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Of course, these malls aren't necessarily for retail sales, right? They're actually laundering ops for... Umm, I'd best not go into it.

But they need to fill the spaces to convey an air of legitimacy, hence 50% off the rent, or whatever.

My wife's brother, while (thank God) not a bus driver, rides the brakes while going downhill too fast. Twice I've made him pull over and let the brakes cool off, then take my wife aside and whisper to her that he needs to put the truck in a lower gear and not use the brakes so much. She tells him, and things are fine for awhile, until the next time. There is resentment on his part, but the fact is he just really doesn't understand the concept, and for the life of me I don't understand why. So many times I've asked her to tell him something while he's driving, and most of the time the answer is: Brother know! But clearly, he doesn't.

Wow, this subject is almost as explosive as Thai women!

Anyway, if a dog were to bite someone close to me, I would make careful but definite plans to neutralize that dog, although not with poison. However, if the dog is just barking a lot and/or pooping on my property, I wouldn't take such drastic measures.

You know, if you can get yourself near enough to a bad dog in the daytime, where he can see you, just try picking up a rock and acting like you're gonna brain him with it. That might make him think twice about coming back.

Yeah, "The day the pervert monks told me I would gain merit by accepting a bribe to look the other way" etc. Has definite possibilities.

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after police received complaints from more than 20 women that they had been filmed without their knowledge in the bathrooms of their offices and universities.

How did they know they know they had been filmed if it was being done without their knowledge?

Did husbands and boyfriends pay money to visit the website and discovered them?

It does say in the op that they were blackmailing the women to pay to get their images removed,but what i find strange is,most toilets have a janitor,at least in shopping centre's how did they get access to the toilets,and to install camera's, it's say's hidden ,but i mean surely unless they were hi tech spy gear,they would be visible,i am no expert,maybe someone could shed some light on this.

Janitors aren't in there all the time, but they probably paid them to look the other way, anyway. People like janitors need the dough, and all they have to do is deny involvement.

Haven't read all these posts, but my take on the woman is that she likes the abuse, likes being a victim, etc, similar to how compulsive gamblers really enjoy losing more than winning. She gets attention for her troubles and is excited by this attention. Doesn't like herself too much, sadly. Maybe being a Thai makes this seem more normal? I don't know.

Because they still look like girls at 30 years old. How many western women do you know that still weigh 48 kilos at 30?

Then they age spectacularly in what seems to be an almost instantaneous transformation. Middle age in Thai women doesn't seem to exist. There are the younger years up to about 32 - 35 and then the morphing into an elderly lady. Minimal transition period.

Ummm, disagree. Think the place is literally crawling with attractive women in their late 30's, 40s, some into early 50s even. Again, thinking thin. Also, definitely call them women, only girl thing about them might be height. My experience is with Chiang Mai and Phrae, mainly.

Thailand can't keep from falling apart... There is no heart, honour, sincerity, goodwill, integrity in any of the institutions. (And there hasn't been for nearly 100 years, and before that it didn't matter anyway.) Thailand is in moral free fall and will only stop when it hits the rocks at the bottom. When the reality starts to hit, Thailand will be a broken nation, and then hopefully it can rebuild. </Rant>

Don't know much about the last 100 years, but this post has the ring of truth to it, for me. Kind of sad, too, but maybe there will be hope in the midst of the ruin.

"And they get away with it, time after time, without getting killed or maimed. I know there are lots of accidents here, but I've never actually seen one."

hahah....until they actually do get maimed and killed. You haven't seen it, but many of us have. I don't mean like wrecked cars. I am talking about bodies.

Good luck with your psychic stuff.

I didn't explain the traffic thing too well, and now that this post is winding down, it may be too late. My point is: considering how many dumb, dangerous traffic moves Thais make, they don't get killed and maimed at a particularly high rate at all.

Now, everyone loves to talk about the statistics regarding Thai roads, esp the fatality rate, which is astronomical, but let's face it, most of those fatalities are scooter riders not wearing helmets, not to mention all the 12yr olds scooting around.

Good day, friends. This post is close to being tapped out. Thanks for the comments.

Hope this thread will soon turn into a psychic war... just because it might eventually get us another great rock song!

Wow, cool, Blue Oyster Cult. Say, how do you post a youtube on here? I'll reply with another appropriate vid.

Just post the URL.

Oh, OK.

Hope this thread will soon turn into a psychic war... just because it might eventually get us another great rock song!

Wow, cool, Blue Oyster Cult. Say, how do you post a youtube on here? I'll reply with another appropriate vid.

Well that's a strong contender for stupidest post of the year.

Hey, the supreme compliment coming from you, with thousands of posts on your load!

You're my target audience, actually, people who are more than willing to reveal their true nature on a forum like this...

Thank you, thank you, now I know I'm getting through.

OP - All 3rd world citizens are born thinking 4 dimensionally. They are born into a world without much order and with much that just happens around them. At an early age, while clinging to a family member with 2 or 3 other siblings on a small motorbike, a type of understanding either develops in their sub-conscious, or their life is nipped off at the bud, then and there.

We so called "high-born" from industrialized nations do not develop this additional sense or understanding of the world around us. It is puzzling, but you can not understand it or develop an understanding of it, or at least a good percentage of us can not. A few can, those that can are sort of savants that were probably meant to be born in the 3rd world, but by dumb luck, their life force landed in a sperm or egg in an industrialized world.

