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Gave one of the old biddies in my village a bin bag with about 30 1.5 ltr empty water bottles in it. I saved them up for her as I was feeling a bit awkward watching her scurrying around going through my bin all the time. Oh, and a few weeks before I had glued one on the inside of the bin to see how long she would try to get it free (11 minutes) - felt a bit guilty about that. Anyway, she was so delighted that if she was a dog she'd be wagging her tail. How much do these people make from them - is it worth the effort?
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I don't think I would live somewhere I thought I needed a gun. Plus I don't really want to kill someone, well maybe some shitty people. But a taser I would be interested in. Doesn't kill, incapacitates the guy and looks really funny! Nnnnnnnnmmmmmmmmmnmm. Hahaha.
Where is a place that does not have meth, ya ba. It is my understanding that tasers may not work on a ya ba freak.
Saw a martial arts dude on TV the other day get tasered, still able to reach up and pull the wires off of him straight away, jump up and get to the firer of the taser in about 3 seconds. He did it with mind control or something, and a yaba'd up freak head might just do it as well I guess. guess he couldn't jump up if it had been a 10 gage shot gun though.
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"by the year 2045 they expect the amount of the children born with HIV to eradicated"
Rather ominous - So what will they do with all the unborn babies of HIV infected women then? Make sure they will not be born?
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Fortune Towers, level 2, towards the Hotel side. There are 2-3 Vinyl shops there and they have some kit for sale as well. Seemed reasonably priced to me.
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LM Blue. Marlboro stink worse than a skunk. Mild 7 Sky Blue OK for a while, but one day the local shop ran out, and suggested LM Blue instead. They'll do.
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Just out of passing curiosity, is it actually possible to buy Deet on its own? If they are mixing things up like Tom Cruise with the stuff in, surely the drinks get a bit pricey when they have to stick in a bottle of Skita-Killer into it. Also, if they are using off the shelf stuff, they will be other nasties in there as well. What is wrong with people who think it is a good idea to mix this stuff into drinks - guessing the poor lasses and most people don't have a clue what they are drinking really.
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Cats have ghosts, too. I've been told the ghost of our last cat is still around because I had him sent off to be cremated by the vet instead of burying him like is proper.
Sent from my GT-P1010 using Thaivisa Connect App
Wonder if the ghost of the local dogs still chase the ghost of the cat?
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He's got to be a wind up character surely from the pen of Peter Kay or Ricky Gervaise? Seem to recall his Thai wife was already married
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Are you sure it was a girl? I have seen this hairstyle on a lot of young Thai boys, or maybe I just thought they were boys."Does anyone know the background or any more information on this tradition?"
Yes - ignorance, poor education, and a culture that allows a small group of people to be believed no matter what dribble they say. I wonder how much dosh the parents also had / have to pay for the monks to cleanse the bad spirits?
Umm ok.
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Just checked and straight in. I go in through yahoo.co.uk if that helps.
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I'm a dyslexic, agnostic insomniac. I lie awake at night wondering if there is a dog.
And,,,,, no. I don't think they do at all all become Buddhist. Religion is a very personal think (except to those yankies who walk about trying to force it down your throat). I would say that most farang living here that you might confuse with being Buddhist are playing a part to keep their GFs happy and if offered the slightest chance to not go and build a wall at a temple will find a way not to.
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I have already, this quote from Semper
Because you are not living in your home country. As said above, get used to these things or relocate.
Amazing, you can live somehwere, like lots of things, but if you have a issue with something you are told to go home!
The beauty is though that if you do chose to go home, you will have a key
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Many Thais are 'nosey' to an extent that we find impolite - but I suspect that it depends on the 'class' of the person involved.
Far more interesting (to me) are the Western manners and customs that Thais find impolite! Information on this would be greatly appreciated as I would hate to unwittingly cause offense.
Yes indeed. But my guess is that many TV-members don't care if they offend the Thais or not.
Just my impression.
Yermanee
True. But offending Thais is always self-defeating. May feel good for the moment of course. I'd also say the Thais generally don't intend to offend farangs.
You omitted to mention
" May feel good for the moment of course"
...right until the point where you get hit from behind by 10 of them.
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Colonised - No. Colonial powers used Thailand as a boundary between their power - to avoid conflicts between the colonial powers.
Occupied - Yes
I feel I am in agreement with loveloas.
I tend to agree - the only reason Thailand was not colonised is that Japan was defeated. If they had not been, Thailand would be basically colonised. If this was not the case, then history is wrong in talking about the Japan Invasion of Thailand, and there would never have been a Free Thai Movement. Yet again, the same as the French.
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keep digging brother.
Meet my daughter, the one in the middle. 100% Thai citizen.
indeed - lovely little lady. Great way to kill a bun fight by putting up a picture of an angel.
Just out of interest, seriously, she has no other passport apart from a Thai one? Even if you are 100% committed to being Thai and staying here for ever surely you need to make a contingency plan just in case.
