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Media Monitor found four types of dehumanising speech. Examples include portraying the red-shirt members of the Democratic Alliance against Dictatorship as water buffaloes and the Democrat Party as cockroaches. Others are compared to beasts from hell or zombies. Discriminatory class descriptions, such as serfs and slaves, were also used.

Or, people are insulted because of the region they hail from. For example, residents of the red-shirt strongholds in the North and Northeast are alleged to have less mental capacity because they have an iodine deficiency. Southerners, who mostly support the opposition Democrat Party, are branded as untrustworthy.

They need laws to sort it out? It's called discrimination

LOL, if they're like this with their own, it's no bloody wonder the farang are on the lower rungs of Thai society.

Why does a buddhist country loving animals is the religion, LOOK DOWN on people by insulting others by CALLING them animals? Its ridiculous and pretty lame and unoriginal as a putdown.. Call someone a Toilet parasite and it gets a little more stinky like the paragon elevator lift rip...

I would like to know of any observations made OUTSIDE of Bangkok, because that is the obvious answer to this question. I am not asking because I am a womanizer and I'm not looking for more girl friends. Its just a statistical sociological question?

Thanks

If I was from Burma I would work illegaly in thailand also, who cares?

Nothing more amusing than watching the faces of panic grit there teeth after eating a greasy big mac with an egg on top! on the bottom floor and taking the long haul up to the 5th floor cinema. While in the lift I let out the the raunchiest Department store evacuating royal ripper! FOrtunately nothing in my rear end evacuated while farting but the elevator of people certainly did! TRUE STORY!

Agreed especially down south near the East London area

Well, either that or a pit bull.

I love zapping the unsuspecting tourist right in the nards on his joystroll on walking street! lol

For goodness sake, what's the big deal, you don't have a tropical storm, you have a depression, with winds of 30 of MPH. This is nothing, the Philippines get on average 21 full blown typhoons a year, these typhoons with winds of up to 200 KPH and hundreds of mm of rain during the strike period.

Now in the Phils it is wise to stock up on food but not frozen as in 90% of the cases power goes down for days on end.

So think about it strong winds and heavy rain for days, power out and water up to your waist, and you people panic about a minor tropical depression, sad! Very sad !

For goodness sake, what's the big deal, you don't have a tropical storm, you have a depression, with winds of 30 of MPH. This is nothing, the Philippines get on average 21 full blown typhoons a year, these typhoons with winds of up to 200 KPH and hundreds of mm of rain during the strike period.

Now in the Phils it is wise to stock up on food but not frozen as in 90% of the cases power goes down for days on end.

So think about it strong winds and heavy rain for days, power out and water up to your waist, and you people panic about a minor tropical depression, sad! Very sad !

THe phillipines will soon be wiped off the map and have horrible government prep. THat is why over 60 percent of its inhabitants relocate to other countries, after the ASEAN union opens in a year, the country will relocate 85 percent to other countries..

Lucky sobs can Speak english also so they will be stealing thai workers positions round and round..

Sounds great. I'll be there and will may bring a few more!

Not too many as I will be looking for a ride, as per normal. Jim

Jim - I will be in Ubon on Friday and go to Sisaket from there. Give me a call and we can sort out a pick up.

Trond as per phone call Sat 11 am. Up to you on the room front, if you want to take SS offer, one for me.

Think some bad news for you, Bell tells me a Buddha day Friday. Ubon may be dry. Jim

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being called HASh house HARRIERS, DO you guys really like toking hash?

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Is this one particular area of Thailand that people are teaching on this 10kBHT deal, or is it all over Thailand? Are you all in the same general area such as Ubon or Udon or something?

It seems apparent that it's rural.

I'm asking because I love to teach and would locate in the area. I have volunteed for 30 years teaching piano and keyboard to poor kids (by US standards) in our town just because I love doing it, but didn't need the money. I have one student now I've had for 5 years and he's literally a genius, but his mom is a divorced mother who works for minimum wage. He a blast to teach because he immediately absorbs anything I tell him.

I realize that Thai teaching won't be like that, but all I need is one student in the group who wants to learn.

Could someone please mention some areas where this might be possible? I'm applying for a retirement visa, don't have a degree, and recognize the risks.

If you really want to help go to teach where kids can even afford to eat lunch and buy rice to schoo, only chalkboards and broken fans in the class room. gO TO khantaralak and to Moo ban Kanub, PM me for details, really nice students who really need to learn english, i wish i could stay longer but I need to make more to survive being a young guy from bulgaria. Thanks!

I was hoping from insight from fellow members here about the mentality of girls in Pattaya? ANy universities there with girls from rich families that may like a westerner who can actually communicate with them and there daughter in my more words than "I need go bangkok and you stay watch my dog" in condo.. I'm sure girls there get bored of these geezers who mostly get drunk all day on pensions from retirement?

