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Shipping will eat you alive.

ONLY solution is huge quantities and ocean freight.

I tried to sell a 20 dollar book on eBay and the buyer paid that and I paid $68usd to send it to him, Thai Post is cheap but not that cheap.

It freeks me out........... I never do a weak one unless the guy gives me so little of his hand to grip.... another wet fish story.

Non assertive types, I guess.

U gotta cut somewhere because your list is about a $2000usd life style.

Who is this bothering? Who needs to relax?

Try slingshots, lead the boat and get good with practice.

For most people a taste for beer is not a good foundation for a good acquaintanceship or friendship. That should leave out using bars for your search. I advise going to meetings of your major interests and there the people will likely be compatible; or you can start your own interest group.

My interests are Buddhism as practice and intellectual study and hobbies like short wave radio and flying models (little planes, not women).

I found several Buddhist groups on the Internet and went to their meetings and found the hobbies meetings groups at the stores/shops selling these items. I guess there are on line bulletin boards and the like too. If you are military, they have interest groups meetings; I would like to visit the retired intelligence workers group, but haven't tried that yet, but should be good for a Walter Mitty trip.

I would stay in BKK because it has all interests and likely the most interesting people, too. For example, if you go to CM, you will just find retired old men who trade medication and sickness stories or go to Pattaya for war stories of all kinds such as women woes and beach conquests.

Shopped again and again in vain hope........ answer. FORGET ABOUT IT.

To them, at 70 you are already too sick to ask.

Can live very simply and carefully anywhere in Thailand for 50K THB. However, I am surprised any Westerner would want to unless he is escaping from the law or that is all he will ever have.

What you can not regularly do..

have refrig

have regular air con

have a gf or even a rental.

be able to live in more than one room, often shared bath.

take many taxi rides

have a steak

tour without walking.

OH so much more you cant do..... This budget is for a beer alcoholic who goes into a fast stupor nightly and awakens too sick to eat. Got the idea ?

The Address Reporting every 90 days has got to help in enforcing limits on and catching bad guys like the Russian described in this issue of tvisa. Suck it up and use the mail, that works. Resenting the 90 day reporting is like hating a rain shower just when you wanted to take a walk. Get over it.

Carry a cane.

I need mine, but you can carry if you need or not.

Mine has a sword in it.

1. not every man is mentally balanced and may willingly spend his money on a typical young Thai who has no idea that the well could go dry.

2. I have to ask, is every guy who gets his mug shot reproduced on tvisa U G L Y ???

3. Glad he was found and helped back to his home nation.

Separately, Thailand may soon have to cope with the tradition of "take care of the old, the really old" inside the family begins to crumble as the middle class emerges where that tradition has crumbled in other nations.

The most amazing thing I can see in Thailand and for only the price of one Coke is a whole stage full of the most beautiful young women, all naked and dancing. That, in the great scheme of the whole world ...THAT... is truly spectacular.

Otherwise, seven on one motorbike is up near the top ranks of spectacular.

I am an American well entrenched in Thailand with wife and house, etc. I do not want to leave, and if I can just not pee off some important person, very unlikely, I will be here for my cremation. I "feel" huge love for me as an American by all Thai who are quick to say, "America number one." I do not worry about being forced to leave, or even feeling uncomfortable, because Thai know Americans tip in excess, to be very polite to an extreme, and to want to buy the best at a fair price.

Thai know Brits/Aussies as meager or non-tippers, as surly and grumpy and disrespectful and dismissive of Thai and Thai ways, and want to buy cheap things below the sellers' wholesale prices. By contrast, Americans look very positive.

Thai respect America because it does what they wish they could do---bomb the crap out of anyone it wants, call that restoration of democracy, and get away with it; and, because Americans here having never learned the language nor the real value of Thai money, Americans are easy to fool and easy to overcharge. Once Americans get it through their thick skulls that, IN THAILAND, you can not go to court and sue at drop of a hat, can not disrespect young Thai drunks without a huge whipping, and can not have any Thai take anything you say seriously.... then Americans get along well here.

And oh, I do smile so much I have smile wrinkles.

Hey, be glad they are not flies.... like in Africa, on everything!

I live happily in a house but it is completely screened and the doors are closed at sundown, no screen door, but need one.

I use one of those rechargeable battery bug zappers that look like a tennis raquet. Mine even has a light to attract bugs and the zapping really works. It can be swept through the air and get them.

Also, for you, put in several of those ultraviolet electric bug zappers that are wall mounted and just keep working inside house. They make a very satisfying zap sound for each bug drawn in and fried.

If you have pots or pools of standing water, put a couple drops of ordinary oil on the surface... that keeps them from breathing and they die.

My mooban also sprays for mosquitoes something that has not killed us yet, but keeps down the little devils.

A relaxed person can handle this matter many ways and enjoy his house.

