@Brett ****

I heard Thailand gets the bottom-of-the-barrel, most vile scum of the expats in Asia, but Ashey Pooh is a whole new level of waste matter. If we distillled some of the more miserable, cliched utterances of failures whiling away their final hours in beer, urine and vomit, with only FB to keep him company, Ashy would be the embodiment of this foul excrement. He won't wake up some morning soon, buried in a pile of cheap beer cans, half-smoked ciggies and all the bags of trash in the street waiting to cleared away. The blunder from down under will be incinerated and rightfully be rendered into Ash. Nobody will notice, care or miss it.

@Mike *********

I don't disagree with you that today's expats spend more money in the local economy than backpackers ever did. But they still don't contribute to the tax base(though that supposedly will change) and now that Thailand has seen how much Chinese tourists drop on short stays, they have moved on from dependency on Westerners. Thailand also hoped to move up the food chain in manufacturing, but I sense they might be treading water in that area.

@Werner ***********

I'm going to steal that. 😄👏

@Robert **********************

He's a buffoon. Also, I'm late to the party, but did he edit his comment several times to try and save face? A buffoon and a maroon.

@Marcels ********

Yep, you beat me to it. Though they shut down on April 1st. Don't know if they'll allow OP to sigh up for now or not.

@Jack ***************

At least he made a somewhat clever turn of your phrase. The other d-bags showing up just can't wait to attack you for daring to voice your opinion. And locals do the same crap with the doors in Vietnam. I don't get it. They complain about rising electric bills like anyone else, but have no compunctions about air-conditioning the outdoors.

@Jacq ****

Another expat loser with mush for brains surfaces in SEA. Surprise, surprise. You don't appreciate a proper shower or bath because you never bathe.

@David *********

Exactly. Plus, we've all seen the other passengers board flights with: big-ass, expandable carry-ons, plus a backpack, plus a shopping bag. I confess to having gone over and being charged. Though I never brought a caravan of pack camels like some people get away with and I just sheepishly paid up. Because, yeah, the rules are the rules. Just haphazardly enforced. (During peak season when aircrafts are full, they're going to be stricter, though.)

@Michael *********

Better to be a Don Quijote than a donkey.

@Michael *********

One win, one loss.Janelle says she wasn't talking about you. There are plenty of vile creeps oozing out of the woodwork to attack her for being young and female as if it's zero sum game and they're going to lose their aging bro privileges because some young woman is doing her thing.

Ellen Chamberlain, on the other hand, is one of the more repulsive, stupid-mouthed idiots--male or female--you'll ever come across in SEA. She could never make it back in the US where nobody will stand for her impulsive, stupid mouth. She wore out her welcome in Vietnam were she made the mistake of picking fights for no reason with men who have no time for a stupid-mouthed, exiled, old maid Yank woman. But just as the definition of mentally ill is to keep doing the same thing repeatedly but expecting different results each time, now she's in Thailand, stiring up her special brand of batty old kook prattle.

Oh, and she claims she's in the medical fields. Well, she is, eort of. Committed patients, as well as those who are at large, certainly belong mumbling and ranting under the care of real medical professionals who can monitor and mitigate their illness.