Katia

3 hours ago, Jack19290 said:

Well I am, I'm actually diagnosed as a sexaholic ????

 

I haven't gave her any money yet.

 

Mainly because she hasn't asked for any. 

 

I am going back in 12 weeks for 10 days, she doesn't know. It's a secret, I want to see what happens during these 12 weeks.

Soooo... she's not allowed to sleep with other men, but you're allowed to sleep with other women?

*Makes popcorn and waits*

On 2/27/2019 at 12:18 AM, Mavideol said:

... but at least he should speak the language of the country where's operating...logic applies

I would imagine it would be more important to speak the language of the people he's leading on tours?

16 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Tour guide is a reserved occupation, so they must assume not being able to speak Thai meant the guide wasn't Thai. But you never know...

 

But if he had a legal license, then someone must have issued it to him, which means at one point he was deemed eligible?  If being able to speak Thai is a prerequisite for getting one of these licenses, is that not tested at time of application?  Are they going to also arrest the person who granted the license, if it wasn't supposed to be given to him?

47 minutes ago, maxcorrigan said:

Reminds me of signs i used to see in Australia mid 60s if you see a snake on the road/track slow down go over it and check in rearview mirror to make sure it is still there, apparently they can roll and flick up into the car undercarriage and finish up in the boot of the car, ready to give you a nice surprise next time you open your boot!

Would not surprise me in the slightest... too many times I have heard stories of things in Australia freaky enough to keep me up at night, lol.  And then people can't imagine why it's not high on my priority list of places to visit...

5 minutes ago, yogavnture said:

i saw a huge python on ko tao a couple of years ago. but how would one get thier?  its an island?  maybe it is eating all the cursed tourists that go missing thier?

Possibly a former pet.  This is a problem in places in the U.S.-- Florida is one I keep hearing about.  People get a snake or alligator, when it gets too big (because they didn't do their homework ahead of time...), they flush it or let it go, and there it is in the wild (where it can cause problems if it's not a native species).

On 2/24/2019 at 11:03 PM, LivinLOS said:

All of that is user defined. 

Theres a simple checkbox.. new used reconditioned etc.. 

 

Theres also a payment option.. auction, auction with buy it now, fixed. 

 

Baffling how people can struggle with such simple things. 

 

And has it always been that way?  Has the filter always actually worked?  Have people actually categorized stuff correctly?  Because those are things I see even commercial websites struggle with... it's why I rarely use stores' filters.

I wouldn't call it a "struggle," though maybe you put more worry into that sort of stuff.  At any rate, you like eBay?  Great.  Keep using it.  I don't, so I don't.  Not that hard.

5 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

Advice is advice, policy is policy. If I as an untrained civilian am rendering aid to a crash victim, the first cop on the scene will do nothing except secure the scene. The exception being heart attacks, where many police cars do contain defibs and traumatic bleeding, where the cops will supply and assist in bleeding control.

 

But cops are not there to render first aid.

That's all well and good, but the point is still that he's doing neither.  If he ought to be "securing the scene" rather than giving first aid, then maybe he'd better be doing that, not standing there paying no attention to his surroundings.

1 hour ago, Nyezhov said:

Maybe they are, maybe they arent, but in the USA, cops do not render anything other than life or death treatment in the absence of anyone else. The cops job is to secure the scene, if someone is rendering aid, great, easier to secure.....

 

 

Advice to CPR-trained civilians in the West is to render aid until someone more qualified shows up.  Usually first responders fit the bill, unless the civilian is in some sort of medical profession.  Again, in the West at least, I would expect that police officers would receive better training than schoolkids.

17 hours ago, indepth said:

Any opportunities to thai bash, fools will  take it. What exactly would you expect to cop do? Why stay here. If anything, looks to me as if he is watching the traffic to keep the couple safe. I would use stronger words but would get banned. 

Are Thai police not trained in first-aid as they are in the West?  If so, seems to me he should have taken over from a civilian.  If not, sad that schoolkids receive more first-aid training than first responders who conceivably may be the first on a scene and should be able to render aid.

And if he wants to do something about the traffic, maybe he could be directing it away from the accident, in a place where motorists can actually see him, rather than standing on the side of the road behind a bunch of crashed motorbikes and other people, and to the side of the accident (instead of where he should be, on the oncoming-traffic side to direct them).

8 minutes ago, Liverpudlian said:

A tad annoying with the same pic running thru the thread.

Yes.  PSA to everyone: you can quote a post that has a picture, without including the picture in the quote.  Few things more annoying than having the same picture (or, worse, string of pictures, if the post being quoted contains more than one) cascading down a thread-- especially if the reply is a sentence or two long, so the screen has 6 inches of quoted photo(s) and half a centimeter of text in the actual reply.  If you are replying to the words in the post, quote just the words.  If there is not a good reason to include the picture in your reply, delete it.

