BritManToo

4 hours ago, elektrified said:

I wouldn't eat there for free.

I'd eat almost anywhere for free, especially if they provided transport as well.

@sanemax

Never bothered with John's Place, a bit before my time but had plenty of 'special offer' soggy fish and chips at Gekko.

3 hours ago, cyberfarang said:

Unlike back in my day when mentally kids were still kids and hardly knew what it was all about until reaching our late teens or early 20s,

You must have led a very sheltered life.

Back in early 1970s UK, I looked around and noticed plenty of the 14-year-old girls in my class were having sex, usually with much older guys (19,20 or older) who had cars. And smoking heroin in the girls toilets.

52 minutes ago, mikebike said:

Blaming the UN for trying (badly) to fix the fossil fuel industry's corporate decisions, propaganda, insane lobbying, legalized bribery and corruption and fiduciary responsibility for increasing profits and avoiding reality for decades is an interesting take tho...

You're absolutely right,

The UN should create a new world order under one socialist government, destroying all personal freedom and the heterosexual family unit along with all national cultures, due to an environmental disaster fantasy dreamed up by a bunch of communist agitators.

8 minutes ago, bert bloggs said:

I do ,especially if i cant have one????

Never a problem for foreigners in Thailand.

2 hours ago, manarak said:

France has no choice but to get rid of many social "policies" and ideologies (idiocies) pulling the country down, but Macron's mistake is to not hit the lobbies for money, instead the working class is being hit harder and harder as it was already the case under the socialists.

When the elected PM is a man that married his mom, you know the country's in trouble.

And more western countries will follow as the globalist sexual deviant leaders try to force their unnatural ideologies on the general population.

8 minutes ago, JackThompson said:

How to get to know a woman AND the culture here - sufficient to commit to marriage - with only the limited-time that the Bangkok-airport IOs think is the max one should be allowed? 

Only took me 2 weeks from meeting to Amphur marriage.

Easily done on a tourist VISA.

1 minute ago, JackThompson said:

This is why one will have no trouble obtaining a Thai Visa at Thai consulates by showing the required 20K Baht in a Thai bank account, and a 1-year condo lease for proof of where one will be staying. 

If I were an immigration officer and you were entering on a Tourist VISA, and admitted having a Thai bank account, driving licence, Thai investments or property, I wouldn't let you in because you clearly aren't a tourist.

An immigration officer can refuse any foreigner entry (VISA or not).

Just because you are sold a VISA, doesn't mean the border immigration officer has to let you in. 

This is how immigration works all over the world.

I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.

8 hours ago, BigT73 said:

if one carried the 20k cash in pocket arriving on a metv visa, how much extra do you think would be needed on a thai bank?

Having a Thai bank account would indicate you're not a tourist.

14 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

They are going to make it mandatory that all partners of Thai mothers be tested to determine the father.

Off topic,

I always thought all kids should be DNA tested to identify the correct father.

On 12/2/2018 at 12:33 PM, madmen said:

It's the stupid lying that turned me off Facebook. Every body has an amazing spouse, amazing children, amazing careers look amazing through photo softening apps... 90% BS!

You could say that about ThaiVisa.

 

perhaps you are another of the english teachers here that discover how disposable they are and how liitle is on offfer?

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No, I'm retired, been retired for 17 years.

When my boy's finished school, I collect him, then I'm home with him.

Always interesting to read when people that have to work to survive think they are wealthy.

Wealthy, is when you no longer have to work.

 

the UK State Pension is that this will not be frozen if you relocate to the Phillipines, whereas it will be if you relocate to Thailand

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Only if you tell them where you went.

 

how was the refund handled?

 

 

Lazada wallet.

 

Both local 711 stores had no clue what I was talking about. 

 

You turn up at the 7-11 with a printed return form that says 7-11 on it.

They get on their computer and select 'Lazada'

Then they follow the onscreen instructions.

Not Lazada's fault 7-11 staff in your area are idiots.

60" Tv arrived from Lazada today, extended 3-year warranty, not in the box, but apart from that OK.

They're gonna post the warranty separately.

 

 

what breadmaker from lazada and where d'ye get the rye flour?

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Clarte

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/clarte-fbm750p-i222075900-s338976222.html

I get all my flour from YOK in ChiangMai, bread Flour 32bht/kg, whole wheat flour 38bht/kg, rye flour 50bht/kg.

What no smartphone and Google Maps?

4 hours ago, Dmaxdan said:

I fairness this is not a question that people ask in normal life. If you've got any suspicions that things are not as they seem then there are more subtle ways of finding out.  

If you've got as far as marriage without checking out the equipment, it probably isn't all that important to you.

Lots of posters on this forum appear to have sought out replacement mom's rather than sexual partners.

That's the great thing about Thailand, you can live out the fantasy of your own choosing.

47 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

Since 1991 there has been the presumption that persistent heat affects the IQ over generations. It was initially assumed that living in lower temperatures requires a higher physical fitness and causes higher social demands. Richard Lynn, a professor at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland, also assumes that the colder temperatures increase the brain volume. Whether brain size is at all related to intelligence, is controversial.

More likely those without the ability to plan for a sub-zero winter starved to death.

Natural selection rulz!

13 minutes ago, Berkshire said:

do not actively seek farangs and would prefer to date someone they can easily communicate with

But relationships with them still involve gifts and/or money.

Apart from a couple of very pretty Thai boys (who usually get paid) all the Thai guys I know are paying.

And an exceptionally large number of the Thai women are unfaithful to their husbands/boyfriends.

The behaviour of Thai women we see is a reflection of their behaviours as a whole, they're easy lays.

A Thai guy transported to the UK would be astonished at how restricted sex was by white women.