Wont Be Many Brits Left Here Soon 47 Baht To Sterling Oh Dear

[chiang mai]

I can't decide whether to go to Australia or Thailand this year for a holiday. So I decided to weigh up the pros and cons of both.

Australia has a load of Cons, but Thailand has lots of Pros.

[mca]

Poms going home! There is a god after all.

There is a God, and he made England such a green and pleasant place. Over the years some bad men, scoundrels, vagabonds, and vagrants, criminal classes all, convicts of the lowest order, and whores amongst them, came to scar Gods Country.

So God, seeing what was happening to his wonderful creation, sent a gift to the people of England. He sent them the new land of Australia, and said......... "Send all the bad men, scoundrels, vagabonds, and vagrants, criminal classes all, convicts of the lowest order, and whores amongst them, to this new land of Australia".

So the English did as they were told..........

And then, for the princely sum of 200 shillings, God did say unto the Brits, cast out the rest of your undesirables so that they shall spread their seed afar and not allow their tattooed, replica footie short wearing, chain smoking, cheap beer in public swilling, coarse mouthed , slovenly brood to sully the land of Albion forevermore. And the Lord decreed " These outcasts shall be known as 10 pound Poms"

Unfortunately many escaped the wrath of the Lord and still to this day inhabit the land of fertile fields and lush pastures that is forever mine.

( All in jest )!

[rgs2001uk]

Poms going home! There is a god after all.

There is a God, and he made England such a green and pleasant place. Over the years some bad men, scoundrels, vagabonds, and vagrants, criminal classes all, convicts of the lowest order, and whores amongst them, came to scar Gods Country.

So God, seeing what was happening to his wonderful creation, sent a gift to the people of England. He sent them the new land of Australia, and said......... "Send all the bad men, scoundrels, vagabonds, and vagrants, criminal classes all, convicts of the lowest order, and whores amongst them, to this new land of Australia".

So the English did as they were told..........

And then, for the princely sum of 200 shillings, God did say unto the Brits, cast out the rest of your undesirables so that they shall spread their seed afar and not allow their tattooed, replica footie short wearing, chain smoking, cheap beer in public swilling, coarse mouthed , slovenly brood to sully the land of Albion forevermore. And the Lord decreed " These outcasts shall be known as 10 pound Poms"

Unfortunately many escaped the wrath of the Lord and still to this day inhabit the land of fertile fields and lush pastures that is forever mine.

( All in jest )!

For a moment there I thought you were referring to the quaint little fishing village on the Eastern Sea Board.

[mca]

Poms going home! There is a god after all.

There is a God, and he made England such a green and pleasant place. Over the years some bad men, scoundrels, vagabonds, and vagrants, criminal classes all, convicts of the lowest order, and whores amongst them, came to scar Gods Country.

So God, seeing what was happening to his wonderful creation, sent a gift to the people of England. He sent them the new land of Australia, and said......... "Send all the bad men, scoundrels, vagabonds, and vagrants, criminal classes all, convicts of the lowest order, and whores amongst them, to this new land of Australia".

So the English did as they were told..........

And then, for the princely sum of 200 shillings, God did say unto the Brits, cast out the rest of your undesirables so that they shall spread their seed afar and not allow their tattooed, replica footie short wearing, chain smoking, cheap beer in public swilling, coarse mouthed , slovenly brood to sully the land of Albion forevermore. And the Lord decreed " These outcasts shall be known as 10 pound Poms"

Unfortunately many escaped the wrath of the Lord and still to this day inhabit the land of fertile fields and lush pastures that is forever mine.

( All in jest )!

For a moment there I thought you were referring to the quaint little fishing village on the Eastern Sea Board.

not ipswich surely!

[Ricardo]

Poms going home! There is a god after all.

There is a God, and he made England such a green and pleasant place. Over the years some bad men, scoundrels, vagabonds, and vagrants, criminal classes all, convicts of the lowest order, and whores amongst them, came to scar Gods Country.

