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25 minutes ago, Bullfrog said:
Ah! I thought it was St Gorgeous Day commemorating the inner and outer beauty of all women in England. All colours, shapes, sizes and even those with a willy !!!
I dunno if you're in the UK but that windbag James O'Brien is on LBC 97.3 right now slagging off the very idea of there being a national day for English people. In the few minutes I've had it on he used the word 'racist' twice.
I soon turned him off just like myself and most people normally do or we'd wind up spewing our rings up.
Kahoy, you wanna see if you can tune into his show on the internet from Australia if you can. He'd make you come in your pants with some of the leftist claptrap he comes out with. The Socialist Worker types worship and adore him!
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3 hours ago, gs joe said:
You do know the authorities monitor these forums don't you. It's now considered racist in some quarters to even mention what today is. Kahoy will be on the phone to his chums at the International Socialist Alternative HQ raising Cain within the hour.
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If any more evidence of what a failure the multicultural society is proving to be this matter is a supreme example. It puts the George Floyd and O J Simpson episodes of racial strife firmly in the shade. Right now I'm in London listening to a phone in radio program with furious members of the BAME community queuing up to express their disgust at the treatment they consider MM has received in the UK. The presenters claim their phones are red hot and ringing off the hooks.
The British Royal Family has been torn to pieces by an American chat show hostess ably assisted by a big mouthed second rate American actress and her half baked idiot of a British husband. It's a wonder MM never got Harry showing Oprah how willing he was to give it the knee on world wide TV.
The UK establishment obviously learned nothing from the Wallis Simpson debacle. And Harry has taken it one step further than Edward did back in 1936.
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20 minutes ago, awesum4 said:
Nah. I just remembered the general conversations. When you got all shirty instead of admitting you had said these things I used the search engine to find them.
Why dont you just man up and admit you had the same conversation about mods being paid last year so we can all move on.
Appreciating the unpaid work the mods do to keep this forum running rather than abuse them for being human isnt sucking up, it's simple politeness.
No one's stopping you from moving on. Nor from stopping you being a crawl arse.
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6 hours ago, awesum4 said:
Your posts on "the Reputation System and how it works" thread in the off topic section. Page 5.
Post #105 I dunno what sort of wages they're on but I'm available if they need someone.
Post #110 if they want me on the firm I'll want paying. I've never worked for nothing and I dont intend to start now. I wouldnt mind doing a few hours a week for £50 quid a week.
Fucking hell! You appear to be taking a peculiar troll like interest in my posts all of a sudden. I can barely remember it yet you even know what section it was in, what the topic was and what numbers the post were! You can probably remember when it was as well.
Are you some sort of private detective, are you trying to suck up to the administrators or what. You're weird. You'd better stick to those sheep, you won't get anywhere with me.
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1 hour ago, awesum4 said:
Now you are being pedantic. You asked about the role and the remuneration. On being told its was an unpaid role you said you were no longer interested. Same end result buddy.
How do you know so much about it?
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8 hours ago, awesum4 said:
Yes you did. But Yogi turned it down when he discovered he wouldnt get paid for doing it.
He never got offered the job so how could he have turned it down.
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7 hours ago, frostfire said:
Ok, ill check and see what that button actually does later tonight... not sure where it gets its data... but its not all moderators ?
How do you get to be a mod. I'd like to be one. Do you have to complete an application form or meet some sort of criteria. And of course how much does a moderator get paid?
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Drunken tourists and their chums partying in a condo with gas appliances lying around is not a good idea.
Remember this? It's on the internet.
Hotel blamed as fire kills 78 at Thai beach resort | The ...
11 Jul 1997 — Pattaya - Fire raged through a 17-story luxury hotel yesterday in the ... the smoke-filled 450-room Royal Jomtien Resort on Jomtien Beach, .. -
22 minutes ago, rhodie said:
Rents have dropped up to 50% if you are lucky enough to get a tenant. The only takers are those looking to move to get more for less.
A chum of mine is there now but in Central Pattaya rather than in far away Jomtien. He has rented a condo for a third of the usual high season asking price of 30,000 baht a month. So he's paying 10K plus the utilities. Another is paying 15,000 for an apartment that also usually goes for 30K.
You have to accept that the few punters that are there now realise that the supply by far outstrips the demand and many don't want the hassle of going back and forth to Jomtien each time they want to see a bit of the limited action that is occasionally available in town. They've been locked down in Falangland for months followed by two weeks in a BKK quarantine hotel and the last thing want now is to be paying over odds to stay in a huge condo in desolate Jomtien.
