mauGR1

10 minutes ago, jackdd said:

That i got the wrong amount of change has happened to me on several occasions in diferrent places, but i never felt like it was done on purpose, and i think in average i got back too much change more often than i got too less. The highest amount were 500 THB too much, when i bought two shirts for 300, paid with 500 and got 700 in change. Usually i check my change, but only roughly, so if something is wrong with the 100s i'm quite sure that i will always notice it, if 10THB are missing or too much i might not notice it.

If i notice it i will tell them, if it was too much they are always very thankful, and when it was too less i always got an apology.

That's my experience too.

5 minutes ago, Catoni said:

 

   Are you suggesting they are conservatives or libertarians ?   From what I read somewhere... they both vote Democrat and support big government and more regulation. 

    Maybe not extreme communist....  but certainly they are borderline socialists with a Marxist bent.    

 

    They are what we might call "Champagne Socialists" like George Soros ..or "Silver Spoon Socialists" like Jane Fonda.... (who at one time long ago decribed herself as a "small "c" communist")

" Champagne Socialists' is appropriate imo, more champagne than socialists, for sure

Well, i'm painfully getting used to it, although it seems that the logo and the green bits on purple are the work of a sadistic mind.

3 minutes ago, Catoni said:

 

     In over-all global atmospheric CO2 contribution.... Canada produces only about 1.7 % of it.  

 

  And you want to go after Canada and let China off the hook...   You admire people like Al Gore and Leonardo Di Caprio and marchers in the streets and others for their Global Warming/Climate Change Alarmism...all while they use smart phones made with fossil fuel chemicals....   just like your lap top your using now.. and your TV you're going to watch later...

                 They all travel by CO2 producing vehicles...  fly first class in private jets to their five star hotels with air conditoned limousines champagne and caviar COP Climate conferences in exotic destinations.

 

They all want the rest of us lowly peons to cut back on our "elaborate" hard working middle class lifestyle to "save the planet".... while they continue to live like kings in all their multi-millionaire luxury jet setting lifestyles...  multiple mansion homes and everything.. 

 

   If your living permanently in Thailand or Cambodia, or on a long term stay of many months and don't own your own CO2 producing car or little underbone motorbike... ...then your probably taking CO2 producing songtheaws or tuktuks....  If the odd one of you are riding a bicycle... good for you.  "Please excuse the rubber tires and plastic parts..."  

      

       Can you not see why all of us skeptics laugh at you guys ? ? ?   It's very obvious that none of you are really serious....  none of you really believe your own crap.. because you talk the talk... but you don't walk the walk..     More and more it's becoming quite clear that it's all just for a far left/big socialist government political agenda..  

 

  Have fun......  I hope to be back in Cambodia and Thailand very soon.  I miss that part of the world very very much.  This time I intend to stay.  

           

Agree with all you say, apart from the political bit.

Are you suggesting that Gore and Di Caprio are communists ?

The alarmists, as you call them, would gladly tax buffalo's farts while flying around the world in their luxury private jets... Definitely not communists imo.

1 minute ago, Spidey said:

 

I can remember being in Phnom Penh with my, then, Cambodian girlfriend. She told me, quite firmly, not to give to beggars in the street as they were all run by the local mafia. As soon as we were out of Phnom Penh, no problem, we both gave to beggars.

 

it's the same in Pattaya, women with babies begging in the street. Usually Cambodians and the kids are borrowed for the day. They don't get to keep the money.

I heard horror stories in India, about orphan children deliberately maimed for making them long-life beggars.

Mind boggling if you ask me.

1 minute ago, Lacessit said:

I guess that would make their life even harder.

..But then you would be founding some sort of mafia.

Just now, LolaS said:

I know, or I knew them,

Please thaivisa members refrain from these horrible comments about them and their family, you don't know them and stop judging situation in which you are not even slightly involved

I don't agree, or are you suggesting that some member is lying ?

Quite often we get interesting insights by posters who have seen/known the persons in the news.

9 minutes ago, Mikeasq60 said:

I love how in Thailand they always get a confession of quilt even if innocent quickly. Coercion....possibly...more like probably.

That makes for an interesting debate, it's hard to give a clear answer.

In this case, i guess, the Police were almost sure about the identity of the main culprit.

4 minutes ago, elgenon said:

So far haven't seen kudos for the great police work

I think they did a good job.

2 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

If we have a POLL please conduct it in the old theme as the new theme would make it invisible to read or use.  I am having to "zoom in" to read the content now.  It is cr*p.

