casualposter

There's a lot of weirdos on this forum. I don't think I've seen anything as narcissistic in years, a whole OP dedicated to self-praise. It's really a disgrace and a sure sign of a deep-seated disorder; I'm prepared to bet the OP is a alcoholic with mummy issues.

OMFG

Wikipedia is one of the world's top ten websites. It is visited by millions.

Every day the English language home page shows Today's Featured Article

Not since February 2005 has Today's Featured Article been solely and exclusively about Thailand.

On Wednesday June 4 2014 my article, which is devoted to my GF's family history, will be Today's Featured Article

As per my OP, my article is currently Wikipedia's only featured article about Thailand.

If you object, kindly contact Jimmy Wales, the American entrepreneur who founded Wikipedia.

Alternatively, feel free to raise the issue with George, the founder and owner of this forum. George "liked" my OP, btw

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Better still -- address your jealousy.

My dear old friend ... sometimes sparring partner, but always up for a bit of fun.

Mr 'A' ... welcome back ...

Cool.

You know -- you too could write a Wikipedia article. Perhaps you could put together an academic piece about shrimp farming.

If it's of any interest, I got the idea from WYM / BIG JOHNNY / FUNFON.

He mentioned Wikipedians one day and it got me wondering.

I actually showed him my article a couple of months ago before he vanished. He was extremely intelligent, btw.

Summary

I wrote Wikipedia's best article about Thailand. In this thread I'll explain why I did it and what inspired me. I'll also tell you how you can do the same.

Background

I chatted to a girl on a dating site called ThaiFriendly back in August 2011. She lived in Pattani and told me how her husband (an army captain) had been killed by a bomb while out on a routine patrol mission near the Pattani-Yala border. She asked me which Oxford University college I'd studied at; she talked about her two degrees from the Prince of Songkhla University; she joked about her days as a hair model for Schwarzkopf International. Then she said something curious: she said she was related to a Thai-Persian princess who rose to prominence during the early years of the Chakri Dynasty. She said that the ancestor she shared with the princess was a Persian sultan.

I spent the next two years researching this "Persian connection". My original intention was to write an article for the Journal of the Siam Society. But then I changed my mind. I decided to write Wikipedia's best article about Thailand.

Wikipedia: Featured Articles

The best articles on Wikipedia are called featured articles. Less than 0.1% of articles have achieved featured article status. You can recognize featured articles by the gold star icon shown at top right. This is what Wikipedia has to say:

A featured article exemplifies our very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes.

e. stable: it is not subject to ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured article process.

There is currently only one featured article about Thailand. It's the article I wrote. It passed its peer review on May 17 2014 and will appear on Wikipedia's home page as Today's Featured Article on Wednesday June 4 2014.

How good are Featured Articles?

In terms of prose and comprehensiveness, featured articles are roughly on a par with articles submitted to peer-reviewed academic journals. But there is a key difference. Wikipedia is a tertiary source and relies mainly on secondary sources. It's acceptable to use primary sources as quotes, but interpretations of primary sources must come from credible secondary sources. In other words, Wikipedia prohibits original research. Academic journals differ in that they encourage (and to some extent rely on) original research.

How good are Wikipedia's reviewers?

They're good. They know what they're doing. One guy who commented on my article during its peer review is a university lecturer specializing in military history. The guy who selected my article to appear as Today's Featured Article is a fellow Oxford student. He's written featured articles about Oxford University's Laudian Professor of Arabic and the Boden Professor of Sanskrit.

Why bother?

I wrote my Wikipedia article because I'm extremely interested in Thailand. I've always considered Thailand one of the most interesting countries in the world. If you've read this far, it's likely you feel the same. But you and I are far from alone. Lots of other people out there have a genuine, academic interest in Thailand.

You too can write Wikipedia's best article about Thailand

Seriously -- you can do what I've done. There's no rocket science involved. If you have a genuine interest in Thailand, you can write Wikipedia's best article about Thailand. Take your time. Regard it as a hobby. Your research will have to be extremely comprehensive, but so what? Maybe it'll take you six months to write your article; maybe it'll take two years. There's no rush.

