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5 hours ago, Dont confuse me said:

This may come as a shock but 99% of Thailand is a rip off. I lived there for 6 years so glad I got out when I did.

Came back for a couple of months with the wife .....NEVER AGAIN far nicer cleaner cheaper places in Europe. 

If I had a wife I'd never take her there. It'd be like taking coals to Newcastle! 

It's a single man's paradise. Or it was before the exchange rates got out of control. It's still affordable if you keep out of the GGBs, many of them have apparently last the plot.

6 hours ago, NanLaew said:

When you've gotten down from your high and misinformed horse, go and check on Thailand's unemployment rate and get back to us, ok?

Instead of expecting others to trawl through the internet why don't you check it yourself and then you get back us, OK.

You've got the internet in front of you and a bright fellow such as yourself would obviously know where to find the relevant information.

You can copy and paste it if it's easier for you.

1 hour ago, twizzian said:

Pattaya is my least favourite place to visit, but worst of all is the vile taste of Starbucks coffee.

Who goes on holiday anywhere to drink that over priced swill.

I'd sooner drink a cup of coffee made from a Birdy sachet in my hotel room.

9 hours ago, Trentham said:

Action needed now to save "filthy, dangerous, rip-off, vice ridden

I agree with all those adjectives. That is why I never go there.

How do you know what it's like then?

11 hours ago, Kemp87 said:

Tourist numbers aren’t down because of how Pattaya is! Pattaya’s always been rough round the edges, for some people the chaos is part of the lure! It’s performed well in the past when it was rougher! Numbers are down because of rising costs! Same as Phuket!

That “useless transport system” including Those “rip off” 10 baht baht buses that take you everywhere are so awful ???? get a grip!!

I've never been anywhere with such a reasonably priced and efficient transport system. If you're in too much of a hurry to use baht buses an M/C taxi can get you from one end of town to the other in less than 10 minutes usually for less than 100 baht.

52 minutes ago, Ramen087 said:

That is a pretty darn strange set of assumptions to justify the unjustifiable...

It's a bit more than an assumption if the little fellow fails to report the incident to the police.

He knows he'll be on a nice earner if he does. And so too will the police. It would be costing the Englishman a good 50,000 baht. Maybe more these days.

1 hour ago, Just Weird said:

Another faux hardman but this one doesn't even seem to know what country he's in.  How many Thais does he think are held in the "Hanoi" Hilton?

Well spotted JW.

3 hours ago, Suradit69 said:

Agree with your conclusion, but ...

 

Sex tourists aren't normally well known for their responsible behavior and lofty moral standards.

 

 

 

A lot of so called 'sex tourists' are a lot softer than you take them for.

They've got to be a bit soft to travel thousands of miles just for a bit of female company. Most of 'em are just run of the mill, lonely middle aged and elderly blokes.

2 hours ago, Tongjaw said:

He’s English. Don’t class Scottish, Irish and Welsh with this piece of sheet. 

Too true, a lot of them are 90 degrees worse!

3 hours ago, thisisrascal said:

Anyone from south of Bristol should just be banned from going abroad. 

What about those in London. Most of them originally came from abroad or their parents did.

3 hours ago, Robert Tyrrell said:

Hello to All,

 

Im sure this man is not only a disgruntled individual but a racist as well , We don’t need your kind ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD !! INCLUDING THAILAND!!

 

I’m American and I see this <deleted> even more in my home Country created by our Lying , Hate Promoter and Racist President.

its sad and PATHETIC !!  

It's not really up to any falang including Americans to say who is and who is not needed in Thailand. It's up to the Thais, it's their country.

And there's no need to shout!

You're quite entitled to say who is needed or not needed in your own Country as is Donald Trump along with his supporters.

And why are you sure he's a racist, for all you know he's livid because he's just been pickpocketed. Even that still does not make him a racist.

You can be just as angry with someone of your own race if they've just been caught robbing you.

3 hours ago, Mark mark said:

And the guy in yellow had a pretty broad Book in his hand, ... Like who carries books these days ? ... and the little guy a Tablet, ... thieves often use these books, or pieces of Cardboard, and pretend to be Begging ... or even their Tables I guess, ... as a horizontal screen ... while they just softly bump up against you, and their hands just quietly try to find you money, in the cover under them ! ... (My Mother and I were Hit quite blatantly, by Bosnian Gypsies like this in Pizza once.) ... So I do know this one and well it also is an Old One ! .

