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Johnny, I would have asked to see a supervisor, to see where he would stand - it's totally ok to do so. Sorry to hear you got refused. Btw which airport was this?

I know in the USA with a proper visa of any kind (not the VWP though) you can appeal the decision and take it to a judge if DHS refuse you entry. Does Thailand have an appeals process also??

I'd have asked to speak to a supervisor, sorry to hear you got stung, 6 months is not enough to learn a language like a native speaker.

I come from a big city in australia and am generaly polite and understand how a line works. But if i acted like some of the people here i would punched in the face. Seems like there is a tension in the air as soon as people have to start waiting for something. The person with money in hand seems to get priority followed by the person who speaks up then the person who just looks angry while the person waiting quietly can just go to hell and this happens especially when ordering food. I think i am just looking for the right moment for someone to get me on a bad day for a good excuse to knock the day lights out of him.

Spoken like a true Aussie

LOL. I think so too! He sounds like a good laugh to have around when the booze is flowing!

I can echo that with my own lugs getting a good blast of suction too!

This was in the Camillion hospital in Bangkok. 1050 baht was the damage all in.

How about - You're too old, you're a farang and most of all yerr a dirty rascal whose jizz has been well-used already!

Just joking, kinda....

So you can't own anything you can just get a 50 year lease and only 30% of a condo block can be foreign owned. Not a lot of difference to here really....

Big difference. The Thai 30 year lease cannot be inherited for one thing. Whether the Thai 30 year lease can be renewed is a bone of contention as no properties have reached the 30 years yet.. One in Phuket is about 4 years away and nobody is able to sell their lease because nobody is believing the "roll over" bit yet. Also a foreigner can own freehold if married to a local in Vietnam.

Still not a HUGE difference. As VN is still communist (no democracy) I would think leaders and rules could be changed at the stroke of a pen. Then you have general lifestyle changes compared to here.

That's exactly what comes into my head as well, mention China or Vietnam and the first warning sign into your farang head should be - Communist warning warning warning!

They don't deserve a penny from us for what they did. At least LoS tries to be pro-western instead of 'lets pretend now we're capitalists as well'.

A local politician says she intends to introduce legislation forcing fake guns sold in Ohio to be brightly colored.

Yep, make more laws.

In the meantime, maybe not allowing your twelve year old to run around publicly with such a toy, would also make him less likely not to be shot.

Yes, also if they brightly color the replica pistols the kids would just spray-paint them black anyway, it wouldn't change a thing.

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Still waiting for any logical debate on who the victim is/who is being hurt by someone that over-stays their visa in Thailand. Not like a foreigner can apply for asylum nor government aid in Thailand.

Anyone? Anyone?

Its not hurting anyone much that's for sure, a very small loss of revenue. The reason so many Nigerians are here illegally is due to their past situation. Before they built a Thai embassy in Nigeria the only way they could get a visa was via London which was very difficult. Instead many proffesionals and students chose to buy fake visas and enter illegally. Obviously this was not the correct way to go about it but these are very poor people leaving a country where daily risks include house invasions by armed gangs. Many Nigerians have come simply to bettertheir llives, unfortunately it doesn't work out for all and some have turned to crime ruining the name of all of them. Strange how the criminal farrangs never seem to ruin the name of their countries in the small minds of these same people.

Don't make excuses liberal, if they wanted a better life then they ought to head back home and fix their ruined country! Many of us on here, myself included go back and forth legally, pay our way and support our home countries so they can shuffle their carcasses back to mother Africa and get with the program.

21 rounds really aren't that many especially considering that there were at least 2 shooters. I can see only two places they struck the windshield. Maybe they also hit it in the side.

The 9mm had to be a handgun which takes training and practice for accuracy, and I have no idea what the 11mm was. Maybe that's about translation. The only 11mm's I'm aware of are older Japanese and Belgium rifles but where would they get ammo for them? The closest thing I know of to an 11mm handgun would be a couple of old French and German guns.

Life is cheap in Thailand.

11mm is a .45ACP in Thaispeak. It's not *exactly* .45ACP but close enough for the journalist to stick in for the masses.

Theoretically 9mm carbines also, but likely pistols

Why would they search a church for drug use, Thai cops using racial profiling?.

Time to educate some of you on the drugs trade:

On Nut is close to the conduit for the drugs trade from outside Bangkok in and those Nig. are heavily involved in it. The use the Skytrain to bring the drugs across the city and the bus terminal in Ekkamai is the main artery.

I've seen with my own eyes how they do it and the BiB are busting them left right and center.

There have always been plenty of weirdos here, but there are WAY more normal Westerners than when I first got here. It was nothing but oddballs back then - other than me of course.

It seems to me the changes in Bangkok have been:

More pensioners

More holiday tourists

More mainstream / liberal types

More farang spawning thai-farang brats

More Digital Nomads.

Less backpackers and adventurer types.

