Mark Wolfe

The Office of the Narcotics Control Board's Division 8, responsible for the upper South, has implemented a joint operation with residents and tour businesses to prevent the use of illicit drugs at the beachside party.

A "joint operation"? Isn't that a conflict of interest?

This has to be a crank OP.

No actual person would be in this situation and if they were, they wouldn't be seeking advice about it.

This thread is so vague and "insider" oriented that it is almost useless.

What exactly are we talking about? Are you saying that an already-issued work permit can be rescinded because of application wording? Is someone working illegally or not? That seems to be the minimum we need to know, instead of heavily veiled supposition.

So how does this "shakedown" work? Walk me and the others who have no idea what you are talking about through it.

sicking the local bully boys on successful farangs.

Are there "successful" foreigners who are working illegally? What exactly do you mean here? If someone is working illegally, they are subject to penalties. Explain.

Ah, my mistake inasmuch as the first post appeared to be a link, where it is just a bold underline. So I apologize for that; however:

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It seems that even commenting on advertisements is prohibited.

...you added the PM part after I posted, incidentally.

this topic and the verdict should be PINNED until forever in Thaivisa, to encourage both Farang and Thai people, and to show that SOMETIMES it is WORTH fighting, and SOMETIMES, justice is served in "Amazing Thailand".....

Who on earth would think that it wasn't worth going to court over a murder? What a bizarre comment.

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...did someone other than the advertiser post a link to a member's own business? Oops...well, those are the rules.

Womble, you contradict yourself in your own post:

Unlikely, seems everywhere in Thailand Jet ski's are run by mafia, reason being I suppose is being the beach you are not supposed to make business there, so naturally it will involve paying off the authorities, be it BIB, Tessaban, etc etc.

Okay, so the jet skiis are run by mafia...then you say:

However I do know a farang operates jet skis in Lamai, an Ausi fellow whom i've met and he seems a nice chap, not a mafia type, you never know tho.........

So the foreigner is not mafia, although all jet skii operators are mafia...

My comment on police reports was tongue in cheek; come on, you must have seen that....

Where are you? Are you in some other country and the woman is calling you and telling you this? Or you are not in the same city or what?

If it were me, I'd say: "This is so out of my reach that you will either have to deal with it yourself, or wait for me to come and see what the hel_l the deal is. You know better than I do how to stall the process."

Why do foreigners think that they are obligated to fish some Thai girl out of these sorts of scams?

soloman

Each relationship is unique. ................... As I reflect on the past 3 years with her I would do everything the same way.

Including not learning even enough of the language of your wife and her family to communicate with the grandmother (or anyone else)? How many years have you been exposed to Thai people?

CrossBones:

If you are a farang then she is marrying down because Thais a superior to farangs so you have to compensate.

That is how it often is with working class Thais.

That's an interesting statement.

Micky44:

...we have been married over four years now.yes she was a bar girl when i first met her, so this assumption that all bar girls are no good is totally not true.

No offense, but I don't think there is any rehabilitation. It's like alcoholism; even if you stop for years you are always referred (and refer to yourself) as an alcoholic. If a woman has crossed the mental line that it is acceptable to sell her body for money, it is forever an option. Not that it would ever happen to you, but if the bottom fell out of a four-year (10-year, whatever) relationship, the woman who once earned very good money as a bargirl understands that returning to the occupation is a real option.

Speaking of such, I know a bargirl who currently works in a bar, trades sex for money with foreigners, but has a Thai boyfriend who gives her nothing and vice versa. There appears to be no jealously from the Thai man, who sees her work as just that -- a job. Although they are not married as in the OP's question, here is an example of a couple who do not engage in financial "help." This has some relevance since many Thais do not "marry" in the sense that we think of; instead, they are in what we might call a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship (but call themselves wife and husband).

It wasn't a "requirement," and before you start looking for work in China, unless you are a cowboy English teacher, you will need to speak the language.

If there are no adult orangutans at Safari World, where did all the young orangutans come from? Safari World staff were asked this question. The replied that there were no adult orangutans at the park. All the orangutans in the Safari World show were clearly smuggled from the wild.

Holy smokes! The illogical conclusion is spectacular. Make me laugh out loud, so thanks for that!

After the boxing show the orangutans were taken to a public area where customers were allowed to have their photos taken with the orangutans. For the photos the orangutans were forced to "kiss" each person. From this type of contact with the public it is likely that the animals will catch tuberculosis from the people and then they will pass it on to other visitor that kiss them. This disease risk is very dangerous for both people and orangutans.

Yikes! TB from being smooched by an orangutan! Call the CDC! Quick!

What total <deleted>!

That even the superstitious Thais don't buy this BS should give you a clue.

(..."forced to kiss"? Hey, I've seem some foreigners on Walking Street in Pattaya that any chimp would love to kiss...)

Try getting back on topic.

Agreed!

Or not...