I've been the victim of petty thieves three times over the years in Pattaya and I try to be careful. 

Once it was the theft of my phone but it was only a cheapie back then as few people had these smart phones. I've got a smart phone now but do no take it out.

Pattaya can't be much different from Bangkok where crime is concerned.

Unfortunately not all Thais are the little angels some make them out to be.

4 hours ago, Ramen087 said:

Perhaps, but the westerner’s behavior in this case is indefensible. 

Even if he was the victim of a pick pocket?

38 minutes ago, ThaiFelix said:

Thank you.  I was unaware of this incident.......terrible.  However I have been doing a little reading since your post but can only find reference to Turks, not Kurds (but they could of course be the same.  I am not inferring that I doubt you at all but could you please direct me to a source/link?

 

Back to topic, this one incident, if correct, does not negate my statement that the Kurds have through history been repeatedly stabbed in the back by the West.  I believe the first instance was after WW1 when the British carved up this whole area in its greed for oil, without any consideration for the Kurds and their homeland.

 

There are books on the subject regarding the Siege and the Battles of Kut. I read one years ago and it referred to the fate of our POWs at the hands of the Ottomans and the Kurdish guards. You'll have to look them up yourself as I forget which one I read. You'll possibly discover more about it on the internet. 

It was no joke falling into the hands of the Turks in the Great War. Google The Sandringhams the Lost Battalion. They disappeared into thin air after a defeat by the Turks. You can imagine what became of them. Probably the same fate as befell Tommies captured in the Afghan Wars 50 years previously. But they also are long forgotten. Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem about it.

The Ottoman Empire was a multinational one. It's forces were from that Empire and that included Kurdistan. They were not just Turks. 

After WW1 the Turks were reviled in Britain because of their brutality and vicious nature. In much the same way as the Nazi and the Japanese were after WW2 but the fact that the Turks in WW1 had an international army from that region has long been overlooked.

Today it's fashionable to sympathise with the Kurds and there are those who even want Turkey to join the EU!

In WW2 some of the treatment meted out to allied POWs in Japanese camps was the work of Korean guards. They were said to be worse than the Japs but that's also conveniently overlooked.

4 hours ago, stevenl said:

For sure not welcomed by all, but hard to argue with his words.

Well said. 

If our Western countries are meant to be allies of the US when it comes to the War on Terror surely the US and Trump should have had the decency and consideration to let these allies know of any attacks they intend to make on terrorists or representatives of a rogue nation of loonies such as Iran and Iraq.

Then we can make ourselves scarce and not present ourselves as targets in any retaliatory actions that may follow.

He should have at least have issued some sort of a warning to those that matter along the lines of "Look folks, keep out of the region for a few weeks because some fireworks are about to be let off."

I admire Trump but he was out of line on this occasion and those Canadians along with the rest of the poor folk who were on that aircraft paid the price.

I have little time for multicultural loving liberals like Trudeau but he is bang on the nail here.

8 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Try to link me into posts if you are going to speak about what I said.
 

Or attempt to explain why I posted as I did.

 

Especially if you are going to get it so wrong. 
 

I asked a member, who was attempting to discredit my post, to back up their unproven claim with evidence. 

If posters are attempting to negate another’s post with claims, they need to back up such claims. 
 

Here is your actual post, the one that I replied to. 

"Show me the evidence of a plan to blow up an embassy." 

11 hours ago, ThaiFelix said:

Yes, you can stab some of the people in the back some of the time but not all of the people all of the time.  (and I dont think there is anybody in the West who has not stabbed the poor Kurds in the back at some time or other).

In 1916 the British army surrendered after the siege of Kut in today's Iraq. The survivors were marched into captivity where thousands of them died.

Their guards in the camps where these unarmed and defenceless POWs were held were Kurds serving in the Ottoman Army.

At the time KUT was the worst defeat the allies had suffered in the Great War and as it involved the British it was largely swept under the carpet and significantly out of the history of that conflict. 

And along with what amounted to a cover up what became of those unfortunate POWs.