So God, seeing what was happening to his wonderful creation, sent a gift to the people of England. He sent them the new land of Australia, and said......... "Send all the bad men, scoundrels, vagabonds, and vagrants, criminal classes all, convicts of the lowest order, and whores amongst them, to this new land of Australia".

So the English did as they were told..........

It's even better than that, if I remember my history & folklore correctly ...

We'd previously been shipping all of our miscreants off to our American Colonies, until the coming of the Revolution left us nowhere to dump them. Thus all the smugglers & poachers & naughty scullery-maids had previously been transformed into fine upstanding 'Mericans ! Which might explain a few things ?

The prisoners were piling-up, in the county-gaols & prison-hulks, for several years thereafter, which was costing the government money. A situation which definitely couldn't be allowed to continue, as this was before the private corrections-facilities industry had been thought up, as a way to make money out of convicts.

So some bright spark in the civil-service recalled that Van Diemen's Land had been discovered some 20 years earlier, and was even farther-away and more out-of-mind than America. Thus was the First Fleet and the fabled Land of GodZone born. Except for Western-Australia, which an Aussie mate proudly informs me, was never the recipient of any convict-ships, being colonised solely by voluntary settlers.

But nowadays the British government has devised the even-more-cunning stratagem, of making the UK so bad to actually live-in, that all of us 'gentlemen of enterprise & virtue' pay our own blasted fares (+ Airport Departure Tax), and the convict-ships have been replaced by Thai Airways' jumbo-jets hauling 'tourists' to live in Pattaya and Jomtien instead. We are indeed part of a long historical progression !

[nong38]

The rate has just gone back above 48, can we have rest again now?

Did I understand that Thai airways are taking £10 pound Poms ( free of all taxes and airline duties) from the old land of plenty but now full of imported riff raff to the new golden pavements of Bungalow-Bump-Bump?

[theblether]

Poms going home! There is a god after all.

There is a God, and he made England such a green and pleasant place. Over the years some bad men, scoundrels, vagabonds, and vagrants, criminal classes all, convicts of the lowest order, and whores amongst them, came to scar Gods Country.

So God, seeing what was happening to his wonderful creation, sent a gift to the people of England. He sent them the new land of Australia, and said......... "Send all the bad men, scoundrels, vagabonds, and vagrants, criminal classes all, convicts of the lowest order, and whores amongst them, to this new land of Australia".

So the English did as they were told..........

It's even better than that, if I remember my history & folklore correctly ...

We'd previously been shipping all of our miscreants off to our American Colonies, until the coming of the Revolution left us nowhere to dump them. Thus all the smugglers & poachers & naughty scullery-maids had previously been transformed into fine upstanding 'Mericans ! Which might explain a few things ?

The prisoners were piling-up, in the county-gaols & prison-hulks, for several years thereafter, which was costing the government money. A situation which definitely couldn't be allowed to continue, as this was before the private corrections-facilities industry had been thought up, as a way to make money out of convicts.

So some bright spark in the civil-service recalled that Van Diemen's Land had been discovered some 20 years earlier, and was even farther-away and more out-of-mind than America. Thus was the First Fleet and the fabled Land of GodZone born. Except for Western-Australia, which an Aussie mate proudly informs me, was never the recipient of any convict-ships, being colonised solely by voluntary settlers.

But nowadays the British government has devised the even-more-cunning stratagem, of making the UK so bad to actually live-in, that all of us 'gentlemen of enterprise & virtue' pay our own blasted fares (+ Airport Departure Tax), and the convict-ships have been replaced by Thai Airways' jumbo-jets hauling 'tourists' to live in Pattaya and Jomtien instead. We are indeed part of a long historical progression !

At the end of the day the so called War of Independence was just one big tax dodging exercise. We shouldn't have been surprised at that though, knowing the character of people we had allowed to set sail to America.

mca wrote

And then, for the princely sum of 200 shillings, <br style="color: rgb(28, 40, 55); font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(250, 251, 252); ">Unfortunately many escaped the wrath of the Lord and still to this day inhabit the land of fertile fields and lush pastures that is forever mine.<br style="color: rgb(28, 40, 55); font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(250, 251, 252); "><br style="color: rgb(28, 40, 55); font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(250, 251, 252); "><br style="color: rgb(28, 40, 55); font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(250, 251, 252); ">

( All in jest )!

