seanocasey

Happy paddy's day everyone have a good one and dont drink to much.

https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=89

Sad for a young wife with a baby on the way.

Maybe they could try rubbie noses like the Eskimo

Looking at it from a Thai view point

well the farang generates income

everyone wins

the Bart filters into the village

You are more than welcome farang big smilles

No there is no need to worry, farm away

just make sure you can and will turn the other cheek.

http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ i return here over and over again.

Click "See calendar of lowest fares".

also destination Bangkok = BKK

Yep there is one every day, I personally would not. I'D BUY A APARTMENT IN BANGKOK for me let the girlfriend live there. If the relationship went sour iv still got the place in my name and I can sell or rent out and get a new GF.

Just my two cents worth.

If you got your head stuck up your a** DO buy property in Thailand but if you do your head is stuck up your A**

Yep there is one every day, I personally would not. I'D BUY A APARTMENT IN BANGKOK for me let the girlfriend live there. If the relationship went sour iv still got the place in my name and I can sell or rent out and get a new GF.

Just my two cents worth.

oh how sad this world is to forsake the most humlists amoung us

Have known mine 5 years and visit twice a year.

Initially, I was going over to butterfly, but she was persistant and I didn't have the heart to send her away. For about the last 3.5 years I've been spending almost the whole time with her and hardly butterflying at all..

I'm hoping to get her tourist visas to get her to Australia and the UK with me next year.

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wot aload of bollo* I DO KNOW MANY HAPPY Thai couples Thai and Farang couples western couples. I'M shocked.

Yep -- these LDRs (Long Distance Relationships) are for losers living in a fantasy world. Why not just get a bloody g/f in your own country?

I mean seriously -- what's fuc_king wrong with these people?

I don't agree.. but i do agree that cheating is a lot higher risk. Especially the guys sending money over Its not uncommon for girls to have multiple cash cows like that and make some time when he comes over.

yea when i visit my friends sister in her saloon i have actually witnessed this i have nothing against her (the girl with many bf) as she is friendly just i wouldnt want to be her bf... one day i saw her do this 1 phone call to bf in other country her dad in hospital can you send 10,000 baht.. 5 calls later she has 50,000 to play with goes out drinking at night.. just calls them and has separate facebook accounts with different names plus she said when they visit once a year she gives them the best time never complain always happy sex whenever they want it for 2 weeks the guy goes home like wow what a awesome gf i got.. she is that smart one just feel sorry for the guys... i think some farang think that buy sending money it will stop her from cheating some cases maybe.. but i know a few girls i have hooked up with have a bf in a different country.. i think now i wouldnt go down that road long distance relationship i would either be there full time in thailand or home country or just stay single.. thats my thinking about it..

Know a couple who are 8 years together see each other once a year, one month a year.

Whoo that's love.

I don't think you can call them a couple then

She also visits him 3 months of the year. IS that a couple ???

All the good honest people in Thailand get rejected. its just the dumb way it has always been.

It is the way of all politicians,

Is it not what you to not see as to who governs,ASIA to see whose face it is to see who governs.

It is I master, I hide behind your mask you fail to see.

Know a couple who are 8 years together see each other once a year, one month a year.

Whoo that's love.

OH stop bitching guy's is she not so cute.Motor on.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14007483

Reconciliation can never come as long as Thaksin is pulling the strings and that is the bottom line. Allowing Thaksin to run another puppet government does nothing but move Thailand backwards. I could care less if an actual Thaksin clone won the election but at some point all Thais have to realize that having Thaksin in anyway running the show is bad for all Thais in the long run. If Thaksin cared even one ounce about the Thai people he would have handled his life as fugitive very differently.

A big part of why what you say is true is because; Thaksins strategy and tactics to win and maintain power are specifically based on keeping the hatred going in a big way. He took the demagoguery of 'Us vs Them' and brought it to new lows that Thailand may never be able to recover from. He no doubt thinks this was 'leadership' since his political machine is leading the polls, but true national leaders unite, not divide. As you said, as long as he seeks to control the country via his machine the hatred will remain, revenge and retribution will be the order of the day and reconciliation is not possible.

Quite true, the big lie that this is a rural poor versus Bangkok elite issue has been told repeatedly by the absentee multi-billionaire. His chinese ancestry seems to have been completely forgotten by the poor ethnic Thais of Isaan and the premeditated conspiracy to cause many deaths amongst their number has also been forgotten. The phrase 'Useful idiots' springs to mind here and now Thailand will pay in the long run for it's short term myopia.

