Kratom legalized now. Anyone got an idea how to get some? Hopefully it will be on shoppee soon enough.

Since gambling in Thailand is illegal even online, it is better to play from home, secretly, without telling anyone what your job is, or can you safely go and play from a coworking space?

If you lack common sense Thailand is not a good place for you.

as far as 3rd world countries go - thailand is a perfect place if you lack common sense. latin america is not

I would have missed common sense if I had done so without first informing myself. I've never been to Thailand yet, I just read that gambling is illegal, but seeing how many players move there, it might as well have been tolerated and no one was bothering you for online poker.

It would suck to be stuck in a Thai prison but it's highly likely this guy knew what he was doing and was correctly arrested and charged for being involved in a multi million dollar ponzi scheme that took millions of dollars off of Thai investors. Google the "Eagle Gates Ponzi scheme".

His alibi was that he was only an actor and his involvement doesn't go past that but come on now. This thread is talking about common sense. Let's use some here.

No one would argue that there would be better places in the world to be stuck in prison but to act like this is a reason to stay away is just fear porn.

That's all that the user you quoted does, check his post history and you'll understand.

https://thethaiger.com/coronavirus/a...-to-be-nervous

Soon you'll have a minder like in North Korea.

https://www.thephuketnews.com/police...fety-81187.php

New death:

How likely do you think is it that a western guy acquired a gun in Thailand? Sounds dodgy to me...

https://www.thephuketnews.com/german...tong-81144.php

What's your social credit score up to these days?

Last time I checked I don't see starving people in tin shacks that need food donations and dead COVID victims on the street. (current situation in Thailand)

https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/bod...es-heavy-toll/
https://www.ucanews.com/news/hunger-...-economy/89639

It's all part of the charm my friend

lol whats the o/u on how many blokes ILIA's Thai ex banged?

when all this covid nonsense blows over can we start a gofundme for ILIA and show him a good time lol

Posting toxicity seams fun and meaningful for him, why else would he spend so much energy doing it. Must be a super fun guy to be around.

Had our first home invasion last night, only the GF's parents are currently there as we're in the UK but at 2am two masked guys climbed the wall cutting the barbed wire, and tried to lift the motorbike over it lol.

Luckily doors and windows were locked and her Dad heard them, woke up and they fled. But with the bad economy they might try again.

You just made ILIA skeet in his pants

He was ultimately found not guilty and let out. No mean feat in a country with a 95% conviction rate.

Pretty much standard stuff in south east asia.

It's not like they come for rape and brutal murder (after a torture session) like in south africa and most of the time they just want to steal stuff.

Some owners use glass shards on the fence and thiefs sometimes die from the resulting cuts.

I actually think home invasions by drill rap brainwashed teenagers are more dangerous in the UK.

The dangers of south east asia are more related to racism, tribalism, jealousy, greed and a corrupt criminal system of mafia police and kangaroo courts that's stacked against you.

Does anybody have any info on the charming Chiang Mai scheme? Only seem to be able to find vague information on what it may look like, nothing official.

nothing is official so far.
they very recently changed their approach and currently plan (or talk about) opening all the new locations (chiang mai, bangkok, chon buri, hua hin and one more) under the same approach as the phuket sandbox.

this would mean: stay in SHA+ hotel, get test on arrival and on day 6 and 13, but otherwise you're nearly completely free to move as you like. you need to stay in this province (or whatever they come up with as geo-restriction) unless you do the 7+7 scheme, aka 7 days in one sandbox, the next 7 days in a different sandbox.

of course, TiT, so we'll see what they end up with... fwiw, this is supposed to start on october 1st, but most likely you will not know how it really works until the first week of october. or a little later...

Thanks, sounds better than I expected. Alot less restrictive. I suppose the only thing to do is wait until October for more concrete details.

Just got pushed from 1st to October 15th.

Attempt number 1001 to lure the wealthy into their lawless corrupt to the core 3rd world country:

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand...ce-rich-expats

Another article says it's at least 80k with some weird requirements but maybe they dropped them.

https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus...thy-foreigners

These Thai visas are kind of a joke. The requirements are more difficult than a lot of places in Western Europe and b/c of that almost nobody cares enough to go through with them.

Elite visa was projected to have a million members in the first few years and ended up only 1k after 10 years.

Same thing with Smart visa. Something like 2 dozen takers in the first year lol.

Thai gov't. seems so tone deaf and competition is getting way fiercer. Lots of new countries offering up reasonable digital nomad and residency programs and probably more to come once covid dies down.

Heck, a country like Georgia which has a $400/month ave. salary just like Thailand and 18 spots higher in Human Dev. Index just went to 1-year visa free entry for citizens from 100+ countries.

Most countries are desperate to attract these tourists w/money who want to stay medium to long-term and Thailand keeps putting out these laughable visa attempts.

what's the avg number of matches per day on Tinder in those countries tho