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5 hours ago, FruitPudding said:
Would you be saying the same BS if it was the man who stabbed his wife?
I think not. You wouldn't victim blame her.
Fascinating how people perceive crimes differently when the victim is a man and the perpetrator is a woman.
And if you are right that she is a hooker, then why shouldn't he sleep with other people? She's doing it too.
Should he be faithful to her when she is bonking any guy in Taiwan?
Your making things up in your head. I said "village bike" not hooker.
And where did I say it was deserved or a good thing?
This is the problem with the internet, far too many people lack basic comprehension of the written word. It's really quite concerning.
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"Thai woman works 10 hours a day and sleeps in a house with 12 strangers to fund feckless husband. Village gossips go into overdrive about his lowlife gik. Her sister or best pal tells her of the gossip, that he's spending her hard earned money on the village bike so she travels to Thailand to blade both of them."
I swear to gawd, farangs think they get the rough end of the stick in Thailand. All they get is a tase of what life is really like for Thai women in particular.
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I have several, ranging in age from around 30 to 60 plus. Among other useful things they look after my house when I'm away, cutting grass, etc. They ensure the place is immaculate when I return. They have been known to travel to meet me in places such as Hua Hin and BKK when I'm in country. They also have been known to extract me from days-long drinking sessions in Chiang Mai and transport me back to the village. We go to a lot of events, such as drag racing, festivals etc and have spend weekends away in the mountains with their families.
I commend the OP for thinking about this. Thai men will warn you and protect you from the vagaries of life in Thailand. Contrary to the received wisdom that "Thai men are no good" there are plenty who live in long and successful marriages. They'll point out that the women you see in places like Pattaya are the village bikes, the bipolar headcases, the yabba heads and the drama queens that literally leave blood in their wake.
There is no one more expert on Thai women than Thai men - if you believe the "Thai men no good" trope I have a bridge to sell you.
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Wild, absolutely wild. And taking a trophy photo of the policeman too? Thais will be rightfully outraged by this. a truly shocking incident, appalling.
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Do you like cheese? where do you buy your favoured cheese in Chiang Mai?
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2 minutes ago, Neeranam said:
It the same as Expats buying bars, it's crazy.
BTW, nice to see you again, been a few years 🙂
Yup, I got banned for ten years which seemed a bit harsh 555 Onwards and upwards.
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1 hour ago, ukrules said:If you must buy something then leasing is the way to go but based on what I've read over the years the lease renewal is not guaranteed in any way.
Also a lease contract which has a 'binding' obligation on the registered land owner to renew after each 30 year term is not legal which it is speculated nullifies the lease completely. A lease contract with clauses that are not allowed doesn't simply nullify the bad clauses - it nullifies the whole lease - is this true? Has it been tested yet?
So there's a lot of people out there who think they're sitting pretty in their house on a lease that's quite possibly not acceptable should the owner decide they want it back.If I ever did a 30 year lease on a piece of land I would consider it a long term rent for 30 years max, I'll probably be dead by then anyway so it wouldn't matter as I have no aires and would likely pick up another house or two over the coming decades also on 30 year leases which stretch far beyond my time here.
Now I would do this on my Mrs name and lease from her, we are not married which is important because you can't do contracts between husband and wife. Well you can easily do them - but they can easily be reversed based on what I've read on here as well.
I figure if you spend 5% of your assets on a house then it's kind of disposable anyway but there's no need to let anyone know that.
It was clarified around seven years ago. There's no such things as a 30+30 lease in Thailand. That was a common marketing tactic by scam real estate agents at one time. Bizarrely some even claimed that 30+30+30 was possible. You are at the mercy of the landowner when your lease expires after 30 years. A guy I know took on a 30 year lease which would have expired when he was 76. 9 years later he negotiated a new 30 year lease. His reasoning was that there was a good chance he'd live to 76 but he reckoned he'd be dead by 85.
In reality, 2 years after the new lease was signed he took a brainstorm and left the property. The number of people who subject themselves to delusional property deals is off the scale.
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6 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:
I think I saved a life when I got divorced and no longer lived with my wife, and that life wasn't mine.
The opposite of love is said to be hate, and that is the truth.
The opposite of love is indifference.
Far too many people of both sexes spend years growling about long-gone exes. You know you're cured when you don't care.
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Post the exit stamp he has in his passport, that should indicate if he has been subjected to a re-entry bar.
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9 hours ago, ukrules said:
Nobody mentioned a remote village
Nobody mentioned the location of the villa.
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9 hours ago, Kinok Farang said:
Flame removed
Hello Khun Kinok, did I hit a sore point?
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@Mike Lister To be pedantic I believe the period is one year and one day. Hence why I mentioned on point three that the guy involved sold at a fire sale price to irritate the family who showed up in a truck literally a day after the funeral demanding that he vacates the property. This is Thailand. When families move against you, you have a serious problem.
However, my primary point is that while considering Usufruct, consider the emotional reality of being isolated in the event of your wife dying. Rural Thailand is covered in "dream" houses that turned to nightmares.
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If you celebrate reducing population, you won't mind drastic cuts in all public services as there's no one to work in crucial areas. Literally no one - as they are not born. You are seeing this happen already - in twenty years time it will be catastrophic.
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34 minutes ago, Celsius said:
pls try make sense
Dictionary definitions are available on Google.
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5 minutes ago, Celsius said:
hilarious totally wrong observation.
