Apart from Thais working in the tourism sector, does anyone actually want Russians here?

[Will B Good]

6 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Yep, got to see parts of TH, like never before, and that's saying a lot, since being here from 2000.

 

The pristine beaches of Phuket, during high season with no tourist ... that was special.  The North, just as the rains stopped, before the burning, and vis was endless, could see every hillside ridge.  

 

Hotel prices discounted to 'keep the lights on' rate.   We stayed at places, 5-6-700 baht w/brekkie, that cost 3-4-5000 baht now or more.  Petrol was even cheap, E85 was <18 baht 

 

We were the only guests in a 50 bedroom 5 star resort., Mu Si.....swimming pool, but no restaurant or bar, but the staff would order in for us.........linen/bedding once every three days......30,000 baht a month.

 

Then towards the end of covid we stayed at the BKK JW Marriot soi 2....executive lounge for a month.....free food and drink.....1600 baht/day.

[NoshowJones]

On 12/8/2024 at 8:46 AM, MalcolmB said:

Location keeps the big mouthed American riff raff out.

 

Give me Russians and Chinese over obese Americans any day.

I have met quite a few Americans both here and in America and never came across any I didn't like, can't say the same about British.

[Dan O]

9 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Please tell us how it is inaccurate before you make a judgment that it is pathetic

You use that phrase continuously and out of context as a catch all to smear anyone that is not GOP. Try identifying specific issues or a group that meets your absurd claims and not being so obtuse as to lump everything under "leftist agenda". You don't even know what leftist agenda means based on the frequency in which you use the catch all phrase as you have no valid argument.

 

There are many more dem's(the majority) that are left of central and not in the extreme left just as there are GOP's on the right of center but not extreme right. The difficultly you face is like most cultist trump followers you try to paint everyone with the same brush that does not agree with trump propaganda and to try to feel superior. You continually cry about anything that you dont agree with but then deflect your emotions onto the other party. The only ones crying are trumpettes about anything and everything including losing the last election due to imaginary fraud which trump and no other person could prove with their unending lawsuits.  That in a nut shell is why your posts are pathetic.

[hotandsticky]

1 hour ago, Will B Good said:

 

Lockdown and zero travel was a magical time here....loved every minute of it.

 

 

You are not alone.

 

 

Probably the best part of my 18 years in Thailand.

[MalcolmB]

1 hour ago, NoshowJones said:

I have met quite a few Americans both here and in America and never came across any I didn't like, can't say the same about British.

Diddy, Trump, Weinstein, Epstein. 
All class acts.

[Yagoda]

3 hours ago, Dan O said:

You use that phrase continuously and out of context as a catch all to smear anyone that is not GOP. Try identifying specific issues or a group that meets your absurd claims and not being so obtuse as to lump everything under "leftist agenda". You don't even know what leftist agenda means based on the frequency in which you use the catch all phrase as you have no valid argument.

 

There are many more dem's(the majority) that are left of central and not in the extreme left just as there are GOP's on the right of center but not extreme right. The difficultly you face is like most cultist trump followers you try to paint everyone with the same brush that does not agree with trump propaganda and to try to feel superior. You continually cry about anything that you dont agree with but then deflect your emotions onto the other party. The only ones crying are trumpettes about anything and everything including losing the last election due to imaginary fraud which trump and no other person could prove with their unending lawsuits.  That in a nut shell is why your posts are pathetic.

I dont paint all Dems with the Socialist paint.

 

Just the Socialists. You can be a Dem without being a Socialist

 

Now when folks use the term "trumpettes" I know they are are adherent of the ideology of hate.

 

Better to be pathetic than a hater.

 

 

[Yagoda]

2 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

Diddy, Trump, Weinstein, Epstein. 
All class acts.

I dont think your heroes there are the type of tourist that would come to your area.

[ChumpChange]

2 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

Diddy, Trump, Weinstein, Epstein. 
All class acts.

The class is much bigger than that actually: Donald Trump, Logan Paul, Andrew Tate, George Santos, Russell Brand, Alex Jones, Patrick Bet-David, Dan Bilzerian, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, Sam Bankman Fried, Rudy Giuliani, Harvey Weinstein, Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Kanye West, Piers Morgan, Nick Fuentes, Matt Goetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan, Josh Hawley

[Yagoda]

40 minutes ago, ChumpChange said:

The class is much bigger than that actually: Donald Trump, Logan Paul, Andrew Tate, George Santos, Russell Brand, Alex Jones, Patrick Bet-David, Dan Bilzerian, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, Sam Bankman Fried, Rudy Giuliani, Harvey Weinstein, Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Kanye West, Piers Morgan, Nick Fuentes, Matt Goetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan, Josh Hawley

I see that one and raise you the European Parliament

[madone]

On 12/8/2024 at 7:43 AM, BarBoy said:

I pointed this out to her to which she gave me the middle finger and told me to eff off..

