OneMoreFarang

Let's say what she describes are polite ways how Thais like to see themselves.

It seems reality is often very different from those ideals. 

26 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

If you took the time to watch all of Biden's SOTU speech, you would maybe see someone who talks cogently and with vigor. Depending on how entrenched your bias is.

 

Then tell me what you can detect in a Trump speech which remotely resembles a policy which will benefit the average American. After you have filtered out every deflection, non sequitur, and arrant nonsense.

You, like many others, seems to like things black and white. Biden good, Trump bad, that's it.

I, on the other hand, want good and bad information about all of them.

All in all, I think Biden is by far the better choice, even if he is a bad choice.

Biden has moments when behaves like he is demented. He talks (maybe only for seconds) like an idiot. He tries to shake hands with not existing people, etc. Maybe if DEMs supporters would know more about this, then maybe they would understand why people want someone else than Biden.

Maybe they would even force the party to look for a younger, fitter, candidate.

Trump is obviously a maniac. But sometimes he is right. I.e. when he talks about the swamp in Washington, he is talking about reality. There is a big swamp. Trump doesn't mention that the swamp includes the GOP and he is obviously not the right guy to solve this problem. But he has a point, there is a deep swamp. And some people hear that and agree with him and vote for him for that reason.

4 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

 

Too late to edit, but for @ExpatOilWorker if you smashed your BMW, bent the wheels, had significant body panel damage and A pillar damage would you have to wait for parts? More than 32 days? How long would your "Performance Motors" stickers take to be reprinted? That is obviously the most important thing, as a BMW is nothing without the stickers....

You should try one of those BMWs - if you can afford them.

Most of them are fun, even without stickers.

4 hours ago, geisha said:

Many Thai girls get married at that age. A bit less in today’s world. 

And in today's world they still f*%* and have babies. 

10 minutes ago, UWEB said:

What a nonsenses. Just stay beside a high-class ICE Car, hardly to hear the Engine running.

Thanks for sharing your superior knowledge. 

It's amazing how many people here pretend they know all the relevant Thai laws about marriage and sex with a 16-year-old girl.

"The age of consent in Thailand is 15 regardless of gender or sexual orientation, as specified by article 279 of the Thai Criminal Code. The current legislation applies to all regardless of gender or sexual orientation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Asia#Thailand

https://www.siam-legal.com/thailand-law/legal-age-of-consent-in-thailand

Hint: Only because you think it should be illegal doesn't mean it is actually illegal. Different countries, different laws, and different ways of doing things (i.e. sinsod). 

P.S.: I know there are some restrictions if the parents complain. But in this case it seems the parents explicitly agreed.

They will just continue the trend: Suvarnabhumi Airport has already the world's tallest free-standing control tower.

Suvarnabhumi Airport - Wikipedia

Maybe they can build the new tower right next to that. I am sure the whole world would be impressed. 

1 hour ago, UWEB said:

BEV's are real Cars,they are only have a different Drive Train.

Real cars make vroom vroom, every toddler knows that! 😉 

2 minutes ago, JoePai said:

I always go to the owner of our local smoothie shop for investment advice   

10 minutes ago, webfact said:

a 38 year old woman, the owner of a smoothie shop

And I thought those smoothie shop owners are at least as smart as investment bankers. Any investment can only be profitable. Or not?

3 minutes ago, shackleton said:

40000 baht a day rent for a bar 🤑 must have been some bar 🥳

The bar still exists. And because it is so big half the bar is always empty.

Someone had the stupid idea to combine two big bars to create a super big size bar...

1 hour ago, JBChiangRai said:

Yes I can see the problem.

 

EV sales are accelerating and it's a disaster (for the EV haters). 

 

Nothing is going wrong!

The customers are joyously happy!

They can charge everywhere!

They pay 20-25% of the cost for fuel they paid for ICE and some even pay nothing!

They have 1% of the moving parts of ICE so need very little servicing!

They don't break down!

They don't catch fire!

They go hundreds of kilometers before needing recharging!

Charging only takes the time it takes to have a coffee!

 

They only take an average of 4 kWhrs of electricity per day which the power grid can EASILY absorb.  What the video said is correct in some countries and specifically in some places in countries, those places specifically being high speed charging stations on motorways which do need feeding with a high current supply.  That requires local grid changes back to the very high voltage grid.

Elon, are you so desperate that you are now in a Thai forum to sell your cars? 

1 hour ago, sumongkhwai said:

Her flight should leave in 30 minutes but, fly her to Germany and maker walk home.. Lifetime ban.

In principle the idea is good. But Germany is cold, and has mostly civilized people.

How about dropping her somewhere in Africa and then she can walk home... 

12 hours ago, zhounan said:

End of the drama: a wealthy Thai married her and now she's a TikToker.

I easily believe the 2nd part. But it seems Thais are smart enough to avoid those creatures. 

1 hour ago, BangkokReady said:

 

I think if it was a Thai, or even a foreigner who was a little more grounded, it would have been fine.  Thai people don't view relationships the same way as Westerners do.  I imagine that if it was a Thai man, he probably would have been a little more switched on to the fact that it was a lot more of a financial relationship than a romantic one (he pays, she cooks, cleans and provides sex).  Perhaps the foreign man expected the 16 year old girl to behave like someone deeply in love, and when she did not, he couldn't take it.  It seems as though there must be some element where the reality did not match the expectations, since he arranged it, moved there, then changed his mind.  Perhaps he thought that the whole family would be serving him, but it was the other way round.  Or perhaps the girl offered only sex and nothing else.  Who knows?

Do we know what girls really think?

It seems some girls love the fact that they have a (relative) rich boyfriend or husband, and they can show the big sister or the family or their friends something like: Look at me, I am young, and I don't work, and I live in luxury, and he does whatever I want. You work and don't live in luxury. Look at me!

I think some people think a young girl would prefer to live with a young guy who has just about enough money to survive. But obviously they love each other so much and life is so romantic.

Really? I am sure some girls like that, but I also understand that others think differently.

And from a perspective from someone rich (i.e. the typical western feminists) it's easy to romanticize the love of poor people. 

2 hours ago, South said:

Why the hell would a 40/50 year old man (no matter where he comes from) be interested in a 16 yr old teenager whom he cannot communicate with? Go back 10yrs, he would have been 30/40 and she would have been 6! Sickening. 🤢🤮

And 10 years in the future she would be 26. And 20 years ago she would not have been born. What kind of logic is that?

Many 16 year old girls have sex. And it seems she was online, and it seems she "convinced" him to marry her. So, it seems she wasn't the innocent child. And according to the story the parents agreed to the marriage. 

4 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

except times have changed, certainly in Windmill they aren't interested in 100 anymore

I was surprised the other day in Nana. In one of the big bars one customer thought he is generous, and he gave several dancers each a 20B note. I would have expected that they ignore him best case or throw the notes back at him. But no, they excepted the notes and smiled. Amazing. 

And then there are those special lady drinks like maybe whisky coke. Some bars and some ladies interpret that as one glass of whisky and one glass of coke. And then you pay for two lady drinks.

A friend told me recently a girl asked him for a coke. He agreed and she received a tall glass of coke. And then he had a look at the bill: 2 coke, total about 400B. He asked and they explained to him that was a double coke.

Luckily that happens not in all bars. But unfortunately, it happens at all.

14 minutes ago, TheFatOne said:

Is that a joke or are you serious ?

I am serious. That was a few years before Covid and a very large bar.