Which as they say, never a truer word is said than said in jest.................however!! mca overlooked something...................

..........God did say unto the Brits, cast out the rest of your undesirables so that they shall spread their seed afar and not allow their tattooed, replica footie short wearing, chain smoking, cheap beer in public swilling, coarse mouthed , slovenly brood to sully the land of Albion forevermore. And the Lord decreed " These outcasts shall be known as 10 pound Poms"..........

However he did also say under his breath " I've always been envious of my boys dalliance with Mary Magdalene, and I would love to have a two week package holiday in Pattaya, however if my publicist found out he would have a heart attack"

So being a good and bountiful God, while cleverly disguising a wicked sense of humour, he allowed some of the miscreants bound for Australia to escape and remain in beautiful old Albion.......thinking to himself that even though he couldn't go to Pattaya himself he could at least enjoy the sight of the Fruits of Albion taking advantage of the Fruits of Thailand, and having the side benefit of upsetting all those pretentious up themselves Yanks and Spanks who feel the need to post stupid topics on Thaivisa about the Brits going home soon.

God truly is an Englishman.

[pattayadingo]

I am NOT going home. OK??

Edited December 8, 2011 by pattayadingo

[elliss]

Thankfully not being Euro dependant I am able to dream at night, God alone only knows how those poor Euro dependant souls sleep at night, nightmarish scenario I would imagine.

ASAP

The Euro reminds me of a rancid rabid soi dog, they shoot horses dont they?

The sooner we see the return of the mighty DM the better, those Greek commies can kiss my ass.

NOT ON ,

THE ZERO ZONE ,

relies on the good people of germany ,

for take care of them .

i dream of the dear old gbp , being the GBP a gin .

:jap:

[theblether]

I am NOT going home. OK??

Quite right, you tell them!!!

By the way.......I'm a Scotsman, I'm sticking up for the English for two reasons.............

1. I don't like seeing the poor wee souls getting victimized by all those naughty Thaivisa members from the Colonies, ( and yes America, that includes you ).............and

2. It's not in our nature to see a fight and not get involved

[Ricardo]

...thinking to himself that even though he couldn't go to Pattaya himself he could at least enjoy the sight of the Fruits of Albion taking advantage of the Fruits of Thailand

International-friendship and the meeting of differing-cultures is indeed a Good Thing, in the Sight of the Lord, Bless Them All ! :jap:

[JSixpack]

Keeps me awake every night with worry, this topic, that there won't be many Brits left here.

[Thongkorn]

Before i start I am not on drugs or drunk . The pound will rise against the Euro and the Dollar, it will take time, maybe next year about June July. the Asian economy's have not yet been affected by the Global financial downturn very much yet. , but it will start biting soon.Even China is now starting to hurt a Little.

[ajarnpot]

Well there is the AAA rating that remains for GBP, I have a sneaky suspicion that most euro currency countrys will not be holding their ratings from any agency

[wandrinstar]

Asian Currency and Nations don't support Aliens . Who are the Fools ?.. We have given our wealth away Via Lefty Leaders. . Now there is bugger all for my Pension.Same for all those who fought in WW2. Why did they bother.

[billd766]

Poms going home! There is a god after all.

There is a God, and he made England such a green and pleasant place. Over the years some bad men, scoundrels, vagabonds, and vagrants, criminal classes all, convicts of the lowest order, and whores amongst them, came to scar Gods Country.

So God, seeing what was happening to his wonderful creation, sent a gift to the people of England. He sent them the new land of Australia, and said......... "Send all the bad men, scoundrels, vagabonds, and vagrants, criminal classes all, convicts of the lowest order, and whores amongst them, to this new land of Australia".

So the English did as they were told..........

It's even better than that, if I remember my history & folklore correctly ...

