TheGhostWithin

On 7/8/2020 at 10:46 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

I just googled that name. I am shocked.

 

I have been there once, terribly terribly drunk with my sister to celebrate her 21st. I remember meeting a couple from Iran and there were a lot if Indian men. 

I remember women trying to take me right in front of my (Thai) wife, but I was too drunk to respond. To be honest a very fun night, but I discovered my dear sister had an odd thing for Indian men. 

I have no idea where this place actually is, loung (uncle) took us here when we discovered the ambassador spicy on Suk Soi 11 was closed.

I do remember it being a very interesting place that I would like to return to and are how much of what I saw was real and how much of my vision was blurred by the drink. 

20 hours ago, Dustdevil said:

I've always been repulsed by bar girls. My first Thai gf was a mid-level officer in the Ministry of Education. My second one was a plastic surgeon's RN. My third one was a very beautiful and shapely family cook in an open-air restaurant in Chiang Mai. All of these were the finest of women, real ladies (but passionate and open-minded).  I've had interest, as well, from a beautiful airport ground staff girl, and a luscious, wonderful pharmacist. Seems to me that farang men who can't do any better than bar girls are of several types (a) green 20-year-olds who think bar girls are all that Thailand offers. They could at least have visited ThaiCupid.com before traveling. (b) fat, ugly, bald old geezers who have no other choices (c) idiot sex tourists of all types. (d) guys who have no imagination or don't even try. It's so easy to meet a "real" woman in Thailand. Then there's the desperate dowries--geezers who go up to the Udon Thani area and buy their bride with a dowry (and find themselves building a house--in the wife's name, of course--and supporting half the village.)

While I implore your desire to ride on a high horse, <deleted>r those of us that have been in or around the kingdom fir a long time your post largely speaks of the fact that despite clearly having a fantastic period of time to be with Thai ladies, you have not realised that until you take the time to understand how they tick and what their world views and motivators are, you don't know them. 

My wife comes from a good background and has never worked in a bar, she is fortunate to have a fantastic education. Some of my friends that are working in bars are perhaps not so fortunate. 

Their means differ, the way they go about achieving their motivators are different, but those motivators are all the same. 

It is not the circumstances that define the woman, but the family and the friends that define the woman. 

7 hours ago, Tug said:

Finally a republican with principals you sir have my respect a courageous stand now there is potus material!

But you would still vote democrat every single time, your intent formed entirely on ideology and not on fact.

We are fighting those guys in Iraq, too. 

36 minutes ago, Credo said:

If the Chinese were going to get into bio-terrorism, I suspect they would use a biological agent over which they have control.   Thus far there is no control of this one.   It's also not terribly lethal.   

I would be interested to find out just what assistance was offered to China?

 

Probably access to AbbVie drugs on aftermarket conditions.

If you are curious, AbbVie is the company which combines both ingredients which have had an effect on the virus as claimed by Thai doctors overnight.

To be cynical, I was talking with my lovely lady (Thai) and we have realised it is one thing to steal and make modifications to innovation, it is quite another thing to actually understand the underlying mechanics to the degree required to steer it towards a different target (in this case, instead of targetted treatment against HIV, targetted treatment against the coronavirus.

For those happy to sling about the official Chinese Communist party line of "the flu is far more dangerous than this one", I would ask you this:

- The flu has a mortality rate of 0.13% as per CDC statistics (https://www.sciencealert.com/new-study-estimates-75-000-people-in-wuhan-infected-with-coronavirus)

- The flu has multiple varient mutations moving through the entire global population, which traditionally was more prevalent during winter and variants focussed on a single area. With globalisation, we now see multiple variants working in a single area and infections occuring in pockets outside of winter on a greater scale than pre-globalisation.

- The estimated mortality rate of the Coronavirus is somewhere between 2-3%. This is calculated by recorded deaths and recorded cases (14,700 as announced by China today). It is estimated there could be up to 70,000 infections in China, predominantly in Hubei and Tianjin with a single known variant. There have been unconfirmed reports of bodies being cremated without autopsy procedures being performed, meaning the death rate could be even higher.

If the Coronavirus mutated and formed into multiple variants, and agressively spread throughout the global population (around 7.7 billion people), it the scorecard would look something like this:

Deaths globally of influenza: 10.01 million

Deaths globally of Coronavirus type A: 231 million

The only reason that the coronavirus is not as deadly as the flu is that it has not had several hundred years to infiltrate the global population, and has only had 3 months inside the human body as hosts to mutate its' DNA chain to be most effective in mortality and level of infection ratios vs influenza.

This is big, they just don't want to admit it.

6 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

I’ve been passing through the green channel for the past 20 years, firstly at Don Muang and for the past 14 years or so through Suvarnabumi - not once have I been stopped by customs. 