Wikipedia's best article about Thailand

Here it is. Wikipedia's only featured article about Thailand. It will appear on Wikipedia's home page as Today's Featured Article on Wednesday June 4 2014. I've improved it a little since it passed its peer review on May 17 and believe now it's as good as I can make it.

Sultanate of Singora

A porn star goes into an employment agency looking for a job. He tells the secretary he wants a new line of work.

The agency give him an interview and then find a job for him as a petrol pump attendant.

A week later the woman at the agency phones the gas station to see how he's getting on.

"He's great", says the man at the gas station. "He's hardworking and popular with ladies. But he's got a strange problem."

"What's that?", says the lady at the employment agency.

"Well, he puts the petrol pump in the tank and starts filling it up, but when it's almost full he pulls the pump out and sprays it all over the windscreen."

<script type='text/javascript'>window.mod_pagespeed_start = Number(new Date());</script>

I met my wife three years ago on ThaiLoveLinks.

I found my diamond.

"I met my wife three years ago on ThaiLoveLinks."

"She was half my age ......"

"BTW I was 45 1/2 years when we met."

"The biggest test came when I met the parents and told them I am very poor, have no savings and it would be great if they can borrow me some money so I can go to Tops Supermarket in Udon to buy some farang food and German beer."

"the parents knew that I played around Nana, Cowboy for a few years ....."

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Awesome trolling!

What trolling? That's how it was. When I was single you could see me daily at Nana, Cowboy and Ratchada. We want weekly to Udon at the Tops Super Market.

So you were younger than the girl's parents and they happily bought you farang food and German beer?

Don't get me wrong -- I'm not a jealous creep like most of the schizophrenics who've replied to this thread and am prepared to believe unusual stories, but yours does sound a bit bizarre.

If it's true, good luck to you!

I met my wife three years ago on ThaiLoveLinks.

Had a friend of mine who invited me to Sakon Nakhon, so I stayed with him for a while.

Within a day or two he started to make arrangements for me. One lady worked at BigC, another owned a pig farm, one other lady sold for Honda motorcycles, one was a teacher and a few nurses from the local hospitals.

They all had jobs but I just couldn't click with them.

So I tried TLL paid for my membership and went scouting and sorted out the Matchmaking feature. Caucasian, located in Sakon Nakhon, Thailand, etc.

I was a bit disappointed as it only showed three matches and I send a wink/kiss over to the first one on the list and the other two looked scary.

Over the next couple of days I got over 180 replies from some ladies that showed me as a Single in Sakon Nakhon. I communicated with a few but we had nothing in common and most had kids already, were married before, etc.

I kept hoping that the one lady I send a wink/kiss will finally response to me and after 5 days she send a wink/kiss back to me and we started chatting. I didn't said I speak Thai and also told her I am very poor and my income is very low but she always said I don't care about money as I have a home and she had 20 rais of land but all she wanted from me was to respect her family, which did ring some alarm bells.

She was half my age but she was able to speak good English from the beginning, because she has learned English many years at those English camps, etc.

I decided to drive down to Phang Khon to meet her parents and they were younger then me but both were working. BTW I was 45 1/2 years when we met.

As I have been staying in Thailand for over 20 years at the time I met her, I knew about the culture in Thailand, respect the elderly and don't raise my voice for every peanut.

The biggest test came when I met the parents and told them I am very poor, have no savings and it would be great if they can borrow me some money so I can go to Tops Supermarket in Udon to buy some farang food and German beer.

As the parents knew that I played around Nana, Cowboy for a few years after I got divorced from my Singapore wife, they did insisted that I am going for an AIDS test which I did.

For me TLL was a great option and so far it all worked out and we have now an 18 month old boy.

My wife insisted on her profile that she looks for a Farang, 25-45 years, slim, no mustache, no hairy chest and an open minded thinker and a funny person who doesn't complain about every small matter and the farang should be located in Sakon Nakhon, Thailand and not overseas.

I found my diamond.

"I met my wife three years ago on ThaiLoveLinks."

"She was half my age ......"

"BTW I was 45 1/2 years when we met."

