bangkokrick

AngelofDeath, on 2012-05-26 14:33:49, said:

I think you should look at your own English grammar first before you start teaching your Thai friends!

Soutpeel, on 2012-05-22 10:50:53, said:

Jeez, steady on.

If you hang people for stupidity, Thaivisa would comprise of me talking to myself, wondering where everyone else has disappeared to

Do You Think The Philippinisation Of Pattaya Is A Good Thing Or Not?

One concern that I have about the large numbers of Russian tourists in Phuket is the negative effect that it has on tourists from other countries.  On many occasions my (non-Russian) hotel guests tell me that they will not return to Phuket because it has become like a Russian enclave.  They want to experience Thailand, not a tropical St Petersburg....

Personally, I think TAT and the responsible authorities have made a very serious error of judgement in promoting Phuket to Russian tourists.  The vast majority of these visitors are so-called 'zero-baht' tourists who contribute little to the local economy.

Simon

bangkokrick, on 2012-05-05 22:12:34, said:

I translated to Thai and then back to English via Google.  Seems an explanation was found hidden in there.  
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Hi folks, ive been a while ......

What if I want to be part of the drug?
It may be that it is best to walk away ..... but I will touch ur ass and start banging your head '!


I would like to know what Peeps are like a counter attack?


For me, maybe I'll kick to the groin and harrrrd drive my pointy elbow to the face of them!
Wow, I want to see the results of the ..........


U Peeps What you blow?

^
Yes, keep in mind there was that cold war thing and Russians of the same generation as me and older didn't get an opportunity to learn English in their schools.  They may seem cold, but it is because they don't want to embarass themselves by showing that they don't know another language.  It is the Russian way.

Funny thing is Pattaya always gets bashed, yet its jammed packed every weekend.

Pattaya in fact does have more to offer if one bothers to look.

Of course if you travel here and stay near Walking St or Soi Buakhao, all you see is the red light district, HOWEVER

Pattaya DOES have everything for everyone, just need to open your eyes and move away from the certain areas

bangkokrick, on 2012-05-01 12:23:27, said:

How is this different from our resident "English teachers"....one assumes the average russian tour guide can actually speak Russian, unlike the averge "English teacher" in Thailand who struggles to put together two coherant sentences in English.....I am all for even application of the Law...boot out Russian tour guides without WP...boot out English teachers without WP as well....

You can own a house or any building in Thailand. You can not own the land it sits on.
You can have a 51% Thai company own the land and then you lease it.

In London most of the land is only available for 100 year leasing not for purchase.

Outside of work I have one expat friend in Thailand, he and his wife live 10 hours drive away so while we regularly chat on the phone we actually only meet two or three times a year, but these visits are enjoyable and I enjoy good company and good conversation.

A frequent discusion we have had relates to making friendships with other expats, we've both experienced and agree that too often expats have a bag of problems they are carrying around that they are only too willing to bring to your door - and dump it there if they have a chance.

Some guy failing the six M's test in the bar (Misfit, Malcontent, Misanthrope, Misogynist, or Mental Midget), or even here on TV is one thing, doing so in your own living room is something completely different.

And there is the inevitable petty jealousies and/or expectation that someone deserves a job.

About a year back my wife and I were staying with the friend I mentioned, we'd had a very enjoyable 3 days together. Just as we were about to leave a car pulled up, three foreigners got out, one a friend of my pals, one a visitor from the UK and the other a guy who lives in the town who but who my pal had never met. The purpose of their visit to say hello and introduce this new guy in town.

We were enjoying a chat, or all of us but the new guy was enjoying a chat - He interjected with three questions directed at me, each spaced by about five minutes. So you work here?.... five minutes later..... Who do you work for?..... five minutes later.... So you're on a full expat deal?

I had not even half answered the last question when he launched into a foul language tirade and had to be man handled out of the house.

OK that's extreme, but honestly, my expectation is that if having a drink with expats (for example invited to a party or to a do at a bar/restaurant) the whole evening is too often an prelude to the playing the game "Wait until the first guy leaves and then annihilate his name/character with a stream of petty jealously driven remarks.


I find my Thai friends much better company - but then they're not running away from anything.

Never been a bar guy but maybe those that go do so for
reasons like the song.................

