Beetlejuice Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Cannot make comparisons because as a tourist I was on holiday and had lots of holiday money that i had saved all year round and could afford to go crazy and spend, spend, spend for the weeks I was in Thailand. But now being a retired ex-pat and on a budget, I can no longer afford to do the things and spend as much as a holidaymaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seastallion Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 <script type='text/javascript'>window.mod_pagespeed_start = Number(new Date());</script> Visited pattaya! Lol, that's one I forgot. What a sleazy den of iniquity! Never again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David48 Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Visit Kao San road or any place backpackers hang out. Along with the soapy massages ... something else I've never done ... Visit Kao San road. Though, I heard they have some fun live bands ... true? yes, yes ... dead bands would be no fun ... though I'd make that quip before someone else did ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimbathewhitelion Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Ever visit Thailand. Should of gone to India or South America. Sent from my iPad using Thaivisa Connect Thailand 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3NUMBAS Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 waid every Tom Dick and Harry on my first trip ,damned Lonely Planet guide again courtesy of Joe Cummings . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samran Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Wear fisherman pants 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kandi Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Book the 2nd class air-conditioned night train to Surat Thani only wearing shorts and a T-shirt. I was sick before I had even got off the train. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrycallahan Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Not whinge about the baht bus price? /ducks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko kok prong Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Never go out in the morning after eating Thai food the night before without at least 3 visits to the toilet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbandung Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Have regrets. What's done is done and I'm always the better for the experience. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jubes Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Mistaking 500b notes for 50b notes, whilst drunk of course, nearly gave a cashier the biggest tip of her life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nignoy Posted March 1, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted March 1, 2014 not exactly as a tourist but as a young soldier, having a truck breakdown south of Naklua in late 63,was a wonderful bay with golden beaches just 2 fishermens huts, not a bar or brothel in sight, spent nearly 2 weeks there waiting for a recovery vehicle, got back to camp boasting about the paradise we had found!! went back newyear64 low and Behold Barbo,s Bar was just opening, first bar in what is now PATTAYA!!!!!! guilty on all charges M,Lud 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smurkster Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 exhibit unbridled enthusiasm and say "isn't everything here just wonderful" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickylies Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 walking from lumphini park to ari in the heat of the day........................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smurkster Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 <script type='text/javascript'>window.mod_pagespeed_start = Number(new Date());</script> Read and understand letters of passion from the person you last had a long meaningful overnight relationship with before fulfilling requests............ width=19 alt=whistling.gif> Dear Tilac, I love and miss you so much. Now I have big pomprem. I tell you before that my buffalo me sick. Now it die. Fall down dead in middle of rice field. but, when it fall, it land on Papa and break him leg in three places. Now he not work. Brother me make stretcher from bamboo he take from loof of house. Now roof collapse and rain get in house. Brother she take Papa to hospital on motocycle. She have accident coming home. Run into police car. Brother me to blame. Police say we have to pay big money. Motocycle OK. Police car no good. Now give Mama have heart pomprem. Doctor say she need triple bypass. I not understand what is, he say you know. If you not help me I have to go with many, many farang to pay bill. The old people in my village in Roi-et say it all your fault. If you give me money to buy medicine for sick buffalo when I ask you, then it not die, Papa not break leg, house still have loof, brother not ride into police car and Mama not have heart pomprem. Please send for me 200,000 baht for my bank. Papa fix: 10,000, new loof:30,000, New police car 100,000: Mama fix:50,000. I take off 2,000 bht for sell buffalo meat, but have to pay more hospital bill for 24 people have pomprem eat no good meat - 12,000bht. I not know money England but my friend me say it about 54.4564 baht to GBP. This mean you send me 7,419.1227 English money. Big money for me, little money for you. I love you too much long time. Tikka width=20 alt=tongue.png> I believe this to be false. Not one word of of a sick Buffalo. Sir, I am offended, how could a transcript like this exist without a mention of the sick buffalo. In case you missed the fact that i refused to pay (allegedly, and made to appear the villian) for its treatment, I have put it in Red for you in the post above..................... I feel like I have definitely seen this exact same letter somewhere because it mentioned sick buffalo and the resulting "papa broken leg" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bushwacker Posted March 1, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted March 1, 2014 Take on other peoples problems and concerns that have materialized because of personal choices and try to solve them! Now .... "Not my problem" or "I not Thai, I Not know" 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suradit69 Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 When I was a newbi tourist many eons ago I used to: - Wai to people, tinking it was a good thing to immitate the local culture... - getting tricked by the tuk-tuk drivers' temple/massage/diamond scams... - paying too much for shit at markets, should've bargained like most people do... - paying too much for bargirls... - tipping the soapy and massage girls to much... - overpaying the gogogirls for their services... - barfining a coyote dancer, saw her next night at a disco freelancing... Thus the genesis of TAT's desperate drive for quality tourists is launched. "tipping the soapy and massage girls to much..." Now you get them "to much" without tips? What exactly is "muching?