I wonder how many people have never been stopped. 

 

Something very strange going on with this story, the ‘tip off’ seems most feasible, if one were to enjoy a little conspiracy there would also one a tendency to agree with your last comment 'whoever ordered the watch decided to get it at a cheaper price’ !!!! some sneaky goings on !!!

I have been stopped twice, my wife once - in 12 years of trips at least twice per year. Never had any issues, though. 

23 minutes ago, Youlike said:

Good! I wished ALL THAI went to Japan for 4 weeks so they could see how nice a country is when the people have manners, education and respect for eachother/tourists.

They are there... we were in Tokyo last September/October and Tokyo in particular seemed to be flooded with Thais. You hear Thai spoken regularly with groups walking around talking loudly and carrying flags. and no, they weren't Chinese.. ma nee ma nee ni dee dee sanuk dee gwa nak khraab is the kind of words you hear from the flag wavers as their group push and shove through the orderly Japanese.

18 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Thanks for your reply.

Did you consider just asking her to pay the bills without giving you cash?

I know it's not unusual anywhere in Thailand when the woman pays the bill. So it should be a problem for her when she does it.

I know, my wife and I are the same. And I understand why. 

We did not include the family for our actual wedding, for reasons of family politics. So we had a holiday with family (hers and mine) after the wedding. At one point we ate lunch, and her mother witnessed us splitting the bill (we did not yet have a shared account to work from). She took it so badly, that she did not speak to me or my family for the rest of the afternoon or evening. The next day she had bundled herself up in a van and went back to the province (not Isaan, the south). 

So sometimes who pays for what in public really does matter, even though it means nothing to us. 

We now have an account we put money into together for general spending, that way family cannot say I paid or she paid, it simply comes down to which of us is holding the card at the time. 

5 hours ago, GeorgeCross said:

 

wow if it is this easy why not send 1000 planes to every country on earth!

 

 

Elon has finished calling everyone a pedo and will now fly spacecraft to mars. He expects to bring entire populations back, so that they can spend billions of baht at temples and resorts in Thailand and then return to their Martian realities.

Did we legalise cannabis yet?

I had something similar inside me probably as a result of my liking for Larb and Nam Tok, combined with my moo ping cravings with friends in Udon Thani over many years. This appears to be a beef tapeworm, found mostly in Thailand, China, Philippines and Cambodia. 

It is not common in my home country of NZ, though very common in Isaan. They had to give me special medicine from the exotic illness specialist, and the worm I had in me was around 2.5 meters long. I could feel it moving around inside me at night, and at times it would move creating severe stomach pains. The eggs (which look like small rice noodles but walk themselves and can expand from <0.5cm out to 3cm or so would come out of me when I showered each day, it was horrifying knowing traditional worm tablets had nothing but a temporary stunning effect on the worm, stopping it moving inside me and causing it to expel eggs from my body but not killing the actual parasite. 

My General Practitioner in New Zealand doctor ignored me for a year, even tearing into me when I bought a live sample into the surgery (bagged and sanitised) and refused to accept it. As a result, this thing lived in me for a further year. It was not until I demanded to see another doctor for a second opinion that my issue was rapidly diagnosed.

Beef tapeworm are ingested from raw meat, or uncooked meat as common in larb, nam tok, or satay that is not cooked long enough. They feed off protein in the body, it would have had a field day with me as I eat up to 1kg of steak and chicken each day as part of my health and fitness regime. They can live in the body for up to 20 years and grow incredibly long. 

Do take worm tablets, I have started taking them 6 monthly after my experiences. If you have worms that aren't being killed off by traditional worm tablets, see a doctor fast. 

10 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

since they posted it why cover her face (I didn't want to mention the boobs 555) how they want us to be alerted/recognize in case we see her

Always ask the ladies name. Her name is Busarakham. Honesty is a virtue of this woman we can rely on as apparent in the article. 

If you still aren't sure, drop NCC1701 a Pm and ask him to confirm - he will have picked her up already, or she will have picked him up, it is who does the parking that matters - don't be the second one to park. 

9 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

They would have spent the money no matter where they stayed. 

Do people stop eating and going out if they stay in a hotel ????

 

In reality, people staying at an airbnb have cooking facilities, so would probably cook for themselves and dine out less.

I own several AirBnbs (outside of Thailand, where it is legal) and can tell you that although I offer full stand alone kitchen facilities in all of my properties, maybe only 10% of guests cook at home. Those that do, mainly do so because they are health focused or have specific dietary requirements.

It depends on how the host markets the property. I encourage my guests to visit local establishments, and know most of the owners of those establishments by first name (no, I don't get commission).