I taught about 150 film/tv/animation students in the Mahidol B.A. program. All Thai, about two thirds of them made their short senior project films which were imaginative, technically excellent, and very memorable in story. Few were about chases or shooting and most had a very humane undercurrent of caring about people even when they are troubled.

I concluded there is no absence of talent in Thailand. But, like every other nation, the entertainment industry is driven by the lowest common domination chasing a small number of outlets. Now YouTube allows everyone to distribute his film, and I recommend people go there for all qualities of entertainment and artistry.

It is quite sad that the Cannes Festival winner, 100% Thai, and his winning film is censored by the Thai authorities, cut so badly that the maker will not agree to show a ruined work here. I saw True satellite showing of CASABLANCA and even that classic treasure was censored in parts. On the other hand, Thai I question, feel that most TV seen in Thailand is so inconsequential and silly, like continuous cartoons so just maybe they are not so easily influenced by "bad" scenes.

My number one "vital question" is why not use the Thaksins' seized assets to help pay off the loss from the rice scheme; and then why not seize more of their assets to pay it all off??????

This seems so simple.

Thai people are sick of the MASSIVE rip off done by the Thaksins and understand that their political machine must have its plug pulled forever and are willing to wait to see that done........... also realize this is very likely the only way to get that job done.

All you arm-chair democratic freedom fighters are a joke to think this this goal can not be first and must be accomplished.

The largest threat to democracy in Thailand for decades has been/is the Terrorist Thaksins.

There are many ways for USA to reassert its dominance in Thailand........

-make a deal with the generals.

-destabilize current situation until Mr. T can come back as savior.

-continue secret subversion and deals with powerful Thai biz folks.

-put on sanctions and squeeze a usa favorable situation.

USA no longer invades nations like Panama. They just install "their man" and that guy runs the nation for them.

My first reaction to your topic header was ARE YOU NUTZ ???

After some thought, I now know you are nutz. My woman was forced to touch the snow, she hated it and ran back inside. Her HUGE down jacket hangs unused. You are asking for a world of hurt....... SKIING... Ask her and if she is honest, she would rather you buy her gold necklace for the cost of trip, lessons, etc. Skip this nonsense.

Hey, if she loves it, she is likely already Westernized and no longer a good Thai woman.

I LIKE IT !! All the hostile powers have a big practice fight and then plan one huge simulated fight each year and the winner gets to lord over all the others for a year. Winner gets to call others "anti democratic" or "anti Party" or "be pro sustainability" or whatever whole year.

In the world of strange, I vote this story near top for the new year, at least.

Quick, Thailand, send some of your own emissaries to USA to ask about.........

-Al Gore got majority votes for Pres but was denied the WH by the highest court in USA.

-Meet Posse Comitatus officials to explore their efforts to overthrow USA govt by force of arms, ask about private armies in usa.

-Ask about minorities being denied voting rights.

-Interview some Mexican people who came to USA as illegal immigrants to get their views.

USA, oops, some cracks in your perfection showing.

Western man goes to massage establishment. Selects masseuse and gets massage. Masseuse asks "You want special?" Man says yes (no way to prove his intention by saying yes). Man receives intimate massage. All done, man tips masseuse for massage. Is this paying for prostitution act or tipping a masseuse for massage?

Same as above, but man says upon departure, "Here, use this 1000 to buy your baby some clothes." Is that paying for a sex act or is it a gift?

Woman meets man at bar; the two go to hotel and have intimate sexual actions, together and consensual. Man gives woman money for taxi upon her departure? Is that prostitution by Thai law?

P.S. Chinese medicine includes massage of male genitals as therapeutic and very beneficial for good health. Is therapeutic massage (paid for) prostitution in Thailand?

• Nations like Thailand should consider sending emissaries to the USA to visit with ...........

  -Al Sharpton, leader of potential oppressed minorities, to get info on USA poor people's voting rights.

  -Al Gore, elected Pres of USA by popular vote, but kept from that office by the USA highest court.

  -Leaders of major labor unions in USA concerning USA govt crackdown on them.

  -Mitt Romney concerning his loss of last USA Pres. election to discuss election irregularities there.

  -Leaders of Posse Comitatus and other organizations preparing to take over USA govt by armed force.

  These visits could be seen as parallel to a recent visit to a SEA nation from emissary Russel of the USA.

  It is time for the world's nations to go inside USA to investigate how bad its situation is today

Nations around the world should consider sending emissaries to the USA to visit with ...........

-Al Sharpton, leader of potential oppressed minorities, to get info on USA poor people's voting rights.

-Al Gore, elected Pres of USA by popular vote, but kept from that office by the USA highest court.

-Leaders of major labor unions in USA concerning USA govt crackdown on them.

-Mitt Romney concerning his loss of last USA Pres. election to discuss election irregularities there.

-Leaders of Posse Comitatus and other organizations preparing to take over USA govt by armed force.

These visits could be seen as parallel to a recent visit to a SEA nation from an emissary of the USA.

It is time for the world's nations to go inside USA to investigate how bad its situation is today.