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14 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:
Vapes are illegal in Thailand so you must be hallucinating. All the YouTube and other videos of people vaping - always women, strangely - are AI fakes.
Vaping is illegal in Thailand but it's happening at places (indoors and outdoors) around Bangkok, you need to get away from your keyboard more and venture out the front door and OPEN YOUR EYES. It's more widespread than you think.
I suppose the next thing you're going to ask me is for names, dates and venues for proof!
Lots of things are illegal in Thailand but are still happening.
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10 hours ago, DrJack54 said:
Please post fact.
First hand experience of going upstairs well dressed to open a bank account account with a tourist visa and nothing else.
Within last year.
Fact!
I went upstairs and replaced my worn ATM BKK Bank Debit card, at that time (August last year) I was in town for just a few weeks (didn't even HAVE a visa). Lots of signatures required and plenty of general chit chat. I was asked by the lovely lady in conversation (not in an official capacity) where I'm living etc and after replying she just gave a big smile and gave me my new card and said "happy holiday".
Re your request... Yes, I opened accounts on 3 occasions over the years with just a Tourist Visa in that very same spot. First time was in the 80's when there was actually a small Post Office up there within the bank.
I've also had accounts with the TFB and later Kasikorn Bank. All opened with just a Tourist Visa!
The one thing they did stipulate was to "keep the account active" which I do.
You, Dr Jack are the typical keyboard warrior that spends your whole day on this site trying to disprove other contributors' personal experiences.....
"please post fact"... Really????
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On 3/29/2024 at 3:14 PM, FARANG KIWI said:
I was in the same situation 15 years ago.
You do not say where you are but if in Bangkok try Bangkok Bank on Sukumvitt Road ( near Soi 8 )They were Tourist friendly to me in opening!
Correct... just go upstairs, there are a couple of girls working there that are most helpful. Remember to dress correctly for the occasion.
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When you gotta go,
you gotta go!
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On 3/27/2024 at 3:59 AM, HugoFastor said:
Because they were. 😂Stickman wrote on a few occasions that he'd see him at the La Scala cinema quite often, and he'd always undo the top button of his trousers before sitting down!
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On 3/26/2024 at 6:50 PM, HugoFastor said:
Was there also a popular watering on PP2 that could only be reached by entering through the carpark above Foodland supermarket?
I only ventured upstairs a few times and from memory it was to eat at the Derby King (?) .. they also did take away orders and delivered them to the nearby bars. Can't remember accessing there from the Foodland carpark though. The stairs were near Vinai's.
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I once met a young Thai lady in Macca's (Robinson cnr Suk Soi 19)
It was just after the opening of the Grande Sheraton opposite.
I happened to mention to her that the hotel seemed to be constructed in a very short time. She then went on to tell me that the facade and much of the building was pre fabricated and all trucked in during nights. She was studying structures/architecture at Uni. A lengthy conversation that led to an inexpensive relationship for the next 3 week before I departed BKK. Our liasons were always at HER apartment and I always walked past her hotel's reception (well dressed)and said 'Hi' with a book in my hand. It sort've created the perception that my frequent visits were for business rather than pleasure. Maybe "face saving " for her
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Patpong 2 was quite a buzz in the 80's... next to the Crown Royale was the RIFIFI BAR run by Mickey.
It often was quite popular just before sunset onwards.
Down the other direction was the CLEO BAR BEER ( later known as Vinai's). Anyone remember the old cashier? she was 110° in the shade.
I actually saw her pay a visit to the bar last year. You can take an old girl outta the bar but you can't take the bar.....
Also the EXECUTIVE BAR was quite posh in its day.
I always remember the La Cherie (goldfish bowl) on Suriwong Rd at the end of PP2 near the Suriwong Hotel. It had a grand old escalator to get you down there, but you had steps to get back up. I'd sit at the big glass window with Kloster in hand with my nose pressed up against it watching all the girls applying make-up to each other.
