Andrew65

If they or anyone else says anything against it they're villified, cancelled etc. Author JK Rowling being an example of that.

Sport is about the only area of life where segregation by gender is allowed and is part of the system.

That's 4 less lookie-lookie men then! ????

All the hookers that ever seen (usually on TV) in the UK and the USA, you wouldn't want to go with them at all, even for free,????!

It is actually possible to be a volcel (voluntarily celebate), can't be bothered with that stuff any more????

One thing in Thailand is that women's-lib is yet to arrive there as it did in the West about 50 years ago. I'll give an example of what I mean. I remember my old (very wealthy) Swedish friend talking about his Thai live-in girlfriend. He said that she would get up every morning to make his breakfast "A Swedish lady would never do that". Thai ladies haven't spent their entire lives being indoctinated with the idea that they should be just like men. IMHO, many Thai ladies have a femininity that is hard to find in Western ladies nowadays, many of whom seem to be out to bust the balls (mainly financially) of any man who's unfortunate enought to get involved with them.

"If it flies, floats or <deleted>**s, rent it"

When men do such things they're "Sex Tourists". When women do such things it's a "Holiday romance". ☺️

Evasion is illegal, avoidance is legal, it's knowing the difference between the two. Avoidance could also be called "Mitigating one's tax liability", legally reducing how much tax you pay.

About 10 years ago I worked in a job where I got to travel a lot around Australia. We were in a town near the QLD/NT border and in a local shop where you could drink a few beers, but there was a sign there saying no booze to be taken away. Also big signs by the road stating NO ALCOHOL - NO PORNOGRPHY. In PNG booze was banned on our camp, mainly because if the locals started drinking they were likely to start hacking each other to death with 'bushknives' (rather like a 'machete').

You're right. But we all know that whenever a farang dies in Thailand the conspiracy theorists come out of the woodwork. As you say, it's perfectly possible and most likely that this guy died of natural causes, RIP. Some years ago the Australian authorities reported that more Australians die in Thailand every year than in any other foreign country. (Common causes of their deaths being drowning, riding motorbikes, illict drugs).

Nope, legally you still need a work permit. You even need a W P if you're doing unpaid voluntary work.

FUD?

Just make sure that you don't upset the locals!????

"...unemployment is barely above 1%" If you'll believe that you'll believe anything. For one thing, Thailand doesn't have a proper system of measuring employment/unemployment. Also, many older Thai people live with their children, in the UK/other western countries they would be living independently of their children, and classed as unemployed. In Western countries is often said that realistically the lowest that unemployment is likley to be is 5%.

In the UK large numbers of people are allowed to come in and do pretty much any job they want. We now have 10 million people here who were born overseas. Things like roads, the NHS etc are creaking under the strain. There's also a "Housing crisis".

Mowing your own lawn? You could/should be employing a Thai person to do that. I had an old friend that lived in Phuket and used to worry about pruning his Lime trees, just waiting for the immigration police to show up!

I had 2 old friends who were millionaires, one worth tens of millions, one of them drove a beat-up old Honda, and the other a VW Golf, they weren't "car men". If it weren't a necessity they probably wouldn't have owned a car at all.

It's my theory that uniforms and the position of authority/power that comes with them can enable and exacerbate the behaviour of certain kinds of people. The police and the military being prime examples. (Mostly good people though, a small minority that are bad in this way).

What I was getting at is that as falang we can't claim welfare benefits etc in Thailand. Around 3 years ago I got chatting to one of your compatriots who had renounced his US citizenship and was actually a Cambodian citizen (showed me his Cambodian passport). That's a VERY big step to take.

I didn't realise that there were any "free rides" available in Thailand for Johnny-Falang!?????

Also no monetary (400k/800k) requirement, just the agent's "fee"????

The last time I was in Patts (3 or 4 years ago) you could get a large Leo for 60 Baht!☺️

Britain's economy has been sinking since the 1970's.

What's so special about London? It's only about 13% of the UK population.