18 hours ago, keith101 said:

I have to ask what was he doing with a 4 year old in a rented room ? Arrest his @$$ .

Maybe he was paying his Mia Noi a visit, the poor boy was sleeping, and breathing, had no chance. 

 

On the other hand, why??? can't Thais pick pineapples. 

NZ locked down on outside labour and extended visas for those seasonal workers already here. 

 

A labour shortage was created in the fruit industry which forced new Zealanders to work. 

 

Thailand came to the rescue with many older women pensioner's helping out, many complained of sore backs but man didn't they get in and work hard for some extra cash. 

Source my wife and her mates, we live amongst kiwifruit orchards. 

2 hours ago, kiwikeith said:

A labour shortage was created in the fruit industry which forced new Zealanders to work. 

 

Nobody forced NZ'ers to work.  The labor shortage from lack of cheap imported labor drove up wages to where they were willing to take those jobs.

 

Something to think about for anyone wondering if cheap imported labor drives down wages.

 

8 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

Not me matey, you're deluded.

Me either, I'm happy drinking home alone. 

34 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Me either, I'm happy drinking home alone. 

I dont have a problem with it also, 

12 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Same in BKK, ran past Patpong and Nana tonight at 5:30 on my evening run with Lumpini closed. Nothing open even on Sukhumvit.

They are not going to have disco lights and sound systems on are they - however many many bars are open - you just need to walk round the back or knock on the door. The giveaway is the lights creeping out from under the shutters and the clack of pool balls! 

23 hours ago, BritManToo said:

And yet a white guy walking around Hang Dong without a mask is a bigger news story.

Thai(?) infects a 100 Burmese slave labourers at factory ........ nobody really cares.

Thai freelance prostitute infects all of 'Warm Up' and Chiang Mai subsequently closed .... nobody cares. 

White foreigner walks around without a mask .......... end of the world, deport all white folk.

 

Is it just me seeing this, or am I being totally paranoid?

So it’s detected, closed down, fenced off and turned into a put up hospital to treat the infected whilst the more serious are whisked off to hospital but ‘noone really cares’ ??

 

????

 

the majority of non mask wearers ARE westerners in the towns - year in jail extended to 18 months for the morons that wear them below their noses for sheer stupidity ! 

15 minutes ago, Bruntoid said:

They are not going to have disco lights and sound systems on are they - however many many bars are open - you just need to walk round the back or knock on the door. The giveaway is the lights creeping out from under the shutters and the clack of pool balls! 

Ergo, why this virus will continue to promulgate through society because of folks who just need that fix from a bar, or a gambling den, or a shady lady of the night.......continue marching onwards Covid, people just adore you....

19 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Was the engineer Thai ? A Thai infecting 112 Myanmar workers ? I'm surprised it's not brushed under the carpet.

But it wasn’t so your point is..... ? 

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On 5/8/2021 at 9:50 AM, BritManToo said:

And yet a white guy walking around Hang Dong without a mask is a bigger news story.

Thai(?) infects a 100 Burmese slave labourers at factory ........ nobody really cares.

Thai freelance prostitute infects all of 'Warm Up' and Chiang Mai subsequently closed .... nobody cares. 

White foreigner walks around without a mask .......... end of the world, deport all white folk.

 

Is it just me seeing this, or am I being totally paranoid?

Your paranoid.

 

If it was not a big news story it would not have appeared in the papers and posted online. Its the people here that do the responding all stories are posted here if any its the people on this forum who don't respond to it. So in a way its us that make it a big news story. This isonly 2 pages. Look at how many pages for the non masked one. Who did that the Thais or us foreigners posting.

 

Maybe you lke to imagine your being hated.

On 5/8/2021 at 9:50 AM, BritManToo said:

And yet a white guy walking around Hang Dong without a mask is a bigger news story.

Thai(?) infects a 100 Burmese slave labourers at factory ........ nobody really cares.

Thai freelance prostitute infects all of 'Warm Up' and Chiang Mai subsequently closed .... nobody cares. 

White foreigner walks around without a mask .......... end of the world, deport all white folk.

 

Is it just me seeing this, or am I being totally paranoid?

You are focusing on information that supports what you believe. 

Confirmation bias. 

Just now, RocketDog said:

You are focusing on information that supports what you believe. 

Confirmation bias. 

Actually I was just watching the Channel 7 evening news.

8 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Actually I was just watching the Channel 7 evening news.

Yes it made the national rounds on the other stations as well.  Seems they are trying to deflect from the other bigger news and re-fueling the the dirty farang angle again.

1 minute ago, ThailandRyan said:

Yes it made the national rounds on the other stations as well.  Seems they are trying to deflect from the other bigger news and re-fueling the the dirty farang angle again.

Exactly true. Must have been a smack in the mouth to the Thai government and the other unelected mouth pieces on this forum that the Cambodians and Laos governments both laid the blame fairly and squarely on the Thais sneaking over the border to either work in the casinos/entertainment complexes in the case of females but also to gamble in the case of wealthy Thais for the spread  of the latest variants there.

On 5/8/2021 at 9:09 AM, keith101 said:

I have to ask what was he doing with a 4 year old in a rented room ? Arrest his @$$ .

My next door neighbours 2 daughters used to wander in and out of our house and have done for years. My son did the same in their house. 

 

Does that make me a pervert or a pedophile?

 

The daughters are now 12 and 16 and my son is 17 this August.

 

When I was growing up as a small boy back in the UK I used to do the same.

 

In fact they both call me Dadda even though I am not.

 

quote from you

 

"I have to ask what was he doing with a 4 year old in a rented room ? Arrest his @$$ ."

 

Why do you "have to ask"?

 

It says a lot more about you and your mind set.

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Actually I was just watching the Channel 7 evening news.

That's not my point. It's the way you contrasted the  stories to imply that it's unfair. Data can always be viewed in different ways and implications drawn that are not legitimate. People tend to view data in ways that supports what they believe.

Maybe you did and maybe you didn't.

 

Maybe farang are discriminated against on a large scale, but maybe they aren't. There are strong opinions and advocates for both sides on TVF. They cannot both be right.