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Back in the early 80's as a young sex tourist the Night Owl column was my only source of bar news back in Oz in between trips.
I had the pleasure of meeting Bernard in the Crown Royale (PP2) one afternoon. I was introduced to him by an old long gone Kiwi mate who appeared in a movie made at the time (in Thailand) called "COMEBACK" also starring Michael Landon.
Back then a lot of the regulars used to rotate between the Madrid and the Crown Royale between lunchtime and sunset. When I was in town I'd mingle with them, hearing all the old stories of Patpong.... also met Neil Davis, an Aussie journo who was shot and killed in a coup in Bangkok mid 80's. His photo used to be on the wall in the GRAND PRIX BAR back in the day.
In the small Soi linking PP1 and PP2 opposite the Crowne Royale used to be the SUPERSTAR BEER GARDEN, we'd often stop by there during afternoon happy hour (Amarit Draft 30 baht glass) and watch a video movie as well as the passing parade.
Trink would occasionally stroll past some afternoons with friends enroute to either Madrid or Crowne Royale.
Great memories.
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Chez Marco and Da Stefano are my favorites for good food.
Red Lion for the ambience and conversation.
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On 3/1/2024 at 8:32 AM, thaibeachlovers said:
Errrr, do you want to revisit the reason the dinosaurs died out? While the meteor impact may have triggered a cold period, it wasn't a "normal" ice age as part of the climate cycle.
Theories, theories, theories...
I base my comments on stuff I've read or seen in documentaries, I wasn't here way back then, nor were you. Then again, you could believe the information you heard from a particular scientist who has said something different from the scientists I may have heard. Neither of us are right, neither of us are wrong.
I'm just sick to death of the climate alarmism cr*p that's rammed down our throats. When people in high places with plenty of influence (U.N.) start telling the world that if we don't stop burning fossil fuels within the next 50 years the oceans will start to boil. Puleaze......
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34 minutes ago, Lacessit said:
PET ( Positron Emission Tomography ) scans are used to detect cancerous tumors in a full body scan.
After fasting for 12 hours, a patient is injected with radioactive sugar. They then wait for an hour for the sugar to distribute itself through the body.
Cancer cells absorb sugar far faster than normal cells. The tumors show up as hot spots of radioactivity in the scan.
If cancer loves sugar so much, why give it what it wants?
PET scans don't show up Pancreatic cancer. You gotta have an Endoscopy to enable Biopsy from pancreas.
I'm Stage 4 PC. I have a strong family history of cancers, mother had it twice, father had it twice. The Genetics Research section of the Health Department here is doing special tests in my blood to see if I actually inherited it from my parents.
If so, the current chemo treatment has to be altered.
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The Climate change Cycle is a reality and has already, and will into the future, CHANGE, with or without our help.
We're probably fortunate that the ocean (and the Earth's) temperature is warming up.. record crops growth around the world currently - food sustains life!
The current alarmism has turned climate change into the climate industry, lots of people making money out of it, which isn't a bad thing.
At this point if time on this Earth, I'd prefer to be here now, as opposed to some time in the distant future when world temperatures are dropping! Plenty of reason to worry then. I doubt whether humanity could survive an ice age... the Dinosaurs certainly didn't!
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In 2004 I was doing exactly the same things as I do now... cummuting several times a year between Bangkok, Sukhothai and Chiangmai.
Unfortunately my old hotel in Bangkok (The Honey) is now a construction site with a 14 meter hole in the ground.
My farm in Sukhothai has a nice modern house in it as opposed to the shack back in '04.
My old hotel's in Chiangmai have changed names - the Montri to just plain "M" and Rydges to the Amora.
If we go back another 20 years to '84. My old(er) hotel in Chiangmai was the Anodard and I'm really happy to see it ain't changed much.
Twenty years ago in Thailand I was walking everywhere, drinking way too much and enjoying the company of friends. Unfortunately about 75% of my farang friends that lived in Thailand back then have passed away. I'm living between Australia and Thailand so get the best of both worlds. I may be retired now but I thought the world was a better place back in 2004. Of course Boxing Day of that year was the exception.
