Thread: Bkk taxi fares hike

Despite several campaigns against the practice, the unwillingness to turn on the meter by taxis within the tourist centre of Bangkok to exit it to other parts of the metropolis is rapidly becoming the norm to the despair of tourists, Thai and farang residents alike.

And the taxi pimps who infest the lower sois of Sukhumvit are an utter disgrace. They park wherever they choose, blocking thoroughfares, and pester anyone on foot mercilessly while scratching their bared bellies when they are not squatting on their chairs impeding anyone daring to walk on pavements. They of course pay for this privilege to the local police/council/mafia.

And now I see taxis are even permitted to park on the main drag opposite Nana BTS by the 5 star Sofitel where on the pavement outside lines of katoey scum form every evening from Soi 11 upwards to importune passers by. One night the wife and I counted over 20 of the fuckers from the vantage point of a pedestrian bridge.

Thai truly are a sleazy bunch of touts and money grubbers, and most are utterly indifferent to such trash not least because hypocrisy and corruption are the very mortar that binds the building blocks of their rotten society.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Thai truly are a sleazy bunch of touts and money grubbers, and most are utterly indifferent to such trash not least because hypocrisy and corruption are the very mortar that binds the building blocks of their rotten society.

Watch you punctuation. So all Thai's are the sleazy taxi drivers who hang out on lower Sukumvit? The area you call home in BKK?

Originally Posted by aging one

Watch you punctuation. So all Thai's are...

Poor AO, he alone gives foundation to the belief that Septics cannot comprehend irony.

The poor frazzled nitwit.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

lines of katoey scum

What is it about katoeys that makes them so unpleasant? I'm sure the working girls are not all angels but if you treat them like human beings then they tend to be pleasant enough. Over the years, so many of the stories about tourists getting robbed in their hotel rooms or set up for staged police drug raids seem to involve katoeys.
Once I was walking along Suk in the mid-afternoon, around about Soi 5 or 7 area, when I was approached, I'd say confronted, by a katoey. She tried to block my way, so I just gave her a smile and made a body swerve. As I passed her she lashed out and scratched my bare arm with her fingernails. WTF! Of course I just kept walking, nothing to be gained by fighting in the street, or maybe that is what she wanted, with a friendly police officer close at hand to settle the matter with some cash changing hands. I'll never know.
Possibly I am over-influenced by that one bad experience. I've never had any other personal experience and I am not looking for one. I don't like them at all.

Katoey set themselves apart from their society and are by definition outliers with all the morality of alley cats without any of their charm. Essentially, thuggish freaks and utterly vicious when they feel aggrieved. Horrible creatures.

s.a.

One night the wife and I counted over 20 of the fuckers from the vantage point of a pedestrian bridge.

although i find it hard to disagree with your assessment of the taxi driver plague that infests sukhumvit, i must ask what exactly was the point of your fact finding mission atop the bridge. finding old habits hard to break? are you preparing a spreadsheet for publication? missing your bean-counting days in the ministry perhaps?

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Thai truly are a sleazy bunch of touts and money grubbers, and most are utterly indifferent to such trash not least because hypocrisy and corruption are the very mortar that binds the building blocks of their rotten society.

May I enquire why choose to live there then?, 99% of Bangkok does not have those drawbacks, nice part sof Rattana Kosin, Chinatown, Silom, Nontahburi and Ari which I know while small cities towns and villages are far more atractive to me.

Originally Posted by taxexile

s.a.


although i find it hard to disagree with your assessment of the taxi driver plague that infests sukhumvit, i must ask what exactly was the point of your fact finding mission atop the bridge. finding old habits hard to break? are you preparing a spreadsheet for publication? missing your bean-counting days in the ministry perhaps?

Even with empirical study one is nothing without a dataset.

I filed the information away in case of, say, a stern letter to the Bangkok Post on the matter.

Which mean you just made it up. Fiction.

Still, there's plenty of that at Teakdoor. The truth is rarely important. Thai-like, one might say. Gone native but dare not admit it.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Thai truly are a sleazy bunch of touts and money grubbers, and most are utterly indifferent to such trash not least because hypocrisy and corruption are the very mortar that binds the building blocks of their rotten society.

<br><br>May I enquire why choose to live there then?, 99% of Bangkok does not have those drawbacks, nice part sof Rattana Kosin, Chinatown, Silom, Nontahburi and Ari which I know while small cities towns and villages are far more atTractive to me.

Originally Posted by Neverna

Gone native but dare not admit it.

Originally Posted by Neverna

Which mean you just made it up. Fiction.

Still, there's plenty of that at Teakdoor. The truth is rarely important. Thai-like, one might say. Gone native but dare not admit it.

Are you menopausal?

Or merely unhinged?

Or perhaps just stupid.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Are you menopausal?

Or merely unhinged?

Or perhaps just stupid.

Neverna has your number.

As likely as you expressing an intelligent thought, you silly tit.

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Neverna has your number.

Anger angst and simple misery can cloud your thinking.

What occurrence involving a couple of people shows up the shortcomings of 70 million people today, sa?

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand………..”

Poor Cyril, mired in the dreary sludge of his mediocrity.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

mired in the dreary sludge of his mediocrity.

Speak for yourself.

Go for Joy, relax , When I am divorced from the soothing natural world I find Wine Women and song takes my mind of it , you may prefer Whine, katoeys and Bong each to their own.

I highly recommend a free online course in

'WANGER MANAGEMENT'

Have a nice day one of the benefts of living in tourist areas of Bangkok is the selection of International food.
Tomcat's excellent threads offer many appealing suggestions , or ask a taxi driver ...............

Originally Posted by david44

or ask a taxi driver

Ask for help from the very people he holds in abject contempt? You must be kidding... that might mean SA would have to admit that he was wrong!