Just now, khaosokman said:

I'm sure in your own mind you believe the crap you post but nobody else does. Lots of farangs go crazy in Isaan. They don't know it. Bad drivers don't know they drive bad.

Harris, stop answering for anyone else. YOU either don't believe me because I never lie and you're possibly jealous that I take care of my own and you don't have your own, or that you're just the troll that is only here to argue, and not constructively.

5 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

I doubt you've been anywhere near the places you say you have. I and others here actually live here. We aren't drifters or backpackers. We interact with locals daily, for years. You're always asking for proof but you have none that you live here. I can say I'm living here while sitting at my PC in Nome Alaska, and google places trying to brag. Actual life experience counts quite a bit more.

Life experience is great. You don't seem to have much at all. Sisaket is a backwater town. Most Thais don't want to visit.

2 minutes ago, khaosokman said:

Post proof of this claim.

Which claim would that be, I live rural, or how far things were away from me, or how many others live the same lifestyle.

You do know it's an anonymous forum. I can assure you, 1000's live in Udon Thani province, and they all didn't live in the immediate downtown city. Takes about 5 mins off the ring road to live a rural lifestyle. Here's a small tidbit for you ....

2 minutes ago, roo860 said:

Absolutely, same boring insults, better if posters just ignore him and don't reply to his comments, Fred should be doing that.

You're right, I do waste too much time with these miscreants. Thank you.

Although I could be accused of being 'triggered' by this thread, I'm only going to make 1 comment:

Look how a simple 'slop' post has triggered so many forum members that the thread has reached 6 pages already.....

1 minute ago, KhunLA said:

Which claim would that be, I live rural, or how far things were away from me, or how many others live the same lifestyle.

You do know it's an anonymous forum. I can assure you, 1000's live in Udon Thani province, and they all didn't live in the immediate downtown city. Takes about 5 mins off the ring road to live a rural lifestyle. Here's a small tidbit for you ....

Yes 10,000 for Udon sounds realistic. It is one of the most popular spots. Sisaket would not make the top 5. Likely has no more than a 1,000.

2 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

You're right, I do waste too much time with these miscreants. Thank you.

You have no life. You listed Wat Phu Tok as an attraction. It is 6.5 hours drive away.

4 minutes ago, khaosokman said:

Yes 10,000 for Udon sounds realistic. It is one of the most popular spots. Sisaket would not make the top 5. Likely has no more than a 1,000.

He's pretty big numbers, and there's only a couple large metros there, and us poor expats can't afford to live downtown, so yea, we live rural, where land & house are less expensive. So 1000+ wouldn't be a stretch at all, for any Isan province. 5 mins out of downtown, and it's rural. Few expats I know or met, live 'in town', as it's just too expensive. Unless single, living out of a box hotel/apartment. Most I know, have families, houses & gardens, out of town.

These estimates are probably real marriage & retirement visa holders, so not everyone that lives there ...

Precise official figures for the exact number of expats in Si Saket province are not publicly available, but it is considered a quiet, rural, and less-visited province, making it a home to a smaller, tight-knit expat community compared to tourist hotspots. Most foreign residents there are long-term retirees or married to Thai locals.

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• Regional Context: Estimates suggest around 40,000 to 50,000+ total foreigners live across the entire Isaan region (20 provinces).

10 minutes ago, simon43 said:

Although I could be accused of being 'triggered' by this thread, I'm only going to make 1 comment:

Look how a simple 'slop' post has triggered so many forum members that the thread has reached 6 pages already.....

I think it was quite entertaining, until it became the Harrisfan/Fredwiggy show.

2 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

He's pretty big numbers, and there's only a couple large metros there, and us poor expats can't afford to live downtown, so yea, we live rural, where land & house are less expensive.

These estimates are probably real marriage & retirement visa holders, so not everyone that lives there ...

Precise official figures for the exact number of expats in Si Saket province are not publicly available, but it is considered a quiet, rural, and less-visited province, making it a home to a smaller, tight-knit expat community compared to tourist hotspots. Most foreign residents there are long-term retirees or married to Thai locals.

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• Regional Context: Estimates suggest around 40,000 to 50,000+ total foreigners live across the entire Isaan region (20 provinces).

50,000/20 = 2,500 but the top 5 would be 5,000+. The other ones 100 to 1000.

6 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

I will meet you in the toilets at 9am ,cubicle 2 darl ...and start without me if I'm late

What are you assuming someone would do in a public toilet if you would be late? Also, why do you wish to meet people in the toilet? Are you eating your breakfast there?

18 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

What are you assuming someone would do in a public toilet if you would be late? Also, why do you wish to meet people in the toilet? Are you eating your breakfast there?

Asking about dentists and root canals

2 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

Please don't join the other ones who live by assuming. It doesn't help with your reputation.

Relax Freedie.

Humour.

Ate too much.

Not having a go.🙃🙃

its common area, while i prefer to sit alone unless i came with someone, i already know the deal that i might sit with some insignificant other at the table,

its a non issue

12 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

I see a restaurant called Cheap Charlies so I wander over there ,the time now 9am

,using my situational awareness I notice all tables full with ONE old farangs sitting at every FOUR seat table by themselves!

