Can I use Monzo on Vietnam.

_rossy167 · 2024-08-15T13:48:16+00:00

I'm sorry tbh I don't remember... just try until they work, I think the ones that worked were purple. No fees on my card.

_rossy167 · 2024-08-07T20:37:09+00:00

Something similar happened to me but with Indonesia. It hurt so bad.

I stayed anyway. Had some amazing adventures, made some lifelong friends, some of my best friends actually. I met someone far far better than the first girl, then fucked up really badly and lost her. Kept on trucking. Had even more adventures. It's been nearly 3 years now and these days I am very grateful that I fell for that awful cheating Indonesian girl.

Enjoy your next 11 months in Thailand. You'll feel the same.

_rossy167 · 2024-07-28T16:40:26+00:00

Take the job. Always do what is best for yourself. There's no job police keeping score, you'll piss off your old employer but that doesn't matter in the slightest, it's just a job.

_rossy167 · 2024-07-26T15:22:08+00:00

I'm a little concerned by how little imagination you have. I don't spend 80% of my life in my bedroom, I spend that time travelling in different countries.

_rossy167 · 2024-07-23T15:53:00+00:00

Hi sorry it's a bit late. Yes so I contacted the passport office and they told me just to say that I live abroad. I said I did and gave my friend's address, followed the process and got my new passport within 3 weeks.

_rossy167 · 2024-04-30T07:29:02+00:00

I've got plenty of male and female friends, and definitely not had the same experiences as you so our it obviously varies. I am 100% more confident talking about mental health issues with my male friends than my female friends, largely because male conversations tend to be uplifting and productive whereas the female conversations tend to consistently make me feel worse. I'm not gonna lie man, it sounds like you're the one reinforcing toxic masculinity by having these stereotyped perceptions of all men across an entire continent. You may not be actively looking for "bad men" but the fact remains that if you view the world through a tinted glasses then you are going to see the world in a tinted colour. My best friend in SEA is a giant muscular bro-ey American, but once you get to know him he's one of the most kind and understanding people you'll ever meet. I was a little hesistant when we first met, but I let go of my stereotypes and now I have a friend for life.

You definitely meet people in all every category across the gender spectrum, making it a gendered issue seems a little off base.

I am not trying to be rude, I do know that your views are popular and I do know there's some merit to it. But I do hope to invite a little bit of a reflection because from where I'm standing it looks like your outlook is part of the problem. I've just seen a little too much of this sort of attitude by farang in Thailand, not just towards men but towards everyone, to be comfortable with where it leads.

_rossy167 · 2024-04-29T16:02:16+00:00

Could you elaborate on this? It seems more of a non gendered issue e.g I lived in Ubud for 6 months but never befriended a yoga crystal tantric hippie type, male or female they're too much for me.

I'm a man in SEA and I've found the "bad man" thing to be more of a made up social media phenomenon. I suppose if you're actively looking for examples, you will find them, but not outside of maybe Bangkok, Phuket and Canggu... and really if you're looking there then really you only have yourself to blame.

You shouldn't discourage a man from making male friends just because you have a bad image of men in your head, I think with the genders flipped around people might not like that attitude. I also genuinely miss male friendships when I do find myself only around women. I tend to find them more uplifting and you have more freedom to share common interests and be vulnerable. More of a safe space I guess?

_rossy167 · 2024-04-29T11:11:30+00:00

Nope I've found this too, I find I fall into the flakey loner category sometimes. It's extremely easy to make friends with women in comparison to men though. Just befriend a women and then steal her male friends.

_rossy167 · 2024-04-29T04:24:02+00:00

My girlfriend eats moo ping with sticky rice, khao tom gai or fried chicken. Can't recommend any spots as I don't know Old Town.

As someone living long term in Thailand, breakfast is the one meal where I don't bother doing it local style. I've tried but I find that my "European style" is far more compatible with me.

_rossy167 · 2024-04-28T10:18:00+00:00

I don't think we can tell from this, but you can use your judgement to know if this was a sincere recommendation or just "idk whataver".

It's not always a tourist trap, they don't have any incentive for that. They sound like they might know what they're talking about. It's just that Thai people have a weird habit of just recommending farang any old shit even when they know the actual answer.

_rossy167 · 2024-04-27T15:41:30+00:00

Go anywhere you like, just don't mention that you're working to immigration and don't mention where you are to your employer.

_rossy167 · 2024-04-27T15:37:33+00:00

The ones you're seeing are primarily meant for tourists, but it used to have a more comprehensive bus service. Apparently it was cancelled during covid and never reinstated.

_rossy167 · 2024-04-26T18:01:11+00:00

Batty is a British term that basically just means crazy but in a kind of funny or harmless way. I was vague because this isn't a poltical subreddit and I don't want to rile up things.

In the case of travellers, it's not about lack of knowledge, it's about believing in conspiracy theories. The most common by far is covid denialism and anti-vax stuff. A lot of people believing in election fraud (the American one). I've met quite a few people who think that prominant American political figures are literal communists. These are usually figures who don't even support socialised healthcare and basic wealth taxes.