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reptile91602 Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Bathe naked with a bunch of european girls in pee pee island 30 years ago. Oh i would do it again and again but no one has this going on any more here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biplanebluey Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Stupid reply Lucifer--------- I bought a tuk-tuk 6yrs ago and never regreted it. Very handy vehicle,cheap to run,can get heaps of all sorts of rubbish in (or on) it,easy to get in and out of the traffic where even a small car gets bogged down,and HEY MAN YHEY ARE FUN----- as witnessed by all the people that see me and wave. But mine is a proper tuk tuk in Isaan not that rubbishy old BKK one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Gold Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Reply in English, as the muppet they expect me to be. That covers just about everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdmayes Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Drive on the left side of the road. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoshowJones Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Listened and sang along to the ''BAY CITY ROLLERS''.... Is that the guys who are very incompetent musicians and wore short tartan trousers. Or am I thinking about the Monkees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimTang Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Tipping 1,000 Baht for a soapy massage. Yes, David, they ARE good fun. They USED TO be fun. The services isn't good anymore as before. That's why I don't think tipping too much is needed. But get there early before the coach parties arrive, the smell can be off putting. I've only done a soapy once and it was a birthday gift from some friends. I went into the whole thing reluctantly but eventually did the deed. What really surprised me was that she massaged the bottom of my feet with her tits; that was a first, yet abnormally erotic. During this abnormality MTV was playing in the background and Sting came on. She suddenly got all excited and explained to me that she had done Sting the week prior. I checked it out and sure enough Sting had played in Bangkok the week prior. To make a long story short Sting and I got together, shared a few stories and now we hang out any chance we can get. And if you believe that story I have some ocean front property for sale in the Florida Keys if you don't mind holding your breath (for prolonged periods of time of course). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post falangadang Posted March 1, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted March 1, 2014 Tip Why? Did you know that your small dollar can very help someone? Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect Thailand I've been living here 8 years now and married to a Thai lady for 10. We have 3 kids and often eat out. We make a common habit out of tipping at least 10% every time,... even if the service is lousy! (except at restaurants where the service fee is included in the bill) This helps the staff and shows appreciation and creates a feeling of well being and abundance for everyone. In the case of service being poor and leaving a tip,.. this often surprises them and I expects make them even more conscious of the less than stellar service that they may have rendered. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimTang Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Read and understand letters of passion from the person you last had a long meaningful overnight relationship with before fulfilling requests............ Dear Tilac, I love and miss you so much. Now I have big pomprem. I tell you before that my buffalo me sick. Now it die. Fall down dead in middle of rice field. but, when it fall, it land on Papa and break him leg in three places. Now he not work. Brother me make stretcher from bamboo he take from loof of house. Now roof collapse and rain get in house. Brother she take Papa to hospital on motocycle. She have accident coming home. Run into police car. Brother me to blame. Police say we have to pay big money. Motocycle OK. Police car no good. Now give Mama have heart pomprem. Doctor say she need triple bypass. I not understand what is, he say you know. If you not help me I have to go with many, many farang to pay bill. The old people in my village in Roi-et say it all your fault. If you give me money to buy medicine for sick buffalo when I ask you, then it not die, Papa not break leg, house still have loof, brother not ride into police car and Mama not have heart pomprem. Please send for me 200,000 baht for my bank. Papa fix: 10,000, new loof:30,000, New police car 100,000: Mama fix:50,000. I take off 2,000 bht for sell buffalo meat, but have to pay more hospital bill for 24 people have pomprem eat no good meat - 12,000bht. I not know money England but my friend me say it about 54.4564 baht to GBP. This mean you send me 7,419.1227 English money. Big money for me, little money for you. I love you too much long time. Tikka I believe this to be false. Not one word of of a sick Buffalo. You might want to re-read it, the entire focal point is a SICK BUFFALO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wym Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 (edited) I feel like I have definitely seen this exact same letter somewhere because it mentioned sick buffalo and the resulting "papa broken leg" https://www.facebook.com/Thairecht/posts/482572281783386 posted in bars all over the Kingdom t-shirts too Edited March 1, 2014 by wym 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimTang Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 (edited) Listened and sang along to the ''BAY CITY ROLLERS''.... We done that in school when I was a young lad,,, we dressed up as BCR and danced and sang on stage in a school concert. the least said about that event the better S A T U R D A Y...NIGHT!, S A T U R D A Y...NIGHT! OK Everybody sing along S A T U R D A Y...NIGHT! or maybe not. Edited March 1, 2014 by TimTang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metaben Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Walking (a seemingly short distance) to a business meeting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TimTang Posted March 1, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted March 1, 2014 One thing I wouldn't do again is buy land. I bought a parcel of land for my little sweetheart (at the time, bless her little heart), so her family could extend their crops and ultimately make more money from the additional yields that they produced. Of course I found out later that they already owned the land and it was a 75,000 baht fine for being a stupid Falang. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somchaismith Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Do something that I have no desire to do and no need to do - to please others. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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