Rants, Stupid Shit and Coronavirus in Thailand

[CIMguy]

Or maybe a better way to ask is: Where can someone still get a nice cute youngish Thai girl these days? Is it OKcupid / tinder or bust or are there places still traditional places available?

Thanks in advance.

[CIMguy]

How are things now for mongering?

I sort of get the impression reading the threads that there is still action in Bangkok. Is that the case?

Are the bars open in Soi Cowboy? Can you still use Smooci? Is there street action?

I ask because I'm going to be coming to Bangkok for my med check on the way to a new job. I want to know if I should bother to stay an extra week or two.

I go back a few pages and I don't see anyone addressing this concretely. I'm just trying to figure out what things are like, don't need an exhaustive description.

[EihTooms]

I definitely expect it in the private sector that you are talking about, but I was referring to government run tourist attractions where the prices are posted. At this national park foreigners pay 5 times more than Thais.

At most if not all of the government run tourist attractions, museums and so on where a sign similar to that is posted I show them a photo copy of my O-A Non Imm (Long Stay/Retirement) Visa stamp page from my passport to show them I live here and am not a "Foreign Visitor" and I get the local Thai rate. I can't recall where doing that has failed but it might have once somewhere.

[DazeUp]

LOL. Well that is what it seems like to me. I am out stomping around trying to destroy everything in my wake, but it seems he is tiptoeing as not to disturb anything for future generations. Like how scuba diving how you are not supposed to touch anything to leave it for future divers to enjoy. But I am like fuck that, I am touching this shit!

Please send him 10 usd a month so that he can take his showers at home instead of at the pool. If you really want to help make it 15 so he can turn on the AC as well. He's not really lowering his footprint by showering and using the AC somewhere else he's just getting someone else to foot the bill. This is ridiculous.

[Ed Setra]

In Europe they do not need duel pricing, they gauge everyone equally.

Gauge or gouge. I'd say everyone is gouged equally in Europe.

[Mr Enternational]

We went to the mall and she taught me by sending my up to the counter to ask the price a portable speaker while she waited outside the store, than I went and told her it was 250 baht, she asked me to give her 125 baht and she went and got the speaker, so 50% mark up for the farang.

I definitely expect it in the private sector that you are talking about, but I was referring to government run tourist attractions where the prices are posted. At this national park foreigners pay 5 times more than Thais.

[Mr Enternational]

Carbon footprint 555 x 5 k.

LOL. Well that is what it seems like to me. I am out stomping around trying to destroy everything in my wake, but it seems he is tiptoeing as not to disturb anything for future generations. Like how scuba diving how you are not supposed to touch anything to leave it for future divers to enjoy. But I am like fuck that, I am touching this shit!

[Franciscass]

. I just shut the fuck up

Good advise Mr E. Now if only you followed it.

[TConor]

LOL. There is no freaking target on anyone. What lifestyle is he professing to live? Maybe you can not tell from his posts, but MP is a very simple guy that seems is trying to leave less of a carbon footprint than most people. Should he be around there living it up like Caligula? Would that get the target off the backs of retirees?

He might (or used to before Covid) splurge on chicks and in the gogo, but the rest of his life he spends making noodles and buying the stuff the store is getting ready to throw out; living a simple existence. He could rent a car or motorbike, but he always chooses to walk everywhere. Again it is really different thinking you know someone from a few posts they have written and meeting them in real life. Mfs got problems when they think he is living it up and the same mfs have problems when he is living simple. Dammit man! Make up your fucking minds.

In what day has a foreigner ever been able to suck off of Thailand? Hell, Thais can not even suck off of Thailand. They want foreigners that will spend in excess is what they want. If a mf is paying for his room and buying food then he is contributing to the economy. Do you expect him to be buying a new Mercedes Benz every month? What do you consider contributing to the economy?

Exactly. Thais want to bring in foreigners that they can take advantage of. Look at all the dual pricing around. I am a member of a group in facebook that only concerns itself with the dual pricing system that takes advantage of foreigners. How you and your wife of 20 years going to go to a venue and you are charged 2 different prices because no matter how long you have lived there, you will never be Thai? But it is what it is. Not my country, not my rules.

Trips me out reading Thai Visa. Damn foreigners acting like they should own the place and have the same rights and privileges as citizens. Foreigners upset because they can't get first dibs on the vaccine. Mf it is not your country. Their number one priority is to take care of their people. You come not after the last bum on the street, but even after the last pet that citizens own. You are a guest. Take your ass back to where you are a citizen and get your vaccine. What other country just allows mfs to come move in as Thailand does? But give mfs 1 centimeter and they want to take a kilometer. I just shut the fuck up and thank the powers that be that I am allowed to be a visitor there.

Carbon footprint 555 x 5 k.

[TConor]

Or even 100% in places where maths is not understood by the Farang.

In Europe they do not need duel pricing, they gauge everyone equally.

