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Thais as a rule are quite fastidious both in appearance and behaviour. There are exceptions of course but mostly they are clean and courteous.

Maybe I only meet the nice ones.

Depends what you learnt first of course.

But anecdotal evidence would suggest Thai. I know many Thais who have mastered spoken and written English. My wife for example. Pronunciation is always a difficulty of course. But I know only 1 native English speaker who has mastered both spoken and written Thai.

It is interesting that Suthep does not talk about what happens after his "people's council" (that he heads up?) is installed. He has made it clear that he does not want fresh elections because the stupid Thai people won't vote for him. So what then?

It is pretty clear that he wants the constitution changed and some form of "alternate democracy" where the ignorant masses of the north have less influence than their educated brothers and sisters in BKK and down south.

No matter how you cook it up if you choose to eat at Suthep's table every dish is toxic.

Is there anyone on here who can think of a good solution to this ?

It is really very simple.

In a democracy the time between elections is traditionally spent educating the public so that they will vote for the party you prefer and they will win government.

Anything else is anarchy or a dictatorship.

What an unbelievable waste ...

Preferably a female a for physical liaisons. For everything else, my mates.

Lebua. Sub $200 a night. All suites. Great views up the river 50 floors up. If you feel like a splurge have a drink at Skybar.

Whenever I say to the missus that I should learn more Thai she says, "Much more important for me to get better at English honey. Only speak Thai in Thailand. English everywhere."

Still I am putting in more effort now. So at least I can talk to my in laws, who are good people and have no chance of learning English.

This seems more like a wine and cheese thread. As an aside my wife has actually taken to cheese after the initial aversion of course.

Thailand is fantastic. Sure it has its downside, everywhere does. But the bad things are easy to avoid and the good things are everywhere.

"Isaan girls good or bad"

Yes.

Get in laws you're happy to leave your car with.

Suthep is a desperate man. Desperate and dangerous.

King Fred and Mackie, do you truly despise democracy that much?

Unfortunately even if they are wrong, the will of the majority must prevail. You simply have to accept that, the alternative is madness.

This has been done to death. Just go to the airport. I have not heard of anyone who is at the airport with a plane ticket who hasn't simply had to pay the fine and been allowed to leave.

Clearly it hasn't been. As someone who doesn't have any experience or acquaintances in this matter a simple question seemed appropriate and potentially very helpful.

As it turns out, the rest of your comment was accurate and would have been very helpful if you hadn't preceded it with the unneccesary bitchy comment at the start.

Does look bitchy when you put it that way. My apologies mate. I'm glad it all went ok.

Cheers ...

I am sympathetic, I really am, but so often these long distance things with months and months apart wind up this way. And if you have to be apart for work reasons then why isn't she in the village with the kids instead of Patong of all places?

Like a lot of people here I have plenty of mates who are also married to Thais (like me) and when they want to stay in Thailand and not be with you overseas the first alarm rings. Then when she doesn't want to be in the village with Mum and Dad and the kids but in Patong, Pattaya or Patpong or the like it's time to be a little bit suspect.

Is it just me who thinks Suthep is dangerous? He's got despot written all over him.

Suthep?

He's about as dangerous as mini me

Then what's with the rhetoric? Demanding Yingluck resign. Demanding the tv stations play his speeches. Saying that he "has to break the law". He takes himself very seriously that's for sure.

Is it just me who thinks Suthep is dangerous? He's got despot written all over him.

This has been done to death. Just go to the airport. I have not heard of anyone who is at the airport with a plane ticket who hasn't simply had to pay the fine and been allowed to leave.

done to death? no truer words have ever been spoken

You people who are always banging on about threads being done to death, why don't you not even bother using TV. Most topics have been done. Things change so for important questions like this its worth asking again

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Every week? And the replies are always the same.

This has been done to death. Just go to the airport. I have not heard of anyone who is at the airport with a plane ticket who hasn't simply had to pay the fine and been allowed to leave.

It's all a bit hilarious. This is a minority trying to force their way in. There needs to be education so the majority understand what's going on. This sort of stuff just steels the will of the red shirts. It's like a bloody merry go round. Force the government out. Have an election. PTP will win again. Yellow shirts not happy because even though they are a minority they think they have more rights because they are smarter. You want limited suffrage where only "smart" (not dumb rural farmers) people can vote? Then push for it. Yeah sure. Otherwise you just have to educate these "dumb" people so they'll see things your way and vote for your much smarter candidates and win government.

What's going on now is simply not going to work.

I love Lebua. Cheapest and best 5 star and away from the mess. That is of course unless it is the mess you have come to partake of. Then go Sukhumvit. Try to avoid a hotel that is full of our Alah loving brothers, like Amari or JW Marriott. Unless of course you are an Alah loving brother.

It has been said many times above for very good reason. Be in walking (easy walking, have you seen it rain in BKK?) distance from BTS.

Firstly have the missus handle it. Is it her home village or are you both visitors? Make her prove ownership then start at 500 baht. If she gets something then even if it is all a scam at least she doesn't lose face. That is the most important thing as you have to keep living near her. If she loses face she will have her revenge at some stage. Small amounts of money aren't really worth the bother.

All a bunch of gobble di gook if you ask me

I would say my missus loves to clean house. Always at it to the extent that I feel guilty. We've got steam mops and loads of vacuum cleaners and gadgets. And a spotless house. We'll have a big dinner before we go away and her and her sisters and in laws will go at it for ages. We always go to sleep with everything cleaned and put away.