Kitsune

What you describe is not Thai food.

This is what has become of Thai food because of mass tourism/globalization/loss of own cultural values.

Street/restaurant food is going downhill big time.

Go back to original recipes and stop eating from stalls

The answer (in my opinion) to this question as to why Thai women age very rapidly, is in the poor quality of beauty products they use.

They have plethora of perfectly natural and cheap slow-cosmetics products used by their grand mothers for generations but now prefer to buy cute packaged toxic crap at the market.

Educate your wife to slow-co ad you will save money as well as her look.

I don't understand why you all give him such a hard time.

He is British by nationality.

He wants to live and work in THL. As far as I see, loads of British DO live here and they are not asked for a Thai passport.

As any British person/ farang, you can get a job and get your employer to apply for working visa.

Army wise I know loads of mixed Thai kids who avoid the army by using their other passport when returning to THL.

there is another post about it already

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/609893-3-days-no-mains-water/

The infrastructures /pipes are not maintained properly

Wow

Reading long texts on white background is very straining for eyes.

You are either trying to sell eye wear or are very bored.

I am a guest on the planet.

I respect it wherever I am.

The issue is not if its works or not as a whitener, but what else it does to you.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-susan-taylor/the-continued-dangers-of-_b_1371524.html

No, the issue is actually if it works or not.

It works, and that is the most important for the users.

Just as the delight of having a cigarette.

Is it dangerous? That is an entirely different issue.

Putting your life at risk to get temporally patchy white and look like Mickael Jackson is not an issue ?

Wow, just wow.

The issue is not if its works or not as a whitener, but what else it does to you.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-susan-taylor/the-continued-dangers-of-_b_1371524.html

I was in the same predicament with my pet.

He died from lungs disease suffering hell, for the last week.

The vet did not want to put him down nor give pain relief (which would "make him worse")

It was really awful to see so much pain and be helpless.

I got online did loads of researches and found that Lavender was a powerful pain killer used during WWI.

I had nothing to lose so I tried, it worked and did relieve shortly the pain.

I would make him inhale it or massage him and it calmed him down.

It was short live, and I had to repeat it often but it helped him until his last breath.

In most western countries Thai women are not reckoned to be the best.

A view cultivated by western women, simply because Thai women are a threat to them.

And cultivated by the press who only see the less admirable parts of Pattaya and Bangkok

Upon which many people in the west base their ideas.

Thai women, in general, are more feminine, take better care, seem to be more submissive.

And that is contrary to, in my view, a big part of the western women.

Of course, a certain part of Thai women are as bad as a certain part of western women.

But generally speaking, even an ex-bargirl might work out to be a good wife.

You've pinned it

More submissive etc ...

That's exactly why tourists think like they think

jeez who cares??? Depending on your beliefs you have only one life....Live It!!!!

Bar girl...not bar girl...whatever.

We all do what we do to get through life. Is the CEO of a company any less of a prostitute than a bar girl?...he/she sells his/her soul (not his body granted) on the altar of shareholder return. There is very little difference to those who don't have the bigoted, dare I say, westernised view of the world.

No one is judging.

If your idea of a fulfilling private life is "taking care, bring money and save face" good for you !

what's yours?

Well let's just say I trust human nature to be capable of the highest deeds, so devotion, spiritual connection or the sense of soul completion, would be more my types of things ... So basically keeping the bargaining skills for the "talat"

Kitsune

Thailand is the perfect place for men who never got romance in the first place.

Here none of that romance nonsense western women bore you with, just get a business deal instead !

it's efficient love !

Efficient love.....hummmmm: Please define...Otherwise I will have to go back to....

Taking care, generate money and saving face .

efficient love is practical, something that functions efficiently within Thai society.

She brings youth/beauty, you bring cash and everyone keeps face.

It's an arrangement that worked for centuries here

Thailand is the perfect place for men who never got romance in the first place.

Here none of that romance nonsense western women bore you with, just get a business deal instead !

it's efficient love !

I wouldn't be surprised and I actually do not think that a high percentage of Farang-Thai marriages are genuine love marriages from both sides. No matter whether former bar girls or not. Face it, guys.

Quite right.

I am surprised that so many people are offended by the question. I know people who are very happy with ex-bar girls.

Thai girls all have the seed in them to be a working girl.

And romantic love might not exist in Thailand. All a question of 'you take care of me', i.e. you pay, and I take care of you.

The 3 governing principles in Thailand:

1-Take care

2-Generate money

3-Save face

Everything evolves around that in Thailand. So their love may be defined as being able to fulfill the 3 principles...

You romantic fool !

To be more precise, I am no longer romantic....just a fool...

I was being ironical ...

jeez who cares??? Depending on your beliefs you have only one life....Live It!!!!

Bar girl...not bar girl...whatever.

We all do what we do to get through life. Is the CEO of a company any less of a prostitute than a bar girl?...he/she sells his/her soul (not his body granted) on the altar of shareholder return. There is very little difference to those who don't have the bigoted, dare I say, westernised view of the world.

No one is judging.

If your idea of a fulfilling private life is "taking care, bring money and save face" good for you !

I wouldn't be surprised and I actually do not think that a high percentage of Farang-Thai marriages are genuine love marriages from both sides. No matter whether former bar girls or not. Face it, guys.

Quite right.

I am surprised that so many people are offended by the question. I know people who are very happy with ex-bar girls.

Thai girls all have the seed in them to be a working girl.

And romantic love might not exist in Thailand. All a question of 'you take care of me', i.e. you pay, and I take care of you.

The 3 governing principles in Thailand:

1-Take care

2-Generate money

3-Save face

Everything evolves around that in Thailand. So their love may be defined as being able to fulfill the 3 principles...

You romantic fool !

No, tourists don't think expats are married to bar girls because many expats are women.

But many tourists do think western males are relocating here to enhances their private life thanks to globalization (cheaper prostitutes/less demanding wives).

Many also think the same males expats are easy to complain when the deal is not to their advantage anymore

Erm, speech is not free.

I suggest you re read TV forum rules.

They are very clear about what is what is not allowed to be talked about.

And that goes for the rest of the country.

One minute ago I read a post assuming that all expats were males.

How rude !

I hope you were true to yourself and made an exit.

No ... did you ?

If you want freedom of speech change country

137th out of 179 worldwide Press Freedom Index

Its called freedom of speech, a concept woefully lacking in this community.

Nice wishful thinking.

I think you have not yet realized where you are

This is Thailand and there is no such thing as freedom of speech here.

If you haven't left and re-entered Thailand since your arrival in November it seems your next 90-day address report will be due in May and you can ask the immigration office about the correctness of your new extension stamp at that time.

I have done my 90 days report yesterday, so next one is end of july

As UbonJoe mentions, if it is a genuine one-year extension, then the officer should have stapled in a slip with the date of your 90 day reporting requirement. If you don't report after 90 days on a one-year extension, big problems will arise.

Oh I was planning on going to 90 days report anyway