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All i ever see in the comments on this forum is whinging farang. We've got a saying in Aus 'don't love it leave'.

As many Ozzies have done, hows' the biker gangs now

So Thais can report foreign companies working illegally but not Thai companies working illegally?

This will definitely happen, and most likely be a great success. Too many whinging farangs on here who think Thais can't do things. But all the farangs on here can do is constantly whine and whinge. Don't you have anything better to do with your lives?

Be fair, we dont think it, we KNOW it!!

This is much closer to reality than most of you might expect. The major reason due to Red Bull wanting it to happen. Don't forget, Red Bull is half-owned by a Thai, and its mainly his push for this to happen here, and he's got major influence in the FIA, and he's going to be sponsoring it as well. F1 has already been staged at many major city circuits, Melbourne, Adelaide, Monte Carlo, Phoenix, and most significantly, Singapore City. If Singapore can close down its entire town center for four days, why can't Bangkok?

Of the top of my head I'd say because Singapore is a small city with a very comprehensive subway system, you can get practically anywhere hopping on a train and having a short stroll at either end.

Not to mention perfect roads, manicured lawns litter free and full of people who can drive reasonably well, also dog free.

This is much closer to reality than most of you might expect. The major reason due to Red Bull wanting it to happen. Don't forget, Red Bull is half-owned by a Thai, and its mainly his push for this to happen here, and he's got major influence in the FIA, and he's going to be sponsoring it as well. F1 has already been staged at many major city circuits, Melbourne, Adelaide, Monte Carlo, Phoenix, and most significantly, Singapore City. If Singapore can close down its entire town center for four days, why can't Bangkok?

Will there be a policeman chicane with them lined up in it ready to die for their country??

How will they keep the dogs out?

Explaining to a Thai university graduate about the difference of speed of light and speed of sound when there was a thunder storm. I had hoped to teach her the trick of counting the time between the lightning and thunder to tell how far it was away.

Unfortunately she wasn't aware of either.

"See, due to the speed of light being much faster than the speed of sound, first you see it, then you hear it."

"No, no, you wrong."

"Er, no, I'm not."

"Yes, you wrong. Like airplane in the sky, you hear, then you look and see. Hear first, then see."

"Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, well.................. ummmmmm........ I like kitty. I like Doreamon."

"Yayyyyyyy, I like kitty, I like Doraemon too."

Thai university graduate.

grim eh? tells u a lot though!

Last week, when driving near Chumpae, going to Nam Nao(Phetchabun) she said "dtrong pai loei" when it was quite clearly signposted that Loei was the road to the right!

But you need to tell Non Thai speakers that "dtrong pai" means "straight on" for the full effect.

Does it help them...........nope but it gets them out of the Parents hair, shell be up the duff before you know it ( yes i read the contraception bit) and her life will be over, he'll dump her and move on to the next one......

is what normally happens.

Quote - "Its like saying that all guys from the Netherlands are the same in how they think."

You mean they are not? The guys I met from Holland just wanted to get into my pants using any means necessary.

They liked dressing up in women's underwear????

i bet a time and motion study would be "interesting"

there's an ugly ghost in my bathroom. whenever i shave and look into the mirror i see him.

Absolute proof they exist then

Its "code" just think of all the times people have said to you " shes the local bike"

hah BIB, didnt they know there is no prostitution in Thailand. humph they are useless!!!

Sigh - the endless negativity and self-doubt - might be time folk gazed at a more inspiring graph or two:

http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=AUD&to=IDR&view=10Y

http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=AUD&to=MYR&view=10Y

Of course, prices have risen in both countries over the last 10 years, but I'll take what I can get. Ultimately, there's only one graph that really matters, and ironically it's the one graph where we want to see their currency getting stronger against ours:

http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=AUD&to=CNY&view=10Y

China has gone to great pains to keep the Yuan artificially weak to protect its own export markets - big flow-on impacts for everyone here when that changes.

Its worrying times for a lot of people, I see wars about to start when the S**t hits the fan, do you really think Thailand would be a good place to be when it happens here?? with their mob rule.

And before you start telling me " oh you dont have a pot to pi** in , I do and its overflowing due to my Wifes hard work, but other people are not in the same boat and I feel for them.

The world IS in a very delicate state now.

Gotta love the people who 'hate Thais but love Thailand'. Must live in a hut deep in the jungle somewhere. With an internet connection.

yes i do although hate is a bit strong, why do you ask?? wanna see the jungle?

Heres today's interesting photo, I want to know what it becomes, thinking butterfly but who knows?

1. I rent a 3 bedroom 3 bathroom house in Phuket including a gardener two times a week, ADSL, 82 channel cable, 24 hour security, and a 50sqm swimming pool. The rent PER MONTH is roughly the same as I pay on a garage size business storage shed in Australia PER WEEK.

2. Vehicle registration in Australia is about 800 percent more expensive than here.

3. Utility costs are about 500 percent more expensive in OZ than there.

4. I bought chicken maryland pieces (thigh and drumstick) at Tesco this week for 39 baht a kilo.

5. Australia is currently run by a malevolent lesbian puppet...though that will change in the near future to a fascist midget.

6. And finally, here I have a lovely partner as well as two fun giks in their early twenties.

But despite all of this, I am leaving next year because of the BS I have to endure to maintain a long stay visa.

I was with you all the way until the second part of item 6...

Culture, you dont understand.......even if you are Thai

My perception - the main purpose of laws here is to enable corrupt officials to arbitrarily exert their personal power and extract money.

If you're not willing to go along with the corrupt system you won't be allowed to operate, no matter how closely you try to comply with the letter of the law, they will always find ways to block you, legal or illegal.

