DanielToddGilbert

If you went after the search term "Bangkok Spa" (which is still not super competitive) you would be going after 40,000 searches/month.

No you wouldn't, that is a "Broad" search now go back and try an "Exact" search, its more like 1600 a month, it would be fruitless and a complete and utter waste of time and money.

I got it! I got it! I need to open a fish foot massage. There are already 6,000,000 of them they must be making a killing! Hey, they don't even have any customers inside but they are still open! Just goes to show you what a great business it must be! You can't lose. Oh look, Pom's Fish Foot Massage just closed down. What a perfect opportunity to stake my claim in this exciting new industry.

I don't see any reason you couldn't make it work; you are not planning to sell a commodity in an open market after all; you just need to differentiate your service offering and/or market your shop more effectively

For example, a quick search on google reveals that not 1 of those 6,000,000 fish foot massage shops you refer to has a site that is well-optimised for search engines

It is easy to make a profit without an original idea but very difficult to make a profit without good execution

You got to narrow it down to the area the fish foot massage is operating from. How many people type:

"fish foot massage <keyword area>"

about 2 every month? Who on earth sits at their computer and thinks "hey i fancy a fish foot massage I know I will Google it and pop along to the nearest one".

Well done Einstein, an epic fail.

I don't see any reason you couldn't make it work;

I don't think it is worth to talk about Pattaya so much.

That much you still felt the need to contribute your pointelss say to the discussion about Pattaya,

Businesses are copied here because the copier is as thick as shit.

Is it necessary to blog on here about ones life over Songkran, "i just made some cheese on toast" was the icing on the cake, who really gives a toss about ones daily habits over this festival. Seasonal affective disorder SAD is about right.

I'm about to take a shower - then I'm going to prepare a couple of roast beef sandwiches with avocado and horseradish and brew some nice coffee and then settle down to this week's episode of American Idol where the top 7 will sing. What are doing tonight?

Pouring your missus another drink.

It should be for a month that might permanently push the thickos out once and for all. After all, who retires or plans to move to a city in a part of the world that has this water festival on every year for years and years without knowing about it? only a thicko.

Is it necessary to blog on here about ones life over Songkran, "i just made some cheese on toast" was the icing on the cake, who really gives a toss about ones daily habits over this festival. Seasonal affective disorder SAD is about right.

If I was a young Thai wife to a moaning old expat wallowing in self pity at home alone, Songkran would be the perfect excuse to go out and get drunk and get...

If I could go back in time i would of married TunnelRat69 X after he divorced her.

I think you wrong on the one detail,when the Thai call you farang kee nok it because bird shit is white and fall from the sky just like when you fall from plane and land in thailand

another think...I always to eat lot of cheap food on street and no person call me the kee niow name.maybe your clothes are old and make you to look poor

You maybe right ,but it is also used to mean western bird shit. Many Thais have confirmed this after hearing mere pua call farangs it when they came into the shop when the coach used to stop here.

The only farangs she called it were the wanna be hippy &lt;deleted&gt; with their hair braided dressed like tramps and drunk old farangs dressed like slobs. Although she doesn't seem to have a problem with all the Thai drunk slobs dressed like tramps that sit here drinking all day, but I think that's more to do with being regular customers and she only seems to care about making money.

So many Thais find how these wanna be hippies dress patronising, ooohh we've come to mix with the backward poor people. I saw many speak down to her like she's a stupid poor old Thai woman. She's a very succesful lady and they're some unemployed pratt with an arts degree.

Not aimed at person quoted,but:

The problem is so many farangs come here and don't work (not including guys who have retired in that) sit about all day getting drunk many with prostitutes or girls half their age (good luck to them). Think about the roles being reversed if foreigners went to your home country and did this it's pretty obvious what people of your country would think. Especially when people don't know your personal situation it creates a stereotype.

You will always get low educated Thais that hate you whoever you are, the same as you get thick racists in every country. They simply aren't worth bothering wasting your time with.

More educated Thais in the main do not think like this and love having western friends and whenever you go out with them they never let you pay for anything so it's not about money unlike when you drink with Thais who don't like work that involves getting up in the morning.

arthurwait tells it just as it is.

why was ' My Mum ' not an option

Because the OP is not 10 perhaps?

When I'm 60 I will buy a massive detached villa with pool, lots of land to garden have plenty of things to do in and around the house all with a nice 30 year lease so who gives a toss when/if you make 90. It will be a very nice last 30 years of life better then wallowing around in a rented room until you pop your clogs wondering whether life was really worth it or not.

