Mark Nothing

The unfortunate fact is foreigners live in a social class system here in thailand, whether they know it or not. And it is the basis of thai culture. And by default this class system thinks so highly of us that we have no rung on the pecking order ladder. Which means by default foreigners are always wrong. In every situation. And they will quickly resort to violence to teach you your place in the ranking. I have had a few road rage type incidents with dirty motorscooter taxi boys screaming and pounding on my car windows, due to my polite horn honking when they made eratic maneuvers. Another BMW thai driver played cat and mouse blocking my car and getting out with a lead pipe looking to assault me due to polite horn honking to let him know other drivers are on the road too and are concerned about eratic maniac driving displayed. After a few gyrations I reversed course and the situation calmed with no damage. The reason 10 thais come to bash a foreigner is due to enforcing the social class system. Immediate results to teach them they are inferiors. This should be on the glossy brochures for tourists to understand the futility of demanding their rights. Avoid confrontation. It will quickly be 10 against 1.

The weasel tuktuk driver parlayed his initial 600 baht theft into a much bigger payday with his edited filming and police station buddies. A designed, preplanned caper. Entertainers also know how to agitate a situation, to instigate a violent reaction, to generate a police enforced payday. Lots of tuktuk clients are likely entertainers who likely taught the taxi driver how to maximize the take.

This tax fetish is getting ridiculous. The easiest way to do it would be to add the tax on the checkout window when the buyer makes an online order. Airplane tickets and ebay act as tax collectors already.

"If you want to find the secrets of the universe think in terms of frequency, energy, and vibration." Nikola Tesa By adjusting the frequency of your vibration you can achieve any objective you desire. Your emotions and mental states vibrate along a spectrum of frequencies which you can control if you want. Accessing this all powerful force is intelligence.

Yes in my condo building the UK residents who bought in at 75 baht to the pound are all selling out. They are ageing now and don't like the changes occuring here. The long haul flights are a nuisance, they are no longer party animals, they need to be around constant affordable healthcare. They used to come to thailand for 6 months. Now they come for 2 weeks. If tgey come at all.

Another perfect example of social hierarchy at play in the land of smiles. Within this country thais have deemed themselves superior. Foreigners are conveniently inferior by default. Inferiors can not dictate anything to a superior without consequences. To reinforce the lesson the superior thais were required to enact immediate group justice to teach the inferior a lesson and ensure the social hierarchy's correct functioning. The actions of the thugs were justified by their interpretation of the social hierarchy system. Foreigners get themselves into unecessary difficulties by not understanding this hierarchy system is the very essence of thai culture. Loss of face occurs when social hierarchy is not followed. It has been instilled into them from birth. The reaction is automatic and uncontrollable until they feel the inferior has been adequately trained by group beating or even stabbing.

The validity of data provided by the cdc has just fallen below the credibility of a used car salesmen with a lot full of lemons.

One of my asian lady contacts stabbed a german during an altercation. He survived and pressed charges. No jail time. Just court hassles and fees. I asked her if she learned her lesson. She said yes, next time I will wait for him to fall asleep before stabbing him so he doesn't survive to sue me in court.

If free markets existed there would be smoker only airlines. This will likely just be used as an excuse to treat us even more like criminals with extra xrays, patdowns and confiscations.

Be careful in this heat. My brother visited thailand one year and he got a heat rash all over his body. It looked like poison ivy everywhere. And he experienced light headedness and dizzyness. It went away in a few days and he was ok.

I returned to my 18 year old weight and health by including a mental aspect in combination with diet and exercise. Your body responds to verbal commands. I ordered my body to produce the results required by twice daily affirmations. Something like "Please return my body to 175 lbs and with perfect health and vitality. Over and over. Day after day. Persistence. And it just happens by default. Very powerful results, without much effort. It also helps to identify stress/worry in your life and eliminate as much as possible. The weight accumulates much quicker when you are more hassled.

I removed all ability to speak and write thai language from my brain decades ago. Remember, if you can understand it, you have to listen to it being spoken everywhere you go. No, they are not talking about you. They couldn't care less about a foreigner. I ignore all thai language spoken to me and don't respond and do not ever speak it. But always politely. Life here is much better this way.

I would put money on seedy politicians working as a united team against the divided people to get their hands on the $trillions of tax kitty each year. Looks to me like the Democrats and Republicans are partners of convenience splitting the taxes among themselves. The caper is incredibly simple. Split the citizens in half politically, then get them rabidly arguing about about nonsensical issues like gays in the military or transgender toilets or what is a man. So no questions arise as to where the tax money and newly printed money has dissappeared to. I quit voting many decades ago and don't trust any politician of any party.

Even with a work permit games can be played. In my circle of contacts I knew foreigners working in specialty medical clinics with work permits. The employer used this as leverage to manipulate foreign employees. Boss would pay a fraction of agreed upon salary and when unpaid amounts got too high or foreign workers got too vocal demanding back pay, boss would cancel work permit and fire worker claiming inferior work provided. The unpaid salaries were used to purchase toys like cars and helicopters and hotels in resort destinations.