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AdamRich

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  1. A Thai license is cheaper than $20. You only need to show your valid US license, passport, medical cert (approx 100 baht) and cert of residence.

    Its fun to get, its a day out, then get a 5 yr licence next time :)

    P.S standby for the licence vs permit debate, coming to a thread near you...

    You can not get a 5 year license on a tourist visa. I am in the process today. This will be my 6th year with the 1 year license. Today I got a copy of my lease (my landlord said they want some other paper that is all in Thai vs the lease that I have brought the last 5 years. I got my doctor certificate for 100 baht. I got sick so I will just do the rest of the process tomorrow which is go to Jomtien Immigration for a residence certificate (200 baht) then in the afternoon going to the Chonburi Land Transport office to get my new licenses (200 baht each for motorbike and car) and tag. For the license you also have to copy the front and back of the license from your country, your passport, and your visa slip. (I don't know where this embassy business is coming from that people are saying. Even for my friends who are retired here, they only go to the embassy in BKK once a year for the income verification part of their visa.) I also bought motorbike accident insurance today at Kasikorn Bank for the first time. It was 2500 baht.

    From what I have seen at police stops they usually let me go through quickly once they see my license and registration. For people I have seen with an international license, it usually looks like the police are trying to figure something out. I am always gone before they finish with that person though.

  2. I learned in high school that women come and they go. No reason to stress over them and definitely no reason to kill because of them.

    While you might be right there is something you forgot

    - there were children and in most cases women behave like they own them (having the force of the law behind them)

    and they take away from the man what he loves most

    (just to consider - I don't know if this was what happened in this case)

    Oh I definitely know about that. Because of the poor job my daughter's mom was doing, the court gave me custody when she was 13. But they both made my life a living hell so I went to the court and gave her back (it was what they both wanted). The judge even warned her mom that she would drop out of school at 16, and that she did. I did not get to see or talk to my daughter for 5 years and now that she is 19 years old she is back in my life. And I am happy to say that although she did not finish school and went through a lot of growing pains, she has become an upstanding and productive citizen. She has her own apartment and 2 jobs and just got a car. I am still proud of her and happy that I get to spend time with her now considering all the years we lost due to her mom's bs.
  3. Consider yourself lucky not to have dated professional women in Thailand. Cuckoo. And what do you want to have a conversation with them for? I thought most guys went to Thailand because they wouldn't be able to understand what the women were saying and if they could they still wouldn't care.

    As for internet dating, I am 43 and have been meeting chicks on the internet since there was an internet to be on. And before that I was meeting them on phone chat lines where you would have to send each other pictures through the postal service. It is just a way of life to me. If you don't like the fat chicks why do you choose to meet them? And like another poster said, why not just go up to women in public who you are attracted to and strike up a conversation? Invite them for pizza. Nobody turns down pizza.

  4. The last one I bought from Tukcom was a few years ago and had a very small connection to the box instead of a sturdy usb. That connection finally got weak and stopped working. At Tukcom they told me to contact WD and WD told me to buy a new model.

    Forget WD. I suggest buying a quality hard drive and a case for it to go in. Whenever I finish with my old computers I take the hard drive out and buy a case so I can use it as a portable. And don't be talked into getting the usb3.0 case. Get the usb2.0.

  5. As long as I can still get a 1000 baht long time then the dream is alive and well.

    Who would of thought, that after keeping the price the same for over a decade,

    the birds would of gotten more mature in age, and plumper in size for the same price bah.gif

    As the old saying goes...you get what you pay for.

    It certainly isn't like it used to be;

    where you'd go to bed with an 8 and wake up with an 8.

    Now you go to bed with what you thought was an 8,

    only to dreadfully wake up with an indescribable number.

    Result; you have to sneak out the back,

    in hopes that no one finds out what your 1,000 got you facepalm.gif

    Leaving many men to think...it's time to move on,

    as Thailand has lost it's appeal.

    Fortunately for some, we marry the 8's that crossed our path,

    and weren't for hire,

    as they're more likely to stay an 8 beyond the time where it matters anymore.

    LOL. I'm only 43 and go to the discos and can speak Thai, so 1000 baht is still getting me a bit of quality, not to mention all the normal women who are not on the game. I also have friends in their 60s who have no problem finding quality women during the day who will stay all night for 1500 baht. So all is not lost. To me the key is once they see you are not a tourist it all falls into place nicely.
  6. I say dump her and get a chick who understands that you will stay at your ex girlfriend's crib for a couple of weeks. You are right about not getting married until she can visit your country and experience your culture and meet your family. I had the same stipulations for an ex-girlfriend in Colombia. She thought it better for all of my family members to go to Colombia instead. Duhh. Kind of defeats the purpose. These days I think why get married at all? What benefit will you get out of marrying her?

  7. These checkpoints are cropping up everywhere. They're only designed to extract money from those passing by. One of my builders tells me of the harassment he gets almost every day while driving to his work site a few hours away.

    As well they should if someone isn't following the law. I was stopped two weeks ago. All of my documents were in order and I was wearing a helmet so I was allowed to continue on.
  8. Yes and I would imagine the purpose of a run of the mill burglary in a residential area being theft and getting out before you are noticed. Not touting a gun and killing the occupant because of pure evil and malice.

    That was in the days of old. Today's run of the mill is the home invasion, where they want the people to be home so they can drive them to the ATM and get money.
  9. Do you have any street smarts at all? For even thinking about buying a wife you deserve to be ripped off. I would like to marry your daughter; name your price. Under that logic, poor people would not be allowed to marry. Try coming up with a ridiculous tradition from your country that she needs to partake in and see if she will still marry you. Some of you guys go without a woman for so long that when you finally get one you lose your damn minds.

    My idea of marrying is coming together and pooling your resources (in whatever form they may be) in order to make a better life for both parties involved. What kind of start do you have if you have given half of your resources away to a third party before you can even get off the ground? My girlfriend has never asked me for 1 baht. Don't throw away your money trying to buy love; it can be better used renting some (you know the rest).

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