Chicog

People get drugged and raped in Thailand all the time. Why is it so hard for people to believe?

Even the FCO website cautions against it:

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Violent sexual assaults and unprovoked attacks have been reported in popular tourist destinations, including in the Koh Samui archipelago and Krabi province. These are particularly common during the monthly Full Moon parties and generally occur late at night near bars.

Drink spiking has been reported in tourist destinations around Thailand. Be careful about taking drinks from strangers and at clubs and parties, or leaving your drinks unattended, particularly in Koh Samui, Pattaya and at the Full Moon party on Koh Phangan, where date rapes have been reported.

Alcohol and drugs can lead to you being less alert, less in control and less aware of your environment resulting in accidents, injuries, robbery, assaults and lost travel documents. If you drink, know your limit. Drinks served in bars overseas are often stronger than those in the UK. Some British nationals in Thailand have suffered severe psychiatric problems because of drug use, resulting in some suicides.

 

Happens here in the sandpit too.

I ordered several dishes at a local restaurant and you can see the kitchen, so I saw them start cooking them. In came an Arab gentlemen and his typical large family who ordered enough food to feed the 5,000, at which point they dropped everything and started cooking his order instead.

After five minutes, I could see they were not making any attempt at finishing my order, so I told them I wasn't prepared to wait if they were going to serve people who came in after me, and started walking out.

Amazingly they expected me to pay for the bits they'd already cooked.

Unamazingly, I told them to f--- off.

4 hours ago, balo said:

Iceland is taking over now  .  

" 70% of Icelandic football coaches have a UEFA B Licence and 23% have the A Licence."

and

"The result is a spread of expertise right down to the lowest level. “Here you need a Uefa B licence to coach from under-10 level up and half of the Uefa B licence to coach under-eights,” Dagur Sveinn Dagbjartsson of the Icelandic FA says. This isn’t simply box-ticking. The Uefa B is one step off the level needed to coach a professional team in England. Yelling dads it ain’t. "

The last time I was there, Immigration asked me if I had a criminal record. I said "I didn't think you still needed one".

rat-a-tat-*ching*

When you have a president elect with the worst approval rating in decades, and probably the majority of the population who think he's a narcissistic, egotistical, spoilt juvenile, I hardly find it surprising that people wish to protest.

And it's their right after all, First Amendment and all that.

56 minutes ago, champers said:

Wasn't that 1981 when Ron Greenwood was manager? Turnip came from Englands defeat against Sweden in 92 Euros. Swedes 2,Turnips 0.

You had to ruin a perfectly good argument by bringing facts into it.

Still it's a good opportunity to give this another airing... (And he got the score wrong, too).

You'll be lucky if you can get it to 5.1.1 and it still works properly.

Buy a Mate 9. Beautiful bit of kit.

RIP

http://findtheinvisiblecow.com/

Who cares what the drug taking, cheating, Argentinian pot bellied pig thinks?

 

The Montri is very noisy on the road side.

Your best bet is the DuangTawan. Look on Agoda for the rates you want.

It is just up Loi Kroh from the Night Bazaar so very convenient for that area.

And with Uber you are <Bt80 from the other side of town (i.e. Nimman).

I stay there regularly and it ticks all the boxes (although I never eat in the hotel so I can't vouch for the food; having said that the restaurants always seem to get customers).

Added:

Scratch that unless you want a Bt4800 p.n. Suite, that's all they have.

Best search Agoda, Booking.com, Trivago, etc.

Would the logical (and more secure) solution not be just to do your Windows Updates?

They are after all primarily designed to fix security holes.

8 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

1k/day is too much for the quality tourists, eh? What should it be then, 70b including the shopping at 7-11?

I think the point is that if the Thai government think they can tell foreign tourists what they must spend, they can do one.

Much like that question on the back of the immigration card asking how much you earn.

Who the bloody hell do these chumps think they are?

Vietnam had the benefit of most of my holiday spending this season. They didn't ask me what I earned or tell me what to spend.

Next trip will be Bagan. They haven't asked me anything either.

43 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:

Best quote of the day regarding that news conference goes:

 

 “Does anyone really believe that story?” Trump asked. “I’m also very much of a germophobe, by the way, believe me.”

 

Indeed

And as many are pointing out, urine has less germs than tap water, so what does he bathe in?

It's interesting that both Tillerson and Trump have claimed that nothing was being done about Cybersecurity. The GOP blocked Obama's first bill in 2012, and padded the second with all sorts of budget changes.

In the end, Obama formed.. " a Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, will be made up of business, technology, national security and law enforcement leaders who will make recommendations to strengthen online security in the public and private sectors. It will deliver a report to the president by Dec. 1".

The other thing required was significant spending upgrading government systems - something else on which the GOP frequently puts the kibosh.

So I look forward to hearing Trump's analysis of the situation 90 days after he's inaugurated, and just how much he can get out of Congress to improve things.

I suppose if you slip a few billion into a bill that offers a trillion in tax cuts to the GOP's owners, it will probably pass.

16 minutes ago, hobz said:

 

Hehe its funny how a bunch of trolls on 4chan can make up some shit and send it to news reporters and the reporting goes world wide and now its "well known" what amazing times we live in.

Alternatively you could look at it as a bunch of internet pranksters who are known Trump supporters claiming this in an attempt to discredit the story.

9 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

What color do you get when you mix yellow and orange?

 

Of course it's fine when he does it....

 

 

I'm guessing the "extremely credible source" was one "John Miller".

On 1/7/2017 at 5:51 PM, lkn said:

for example I have been at the night bazaar and asked the parked tuk-tuks about going to Maya for what I was willing to pay, and the first two passed on the trip, but the third one was willing to take me there, i.e. there are no fixed prices.

At Central Airport, there is a "Public Transportation Desk" and a big board listing prices to various destinations. The lazy ingrates that sit there just ignore it.

I would be happy to pay Bt100 from there to Loi Kroh, but they all want Bt150, presumably to compensate them for having to sit on their fat ar$es for most of the day.

So I'm happy to go out the other end and pick up an uber, which costs around Bt70 for the same trip.

I used it extensively over the holiday period and had no problems at all with the driver finding either myself or the destination.

Good riddance to the farang-robbing thieves that drive the tuk tuks and Songthaews I say.

Either they will get in line or go out of business. Either way it should make the others more competitive.

I was told there are over 200 Uber drivers in CM now, covering shifts around the clock, although it seems there are more available in the day than the evening (and night).

Because they're weakening?

"Look, I got that bird's phone number...."

I would think it's either corrupted or in a format the phone can't read.

What is it?

 

12 hours ago, Rc2702 said:

Ok but plenty of gays are married.  Once upon a time I did some PI work and this old head chucked crappy cases my way. This poor woman was in despair as her husband regularly went out and always had a fresh pack of condoms and a bottle of lube hidden in the car so he must be seeing other women she said....

Ah, so we have a "private dick" in our midst.

Well at least they haven't followed through on their suggestion of expanding that "Club World Championship" to a month...

Based on today's news, there is every chance there will be a live stream.

They'll budget for top of the range, trouser a wad, and buy cheap sh!t that stops working after a week.