Hotel rooms in Soi Bhukaow within walking distance of what little action there is can be had for as little as 400 - 500 baht a night or 10K a month or even less if you haggle according to a couple of my pals who are there right now.
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I keep in touch with my English pals from Pattaya as well as a few from Germany, the USA and Scotland. I hope I'm not going off topic by mentioning the German and the Yank.
None of us would even consider going through the hoop jumping and expensive antics that will be expected of us before and after we even set foot on a plane. Then when we would get there there are just closed bars and restaurants waiting for us.
And now we hear Covid has hit Pattaya. I had news that an 85 year ex pat old pal of mine had died of it in August although they called it a respiratory disease. His wife said otherwise.
I can't see many of us returning till things get back to normal and we're made to feel more welcome than we were even before Covid and IF that ever happens.
Personally I'll wait it out and make sure I get the vaccine before I even consider going back there, that's what the fellows I keep in touch with are saying as well. Few of us want to self isolate back home for months in order to fork out a small fortune only to come a cropper in the Land of Smiles. It's even more expensive to be flown home in a body bag than it is in a business class seat!
I know of one exception who is an elderly chap married to a Thai who returned there recently. He's a retired business owner with plenty of money but has discovered his 'wife' has been running around while he's been absent. To top it all he paid 40,000 baht to stay quarantined for two weeks in a hotel room and the grub they left outside his door was shit. He even sent me a photo of it, boiled rice with cold ham and cheese and a bit of fruit. Fuck that for a game of soldiers, In the meantime like the rest of us I'll make do with hand shandies.
If they want to 'bar' us they can shove their Pattaya up some place where it's unlikely to get a sun tan.
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44 minutes ago, Bazle said:
Can someone tell me why I should pay for a VPN when there is a free one built into the Opera browser, please?
I've been using Opera for a few years now because it came with a built in VPN. Never had a problem with it especially when I want to see a recently released film or TV series. I'm sure you get my drift.
Why even consider paying out hard earned for something that does what you already have at your finger tips.
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6 hours ago, jacko said:
I was talking of my own personal experience here in Thailand, recent.
A pal of mine was pulled over last week and issued a ticket, no 'on the spot' fine.
I was in town just a few hours ago and did not see any particular police presence. As you said, your experience was a long time ago and I believe what I read last night was fear mongering. I still would not trust any of them of course. But I have had few issues in recent times, getting pulled over is quite frequent, road blocks are common. It is how they do things rather than have a reason.
Since there may well be another amnesty (still only a rumour) I do not expect police to be checking passports in Pattaya.
Some people might naively expect a bit of loyalty and appreciation from the Thai tourism authorities if they've been spending money in their country for years but the Thais don't seem to know the meaning of the words.
All they know is that when they've pissed you off enough to make you no longer want to visit Thailand there will be ten Chinese coming to take your place.
"We've had your money for twenty years Mr Falang, the airport is that way now sling your hook and don't come back."
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1 hour ago, jacko said:
In Pattaya? Not had any issues but perhaps I am not giving them reason.
I was not talking about you nor your experiences. In the past I've hired M/Cs and neither was I ever pulled in. But as I said I was referring to my ex pat pal's current observations, he's a keep fit merchant and goes out for a two hour mid morning walk every day so he sees what's going on.
I myself as well as many others have seen the plod pulling in as many vehicles as they could between Tut Com and the Friendship Supermarket and in other locations all over Pattaya and I don't go out in the daytime very much. These motorists were not giving them any reason either as far as I could see and this was long before the current hard times were upon us all.
The Pattaya police are notorious for many forms of extortion. They're even reputed to be involved in the jet ski scams. I would not even think of telling you what happened to a friend's belongings in his condo when he passed away in Pattaya, that was really unbelievable.
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When they start fining people for not carrying their passport around that will be the day that I and without doubt many others will call it a day with the Land of Scams.
The plod are no longer getting money from the bars so they've had to find other sources for their beer money. My expat pal tells me on the phone they're pulling in falang motorists and motor cyclists for any minor or supposed infringement and issuing on the spot fines.
He's also heard of their colleagues doing the same thing in BKK. And with smokers who throw their fag ends on the ground or light up in places where PC Plod considers that they shouldn't do so.
They pulled these stunts long before Covid arrived on the scene so it can't be fear mongering to mention that they're still doing it now that hard times have arrived.
Perhaps the BiB are not concerned about driving away ex pats and long termers. The plod must know that the jet setters really are on their way.
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20 hours ago, Bushcraft said:
Unbelievable. With its tourist industry at rock bottom because of the ban on foreigners entering the country, the Thai government decides to send foreigners who have remained here on (amnestied) tourist visas packing.