On 2/8/2019 at 10:31 PM, jackdd said:

Many aspects of the RTGS don't make sense, so when a foreigner reads this Thais will often not understand what they say. For me personally the most annoying one is ก = k

If i pronounce transliterated words as if they were German, to pronounciation is often closer to the Thai pronounciation than if i pronounce it in an english way.

So this makes me wonder:

Was the purpose of the RTGS to allow people who can't read Thai to pronounce Thai correctly at all? Maybe this was never its purpose and people expect it to be something which it was never designed for

If so, as which language is this supposed to be read? I'm quite sure it's not english, so which one is it? Latin maybe?

Yes.  This has always killed me.  English transliteration of Thai words has always seemed to me to have the flavor of someone who knows just enough Thai to be dangerous...  they know that "ส" makes an S sound, but don't know enough to know that that's *only at the beginning of a syllable,* so you get things like "sawas dee."  Etc.

It's *not* would I would expect from people who are transliterating a language they are fluent in, their first language, the language of the nation they live in!  By the time I'd been studying Thai for more than about half an hour, I knew enough for these things to confuse me.

It's like they're setting people up to fail.  Especially when Thais often don't understand this pronunciation (or, pretend not to-- a coworker was once mad about a taxi driver she asked to take her to "Sukhumvit" road.  He didn't understand, didn't understand.  Finally she rolled her eyes: "Sukhumwit."  Ah, then he got it.  OTOH, who knows-- there was the conversation I had with the guy at the concession stand of the movie theater, asked him in Thai what sizes of soda (SO-da) they had.  Blank looks, confused indicating of my already-present container of popcorn... then a light goes on my head.  "So-DAAAA," I say with a Thai accent.  AHA!  His eyes light up and then all is well.  {Lucky for him that I gave up that regional word "pop" years ago...!})

On 2/11/2019 at 9:55 PM, Oxx said:

This is all missing the point.  The simple explanation is that these are loan words and the transcription reflects the pronunciation/spelling in the original language.

 

Take the case of วชิรา.  This is Sanskrit word वज्र (vájra), referring to a weapon used for symbolic and ritual purposes.  It is particularly associated with the god Indra.  It is also the symbol of Vajrayana, a major branch of Buddhism.

 

ภูมิ, transcribed BHUMI is similar.  It comes from the Sanskrit भूमि (bhūmi.  In IPA /bʱúː.mi/).

I get this-- loanwords are often this way, no matter the language of origin (in fact, often when I see words with weird silent letters, this is my first indication that it's a loanword).  BUT, shouldn't the transcription to English pronunciation still follow the Thai pronunciation?  After all, while there may be reason to spell it in Thai script in a way that reflects the word's original spelling in its original language, that doesn't mean that's necessarily the way it's pronounced in Thai, so why should the original spelling follow through yet another translation to English script?  What does that accomplish?  The translation into Thai script still reflects the "correct" "Thai" way to say the word.  The translation into Latin characters does not, and I'd be hard-pressed to argue that there is some sort of "correct Western-language pronunciation" of any of these words that these transliterations accomplish.

On 2/9/2019 at 12:46 AM, sfokevin said:

Sadly here in Thailand I am Kewin most of the time... 

You think that's bad?  How about the time at the 25 Degrees when I ordered the veggie burger... and the waitress repeated it several times to make sure she had it right. 

My coworker couldn't even wait until the waitress had gone out of earshot to crack up...

On 2/9/2019 at 8:34 PM, tgeezer said:

sfokevin. Kewin answers my question, when a Thai sees v they read ว in spite of there being no help provided in the RTGS !

I always assumed it was more a case of, "it's not a sound that's native to their language, hence it's not native to their tongue and hard for them to pronounce."  I've seen this, for example, the one or two times a Thai friend has learned a new word in English that has a V in it.  She has to try it out carefully a couple times to get her mouth to do it.

On 2/13/2019 at 7:02 AM, tifino said:

Appen (for apple, which is even transliterated in the book, with the 'n' not 'l') is still my favorite one to see them get around.

No, my favorite is that the shortened form of the nickname "Apple" in spelled in English "Ple" but still pronounced in Thai as "Pun."  ????

9 hours ago, Ulic said:

In North America 10kg, most airlines here 7kg, this company 5kg. Nothing to do with safety. Everything to do with forcing passengers to check luggage at extra cost (although this time done at no charge). That said when you fly an LCC you have extreme limits/rules.

Seems to be the case... if it was about safety, it wouldn't be only the budget airlines that do it.  If it was about safety, it wouldn't have only become a "thing" right around the time of the beginning of airlines' nickel-and-diming... (unless it was around more than ten years ago and I just didn't hear of it).