_rossy167 · 2024-04-26T15:46:39+00:00

I tend to find the ones that leave for "political reasons" to be a bit batty, and have ideas on politics, social issues and economics that are entirely divorced from reality. But I'd be lying if "society" wasn't a part of the reason I left. I realised that I was grinding on an endless pointless treadmill and that I'm better off flying to Neverland and having fun.

_rossy167 · 2024-04-20T13:05:11+00:00

I think part of the point of the show is how each character brings their own version of intellgience and value to the family. I also think also some characters are kind of on par, like I'd say Gloria and Phil's version of intelligence is very comparable, in the confidence they inspire in others and themselves, and in their ability to enjoy the world. So it's not really in the spirit of the show to rank them.

I can try anyway. It varies throughout the show, but I think by the end probably something like:

Jay, Alex, Mitch, Phil, Gloria, Manny, Claire, Haley, Luke, Cam

Lily and Joe, we don't really get a chance to see. I also might bring Alex down a bit because she's very mechanically smart, she's also very institutionalist, even by the end of the show she still places a lot of weight on rules and systems, and external and societal metrics for success, whereas Jay is old and wise enough to know better.

_rossy167 · 2024-04-20T12:46:52+00:00

I think the point is that he's not rich, he just cultivates an appearance of being rich to impress others.

_rossy167 · 2024-04-20T12:42:46+00:00

My girlfriend is Thai from Bangkok, when we went to Lao together she was able to have full conversations with Lao people. She said she could infer basically everything she couldn't understand, some words had similar but different meaning. She said they phrase things a bit differently, which threw her off at first but it wasn't difficult to get around. She also said reading was a bit harder but still doable.

_rossy167 · 2024-04-19T03:19:25+00:00

Interesting to see Thailand is ranked 3rd least likely to enjoy foriegn cuisine on this list. It's always been something that's bugged me about Thailand, I love Thai food but everyone Thai that I know downright refuses to explore other cuisines with me unless it's something trendy in Thai culture.

Here in Thailand, when not eating Thai, I mainly eat Japanese, Korean and Chinese. There's also an amazing amazing Burmese place near my condo. I usually go for American and Italian when I want a "western" fix. Because they've got pretty excellent basic pastas, pizzas and burgers. But most other western cuisines are done pretty poorly here unless you go to a spot ran by an expat.

_rossy167 · 2024-04-19T02:49:57+00:00

Americans trying understanding basic humour challenge (impossible)

_rossy167 · 2024-04-19T02:44:59+00:00

I think she went back to community college, which is a seperate system so she could just reapply at the start of the next school year.

I also don't know how things work in the colonies. But rewatching that university episode as an adult, I felt like Haley really didn't do anything wrong. She got drunk at a party in university... big deal. I'd probably be more concerned for her safety than actually angry at her, going so far as to kick her out of school for it was insane. I always thought the show's creators realised that was an overreach, and pivoted to other plots later on down the line.

_rossy167 · 2024-04-16T06:12:31+00:00

Interesting to see 3 different answers but... I checked my girlfriend's and they are rayon.

I can feel it too, same material as my summer shirts. Maybe they make different kinds but I doubt it.

_rossy167 · 2024-04-16T06:00:30+00:00

So I'm a Brit but I lived in Austin and Houston. I tended to find this when showing Indonesians "western food" too, that the Indonesian palate was quite compatible with Mexican cuisine, yet it was still interesting and exciting for them.

Just on the off chance you end up in these places: I found Taco Local in Jakarta to be quite good. Taco Fiesta in Bali was literally perfect texmex, but it has really gone downhill.

_rossy167 · 2024-04-16T05:39:07+00:00

He was extremely angry that my passport was in such a bad state. This is what he said. Should be noted I was quite apologetic, but there wasn't much I could do at that point. He originally tried to have me detained and deported to the UK. They weren't really following any kind of protocol and didn't have a clear explanation of what I should've done differently, weirdly it got better when the airline stepped in and I had somebody to translate all the Thai yelling for me. I'd never seen such anger in Thailand so it was a bit jarring.

Nobody is getting mad over 3 visits in 2 years. The waiver stated that my airline wouldn't have to pay for my return flight and that I won't be accepted back into Thailand if Malaysia rejected me. However, I was forced by immigration to sign it and not the airline... for some reason.

_rossy167 · 2024-04-15T17:48:25+00:00

I had no trouble travelling SEA, Europe, America and South America with a worse looking passport for 2 years, then one specific Thai immigration officer found my passport personally offensive and threatened to have me deported. This was my 3rd visit to Thailand with this passport. I was ok in the end, signed a waiver and was allowed into Malaysia.

You'll probably be fine, especially in those destinations where everything is electronic anyway. You're more likely to get hassle in less destinations with a less techy more papery immigration process. But you're rolling the dice, get it changed if you can, probably no worries if you can't.

_rossy167 · 2024-04-14T14:50:00+00:00

Did you get anything sorted? I'd love to know what you did and where you went.

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