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As for posters who comment saying that farangs who marry Thai women are some sort of losers that is true in some cases ofc. Many however are normal men who are professionals or retired. Some men who divorced later in life have the means to live overseas and marry a beautiful younger wife. Why should they marry an older woman from the west who may have a lot of baggage. Face the facts unless a man in his 40 - 50's is rich he isn't going to find many good choices of younger brides. Why should men settle for less if they don't have too?

They don't have to that's why many of us are here. I want a woman that when she walks in a room she lights up the place with her radiant smile not lights up a fag and talks about the Jeremy Springer show.

I can honestly say that Geriatrickid is right - dogs are definitely the way to go! They always love you and never let you down.

I duuno about that, ive had quite a few old dogs in the past and they've always let me down.

I am an overweight schmuck that lives in an Issarn village with a girl half my age that can only speak about 3 words of English. I can not speak Thai so we have absolutely nothing in common whatsover, we never laugh or joke it really sucks. The only comfort is this internet connection that connects me to the outside world so i can post on forums how i never met my wife in a bar as i met her through another foreginers wife so i caught her before she left for Bangkok or Pattaya.

She doesn't ask for money because i haven't got any, the villagers don't like me and i don't like them. My wife never looks happy when we first met she used to smile all the time, the only time she smiles is when

i point to the beaten up old chicken truck to let her know im heading off to the nearest village shack to drink myself into a coma on Lao Khao once my fortnightly pittance of a government pension gets paid into my account.

So there you have it, i never met my wife in a bar and for 10 minutes of my miserable life i feel better.

Thailand the hub of expat bullsh**ers

this thread stinks of bulls##

why is that that a guy wants to beat up or kill the guy involved with his wife or girlfriend ?

he cant shag her unless she lets him and he cant know shes married unless she tells him. i have never understood why a guy wants to beat up the lover.

it would be difficult for most men to walk away from a beautiful woman if she offers it on a plate.

surely the women are at fault in these situations and not the guy.

Yes, absolutely correct. But I suppose guys are overcome with jealous rage and have the primal instinct to destroy their 'competition'... also guys hate 'losing' their women and instinctively try and 'reposses' them. Sad to see how we are wired and how much agony and suffering we bring upon oursleves and others. Once you slight signs of cheating from a woman just let her go because 'once a cheat always a cheat'... lot easier said then done I suppose...also men are as much cheats as women are so...

70k salary plus condo plus gifts was clearly not enough for this lady...perhaps she was in 'love' with this driver guy or the singaporean was sleeping around. It will be interesting to know why she called him and wanted to break up...

Passion is the true crime...:-)

Many, not all but many affairs are the result of one of the participants being groomed, fact.

Example lady feels shes not getting the attention she thinks she deserves and a so called friend or associate or some other low life scum bag will pick up on this and tell her everything she wants to hear grooming her day in day out almost like a pedophile preying on the vulnerable. It is scum like this that deserve everything they get though it does not excuse the woman she should of kept her knickers on.

It is enough to drive any man to breaking point, some do break others move on with their lives.

The sausage cart man often stops near my house and has a piss up the wall with a fag hanging out his mouth doesn't wash his hands after (where could he my house maybe?) then just pushes the cart of sausages exposed to the road fumes swinging about with the momentum, nice.

Note there are also some really grotty food sellers in the UK like the snack bars you see on the side of the road where do they p and s ??? so its not just a Thai thing.

It's always nice to be nice.

It will only be a matter of time before these umbrella-free areas are extended along the beaches of Pattaya and Jomtien to take account of the new generation of Pattaya tourists, instead of having a forest of umbrellas which nobody seems to use, or certainly not in proportion to the number of umbrellas about.

Nothing wrong with a few umbrella's for hire sprinkled here and there so it looks nice but to be under a forest of tatty old shabby ones makes you feel depressed just sitting there. Not everyone thinks the sun is the enemy. Lets hope we have a better year next year anyway, It cant get much worse then this year, can it?

I've just lost the will to live.....goodbye TV

lol

It certainly does seem to attract the worst of the worst. The poorly dressed fat slob that claims to be stinking rich when the only thing that stinks are his £5.00 pair of rotten trainers.

A number 3 is the way to go, smart.

Absolutely disgraceful behavior by a fellow westerner you should hang your head in shame or better still admit you was wrong and go back and sincerely apologize and give the lady the 5 baht you robbed.

Unfortunately in other parts of London there are groups who are declaring 'sharia controlled' zones and enforcing their laws like no alchohol, no gambling, even no music!,

Isn't that a face you would just love to slap!