Thai health minister blames ‘dirty’ Western tourists for country’s coronavirus cases

https://thethaiger.com/coronavirus/t...t-dirty-farang

Yeah I'm totally a troll...

Don't be surprised if the thai gestapo rounds you up some day or you have a balcony "accident"...

And now he's the chair for the WHO SEA regional commission or something.
I guess he has a message so SEA countries could get behind!

watsap guys i have fled europe as the covid situation was getting out of control and decided to go to Thailand. Its a safe haven atm, in case you guys didn't know.

anyways i noticed my expenses had been a little bit too high so decided to try to lower the water and electric bills by only showering once or twice a week. so far its working pretty well. you guys got any other tips or tricks?

Fear not my friends.

Now that every mom and pop business is bankrupt and high level thais have bought up everything, it's time to let filthy farangs back in so the peasants can make ends meet by tolerating covid infested unwashed criminal westerners.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...agging-economy

I generally think tourism accounts for close to a quarter of Thailand's GDP, factoring in indirect income, but I doubt anyone will ever get real numbers as they want to downplay their dependency and their failure to implement Thailand 5.0 where westerners grovel to thais.

The thai fantasy is pretty close to this Indian one:



What you can expect when you go to Phuket:

The next Leonardo Conti

The game changer for me has been to figure out where the brothels are that taxi drivers frequent or if you're upcountry where the rice farmers get laid. Man, the savings compared to the old beer garden freelancers are yuge.
Bonus for you is that they're used to unshowered customers.

You forgot to commit crimes back home, but fear not my friend, you can still sell drugs to increase your budget, cause we all know that's what evil whitey does if he stays a little too long.

is there a dress code, are shorts and flip flops ok and do they insist on masks

@jspill given that you're probably the longest in SEA (must be getting close to a decade soon?) and the most established, how do you feel about the situation these days? Are things getting dangerously nationalistic in Thailand?

I'm not the troll who tried to convince young grinders to stay back home (can't recall his name) instead of having some fun and adventure for indefinite periods of time but I feel things have seriously turned against westerners in Thailand in a dangerous way.

Yeah, you gotta have a mask but no condom, no problem.

I haven't been there in a while I married a Myanmar-Chinese girl and our town in Shan state got airstriked by the military so now we've moved to the UK lol, was planning to anyway as our kids are old enough for preschool

Thailand doesn't have the same urban crime as the US / Europe for farang that can afford to live in a nice area with security so while I've been out of the loop a while, it may still be safer to live in than the west, as long as they don't get involved with drugs, bargirls, or run a business that competes with locals

Obviously we aren't looked up to as much as we were 10 years ago but part of that will also just be globalization, modernity and their economy getting rekt. Nothing ever happened to me but then again poker players are introverted, smart and work online. The truth is no doubt somewhere in between your posts and those that say its super safe, lots of expats do get murdered. I didn't get any attitude from Thai guys. I did notice way less interest on dating apps the last 5 years, the days of uni girls coming straight to my place to bang dried up

lol69 was his name maybe he'll come back if bitcoin drops another 98% from here to meet his predictions

@jspill

Congratz man on getting married and for the kids.

Not sure if you're trolling (how did you even have internet there?) but that's a crazy story. I presume you made good crypto gains which cushioned your transition back to blue haired "castrate all men" and chav gang land?

I always thought thai security was just face and kind of a joke for the most part, but my first place (family run condo building which had a middle aged guard guy and no tenants that brought problematic people home) seemed solid enough.

The story a few pages back (unstable psycho woman bribing her way back into the poster's fancy Thonglor condo) is generally what one can expect with larger condos though with ever rotating G4S security guards that won't risk getting targeted by psycho women and rather accept petty bribes than keeping them out.

I honestly feel the average thai hates westerners by now and the only ones that will fawn over you are mentally unstable psycho women.

Thanks. Yeah there was one fibre line that didn't get cut off by the army but all the others did. One restaurant had fibre so I worked there. Could've made more from crypto if I'd just held from $600 but tried to get cute and trade it. Yeah I have seen tons more SJWs around the UK

Please share some specific anecdotes that make you feel this way.

I have been using Tinder in Thailand, and if the numbers and results i get arent good, I dont know what it will. Like 200 hundred matches in 5 hours. Its still ***** nuts in comparison to the west

Which city do you live in?
What percentage of your matches do you estimate are regular girls?

i think march last year i told all of you to get home you should have listened to me. the US is back to normal, thailand lurching from one lockdown to another, no bars open. it would be incredibly boring being there.

Thailand under lockdown, with bars closed, hit by a typhoon in the south, snow storms in the north and with an invasion of killer bees >>>>>> "back to normal" 'Murica

Yep, should have listened to you.
Living through the US winter pre-vax sure sounded like a real hoot!

March 2021 was probably the sweet time to transition as this year's dinner seemed unusually humid. Or was that just me and it was just normal miserable?

You've been saying that since you first wrote in this thread...

Mostly I used in BKK, but the best results in terms of quality girls has been in Burinam. The results are crazy there. And yeah ladyboys and working girls are in there. But majority I would say are normal girls, uni girls etc. I am early 20s myself so that maybe helps with that. I would say 70-75% normal girls.

How does the procedure of extending your visa work? Is there a maximum of how many times you can extend your tourist visa? Or have people lived in Thailand for many years with just the tourist visa?

Relying only on TV to stay in the country can be complicated as you have to go out every three months to a nearby country to get one and if you have many already on your passport you're at risk that they wont give you one at the embassy or send you back when trying to re-enter.

Best way to stay long term is with some kind of long term visa like volunteer or education. There are many agencies around the country that can help you getting one of these. Usually they cost 20k+ THB/y depending on where you do it, which kind of visa, if you want to actually do volunteering/attend classes or not, etc.

10 years ago tons of people were living on tourist visas or had 1 year O visas granted by liberal embassies that don't grant them anymore.

Currently the powers that be in Thailand don't want westerners anymore. You either shell out the big bucks for an elite visa, get a dodgy training visa (self defense in chiang mai etc.) or get a job.

For a xenophobic 3rd world sh*thole that has some overpriced areas with 1st world veneer it's way too complicated and expensive so I wouldn't bother.

In Malaysia for example you can stay 90 days visa free + re-enter another time after a couple days and it's unlikely immigration will bother you while thai immigration facists will go full gestapo on your first entry in a passport with no travel history to Thailand if they don't like your appearance even if you have a visa.