"The biggest test came when I met the parents and told them I am very poor, have no savings and it would be great if they can borrow me some money so I can go to Tops Supermarket in Udon to buy some farang food and German beer."

"the parents knew that I played around Nana, Cowboy for a few years ....."

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Awesome trolling!

When a genuine Hi-So Thai wants a job at an American company what they tell them is:

These are the members of my family who run your major customers;

These are the members of my family who run your major suppliers; and

These are the members of my famiy who run the water, power, and transport districts where your factories are located.

Nonsense. If a Thai person whatever rank wants a job depending on job and/or location there will be an interview. Many jobs filled by high so and high ranking Thais are performed outside of Thailand. The last one I was personally involved with was the supervisor of stewards and stewardesses at a major airlines.

Maybe you can get me a job counseling wounded and sexually retarded expats. Where do I sent my resume?

How long do you plan on keeping up this troll act of yours?

It's a good act, and it's certainly got a lot of pricks fooled, but it'll burn out quite quickly.

This said, it's interesting to see how posts as innocuous as yours can engender so much insane jealousy. I guess the most jealous individuals are those with the least sexual experience.

Good luck with your trolling!

When a genuine Hi-So Thai wants a job at an American company what they tell them is:

These are the members of my family who run your major customers;

These are the members of my family who run your major suppliers; and

These are the members of my famiy who run the water, power, and transport districts where your factories are located.

Nonsense. If a Thai person whatever rank wants a job depending on job and/or location there will be an interview. Many jobs filled by high so and high ranking Thais are performed outside of Thailand. The last one I was personally involved with was the supervisor of stewards and stewardesses at a major airlines.

Correct. This CRAB guy is talking cobblers.

He doesn't know what therm "hi-so" means.

I'll have to agree with Neeranam.

I suggest that his principle states that you all should pay the girls first - right then and there in the bar - and then see if she will go with you.

To counter that, you gentlemen are suggesting that she put out first, and then get paid.

The rude awakening would confirm everything Neeranam is saying, as well as confirm what the others are not saying (essentially what Neeranam is saying), and would most certainly happen,

I think I just gave a roundabout definition of denial.

Both arguments are correct, but I only only read one person being on the level.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think you are talking about, if there is a young sexpat in the bar and an old sexpat in the bar that the bar girl will choose the young sex pat.

In my experience that is not correct. She will pick the old guy because it's less work. Bar girls are lazy.

What was my principle? I must be getting old, I can't remember.

Basically, I was saying that suggesting people who move to Pattaya for sex probably have an addiction. I posted a 40 questions but no one responded to have answered it. Similarly, if I took the AA questions to a bar, they'd probably tell me where to shove them.

Why would a sex addict living in Pattaya want to recover? They would rather try to justify, in all kinds of absurd ways, how they are not. What Old Stud, whose name is funny, is saying is that these bargirls can enjoy sex with him. I feel he must have some serious self-esteem/size issues to come out with this rubbish in public. Most bargirls in Pattaya or anywhere in the world for that matter(although they are called hookers or whores there) don't even like sex, it's a job that they hate but need the cash. For old guys, or young guys to think otherwise is pathetic, IMHO. These girls are there out of desperation.

Sometimes I get tired of Pattaya sexpats pretending that they moved there for the beach(which is disgusting) or the nice restaurants. Until you admit your addiction, you will never recover.

Many of my friends live in Pattaya and are trying to recover from their addictions. I was surprised that many are have problems with sex addiction, love addiction, romantic obsession, co-dependent relationships, fantasy relationships, fantasy addiction, and/or sexual, social and emotional anorexia.

The thing about these mongers is that they are brainwashed into thinking they are normal as they hang out with others with the same flawed characters.

Go on take the test: - and if you tell me you said no to them all, I'll take it all back.The_40_Questions_of_SLAA.pdf

Just took the test.

All NO apart from "Have you lost count of the number of sexual partners you've had?"

On another note, I think the OP is sick.

"A person, party or group receiving the most votes ='s winner"

I seem to recall George Dubbya Bush did not have most of the citizens vote for him....but perhaps that proves your point because Dubbya changed the country AND the world, but in a detrimental way.

