BigStar

Been here for decades. Love Thailand & always enjoy shredding nonsense on the forum and giving helpful advice, such as the above.

Good. Except, for some reason we still don't have your spend numbers 2019 - 2022 as defined above. Where are they?

No, YOUR figures are not inflated, of course. They are totally real, 'cause you know. So, again, what are they? 2019 - 2022. Irrelevant. 2019 - 2022. Still waiting. Guess it was just the usual hot air. How surprising. Again, why not just take a course in basic economics to help you answer all your portentous questions yourself, without wasting our time, and then come back to post something possibly useful? <further nonsense snipped>

Could other Russians also visit, or have you discovered that this will be all, no more?

That someone here says there isn't an oversupply? OK, who?

Impecunious, fussy old ladies will constantly be clutching their pearls and retiring to their fainting couches in Thailand. They should not bother even visiting, which might lead to more whinging posts here.

The spend is the average amounts of BAHT SPENT per tourist, per time frame, by group; and those are expressed in numbers. So, let's have 'em, 2019 - 2022 to see if your claims about the comparative spends are correct. If SHOCK! you don't have any, then your claims can be (cough) dismissed as nonsense. Rarely happens, of course.

What makes you think we don't know that you don't have any numbers and were just blowing hot air as usual? Or that we don't know you're now trying to change the subject? It ain't changing.

Not distinctively characteristic of the entire population. The projection of self-hatred is a growing trend, however. Seems to originate from unhappy single white women who influence "men" as well. Ann Coulter always makes me smile when she calls for the repeal of the 19th Amendment.

We don't need to know what you claim to have seen or read the same old tired predictions. I don't see your numbers. Do you have any, or could it be you were just blowing hot air?

What is it about near full that you don't understand?

No, he made that up. Sigh.

That ISN'T what she claimed. During the questioning of the van’s occupants, Charlene An alleges Thai police told her the visa she was carrying was not valid, as it should be printed in her passport with an official emblem. So your survey should be, "Do you have your visa printed in your passport with an official emblem?"

Ah. Let's see your spend numbers for 2019 - 2022.

No, endless bits of speculative/unqualified/unproven research, and subsequent interpretation don't allow you to prove anything, sorry. Well, you may think they do.

Every diabetic once thought that. They are entirely natural in response to elevated glucose levels. But they may have a cumulative effect and very often do. Eventually the body can't cope easily. Then the choice is whether to cut back on the carbs to avoid meds or just go for the meds. Some such as myself choose to maximize the probability we don't have to make that choice. Or it may follow the progress of once-healthy individuals, as in a reference I gave above. One big problem with our ANF Nutritional Experts isn't that they study sick or healthy people. It's that they don't study at all. A bit of clear non-binary, analytical thinking on your part would tell you it's not an either/or choice and that there's a critical difference between a glass of grape juice and a glass of red wine. It happens that I drink tea and coffee daily as well. Basically, you don't have a clue and aren't competent to have a discussion on this subject. Again, nobody is saying or has ever said anything about excess. Lemme repeat for you: First, the "excess" argument is one of our favorite straw men. @scubascubarefuted the whole CIM (carbohydrate insulin model of obesity) with this gem: eating too much cheese will make you fat. That's it, then--get nekkid! Lemme join in: Strange but True: Drinking Too Much Water Can Kill. But you haven't defined excess according to a specific individual's metabolism. You don't actually even know what is for yourself, let alone anyone else. Nor have I cobbled together any theory to suit myself. I follow well-established, published, authoritative, systematic theory. Your opinions don't rise to cobbling together any theory, since you lack any evidence for doing so, just a spin of the same ol' congenial beliefs we've all heard before here.

I find that those are actually signs of being a Brit, besides their fashion sense. Perhaps you're merely projecting. You may have heard that old Ozzie joke: ' How can you tell that an English plane has landed at Sydney airport ? ' ' Because the whining goes on after they've turned the engines off '

A legal threat may serve as an incentive. I got a bill for about B600 and a legal threat from TOT 6 years after I'd cancelled my phone line. When went to pay it, even the TOT office ladies joked about it. They were quite nice.

Correct. The question is an example of the Complex Question fallacy. Either the poster has already been told, doesn't believe it, and wants to take refuge in the opinion of the peanut gallery. Or, he's just ignorant. Topic has been done to death over the years.

I've already been on the record, which you've inevitable distorted and lied about. As you would about any new answer. So you can go back and correct yourself first. I'm not getting into another time-wasting Leaver Loop.

Nobody said Pattaya is back to pre-COVID levels, usual straw man argument. Reminiscent of the constant finger-wagging that domestic tourists would totally compensate for the lack of international tourists. Nobody ever said that, just hot air.

The 8 million in 2019 evidently did. You seem rather outnumbered, maybe missing something? ????

I found business quite good yesterday evening at T21. But our Economists have always found malls deserted throughout Thailand and so have pronounced them just money-laundering operations. I have no idea where they get these idiotic notions.

And there always have been. Pattaya used to have far fewer bars and restos. But when there are many more of them, then even with the same number of tourists our ace Economists intone the long-prophesied Death of Pattaya. One of our beloved forum myths. Russians and Chinese, even Indians, spend a lot. Those whose livelihoods depend on them know this quite well, unlike our bigoted keyboard warriors.