IMHO it is the Chinese new elite vs the old Bangkok aristocracy and the poor people are just the useful idiots for the Chinese new elite

Old school we were there in 2003 when Thaivisa started. It's actually Hong Kong. Put I suspect you know that.

It is as you know my Face,true I who is faceless will see it as I have seen you before, am I, at 69% it is if my image is viable to all.

Will I not to repeat my wrongs as a faceless citizen,

"As here"

Maybe its me but cannot locate the insert link button, maybe its my security configuration in Firefox

It is as you know my Face,true I who is faceless will see it as I have seen you before, am I, at 69% it is if my image is viable to all.

Will I not to repeat my wrongs as a faceless citizen,

Ya go to Lava Cave or Kaeng Lava Cave Kanchanaburi. with hammer and chisel.

http://www.thailandhighlight.com/kanchanaburi-riverkwai/Lava-Cave-Kaeng-Lava-Cave.html

(can someone tell me where the insert link is after disappearing to.)

€ Euro/$ dollar.

HEADED FOR 47B TO € in next 4-6 weeks massive resistance at $1.48.

Go search the Internet sample Forex

there go we for the grace of god.

sad but true.

iv read what you said and I am perplexed we live in a country where our culture is out the door,

yes out the door,

it is not to be taken easy,this culture

on the contrary it is intolerable to except,

how can they drag us down to this stage, "ups"

well we live here we suffer to achieve a life that we can have a life worth living,

at times this is hard insurmountable but achievable if we believe that we are guest here,

yes a guest here

OK we are married ,that is not to say we can and do what we as farangs except as an normal,

what is normal to say it is to except a moralistic exception to life and except this, then this is what you except in this country.

what do you except in your own country

we all suffer, yes for what what we love and want

"typed on phone"

Discrimination based on race is included in the definition of racism so many of the so called arguments on this thread that many Thais aren't racist because they don't lynch us are totally worthless.

Positive (and never universally true) false stereotypes are ALSO a manifestation of racism. They also can harm people in subtle or even significant ways.

Here’s a laugh – a man in Kent has been awarded thousands of pounds in compensation after being “offended” by some stupid Irish joke.

Cllr Ken Bamber, who sits on Medway Council in Kent, was chatting with Brian Kelly, a Unison rep, when he made the joke.

He told Mr Kelly: “A man walked into a Dublin bar and saw a friend sitting with an empty glass. ‘Paddy can I buy you another’, he asked, to which Paddy replied – ‘now what would I be wanting with another empty glass”"

Mr Kelly, who was born in Ireland, said Cllr Barber had used the word “Paddy” offensively and was being “racist with intent”.

He lodged an official complaint and took the matter to an employment tribunal, which referred the case to the conciliation service Acas.

As my colleague Douglas Murray has said: “In a sane society this joke would lead to laughter or forgetfulness. But Kelly is apparently ‘proud of [his] Irish heritage’ and deems the joke to be ‘racist’.”

The most telling thing about this case is that the man telling the joke was in his late 70s, and that’s because no one tells Irish jokes anymore.

And that’s nothing to do with the existence of the professionally offended brigade, among them the various taxpayer-funded “Irish” community groups founded in the 1980s, all of them ready to claim “racism” with hair-trigger quickness. Like all such self-appointed groups, they screamed loudest when such comedy got closest to the truth – in the case of Irish immigrants their fondness for alcohol.

Jokes about thick Paddy and drunken Mick died out because in the 1990s Ireland became very rich. By the end of that decade the Republic, once a theocratic economic backwater, had higher average earnings than the UK, for the first time in history. Irish immigrants to England, once characterised as country thickos who were good only for building roads and fighting, were by the turn of the century earning more than the natives (and certainly more than people in the Medway, the part of England that gave us the word “chav”). People don’t stop telling jokes because they’re “offensive” – probably the opposite – but because they stop reflecting a certain truth. Anyone who makes Irish jokes now just looks old or stale, which in comedy terms is worse than being racist.

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I would draw your attention in my humble merit I rest my case to seanocasey.

to explain to the uninformed to what been Irish is yes Irish yes not British

Brendan Behan (1923-1964) - Irish dramatist, author

* It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

* The Irish are a very popular race... with themselves.

