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Post by bowie on Dec 9, 2016 21:07:53 GMT 7
What an original post.
Hate the place, nothing to like about it.
The only white faces are pikies, tattoos and beer bellies.
The women are all whores.
The food stinks like a tart's knickers.
It is too bloody hot.
The whole lot are after your money.
Treat them like shit and they get violent.
Service in 7/11, well what service, they bloody do not speak English, that's Thai education for you.
Don't get me on about driving.
And those things that can not be mentioned.
Have my ticket already.
Meeting rgs at the airport tomorrow.
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Post by rgs2001uk on Dec 9, 2016 21:31:03 GMT 7
What an original post. Hate the place, nothing to like about it. The only white faces are pikies, tattoos and beer bellies. The women are all whores. The food stinks like a tart's knickers. It is too bloody hot. The whole lot are after your money. Treat them like shit and they get violent. Service in 7/11, well what service, they bloody do not speak English, that's Thai education for you. Don't get me on about driving. And those things that can not be mentioned. Have my ticket already. Meeting rgs at the airport tomorrow. Rgs aint going anywhere for the time being Buhi, I suspect this is nothing but a bit of satire. The only people I know who slag this place off are the ones who dont actually live here. Personally I love the fact I pay 20 baht per month in council tax, to get my bins emptied, not the 10,000 baht per month I have to pay on UK properties. LTFs, the best thing invented, the Thai Tax Man doesnt ask me questions, he leaves me alone. As per another thread, The Ghetto or The 'Burbs? PS, can we share a taxi, I am a bit brassic at the moment, I squandered all my money in worthless paddy fields upcountry that the family already owned. Louis Tavern ok, first round on me. |
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Post by buhi on Dec 9, 2016 21:51:55 GMT 7
Strange, Buhi is quite enjoying not driving. I had no need to really since retiring.
It is fun getting the song tel (spelling), meeting people face to face, having a chat. The drivers know me now, know my soi and when I press the buzzer, stop opposite .
Sitting waiting for one, time no problem, no rush, sitting looking. Again face to face, being in the world not isolated from it.
Have shopping or need to be quick, taxi.
Yesterday needed some garden stuff, pots, compost, all heavy. Thought oh shit, I don't have a car.
Then realized did not need one. Wife and I set out, song tel (spelling) , knew which one went to the garden shop we use. Much surprise when we got all the purchases,
"Where's the car?"
"Not hab, ".
Flagged a taxi, he loaded all of it up and a pleasant chat all the way home. Then the driver unloaded it all , took it into the garden and was duly awarded a well deserved tip.
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Post by rgs2001uk on Dec 9, 2016 22:11:33 GMT 7
Strange, Buhi is quite enjoying not driving. I had no need to really since retiring. It is fun getting the song tel (spelling), meeting people face to face, having a chat. The drivers know me now, know my soi and when I press the buzzer, stop opposite . Sitting waiting for one, time no problem, no rush, sitting looking. Again face to face, being in the world not isolated from it. Have shopping or need to be quick, taxi. Yesterday needed some garden stuff, pots, compost, all heavy. Thought oh shit, I don't have a car. Then realized did not need one. Wife and I set out, song tel (spelling) , knew which one went to the garden shop we use. Much surprise when we got all the purchases, "Where's the car?" "Not hab, ". Flagged a taxi, he loaded all of it up and a pleasant chat all the way home. Then the driver unloaded it all , took it into the garden and was duly awarded a well deserved tip. สองแถว, song taew, literally means two rows.. The garden centre the wife and I use up on Rom Klao, deliver for free, dare I say it, they are Muslim, some of the best goddammed people you can ever meet. They rock up on time, price is always as agreed (sometimes reduced), no dramas, no excuses, they work dammed hard, and as mentioned are well tipped. A favourite drinking spot of mine was up On Nut way, about 6 in the evening the office girls would start arriving home, what a pleasure to watch as they stepped off the back of the truck, at the same time, the Soi Cowboy slappers would load up, cigarette in one hand, mobile in the other, hilarious as they headed to the BTS. |
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Post by buhi on Dec 9, 2016 22:19:47 GMT 7
We will get complaints if we start chatting again.
I am sure we could get delivery, but I like to buy , take home, then the pleasure of potting placing new pots and plants at that time. Am impatient.
Any way it was a new experience, one we enjoyed.
Another plus of no car is walking up the soi. The countless ben ai (spelling), the polite Thai way of contact.Have not chatted so much in years. Face to face. Clouds and silver linings.