Less independent travelers

Less oddballs (they've gone elsewhere)

I was talking to an old eccentric monger back in the day, even then he told me Bangkok had lost it's magic and this was back in 2000! The upmarket trend is increasing all the way across Sukumvit, a lot of the old characterful buildings are being knocked down and silly expensive ones are going up in there place.

A few months ago I told one of my friends that the military will clean this place up and they are, slowly. They seem to be concentrating on a few things and then moving onto something else. The local pill dealers where I live have all been swept away. I feel this will be a trend, unlike the crackdowns of the past, this one is not designed to grab a few headlines. We are already seeing big heads roll and I think this is just the start.

Also, please remember that this scam is not a reflection on Thai people as a whole. There are bad apples everywhere.

Be careful what you wish for, you could end up with it being a lot more than just petty crime but more along the lines of what Toxin set out to do back in 2001.

A lot of farang living the free-wheeling dream could end up being being swept away as well.

She should have refused to pay and asked to go to the station. Then she would've known if it was real or not. You should never pay a fine here without been issued with a ticket...They always stop the scam if you stand up to them and show no fear.. .

Or she has to pay more people. The shop owner the arresting policeman,the desk policeman and maybe any policeman that is in the station at the time. Best to pay up and be gone the more involved it gets the more expensive it gets

This is also a possibility. When you play 'call my bluff' the bluff can actually be even more expensive!

They were running out of cash and needed a tourist injection to boost the economy. That and they know the appetite for communism is wanning, they want a bite out of the capitalist apple!

Fantastic -great idea make struggling business owners give their S@#t away -

I like that one .

Psychology students would have loved his observations on coups and his self image -

He is certainly an interesting guy.

Hearts and Minds, Thai style

Dirty nonce, hope the BIB give him a good shoeing and send him on his way!!

extrajudicial beatings are wrong.

pedos or anyone else. Weird thing is it is usially the pervert sexpats that point the finger, offer no compassion and shout cut his gonads off.

These poeople are sick , treat them with the same compassion you would your sick grandmother.

Chemical castration could be one answer(, though I'd rather ship the perverts to somewhere they could hurt no one). And to the grandmother-part, your sick ol' grandma doesn't (hopefully) inflict life long trauma to the children in her care, now does she?

Castrate and ship who - the pedos or the sexpats?

Just like get my kicks from putting down sex addicts in Pattaya etc , they feel better about themselves by putting down someone more depraved than themselves.

Human nature. Similarly, you feel a little but mi2re secure with yourself trying to belittle me.

Well one group (paedos) are unnatural freaks unworthy of respect, while the other group are just males (over) indulging themselves.

Show some guts!

Democracy is over-rated when used in Asian lands like Thailand, partly because you have the 'm' word to take care of things if it all goes tits up. The military just hold things together until the 'democracy' part gets its act together and stops being such a clusterfck.

Just got some silk that needs restitching, wondering if anyone knows the best place to get it done?

Thanks.

Did u know the original thais came from china from the dai tribe in yunnan china and they conquered the various ppl and tribes in the south east asian region and those darker skinned ppl eventually took up thai culture and customs and names and became thaiized. Same thing with the ppl in issan but it occured later.

Possibly. Also there was some admixture from India. Yet the original Thai were darker until the more advanced paler Asian tribes came along...

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A minor error may have been made in an earlier post about Hong Kong. I believe that the New Territories were under a 99 year lease, but that the British had Hong Kong Island in perpetuity.

Pretty much what happened was the Brits did indeed have most of the islands signed over forever to Britain. The mainland part and a few more islands was the later addition (the 99 year part) that caused the thing to unravel.

Unfortunately in or about 1980 I think the governor of HK treacherously negotiated the complete handover of everything lock, stock and barrel!

Maggie went along with it and of course the Chicoms rulers tried to justify it as being a forced handover (back in the 1800s). Not that they could talk, given their own horrendous track record. Plus we'd made the territory into a financial powerhouse.

So Britain roared for the Falklands but not for Hong Kong.

Didn't the people of the Islands have a referendum or vote on this issue at one point in time?

They did, but that doesn't mean anything to the Argies.

may it is confessed to my area though i would like to read your observations.

Well, if their boss is a soft touch, they'll take liberties.

If you don't mess around and show them who is boss they'll be less likely to slack off and mess around.

If their boss is a farang then you'd better be at the top of your game or you'll end up with a horde of locusts taking everything.

Just go to chinatown, plenty of under the table money changers there.

I saw on television the perfect job that offers one month UK and one month Thailand including free flight tickets. You only have to carry some extra packages that you are not allowed to open. Some lucky guys even manage to make 4 trips before they lose the job but they got a free stay in Thailand for many years as a bonus.

Yeah I think W. Fellows was one of their main employees!

It's called haggling.

Haggle it out man, haggle it out!

I had two of those buzzing around me a few weeks ago. I hate em... Didn't realize they could kill.

I got stung by a normal hornet in my neck! It gave me a buzz of fluttering lightheadedness but stung for few hours. Imagine what a few of those stings can do!