We'd previously been shipping all of our miscreants off to our American Colonies, until the coming of the Revolution left us nowhere to dump them. Thus all the smugglers & poachers & naughty scullery-maids had previously been transformed into fine upstanding 'Mericans ! Which might explain a few things ?

The prisoners were piling-up, in the county-gaols & prison-hulks, for several years thereafter, which was costing the government money. A situation which definitely couldn't be allowed to continue, as this was before the private corrections-facilities industry had been thought up, as a way to make money out of convicts.

So some bright spark in the civil-service recalled that Van Diemen's Land had been discovered some 20 years earlier, and was even farther-away and more out-of-mind than America. Thus was the First Fleet and the fabled Land of GodZone born. Except for Western-Australia, which an Aussie mate proudly informs me, was never the recipient of any convict-ships, being colonised solely by voluntary settlers.

But nowadays the British government has devised the even-more-cunning stratagem, of making the UK so bad to actually live-in, that all of us 'gentlemen of enterprise & virtue' pay our own blasted fares (+ Airport Departure Tax), and the convict-ships have been replaced by Thai Airways' jumbo-jets hauling 'tourists' to live in Pattaya and Jomtien instead. We are indeed part of a long historical progression !

At the end of the day the so called War of Independence was just one big tax dodging exercise. We shouldn't have been surprised at that though, knowing the character of people we had allowed to set sail to America.

mca wrote

And then, for the princely sum of 200 shillings, <br style="color: rgb(28, 40, 55); font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(250, 251, 252); ">Unfortunately many escaped the wrath of the Lord and still to this day inhabit the land of fertile fields and lush pastures that is forever mine.<br style="color: rgb(28, 40, 55); font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(250, 251, 252); "><br style="color: rgb(28, 40, 55); font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(250, 251, 252); "><br style="color: rgb(28, 40, 55); font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(250, 251, 252); ">

( All in jest )!

Which as they say, never a truer word is said than said in jest.................however!! mca overlooked something...................

..........God did say unto the Brits, cast out the rest of your undesirables so that they shall spread their seed afar and not allow their tattooed, replica footie short wearing, chain smoking, cheap beer in public swilling, coarse mouthed , slovenly brood to sully the land of Albion forevermore. And the Lord decreed " These outcasts shall be known as 10 pound Poms"..........

However he did also say under his breath " I've always been envious of my boys dalliance with Mary Magdalene, and I would love to have a two week package holiday in Pattaya, however if my publicist found out he would have a heart attack"

So being a good and bountiful God, while cleverly disguising a wicked sense of humour, he allowed some of the miscreants bound for Australia to escape and remain in beautiful old Albion.......thinking to himself that even though he couldn't go to Pattaya himself he could at least enjoy the sight of the Fruits of Albion taking advantage of the Fruits of Thailand, and having the side benefit of upsetting all those pretentious up themselves Yanks and Spanks who feel the need to post stupid topics on Thaivisa about the Brits going home soon.

God truly is an Englishman.

No She is not.

[autan]

45 two years ago, can anyone see the light if any ) at the end of the tunnel ? not much better here in uk, a can of corned beef is on average £160, it was half that price 2 years ago, gas has doubled, electric has doubled , most food has doubled. scary days indeed

Correction required here. Food has gone up by 9% over the past 2 years, while gas and electricity have increased by an average of 30%. Airfairs to Thailand from Manchester have increased by 22% on average.

Things are bad, there going to get a whole lot worse. Unless Thailand start acting like a third world country again it will be the next Greece. We really dont want that to happen, most of us arnt married to Greeks, were married to (or a good as) to Thai girls though.

[autan]

As an Englishman from Lancashire here thank you very much. I have too say, we Brits seem to have a red bum this day. Our glorious leader (Mr Cameron) had the balls to stand up for us today in Europe and them to stick their fiscal whatever it is there doing up there (well yes, there), that hasnt happened since Thatcher. The Austailians are thanking us ( I know ?!?) for inflicted our Monarch to be on them, in the next like 100 hundred years so a Queen (if Williams first born) is a female can rule them too.

