BlogHide Resteemsjack.russelle (76)in thailand • 3 days agoThe Chiang Mai smoke season is a blemish on this otherwise wonderful cityImagine a place that is filled with natural beauty and a relatively laid-back way of life. Imagine that this place enjoys much more bearable temperatures than most of the rest of the country that…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 8 days agoScammers in Thailand: Sometimes they are the foreignersI recall when I first got here that I was approached by so many people with various propositions, many of which were easily identified as scams and several scams that I was actually victimized by.…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 17 days agoIf you move to Chiang Mai, check out the suburbs instead of the city centerChiang Mai is one of the most popular areas for expats to live in Thailand. There are 3 major areas that this is the case: Phuket, Chiang Mai, and of course, Bangkok. I think that for most…jack.russelle (76)in asean • 22 days agoTourists base-jump from a building in Bangkok and the police are pissedThe reason why I am showcasing this isn't because the base jumping was stupid or anything, people do stuff like this all over the world and when I was in Krabi once, a guy base jumped from the top…jack.russelle (76)in life • 24 days agoHappy New Year from Thailand!I can't believe it's been this many years that I have lived in Thailand. It was supposed to just be a year or two but this country has made me fall in love with it and now I hope that I never have…jack.russelle (76)in linux • 26 days agoTrying my hand at Linux Mint for the first timeI've been getting increasingly frustrated with Windows over the past few years. When Win10 came out for free and we no longer had to pirate it, at first I was excited but then I remembered that…jack.russelle (76)in police • last monthFraudulent call center bust showcases the uselessness of Thai sim-card restrictionsIt wasn't that long ago that if you wanted a new simcard for you phone you simply walked into any tens of thousands of different stores and just did so. Malls in bigger cities would have long…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • last monthYet another foreigner scammed by a bar girl for a ton of money in PattayaI can't understand the mindset of a person that comes to Thailand's red-light areas, which are well-known all around the world, and somehow believes that some woman or girl that they meet there…jack.russelle (76)in tron • 2 months agoAccessing your Steemit-based Tron rewardsFor a while there we were getting TRX rewards along for our activities inside of Steemit and I think a lot of people, including me, were only accessing or just looking at these rewards inside of the…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 2 months agoPeople are trying, and failing, to smuggle weed out of ThailandI think it is only a matter of time before the various people that desperately want cannibus to be illegal take a jab at pointing the finger at this sort of pitfall that comes with the legalization…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 2 months agoMistake? ? ? Thai police put offender's real passport information on public forumI don't know how private you are about your sensitive documents but I am really private about my own. There is a lot of bad stuff that someone can do to your identity if they have your passport…jack.russelle (76)in travel • 2 months agoCorruption exposed in Pattaya, police do nothing about itI don't spend a lot of time in Pattaya because I think it is an exhibition of all the bad things about this country. People that don't live here have this impression that this entire country is…jack.russelle (76)in travel • 3 months agoForeigners behaving badly in Pattaya... A new low for my memoryThis country is wonderful but if you have never been here before to see what Thailand has to offer it wouldn't surprise me if you had the impression that this country is a place for drunken…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 3 months agoForeigners behaving badly: It's all too common over here in ThailandWhen reading the English language news in Thailand we frequently come across stories about foreigners doing really terrible things in public, normally they are foreign men, and normally they are…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 3 months agoPeople drown an awful lot in Thailand...or maybe they do everywhere but it just doesn't make the news the way that it does here. While Thailand tries really hard to keep these sorts of things under wraps due to the very popular beach…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 3 months agoA funny sign that seems like a bad translation, until you look deeperA friend of mine found this sign in his neighborhood recently and at first glance we thought that it was an Engrish translation. I then went around my own neighborhood and discovered that we had…jack.russelle (76)in books • 3 months agoMy favorite books: Fahrenheit 451If you are from the USA, there is a good chance that this book was basically forced on you in high school. I had been told by people that went to school a decade or so before me that something by…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 3 months agoThais using the police to eliminate tourism competitionThailand isn't a very obtrusive place when it comes to living your life provided that you cause no harm to others. I say this in the way that a lot of people that I know before it was legalized…jack.russelle (76)in youtube • 3 months agoSome good creators that I pass the time with on YouTubeLike most people, I spend a lot of time on YouTube. I have tried to get involved with the alternatives but unfortunately there just isn't much good content there. There are niche categories…jack.russelle (76)in driving • 4 months agoRoad safety and 125CC scootersThailand has by far the most dangerous roads I have ever encountered anywhere in the world. Now, I haven't exactly been to a ton of different places but when I first got here I found the traffic…
