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mitsubishi

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  1. Kitsune,

    Stop trying to make this land like your own. There's the spirit of the law and there's the letter of the law remember.

    Back in the days of normal behavior the punishment of criminals was left to the people they affected, not some distant judge.

    I bet the thief will be much less likely to reoffend now than if he'd been given a slap on the wrist by the court.

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  2. Looks like Canarysun has some real competition in being The Cheapest of The Charlie's.

    LOL.

    I don't know why I'm so cheap, I think it comes down to the fact that when you don't have a job or money coming in you have to make what you have last. Even though I would be a multimillionaire in Baht, It is still a fixed income.

    The guys who have pensions and fixed incomes are in a much better position to spend, jeez, they don't have to make say 5 million baht last a lifetime. If you're on some kind of pension/retirement then you really wouldn't understand about having to make your money last.

    I'm as cheap as they come, but not so cheap with everything. I have a note 3 cell phone for example. I usually try to buy high quality products, but that is being frugal because high quality products will outlast a lot of cheap quality products so you save in the long run.

    I have 100000 baht to last a life time and 28 years old .

    I think op can splurge on the medium sized slurpees .

    Judging by your avatar you look down to your last few satang lad.

  3. When I first came here 4 years ago I spent money like a drunken sailor. Now as I age and have a permanent g/f (who does not work) I watch my pennies. You never know at 76 when you need medical attention and it is expensive regardless of what country you live in. Also I want to leave some money for my g/f to carry on after I snuff it. Priorities change.

    Wow, you are an old coffin dodger! Does everything still 'energize' as it should in the manly areas by chance!?

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  4. Hilarious!

    A community of foreigners - most of whom more or less moved here to enable their incomes to stretch further - are effectively imposing a de facto limit on how cheap a Charlie can be.

    No idea really CH, but 10k a month is pretty cheap. A meal out in a lot of cases.

    10k is cheap charlies ville. Don't think you can play that dance in Bangkok anymore. I find if you head the provinces the place can get to be very <deleted> boring indeed. I traveled all around the countryside and found the (Thai) cities more fun and interesting.

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  5. Looks like Canarysun has some real competition in being The Cheapest of The Charlie's.

    LOL.

    I don't know why I'm so cheap, I think it comes down to the fact that when you don't have a job or money coming in you have to make what you have last. Even though I would be a multimillionaire in Baht, It is still a fixed income.

    The guys who have pensions and fixed incomes are in a much better position to spend, jeez, they don't have to make say 5 million baht last a lifetime. If you're on some kind of pension/retirement then you really wouldn't understand about having to make your money last.

    I'm as cheap as they come, but not so cheap with everything. I have a note 3 cell phone for example. I usually try to buy high quality products, but that is being frugal because high quality products will outlast a lot of cheap quality products so you save in the long run.

    I have 100000 baht to last a life time and 28 years old .

    I think op can splurge on the medium sized slurpees .

    Are you for real? 100,000 baht, you'll eventually have to go home.

    I think I live on around $300 a month here, which includes housing. I would say you need at least $100 a month for food/expenses.

    This can all be brought down hugely if you rent long term and possibly prepare your own food.

    I've met the type. They think they can bring a small chunk of cash and live off it forever. Sorry kids, no can do. This one doofus French guy thought he'd live off his 250,000 baht and top it up off bar work (this was on Koh Tao). I returned to the island months later and he'd sure changed his tune and was leaving, spent his money, border-runs etc.

  6. I'd just bring the guitars and buy a bike and a blender here. If you have friends here you can probably store the bike and blender when you leave.

    KhunBENQ, I brought my old Trek MB over about 18 months ago, unboxed, and paid neither a duty nor a bribe. I wheeled it right of the baggage claim at Swampy and through customs and never got a glance from anyone. Maybe the bike looked old and cheap enough they didn't care?

    Was that a fold up one or did you reassemble it in front of everyone at the carosel from parts??!

  7. This is why Thailand urgently needs a decent educational system

    Don't you mean a culturally marxist system?

    The 12 Thainese values is all Thai needed for their education.

    Farang just don't understand Thai people, because Thai people are more advance and sophisticated.

    Really? How many inventions have the Thais made in the past 500 years then? A lot less than the farang that's for damned sure.

  8. Has anybody given any thought to the idea this tap on the head in Damascus could also be a tacit warning to ISIS that they might not be as safe in Raqqa as they presently imagine?

    A new line in the sand just might have been drawn. This time by the IAF.

    I think it's more along the lines of ISIS being possibly kindred to Israel so Israel wants to help ISIS out.

