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What has changed is that 'sofort pay with Klarna' can't be used all of a sudden and with my Maestro giro card I had no other way to transfer funds, I had a German friend transfer 2,000 Euros to me and I reimbursed him using SEPA.

I think most women have bisexual tendencies, but the social norm is to be heterosexual so the bisexual part is pressured away but is still latent. Sex isn't especially important for women, at least not in the same way it is for men, they prefer a more emotional attachment and a woman can provide that better than a man, if sex is then part of the deal as a sort of partnership contract then that is OK as well, indeed the sex is better than a man can provide since penetration isn't that important. Women will dress sexy because they like to be admired, it isn't for men especially, it's mostly for their own self esteem. I've seen women flirt with men and women at the same gathering, it isn't meant to lead to sex, it's a 'feel good' situation.

Woke seems to be very resilient despite the normal majority rejecting it, whose behind this $hit, it would seem anybody in power, be it politics, media or police have lost their backbones. I remember some years ago at a German car firm an engineer seeing two new black technicians when he walked into the office asked, "Has there been a fire in the office", everybody, including the two black guys laughed but a woke secretary reported him to HO and he was sacked immediately, she was mobbed afterwards and didn't last long.

Don't be too caustic, she needn't have done anything but instead showed empathy for those less fortunate than herself.

I was framed with a misunderstanding.

There are different classes of wais, if you wai someone of higher status than you your hands should reach forehead level, equals reach nose level, good friends, chin level or even just implied. continuing the hand movement over the shoulder is an insult, one is going through the motions of being polite but literally throwing it away.

You are being extreme, try a more stoic attitude to life. Hypocrisy exists in every country one can be nice about it or sink in a sea of rage, rage alters nothing. As Oscar Wilde once said, "A man who calls a spade a spade should be made to use one"

No, it's to do with social cohesion. An American in Paris once said to a French politician that French diplomacy and manners was just hot air to which the politician replied tires on a car are only filled with air but they make the journey so much more comfortable.

After living here for 19 years it has become automatic, it's not a case of liking it or not, it is a simple courtesy, would you refuse to shake someones hand in falang land? When my German daughter visited me I gave her 'wai' automatically and we both burst out laughing, but she knew enough to offer a wai to my Thai wife and our 16 year old son. I remember once when he was 14 and I drove him to school, he gave me a goodbye, throw away wai, quick and landing over his shoulder, he did this in front of his teacher who exploded with rage and gave him a dressing down, when I intervened and said he comes from my falang household and we are lax with greetings, it didn't soothe him, "You are his father, he is duty bound to show you respect, that was a terrible show of disrespect, we don't tolerate such bad manners in our school". Just to let you know how important a wai is.

Not stupid but a little 'basic'

You can't help stupid, I've been to that waterfall, it looks pretty dangerous....but well we are on holiday, what can go wrong?

It's just a phase he is going through, once he meets a good woman and gets a job he'll settle down.

Set up an online gambling site, it's been done before.

I don't know, I've had the same vaccine (in fact one injection more than I should have had due to a mistake by the nurse) with no ill effects but I won't get vaccinated again, the vaccinations were a rush job for an illness with a very low mortality rate.

It has also caused some doctors in Germany to be concerned. My brother in the UK has been off work with 'long covid' for two years after being vaccinated with mRNA.

Even Jesus hat an agenda. I'm sure that this misunderstanding will be cleared up soon and that the real culprit, corporal Somchai, will be arrested and charged.

Trump the anti-Christ for president.

Got to laugh at the false Christian mafia.....if they weren't so scary in their bigotry and ignorance.

I agree, also there is no mention of America being a Christian nation in any of its statutes.

No, she is Chinese remember, this wont go down well in China so he will have to go down well in Thailand.

and yet presumably you would describe yourself as a civilized man but not cultured I hope, that would be like watching a dog walk on its hind legs, it isn't done well but one is surprised to see it done at all.

I have a house in Chiang Mai and we live in our house in Surin, both houses are owned by my Thai partner and our 16 year old son.

Disdain is a noble shield against that which is negative and about which I can do nothing. I have disdain for Trump, for Putin, for the slaughter in the middle east, for the exaggerations in the media, for the monetary manipulators who are destroying the 99% in the West and for those who would hold up basic primitive instincts as something to be admired. Those admirable members of human society who quietly create are ignored while the destroyers become famous and even in many cases praised.

As Mark Twain once said, "Don't argue with idiots, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience".

It's important to show disdain towards the primitive side of human nature.