I fail to see the logic: these people are COVID-free and present no risk, they are usually here out of choice, they spend money thus helping the troubled economy. Why tell them to leave unless there's an agenda which all of us expats will one day fall foul of.
I've been a long termer for around 15 years using the retiree's Multiple Entry Tourist Visa (up to 90 days in Thailand at a time). I'd then go back to the UK for two or three months. Then last year before CV they stopped issuing these visas. My one has recently expired.
Each year I'd spend 500,000 - 750,000 baht in their country in Pattaya. It would go on a my usual hotel, transport, and the usual expenses in bars and cafes and general shopping. That's finished for the foreseeable.
A pal of mine used to come for 2 months at a time on 30 day tourist visas. He got told to get a proper visa. which was a bit of a jolt seeing as he was a long term regular like myself. He'd understandably expected a bit of appreciation for his loyalty. But he did as they told him through an agent for about 20,000 baht which gave him a retirement visa which he never got to use. But he can't come back now either. He'd spend about the same each year as me.
My pal and I are typical visitors to Pattaya when it comes to the average falang's spending habits.
It's obvious to anyone that they do not want long term visitors in Thailand any more so why are they offering these new 90 - 270 day visas all of a sudden. They can't be that daft that they think billionaires and members of the international jet set are clamouring to take our places nor they will be willing to charter planes and jump through all these hoops the TAT are setting in front of them.
They say a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush so why are they dispensing with one group of established visitors who they KNOW splash the cash in the HOPE that another lot will turn up and take our place. There has to be an agenda and long term visitors and expats are not included in it. We'd better accept the fact that it might be a good idea to pack our bags and forget about Thailand being a retreat from the shit holes our countries have been turned into.
They have a nationalist govt and offering a welcome to foreigners for indefinite periods of time is not a policy nationalism embraces. Few of us understand the mind set of nationalism as it's taboo in our countries.
I remember visiting Franco's Spain, we from the democracies were allowed entry but that was it, we were hardly made welcome especially by the authorities. It's changed now but we're only tolerated because they need the money, it's a major part of their economy. But Spain never really attracted the super wealthy.
In the same vein international jet setters are unlikely to come to the LOS in any numbers irrespective of CV19. We're about as good as it's ever gonna get for the Thai people in general especially the poorer folk of Isaan.
Even with a nationalist government it does not make sense getting rid of a large proportion of the very foreigners who spend a considerable amount of money in a country. If they did not need us they would not have to be giving out free meals to their hungry citizens.
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6 hours ago, yogi100 said:
It will always hold a special place for me. And also for a late chum of mine.
This is why.
A few years back a pal of mine died in the UK. His sister knew that I was due to visit Pattaya and contacted me by phone with a rather strange request. She'd been to Pattaya and knew that Bob ( her deceased brother) who had lived in both Angeles City and Pattaya had a special sentimental affection for Pattata and in particular the hotel in which we both stayed. Over the years it had become literally a home from home.
She asked if I would take his ashes to our hotel and sprinkle them in the flower beds around the hotel swimming pool where he had spent many an hour with his Thai lady friend. I agreed but on condition I had nothing to do with his fancy woman who was an obnoxious skinny little Thai hag with a face like a scorpion. That was OK with the sister as she neither had any time for the money grabbing little bitch.
Upon arrival at the hotel I informed the receptionist and the manager what my intentions were thinking that they would be pleased that someone who had died six thousand miles away wished the last resting place for his ashes should be among the flowers and shrubs of their hotel gardens and around the swimming pool area. But how wrong I was.
They hit the roof and said under no circumstances could I carry out my plans. Bob was an outsider and as such his ghost would forever haunt the hotel and put a curse upon the place and a load of other similar mumbo jumbo. When they then started on about the police and the monkey house I knew they weren't mucking about! This is the gospel truth.
When they'd calmed down a bit and I'd recovered from the shock they advised me to take his ashes down to the beach and put them in the sea. But advised me not to let anyone see me doing it.
I phoned Bob's sister in London with the bad news and she had little choice but to agree to the new arrangements. She said it was not too bad a development as the currents and tides might eventually take Bobs remains over the ocean to the shore lines of the PI where he had also spent many pleasant years before he'd got to Pattaya and where his fondness for strong drink had taken its inevitable toll on his kidneys.
I took a baht bus up to Soi 1 and walked down to where it met Beach Rd by the Thai Airways office. I then started walking along towards South Pattaya carrying the ashes which had been packed in a grey paper parcel by the funeral parlour who'd handled his cremation back in London. He'd only been a little fellow but his burnt remains were surprisingly heavy so I'd placed them in a Big C plastic carrier bag for transportation purposes. This was before they'd started charging customers for their carrier bags.
