buriramboy

Would depend on how much money you wanted to make for example 4 female pigs just chucking out little piggies and fattening them up if the profit is all yours could make you 15-20k baht a month averaged out over a year and that was just supplying the local village in the main, a medium sized sheep farm would easily be supported by hotels/restaurants in Pattaya/Bangkok if you could provide a regular supply, the main start up costs would obviously be importing X amount of animals and all the shite that would involve which is what makes it a non starter for most people, but i still reckon if someone had the balls to import a flock of sheep it would be a money spinner in time (probably take a few years to break even, but it would have to be for someone wanting a long term hands on project and actually knew about farming sheep), i presume sheep just eat grass so no food costs and obviously you'd have them rooting each other so no need to buy anymore after your initial investment, obviously a few pairs of scissors so the local Somchai can sheer them and earn some extra money from selling the wool so the local Grannies can knit some jumpers for those nasty Thai Winters. There used to be a guy on Thaivisa years ago who imported some breed of cattle, everyone told him he was stupid at the time and he made a pretty penny supplying his beef as lets be honest Thai beef is shit and their are a lot of people who will pay for quality, so would a sheep farm work, i reckon it would due to there being a gap in the market, but it ain't for me as i know f-all about farming sheep but i'd like to see someone have a go one day.

I thought the numbers sounded good at first too, but when i started doing it via the in laws i soon lost interest when the reality was somewhat different, still turned a profit and think the misses was getting 10,000 + baht a month on average for her cut when the pigs were sold, but as i said you'd have to do it on a massive scale to make a farang wage. I still reckon sheep farming would be worth a punt for someone who knows what they are doing as the price of lamb is extortionate in Thailand, although i am led to believe they do keep some sheep in the South of Thailand i've certainly never seen any 'Thai' lamb for sale.

You'd have to do pigs on a large scale to make a liveable wage, from birth to selling them at 6-8 months old when you factor in food etc. i (the inlaws) were making roughly 2,000 baht a pig (would sell for 5-6000 baht), i found the most profitable way was having 4 sows and they would have litters of 6-10 piggys if i remember and they were fetching 1000-1500 baht at 6-8 weeks old and had only been feeding on mommys tits during that period so no food costs for them.

It's sport, only right that the underdog should come out on top now and again, bit harsh that they ended up shooting the bull though, case of a bad loser.

The guy is harmless, just a Pattaya personality who doesn't take himself seriously yet others seem to for some reason, and all the people calling for him to be banned would probably be the same people saying they miss his ramblings if he was, also a bit ironic that when he was banned/binned people copied and pasted his posts onto the main board, as others have said no one is forced to open and read a topic that is of no interest to them and also while never having used it myself i'm reliably informed that the 'ignore' function should be in most peoples capabilities and i'm pretty sure if someone couldn't fathom it out assistance would be given.

Solution - lie, or rather don't volunteer the truth.

Why choose Thailand if this is how you feel???

I came to the same conclusion after only 1 visit.

If you were the true socialist you claim to be, you would go and rent a chunk of land and grow your own stuff!!!!

You'll never see 65 again unless there are some major unforseen circumstances, doubt you'll even see 55 again, so a bit pointless having all your money stashed away if you're never going to spend it, get used to 45-50 being the new 'normal' rate. Although i'll probably end back up in Thailand and after best part of 10 years living there and now back in England for 18 months and enjoying it not sure at the moment if i actually fancy living in the developing world again for a long period of time, might have to start looking at various places in Europe as an alternative, Greece, Spain, Portugal or Cyprus maybe.

Humiliating Pastry over and over again, Bigleg seems to have put some weight on looking at them photos!!!!! You staying in Thailand now and given up moaning about the exchange rate then?????

I was given a weeks holiday in terms of posting rights, but all good thanks, didn't see your ugly mug in the photos, still a bit camera shy???

Did someone plug CampariO into the mains or he just forget to brush his hair??

No straight man would come out with a denial speech like that.

If anyone is relying on a state pension for their retirement funds they are in serious trouble, what does a £100 a week do for you or what ever it is?????

Since when has Teakdoor been a Pattaya forum, honestly you really are too dumb for words at times, you even quoted the bit where i said Pattaya forum.