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Post by rgs2001uk on Dec 9, 2016 22:44:01 GMT 7
One of these days I will post the story about "High Milage" who used to work in The Rainbow Bar in The Nana Plaza, paying for sex,  , the mugs dont have a clue. |
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Post by smokie36 on Dec 10, 2016 2:16:37 GMT 7
Hippity....our water heater is <duck>ed and they have told us the part needs to be sent in....January. I'm of course going to have a meltdown in the shop early next week . Its part of the fun. |
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Post by smokie36 on Dec 10, 2016 2:18:01 GMT 7
One of these days I will post the story about "High Milage" who used to work in The Rainbow Bar in The Nana Plaza, paying for sex, , the mugs dont have a clue. Rainbow 2 I could tell a story or two ....or maybe they could about me...oops.... |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2016 4:25:47 GMT 7
I love Thailand cos I don't need Thailand.
I'm not stuck festering on a basic UK pension shitting myself every time the exchange rate moves. Crapping it when I hear a noise from my ten year old car. Panicking at the cost of taking sick.
Growling that I can't afford a 42 baht beer, sending weasel pm's to strangers on the Internet protesting innocence about my Begging tendencies.
I don't wake in the morning to stalk guys half way round the world, and I don't delude myself that a guy refusing to take my calls = "lost contact."
You "lost contact," because you're a lying weasel Begging forkwit. And the guy you "lost contact," with worked that out for himself - no matter how hard you lied.
Hippity - forget about Thailand. Just stick to being Australian, investing in Australia, raising your Australian kids. Buy into that and be happy.
Don't end up like The Issan Refugee - consumed by hatred because you can't afford daily life.
Brutal, but accurate advice, sir.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2016 4:32:29 GMT 7
By the way - a good friend of mine is being forced to repatriate to Australia to guarantee his pension.
He's annoyed but not disconsolate. He's going to visit me in Mexico next year. The world is open to him.
Hippity - make sure when you are in your sixties the world is open to you.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2016 5:12:23 GMT 7
There's nothing good much about the whole country. There's plenty good about the country IMO, stuff that isn't good yeah, but the same applies to any country the degree of not good varies.If I'm wrong, just say so and enlighten me please. Besides good night's out, what else is there good? You aren't even made to feel welcome if you wanna stay long term. Reporting every 90 days, like a refugee has to. You mostly left a first class country for a third world country, still you're treated like dirt. You know the kind of people that Thailand attracts, plenty of them wanted for crime in their own countries, some of them being in the top 10 wanted on interpol, having a reporting system is a good measure IMO.Can't own land If foreigners could there would be little land left for the Thais and most would be living under a bridge somewhere, again another good measure IMO.Medical system is a botched half assed effort- although craniofacial isn't bad at all cause they get plenty of practice. Sad reality.
The medical system is good from personal experience, although I am aware of many horrid scams that unfortunately happen.Forced to love those in charge. You don't need to love those in charge, just keep quiet about it if you don't.Food hygiene ffs let's not go there although I've never been sick, crapping through the eye of a needle I won't count, but it should. Too many variables on that one.Dual pricing, yeah yeah blah blah. Bad choice of vendor, it happens and you know not to go there again, same with vendors anywhere in the world.So there you go. Why do you love the joint so much? The weather is nice, most beaches are nice, I get my cock felt often, easy place to go out alone and strike up a conversation with most people.
If I lived there I could think differently, but then all it needs is to look at the life lived back at home which isn't as exciting, neither is the weather, but does have some benefits. If I lived in Australia by the sea I probably wouldn't give a rats ass about Thailand. Come to the UK and spend some time here away from the sea. Spend a few winters here, the tune will soon change. I get your point but reality is how you perceive reality. Just my opinion. |
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Post by smokie36 on Dec 10, 2016 5:19:10 GMT 7
My lovely lassie.....what other reason could there be barring a shoe fetish?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2016 6:37:53 GMT 7
^^^ Do you have access to my internet cookies?
That's a breech of ones privacy if so.
Was you ogling the £540 crocodile skin Guiseppe Zanottis in dark olive green from Selfridges or the £16 Cargo Quay shoes from Sports Direct?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2016 10:06:19 GMT 7
Hippity....our water heater is <duck>ed and they have told us the part needs to be sent in....January. I'm of course going to have a meltdown in the shop early next week . Its part of the fun. Cold showers aren't fun Smokie. |
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Post by me on Dec 10, 2016 10:43:52 GMT 7
Hippity....our water heater is <duck>ed and they have told us the part needs to be sent in....January. I'm of course going to have a meltdown in the shop early next week . Its part of the fun. Cold showers aren't fun Smokie. Bath heater cost 2500 baht....instalation included or 500 baht. installed today. Better than turning blue. Part comes swap it back. |
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, the mugs dont have a clue.