She has 3.
And thank you.
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I find it appalling you can pull out that secret weapon and take the fight out of a decent bun fight like that. There must be a rule against is somewhere.
Back on topic though, being asked Bai Nai, or what ever is no different to being asked "alright mate" when you meet a farang. It's just a conversation opener. But to be asked directly "what is in your parcel" or "where are you sending it to" elicits a reaction of "what has it got to do with you?". Perhaps if the locals stopped messing around asking this kind of rubbish, queues would move faster.
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keep digging brother.
Meet my daughter, the one in the middle. 100% Thai citizen.
indeed - lovely little lady. Great way to kill a bun fight by putting up a picture of an angel.
Just out of interest, seriously, she has no other passport apart from a Thai one? Even if you are 100% committed to being Thai and staying here for ever surely you need to make a contingency plan just in case.
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Good chance she has an untreated thyroid condition.
the excuse of all who like good food and a lot of it
I don't think her being fat (if she was) had anything to do with the conditions she was in. I doubt she had relatives able to send her lots of money to help her out, and therefore to make fun of her on this basis is very low indeed. She did a stupid thing, went through an ordeal brought on by those acts, and then has people laughing at her. If she was your sister you might hope she had better conditions than this and people were not laughing about the woeful life she has led for the past years. Shame on you.
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Social norms I guess, things that westerners define and private and off limits are fair game in Thailand. Thai's will happily talk about having bad stomachs and getting the trots and how often they need to go to the loo, which you just wouldn't do in the west.
But i think you might be overstating it a touch. How well do you speak Thai?
One which I can't get my head around is foreigners getting paranoid about hearing the word 'farang' spoken around them constantly. As a Thai speaker with a foreign wife and a blond haired blue eyed daughter, I rarely even hear the word spoken. I often wonder if people are mis-interpreting other words.
I assume you follow the OP around all the time then and know exactly what happens to him on a daily basis then?
The OP has a valid point. Sure it is a cultural difference where Thais wonder about what you have in your shopping basket, how much you earn, where your letter is being posted to and what's in it but to suggest that he is exaggerating or making it up is beyond the pale. What difference does it make if he speaks Thai? Well done to you for learning a pointless language - cudos. But in this context it makes no difference. Maybe they are speaking to him in English? Maybe he has a TG who translates for him?
@OP - just ignore them. They all do it, it's not nosey but just the way they are. Just because someone asks you something does not mean you have to respond to a stranger. What we call impertinence, they call banter.
How is a language pointless when your children are 50% Thai and dual citizens? i would of thought it important to converse in both your child's languages for there future and your own,your post wins the prize plum award today on Thai Visa
congratulations!His kids are not Thai or half Thai unless they are adopted. If they are, then of course it is fantastic to learn Thai for them to be in touch with their heritage. I assume if his wife was Thai, he would say Thai Wife, or Wife, not Foreign Wife.
"As a Thai speaker with a foreign wife and a blond haired blue eyed daughter,"
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Maybe it was how she said, or maybe it was how she thought.
One thing I'm sure we can all agree on.Who in their right minds would want to colonise Thailand,the first thing you'd have to do would be to organise them,IMPOSSIBLE.
I would say it would be very easy to colonise Thailand. All you would need to do is the following;
- Give each house hold a pick up truck body (doesn't need to drive anywhere, so the shell will be OK).
- Park it outside the parents house, fill it with fags and booze and invite the local men to sit on it all day. Food delivered by mummy 3 times daily.
That's about it. They'd all be happy as larry. Mum would have her baby boys close at hand, and the men would do what they would love best. Might need to chuck in a brothel or two on a rationing system. You'd just need to make sure that your country managed to take enough out of Thai natural resources to make it worth while and that would be the hard part.
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- Give each house hold a pick up truck body (doesn't need to drive anywhere, so the shell will be OK).
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Social norms I guess, things that westerners define and private and off limits are fair game in Thailand. Thai's will happily talk about having bad stomachs and getting the trots and how often they need to go to the loo, which you just wouldn't do in the west.
But i think you might be overstating it a touch. How well do you speak Thai?
One which I can't get my head around is foreigners getting paranoid about hearing the word 'farang' spoken around them constantly. As a Thai speaker with a foreign wife and a blond haired blue eyed daughter, I rarely even hear the word spoken. I often wonder if people are mis-interpreting other words.
I assume you follow the OP around all the time then and know exactly what happens to him on a daily basis then?
The OP has a valid point. Sure it is a cultural difference where Thais wonder about what you have in your shopping basket, how much you earn, where your letter is being posted to and what's in it but to suggest that he is exaggerating or making it up is beyond the pale. What difference does it make if he speaks Thai? Well done to you for learning a pointless language - cudos. But in this context it makes no difference. Maybe they are speaking to him in English? Maybe he has a TG who translates for him?