* I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

* ...Actually, I'm a drinker with writing problems.

* To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

* New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

* I saw a notice which said, 'Drink Canada Dry' and I've just started.

* Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

* What the hel_l difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

* Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

* If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

Too young to die. Too drunk to live.

Renee McCall of the Daily Express on the passing of Brendan Behan on this date in 1964 at the age of 41.

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be

Benjamin Disraeli

There are only two dialects of Irish, plain Irish and toothless Irish, and, lacking a proper acquaintance with the latter, I think I missed the cream of the old man's talk.

From 'Leinster, Munster and Connaught' by Frank O'Connor

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

Sigmund Freud (about the Irish)

There have been many definitions of hel_l, but for the English the best definition is that it is the place where the Germans are the police, the Swedish are the comedians, the Italians are the defense force, Frenchmen dig the roads, the Belgians are the pop singers, the Spanish run the railways, the Turks cook the food, the Irish are the waiters, the Greeks run the government, and the common language is Dutch.

David Frost and Anthony Jay

Sean O'Casey

* All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

* A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

* What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart?

* A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

* Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

* Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.

The quiet Irishman is about as harmless as a powder magazine built over a match factory.

James Dunne

Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.

William Butler Yeats

W. B. Yeats (Irish prose Writer, Dramatist and Poet. Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. 1865-1939)

* We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

* We . . . are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.

speech in the Irish Senate, June 11, 1925

* Out of Ireland have we come.

Great hatred, little room,

Maimed us at the start.

* Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave

* Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

There are only two kinds of people in the world, The Irish, and those who wish they were.

Anonymous

There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

Katherine Tynan Hinkson

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

Shane Leslie

If you are lucky enough to be Irish, you're lucky enough.

Grace Boyle

In order to find his equal, an Irishman is forced to talk to God.

Stephen Braveheart

I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.

John Stuart Mill - Letter to J. E. Caimes, 29 July 1864

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York (state), for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.

James Cagney

The divine harbinger of summer - warm rain.

Kevin Myers - Irish Times

Company keeping under the stars at night has succeeded in too many places the good old irish custom of visiting, chatting and story-telling from one house to another.

View of Archbishop Gilmartin of Tuam 1926, from Twentieth Century Ireland by Dermot Keogh

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Pope John Paul II from a speech to the people of Galway, September 1979.

I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones.

Liam O'Flaherty

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

Edna O'Brien (Irish Writer, b.1932)

I joined the British Army because she stood between Ireland and an enemy common to our civilization and I would not have her say she defended us while we did nothing but pass resolutions.

Francis Ledwidge

John Millington Synge (1871–1909)

* I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

* One wonders in this place, why anyone is left in Dublin, or London, or Paris where it would be better, one would think to live in a tent or hut, with this magnificent sea and sky, and to breathe this wonderful air which is like wine in one's teeth.

* There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

The Aran Islands (1907)

Samuel Beckett

* My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.

* Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

* I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time... a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic!

Adrienne Cook

You cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed.

Padraig Pearse - a leader of the 1916 Rebellion.

"...even as a partitioned small nation, we shall go on and strive to play our part in the world, continuing unswervingly to work for the cause of true freedom and for peace and understanding between all nations."

Eamon De Valera

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

Samuel Lover

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Oliver Goldsmith

George Bernard Shaw (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)

* Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

* I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

* Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first, and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

quoted in Ireland in Mind, Alice Leccese Powers, ed. (2000)

* Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

* An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

The Man of Destiny

* Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

* An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.

When all the fuss has died down and the lads get back to I'm sure what will be a heroes' welcome, the wounds will heel and the wise man in the pub will say "Sure, 'twas only an oul match anyway!"

Contributed by an Irish reader after Spain defeated Ireland in the 2002 World Cup.

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.

John Boyle O'Reilly

I edited as I wanted to shout my mouth off more as i am proud of being Irish.

Beyond the door

There's peace I'm sure.

And I know there'll be no more...

Tears in heaven."

Eric Clapton lost his 4 y.o. son the same way. This is his beautiful tribute. Seems appropriate to this little guy as well.

May God supply all the peace and comfort this family needs during this difficult time. Bless and keep them and may they always remember that God is in complete Control. Unlike adults God takes care of babies and he is safely in the hands of Jesus. In Jesus name I pray Amen

so so sad, that tears are hard to stay.