Thread: Double Pricing

Originally Posted by taxexile

it is discrimination according to race and there is everything wrong with it.

"Foreigner" is not a race.

^ It may not be but.................

Saying "bloody foreigners" can turn an offence into a racially aggravated one, the high court ruled yesterday. A 16-year-old Portsmouth boy used the term in a dispute with a Turkish-speaking chef over whether or not he had paid for a kebab.
The youth, now 17, referred to as M, then allegedly hit the window of Pompey Kebab House in Kingston Road, Portsmouth, last August, causing £1,000-worth of damage.




He was charged with racially aggravated criminal damage under the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act, which introduced stiffer penalties for offences with a racist element.
The prosecution claimed that M said "bastard", "fuck" and "bloody foreigners".
In November the youth court ruled that "bloody foreigners" could not be seen as "expressing hostility" based on the victim's presumed membership of "a particular racial group".
But Lord Justice Auld, sitting with Mr Justice Richards, said all that was necessary was for the defendant "to demonstrate hostility based on the victim's membership, or presumed membership, of a racial group", said the judge.
Despite the ruling, M will not face further prosecution.

"Foreigner" is not a race.

oh for fukks sake you dumb squarehead. dont be such a pedant.

let me spell it out to you.

slopes get in for 20 baht; roundeyes, ragheads and wogs pay 200 baht.

Let's call it what it is, and not misconstrue the term 'racism' which you have been struggling to understand anyway:

It is discrimination based on nationality, numnuts.

Originally Posted by stroller

Let's call it what it is, and not misconstrue the term 'racism' which you have been struggling to understand anyway:

It is discrimination based on nationality, numnuts.

what would you call this?

Originally Posted by taxexile

"Foreigner" is not a race.

oh for fukks sake you dumb squarehead. dont be such a pedant.

let me spell it out to you.

slopes get in for 20 baht; roundeyes, ragheads and wogs pay 200 baht.

Which of course isn't racist of you at all.

I believe it's in order for all of ya to get over yourselves and such trivial, meaningless issues....outside of the contented display of the usual superiority fantasy complex.

Originally Posted by taxexile

Originally Posted by stroller

Let's call it what it is, and not misconstrue the term 'racism' which you have been struggling to understand anyway:

It is discrimination based on nationality, numnuts.

what would you call this?

Is that double pricing in Thailand?

Idiot.

Originally Posted by thaimeme

I believe it's in order for all of ya to get over yourselves and such trivial, meaningless issues....outside of the contented display of the usual superiority fantasy complex.

Can I be the first today? FOJ.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

He was charged with racially aggravated criminal damage under the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act, which introduced stiffer penalties for offences with a racist element. The prosecution claimed that M said "bastard", "fuck" and "bloody foreigners".

How does that relate to double pricing?

Originally Posted by stroller

Originally Posted by taxexile

it is discrimination according to race and there is everything wrong with it.

"Foreigner" is not a race.

No, but it excludes all but the speaker's/writer's race, and is thus discriminatory.

Anyone not of my race/nationality is treated differently. Discrimination.

Originally Posted by Manfan No Cabbages

Originally Posted by stroller

Originally Posted by taxexile

it is discrimination according to race and there is everything wrong with it.

"Foreigner" is not a race.

No, but it excludes all but the speaker's/writer's race, and is thus discriminatory.

Anyone not of my race/nationality is treated differently. Discrimination.

Discounts for locals. Same as the West. Same as people that go to the cinema on a Wednesday afternoon, cinema goers on a Saturday night are discriminated against because they aren't free to go on a Wednesday afternoon.


Infuriating, isn't it.

Just saw this on Sky News.

Muirfield told to 'get out of dark ages' over women members

Not dual pricing on a Western golf course, simply straight out that female golfers cannot be members no matter how much they can pay. Female players, literally, need not apply.

^

Hey Lu-Lu,

My Noodle lady at my local market charges locals 50 Baht for her soup but for me it's 60 Baht.

But for me I order an extra chicken leg, more congealed blood an extra Noodles.

All good I reckon.

Originally Posted by stroller

How does that relate to double pricing?

Sorry. Did I post in the wrong thread? My apologese.

^^ My noodle lady comes over and cleans the aircon for an extra 70 baht bud. 6 hour job, none of this Silom Cowboys dodgy stuff. Good living I reckon. You on the dark stuff tonight or what mate?

^

Jesus I wish,

My posts would make make much more sense if i was.

terry is at home trimming his moustache and ironing his yellow fishermans pants.

^^

Fookin coont Tax.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

No, but it excludes all but the speaker's/writer's race

Thai, Brit, Tunesian etc. are not "races", ffs.
If a US veteran gets excluded from a free meal because he's black, it's racial discrimination, if a Belgian and a Filipino are asked to pay the foreigner's entrance fee to a Thai national park, it's not.

^ correct.

What these guys view as discrimination happens all over the World everyday.

The only difference now is that it is happening to them - White, Western Males. Being 'discriminated' against.

This is simply not in the book, and is cause for utter uproar!! How dare they! Don't they know that we are white, western males?!? The superior of the superior.

Poor little egos getting hurt.

Grow up FFS.

Originally Posted by stroller

"Foreigner" is not a race.

So Chinese tourists, eg, get charged as foreigners not just white and black folks? Likesay bc I live in the north I'm not acquainted with this practice.

what rankles most is the sneaky, surreptitious, disingenious, cowardly and deceitful way they go about it, which shouldnt be of any surprise to those who know how most thai tend to operate, that is to seek to take advantage of anybody and everybody by any means available.

by printing the local price in local script only they merely broadcast their guilt and shame like a shoplifter caught with his hand in the till yet continue to participate in the charade whereby tourists (welcomed as valued guests with open arms..and legs) are reamed, creamed and steam cleaned at every possible opportunity by a people who have little idea of morals, ethics, value for money, professionalism or service and whose main aim in life is the successful trousering of the most money for the least expenditure of energy in the shortest amount of time happy in the knowledge that they have charged a foreign devil double the regular price and that the chance of encountering that stupid foreigner with more money than sense again is virtually nil.

oh how they laugh.

Originally Posted by stroller

Originally Posted by Maanaam

No, but it excludes all but the speaker's/writer's race

Thai, Brit, Tunesian etc. are not "races", ffs.
If a US veteran gets excluded from a free meal because he's black, it's racial discrimination, if a Belgian and a Filipino are asked to pay the foreigner's entrance fee to a Thai national park, it's not.

I agree. I paid the foreigner price in Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia. In Myanmar, it's 8 usd for foreigners to enter the Schwedagon Pagoda, for their citizens it's free. In Malaysia, I paid the foreigner price for entrance to a zoo (2x the malay price, not 5x or 10x). In Th, I paid the foreigner price in Wat Arun, Wat Po, Grand Palace, etc. I'm not a "round-eyed whitie". I'm a slope-eyed, brown Asian female, and I can pass as a native in many Asian countries - even in China & Korea, because I'm a bit "slanty-eyed". So many ppl here gripe abt the double pricing, but there are ways to circumvent that, e.g. get a Th driver's license. Their country, their rules - whether it's Th, Myanmar or Malaysia. IMHO, if you don't like the price, then don't patronize(patronise) that establishment. Or, as someone else said, it's a large planet..