Nick Carter icp Posted October 24, 2024 Posted October 24, 2024 19 minutes ago, Scouse123 said: From the view, he wasn't in a market or restaurant, he was smoking in the vicinity of a stall perched on the outside of the market as we can see from the traffic. The market is next to the road and the stall was within the market area 1 1
Popular Post roo860 Posted October 24, 2024 Popular Post Posted October 24, 2024 13 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said: The market is next to the road and the stall was within the market area You can walk along that footpath and smoke as much as you want, it isn't in the market. 1 1 1 1
Popular Post spidermike007 Posted October 24, 2024 Popular Post Posted October 24, 2024 Anybody at any time should have the right to ask somebody to not smoke near them, especially if it's a cafe or a restaurant where people are ingesting food. For some of us second hand tobacco smoke is one of the most obnoxious smells in the universe, it's right up there with the chemicals that come out of a chemical plant. So kudos to the stall owner for standing up to this filthy creep, and hopefully the police will have the vision and will to lock this guy up. I suggest at least 6 months in the can and a 200,000 baht fine to the owner of the stall. 2 1 1
Nick Carter icp Posted October 24, 2024 Posted October 24, 2024 13 minutes ago, roo860 said: You can walk along that footpath and smoke as much as you want, it isn't in the market. There isn't a footpath , the food stalls are set back a bit from the road and the market extends all the way to the road , the kerb is part of the market as well
Woke to Sounds Posted October 24, 2024 Posted October 24, 2024 3 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said: The Spanish are protesting about the amount of tourists and how so many tourists are having a detrimental effect on their daily lives . And kudos to Spain for allowing this. In Canada if you protest against foreigners laundering millions of dollars into Vancouver real estate - thereby driving up costs of housing into nosebleed territory unaffordable for mostly all but pro hockey players - you are shamed and called a racist by the woke libterds. 1
Popular Post spidermike007 Posted October 24, 2024 Popular Post Posted October 24, 2024 40 minutes ago, Woke to Sounds of Horking said: And kudos to Spain for allowing this. In Canada if you protest against foreigners laundering millions of dollars into Vancouver real estate - thereby driving up costs of housing into nosebleed territory unaffordable for mostly all but pro hockey players - you are shamed and called a racist by the woke libterds. And who cares? Woke and Uber PC culture is a form of extreme weakness being demonstrated by people without discriminative faculties who are simply following a relatively small herd into cultural oblivion. They must be ignored with every nanogram of our being. Hopefully this too shall pass. 2 1
spidermike007 Posted October 24, 2024 Posted October 24, 2024 I think a lot of smokers just don't realize how obnoxious secondhand smoke is, and they seem to feel somewhat entitled to smoke wherever they want. If I walk into a restaurant and people are smoking, I turn around and just walk right back out. I just don't want to deal with it. I feel the same way about bars, if too many people are smoking it's just not worth it.. It is always fascinating when I watch European movies how high a percentage of people are smokers, it's as if they think smoking is still somehow hip or cool, little do they know how lame a habit it is, how filthy a habit it is, and how obnoxious and destructive a habit it is. Not to mention an expensive habit in many countries. 1 1
JimTripper Posted October 24, 2024 Posted October 24, 2024 That was not about the smoking. Something else was going on. 1 1 1
GammaGlobulin Posted October 24, 2024 Posted October 24, 2024 12 hours ago, Crossy said: Some of us, hopefully a majority, still are 🙂 It only takes one bad apple ... Nothing to do with the apple. Just the worms spoiling the apple.