[Ed Setra]

I have experienced what you say to be true about the dual prices. Only made one trip to Thailand coming up on ten years ago. I Visited Bangkok, Patong Beach and spend some time on Ko Phi Phi Don. Before going over there I spent time on Thai Cupid talking to girls. We went to the mall and she taught me by sending my up to the counter to ask the price a portable speaker while she waited outside the store, than I went and told her it was 250 baht, she asked me to give her 125 baht and she went and got the speaker, so 50% mark up for the farang.

Or even 100% in places where maths is not understood by the Farang.

[Mojo Bandit]

Exactly. Thais want to bring in foreigners that they can take advantage of. Look at all the dual pricing around. I am a member of a group in facebook that only concerns itself with the dual pricing system that takes advantage of foreigners. How you and your wife of 20 years going to go to a venue and you are charged 2 different prices because no matter how long you have lived there, you will never be Thai? But it is what it is. Not my country, not my rules.
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I have experienced what you say to be true about the dual prices. Only made one trip to Thailand coming up on ten years ago. I Visited Bangkok, Patong Beach and spend some time on Ko Phi Phi Don. Before going over there I spent time on Thai Cupid talking to girls. We went to the mall and she taught me by sending my up to the counter to ask the price a portable speaker while she waited outside the store, than I went and told her it was 250 baht, she asked me to give her 125 baht and she went and got the speaker, so 50% mark up for the farang.

[Mr Enternational]

The life style you profess to live places a target on the backs of all Farang retirees.

LOL. There is no freaking target on anyone. What lifestyle is he professing to live? Maybe you can not tell from his posts, but MP is a very simple guy that seems is trying to leave less of a carbon footprint than most people. Should he be around there living it up like Caligula? Would that get the target off the backs of retirees?

He might (or used to before Covid) splurge on chicks and in the gogo, but the rest of his life he spends making noodles and buying the stuff the store is getting ready to throw out; living a simple existence. He could rent a car or motorbike, but he always chooses to walk everywhere. Again it is really different thinking you know someone from a few posts they have written and meeting them in real life. Mfs got problems when they think he is living it up and the same mfs have problems when he is living simple. Dammit man! Make up your fucking minds.

The Thai government has tried to rid the country of those here who do not contribute to the economy and society. They do not want freeloaders coming to suck off Thailand.

In what day has a foreigner ever been able to suck off of Thailand? Hell, Thais can not even suck off of Thailand. They want foreigners that will spend in excess is what they want. If a mf is paying for his room and buying food then he is contributing to the economy. Do you expect him to be buying a new Mercedes Benz every month? What do you consider contributing to the economy?

Pre-COVID if Thailand had it their way all tourists would be rich people mainly from China (not those who come in on zero income tour buses).

Exactly. Thais want to bring in foreigners that they can take advantage of. Look at all the dual pricing around. I am a member of a group in facebook that only concerns itself with the dual pricing system that takes advantage of foreigners. How you and your wife of 20 years going to go to a venue and you are charged 2 different prices because no matter how long you have lived there, you will never be Thai? But it is what it is. Not my country, not my rules.

A person may not agree with the way Thai run their country but we all need to remember it is THEIR country and we are extremely privileged to be allowed to go there.

Trips me out reading Thai Visa. Damn foreigners acting like they should own the place and have the same rights and privileges as citizens. Foreigners upset because they can't get first dibs on the vaccine. Mf it is not your country. Their number one priority is to take care of their people. You come not after the last bum on the street, but even after the last pet that citizens own. You are a guest. Take your ass back to where you are a citizen and get your vaccine. What other country just allows mfs to come move in as Thailand does? But give mfs 1 centimeter and they want to take a kilometer. I just shut the fuck up and thank the powers that be that I am allowed to be a visitor there.

[Banana Boi]

The Thai government has tried to rid the country of those here who do not contribute to the economy and society. They do not want freeloaders coming to suck off Thailand.

Pre-COVID if Thailand had it their way all tourists would be rich people mainly from China (not those who come in on zero income tour buses). Thai citizens would freak out but it sure would benefit the economy.

A person may not agree with the way Thai run their country but we all need to remember it is THEIR country and we are extremely privileged to be allowed to go there. We are only visitors whether we are just doing a One Night in Bangkok layover or an expat. Same for any other country we are lucky to visit.

[Franciscass]

What I am trying to say is I admit we all have certain rights, like what kind of life style we choose to live. But please do not romanticize a life style that could only badly influence gullible Eurotrash, Cheap Charlies from down under, and scum bum types from North America and Russia. Plenty of us have worked our asses off for 30,40 even 50 years to retire with a standard of living befitting our hard work and goals. The life style you profess to live places a target on the backs of all Farang retirees. The Thai government has tried to rid the country of those here who do not contribute to the economy and society. They do not want freeloaders coming to suck off Thailand. And they have over the past few years added burdens like excesses amounts of money deposited for longer periods in Thai bank accounts and be. S. Insurance requirements. All to get rid of the lowest of low "tourist". I believe that growing older is a privilege that many will never experience. Those of us who are experiencing it don't need any more road blocks.

Well stated TC. A very thoughtful and cogent post encompassing the simile values of decency and honesty. Unfortunately there are a number of self-proclaimed "bada**es who glorify bad behavior and some unfortunates with severe delusional psychosis and are more to be pitied than scorned.