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All my wast water goes onto the garden, never had a problem. The waste water from the washing machine seems particularly good possibly down to the powder. 

I use a sump and then pump it out onto the garden when needed. 

I know a American who was found guilty of under age sex with a 15 year old in Pattaya, he received a 14 year sentence for rape after refusing to pay 1,000,000 baht that would have seen him walk free.

The 15 year old's mother had pimped the girl out. It was only when the girl turned 19 she went to the police and told them her mother had forced her to have sex with many farangs, then reported them to the police and demanded cash.

The American was realised after 7 years and deported. It makes me wounder how many people pay to make the issue go away.

There must be thousands of farangs in the same position. I don't know this man despite living close to Lahan sai but in the last few years I have helped a few who have found them self in a bad way.

I know personally 2 Germans, 1 Australian , 1 New Zealander and 2 UK citizens within south buriram area who have needed the support of other farangs to get them back to there home country following medical problems. 

It is common practice for people to just have enough money to just get by. There are plenty of people I know from many different country paying for a dodgy visa extension, its OK until something bad happens then they are reliant on others to help. It won't be popular but maybe its time for immigration to enforce the rules and stop taking the hush money. Refuse people visa extension. 800,000 baht is a lot of money and could get this man back to the UK then he could live with a relative and register with a GP so he can get treatment.

47 minutes ago, missoura said:

Snake venom! For a white ass hole, and the Swiss approve of it. I all ways new the Swiss were dodgy with there little red knives.

I have had the same problem with True. The first month nothing, then I was getting up to 10 messages a day all taking 5 baht at a time. But thankfully after calling them and telling them to cancel the number its down to 2 or 3 a week.

A lot of posters seam to think the solution to stopping the spread of rabies is putting dog meat on the menu. 

In our village it is only in the last 5 years the dog meat man has stopped coming to the village and taking dogs. He used to give 20 baht or a plastic tub for each dog. Despite the low price for a dog the alcoholics in our village were very pleased when there dogs had puppy's as they would be able to sell the dogs and buy whiskey.

In the last five years the dog population has not risen but fallen in our village partly due to the increased number of cars on the road. When dogs were on the menu the dog population was rising.

I think There has been a big change in the way Thais think about dogs over the last 15 years, possibly due to the Tongdaeng story. Thais have more compassion for dogs and many now do vaccinate there dogs.

23 minutes ago, Gecko123 said:

Debate fuel:

Isn't sex education info widely available on the internet?

 

What's the point of enforcing financial responsibility for the father if he's only earning 200 baht a day?

You are correct, but most Thai teenagers are looking at Korean/Japanese porn to bother with info on condoms. I know this after looking at my daughters google history.

On enforcing financial responsibility you are correct. my neighbours ex-boyfriend was taken to court and ordered to pay 5000 baht/month maintenance, he went to live with relatives in Bangkok and paid nothing. She now is reliant on the generosity of my wife.

Once a year our local vet comes to our village and for a small fee offers to vaccinate all dogs, most people pay. 

The road seams to keep the dog population from growing in our village, for every dog born one gets killed on the road. Back in the day when the dog meat man came to the village I would end up buying dogs to save them. Thankfully he is no longer coming and I now have a more manageable pack of only five.

There is a total lack of sex education in Thailand. Our village has mothers as young as 13, many have left there kids with the grandparents and gone to pattaya. Inequality is not the only reason for teenage mothers, lake of education and the fact that the fathers can just walk away with no financial contribution to the mother.

As a farther of a teenage daughter it is worrying. I am the only person who has talked to my daughter about sex as no one else will. It is not easy to talk to your kids about sex but it is better than having to look after your grand kids so your kid can go back to school.

I can sens your frustration Tofer, I also spend my time picking up rubbish from the front of our house and from around my wife's shop. 

Some things in Thailand change very slowly, it took years for the dog meat cars to be stopped. The crazy burning and rubbish dumping is still going on despite the last kings efforts to educate citizens about the need to protect the environment.

My daughters school dose educate students about the environment, but when they return home to see mum and dad dumping rubbish everywhere  and burning every thing they can, its going to be slow progress.

