Thread: THAILAND: Tourism fee to help insure foreigners visiting the kingdom

Originally Posted by Headworx

Slowly? You've been threatening to leave since the sausages debacle which must be 5 or 6 years ago now, maybe more. How many ducks are you trying to line up exactly, must be in the billions.


Oh the irony, and you're just too fucking stupid to even see it

Are you quite fat?

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

The wingman truly loathes the stupidity of her countrymen, the corruption, the poor infrastructure and the hypocrisy of its authoritarianism but she does quite like the smelly food she grew up with and remains fondly attached to her family members which is as it should be.

So the obvious and very simple answer is to move somewhere more to your liking, and she can fly back to Thailand whenever she wants for her family and food fix. An uncountable number of people with Thai partners all over the world do this successfully and it's what we'd do too if living in Thailand bothered us so much. Or, the other option would be to just stay and whine about how bad things are because through our faux intelligence we've painted ourselves into a corner with no exit. But, just how fucking stupid would anyone need to be to do that?

You write as if you were a wound-up toy endlessly repeating a simple refrain that represents the entirety of its repertoire.

I think you must be quite fat. Your prose style suggests a limited vocabulary and from this I assume you were inclined to manual labour, or some such physical endeavour, in the course of your career and from experience I note many of your ilk on retirement soon lose shape and become quite, well, blobby.

Are you blobby, Headwax?

^Dance around it and deflect all you want, there's no getting around the blatantly obvious fact that you're stuck here with no way out and that must really hurt. Pure speculation on my part of course, I have absolutely no idea what that must feel like but that's largely because I'm not a fucking idiot who's incapable of enjoying life here (and having options should that change).

Originally Posted by nidhogg

There is some fantastic high end tourism in Sri Lanka, or rather there was.

Oh, absolutely. (why can't I find my SL travel thread!?) The people, scenery, wildlife, fishing, sports etc...

Originally Posted by nidhogg

right up to getting peripherally caught up in the Easter bombings.

And that's the rub. Why potentially get involved with that when you can go to another Buddhist country . . . Thailand. That's how tourism decisions are made.

Originally Posted by panama hat

why can't I find my SL travel thread!?

found the link to it on google but it is gone..

https://teakdoor.com/travel-the-world...on-anyone.html

Originally Posted by lom

found the link to it on google but it is gone..

That's a shame . . . lots of pics from Colombo, Kandy, rubber plantations, historic and other places of beauty

Originally Posted by panama hat

That's a shame

Photos lost in photobucket so thread got purged?

Originally Posted by panama hat

And that's the rub. Why potentially get involved with that when you can go to another Buddhist country . . . Thailand. That's how tourism decisions are made.

To be very honest, I always tell my brother to not bother with Thailand. His previous holidays (that I remember) were Sri Lanka, Madagascar and the Amazon, there was a central america country, but off hand forget. Have suggested that he should visit Japan if he comes this way, with maybe a two night stop here- ain't much of anything to be honest.

Originally Posted by Headworx

^Dance around it and deflect all you want, there's no getting around the blatantly obvious fact that you're stuck here with no way out and that must really hurt. Pure speculation on my part of course, I have absolutely no idea what that must feel like but that's largely because I'm not a fucking idiot who's incapable of enjoying life here (and having options should that change).

I agree. That comes across as a pretty clear assessment of SA. I envision a guy who is trapped and can't leave whether it be financially or his "Wingman" is holding him here. He clearly has no hobbies, limited motivation and simply finds more reward thumbing through a Thesaurus to come up with words to spit his vile nonsense about how he hates this place. The reality is that even if (and that's a big if) SA could leave, he would be just as miserable as he is now anywhere he goes. Being miserable and disgruntled is what people inflict upon themselves. I have met many in my travels just like SA.

Good Luck on your next stop SA once you get all them "Ducks lined up"...

Originally Posted by nidhogg

there was a central america country, but off hand forget

Maybe Costa Rica. My brother often goes. Pricey but he has nothing but good to say about it.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

uninteresting nonentities harbouring alarming eccentricities

what do you think you are?

Originally Posted by JPPR2

I agree. That comes across as a pretty clear assessment of SA. I envision a guy who is trapped and can't leave whether it be financially or his "Wingman" is holding him here. He clearly has no hobbies, limited motivation and simply finds more reward thumbing through a Thesaurus to come up with words to spit his vile nonsense about how he hates this place. The reality is that even if (and that's a big if) SA could leave, he would be just as miserable as he is now anywhere he goes. Being miserable and disgruntled is what people inflict upon themselves. I have met many in my travels just like SA.

Good Luck on your next stop SA once you get all them "Ducks lined up"...

But, but, but ... he's lining up his ducks to leave!

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

But, but, but ... he's lining up his ducks to leave!

Yeah. As he has been saying for how long...4, 5, 6 years. Here is a guy that bitches because he can't use the pool. I think he needs to get out more. As I said. He is living in a vacuum

ducks.

in a line.

Millions of them.

Apparently.

Originally Posted by Norton

Maybe Costa Rica. My brother often goes. Pricey but he has nothing but good to say about it.

Does ring a bell. Could well have been.

Originally Posted by lom

Photos lost in photobucket so thread got purged?

Good point, thanks lom - and nice sleuthing re the thread

Originally Posted by nidhogg

To be very honest, I always tell my brother to not bother with Thailand. His previous holidays (that I remember) were Sri Lanka, Madagascar and the Amazon, there was a central america country, but off hand forget. Have suggested that he should visit Japan if he comes this way, with maybe a two night stop here- ain't much of anything to be honest.

I believe that for a seasoned traveller Thailand may not have much to offer, and it'd take some work to make it worthwhile. Perhaps we, as Thailand-oldies are too cynical about the place.
My eldest daughter recently (January last year) had a lovely two weeks of swimming and snorkelling etc... but you can get that in many places . . . she went to Hamilton island after that and had the same without the 'spice' of being in a different country

You're being unfair with your examples of "Sri Lanka, Madagascar and the Amazon" Apples and Oranges

Originally Posted by Norton

Maybe Costa Rica.

Or Belize? Sadly never been but it is firmly a non-mass-tourism favourite from the US