I asked you about Taiwan for a reason; I do everything for a reason, and that was to see if living in Beijing has brainwashed you in a different (worse?) way than than living in Thailand (Bangkok?). So this is spot on topic. You live in a place where the flow of information is queered in ways you don't even now realize. I don't believe that living in Thailand subjects you to the kind of undercover police state, Internet censors, baby police and "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" of the paranoid Chicoms that living in Beijing does.

Your Taiwan perspective is still mostly intact, but I can see serious dents, old ploys that I've seen since I first moved to the Republic of China in 1985 (yikes!), in your "understanding." Thank god you didn't say, "renegade province." :0

I think we pretty much have the freedom to information and political and religious inclinations that we want here in Thailand. I am not sure you could say the same for the majority of China.

Money as "support" or "gifting" is expected here from we from the West. All your arguments are good from your aspect and irrelevant from that of the Thais. I agree with you and I don't. You can be proud, as you are, of having a "true love" relationship not buttressed by any financial support on your end, and you may indeed have this, but there is also the concept of being a "cheapskate."

I wouldn't be proud of the fact that my wife pays for this or that; she should pay something as a token of contribution, sure, but since you are probably worth more now than she could ever get in 10 lifetimes, ...well, be generous.

By the way, growing up in the late 60s and 70s I can tell you that according to traditional American values, every housewife had a monthly "allowance," for which she used to run the household..and anything more, of course, was for her to enjoy.

You just have it in your mind that the same money has a different name here in the Land of Smiles.

Works for me...

Yes, I migrated slightly off topic, I am a sinner for sure.

I guess as "Dr. John" would say: "I been in the right place, but it must have been the wrong time."

By the way, I don't say you shouldn't go to a bone adjuster, just that it's a fake science and you could just as well save money and find a good masseuse. People wear copper bracelets for their "curative" powers, but I'd say that's also, as Dostoevsky once wrote: He is happiest who knows best how to pull the wool over his own eyes.

So what I was addressing in "where to find a bone adjuster," was don't bother; find a good masseuse who comes recommended highly (placebo effect kicking in) and go that route. Unless of course the chiropractor is giving out free copper bracelets too....

The simians appear to be enjoying themselves. They probably get a kick out of it (no pun intended).

kiakaha:

Losers do drugs. Losers get busted.Losers winge and moan.Losers are always looking for a loophole or an excuse.Losers lose.Be a winner and avoid the issue all together.

Is this part of your stand-up comedy routine? It's great!

Famous people and their drug use

There are so many losers I hardly know where to begin...Ray Charles and his heroin? Salvidor Dali and his hash? Charles Dickens and his opium? Jimi Hendrix and the kitchen sink? Jules Verne and his coca wine? Or Van Gogh's absinthe?

Oh, right, they were all LOSERS!

By the way, is alcohol a drug? Oh, yes, it is...ergo, the world if full of losers!

Ferd54, let's see how living in the People's Republic has affected your brain.

Please write about 300-500 words on whether Taiwan is a part of China or not and explain your reasoning.

It doesn't affect us non-merchant foreigners. I quite like the days when the cacophony of crap music stops blaring from all the rent-a-girl bars. Lamai really has that village feel on those evenings. They should elect someone to something every week, if you ask me.

Sounds like the advice is more along the lines of massage than bone adjusters.

Personally, and I am not alone on this, I think chiropractors are quacks whose "craft" is not based on any science or medicine. It's akin to astrology; buy into it if it makes you feel better, but it's still just the placebo effect.

Wiki has some fascinating reading on the subject:

...Chiropractic was founded in the 1890s by Daniel David (D.D.) Palmer in Davenport, Iowa. Palmer, a magnetic healer, hypothesized that manual manipulation of the spine could cure disease. ...Early chiropractors believed that all disease was caused by interruptions in the flow of innate intelligence, a vital nervous energy or life force that represented God's presence in man; chiropractic leaders often invoked religious imagery and moral traditions. D.D. and B.J. both seriously considered declaring chiropractic a religion, which might have provided legal protection under the U.S. constitution, but decided against it partly to avoid confusion with Christian Science.

Straight chiropractors adhere to the philosophical principles set forth by D.D. and B.J. Palmer, and retain metaphysical definitions and vitalistic qualities....Mixer chiropractors "mix" diagnostic and treatment approaches from osteopathic, medical, and chiropractic viewpoints....Mixers tend to be open to mainstream medicine and are the majority group.

I wonder if chiropractics is big with Mormons. Sounds like something up their alley.

My money is on the candlestick...

Add one more foreigner killed in Lamai last night on a bike.

I am not going to read more than the OP.

"Girlfriend" and you not being in the country makes me smile. Anyone who says that they have a "girlfriend" when he comes to Thailand every so often for a few weeks or months out of the year is a rube, period. She's not your girlfriend, she is friends with your finances. Forget her and move on.

Seriously, there are only about a million other chicks who will pretend to love you for money, until they get bored or find some other poor sucker.

With all that stress, I suggest you start chewing gum.