I expect many high thinking people in the world including the Buddha, Jesus Christ, Einstein, Jerry Garcia and Freddie Aguilar all pondered this in their quest to understand and explain why people do what they do when they do it, and give a little advice in the process to make it another day and a little better than the day before.

Hope this helps you keep from being frustrated in traffic and understand that it is not the car that is tail gating you or the cars ahead of you, but some form of conscious conditioned by a force we have yet to fully understand and have no real control over.

Have a cup of tea or coffee and find a quiet place to sit and enjoy it. Hope you have a nice weekend!

Hey, thanks for your kind words, as you seem to get what I'm talking about, and you've explained it very nicely. And please don't worry, I couldn't care less about traffic and tail-gaters and all that, I just used traffic to illustrate my point. This same sense you're talking about, it can be used in many cases to tell if someone approves of you or not, and let's face it, we all seek approval to varying degrees. So it's really pretty simple: angry farangs, like so many on here, get anger and disapproval back from some (if not most) Thais, and the other kind gets a more positive experience. And If the angry ones wanted to break this cycle, they probably could.

Nice try hotshot...be careful walking...so you don't slide down on your BS...

Ooooh, ominous.

I admit to being a little playful about this, but I knew I could't fool you.

"Just about everyone, including me, believes in psychic phenomena these days, right?" short answer: no. And just believing doesn't make it true or real. I do think that Thai people are raised to be more astute at reading non-verbal cues than farangs. In a society where context is more important than content (status of speaker more important than any statement from same determines if valid or not), seems woulld be useful skill in life's journey.

Wow! This was posted just 4 minutes before my last one, and we both talked about whether believing makes it so. Now that's psychic!

I knew this OP was going to be posted.......nearly posted a post to say as much. But then I realised, if I did post predicting this OP, the OP would have refused to post it.

And I'm not Thai!

See? I'm right. After viewing the syntax of the above, I must be psychic to understand it!

You know, they put Galileo under house arrest for believing the earth revolves around the sun, which was not even his theory. Am I comparing myself to Galileo? Well, yes, in the sense that I have an open mind. So, to all the psychic doubters, just because you don't believe it, doesn't make it not true. And just because a psychic phenomenon hasn't happened to you, doesn't mean blah blah blah. Hey, you know what I'm gonna say, don't you, you lil' closet psychic, you!

If the OP isn't a troll then you have a very different outlook than I do. The CIA and the KGB do not know what's going on. They are government agencies so they are generally speaking inept at what they do. The CIA did not spot the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, they did not see the collapse of the Soviet Union and the never saw 9/11 coming. Some of the biggest events of the last 35 or so years.

As for you suggestion that Thais use their psychic abilities to avoid accidents, I think the fact that Thailand has the 3rd highest death rate on the roads would suggest otherwise.

If believing in psychic abilities makes you happy then go for it. It's not for me.

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Huh? Don't want the thread to be hijacked, but of course the CIA knew about all those things beforehand.

Anyway, for those out there who are not subtle (psychic? Lol) thinkers, my original comments about the KGB and CIA were meant as ironic humor.

Ah, just back from a tasty, invigorating meal of 'shrooms, meds, and beer! Makes me feel like a man!

Actually, not down with any of those. In fact, I'm about as lucid as you can get, and I'm pretty well convinced my theory is correct.

Arrogant? Perhaps to many here on TV I am, but to Thai people, no, I'm not, ever.

Strange, in US I've NEVER laid eyes on a Thai in public, outside of the numerous Thai restaurants where they work. I've often wondered where they are, Just seem to stick together and don't integrate into or even enjoy US society, which is very pleasant most places.

^ Ok

Umm, I think you've walked into a trap, and in your attempts to break free, you're revealing WAY too much.

Peace out, sister.

Just wondering why the female of the species get so uptight when men are enjoying themselves.

That's an unexplainable mystery for men, because, as I said, it's impossible for men to understand women, and visa versa.

However, I can guess why single western women in LOS are uptight. IMO it's because they are not sought after like they were in their own country, and they see western men out with the local women. No man is calling to offer them a free dinner, movies or nightclub in order to possibly get to sleep with them. If they go to a bar or nightclub on their own, no guy is offering to buy their drinks for them. In other words, they have become irrelevant to a western man that wants sex.

I find it rather humerous to the extent that western women in Thailand despise western men that are going out with much younger and very attractive Thai women. I took my Thai GF to Kanchanaburi on a tour, and when we got back to Bkk, a couple of middle aged western women made a big show of saying goodbye to a young western guy on his own, while obviously ignoring me .

LOL, there's even a blog or two about the issue of western women having trouble getting laid here. Some of them try the lesbian route, but the majority of those abandon that and admit they much prefer having sex with men. Apparently they don't last too long in Thailand, the really horny ones anyway. Sometimes they'll have a fling with an adventurous Thai guy, but he never calls back. Bleak state of affairs for them, indeed, because as we all know, there are some very horny women back Stateside, and I'm sure it's the same for them here.

We all, love, Thailand.......Thailand doesn't love us.

I know this will annoy, but i believe it's true: The second part of your statement is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

How painful it must be for you to be here, assuming you really believe what you said. Feel sorry.

I see that around my neighborhood, too. It doesn't bother me anymore, though; I think they're mainly just sad and miserable and maybe even afraid. If I'm nice to them, regardless, that's how I want to be. On the other hand, I've heard bits of their conversations now and then, and...

No, no need to go into it.