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15 hours ago, SiSePuede419 said:

Yes.  

 

And I would have a few choice words for that lady in Spanish.  

 

I'm sure she would get the gist of it without understanding a single word.

 

Spanish is my go-to language for insulting people in Thailand. Never insult anyone in English.  Innocent schoolchildren might understand certain key words ?

Well maybe some people know Spanish as well. 

Nunca se sabe. ..

11 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

You jest or troll which is it. 

I've seen lots of Hollywood movies so I know very well western women are pure love and enlightened human beings. 

Nah.  Just kidding.  They are the same bitches.  But it amuses me when everybody start the thai girls bashing calling them whores and all that as if women in the west were different.  

Should they hang out with getto bitches they would get the same outcome. I wonder why they date poor Thai girls and they expect it to be different 

the women in the west are much better. They are not interested in money and they'll always love you no matter what even though you're a loser. 

 haven't you seen titanic and all the romantic movies?  

I am sometimes flummoxed by posts on this site. When a crime is reported you often get comments like it is the only country in the world where crime occurs...or like in this instance...where never before was there ever a person in the whole world ever caught in possession of drugs.

What sheltered lives must some people have lived.

The thing is as some others have pointed out ..When your in Thailand don't take drugs , i generally have a personal kind of travellers motto, when in Rome etc ,

If i want to smoke weed i do it somewhere like Amsterdam or where it's accepted , if i want a snort do it in mexico etc etc ..When i'm in Thailand its mainly beer as i can see whats in it //or the odd whisky, but common sense has to prevail, otherwise it's asking for trouble , you shouldn.t even walk through the airport with a valium ( even if you bought it on sukhumvit) doesnt matter they'll nail you for it , even a kamagra is cause to hassle, as loose as Thailand maybe you have to be sharp, i think some people get deluded by that mix of looseness and ultra strict law enforcement which can be highly costly.

I regularly pass through Swampy,with Morphine tablets,plus Morphine syrup,the latter in a sealed plastic bag on open display.

Have never been questioned.

With no prescription?

I wonder if some opinions here would be different if these three were young, hard bodied French 'glamours' innocently travelling the world on their 'gap year'.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world a dead drug addicted pop star is being venerated by everyone from the POTUS down.

But then he got his 'legal' opioid drugs from a man in a white coat and not from a hill tribe in northern thailand,

The world will be a much safe place with these three banged up for the next 30 years. Another decisive victory in the long running Drug War.

It is a sad, strange world.

Good point. But that doesn't explain the stupidity of this three grannies. They are grown enough to know what are the consequences if you play drugs in thailand.

Their country their rules.

A lot of potential problems for a few papers, don't do it.

I'm married with a Thai and have two daughters. I can't get rid of her, even the lawyers advice me to move away and wait for 3 years or even up to 8-9 years for the kids to grow up so they can choose themselves because I might lose them all together with almost everything I have. Even though we have two houses she wont move to the other house and doesn't want to talk about divorcing. She doesn't cook, clean, have s**, nothing. I have to work and then take care of myself. it feels like I married a parasite or a virus. If I didn't marry I could walk away now because I would have known not to buy or build or make kids since I would lose them in case of a separation.

It will keep you sharper not to marry and everything on your name is yours. After I'm hopefully rid of her within the next 10 years I will never marry again, even if I could give my life for the girl.

Let my and with me many other experiences be a warning for you.

Sorry to hear that. Some girls are really good at hiding their true colors.

Did you make prenuptial?

On another note. What would happen if you make a prenup agreement and after you get married you get some assets inherited. Any chance for the girl to take them off you?

I've been happily married for 20 years.

Obviously - not to the same woman. That would be horrific.

Lol. Nice one

You should write a book. That's a funny story to begin with

I know what a street fight is. And I'll tell you something. Sure you can choose what to do or not.

And I'll tell you something. If "..you can..." is meant to extend beyond yourself - and represent a claim about what is true of the generality of people - then "you" (one) can't choose what to do. Your brain goes into lockdown. Adrenaline in massive quantities is something that people aren't used to.

