Daily Moan

[panama hat]

read/comprehend Thai - and know how to read a map......

I'm screwed on all counts

[ltnt]

Sounds like "Payback time," Simon 44?

[VocalNeal]

Google maps is shite in Thailand.

My one complaint is that Google maps doesn't show Wat names, or even Wats. Wats are landmarks often used for directions.

Other than that it works OK.

[BaitongBoy]

I know exactly why I divorced that cnut - she is fcuking, fcuked up and totally selfish.
Got that off my chest - time for a beer.

Good one, Simon...

[crepitas]

I am an admitted chronic pack rat.."better keep that/these, sure to come in handy":
I know I have nuts, bolts, washers and many other bits and bobs rescued from defunct appliances ,car parts,plumbing,electrics ad nauseam. But do you think I can ever find ‘em. A very rare occurrence if I do find 'em that anything actually fits as to form and function.

Nah have to buy new ones.

[ltnt]

Coming home today we were flagged down by a distraught Thai man standing in the middle of the roadway. We stopped and I rolled down the window as he approached.

Ooop's! FERANG! shock, then smile he saw the wife...bla,bla, bla...I'm lost can you tell me the directions to Chiang Kong? (I thought of Terry 57), anyway turns out he's a local tour guide and he had a caravan of tourists backed up waiting for directions.

Wife gave him the basics and we moved on. Just a few seconds onward the wife spoke to me, "Amazing! Thai man, with Chinese, Cambodian and Lao tourists and is lost!" We chuckled about that one all the way home...she added to the insight, "Whats wrong with him, no GPS?" Very funny that one...I'm still smiling.

[Dragonfly94]

Hope she actually knew where it was and did not do what most Thais do- if not know just make something up to save face and so you won't be disappointed.

[Dragonfly94]

My daily moan, too hot and I hate living in This fuking cuntry.

[Boon Mee]

Hope she actually knew where it was and did not do what most Thais do- if not know just make something up to save face and so you won't be disappointed.

The old 'turn right at the 7/11' always works too...

[VocalNeal]

Coming home today we were flagged down by a distraught Thai man standing in the middle of the roadway. We stopped and I rolled down the window as he approached.

Ooop's! FERANG! shock, then smile he saw the wife...bla,bla, bla...I'm lost can you tell me the directions to Chiang Kong? (I thought of Terry 57), anyway turns out he's a local tour guide and he had a caravan of tourists backed up waiting for directions.

Wife gave him the basics and we moved on. Just a few seconds onward the wife spoke to me, "Amazing! Thai man, with Chinese, Cambodian and Lao tourists and is lost!" We chuckled about that one all the way home...she added to the insight, "Whats wrong with him, no GPS?" Very funny that one...I'm still smiling.

In the village we used to tell people to go straight and turn right at the first light which was about 7 miles away!

[panama hat]

My daily moan, too hot and I hate living in This fuking cuntry.

Serious question - why stay?

[ltnt]

She's a good girl and gave him directions but you know how that goes..in one ear and out the other...still laughing about a lost Thai tour operator with his combo Chinese, Cambodian and Lao clients all in their slick new cars with headlight blazing away...Thai rural signage is pretty pathetic...only show the next village or wet spot in the road, no main destinations out here in the sticks...

[Boon Mee]

My daily moan, too hot and I hate living in This fuking cuntry.

Serious question - why stay?

Cheap pussy...

[ltnt]

Cheap pussy...

Amended...quality cheap pussy...

[thaimeme]

My daily moan, too hot and I hate living in This fuking cuntry.

Serious question - why stay?

Cheap pussy...

...or cheap lifestyle.

[Dillinger]

too hot and I hate living in This fuking cuntry.

Songkran soon mate

[Dragonfly94]

My daily moan, too hot and I hate living in This fuking cuntry.

Serious question - why stay?

I hate the UK even more than this shithole, too cold, too expensive, too many immigrants. Cheap pussy, no thanks not really interested even if it's free, which it never is.

[panama hat]

Fair enough.
Why not try another SEAsian country? I don't know if you still work, but Singapore and Malaysia are far more 'real' countries and if you don't mind not being in the tropics there's HK and Taiwan - still pleasant and very vibrant

[thaimeme]

Fair enough.
Why not try another SEAsian country? I don't know if you still work, but Singapore and Malaysia are far more 'real' countries and if you don't mind not being in the tropics there's HK and Taiwan - still pleasant and very vibrant

Does it really matter where his type would hang their hats?

Same for him wherever.
Pathetic gits.

[Boon Mee]

Fair enough.
Why not try another SEAsian country? I don't know if you still work, but Singapore and Malaysia are far more 'real' countries and if you don't mind not being in the tropics there's HK and Taiwan - still pleasant and very vibrant

Ahem...what, pray tell makes Malaysia more 'real' than Thailand?

...vibrant.

[thaimeme]

Fair enough.
Why not try another SEAsian country? I don't know if you still work, but Singapore and Malaysia are far more 'real' countries and if you don't mind not being in the tropics there's HK and Taiwan - still pleasant and very vibrant

Ahem...what, pray tell makes Malaysia more 'real' than Thailand?

I'd be curious to ask this myself.

[panama hat]

Rule of law. Not one law for locals and one for foreigners for a start . . . considering that the vast majority of whines on this board concerning Thailand comes from issues related to laws . . . point one.

Point two - fairly well everyone speaks English well, though the young Malays have slacked off due to the government's swap from English to Malay when teaching science and maths in public schools

Middle class - lots of it and thriving

Official business language is English (and Malay), so all forms are in English. I just did my tax return for the last year. On-line and in English.

Infrastructure is sound

There are no killing-fields like southern Thailand

Traffic is generally good, roads are excellent

Food safety not an issue

Food variety exceptional

Police won't pull you over for linch money - I've been stopped three times for valid reasons and let off with a warning

General level of education is quite high . . . not a lot of cheap hookers or impoverished country slags with several children pretending to lub lub the white man

The list goes on.

The place is ok, not perfect by any means, but quite ok . . . and let's not even get into wildlife, tourism, beaches etc... as the land of smiles would lose out again

[Boon Mee]

^
Yeah, but the place is somewhat boring...no offense meant.

[ltnt]

^Predominantly Muslim? That's a stopper for me from the get go OkrRkr. You never know when that one's going to hit you in the ass.

[Boon Mee]

^Predominantly Muslim? That's a stopper for me from the get go OkrRkr. You never know when that one's going to hit you in the ass.

Penang seems generally run down these days. Beautiful hotels e.g. Moonlight Bay, Shangra La etc but the rest of the island seems rather seedy. The airport is a disgrace.