  9. I encountered what you're talking about the other day, and it was most funny.

    The guy, probably 65+, the girl, maybe 25 at a push. I saw them come into the coffee shop, her in tow, looking embarrassed but dutifully waddling along behind her provider - for the night or life, I don't know.

    Then, when I went to queue up to pay the bill, having previously sat outside, I me his loud voice educating his lady on the economic differences between his hometown in the US and Bangkok. The queue took a while, and he was relentless.

    To be fair to the said lady, even a date his own age and origin would have been bored senseless, not least because he didn't seem interested in her speaking back or having an opinion.

    She just sat there, perplexed, probably wondering when the ordeal would be over.

    Yep, it's out there, people may state they haven't seen it, but, like ball-lightning, it's there nonetheless.

  10. Games up I think

    Could be, everyone thought India was THE place back in the day, but the westerners soon tired of that place and moved on to Thailand. Same same here as the westerners moved on again to other places around Thailand. It's nostalgic to think we all thought high interest rates on savings, easy visas and cheap living would last forever but it didn't. The ship sails and people leave for elsewhere.

    Thailand's had its 25 years of tourist boom give or take. Now it's over to the other ASEAN countries for their turn in the sun. For the people who got in quick, did what they had to do and move on with their balls intact it was a breeze. For the masses who invested all that coin they'll have a fight on their hands to turn a profit or see their condo slowly crumble into dust...

  11. - The expense. Holiday in Europe is cheaper when flights are taken out

    - The Baht, sill way to high

    - Junta

    - High profile murder cases

    - Unexplained deaths through dodgy food/drink

    - Increased crime against tourists

    - Obligatory scamming putting off potential return visitors

    - Obligatory poor service putting off potential return visitors

    - Social media has revealed to the masses what some Thais are really like

    - Better destinations elsewhere for cheaper, minus the baggage

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    You know, I first came to Thailand in 1977.

    There were people then saying tourism was dying in Thailand.

    The glory days were over, so they said then in 1977.

    And just about every year that I came back people here in Thailand were saying the same thing.

    But there is still tourists coming to Thailand in 2014, isn't there?

    I'm not saying tourism in Thailand doesn't have problems.

    I'm just pointing out that like nearly 40 years ago, there still are 'tourists" getting of the airplanes, aren't there?

    I don't think it yo-yos as much nearly as it does now.

  12. may you're hanging around at the wrong places-never happened to me...

    I wouldn't call cafes, restaurants and the skytrain the wrong places, but I guess you'd call them bad right?

    There was this one time at a bar in Chiang Mai where a farang was trying the preaching angle directly to a few of us, but at least he did it directly (or rather tried to) and not 'hiding' behind his Thai missus.

    Perhaps you ought to step out from your cotton wool house?

  13. The one thing I feel sure of is that the official figures will not be representing the facts.

    I would love to see Thailand back to its heady popularity pre 2008 and a more carefree lifestyle.

    The latest I have read that will no doubt have tourists flooding here for high season it he banning of alcohol proposal for New Year and Songkran.

    I look around and even in times when some hotels seem to have good occupancy it is not like 10 years ago.

    You'd have to dial the clock back to pre-2001 or even pre-1997 to get the carefree lifestyle mate.

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  14. Ok, this happens from time to time in Thailand. It occurs in restaurants, cafes and on public transport, basically anywhere you find other farangs that have Thai partners they want to 'preach' to about their chosen interest or even 'religion' shall we say.

    Basically it's like this, the farang starts up a conversation (in English) with his partner about it. Other farangs are nearby, trying to mind their own business while this is going on. The farang raises his voice a few decibels so his whine becomes very noticeable indeed, almost like he's actually talking or rather 'dictating' to them and not the Thai person.

    The subject is very often not about either the farang or the Thai woman / girl, it's on incredibly opinionated politics, ideologies, historical events and certain versions of these events.

    Despite the occasional baby-English used by the Farang, the language and geo-political ability of their Thai partner would need to be at least post-graduate university English to get the gist of their procrastinations.

    As you can expect, the responses from their Thai partner are - "I don't understand, what are you saying?" While looking around for help.

    Yet the farang drones on. Only when all the other farangs are out of earshot does the conversation suddenly end or tail off.

    It's most strange that they do this, especially when they should know that their poorly educated partner cannot understand such complex things.

    I remember a young man told me about this happening in a restaurant and I found it hard to believe. Then I myself was on the Skytrain and a similar 'preaching' occurred of all things.

    So, to those farang 'preachers'. We aren't interested in your beliefs, swirly rainbow visions of the future, delusional nonsense and other attempts at subverting the minds of Thai people who know no better.

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