There's nothing like a discussion about self-protection to bring out every expert in the world. I don't know which unfortunate it is who goes around losing millions of fights, because the web is full of people who (it seems) make Chuck Norris look like Gandhi.

If I was wearing boots and swaggered across the street towards you screaming and swearing, arms held out to make myself look bigger, bellowing, "And what the f*** are you going to do then, eh?", and the distance closed in seconds, and you weren't given time to prepare, and my first move was to put my hands out and boot you full power, do you really think it would end well? If someone my size did that to me I'd probably get a kicking. I'm a realist. I've taken a beaten. I've handed a few out as well, and most of what's said on this topic is total pump.

If you've spent 22 years in the Scots Guards and work as a prison officer, you can make someone miss with two punches, headbutt them and kick the legs out from under them without putting down your fag or pint. I can't but "x" could. He might stand a chance if a nutter who has been in Barlinnie prison came powering across the street. Most people would be lucky to escape with their life, hearing and sight. The equivalent Thai nightmare would be equally dangerous.

The thing that concerns me about a lot of the advice on this topic is that it effectively amounts to encouragement to behave aggressively in circumstances where that will probably make things worse. If you're still clear-headed enough to contemplate deliberately using force on someone it probably hasn't escalated to that serious stage where it will make things better, or no worse. Probably you're still at the threatening stage, and odds are that sticking one on someone could get you stabbed.

If you did that (running towards someone with the intention of attack him) you could get stabbed or shot so I would not recommend you to do that .

I've checked out some videos of Geoff Thomson. He seems to use techniques from grappling wrestling and kick boxing. This techniques are widely used for self defense.

Ive just seen 3 videos of him. He apparently was a doorman and his trainning is aimed to that kind of situations.

He might be street wiser than a guy purely training to get better on his sport but those sports are very effective when it comes to kick someone up in a worst case scenario.

I would avoid any confrontation anyway. The cemetntery is already full of tough guys

In that instance I would choose mixed martial arts. Boxing also has rules and once you're on the ground is useless.

But yea better than karate of course.

You don't "choose" anything. When a nutter took a flying headbutt at me I flew back like a mongoose on steroids because of all the things I'd done that - at that point - had made me who I was. I then hit him with two punches and broke my pinky because of who I was. I then ended up half on a sofa with the lunatic on top of me. I grabbed his hair with my left hand and fired three full power punches into the side of his head, ending it.

None of this has anything to do with choice. When I got my head pulped into a misshapen approximation of what it had been, and blood inside my left eye - pink world - there wasn't any "choice" involved in the nightmare, or if there was it wasn't helping.

There are only two things to say on self-protection. 1) Listen to Geoff Thompson. 2) Listen to Geoff Thompson. Now I realise that strictly speaking this is only one thing, but it's such an important thing I thought it was worth mentioning twice.

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I don't know what you're talking about. but I think you missed the point I was trying to make. When it comes to self defense I would use anything to defend myself. I'm not obsessed with it though but obviously there are sports or martial arts more useful than others.

I'll make myself clear, Grasshopper. The sentence, "When it comes to self defense I would use anything to defend myself", assumes a "choosing you" in the middle of a melee. That shows a fundamental misconception, in my view. A real fight is an out of body experience. Nothing seems real. Your arms seem short and yet your opponent seems able to hit you easily. You're tired not as if you're in the middle of a hard training session, but as if you have the flu - just weak.

Watch "Bully Beatdown". "Andrew" is the sneering scumbag who will assault you. The look on his face when the roundhouse kick goes in is what happens to the ordinary person when they get hurt. Now you might say that this makes your point - the MMA fighter shows that MMA works. No. The least interesting thing about the MMA fighter are the techniques that you could study. It's the thousands of hours of pain, fear and impact during training that make him useful. An Isaan Muay Thai fighter will hit the bag less hard than a farang twice his size, but when the farang gets his nose busted and starts swallowing blood it all changes. There are no choices once it starts, and fear, impact, injury.....these are the realities.

But a real fight is like a dream-nightmare. A real martial artist will tell you, "Start with the mind", and many will tell you that the route to the mind is through pain and fear. As the Dog Brothers stick fighters say, "Higher consciousness through harder contact".