NobbyClarke Posted October 24, 2024 Posted October 24, 2024 Imbecile, dimwit, degenerate and any other name imaginable. I hope his parents are not proud of him. I'm sure he'd be arrested in England. 1
Woke to Sounds Posted October 24, 2024 Posted October 24, 2024 3 hours ago, spidermike007 said: And who cares? Woke and Uber PC culture is a form of extreme weakness being demonstrated by people without discriminative faculties who are simply following a relatively small herd into cultural oblivion I, for one, care. If I want to state facts (e.g. laundered foreign money had / has a detrimental effect on real estate prices in Vancouver) I should be permitted to say so without being crucified and slandered as a "bigot" by the woke, uber PC brigade. I don't care if the laundered money came from Mars. Agree with you on the other point - they are weak indeed - but I'm not convinced they're headed for cultural oblivion. 1
Popular Post KannikaP Posted October 25, 2024 Popular Post Posted October 25, 2024 8 hours ago, Scouse123 said: There was no wrecked stall. Any wreckage was down to the behavior of the sisters. Of course it's an exaggeration to justify firstly throwing an object from one of them at him, backed up by the second throwing water which was hardly likely to ' put out a cigarette ' it was intentionally aimed to inflame the situation. He wasn't smoking over her food at the stall and was a good couple of meters away from her stall. It looks like he is on a public highway, not in the middle of a market. Gas bottles are used to fuel open burners with naked flames, so the health and safety argument is out the window. Then of course, we have the AN forum hang them high brigade on here, Ban him, send him to jail, revoke his visa, throw him out of the country,...….pathetic responses and over the top! The guy has smoked a cigarette and that is the top and bottom of it, and whether you like it or not, no law was broken. This crime against humanity has subsequently drawn the wrath of the great and the good on Asean Now to warrant a 10 page thread. Finally, we have the outraged Anti British on here spewing their bile against any person of British extraction. You guys want to get out of your self important bubbles, off your small laptops and barstools, where you spend your lives blaming everybody else for your own miserable existence and give your heads a good wobble, Best answer on this subject. Now can Malcolm and Richard please stop bitching at each other. 1 1 1
watchcat Posted October 25, 2024 Posted October 25, 2024 7 hours ago, spidermike007 said: they think smoking is still somehow hip or cool I don't think so, they're just addicted to the drug. 1 1
KannikaP Posted October 25, 2024 Posted October 25, 2024 9 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said: The market is next to the road and the stall was within the market area There was probably more obnoxious, dangerous fumes coming from the traffic, and her cooking hob, than from one man's ciggie. 1 1
transam Posted October 25, 2024 Posted October 25, 2024 12 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said: Try not to think about her , you'll only get upset again. May I suggest, it is you that is upset, probably shunned by the bloke.......😪 1
Popular Post Bday Prang Posted October 25, 2024 Popular Post Posted October 25, 2024 12 hours ago, James9999 said: Why do people always get this saying wrong. It is I wouldn't p155 on his head if his hair was on fire. Not where i come from it isn't. 2 1
newnative Posted October 25, 2024 Posted October 25, 2024 Deport the jerk and ban him for 10 years. 1
rumeaug Posted October 25, 2024 Posted October 25, 2024 19 hours ago, mancub said: Flematic....? Hum ....sorry, say what ? Phlegmatic 🙂 1
Popular Post Lokie Posted October 25, 2024 Popular Post Posted October 25, 2024 22 hours ago, Gottfrid said: The vendors have nothing to apologize for. They are not responsible for this madman and his aggressive attitude disorder. Will probably blame PTSD from Falklands! Total idot! He should not have smoked near the stall. However I dont know which video you watched but it clearly Shows the Vendor throw a bucket at the Brit while telling him to <deleted> Off in English, he replies No, you <deleted> off she started it. At this point the Vendors Sister ran from behind the Stall to throw a bucket of water over him. So think your statement is not quite balanced to say the least. 3 1
owl sees all Posted October 25, 2024 Posted October 25, 2024 45 minutes ago, newnative said: Deport the jerk and ban him for 10 years. What about castration? That would calm him. 1
Gottfrid Posted October 25, 2024 Posted October 25, 2024 45 minutes ago, Lokie said: He should not have smoked near the stall. However I dont know which video you watched but it clearly Shows the Vendor throw a bucket at the Brit while telling him to <deleted> Off in English, he replies No, you <deleted> off she started it. At this point the Vendors Sister ran from behind the Stall to throw a bucket of water over him. So think your statement is not quite balanced to say the least. Your comment is laughable. People saw, and you can also see that he smacks on the table in an aggressive manner, before shouting and walking out. You really think Thai people working selling in market stands attack people without a reason? You must be new here. 2
MalcolmB Posted October 25, 2024 Posted October 25, 2024 51 minutes ago, Gottfrid said: You must be new here. How long have you been here old timer?