My observation is that Simon is looking for validation since everything he invested in SE Asia money wise he f$#&Ed up.
Which part is hilarious - the fact that many forum members live hand to mouth?
Or the fact that if he is content to risk the money he should go for it?
By the way, luxuriating is Schadenfreude is a low-class way to spend your life.
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Things to be aware of:
1. A high profile farang in Chiang Mai put the house in his daughters name and when she reached maturity she moved the bitch ex-wife into the house ( her mother ) and kicked out her dad. He'd built his dream home and wasn't even allowed in the garden.
2. The Usufruct is effectively worthless if your wife dies and you lose the will to live in the remote village alone. This is overlooked by too many expats.
3. The Usufruct is worthless if her family, after her demise, set out to intimidate you out of the house. A famous example years ago was the wife's family showing up the day after the funeral and ordering the guy out. He stood his ground ( miracle in itself ) and managed to sell the house at a fire-sale price just to p*ss the family off. Living there long term in the midst of animosity was never going to work.
Too many people regard the Usufruct as a solution without considering the emotional reality of being isolated after your partners death, or family issues coming the fore.
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46 minutes ago, simon43 said:
You have misunderstood a few facts. I have known this Lao man for 12 years. He is the manager of the bank and his rich family own various houses and land in and around this town and they have absolutely no need of a 'shack' built on a piece of land outside the town. A few million baht is nothing to them.....
Having built before in Thailand, I know how much it will cost to build this house - no more than $10,000, because the local labour only needs to lay down the base concrete slab, build a few concrete support columns and put on the roof work. I can do the rest of the work (as I did in Thailand).
But of course people can change and while I trust my friend, I do not know his family members well enough to trust them. The loss of $10,000 wouldn't make any problems for me since I will have a monthly retirement income.
As to renting a cheaper house right now, reducing my monthly outgoings by say $100 (eg - renting a house for $300 and not $400) really doesn't make any difference to my finances.
Of course, the best solution would be to buy a small piece of land and build on it, but that would require similar 'fiddles' that foreigners use in Thailand to buy land....
The problem you have with many forum members is that they can't comprehend why someone would risk $10,000. That's because they are living hand-to-mouth. If you are content to risk the money - as you appear to be - then go for it.
All the better if you can obtain some sort of legal guarantee but it's clear the loss of $10,000 wouldn't be a fatal blow - plus, there's always the idea of having a new purpose to your life, a new project. All the best.
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1 hour ago, dinsdale said:
I wouldn't say no one. How about goverments? I remember very, very substantial bailouts.
I lay short odds not a single individual sent a cheque to help out their favourite airline.
Anyway, the real problem.now is the drop in quality employee candidates for all airlines. Many airlines lost a high percentage of experienced people due to the pandemic, mainly to them changing careers.
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All those that sent AirAsia or any airline a donation to offset losses during the pandemic put you hand up. No one?
Then don't complain when they recover the losses and refill their coffers.
ps - among other inflationary costs there's severe disruption to new aircraft deliveries ( Boeing are having a meltdown ) and new staff bottlenecks across the worldwide airline industry.
People don't realise that the worldwide pool of qualified people and high quality candidates is running dry.
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You've lived a peripatetic lifestyle for decades, what makes you think this will be your forever house? You'll need to get a watertight lifetime lease on the land. As a Thai once told me when a similar deal was proposed "you can live here forever, but if I die, my brother might not have the same opinion."
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59 minutes ago, Mr Dome said:Absolutely shocking. This should have some serious consequences.
Also, why do I keep seeing this about Western retirees in Thailand? What makes them so aggressive there?
There's been a surge of recent arrival farangs who have post-covid syndrome. They've lost the plot, unnecessarily, bizarrely aggressive and argumentative. At the risk of inflaming the forum I knocked one out last year, a raving lunatic who the Thais detested. The guy chose to pull me up for nothing and after trying to mollify the situation I saw red. Also, I couldn't believe the level of passive aggressive nonsense in Hua Hin of all places. Hua Hin!!! Guys were cracking up over nothing.
In my opinion those of us who lived in Thailand during the covid period were the luckiest people on earth. We didn't endure being locked away for months on end. Rural Thailand got away effectively unscathed, urban Thailand found it tougher. There's no doubt that Western covid lockdowns have caused immense behavioural problems across many age groups. Added to that people are getting superheated over stuff they can't control. Expats are bad for that, sitting all day on internet forums arguing about stuff thousands of miles away.
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55 minutes ago, Lacessit said:
I've been driving 12 years in Thailand, scooter and car. Accident-free.
I guess I must be doing something right.
I assume everyone else on the roads is a homicidal maniac.
Tell me what you think the driving laws are. If there are any, more honored in the breach than the observance.
It's astonishing that you have been driving in Thailand for 12 years ( 16 in my case ) and you are unaware of right of way regulations.
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21 minutes ago, Lacessit said:
You would insist on your right of way in Thailand? Where are you typing your post from, a hospital bed?
This was your earlier reply "AFAIK there are no rules."
Utter drivel.
You'll be in a hospital bed a long time before me as you don't know the driving laws in Thailand.
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58 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:
It's also an indication of a total lack of rules and discipline. Seems everyone has given up long ago on having rules that people follow.
No it's not. It's experienced people taking into account the high risk of accident.
Do you like cheese?
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The link is broken, however, I found them on Facebook. I wasn't aware of that business at all, thanks very much.
Also, there are some other good tips on this thread. Thanks very much.