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I opened an account with the Thai Farmers Bank over 40 years ago.
As I was visiting Thailand as a tourist 3 times per year the modest balance I had in the account was a sort've 'back up' in case my travellers cheques ran out . (!!!?)
In the 90's I opened a BKK Bank account for the same reason.
TFB became Kasikorn Bank, I closed that account.
Been using the BKK Bank account regularly since then as I don't have to pay a fee each time I use their ATM's in Thailand.
If I use my Oz cards, there is that 250/300 baht fee plus foreign exchange fee and crappy rate.
I just bring the big green Oz banknotes and change at Vasu and then deposit into BKK Bank.
Weekly withdrawals at BKK Bank ATM's. At the end of each trip there is still money left over in the acc for the next trip.
To sum it up: it's for convenience, security/safety and prevention of getting ripped off with fees and crappy exchange rates etc.
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On 1/29/2024 at 12:14 AM, Denim said:
In the old days 40 years ago used to discretely slip the girls 20 baht instead of wasting money on lady drinks. Everybody happy.
Then the sex tourists turned up in swarms and the fun went out of it. Not been in a bar for at least 25 years. No need. Better watering holes well away from the tourist traps.
Yes, and rather than pay the barfine you could just arrange to meet up with the girl at the Tip Top Restaurant when she finished work.
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On 1/29/2024 at 1:06 AM, JimTripper said:
I would not sign anything. It's still a cash society. If more drinks come then I ordered then get up and tell the manager they were not ordered. Even better, get a drink menu. The price can be whatever they want if you don't have a menu.
If they still demand 1k per guy then tourist police settle it.
Somewhere in between the 1st paragraph and the 2nd paragraph you forgot to mention the 'security guards'....
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On 1/28/2024 at 7:47 PM, 2long said:
Warning for all those out there. At least a couple of bars in Cowboy are scamming punters.
I will not mention the names, due to Thailand's laws, but one is a reference to memory in French and the other is a time that 7Eleven stop selling booze.
Taking into account that I have been here 24 years and my mates are far from bar novices, and in their 60s. No one was drunk. This is not Patpong....
Order a lady drink and she brings two (a shot and a cola). In bars in Nana this is classed as one drink and costs about 200B.
More girls turn up and when you offer/say yes to a drink for the new girl, ALL the girls on the table get a shot and a cola, not just the extra lass. And the price of these lady drinks is 300B each glass, so you're looking at 600B/pop/lady.
There's a chitty/bill that the lady asks you to write your name on, but it's not like a bill in a plastic pot like normal bars. For me, it was in her bikini bottoms.
Then when the punters question 'what's going on here?' and it all kicks off, the management say 'you signed for it, and it's all on CCTV'
Two mates had one beer each and the bill was 4,300B but I negotiated down to the 3,000B that they had signed for.
Two mates and I had one beer each and the bill was 2,700B.
We all know that there are a few options to resolve the situation, and each has his own way. Yes it cost us a lot, and we made our feelings very clear in Thai language, and in a Thai way.
As I wrote, this is not Patpong and we have all been to many many bars before, hundreds of times and none of us were drunk. Yes, we should know better, but if we can get caught, others are likely to as well.
Yes.. this and similar scams are becoming widely known either by personal experience, or if you read Stickman.com
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Here in Australia we've not much choice for DIRECT Syd to BKK flights.
Only QF and TG.
Of course AirAsia and Sh*tstar fly Syd to Phuket but I don't go there.
I was flying TG Business class for years and had no problems until around 2006 when I was able to fly Emirates Business Class for $1,100 cheaper. Better planes (A380) and much better service however Emirates ceased flying Syd to BKK in June 2019 (unless of course I want to pay QF prices in a QF plane).