Don't bother teaching me what a fight is like . I've trained MMA for a few years and also I've seen many streetfights. Some of them not ending up well at all.

I know what a street fight is. And I'll tell you something. Sure you can choose what to do or not. First of all. I choose to stay cool and smart. MMA boxing or capoeira will do nothing good for you if you're a dimwit.

I try to steer clear of street fights because Ive seen a lot not ending really well.

The real life has no rules and some countries are not good places to be a bouncer. Not only speaking about Thailand.

In that instance I would choose mixed martial arts. Boxing also has rules and once you're on the ground is useless.

But yea better than karate of course.

You don't "choose" anything. When a nutter took a flying headbutt at me I flew back like a mongoose on steroids because of all the things I'd done that - at that point - had made me who I was. I then hit him with two punches and broke my pinky because of who I was. I then ended up half on a sofa with the lunatic on top of me. I grabbed his hair with my left hand and fired three full power punches into the side of his head, ending it.

None of this has anything to do with choice. When I got my head pulped into a misshapen approximation of what it had been, and blood inside my left eye - pink world - there wasn't any "choice" involved in the nightmare, or if there was it wasn't helping.

There are only two things to say on self-protection. 1) Listen to Geoff Thompson. 2) Listen to Geoff Thompson. Now I realise that strictly speaking this is only one thing, but it's such an important thing I thought it was worth mentioning twice.

I don't know what you're talking about. but I think you missed the point I was trying to make. When it comes to self defense I would use anything to defend myself. I'm not obsessed with it though but obviously there are sports or martial arts more useful than others.

learn some martial arts techniques. Karate, Taek Won Do are quite efficient when it comes to knocking someone out

Don't agree, very few Karate experts will beat an experienced street fighter, as soon as the karate mans feet leave the ground

he is vulnerable.

Don't forget there are rules in karate, but no rules in street fighting. If you want to be able to defend yourself in a fight where there are no weapons

take up boxing, easily the most effective.

In that instance I would choose mixed martial arts. Boxing also has rules and once you're on the ground is useless.

But yea better than karate of course.

It can be refuted so easily that I can't be bothered to carry on.

The British Council is probably the best choice IF your girlfriend already has at least a moderate level of spoken English fluency, is able to read and write in the language, and is planning to attend university in the UK. If she does not fulfill all of those criteria I suggest that you look elsewhere. But you certainly should look elsewhere and not try to teach her yourself, unless you are qualified to do so and are willing to destroy you romantic relationship.

Be careful of the ubiquitous shopping centre establishments, most of which aim (not all that accurately) at providing high-school kids with sufficient rudiments to get through a multiple choice test. I think that it would be better for her to start with one-to-one tuition with a Thai teacher. A Thai teacher could be found by personal recommendation from one of your girlfriend's acquaintances, at a neighbourhood shop-house type language school, or by looking on-line for small-ads - many impoverished Thai university students earn extra pocket-money in this way.

I wish you good luck, but remember that learning English is not easy (despite what Andrew Biggs says). It took you about three years before anyone other than your own mother and father could understand anything that you said..

I don't believe that's true at all, I've known people start the Beginers course at the British Council and proceed through Intermediary, starting with absolutely no English language skills whatsoever. The people in question are semi fluent in english today and have never visited the UK.

How long did it take to them to become fluent?

If you have a partner who speaks the language you want to learn it could be possible. Otherwise it takes a lot of time and effort. I'm still struggling with English and my mother Tongue is way more similar to English than thai (Latin language)

Sorry for bringing this post up but having been myself a Spanish migrant working in UK ive found that British do not show much interest about my country other than the beaches and the cheap beer we have there.

When asked where Im from most of them told me they've been there on holidays but very few of them knew anything about the culture.

I've even met people who have been living there for years and barely knew 3 or 4 words.

Does that mean that all British are as narrow minded as those I've met? I don't think so but that's my experience.

Also. In your home country. As someone mentioned, would you inquire your Chinese shop owner or the polish delivery driver about their country's lifestyle or culture? I doubt it very much. ..

It's just a matter of cultural and language barrier in my opinion. When we can't comunicate with others in a very fluent way we just keep the topics to badic stuff.

Cheers