 

i reckon she should have slapped you,

[BarBoy]

7 minutes ago, madone said:

 

i reckon she should have slapped you,

well she would have got one straight back. 

[transam]

58 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

I dont paint all Dems with the Socialist paint.

 

Just the Socialists. You can be a Dem without being a Socialist

 

Now when folks use the term "trumpettes" I know they are are adherent of the ideology of hate.

 

Better to be pathetic than a hater.

 

 

I call you Trump voters Trumpettes, but I don't hate anyone, only schoolboys assume that sort of thing.........🤔

[madone]

13 minutes ago, BarBoy said:

well she would have got one straight back. 

Aint you just a special fellow.

[BarBoy]

Just now, madone said:

Aint you just a special fellow.

so you think its ok for a woman to slap a man then, just for voicing his opinion? 

[madone]

23 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

For the next 4 years when someone asks me why I'm from, I will say Canada. I hail out of Regina!

 

Believe me, that goofball is not my president. 

As an actual Canadian, I reckon Trump may be a lesser evil than Trudeau. Trudeau's Canada is what happens when woke goes unchecked for far too long.  

[madone]

3 minutes ago, BarBoy said:

so you think its ok for a woman to slap a man then, just for voicing his opinion? 

not at all. I think it would be alright to slap you specifically

[BarBoy]

3 minutes ago, madone said:

I think it would be alright to slap you specifically

Aint you just a special fellow. 

[madone]

1 minute ago, BarBoy said:

Aint you just a special fellow. 

aint i just.

 

now off you go, back to spreading anti-russian sentiment

[BarBoy]

10 minutes ago, madone said:

now off you go, back to spreading anti-russian sentiment

sure thing, comrade! 

[madone]

On 12/8/2024 at 12:26 PM, spidermike007 said:

I have friends who know younger Russians.

blah blah, blah

They offer nothing but misery, death, destruction and bad will.

how very dull and self-important you are. 

[BarBoy]

2 minutes ago, madone said:

how very dull and self-important you are. 

for speaking the truth?

 

I would say he is spot on in his assessment. 

[madone]

1 hour ago, BarBoy said:

for speaking the truth?

 

I would say he is spot on in his assessment. 

you would.

[CANSIAM]

7 hours ago, Will B Good said:

 

Lockdown and zero travel was a magical time here....loved every minute of it.

I counted 4 souls on the 3.5 km long Karon beach February 2021, a glorious time here, bit tough finding a place to eat though.........

[madone]

On 12/8/2024 at 9:11 AM, mdr224 said:

Youre friends with the scum, and enemies with your own kind. The worst kind of traitor, and an IQ low enough to group all Americans together, the most diverse country on the planet

You speak the language of tolerance and diversity itself.

Very open-minded of you. 

[mikebike]

Every Russian I've met here has been a really nice person. Not that I meet many, but those I have, have been lovely folks.

[DonniePeverley]

Does the Soviet Union let in Thailand's visa free?

 

I know India is bemused at how Thailand is letting in there people visa free, as they have given Thailand no reciprocal arrangement. Thai's have to go through a hardcore visa to get into India. 

 

Shameful

[BarBoy]

2 minutes ago, mikebike said:

Not that I meet many, but those I have, have been lovely folks.

In which language did you converse with these 'lovely folk'? 

[mikebike]

1 minute ago, BarBoy said:

In which language did you converse with these 'lovely folk'? 

English. What language did you think 🤔

[connda]

On 12/8/2024 at 7:43 AM, BarBoy said:

They are literally everywhere now. In every tourist hotspot, in every condo building, in every restaurant and on every train, Thailand is littered with these Russian draft dodgers who show a complete disregard for local laws and customs.

Get over it.  If you consider yourself more special than Russians. Just title your post: "I Hate Russians."

Then we can get over the hypocrisy of, on the one hand, braying that we must be "tolerant" of all others lest they "trigger" us and cause us mental discomfort, and on the other, displaying our ethnocentrism, cultural superiority, and exceptionalism by throwing shade at an ethnicity and culture that about 2/3 of this community personally depise.

Oh the cosmic, comic irony of it all. 

[Rimmer]

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