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I’m sure back home buddies miss all this stimulating conversation. When you going back?

3 hours ago, bubblegum said:

Euro doing just fine, cant say that about the Brits

Keep saying that when Ruskie ranks roll across your borders. The EU machine is a total damp squib that should continually have cap in hand while waving a white flag and I’m all for tosspot Trump to do his worst on them. 

14 minutes ago, novacova said:

Boredom isn’t an issue of location, it’s a state of mind. 

… or lack thereof. Do more things in the moment, read lots, join clubs etc. You smoke so at least it’ll still be legal to get weed here if that is a main criteria. Get on the top side of Phangan in a nice beach hut and do a big doobies. 

Having 100k baht month would be a dream for many—big bikes & local travel etc. I get the ‘no more fun in bars and chasing women’ thing, but reckon you’ll quickly be bored with alternatives in Samui if you don’t like getting about. If in the States, I’d get over to Montana, saddle up a horse and cruise on up into the mountains. You guys are so lucky. 
Did you consider South America and doing an ayahuasca retreat?

1 hour ago, HappyExpat57 said:

Not one person in the world supports illegal immigrants. All people capable of critical thinking want the immigration system fixed.

Apart from a certain type in the UK it seems, just as long as they don’t have to live next door to them. 

36 minutes ago, webfact said:

As the Thai Sangha confronts these challenges, the focus remains on upholding the traditions that form the foundation of Theravada Buddhism, ensuring that both monks and laypeople maintain the values that promote spiritual enlightenment and moral integrity.

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from Thai PBS World 2025-07-14

 

 

To become enlightened does not preclude abstaining from sexual interaction. In fact, copulation to orgasm between lovers is one of the portals to being present. The universe built us this way, but some people made up rules ‘because they know better’. Monks giving it up all might think it commendable, but they are foregoing a big part of living to try to attain something that can be achieved without being a dry hermit. To the op, it’s hypocritical, but I don’t blame them. 

1 hour ago, Krillin said:

Wow, there's only one vote so far and it belongs to some moron who claims he slept with between 100 and 300 women. To that walking public health threat: it doesn't matter which country those women were from; whoever you are, congratulations, you have or have had one or more STDs and likely have illegitimate children you might or might not know about. Sicko. You should move either next door to a clinic or set up shop next to a dumpster behind a 7-Eleven at your rate.

 

Remember that Ancestry and 23andMe exist, so the children you've left behind will eventually find you, a close family member, or a cousin. And then it's only a matter of asking which family member spent time in Thailand. You can run, but you won't be able to hide forever. Child support payments and mentally scarred children will find you, you lunatic.

Strange comment. While I didn’t vote, I’m thinking around 100 being pretty low over decades. Majority being in younger days, not paid for, clean and actually not making much of an effort. If I were a mongerer and even cared about numbers, 1k is easily achievable—couple a month for 40y for example. Just bag up and don’t do any gross sloppy stuff like kissing. 😀

For the old lady

5 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

NOTE: I once read from that f3llow ROBBINS, the self-help guy, that I must get rid of FIVE THINGS in order to feel better about myself.....

 

I think he said that one of those things should be posting in chat forums. 

Dunno about all this. Some of them were probably complicit, but many others that had legitimate business dealings with him are likely also getting lumped into the pedo thing. 

On 7/11/2025 at 8:48 AM, WorriedNoodle said:

And you are better versed in such topics than a director-general of the Medical Sciences Department 

Who isn’t?

Whoever was at fault, rolling into a police station in the small hours donning a wife-beater and tats doesn’t look great. Mind you, it is Pattaya. 🙂

On 7/9/2025 at 10:26 AM, bamnutsak said:

Extracts - used to make edibles/gummies - above 0.2 % THC have ALWAYS been illegal.

 

Someone wasn't doing a proper enforcement job.

Yep, they were never legal in the first place, it was just rarely if ever enforced. However, the crackdown on buds will be coming.

If there are truly millions into this stuff they should get themselves on the streets and pressure the government. Clearly there is one instigator behind all this and what he has done is far more criminal than making gummies. 

You can get your re entry permit when you get annual extension. Should be valid for length of stay. One less thing to think about. 

2 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

Or even worse - a plane full of Mancs!

Don’t care where they’re from, I just don’t want to sit on a plane full of numpties. 🙂

This on and off nonsense makes thailand look really banana republic dumb on the world stage. 

1 minute ago, baansgr said:

Oh, the " non violent" drug strikes" again. 

My point precisely. You think weed is to blame? These types would do this whether it be regular cigs, alcohol or candy even.