Now we have the insult of a Scot sticking up for the English (sort of). Will the insults never end. I think we better have a Eurovision quick, were not used to all this support. We are an Island of people just trying to get off it you know because its such a rotten place to live you know . . I know Scotlands part of it too, well just about, half of it got blown in to the sea yesterday, there still picking up the carpet looking for 50p's though. Never mind they can laugh at us now, were in for a bit of a kicking with the weather this weekend.

God I wish I was in Thailand. Warm weather, hot food, spicy women and dam_n good company drinking with my mates funny enough from Brisbane.

Nothing funnier than a Scot tasking whisky on a plane, I've seen a few times, haha, I dont what they expect (Grants Reserve) or something).

English, Scots, Austailian, Thai, Phillipino and Americans, in 50 years time, our Grandkids will have little every nationality in them, so lets have national pride while we still can.

(TONGUE IN CHEEK)

I am NOT going home. OK??

Quite right, you tell them!!!

By the way.......I'm a Scotsman, I'm sticking up for the English for two reasons.............

1. I don't like seeing the poor wee souls getting victimized by all those naughty Thaivisa members from the Colonies, ( and yes America, that includes you ).............and

2. It's not in our nature to see a fight and not get involved

[autan]

Keeps me awake every night with worry, this topic, that there won't be many Brits left here.

Can I just point out one thing and I am sure my Scottish friend will definitly back me up here.

The type of Brit your used too in Pattaya, is the "good old boy", ex-empire wanna be, walking around with his 18 year bird boring the bar with tales the Great British Empire. Relying on a pension which is being eroded and soon he will run out of money, be found naked with a 12 year boy (who he swears was a 40 year old woman), and be promptly deported back to blighty.

But there is a new bread of Brit with there eye on Pattaya, Patong Beach, Krabi and Patpong Market . . . THE CHAV. (Council House Adolence Vermin). We are overun with them in England .. . . and Scotland too.

They are lowest of the low and theres millions of them with their passports at the ready saving their benefit money frantically so get to the shores of Thailand.

it will change the way you think of Brits I guarantee you. They dont care what the exchange rate is, they are only interested in making Soi 6 (The new Golden Mile of Blackpool)

Pray, no hope they never infest the beautiful country of Thailand, on a serious note, it would spoil it for the rest of us. There coming ...

[billd766]

I have done a trend chart for every 5 years since 2000.

This year has been relatively flat and the rot really started mid 2008.

2011 is only from January until the end of November.

5 year trend 2000 to 2004.xls

5 year trend 2005 to 2010.xls

5 year trend 2011 to 2015.xls

[nong38]

So its over 47 so we dont have to go home yet then? I will unpack the suetcase.

I rather like it here, its a bit like a colony used to be, I gave someone their freedom the other day .

[Naam]

Well there is the AAA rating that remains for GBP, I have a sneaky suspicion that most euro currency countrys will not be holding their ratings from any agency

never heard that any currency had a rating. but if you say so...

[Naam]

I have done a trend chart for every 5 years since 2000.

This year has been relatively flat and the rot really started mid 2008.

2011 is only from January until the end of November.

5 year trend 2000 to 2004.xls

5 year trend 2005 to 2010.xls

5 year trend 2011 to 2015.xls

why not a graph that gives a clear picture of GBP THB from jan 2000 > today?

[ludditeman]

I have done a trend chart for every 5 years since 2000.

This year has been relatively flat and the rot really started mid 2008.

2011 is only from January until the end of November.

5 year trend 2000 to 2004.xls

5 year trend 2005 to 2010.xls

5 year trend 2011 to 2015.xls

why not a graph that gives a clear picture of GBP THB from jan 2000 > today?

Why not start the graph at 1990, and give a more realistic picture of what happened.

[theblether]

Keeps me awake every night with worry, this topic, that there won't be many Brits left here.

Can I just point out one thing and I am sure my Scottish friend will definitly back me up here.