Gottfrid Posted October 25, 2024 Posted October 25, 2024 10 minutes ago, MalcolmB said: How long have you been here old timer? Do you enjoy jumping on everything I post? You just love me too much Malcolm. ❤️ Actually been here for about 25 years now. Although I am only in my middle 50s, so if you see that as old timer, sure then it is like that. I settled in Thailand when I was 30, and lived here since then. How about you?
richard_smith237 Posted October 25, 2024 Posted October 25, 2024 14 hours ago, MalcolmB said: 14 hours ago, richard_smith237 said: This bias is further reflected in your unbalanced positive favouritism toward Thais If you don’t like the Thais you really should pack your bags and leave to some country where you do like the people. You have failed yet again at the most simplistic point of the debate - I critiqued your absense of balance due to the manner in which you apply an unwavering positive favouritism toward Thais... This has no connection or relevance whatsoever to my fondness of Thai's. The rest of your comment was ignored as it steps further past the line where outright stupidity is tolerated.
richard_smith237 Posted October 25, 2024 Posted October 25, 2024 13 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said: 14 hours ago, richard_smith237 said: Thats true... but I thin its also fair to suggest that the protests are also trigged to some extend by the behavior of tourists in those areas. IF the area's were just busy, but all tourists behaved so respectfully and politely, I suspect the anti-foreign sentiment in these areas may not exist to such an extent to lead to protests. As well as the Balearic islands, the same occurred in the Canaries and other major tourist area's of Spain and in the cities such as Barcelona and Malaga. Expand The protests are nothing to do with the behaviour of the tourists or Brexit , its the sheer amount of tourists is what they are protesting about . Al- Jazzera , CNN , The Guardian, take your pick https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=6ac826d67940f619&sxsrf=ADLYWIJX1tSQ3UyojnFgv3_jEiaQy65EeA:1729780163086&q=Why+are+people+in+Spain+protesting+tourism%3F&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjj76OhnaeJAxVWT2wGHZ_rG0wQzmd6BAhHEAY&biw=1255&bih=533&dpr=1.53 Nick... I agree with you regarding 'what the protests are about'.... ... But I also suspect there is a trigger point and that may well have been the level of disregard shown to the the locals and local area by tourists visiting that area..
MalcolmB Posted October 25, 2024 Posted October 25, 2024 15 minutes ago, Gottfrid said: Do you enjoy jumping on everything I post? You just love me too much Malcolm. ❤️ Actually been here for about 25 years now. Although I am only in my middle 50s, so if you see that as old timer, sure then it is like that. I settled in Thailand when I was 30, and lived here since then. How about you? Just came over this year. Same age as you, but I am retired. Looking at doing some investments here but I don’t want to work, more passive investing, there are a lot of opportunities here. Had a couple of holidays here before that though. Nice country, nice people. i really like it.
Popular Post Scouse123 Posted October 25, 2024 Popular Post Posted October 25, 2024 12 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said: There isn't a footpath , the food stalls are set back a bit from the road and the market extends all the way to the road , the kerb is part of the market as well No, I am not having that, that would mean pedestrians have no right of way to walk next to a road. Markets don't own the kerbs, though they often encroach on them, hence various means and methods to get markets moved. How often previously was it we have to move into the road to negotiate our way around food trolleys and carts occupying the pavements in Bangkok. These are attempts to commandeer public spaces and rights of way by stallholders. It is no better than those who place bollards and obstacles outside their shops so they can reserve parking for themselves in public streets and rights of way. 1 1 1
Scouse123 Posted October 25, 2024 Posted October 25, 2024 12 hours ago, roo860 said: You can walk along that footpath and smoke as much as you want, it isn't in the market. For sure. 1
MalcolmB Posted October 25, 2024 Posted October 25, 2024 13 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said: You have failed yet again at the most simplistic point of the debate - I critiqued your absense of balance due to the manner in which you apply an unwavering positive favouritism toward Thais... look mate, you can defend the idiot. But he was totally out of line 1) smoking and blowing smoke all over her and her food and customers 2) Yelling and swearing at her 3) wrecking the woman’s stall. I remember reading that you have also had many confrontations and conflicts with Thais in Thailand, similar behavior, yelling and swearing, aggression. An underlying, seething issue so you take these reports as an opportunity to vent your frustrations. All I am saying is I don’t think Thailand is for you, and you are not for Thailand. Do yourself a favor, and the Thais a favor and move along and find happiness. Life is too short to be unhappy. 1 2
Popular Post Scouse123 Posted October 25, 2024 Popular Post Posted October 25, 2024 9 hours ago, NobbyClarke said: Imbecile, dimwit, degenerate and any other name imaginable. I hope his parents are not proud of him. I'm sure he'd be arrested in England. For what? Smoking in Thailand? 1 2
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