I made my way along the promenade looking for a suitable opportunity and section of the beach where I could deposit my old pal's ashes away from prying eyes and thereby avoid detection by other Thai people who might also be scared of ghosts.
I'll finish this later and you'll see how the PBG fits into the story.
I walked the whole length of Beach Rd looking for a suitable place to launch the ashes but found none. I'd have looked a bit weird gradually emptying a bag of ashes into the sea. I wanted to afford Bob a degree of respect and dignity by sprinkling his ashes on the water rather than just chucking the whole bag into the briny at one go. Especially as Beach Rd was busy at the time as was the beach itself.
I finally reached Walking Street and thought I'd be able to give it a go from the PBG. My hunch paid off. I was lucky enough to find an empty bench at the far end overlooking the water with no other occupied seats nearby. I ordered a chicken fried rice and a drink, cut the corners off the package of ashes and waited for my meal to arrive. When I'd eaten it I had a good look round and seizing my chance leaned over the railings and poured the ashes from the bag into the sea and watched them disappear under the surface and into the deep.
Having completed my task I returned to my hotel. I found it quite amazing that the two seemingly sensible members of the staff who I had known for years and were not youngsters were so superstitious that they genuinely believed in ghosts and that some falang's spirit could haunt their hotel.
The next time I'm asked to do it I'll tell whoever asks me to book themselves a flight and do it themselves.
I would not have thought twice about doing it in the UK but when they started on about ghosts, the police and the monkey house I was rather apprehensive and was on my guard throughout the whole performance.
So now a few years later the PBG and the nearby beer bar complex has finally gone the same way as poor old Bob. There will be plenty more following them once this China Virus has finished with Pattaya.
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Thanks Bill.
Once I've composed myself emotionally and regained my thoughts I'll get back to Bob's ashes and the Pattaya Beer Garden which was where Bob spent his last half hour on dry land.
It's a good idea never to overlook the circumstances in which we met our Thai sweethearts nor the financial negotiations that took place at that time. Poor Bob was a romantic soul who in spite of the amount he had imbibed often permitted his female companion to try and take financial liberties with him.
Unfortunately for his Thai floozie money flowed through Bob's hands like sand through a gardening fork. Several times after his death Bob's sister had to contend with phone calls from Scorpion Face calling from Korat asking if Bob had made any monetary provision for her. Needless to say he hadn't. If I remember rightly his sister had to fork out for his funeral.
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4 hours ago, teelack said:
The PBG will always hold a special place for me. It is a reliable place to take any Thai girl to and the pleasure they got from that bloody sontam bar was great to see. Early on I has the odd "date" from there but its bustling food and restaurant side overtook the free lancer idea. I also appreciated the fact that Pete asked for feedback before he opened the place about music, menu and other aspects of the establishment. That so rarely happens but it has stuck with me. The other thing was its ability to keep a stable work force which is a sure sign of good management.
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It will always hold a special place for me. And also for a late chum of mine.
This is why.
A few years back a pal of mine died in the UK. His sister knew that I was due to visit Pattaya and contacted me by phone with a rather strange request. She'd been to Pattaya and knew that Bob ( her deceased brother) who had lived in both Angeles City and Pattaya had a special sentimental affection for Pattata and in particular the hotel in which we both stayed. Over the years it had become literally a home from home.
She asked if I would take his ashes to our hotel and sprinkle them in the flower beds around the hotel swimming pool where he had spent many an hour with his Thai lady friend. I agreed but on condition I had nothing to do with his fancy woman who was an obnoxious skinny little Thai hag with a face like a scorpion. That was OK with the sister as she neither had any time for the money grabbing little bitch.
Upon arrival at the hotel I informed the receptionist and the manager what my intentions were thinking that they would be pleased that someone who had died six thousand miles away wished the last resting place for his ashes should be among the flowers and shrubs of their hotel gardens and around the swimming pool area. But how wrong I was.
They hit the roof and said under no circumstances could I carry out my plans. Bob was an outsider and as such his ghost would forever haunt the hotel and put a curse upon the place and a load of other similar mumbo jumbo. When they then started on about the police and the monkey house I knew they weren't mucking about! This is the gospel truth.
When they'd calmed down a bit and I'd recovered from the shock they advised me to take his ashes down to the beach and put them in the sea. But advised me not to let anyone see me doing it.