Democracy is not great.

The best democracy would be a Qualified Democracy wherein the candidates have to qualify in intelligence and integrity. Also, the citizens have to qualify in intelligence (at a lower threshold to the candidates) to be allowed to vote.

The rationale? 1. It's not good for the people if the leaders are dumb or crooked. 2. It's not good for the country to have leaders elected by dummies.

What Thailand has at present is an ineptocracy.

People need to understand and accept that vast swathes of the population should not be allowed to vote.

I propose that voting rights should only be given to those who have completed high school education to the age of 18 (mattayom 6).

So then a situation worse than at present would surely result in those few who having the power would be absolutely in charge and you know what absolute power is equal to........or maybe not I guess or you wouldn't have posted such a preposterous suggestion in the first place.

So then a situation worse than at present would surely result

Rubbish.

You would not get an ineptocracy with an educated electorate: you would NEVER get a puppet PM working on behalf of a self-exiled criminal, nor would you get an administration whose primary goal is to seek amnesty for said criminal.

Understand that democracy is not the be all and end all it's made out to be. When you have an uneducated electorate that's incapable of planning more than one day into the future (and in many cases can't even locate Thailand on a map), democracy will fail.

There was a guy on this forum a while back who used to believe that the best way forward for Thailand would be for a benign dictator to take charge. This is something I agree with.

"A person, party or group receiving the most votes ='s winner"

I seem to recall George Dubbya Bush did not have most of the citizens vote for him....but perhaps that proves your point because Dubbya changed the country AND the world, but in a detrimental way.

Democracy is not great.

The best democracy would be a Qualified Democracy wherein the candidates have to qualify in intelligence and integrity. Also, the citizens have to qualify in intelligence (at a lower threshold to the candidates) to be allowed to vote.

The rationale? 1. It's not good for the people if the leaders are dumb or crooked. 2. It's not good for the country to have leaders elected by dummies.

What Thailand has at present is an ineptocracy.

People need to understand and accept that vast swathes of the population should not be allowed to vote.

I propose that voting rights should only be given to those who have completed high school education to the age of 18 (mattayom 6).

GentlemanJim, on 24 May 2014 - 11:53, said:

For interpol to become involved it requires an arrest warrant to be issued in the English language and submitted to the appropriate department. Ass for the passport to be revoked it would be nice, but he now holds a Montenegran passport which is rumoured to be 'diplomatic' in nature. That does not give him immunity from arrest but does give him freedom of travel.

As for the passport to be revoked it would be nice, but he now holds a Montenegran passport which is rumored to be 'diplomatic' in nature.

If the Montenegran passport were diplomatic, why would Yingluck's administration have reinstated Thaksin's Thai passport?

Thai women are a special case. There's such a huge difference between Thai women who date farangs (let's say roughly 10% of Thai females) and Thai women who don't (the other 90%). So typically, farangs on TV (or farangs in general) are talking about this 10%. How this 10% can then morph into 100% is the sociological question of the century.

The 10% who date and marry farangs cover a similar spectrum to the 90% who don't.

The King, for example, has three daughters: one has never married, the youngest married a Thai, the eldest married a farang.

PS. Do you have sources for your figures. I bet you don't!

Two quick points:

1. She had a farang ex.

2. She agreed to sex after a couple of dates / visits.

Avoid women like this.

Actually she has had 4 that I know of. One paid her rent and gave her money if she slept with him.

So she's a prostitute with four farang exes.

Your husband needs to leave her asap. These women are scum.

Does she also have tattoos?

Living in a monastery with monks? NO WAY.

Well where do you think the Thai nuns live?

A woman doesn't have to be a nun to stay at a temple. I used to know a girl who often stayed at a temple in Ayuthaya.

Two quick points:

1. She had a farang ex.

2. She agreed to sex after a couple of dates / visits.

Avoid women like this.

watch out for the unplanned pregnancy, as they ARE planned,

by them

Important comments.