The type of Brit your used too in Pattaya, is the "good old boy", ex-empire wanna be, walking around with his 18 year bird boring the bar with tales the Great British Empire. Relying on a pension which is being eroded and soon he will run out of money, be found naked with a 12 year boy (who he swears was a 40 year old woman), and be promptly deported back to blighty.

But there is a new bread of Brit with there eye on Pattaya, Patong Beach, Krabi and Patpong Market . . . THE CHAV. (Council House Adolence Vermin). We are overun with them in England .. . . and Scotland too.

They are lowest of the low and theres millions of them with their passports at the ready saving their benefit money frantically so get to the shores of Thailand.

it will change the way you think of Brits I guarantee you. They dont care what the exchange rate is, they are only interested in making Soi 6 (The new Golden Mile of Blackpool)

Pray, no hope they never infest the beautiful country of Thailand, on a serious note, it would spoil it for the rest of us. There coming ...

Correct!!

It must be the season of goodwill, even the Scots and English are in agreement. In England they are known as Chavs, in Scotland they are known as Neds. You have not seen anything yet.

The Duke of Wellington said........

"The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth — the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards".

He also said.........

"I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they terrify me".

All I can say is.......

Trust me.........I don't know who you are, I don't know where you are from.......but this division of Brits are in a destructive league of their own. I know what I'm talking about......I live amongst them .

I will make you a prediction that you will not believe if you are not British and do not have experience of these people.........the first time a Thai tries to pull a jet ski scam on a Chav or in particular a Ned......the Thai will be going home via the hospital or possibly even the morgue. I am not exaggerating. If a Thai pulls a knife on a Ned, it's all over......for the Thai. The Thais are used to the idea of threatening tourists and the tourists backing down........they will get the shock of their lives with this mob.

So maybe it's a good idea for the £ to go down against the baht......it will make it harder for these characters to make an appearance in Thailand.

[roamer]

The chav,s don't always have it their own way. Very enjoyable clip here. :D

Edited December 10, 2011 by roamer

[janverbeem]

The chav,s don't always have it their own way. Very enjoyable clip here. :D

:lol:

[Naam]

I have done a trend chart for every 5 years since 2000.

This year has been relatively flat and the rot really started mid 2008.

2011 is only from January until the end of November.

5 year trend 2000 to 2004.xls

5 year trend 2005 to 2010.xls

5 year trend 2011 to 2015.xls

why not a graph that gives a clear picture of GBP THB from jan 2000 > today?

Why not start the graph at 1990, and give a more realistic picture of what happened.

that picture is totally unrealistic because till 1997 Thai Baht was hard-pegged to the US-Dollar and from mid 1997 till 1999 the asian crisis distorted the picture of exchange rates even more. but a look can't hurt. here's GBP THB mar 1997 till dec 1999 (low 37 / high 91).

[exeter]

The chav,s don't always have it their own way. Very enjoyable clip here. :D

:lol:

He could turn up next on Stricktly come Dancing, what a wonderful chav.Good job he cant afford a visa, but if he is on benefits maybe he can!

[billd766]

I have done a trend chart for every 5 years since 2000.

This year has been relatively flat and the rot really started mid 2008.

2011 is only from January until the end of November.

5 year trend 2000 to 2004.xls

5 year trend 2005 to 2010.xls

5 year trend 2011 to 2015.xls

why not a graph that gives a clear picture of GBP THB from jan 2000 > today?

Why not start the graph at 1990, and give a more realistic picture of what happened.

Firstly I wasn't here in 1990 and secondly I don't have the data.

I split the graphs to make it a bit easier to read though I do have a 10 graph here.

10 year trend v2.xls

Personally I don't think it is very clear, however you may take all my data and change it around to a new graph if you wish to do so.

On my graphs I average out the monthly total and just used that one figure to run across the graph for each month.

If you REALLY want I will send you all of my data for each year (I have done the hard work) and you can display it as you want.

Somewhere on the internet there will be historical records from a Thai bank or banks probably back to the 1970s or earlier but I didn't bother to look that hard as I thought that 10 years plus this year would be enough.