mick220675

If you have big money, why would you come to live or holiday in Thailand?

I have been lucky to earn good money but if it was all about money I would not be hear. As a evil scumbag Brit, hated by the world ( 2nd most hated people in the world after the evil Americans) I fit in well.  Thai people do not have any problems with me, I am liked in the village I live in.

I have known a American for 15 years and he appears to be very nice. Maybe it is not important where you come from but what you do. Thais will not like you if you are a ass hole ever if you have big money.

You need to earn respect now, with the massive influx of westerners over the last 20  years Asians have been exposed to some pretty bad behaving westerners.

The smile thing is still all around in rural areas. My wife calls the Thai smile the bullshit smile, it never meant anything. 

In the area I live I have not noticed any reduction in friendliness over the last 15 years, but there are a lot more westerners and plenty get very drunk in public. Maybe Thais used to think we were more respectable, now they know we are not much different to them.

It also involves injecting another political neologism into the lexicon for the public to embrace as was attempted with pracharat (“government by the people”) and khuen kwam suk (“returning happiness to the people”).

Its hard to say is he delusional  or just taking the piss.

24 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

The most miserable people I know are those that think they are better/ more clever/ more important because they can spend large. 

I choose not to spend time with them.

 

One of the most respected people of our time was Mother Teresa, and I doubt she was running around shouting "look at me at how wonderful I am because I spend lots of money".

Back in the late 1980's I spent time in Calcutta, volunteering to work for her. I never met her but the experience changed my life. 

I have found in life the poorest people are often the most generous.

2 minutes ago, MaeJoMTB said:

I've never met a female that's past puberty. who looked like she wasn't.

You seem confused, past puberty = adult, prepuberty = child.

 

And if you want to argue 'mental maturity', that would set the age of consent in Thailand at around 35 years old.

35 years old you must be joking, at least 45.

I just renewed my daughters passport three weeks ago. If your kids are under 16 years old the counter signature is signing to say the photo is a correct likeness and they have known the parent who is signing the form. So you need some one over hear who knows you or your wife.

If you don't mind paying extra you can use Key visa company in pattaya, they will help your wife apply. I used them as I live up country and could send them the forms and old passport, they did the rest and sent my daughters passport back to my home. The hole thing took 3 weeks. If your wife is in roiet get her to phone key visa they will tell her what you/she needs to do, they speak Thai.

My friend who is a retired floor layer signed the photo and the counter signature. If your kids have had a UK passport before I don,t think they will have any problems. If the counter signature is not British but EU you need to photo copy there passport.

I drove from prackonchi to prasat last week, there were cameras on poles outside the highway police building just before prasat. It is the first time I have seen them, it makes me wonder, are they working all of the time and at what speed do they issue a ticket (95/100+).

I can not remember how fast I was driving, generally I tend to sit around 100 kph on a duel carriageway. But  I do remember as I looked at the cameras plenty of cars were flying past me. Santisuk you will not be alone in receiving a ticket.

Yesterday I drove to Buriram the police were stooping cars checking licences and tax. For the first time they also asked me to press the brake so they could check the lights. The car in front of me had a light out and was being ticketed.

Happens all the time, I know 3 girls all under the age of 14 that have had relationships with much older men.

In most country's the men would be imprisoned. But in Thailand the men will have to give the girls family money, or get married. Then all is OK face is saved all round.

After a three month relationship I am surprised that she is not pregnant.

1 hour ago, Tofer said:

Quite the opposite, because they don't need to buy new trousers / shorts every time the waistline expands and contracts a bit too much for comfort.

 

Just remember the Yorkshiremans advice to his Son;

 

'Hear all, see all and say nowt,

Eat all, drink all and pay nowt,

and if thar ever does owt for nowt allass do it for thisen'! 

 

It's just not true though, Yorkshiremen are not tight just careful....

I am Yorkshire born and bred, I like to think I am generous in my ways but I have seen my fellow Yorkshire men do some shocking things to save a few pence.

My farther who has a good bit of money dry's his tea bags out and re-uses them 3 times. When I was a kid we would go on holiday to Bridlington for a day, the only money we were allowed to spend was what we found on the floor. When I got marred my dad gave me his 8 year old kettle for a wedding present. I love him to bits but he is tight.

21 minutes ago, Mansell said:

I was working in Newquay in a hotel in 1969 and made some sandwiches for a Yorkshire man. When it came time to pay me he tipped me sixpence.....I said, "I think you need this more than me." He took the sixpence and said in his heavy accent, "I think your reet, lad."

They say a true Yorkshire man will not wear trousers with a elasticated waist, because they give.

I don't thing making any drug more available would help Thai society. Thai people seem to have addictive personality's. Our village has suffered badly from drink, drugs and gambling.

Cannabis is in my opinion is not as dangerous as alcohol, but I have seen first hand a work college end up in a mental hospital after trying to give up a skunk habit he had developed over a number of years.