All those night when you've got no lights,
The check is in the mail;
And your little angel
Hung the cat up by it's tail;
And your third fiance didn't show;

Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name,
And they're always glad you came;
You want to be where you can see,
Our troubles are all the same;
You want to be where everybody knows your name.

source: http://www.lyricsond...eerslyrics.html

Sorry to go on, but let me say that just because a Thai lady runs away from a man does not make it her fault. it could be both of them that are at fault. Or it could be that he drove her out of the house.

I have seen 100's and 100's  and 100"s of farangs treat their wives like village idiots. They make faces at them, scream, cuss and bark at them when there is a language hiccup. They belittle them, their family and their culture and spend hours complaining about them to any farang that will listen - I will not be a sounding board for negativity!!! They treat their wife like a toddler or retarded child. They whore around and get drunk and sometimes get violent. They run their house like an army barracks or a prison cell block. It is their way or the highway and when it is done slightly different, they throw a baby like temper tantrum.

Then the wife leaves him and he goes around to all the farang pubs, chat rooms, forums etc and calls her a gold digging, no good lying b***h. He then puts all the blame on her and makes sure we all know he bought her a house, a car, raised her kids, and gave her 5 gazillion baht.

Those guys can never look at themselves and if they read this post, they will not know that it describes them.

There is some good advice here, and some that needs to be emphasized.  First you stand a very slim chance of making a profit even if you wanted to.  Staff theft is a big problem in a bar with so much cash, and always a need by someone for some of it.  As was mentioned you can not serve drinks, and run it yourself as a foreigner.  You need staff, and to find ones you can trust, and that work is next to impossible if you don't know them already.

It is extremely difficult to get a non-immigrant visa owning a bar.  Not impossible, but extremely difficult.  The best bet being new at it is to get one connected to a hotel of some sorts.

It is very easy to piss off other bars in your area if you take their customers away, and they can be extremely vengeful.  They already have the connections to make it very rough on you if they want, unless you have considerably more money than they do, and are willing to spend it all if the need arises.  Pay-offs, and bribes get things done, and not only legal things.  This is very important to remember if you are going to undercut established pricing.

Even with having a bar designed not to make a profit, be willing to work every hour it is open.  If you can find a manager that does not rob you blind then you might get time away, but you can not count on it starting out.  You have to plan on basically living there the whole time it is open.

If you do not have lengthy experience running a profitable bar in any other country, don't plan on learning in Thailand, you don't have enough money to even make it one year.  You will be robbed blind from every angle, from the beer distributor on down to the cleaning crew, and everyone in between.

If you still want to try it then I would be willing to help you get started for an appropriate retainer.  I am older now, and physically not able to manage bars anymore.

I am English and can remember a time when nearly every street had a pub. Very few TV's around, just a radio, so the pub was your entertainment. Beer was cheap and so was talk, us kids sit outside with a bag of chips, happy days where everybody knew everybody which made a community.
The English have drunk beer and mead for centuries as a substitute for contaminated water and of course merry making.
As you mention Brits, l would suggest from my experience here that Scandinavians are bigger drinkers. Funnily enough l picked up a Swede off the floor a few weeks back, legless.

GentlemanJim, on 2012-03-30 14:01:20, said:

I agree with this completely.  My last Thai Girlfriend was a Muslim.  Initially she seemed about as Muslim as I am Catholic.  It was an upbringing, and not much more.  Sex was fun and often, and she was a blast to go out drinking with. She did not eat pork, but she did not go overboard with the praying either.  Sometimes only first thing in the morning. She did not wear a scarf, or flaunt her religion.  In fact we had dated probably 4 or 5 months before I even knew she was Muslim.  I asked her why she didn't ask me to go to temple with her like past girlfriends had and she told me.  After a while we got serious and started talking about a future.  She started talking about our kids have to be raised Muslim, she made me take down all the Buddhas and the Virgin Mary Statue I had in my apartment.  Eventually she took me to meet her family.  That was a disaster.  We went to her mothers birthday party with the whole family.  I didn't need to speak the language to understand they were NOT HAPPY, and the dirty looks were not in short supply..  The following weekend she went home to visit, she came back with bruises and cigarette burns which she wouldn't talk about, Her earings and Navel peircing were out, and she was adament that I had to convert to Islam.  Sex became less and less frequent, with her even encouraging me to go out and get with bar girls. We pushed through about another year of an off and on relationship fighting alot and eventually dropping the whole thing. I think this process will be repeated more often than not.