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9 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

 

I agree, but most would still not do the unannounced pop in.

i made the mistake of dating a non bar girl about 8 years ago when i first moved to pattaya. she came around on sunday morning to bring me some tshirts. there were 2 sets of womans shoes outside the door. heard her knock but gladly she left after a short while. later in the day she asked if i had a girl in my room. i replied 'not one' that was the end of that. win win.

15 hours ago, JHolmesJr said:

If I ever moved to thailand Id have two pads…one where i took no one….and one for shagging...

ha. good plan. there are some excellent gentlemans clubs around pattaya. about 6 that i know of. there are normally 4 or 5 open at any time. cops seem to be fore ever closing them down but then they get to have a reopening party. rooms onsite and very reasonable prices.  i dont even tell the girls my name let alone where i live. 

we got the kids passports in the office under the avenue mall in pattaya. same experience. i was expecting days of grief. things can be run well here. probably just takes a good manager following good procedures. jomtien immigration is quite a bit better now days as well.

was supposed to be the visa solution for those of us who want to winter over in thailand each year. great idea thailand, we love to come spend our money in a nice climate. but no it has turned out like a lot of things to be so complicated it is just a joke. why, why why wont they sort this out to help tourists and their own tourism industry?

really makes you wonder how far this obsession can go and what its implications will have on society. people now prefer to socialize online. birth rates are dropping and this is not going to help, except for tinder that is. 

16 minutes ago, Briggsy said:

Since virtually everything can be bought and sold here, one might speculate that this privilege is available for a price.

 

1000 B for the hat, another 1000 B for the sunnies.

yea, just have to hope he cant buy his way out of the punishment.  complete confiscation of assets for the poor kid he blinded would be a start.

12 hours ago, HOAX said:

I think I'll buy the land. It's perfect for a small bungalow for occasional use.

make sure you put it in your thai girlfriends name. it will strengthen the relationship. 

7 hours ago, DNPBC0 said:

What exactly are the reforms?

 

excellent question. best not to tell us or we will be able to say it has been a failure 4 to 20 years down the road.

danmark breakfast buffet in jomtien is excellent. i have lost almost 10kg since i moved up to esan and lack of buffets is probably the reason.

do the hang him high crowd apply their anger to animal abuse cases?

a lot of people here would rather follow their emotions rather than follow due process. due process is in place to protect us all. i agree with someone who posted that these public parading of suspects and crime re enactments needs to stop. stupid and dangerous. someone else said this is not australia and they are right. we have the same legal systems here however. innocent until proven guilty. again this is to protect us all.

3 minutes ago, somchai jones said:

 

Have to disagree with you there........if one of my family members was roughed up in custody by police for attacking a woman and children while armed with a gun then they would deserve it.........

and if the cops took it to far? or it was a case of mistaken identity and it was not your brother that committed the crime? its not the cops job to dish out justice its their job to catch the crims and hand them on to be prosecuted. it is a good system as long as everyone one sticks to doing  their part of the system.  i dont want any member of my family or anyone else roughed up by the cops, no matter what they have done. 

5 minutes ago, somchai jones said:

 

'the suspect should be suing the cops for lack of duty of care'.........time to grow a pair fella

time to understand how to get a control of you emotions and behave in a civilized manner. we have cops to protect us, all of us. we have a legal system to determine guilt and a jail system for punishing those found guilty.

extremely unprofessional behavior by the cops. stupid parading of suspects before the press and allowing victims to attend is plain stupid. guy has not even been found guilty yet and therefore is still innocent. what if the family man had access to a firearm? we can not expect him to control his emotions, i probably would not either if this happened to me. the rest of us should control out emotions and handle things in a civilized manner. i love thailand but this sort of carry on is just plain ridiculous. the suspect should be suing the cops for lack of duty of care.

wish it was that easy but we have 2 teams of security onsite and if word gets around i killed them i am in trouble. there is a big crack down on hurting dogs now. my girl told me just yesterday a dog had died and was buried and it was exhumed to see what had happened to it. not sure if it was done by the police or army.

marriage this and marriage that. ban the stupid out dated practice and put the money and effort into seeing our youth are bought up properly. seriously, no sane person should give a f#ck about some stupid contract between a man and a woman. maybe we need contracts forcing people to raise their children properly.

convenient to blame the brits. takes the spotlight off her immigration failings.

sweet. case solved just like thaksin.

hope she can help explaining the cultural difference between thailand and australia to all those visitors. 

they made the visit but forgot to say everything was back to normal or hunky dory.

6 hours ago, fanc said:

I'm pretty new to this forum, my wife and I are considering moving to Thailand next year - depending on life factors - but we'll end up there for a year or two at some point.

 

Anyway, to get to the point I notice a lot of the guys in this forum basically talk about their girlfriends and wives as if they're property.  It's kinda shocking to read, and really not all that surprising that a lot of you guys are pretty miserable.  Like how do you expect to have a halfway decent relationship with a person you don't even really consider to be a person?

 

i'm not sure if OP is trolling, but it doesn't really seem all that out of line with a lot of the other posts in here.

you cant really have a conventional relationship with a thai girl and most guys support their girls to keep them out of the bars, rice fields and factories. this ends up with a boss employee type of relationship where they guy screws around and expects his girl to not do the same. very very rarely works.

lots of fantastic replies so far. in fact i think i used up my weekly quota of likes on this one topic.

i would add put them on a fixed income and stick to it no matter who is dying or needs an operation. like someone said dont beat them, for some reason foreigners are not allowed to do that although it seems to work for the thais.

3 minutes ago, elgordo38 said:

I think it is the other way around the army is made up of mostly Issan recruits. The police usually recruit locally. It helps with their "business" relations with local businessman. The number one requirement being you have to be able to recognize a brown envelope by its color. Color blind need not apply. 

i had some problems that ended up with me being locked up in the na jomtien police cells. i managed to get out and a couple of the high up coppers actually became my customers. they got good discounts at my business so i did not make much money from them but i also did not end up in their cells again. i had quite a few discussions with them about the color they prefer and they all said red. this is why thaksin continued to hold a very high police ranking and why he was allowed bail despite being an extreme flight risk.

3 hours ago, micmichd said:

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Refugees usually go back once there is no war anymore, or they become immigrants. The "breeding behaviour" of immigrants usually goes down to the level of their guestland after 1 or 2 generations. Consequently, they stabilize the population. This is exactly what a nation without children like Germany needs.

not sure about that.things in germany and france seem to be on a downward spiral. not sure if things can be maintained for another generation or 2. 

2 hours ago, BigBadGeordie said:

It does for me.

 

i dont have a smart phone, can i still play?

1 hour ago, MobileContent said:

My mum has battled high blood pressure all her life but she always had medications and died at an old age.

how tall was she?