A possible exception would be if you have powerful friends more powerful than those trying to stop you, but of course that's corruption even if no money is directly paid for such services, just owing favors.

Best of luck with your efforts to fight the good fight, but don't expect to it to be profitable financially.

including violence death intimidation extortion etc etc.

thong lo is the most corrupt. besides that high or not i will lauching walk away when they tell me to piss where.. please.. police here got the least respect among things with me.. and never got me any probs.. they neder run aftere they to lazy for that..

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If you're advising people to run away from a round-up, let me try to counteract that for anyone that might be stupid enough to try to follow such idiotic advice.

Remember 99% of the time worst case is you're deported, most of the time a quick trip to the ATM will avoid even that.

I really wish people would stop speculating that this is even against the law in theory - why would you think that?

But it's true that that issue is irrelevant to whether or not the police can do it.

And there's no question that the vast majority of Thais support it, and don't give a stuff about your feelings about individual "rights" about something like this.

There just isn't any tradition of or support for such a concept here - those with the gold and the guns make the rules and everyone accepts that as the way the world should work, except some idealistic academics influenced by the decadent west.

Let it lie, get over it, get used to it and if this is really news to you you'd be advised to adjust your behavior accordingly.

And don't count on the cash in your pocket getting you off, sometimes they're charged with really making an example of a group of foreigners for the papers and the boss cares more about that than the baksheesh income that day and you're hosed.

IMO easier just to stay clean. . .

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By the same token, just why do you think it IS legal? Just because it has been going on for some time, that doesn't make it legal. I guess one could say that all of Thaksin's extra-judicial murders during his war on drugs was legal too, no?

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Because in over 15 years here I've never come across any mention of any such rights of personal privacy, habeas corpus, restrictions on police powers to stop, question and search whoever they like anytime for any reason, and in discussing such matters with even well-educated wealthy Thais, the only response to my statements about what is standard practice back home is dismissed as farang insanity, they honestly think it's a stupid idea.

Such ideas come out of ancient British-specific ideas, and AFAIK have only appeared in ex-colonial cultures and those where such cultures have influenced modern legal systems, like US-occupied territories after the war.

From what I've seen Thai people are 100% supportive of the idea of cops just summarily executing drug dealers out back in the alley.

The fact that this is usually done just done to eliminate the competition is usually shrugged off, at least things are more orderly and expensive for the addicts that way I suppose.

So let me see now, would they do this with women too???

I don't understand the question, why not, you think chivalry overrides their orders? Not just would but do, they absolutely do do, quite routinely and without any qualms. Seriously I'm asking why would you think otherwise?

Did you notice the ??????'s.

Hows it done??

I have come to the conclusion that Thai's do not want or appreciate farang businesses. Doing business here is an uphill battle because instead of seeing it as "people investing money and creating jobs" they see it as "if you weren't here, they would be making that money"

you forgot " giving crap service at higher fixed price"

As someone who has been out with a Thai guy before... The article is kinda accurate and correct with regards to me... However I'm aware it doesn't apply to everyone.

For me, the cultural differences were way too much and I ended up feeling very frustrated most of the time. I called the whole thing off and now he doesn't speak to me at all as I made him lose face by dumping him.

But oh well... Onward and upwards right?

From this experience I will never date a Thai guy again as I don't think I'm cut out to deal with the cultural differences.

P.S. I have nothing against Thai people and I am not Thai bashing FYI.

You could just have said he was "immature"

Dont worry later he'll have "many" other women.

If I wanted to say he was immature then I would have said that.

Don't put words into my mouth about my relationships.

As for having plenty more women, I really couldn't care less and I wish him all the happiness.

Well if he wont speak to you what do you call that?? or did you cut out his tongue secretly whilst he slept

Still speak to a lot of my ex girlfriends, mind you it aint pleasant

As someone who has been out with a Thai guy before... The article is kinda accurate and correct with regards to me... However I'm aware it doesn't apply to everyone.

For me, the cultural differences were way too much and I ended up feeling very frustrated most of the time. I called the whole thing off and now he doesn't speak to me at all as I made him lose face by dumping him.

But oh well... Onward and upwards right?

From this experience I will never date a Thai guy again as I don't think I'm cut out to deal with the cultural differences.

P.S. I have nothing against Thai people and I am not Thai bashing FYI.

You could just have said he was "immature"

Dont worry later he'll have "many" other women.

I happen to live very close to a mountain where ghosts are living according to Thai people,During the day time people will come visit but after dark no one ever shows up.

I use this to screen the people by telling them if they are good people they have nothing to fear but if the are bad they better leave before dark.

My gf does not believe in ghosts anymore so she says but if i am ever out alone at night and i come home all of the lights are on and

she is playing music so she can not hear anything.

She is always very happy when i come home.

I got similar drivel off a worker on my land building a house. I had to fly out of Thailand to my home country and asked him if he would take care of the house whilst I was away, ie stay there

Cannot he said " something big" lives on your land.

he then walked back to his tin hut, safe in the knowledge he wouldnt get a problem with the "big monster"

Anywa good for me if the locals believe this codswallop it will keep them away at night, meanwhile I live in terrible fear of what the " big thing" will do to me

Dark ages or what!!

Thai people have a higher degree of awareness than most foreigners.

I've seen a ghost but they don't scare me anymore. How can a non-physical being hurt one?

You clearly don't drive a car in Thailand............

Awareness of the spiritual dimension I mean! A more evolved 6th sense. Actually, a less polluted 6th sense.

Just call it brainwashing and be done with it, its much easier.

Thai people have a higher degree of awareness than most foreigners.

I've seen a ghost but they don't scare me anymore. How can a non-physical being hurt one?

You couldnt make it up could you???

So let me see now, would they do this with women too???