I refuse to fly QF for several reasons as well as the ones that have been widely documented since the recent departure of the Leprechaun (C.E.O).
On the bright side, as from April, TG will start flying Syd to BKK using the newish A350's so with newer planes there might be a newer 'attitude'.
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On 1/23/2024 at 10:46 PM, KannikaP said:
A great post VBF. If the vinyl records are digitised, with all the hisses and noises, using a 96kHz method, those should sound EXACTLY the same as the originals, with all those unwanted artefacts. But many flacs, and mp3s, are taken from remixed/remastered master tapes, so should be better.
WRONG!
Remixed tracks have probably come from the original multitrack master but they won't sound quite the same as the original. Because of the condition (due to age) of the original tape, the remix will have to have "noise reduction" to remove the tape hiss which in turn removes a lot of the detail (think cassettes, and when you switching the Dolby switch on and off). The Remix would then be overly compressed (as they do these days) making it sound loud with little Dynamic range.
As for Remasters - Remasters means LOUDER. An engineer has just taken the digital production "master" and tweaked the EQ (altered equalizer frequencies) and compressed the audio making it LOUDER than the original.
Remasters means LOUDER!
And... that's the problem with streaming these days. You don't know the source. It can be WAV. lossless or MP3 or Flac and might sound great to your ears and you're really happy with it. Great!
But if you compared it to the original (vinyl) version... it'll be chalk and cheese.
Of course I realize that back in the day the recording technology was simpler and there were obviously some low quality recordings however they were in the minority.
Some were even reissued a couple of years later with noticeably improved sound quality.
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If you're in Bangkok get off the BTS at Chitlom. Walk along the Skywalk towards the Ratchaprasong intersection. Take the first exit footbridge on the left straight into that building. There is a guitar shop there.
Also, I've seen a couple near each other in Centralworld and (from memory) there's one in the Siam Discovery Center upstairs.
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On 1/19/2024 at 11:44 AM, arick said:
There is no queue going in Chiang Mai anymore you must be kind of confused it was like that 6-8 years ago but it isn't like that anymore.
I guess you aren't at CNX airport to check in for the 10.10am flight to Bangkok.
Sometimes it's mayhem.
Hopefully now with TG resuming the domestic route a Business Class ticket will speed up the process.
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On 1/22/2024 at 11:05 PM, KannikaP said:
I can hear far more on my digital files than I ever remember hearing on vinyl records.
For those who prefer the 'vinyl' sound with all the noises, there are files available online taken from the records retaining all of them, with their reduced dynamic range.
For those who prefer to hear how the tracks sounded in the studio, there are flacs or wavs taken directly from the masters.
You're hearing far more on your digital files than you ever did on your vinyl's because you're probably listening to an overly compressed LOUD remastered version.
The compression has brought up the levels of those quiet tambourines and cymbals to the same level as the drums, guitars and vocals.... which is NOT how they sounded in the studio.
The quality of the "source" (being the original vinyl) is just as important as the quality of the cartridge and speakers.
The (so called) new vinyl records that are available these days are actually recorded from the digital master, which is the same source as most modern CD's. It kinda defeats the purpose. The early pressed CD's from the 80's until around '94 are from the Analog masters (you'll probably see the SPAR code written on them - AAD meaning Analog original master to Analog copy production tape to digital Compact disc. Newer CD's are DDD however the more expensive (DCC Gold CDs) are ADD.
God knows what versions of tracks are on the streaming services, even if you pay for 'lossless' quality you're more than likely getting an overly compressed (brickwalled, if you're in the business) LOUD version.
As far as crackles and pops and vinyl surface noise on vinyl records go, a decent record cleaner will get rid of most of those. There are still heaps of excellent quality "original" vinyl around out there, but in answer to the OP's question, I never venture to Pattaya so I don't know.
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On 1/18/2024 at 10:08 PM, mokwit said:
Apparently you cant picpocket someone when they are moving. They have to be stationary.
Don't you watch the movies?
It can be done on the move.
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