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On 9/28/2018 at 8:12 PM, Just Weird said:

Which an insurer would be well within it's rights to do as pre-existing conditions are excluded when the policy is taken out.  "Trying to get out of paying" is not the appropriate description. 

 

If an insurer had to use that clause in a policy it would only be because the insured was trying to claim for something that he was not covered for, in other words he was trying to get something that he was not entitled to and he had not paid the premium for.

A few years ago, I had to have a root canal and crown treatment and claimed on my travel insurance. They paid up but 2 years later, I had to have a crown replaced and the Insurers wouldn't pay out "because I had made a similar claim previously". So nobody has dental problems more than once?

1 hour ago, billd766 said:

 

We move in different circles then. Of the 40 odd farangs I have worked with in Thailand over the past 25 years more than 20 have married Thais. Of those I only know of 2 divorces.

 

OTOH of the rest of my friends back in the UK over half have divorced (I am one of them).

 

I have known my Thai wife for 25 years, married for 18 of them and we have a 14 year old son. 

 

I tell her when we get paid and about how much money we have at any time in our joint bank account. 

 

According to the majority of posters on this thread I must be old and stupid.

 

I think they are wrong and it seems that many of them have been burnt once or twice themselves already.

I have to agree with you - you may be old - I've no idea but you're  not stupid!

In the "old days" in the UK the man went out to work, and the woman looked after the house and children. Although divorce happened, it was very rare, because there was a certain stigma attached to it, and people actually meant it when they said "til death do us part". Nowadays that statement is a farce, and the "nanny" state, "Equal Opportunities for Women" and "keeping up with the Jones'" all play a part in broken marriages, and I include myself twice in that statement!

Here in Thailand, I have been with my Thai wife for more than ten years, and up to now we have had the occasional argument, but NEVER any major problems - basically because I am the one that pays for the food on the table and all the bills out of my pension(s) and she takes care of me and the house. The only difference to the "old days" in the UK is that she does have to send some money home to help support her aged mother and family (the old age pension here is 500 baht a month!) whereas in the UK the aged parents "lived in", but there's no way I'm moving to Esan!   

On 9/26/2018 at 12:13 AM, pr9spk said:

Somehow I feel that if Western countries didn't give out free money to all and sundry, the women there would be EXACTLY the same. Except nowhere near as beautiful, slim and attractive.

And OK, a bit off topic, but the same reason for the low unemployment figures in Thailand!

10 hours ago, ukrules said:

 

Once you've already had cancer once your chances of getting any kind of cheap insurance are pretty low.

And even if you're relatively healthy - you try to get a "relatively cheap insurance" once you pass 70 - or even 60!

14 minutes ago, crazykopite said:

????Seems by the photo that the Thai government need to introduce a dietary regime for their policemen . I suspect that it’s a case of to many freebies at McDonald’s and KFC ????????????

It's probably down to the old story I heard a few years ago that Thai girls like fat men because it means that they must have lots of money if they can afford to eat enough food to get like that! Maybe the Govt thinks that the Chinese are of a similar mindset!

P.S Just realised that the cover pic to this post has been changed! ????????

2 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

Wasn't it a security guard and an immigration officer the ones to make the last problem? So why would increasing the police open presence be better than having them in more incognito? 

 

And why all the big butt kissing fuss for the rude and obnoxious Chinese? Even if not rude and obnoxious, why all the glorification and putting them on a pedestal? 

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“The prime minister has expressed regret over the incident and is concerned about Chinese sentiment,” Sansern said. 

"China is Thailand’s biggest source of tourists, making up about a quarter of its 35 million visitors last year."

Wonder if he (and the Thai media) would be showing the same "regret" if the tourist had been from the UK for instance? 

Methinks it would be a case of another Brit behaving badly and as he should have stayed in the detention room, it was not the Security Guards fault - he was only doing his job!

8 hours ago, cyberfarang said:

This is a new so-called culture among young people to gain social media fame. Rarely do these people ever receive severe punishments for these acts, the police will just give them a lecture, then a wai, a 500 baht fine and an apology for disrespecting the Thai people.

 

The more outrageous, the more media attention they will receive which is what this is all about. If my memory serves me, last year a Thai couple went live on facebook having sex on a bridge and then the couple having sex in the back of a songthaew in full view on a public road. Also the young couple having sex by the counter in a Burger King in America. 

 

This is a sad sign of the times, and until the courts start enforcing prison time with large fines, this won`t be the first of such incidents and certainly won`t be the last.

