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yogi100

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  1. 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 econom
  2. 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!
  3. 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.
  4. 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 secon
  5. No one's stopping you from moving on. Nor from stopping you being a crawl arse.
  6. 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.
  7. How do you know so much about it?
  8. He never got offered the job so how could he have turned it down.
  9. 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?
  10. 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 ... www.independent.co.uk › World 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, ..
  11. 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
  12. 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 sa
  13. 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.
  14. 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."
  15. 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 an
  16. 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 P
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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 g
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. "Emirates’ flights to London Heathrow will be reduced to two flights a day." From where?
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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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