In return for the steady flow of customers, restaurant owners and staff seem to treat my guests well and appreciate the business knowing it is coming from a local and the customers are travelers genuinely interested in the menu.

I have just spent 6 weeks using BlackVPN in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. I used it to hide my share trading activities and other things from prying eyes. I would recommend their service - you can access servers in multiple countries, no issues or delays accessing their servers. They aren't they cheapest, but they are the best I have used. 

I am back in Thailand after being out for a few months. I noticed two things using grab this past week that I hadn't noticed back in June:

- Bangkok Grab drivers are a very high percentage driving traditional taxi cabs, in the past I had only once had a traditional taxi cab lick me up in a grab job. This hasn't been an issue for me just more difficult to discern which car is actually mind. But the drivers have been good, actually one driver played a part in saving me from serious harm through illness Saturday. 

- When requesting a job, the number of drivers cancelling jobs after holding the job in their app for 4-5-6 minutes has rapidly increased. We stayed at Novotel Nana Soi 4. It seems drivers hold the jobs and make you wait along with others coming online to create a surge, then cancel your job so that when you go to get your new fare the price has gone up 10-15%. This would be done several times, eventually leading to a doubling in price. This made some of our longer journeys over to Don Mueang or Bang Phli quite expensive.

Grab needs to knock this scam on the head fast or risk their platform becoming just another haven for scumbags. 

Yes, the haze has been getting stronger for 3 days now. Today is the first day I can smell the smoke in the air, visibility range is 150-250m. It is raining today for the second day, though not as strong as yesterday. Hopefully the rain will pick up and take away some of the less pleasant effects.

I am south of Amphoe Mueang Yala.

Horrific crime and nobody deserves an early grave, there are no excuses for murder and it shows true flaws in a personality that I wish there were ways to identify and fix before someone takes another persons life.

I noted also the classic Thai game of "hes my friend" used while a lady extracts (swindles) money from another. As we all know, as foreigners we are frequently the targets of these sweet criminals that skirt the law for their personal gain and our financial loss. Some of us not in a position to lose what is taken, but nobody cares about a foreigner with less or no money in Thailand as we also know.

If the act of swindling men (or women I guess it could happen) out of money through deception was a crime, and taken seriously by the law here, and the law was reliable enough, perhaps other situations (whereby the victim of the theft did not have such extreme personality flaws) would end in a court case, rather than murder.

The crime and its motivators highlight the flaws in society, only highlighted because of the flaws of the individual and the life destroying decisions he made.

25 minutes ago, vukovar77 said:

So,for people who have a pretty much THB on Thai bank accounts ,it is a great,right?They can buy much more USD or EUR than they could a year before.For people who live from remittance from home country ,it is a bad.For the most of Thai economy,strong THB is not good,but for a most importers it is very good ,etc.

Many of us are doing just that. It's been a fantastic investment especially if you're an Aussie or Kiwi. 

I'm also taking my first trip to Vietnam in two weeks, to learn about the Vietnamese coffee making industry.

When it falls, back below the median 36 month average Thailand will get back what I have just taken out.

And if they come to their senses and open certain activities to foreigners, I may even start or invest in a local business. Until then, my businesses stay in Australia and New Zealand and I wait patiently, or die trying. 

The last time I saw one of these guys was in June along Sukhumvit. I spoke to him in Thai, he looked totally confused. I asked him which wat he was from, he did not understand at all. I spoke to him in Mandarin, telling him to go away, he looked horrified and walked away rather quickly. These guys or the scam organisation that sends them were in my home country of New Zealand a year or so ago, and quickly chased out by locals.

It is just Criminal organisations from Mainland China exporting their skills. Immigration should be cracking down on people like this - good guys in, bad guys out. Operation Actively X-Ray foreigner.

Three times now, I have been extremely sick in Thailand.

First time, I contracted food poisoning from pork that had been left out all day. My wife insisted it was safe to eat, I made a bet with her and ate it - she lost the bet, I lost my wellness. 

Second time, I ate 10 mangosteen seeds without noticing, not realising mangosteen had seeds. They blocked my appendix and doctors were ready to remove my appendix, I suggested another route and passed the stones after 14 days. 

Third time, I developed food poisoning after eating at Glass House in Jomtien and got food poisoning. I ignored it for 4 days, and went to Bangkok hospital on day 5 as I was having problems staying awake. As a result of ignoring the food poisoning I developed a chest infection. Lucky I had health insurance, the bill was hefty. 

In all three cases, I had to apply considerable pressure on the doctors to get a "doctors note", as they all assured me this was not common practice in Thailand. My employers have to pay me out as sick leave rather than annual leave in New Zealand if I am unwell. This perplexed the doctors. 

Are sick notes standard with Thai doctors?