Just check the box office revenues and from which country gets the profit, money talks and BS walks... USA ALL DAY!

Cowslip is a native speaker of english and i agree with him 100 percent thanks for enlightening some of the greedy less educated folks here!

yaaaay, so that means deadbeat losers like me NEVER will get blacklisted here?? Yippeee Kai Yaaa Motha F***********

I've egged people before but never windshields only open car windows! lol

Next up is MOVIES AND MUSIC.........Australia has NOTHING. The UK aint Bad, but the USA has the best movies in the world!

That's a bit of an ethnocentric statement don't you think?

I am sure if it was put to a worldwide vote, Bollywood would trounce the yanks, as would the Hong Kong movie industry with all the Chinese votes.

Country music and gangsta rap disqualifies the US on any music front.

Yes, especially about the music, but man that Bollywood crap is completely repetitive and totally uncreative; as is much (not all) of China's contributions

You got to give the US credit for Hollywood, maybe not for edifying content, but definitely for continually raising the bar technologically and visually.

Checkout the BOX office earning of American Movies compared with any in the world NO NEED for world wide vote, the earnings PROVE my point and Music with hip hop rock and country taking america off the map its still puts the USA as NUMBER 1 again in Profit! I agree just look at a beautiful movie like Avatar and compare it with anything else ever seen in another country?

You can at least tell us what happened to the super-sexy, underwear-handwashing, subservient to your every command, Tesco girl. Did she dump you for another young, poor, unattractive, American...ehhh, Bulgarian guy?

No but I'm getting bored of life up here and I want her to have a better life and a better man, she's sleeping next to me right now but I'd like a taste of adventure in the south and if she is too afraid to join me its her choice, i'm sure I can find a beauty in the south to do more than wash my clothes with her hands! lol

Foolish assumptions, she's laying next to me in bed right now and never left me for a thai guy, I have another GF down south waiting for me so I'm trying to let this one go for one of you fellaz, I hope she isnt too heartbroken!

Well back in my country(USA) nobody travels at all. So that makes me pretty different.

AAA Projects 42.5 Million Americans Will Travel This Thanksgiving, Four Percent More Than Last Year and that's for one day.

I love pedants! What he means, and it should be obvious in this context, is most Americans don't travel outside the country. Of those 42.5 million traveling on one day, about 50% will be driving (probably traveling less then 450km), the vast majority will be staying inside the US.

As for the original topic, well I'm not an expat, I do get a lot of people questioning me about how much I travel (4 months outside the US in the last two years). I also have a lot of trouble trying to get the time off, because we have a very work focused culture. In the end it's nothing new, I've always had an adventurous lifestyle, before it was world travel people where questioning my sanity because I was constantly breaking myself. Specifically over the course of the last six years; broken ribs twice (skiing and mountain biking), concussion twice (mountain biking and white water rafting), torn meniscus (skiing), broken collarbone (ice climbing), lost two teeth (white water rafting), dislocated thumb (bouldering), plus the normal lacerations, bumps and bruises.

For the last year I've considered becoming a expat in Thailand, while it seems fun and amazing, I'm not sure I could give up the rest of my life for it. I can live with the paycut I would take to teach, but I would miss real mountains, ice and snow.

You get more than that living in the middle of an action movie down here in Narathiwat! YOU ALso can teach english here and make decent money and more beautiful women than in all of pattaya here~

My clothes are always ironed and cleaned perfectly well, it may have to do with the insecticide sprayed foods and all the chemicals and toxins in our food in water. Anyone else ever had some strange parasite eating away there insides?

what a rip off, u can get a bus from morchit to Nong Khai for 350 baht and then from nongkhai to border 20 baht and from laos to city of vientiane 20 baht! what a scam for the idiots out there..

they let me have 2 schools last term but took them after the term to pay me!

Some people come here to try to get away from something,others come here to try and find something.I used to feel misplaced in a lot of places i used to live in(different countries).Been in Thailand for nearly ten years now and i feel i am finally at home.

being in a disease prone area of Thailand I feel like I'm coming down with something undiagnosed. But i have chronic fatigue and worry I have parasites in my intestines eating all my nutrients making me tired all the time. Any rare parasites that meds cant rid people of in thailand?

hahaha well I could be vague about it and WOULD they date a normal western guy without any severe mental defects like myself?

the sad thing is im 32 and I'm not that good looking! But maybe its because I know how to talk to the ladies and using the thai language. The key to any relationship is COMMUNICATION, thats why many women leave there western husbands to be with there issaan boyfriends!

I was wondering if I had a chance of finding a nice single girl in Narathiwat or a college student who could date me without at risk of being beheaded or punished with whips?