I phoned Bob's sister in London with the bad news and she had little choice but to agree to the new arrangements. She said it was not too bad a development as the currents and tides might eventually take Bobs remains over the ocean to the shore lines of the PI where he had also spent many pleasant years before he'd got to Pattaya and where his fondness for strong drink had taken its inevitable toll on his kidneys.
I took a baht bus up to Soi 1 and walked down to where it met Beach Rd by the Thai Airways office. I then started walking along towards South Pattaya carrying the ashes which had been packed in a grey paper parcel by the funeral parlour who'd handled his cremation back in London. He'd only been a little fellow but his burnt remains were surprisingly heavy so I'd placed them in a Big C plastic carrier bag for transportation purposes. This was before they'd started charging customers for their carrier bags.
I made my way along the promenade looking for a suitable opportunity and section of the beach where I could deposit my old pal's ashes away from prying eyes and thereby avoid detection by other Thai people who might also be scared of ghosts.
I'll finish this later and you'll see how the PBG fits into the story.
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I just watched Hotel Mumbai.
It was very grim and realistic A bunch of well armed Pakistani Muslims enter the swankiest hotel in India and start murdering everyone in sight.
The reviews are interesting. There are many positive reviews but also MANY negative ones of 1/10. (One out of ten). The terrorists are portrayed as bloodthirsty trigger happy cutthroats so you can imagine who all the negative votes came from. The Hindu and Sikh hotel staff who could have escaped when they had the chance didn't and chose instead to remain and do what they could to protect to guests. Many of these valiant staff were mowed down along with the guests they'd tried to save.
I'd give in 9/10 myself, I thought it was brilliant and a hell of a lot better than I'd expected an Indian film to be. It pulls no punches and is two hours of drama tension and violence.
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21 hours ago, Brown1950 said:
Emirates’ flights to London Heathrow will be reduced to two flights a day, while Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham will be served with one flight a day from 25 March to 30 June, 2020.
These destinations will all be served by Boeing 777s. The airline will also temporarily suspend its fights to Newcastle, London Stansted, London Gatwick and Edinburgh over the same period."Emirates’ flights to London Heathrow will be reduced to two flights a day."
From where?
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It might do the bar owners a favour.
I know several punters who will not come to Pattaya during Songkran. I also know long termers and ex pats who stay in or get out of town and go somewhere else from 13 - 20 April.
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Pity they don't do something really useful like bringing back the Multiple Entry O visa based on retirement.
Several falangs I know including myself used to get this visa especially if we wanted to spend our winters in a warmer climate and have a couple of other trips during the same year.
Such visitors are also usually spenders whose money will be missed by the hotels and bars where they spend that money. They now have little alternative but to go elsewhere. Possibly it might be doing some of us a favour. They say some folk don't like change, but it can sometimes be a good thing.
Some years back a pal of mine who was a long time regular in Pattaya started going to Gambia. To date he has never been back to Pattaya and if the exchange rate has anything to do with it he never will.
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On 1/18/2020 at 4:08 AM, jacko said:
Too many of this types around, I don't really care what his excuse is. Living in Thailand .... no I take that back... living makes me wary of putting my phone down and leaving it. Sadly it becomes automatic sometimes and I was in Bali at a hotel at breakfast and a local woman came over to chat, real friendly, who knew the couple I was with, automatically I picked my phone up and put it in my pocket. This offended her....people who know Bali and their Hotel staff will understand, they are often exemplary.
And yesterday, in a Thai hotel coffee shop, I watched an elderly falang man, sneakily collecting up little bags of sugar off a few different tables and slipping them into his bag, I felt both sorry for him and angry at him. Angry because I don't want to be grouped into this type of behaviour.
Blimey, try living in London. I've got a smart phone but I don't even leave home with it. I've got a 12 year old Nokia C2 that I put the Sim card in when I go out. I don't even leave that on the table if I'm in a pub and go up to the bar or out to the khazi.
It's now quite common for rascals to ride along on mopeds in busy thoroughfares and snatch them out of your hand, they'll even ride up on the pavement. And they're the number two target of choice for muggers after cash, handbags and wallets.
But I do sometimes help myself to HP sauce or ketchup in my local Wetherspoons.
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Socialist worker types seldom work and rely on benefits which they'd find in short supply in the Land of Smiles. None of them last five minutes in jobs in which they have to financially justify their employment.
Most English people are by habit and tradition ambitious and hard working. Many quit the Mother Country in despair years ago and headed to the Dominions to make a successful life for themselves and their families. That's why The Antipodes, Canada and other English speaking nations like the USA are so successful and prosperous and a magnet for those who want to improve their economic status.