"this won`t be the first of such incidents and certainly won`t be the last"

You've already mentioned 2 specific incidents so how can you say "this won't be the first"?

4 hours ago, oldlakey said:

Please don't hesitate to contact yours truly any time in the future you find yourself struggling

Your obedient servant

As for being unlucky that was all it was my man, Chas beat you by 2 minutes

At least you got the silver

Happy days XXXXXXXXX

Oh, I don't think I'll be struggling! "My man Chas" implies that you are the one who needs the assistance!

And I didn't realise it was a race - I'm more of a plodder I'm afraid - tortoise and the hare and all that! 

Still, my point stands, which I think you agree with anyway, but to recap, and to get back on topic - false claims of rape are horrendous, whether it's on a campus in the good old US of A, or on a beach in Thailand, and the perpetrators deserve the harshest of penalties, and "sorry ain't good enough"! 

Toodle pip!

On 9/26/2018 at 4:36 PM, Bluespunk said:

8 people to do one job?

That's why the unemployment figures are so low. Oh, and also the fact that there is no unemployment benefit!

19 hours ago, possum1931 said:

Just telling the truth, maybe you are not from the UK.

No you're not - you're being selective with it by saying that "a lot of the UK people go about drunk and looking for fights?"

What about the "lots of UK people" that don't get drunk and don't go looking for fights?

What about the "lots of other nationalities" that go about drunk and looking for fights? There's plenty of them about e.g. Russkies, Aussies, (Hell's Angels included) other

Eastern Europeans, Middle Easterners  - where do you stop?

And maybe you are not from the UK either but possibly a Brit going by your choice of terminology?

21 hours ago, oldlakey said:

Yes you are correct my man and I "TOTALLY" agree with you

Koh Phangan is in Thailand not the USA

You have been left stating the obvious and in limbo because you quoted a Post that was part of a series of "OFF TOPIC" posts, which had been removed while you were in the process of quoting one of those Posts

Just one of those anomalies really consider yourself unlucky my man

Have a nice day

Ah, left "in limbo" - better than being left "in the doo doo" I suppose! ????  So I don't feel unlucky at all old chap, but thanks for the explanation, and no doubt our paths will cross soon!

Bi 4 now! 

42 minutes ago, oldlakey said:

That goes for any false allegations, but lets try and stay on topic shall we

"So sorry about that" says "drunk" British woman after claiming she was raped on Koh Phangan"

I thought the topic WAS about false rape allegations?

5 hours ago, swanny321 said:

 

  Everything.

The point I was alluding to in an earlier post! False claims of rape should be severely punished - the consequences can be horrific!

1 hour ago, possum1931 said:

 

"Lovely country but needs a population transplant." If you take away the road behaviour, and a general lack of common sense, the majority of Thai people are very helpful, decent and highly non confrontational. Would you like them to be like a lot of the UK people and go about drunk and looking for fights?

Would you like them to be like a lot of the UK people and go about drunk and looking for fights?

Objection! No need to say why!

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“He resented being scolded by the couple,” Provincial Police Region 5 chief Poonsap Prasertsak said on Tuesday."

Slight over reaction? Oh, sorry - face! 

Police say Nott’s brother, Warut Satchakit, was involved in a fued with the couple and paid the three men 50,000 baht have them killed.Warut was initially arrested over the theft of Nott’s white Ford Ranger but was later released on bail. He has since disappeared.

No surprise there then!

6 hours ago, The Deerhunter said:

To be polite I will answer this!  There many types of "road" in the world and many properties, even small ones, front onto more than one road. 

 

Our property is in a very rural area, on a 1km  ++ long PUBLIC road with several corners and many fenced properties.  Probably quite unlike where you and other dog fearing people live     And it has only a small number of houses actually fronting it.  There many long driveways leading back to secluded blocks and houses and TWO SEMI PRIVATE service roads only sealed as far as they are public, then they become unsealed private access.  ONE of our six locked gates (to the house proper) is 40 metres up OUR semi private (Zero traffic past our gate) road.  We have four locked access gates spread along our main public road frontage. And one "internal" locked gate adjoins a family member's land.   We  trim the grass at the two corners of our side road entry to improve visibility when departing.  My brother in law personally trimmed several 100 m's of grass, way beyond his property (without being molested by anyones' dogs.)   But no one wants to trim over 3km (two sides???) of public through-road and it's side roads.