Yes i know exactly what it was about and if memory serves me right it was just me and him out that night and hence i talked him out of doing something stupid, and i know he aplogised afterwards and rightly so, can't remember mulphy being there, but then again i never did take any notice of him, but was definately just kolobos on the back of my bike. My point has really nothing to do with glittermans identitiy, it has to do with threats of violence on Thai forums and the likelyhood of them being carried out and that being used a reason, hence my use of Harris Black as an example who has probably received more threats of death and extreme violence that everyone else put together and still goes about his daily life in Pattaya out in the open without any fear. I mean just recently i've had one poster threaten to stab me repeatedly and Mulphy threaten to hunt me down and kill me and i think you can guess how much sleep i lose over those. I personally don't post on forums to seek acceptance, i just tell things how i see them with no bullshit, and call bullshit when i read it, you'd probably be doing me a favour by banning me as this is the last Pattaya forum i am still a member of, and while forums can have their uses and be of short term benefit, i long ago came to the conclusion that they have more of a negative than a positive impact on a lot of peoples lives, which is why i have in the main cut them out of my life, and if the option wasn't there to read a forum when i turned my computer on, obviously i wouldn't.

First off Harris Black is not my mate in any way, shape or form and i have more reason than most if not all to wish the demise of the guy, and as to being a thick cunt well that is obviosly the person who is continually missing the point about violence, as in Harris Black has been threatened with death and violence on all forums for his actions and has a finger ever been laid on him, NO. So then why would you presume that the glitterman would get attacked for views or actions that in no way come close to the actions of said Harris, while i admit there are pyschos who use the boards namely mulphy, even he has never carried out a single of his childish threats he has made on forums to numerous posters, obviously though the guy is mentally deranged and unstable and he bottled Fondles but that wasn't from a threat made on a forum. As to suspending glitterman, your board, do the fok what you want you have the buttons, i was just using him as an example that anyone who holds different views and god forbid will actually express them is got rid of, and again my question, would an ideal board for some of you just be a bunch of guys who agree on everything and enjoy slapping each other on the back with stimulating comments like 'good post' all day long?? And as to your childish insults, carry on just makes me regret stopping kolobos from lumping you that time in TQ2.

So an ideal board for many of you would just be a bunch of guys who hold the same views and agree on everything, hardly makes for any interesting and lively debate/discussions. And as to glittermans safety, again i'll use Harris Black as an example, the guy has had numerous death threats and threats of extreme violence against him from keyboard warriors from all boards for years now, the guy is easy to find and goes about his business out in the open and has a finger ever been laid on him????

This is why all boards are boring as fok now a days, they all have their own little cliques who all enjoy slapping each other on the back and should someone come along and post that doesn't fit in with the norm and god forbid post alternative views they are got rid of, thus returning the board back to a back slapping clique. Personally can't see what all the fuss about, just one of the many odd balls who live in Pattaya expressing his views, so he doesn't drink or fuck whores, big deal. And as to the reason about suspending him because of his personal safety that is just laughable when comapred to Harris Black, just how many threats has Harris had of violence or death towards him over the years and is still quite happily going about his business day by day out in the open.

More of an issue seems to be that people are judged on their quality of life by how much alcohol and how many ho's they consume per month, so basically if you don't drink and ain't into banging ho's you must be having a miserable time in Thailand, but if you're banging a different ho and getting smashed out your head everynight, that seems to be classed as the ultimate standard of living in some peoples eyes, the mind boggles at times, it really does.

That's always the problem with these type of threads, some people presume that everyone is a barfly and monger and that is their sole purpose for wanting to live in Thailand, no i have no doubt that that is the criteria for some people but not for most, when i lived in Bangkok and Pattaya there were only a couple of guys i knew (expats) who i would describe as hardcore mongers, now i'm not claiming that most people were faithful to their partners and didn't have a bunk up when the mood took them as they did but it wasn't a major part in anyones life (with a couple of exceptions) that i knew. And also in the main it had nothing to do with money, you live in Pattaya everything is on your doorstep, you are not on a 2 week holiday where you have to cram in as much pussy as you can in that time frame, you know it's there to take or leave anytime you want it so there is no pressure on you placed by time constraints to shag yourself stupid, hence you will spend a lot less money than if you were a tourist which is what i think some people base their calculations on when it comes to working out how much they need to live on in Thailand.

Well said, Thailand is still thrid world in the main and most things are still cheap especially outside of the tourist areas, if not a barfly and whoremonger or neither activity plays a major part in your life, you can live a good life for next to nothing. People just have to decide what they want from life as everyone is different, someone may need 150,000 baht a month for the life they choose to live and someone else may only need 30,000 baht a month, i mean fok me if i lived in Buriram doubt i could even spend 30,000 month if i wanted too.

You could live more than comfortably on 54,000 baht a month in Thailand, remember most of the country lives on about 10% of that and seems to survive.

Obviously that article is just one mans opinion and there are a few what i would call 'inaccuracies' in it, aswell as quite a few generalisations, but overall it's a pretty fair assessment IMO.