On 2/8/2018 at 2:30 PM, cooked said:

In our village in Buriram province  I'll never learn Thai as everyone speaks Lao (Isaan). As mentioned above, many older people don't really understand Thai, which is why they are such easy targets for land grabbers, they'll sign anything.

In the next village going east towards Buriram they speak Khmer. You don't really hear much Lao in Buriram itslef.

T My wife heard racist remarks about Lao speakers in BigC this morning and made the cash registers rattle, she is Isaan first, then from Buriram, then Thai.

Going West from here everyone speaks Lao when possible.

There have been so many waves of invasion, slave settlement and struggles with colonising powers (by which I mean the Burmese, Laotians and the Cambodians, not the 'colonial powers' that everyone is so eager to jump on as the source of all evil these days), that the origins of the Thai people are difficult to understand.

However, if you are talking about the race called Thai or Tai, then this has been more or less sorted out long ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_people

Before moving to Thailand I spent 2 years learning as much Thai as possible only  to find in our village no one speaks it. But with so many similarity's with Lao it did help a lot, but Khmer is very different and after spending 12 years in our village 6 km from Cambodia I can only say a hand full of words.

It is interesting you talk about Khmer speakers talking bad about Lao speakers in Buriram big C. Our village is around 80% Khmer and 20% Lao, the Khmer say the Lao talk down to them. I have been told that Khmer speakers are not as clean as the Lao speakers and the Lao  speakers are dirty by the Khmer speakers. It is strange but there is defiantly some form of discrimination between them.

Go with your wife to the local amphoe office and obtain a letter giving you permission from you wife to take your son out of the country. It cost me 20 baht.

I have taken my daughter out of the country 2 times and never been asked for the letter, but its better to be safe. I will be taking my daughter to the UK in April and will get a new letter just in case.

I should say my daughter has my surname on her passport.

https://www.homepro.co.th/product/1039360

Have a look in homepro at the above, it could be a possibility.

In our area the police are getting serious, they are charging each farm 500 baht to let them burn there sugar.

The wife's farther runs a sugar cutting operation for our local factory. His team must have cut over 50 farms so far this year. The police love him, its Johnnie walker for breakfast in our local police station.

The residents of Bangkok are very lucky to have reasonable water. There are hundreds of thousands possibly millions of Thais whose government water is supplied from lakes unfiltered which runs out during the dry season. Many Thais live in villages like my village with no government water.

When I spent a year living in Bangkok we filtered our tap water and drank it. Now our drinking water is filtered rain water. If we run out of rain water we filter our well water.

In our village the plastic pollution is not from water bottles, but from the unlimited supply from plastic bags. But the real pollution is from the insane field burning. 

2 minutes ago, transam said:

Perhaps Thai taste buds are different from a farangs, so the beers in LOS are up Thai folks street..When I see and smell what Thai folk eat l could be right..

Maybe you are right, but if you you think the Thai food is bad try visiting a Cambodian village for your lunch. Maybe that's why they need stronger tasting beer, to cover up the taste of the spiders.

I live in a border village and many of the locals do like the Cambodian beers, especially the price.

Recently Cheers has introduced rice-berry beer that is darker in colour with a less sweet taste than the average Thai beer. So maybe in time they may start to offer a beer like to beer Lao dark.

I struggle to understand the tax on beers in Thailand, but it is clear that one of the Thai company's need to start making a decent beer.

This week I was in Cambodia, I could still get 5 cans of 8% black panther for 100 baht. Beer Lao dark is nice but not as nice as the Cambodian dark beers.

It can not be impossible for a Thai brewer to make a decent beer when there neighbours are producing vastly superior beers. Instead the Thai brewers think its a good idea to make a strawberry beer. If Cambodians and the people of Laos want and are willing to buy a good beer then Thais would buy a decent beer.

Come on Thailand give use a decent beer (at a competitive price).

Our village would need to be connected to the government water before the farmers could enjoy free water.

I have visited a friend in Khonkaen hospital and was impressed. It is a lot better than Buriram's government hospital (staff are good but it is overcrowded and dirty)..

Black toes that sounds a bit worrying, glad your OK now.