@OP - just ignore them. They all do it, it's not nosey but just the way they are. Just because someone asks you something does not mean you have to respond to a stranger. What we call impertinence, they call banter.
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How many blood tests do foreigners have to do for their work permit and visa?
One. Does not cover HIV though.
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I am still waiting for you to provide REAL links to informative sources which give empirical evidence (as per your claim) that Britain wished to COLONIZE Thailand after WWII.
I think the relevant article is http://home.comcast....ot/thailand.htm .
Richard.
That's not evidence - that holds about as much weight as anything written on TV.
Thailand has always been a friend to the USA, especially since 9 June 1946. I can't think why can you. Perhaps this was one of the reasons why Thailand was not punished after WW2 and perhaps the reason why the USA used Thailand as a major staging post in the Vietnam war. It could also be why NATO countries can use Thai Naval Facilities to dock their ships and give their personel shore leave. Just a thought.
I think there is a lot of truth in this. Thailand would never become communist (they lacked the will power I guess) and the Yanks were crapping themselves about Russia playing a fast one (well, can't blame them, out of all the countries in WW2, they lost a staggering amount of people). So they wanted a place where their ships could dock, their service men could unload their frustrations, and they could push around and knowing that Thailand are basically the French of Asia, it was the perfect venue.
Interesting post earlier saying that Thailand never paid their reparations in terms of rice. No surprise there of course. Maybe they should be help to account now and be forced to hand it over, plus interest for 60 yrs late payment.
But as I understand it looking at this thread, and with some supplementary reading, Thailand had the parts that were of interest stolen by the British and the French empire int he north. In the middle of WW2 Thailand got a little cheeky and tried to take some back from the French (even though supposedly there were both on the same side of the axis of evil) and got back a fragment of the previously stolen land and declared that a famous military victory. What had really transpired though is that Japan, and no doubt Germany as well, had made the suggestion to France to stop farting about in Thailand and save ammo for the real fight, and not to worry because their mates Japan were about to march in and take Thailand anyway.
Thailand therefore spoke to Japan. Imagine a schoolboy, spoilt brat mummies boy of course, talking to its teacher. Japan says "Right you, we are marching through and taking Thailand next week. Do you want to do this the easy way or the hard way". Thailand response is "By easy way, do you mean that we get to tell the world we are your partners and feel important, don't have to do much, apart from profit a little, can partake in war crimes and have no accountability, and pretend to all and sundry when you lose that we were always on the good guys side?". To which Japan said "yeah what ever. Sign that or we'll give you the Penang treatment.".
Onwards they go then, ducking and hiding for the next few years. No Thai's were involved in the building of the Burma railroad as frankly even the Japanese could not work out a way to get the Thais working instead of sitting on the back of their carts supping booze. The Thai's of course believed they were making the dream happen though and eagerly conspired with the Japanese in their torture and death camps (any excuse to hurt the Farangs, even back then). End of the war comes, Thailand comes snivelling to the yanks saying "well, you know we never meant it, it was all those beastly Japanese people. Be our friend and you can turn our country into a brothel for your troops when Russia and China kick off, which they will, and we will never be communist. All the time the Brits are screaming "but those bastards were complicit in war crimes and need to be punished". The Americans though who had cleverly ensured they stayed out of the war until the allied forces were so in debt to them monetarily, held all the cards and as a passing whim told Thailand to hand over some rice to the ex British colonies, which they never did (Motto of Thailand....the Cheque's in the post).
Is that about it? So historically Thailand is a bit of a weasel on the world stage?
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I think there are a lot of people watching Burma closely. Has massive potential to shot past Thailand if the doors open up properly and become a regional power house again. but it really depends upon who they listen to and who they chose to get into bed with. The recent news about a load of thai getting banged up is an absolute positive for the country as the last country in the world they should think about having anything to do with from a financial / economical / industrial perspective is Thailand. You can see why Thailand would be interested in throwing it's weight around with their neighbour though; what better way to defeat a potential threat then to cripple it when its an infant? If they can ensure that the money they will inherit from free investment into the country is invested for the good of the country in infrastructure projects, and that no Thai's are involved in this at all there by 100% of the funds invested actually end up in the project as opposed to the Thai model of somewhere between 60-65% with the rest being in graft money, they will be the regional winner. First step would be to establish a true CBD, where all businesses will be together in a well planned zone with world class infrastructure supporting it. There will be a plethora of MNCs itching to get into there to pave the way as well. Just having a strong CBD would be enough to tempt many firms suffering in the Ghetto known as Bangkok to shift their HQ's. Burma / Myanmar has fantastic potential and I for one truly hope it works out well for them.
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I read that after the war the British punished the Thais for their involvement with the Japs,
By force in the Thai's to pay compensation, in the form of Rice, that is the reason that rice pudding became such a favourite desert in the Uk.
Jing lor?
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I dunno - always found Alaska to be a very safe place, much safer than Bangkok, and the the gun ownership there is considerably higher than Thailand.