 

Our area is VERY RURAL.  All rice, Cassava, orchards and overgrown Army land.  Much targeted by thieves for fruit pumps and copper wire, over the years.  The dogs that killed that child were "usually locked up behind the house."   Such dogs are not socialised or "childrenised" .  They do not know how to behave in public and will chase anything that moves, (like a kid on a bike.)  Lots of people all over the world like savage dog breeds or make dogs of any breed savage by caging them.  Most Thais (and many Farang Thais are ignorant about or afraid of any and all dogs. When caged dogs eventually do get out, WATCH OUT!!!!!!  Dog-ignorant people can get bitten particularly when they act inappropriately.  This is one of the times when ignorance is a defence under the law. 

 

Owning known savage biting dogs is just plain stupid.  

 

The Kerry truck came her at 10am.  The dogs barked. I was working upstairs.  He drove his very quiet truck in the open house gate and right up to the house.  The dogs barked. I went down, WITHOUT calling out to the dogs.   My supposedly dumb proto-savage killers had all moved away from his truck and he (who had not been here before) was busy getting my parcels out of the back. They had done their job.  If he had approached the house from there, without one of us, they would have barked and stopped him to sniff him and to further check him out.   At that point it would have been ignorant to try and push past them before they finished.  After the sniff test they would have accompanied him to the house door.

 

Put quite simply; what is absolutely necessary in an urban soi or moo-bahn does not apply in the rural area because does not work .   

I Just wish townies and dog-averse folk could understand this and educate themselves a bit.   They would then be in much less danger of being bitten by dogs, anywhere!!!!!

 

I am now officially very bored with answering non-rural, dog-ignorant, dog-averse and dog fearing folk's questions on this thread.  The politeness will wear off quite soon.

I now feel that I know exactly where you live - obviously "tongue in cheek" isn't your thing! Aren't your fingers tired?

11 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

He is the leader in the poll because all others have been banned from campaigning.

 

Lift the ban and watch the numbers change.

 

Doh!

 

 

So who is really in charge of the poll? 'Nuff said!

1 hour ago, The Deerhunter said:

Yeah.. They could get bitten by a snake or knocked down on the road   Cars go very fast down our road and with the high grass on the corners, after all the rain we had,  blocking visibility...............  Nothing else dangerous around there.  

I thought "our road" was a "family private road" according to your previous post, so with all due respect, could you not just ask your family to slow down and cut the grass on the corners?  ?

"And all owners who let their pets out severely fined after a first offence then jailed and the pets put down or found proper homes after the second."

And the same criteria should be applied to the same (Thai?) poster who said that it was "just" an accident and neither the grandmother or the owner of the dogs, or indeed the dogs themselves deserved punishment. 

On 9/22/2018 at 2:05 AM, The Deerhunter said:

The gates are always all closed and locked all night every night.  Six locked steel gates and 500m of 10 wire barbed wire fence stop neither dogs or thieves.  Dogs burrow or jump through fences at an angle, anywhere they like.

Fruit thieves use wire cutters, bolt cutters  and hack saws.

There are plenty of untrained dogs around here that that roam up and down the road all day and night, mainly looking for food.  Ours are not among them.  our dogs  chase the ferals away from our property of we would be over-run.   At the most,  2 or 3 of our dogs take a brief walk most late afternoons through an uninhabited neighbours property and return down our family private road.  They come back in the main gate after being absent for 5 or 10 minutes, tops.  Other than that the whole 6 are rarely more than 40 metres from the house unless they are with us away from the house, which they love.  They sleep for much of every day anyway as they are all awake for much of every night responding to other local dogs' movements by lying out near our main gate.  Our dogs are not a danger to anyone except thieves and do not fulfil your fantasy of a local re-enactment of Jack London's "White Fang."

I have spent hundreds of hours reinforcing what I expect from our dogs  and miscreants occasionally get chained up for a few hours or days to confirm my resolve.

Please stop confusing well behaved, painstakingly socialised farm/house dogs (guard dogs if you wish) with roaming killer packs of rabid proto-wolves.  It is simply a fantasy.    

 

I cannot afford to waste any more time answering your misconceptions.  I share your concerns about undisciplined, wild or savage dogs of which Thailand has too many and even too many in this neighbourhood.  Thank you for your concern about our dogs but I firmly believe your fears are misplaced.

"At the most,  2 or 3 of our dogs take a brief walk most late afternoons through an uninhabited neighbours property and return down our family private road".

So if these "2 or 3 dogs at most" are unaccompanied, they are an accident/attack waiting to happen!

Unaccompanied dogs are not "under your control" and woe betide anybody who happens to be walking anywhere near your "uninhabited neighbours property" or your family private road!