I can only hope that the admin hears you.

2 minutes ago, ChiangMaiLightning2143 said:

Thats very funny. People who WILL NOT work for a living and survive by grifting are trash.

If they put enough effort into finding a job as they do to cheating people they would be very successful.

You need to look back to your Yoga and Veggie teachings and realize saying nasty things to fellow netizens

on the internet is not helpful for other living beings  and karmically negative.

Now, now, stop beating around the bush, and let us know what you really think about young hippie begpackers

.. and it distract us from real issues, like the best pizza in Chiang Mai or the attire of Uni girls.

6 minutes ago, thailand49 said:

 

 

If in fact, the police did that they should have kept a better watch on the brother but glad that he was caught so quickly that is the main goal.

The feud, in my opinion, was all about the money especially with the brother,  50,000 another 100,000 from the family, in general, yes family ties are stronger than having money but in this situation, I think everything the family got came from the marriage of the two but she seems to have turned into a ATM too and no longer view as family?

Well, i am too quite baffled about some other people choices , it's difficult to find rationality behind a horrific crime.

2 minutes ago, Spidey said:

 

Particularly when Mummy and Daddy have wiped their backsides for them all their lives. No sympathy from me.

Ok, you can start a 'beggar extermination campaign' then, i'm done on this subject

2 minutes ago, Spidey said:

What's the cost of a minivan to Bangkok from Chiang Mai? 300 baht? Enough money for 2 or 3 decent meals at a stall? 200 baht? Total 500 baht to get him to his embassy in Bangkok. Quite possible that his country has a consulate in Chiang Mai.

 

Personally, I would have thought about all that before I ran out of money. Down to my last 1k baht? Next bus to Bangkok.

Maybe he is not as clever as you, you know, young people do silly things.

11 minutes ago, mogandave said:

 

I’m no criticizing the EU for trying to do something, I am criticizing biofuel as I think it silly.

I fully support nuclear.

What about nuclear waste ?

I support wind and solar energy, but we have a long way to go.

12 minutes ago, Spidey said:

17 minutes ago, mauGR1 said:

Yes, sure, begging in the night bazar must be the dream of every rich young man 

  

Actually, it is. All part of the "experience", something to BS the grandchildren with. 

Maybe possible but unlikely.

btw, i don't like see foreigners begging in Thailand as a way of life, but , suppose he's been robbed of everything and needs some money to travel to his embassy.. What should he do ?

1 minute ago, Spidey said:

No evidence that he's down on his luck. I did my first tour of S.E. Asia as a backpacker. Along the way, I met a number of other backpackers. tend to be middle class, gap year from uni or just finished uni and wanting to see the world before joining the rat race. All funded by Mummy and Daddy.

 

Most likely the guy had a return ticket but decided to stay on. Daddy probably told him to go home as he had a nice job in the city waiting for him. Decided to self fund by sitting outside BK pretending that he hadn't got the money for his return flight. If you'd given him money he'd have dashed into BK for a Whopper.

 

Would I like to be in his shoes? All his life in front of him, nice cushy, well paid job in the City waiting for him, bank of Mum and Dad financing him...…..hell yea!

Yes, sure, begging in the night bazar must be the dream of every rich young man

2 minutes ago, SammyT said:

Because it's embarrassing as a westerner living in this country to see other westerners doing stuff like this. As I said - if you have money to travel you have money for travel insurance. If you don't get travel insurance, you leave yourself in the hands of fate. 

 

It makes me laugh that people on here will quickly put the boot into Thais for doing stuff but heaven forbid someone criticises another farang. 

Ok, never mind, we can agree to disagree.

1 minute ago, SammyT said:

Speaking of being in someone else's shoes - put yourselves in the shoes of Thai vendors who work in the area. They see a guy who has had enough money to come here, have fun and then can't afford a ticket home so is sitting on the streets of their home town asking for money from tourists and locals that might otherwise go into the local economy. How do you reckon they feel about that when they see stuff like that? I reckon not sympathetic. About as sympathetic as most of the posters on here would feel if they saw it happening in their home country, I imagine

I don't think so, but i bet some of the vendors would be more sympathetic than you.

I'm not celebrating beggars here, but if you are not willing to give anything, why take cheap shots ?

Sorry OP, but you really should enjoy your life rather then feeling outraged for some guy who is obviously down on his luck.

Would you like to be in his shoes ? No ? Count your blessings then.

Money is no cure for loneliness.