Fluke is Teakdoor's Oscar Pistorius. Neither can see that they're wrong even when it's openly obvious.Originally Posted by OckerRocker
Fluke is Teakdoor's Oscar Pistorius. Neither can see that they're wrong even when it's openly obvious.Originally Posted by OckerRocker
No. You only know that he buys them.Originally Posted by Iceman123
I assumed - perhaps wrongly - that nobody could be pathetic enough to think that paying 10 pounds instead of 2 pounds for a once-in-a-blue-moon trip to a national park would be sufficient for a group whinge about being second-class citizens. I thought the whine must also extend to builders over-charging, tooth-sucking by mechanics, etc. etc. and that was what my post referred to - obviously enough, I would hardly have been talking about my having to pay more as a foreigner in England. And I hope this doesn't come as a shock to you, but even fine upstanding, God-fearing white builders and mechanics over-charge and, yes, they do so even when their customers are themselves fine upstanding, God-fearing whites. As for over-charging foreigners, I've done it myself in England. Still, if you want to join the circle of self-pitying, hard-done-by, middle-aged white men, feel free - you've certainly come to the right place.As ENT says quite rightly . . . there is no two-tier system in the UK, Germany, Australia, the US etc.... if you have people 'trying it on' in the UK then it is you who has the problem
Originally Posted by Zooheekock
Yes, I did.Originally Posted by Fluke
If you read my post again you'll see it doesn't actually suggest otherwise.
The way you note this exception does pretty much negate your point, though.
Something which previous observers seem to think is a bit of a pattern...
If they're sold out how do you know what shoes you want in the more expensive shop if they didn't have them in the cheaper shop in the first place??Originally Posted by Fluke
So the cheap shop gives you the price for the shoes which they don't have and you then go up the road to the expensive shop which does have these mysterious (though conveniently widely stocked) shoes and they sell them to you at the same price as the cheap shop. How many dimensions of implausibility are there in that claim? It's completely trivial and totally unimportant but why spin these absurd stories?
Ocken rocker made a claim and I asked him to back it up , he didnt back the claim up, he just accused me of being argumentative .
He thinks that he is always right, but hes really just ignorant .
Whatever he says he thinks that hes right and whoever questions him is an "argumentative troll who must be difficult to live with"
Cuz Fluke is really Oscar Pistorius.Originally Posted by Zooheekock
I know how much the shoes cost .
I found the cheapest shop in town and always go there , but when they are sold out I go along to the more expensive shop , although the more expensive shop sells the shoes for about the same price as other shops , we are only talking about a difference of 100 baht or so , here .
If Thais consider other Thais not to be Thai(isaan,khmer,burmese etc) and treat them like second class i think we can fairly say we are second class.
Surely the whole point of this increasingly unlikely sounding excursion is that the price of the shoes varies?Originally Posted by Fluke
It does seem somewhat odd that you avoid shops that involve haggling by going to shops where the prices are fixed and marked, sometimes to...err...haggle about the price.
Still, great news that these hard to find shoes are stocked by two shops in such close proximity.
May be Fluke should let us in on these wonderful shoes that these two shop stock year after year. I assume 'year after year' cuz a pair of shoes should last a year or more and Fluke "always buys the same shoes".Originally Posted by cyrille
I go along to the more expensive shop , although the more expensive shop sells the shoes for about the same price as other shops , we are only talking about a difference of 100 baht or so , here .There seems to be some confusion here.when I go to the more expensive shop , I do offer them the other shops price , which they accept
That, however, was the thread of discussionOriginally Posted by Zooheekock
Good God . . . have you no shame nor an inkling of what irony means.Originally Posted by Fluke
I'll try again:
Originally Posted by FlukeOriginally Posted by OckerRockerOriginally Posted by FlukeOriginally Posted by toddanielsThat, in a nutshell, is Fluke.Originally Posted by Fluke
Wrong, wrong, wrong yet will try and try and try to pretend he isn't.
Just admit it, Fluke . . . and get on with your other postings - no-one will think any less of you
The first pair?Originally Posted by Pragmatic
^ When a farang and falong mate, they have little baby Felangs.
quite right, some here confuse their financial situation (which is always temporary in these days and ages) with their "rights" and "tenure" in this country.Originally Posted by ENT
the fact that we are restricted LEGALLY to do a lot of things just speak volumes about our motives to stay there.
And yes, this is not limited to Thailand. Singapore, China, Malaysia is as fucked up as Thailand.
That's actually the subject of a major research project being run by RickThai and Craig Venter (obviously he's the junior partner in that team).
Craig Venter is good but even he could not put life into Fluke.
Called . . . . drumroll . . . Falung Gong!Originally Posted by Zooheekock
. . . I'll get my coat
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