Nothing a woman does in unplanned.

same poster

180 on the thread

he had a thread where he was braggin on about her

this is the thread where the world her thought he was in, met the reality of who she is

Yep -- tattooed trash.

no chance,

there are 3 kids in the mix

not sure whose kids tho

But isn't this thread about that guy whose wife is older and pulls in more green?

If the kids are hers (and not his) the guy can just move on.

the time has now passed for the two week trip to have ended,

the tattoo woudl have healed,

the result should be upon th OP of his wife's most excellent thailand adventure

are we not entitled to some closure here OP?

we have invested time and psychological capital here,

I feel you owe us a closing reply,

and a real one

Hopefully he's seen the error of his ways and moved on.

If they ask for money, that will be the last time I see them. Sure, I take them out for a nice dinner, to a movie and whatever but I don't like the paid girlfriend crap.

BOOM!!

You've finally admitted that this the reason you're going through women like water here. They're asking you for money, you're refusing and you're getting sidelined.

You thought that in Thailand, every zero could be a hero. Every short, bald social misfit could live the dream. Well clearly you were right but your trouble is you can't just enjoy it like any normal guy; you have to try to evoke envy because that's what you felt back home when all the guys with a personality got the girls you wanted so badly and that is where and how you snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

I don't get your point.

Mr Whereustay dumps girls when they ask for cash.

Surely he's doing the right thing.

Why stay with a greedy bitch when she's only in it for the cash? Surely it's better just to nail 'em and forget 'em.

How tall is this guy, btw?

Wow, Whereustay is actually talking about something else besides getting laid. How refreshing.

As for the OP, I have no problem with anyone becoming successful in life. I applaud them. The problem is people tend to come on TV and lie about their success, as if to impress people and in essence, making their opinion about anything more credible. Or so they think. Unless it's somehow essential to the issue being discussed, why even bring up your personal wealth?

But why the assumption they are lying? Perhaps they are entirely truthful....you don't know unless you've met them. I'm not referring to personal wealth necessarily. If someone talks about a new Mercedes they bought and the topic was new cars, so therefore entirely relevant to the topic, why so many posters on TV would be negative towards him?

I only ask this because I'm on a sailboat forum for a bit now, and everyone seems to get along so well, are helpful and encouraging. Here it seems like its just so many, angry, bitter people when you talk about so many topics.

a valid point "Whereustay"!

a few years ago there was a thread "How high is your electricity bill?" i posted a scan of mine (something like 13k Baht) and... oh boy! dozens of attacks and personal insults.

today i got my bill for april-may totalling 20,747 Baht and 23 Satang. boaters wouldn't wink an eye. but this is Thaivisa were the often heard tenor is "why do you need aircon? buy some fans. save the planet and drink your beer lukewarm. less electricity means more money for Chang."

Do you think Brad Pitt or George Clooney post scans of their electricity bill on anonymous forums?

Do you think Bill Gates or Warren Buffet post scans of their electricity bill on anonymous forums?

Do you really need me to tell you why you're viewed here on ThaiVisa as a consummate prick?

Oh, Mr. Toad and Heavy Drinker...welcome back. Just waiting on Hardened Soul to complete the angry/bitter party.

The complete hyprocrisy of their rants is that every time I have offered to meet them in person, they laugh and decline, then ridicule. Like the schoolyard bully that knows that one kid will kick his head in so he never quite goes too far as to expose his bluff.

Of course, should they meet me and realize I haven't been lying, would they actually post the truth here? Likely not. Face thing and all.

What I don't get is why everyone assumes you're a troll.

To me, your stories seem rather mundane. You said you had a girlfriend who was a teacher. You then said you dumped her because she perspired a lot. So what?

You now say you have three girls on the go at once. Again, so what? I've come across far weirder shit than this.

As for meeting you in person, have you actually asked anyone to meet? If so, what did they say?

I guess another question would be why do you want to prove your stories? Why do you think they're interesting?

One final point: what you and I might interpret as jealousy is sometimes a bit more worrying. I'm talking about mental illness. A few people on this forum are obsessed by you and seem genuinely to loathe you. This is not jealousy. It's borderline insanity. Be careful who you choose to hook up with.