's Instead of bickering, in-fighting , and trying to get your own noses into the trough, PLEASE sort out the mess that you have all put Thailand in to. PS and stop interfering with the BOT who are better and more qualified at looking after Thailand's money than you are.

If you are coming to Samui by Seatran, there are hotels less than 500 metres from the ferry terminal.

There are a couple of small places near the Seatran ferry terminal eg Baan Suan Resort Khao Hua Bon Resort

The very bright sun here in Thailand does blind one at sunrise and sunset when on the roads. However, the one that makes me peeved is the number of folk who do not dip their headlights when driving a night.

Entitled <deleted>. I think that you are not about to leave Thailand.

No mention of not seeing the red traffic light.

I do not know what the side-walk is like in Pattaya, but down here one cannot walk on the side-walk for more than a couple of metres in the built up areas. In the photo, it looks like there is no side-walk. Everyone is walking on the road.

Interest emphasis on nationality here. Usually, when the Burmese are in the wrong, they are 'foreign' workers or immigrants. Here, maybe hoping to get sympathy from Thais, they are Asian.

No, the bigger question is why were the yellow shirts acquitted, but the red shirts not? https://apnews.com/article/thailand-protesters-yellow-shirts-airport-shutdown-acquitted-c078389fa87fcb449bb936f9fbec5cf7 It has nothing to do with right or wrong. It just about power and influence.

Are you sure? Yes, keeping out the riff-raff, but.... I read sometime back that most of the Burmese Generals launder gamble in Singapore and have other interests there. Singapore does excellent PR work on being a clean city. And on the whole it is. But it is not quite so squeaky clean when big bucks are involved. It is the only place where I have lived, where I was also offered drugs. In the pub, next to my apartment. Even here on Samui and when I lived in Bangkok - nothing.

They have the shooter. They have identified the middle man. (AKA the fall guy.) Just need to identify the guy that ordered it all. Or as Meatloaf sang it.........

Hi, I need to replace the electric gate mechanism on a heavy gate. Remote control etc - everything needs replacing. Recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Oh dear people. It may be the Land of Smiles but you are not allowed to have fun. Too dangerous? Note to netizens. Crossing the road here as a pedestrian is far more dangerous.