What are the odds? (Statistically speaking)

2 hours ago, BeastOfBodmin said:

What are the odds? (Statistically speaking)

Consulting TAT Super Calculator now.

Chinese or Non-Chinese?

Oh!

Cheap Charlies.

Silly me.

🙃🙃

6 hours ago, BeastOfBodmin said:

What are the odds? (Statistically speaking)

an empty table would be my first choice, and i think that goes for >90% of all white males north of the equator

odds 9:1

Having observed that most of my customers are single guys who do not wish to share a table (understandably - who knows what sort of nutter one could be sat next to) I would furnish my establishment with smaller (2-seater) tables which could easily be pushed together for larger parties.

On 2/28/2026 at 4:34 AM, georgegeorgia said:

I will swim in the condo pool soon as it gets to 530am , I don't like to go out to early in the dark

It will still be dark in Thailand at that time.

Old farangs only sitting alone due to waiting for BG who has gone to give $$$ to Thai BF/husband.🙃🙃

On 2/28/2026 at 12:15 PM, khaosokman said:

Name 50 restaurants in these 20 cities that you visited.

That sounds eerily like something Harrisfan would say. Haven't seen him on the forum recently. Another incarnation perhaps? Certainly argumentative enough.

5 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

That sounds eerily like something Harrisfan would say. Haven't seen him on the forum recently. Another incarnation perhaps? Certainly argumentative enough.

Here he is, our beloved Harrisfan.

On 2/28/2026 at 6:22 AM, georgegeorgia said:

Oh you are funny aren't you

I record all my times I do everything it's called time management

Recording after the fact isn't time management.

7 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

It will still be dark in Thailand at that time.

He's right you know: Table of the times of sunrise and sunset in 2026, Bangkok

Scroll down to the table of sunrise/ sunset times for the year.

14 minutes ago, BeastOfBodmin said:

He's right you know: Table of the times of sunrise and sunset in 2026, Bangkok

Scroll down to the table of sunrise/ sunset times for the year.

He is not, i looked out of the window.

5 hours ago, Lucky Bones said:

Old farangs only sitting alone due to waiting for BG who has gone to give $$$ to Thai BF/husband.🙃🙃

Ahhh.

A downvote from our serial down-voter.

Guarantees I am correct.🙃🙃

On 2/28/2026 at 7:34 AM, Terrance8812 said:

You just about nailed that. Well done, mate. But it’s 16 hours that he spends on AN, not only 8. He also hates himself.

he also hates.

Thailand, Ladyboys and Monkeys.

On 2/28/2026 at 4:01 AM, georgegeorgia said:

Now I'm in Pattaya ,I thought I would go for breakfast.

I packed my large diary ( which I write in a few times a day all my activities)

I packed my notebooks for my statistical research and analysis

And I off I went , walking through the Soi Bukhao area of Pattaya

I soon found out this " dangerous pedestrian hellhole " required situational awareness from the traffic so I quickly crossed the road to face the incoming traffic which has absolutely nothing to do with my post so please let's get back to it !!!

I see a restaurant called Cheap Charlies so I wander over there ,the time now 9am

,using my situational awareness I notice all tables full with ONE old farangs sitting at every FOUR seat table by themselves!

The waitress sees me and says come in, she guides me to a table and without asking the old guy sitting at one of the FOUR seat tables by HIMSELF , tells me to sit at his table

I look at him , he is unshaven , unkempt and coughing , he looks at me , I said NO to her , I'm not sitting with anyone , she didn't even ASK him , she just pulled the chair says sit here at SAME table

She looks around there are NO tables free with only ONE farang at each four seat table , all by themselves HOGGING each four seat table

I don't LIKE people so I will not go over to a table and ask "oh honey is it ok for me to sit here ??.

Then ..maybe whilst in eating they will talk to me !!..

My question to you is , is this acceptable for you if sit someone sat at your table !

What if it's the other way around and YOU are sitting by yourself at a FOUR seat table and Old stinky Jack cones along and picks your table to sit in the chair opposite would you say F off Jack it's my table !!

My question to you is simple.

If you are looking for a table by yourself then why did youeven go into the restaurant. You can tell from the door and simply turn around and go to a different restaurant.

On 2/28/2026 at 4:01 AM, georgegeorgia said:

She looks around there are NO tables free with only ONE farang at each four seat table , all by themselves HOGGING each four seat table

And yet you want to do the same...

Spouse and I have encountered this a few times. The last time, the restaurant was full but there was a table for 6 that had 2 people sitting at one end of it. The wait staff asked us, and the people at the table, if we would be ok sitting at the other end of the table. Both parties agreed and that was that. There was enough separation that it didn't feel like we were intruding.

I would not agree to sit at a table for 4 that already had 1 or 2 people sitting at it. I would not be comfortable and I suspect they would not, either--I'd just go somewhere else to eat.