We live in a country were you can not legally buy a can of beer from a shop at 3 in the afternoon, so the likely hood of legalising cannabis is very low. 

In our area  (south buriram) Prayut did have some support even among the red shirts. But now he and his government are blamed for everything.

The locals hold him responsible for the low price of rice, sugar and rubber, and the escalating debt they are in.

Unfortunately they still dream of the day Mr T returns with the red team and saves them. There TRT t-shirts are on there last legs, something needs to be done fast.

That's the same as we pay running two irrigation pumps for a hour a day and a pool pump as well. My teenage daughter is addicted to the AC so even in winter claims to need her room AC on full blast.

Check you are on the correct tariff, I think construction and some businesses pay more. It could be a mix up. Also have a look at your meter make sure you only have your cables connected into it.

 I have a friend, who is a proper Yorkshire man. He used to bring his wife's expensive face cream bottles to work and re fill them with the cheep hand cream you find on construction sites. His bag was always full of toilet rolls he would steal for his home use. I once saw him pull half eaten food from a bin and eat it.

He now has 3 houses, must be worth a couple of million pounds.

20 hours ago, Brunolem said:

Not my son, my neighbor's son...I have no idea how he ended up in the Navy, but he sure got the right uniform...

My understanding is the first ball you pick ether conscripts you or not. If you are conscripted there is a second round if you get the second ball you go to the navy. 

My friend who was conscripted to the navy never went to sea, after his training he became a royal marine.

My Neighbours son who I regarded as a friend of mine also picked the lucky ball and was sent to the navy. For him and his family it was at the time a blessing. His family were/are poor ( wood house/tin roof/ part mud floor and built on someone else's land. 

After the basic training for extra money he volunteered to go to the south. After a couple of months he came back to the village, I cooked a BBQ for him and we all told him to be careful. He was one of the kindest people I have ever met.

He was killed in a Hummer jeep by a road side bomb, his photo was on the front page of the Thai newspapers. His family were promised substantial compensation. His body ( badly smashed up) was brought back to the village in a cardboard coffin, as the cremation  fire was lit military recruits fired a 21 gun salute. 

I had lent the family 40,000 baht to pay for the party/funeral, the family spent a lot more. When the General came to the house to bring the compensation he arrived in his brand new cream mercedes-benz car, he offed his sympathy and told the mother her son did not like the army so killed himself in a toilet. He gave the mother a small amount of money and left.

I was deeply shocked at what had happen'd, The family was left with no son and out of pocket. I did not ask for my money back and many in the village helped. But every one just accepted that nothing could be done.

For the lucky ones they can grow vegetables, cut the grass or paint the barracks but for some conscription to the Thai army/navy will only bring pain and suffering.

22 minutes ago, AGareth2 said:

ask first

The most important Thai you can  learn.

How much and the numbers, so you know when to give your best Thai smile and walk away.

They are communicating in groups via there tablets/phones. Its just a different way of interacting with one and other.

My farther told me his generation were called a wast of space by his farther when he went to see Cliff Richard. I remember my farther calling my friends drop outs because they had long hair. Its just the way it is, kids now are not a wasted generation they just have different interests.

I wish I could use technology as well as the young. I also wish I had long hair.

Been poisoned in Pakistan, India, Germany but never in Thailand. But the worst incident was in York UK, I was bad but two others with me were hospitalised.

If you see the food cooked fresh and don't eat salad, I think Thailand has some of the best food in the world. 

Supper fast them monkeys, one stole my wife's bag of shopping then shot up a tree with the bag. When it happen'd it was scary, but years latter we still laugh about it.

In our village (200 people 30-40 kids) last year we had 3 girls removed from school because of pregnancy. 

One girl was 12 and two were 14, the fathers were all over 18. The girls were stupid but to remove them from school punishes them not the men.

Only the partner of the 12 year old stayed around, he provides for his now wife and child. One of the other girls is now 15 and working in a local karaoke bar. She is learning English so she can go to work in Pattaya.

It is all very worrying to me as the 12 year old was my daughters best friend. My wife refuses to talk about sex with my daughter, so its down to me. I find it a little embarrassing but its got to be better than my 13 year old pushing a baby about.

Probably best to stay away from party's, etc after dark. It happens all the time, last year there was a big fight in our local market after a movie was shown. The boss of the village was attacked buy a gang of young lads, his son then tried to shoot one of the attackers.

1 minute ago, dpdp said:

 

Ridiculous. Nobody even goes to jail for some weed.

 

 

You do if you cross a international border with it. Maybe you should try it.

This nasty Japanese man is clearly a trouble maker, Thais are honest people and do not rip people off. I have never paid over the odds in a Thai airport, apart from every time I have been in one.

He could start with our local police who control the drug supply in our area, possibly even arrest a few of them. 

A young lad in our village crossed the border near me and was stopped with a joint, when his family failed to pay the police he got 19 years for trafficking. Yet the approved dealer has no such problems.