22 hours ago, sweatalot said:

I have been working with a lot of dying humans - they all knew.

It is not simply telling the truth or lying - there is a third way: withholding the truth until it is requested, and there is a difference between offering a fatal truth - or force it on someone

Patients sometimes are not ready to hear the truth. And you don't know. Then it could be a good idea to start slowly, giving them a piece of truth that would make them ask for more or just the full truth. If they don't ask I'd leave it this way. May be next time they will be ready. I don't think it is a good idea to force the truth on someone who does not want to know. But always be ready to tell the truth when it is wanted. If you want to find out you could start with a question "what do you think how your ailment will go on?" 

Or maybe they won't be "ready to hear the truth" until suddenly they're at the pearly gates and are wondering W T F* happened...  A doctor can "force the truth" on someone, or reality can do it.  This isn't like not telling your friend their spouse is cheating because they'd rather turn a blind eye and it can go on forever... with terminal illnesses, eventually the truth is going to rear its ugly head; the question is just whether you're going to spend the rest of your time in denial and tiptoeing around the issue and leave a lot of unfinished business behind, or be honest with yourself and your family/friends, accept their support, spend as much quality time with them as you can, and get your affairs in order as much as you can.

*(oh hi TV, we talk about prostitution and racism here and get in all sorts of nasty arguments, but I can't type "W T F" without it being deleted like we're a kindergarten?  Give me a break.)

I was not amused near the end for my mom when it seems a few medical people told ME what was going on and not my mom.  I suppose maybe they thought it might be easier for her to hear from me?  Wasn't easier for me to deliver, though...  And yes, I know, a mature person should be able to do it, but, still.  They're the doctor.  That was up there with a supervisor I used to have who, whenever he needed to tell me I screwed up, would get one of my coworkers to do it... guess he thought I might take it easier coming from "not an authority figure" but in reality it just pissed me off that he both wouldn't do his job *and* got coworkers involved in things that weren't their business (and shouldn't have to be *their* job).

Bangkokian Museum.  Very pretty.  And if Thai-style houses are your thing, Suan Pakkad Palace and Jim Thompson's house (yes tourist attraction, but quite pretty and I absolutely love a couple of the Buddha statues there).

On Bang Krachao there's the Siamese Fighting Fish Gallery, with lots of information about the fish and their lifestyle (when they're not confined to tiny bowls...)

Wondering what the medical reasoning for this is...

Usually I can take it or leave it... if you hand it to me, I'll eat it, but I won't expend a ton of effort to eat any.

BUT.  Once my friend's mom gave us some, and... wow.  I don't know what type it was, but it was absolutely fab.  I don't know if she's just good at choosing them, or it was an especially-good variety. 

3 hours ago, Aussieroaming said:

I live right at a BTS stop, so can be on a BTS train in about 5 minutes from leaving my condo, however I always catch a taxi to the airport as its a hassle with multiple baggage on the BTS and then hot waiting for the train transfer, which isnt how I like to start a trip O/S. Its only a 30 - 40 minute journey by taxi on a good day to Swampy, but interminable time on a bad day. I always aim to leave home at least 4 hours before my flight. I soak up any extra time in the lounge.

Yes, I've never taken ARL with loads of luggage... I used it a couple of times when meeting at the airport with a friend who had a long layover, and it's usually pretty packed just with people; I wouldn't fancy using it with even a small amount of luggage.

I'm lucky that I've never hit bad traffic on the way, but I too aim to be *at* the airport three hours before my flight, not leaving home at that time.

Marriage and money are two different things.  Not sure why you think a woman would stop contributing as soon as she gets married, whereas if you just have an unmarried relationship, she won't?

if you want a woman who will pay her own way, then find one.  The problem  is that plenty of men don't want a woman who does because it's allegedly too "independent" and "unfeminine," but then they sure hate that she expects them to pay for everything and call her a "gold digger."  You need to choose which one you want.  "Both" and "neither" are not options.  Either go in with the expectation that she will contribute to the household, or that you will support her.

10 hours ago, Franck60 said:

 I see that many foreigners end up a bit confused, uncomfortable or “feeling trapped” because of cultural differences ... with the question of the money in the middle. I thought ... “It may be reasonable not to commit too far too soon ...”.
 

If you're already certain there are going to be prohibitive cultural differences, why bother at all?

You already know the answer... don't stay.  Mind you, this isn't one of those snippy "well if you don't like it here, you can leave!" posts, but... you don't, and you can.  You're not happy, in any way.  The things people consider positives about Thailand don't interest you, and you can't stand the negatives.  You're so miserable your health is going to hell.

Thailand is not the place for you.  That's fine.  People are different (frankly, to me I'd love it to be able to go somewhere and not be treated like an oddity or have to constantly explain to people and answer their questions just because I was a foreigner, but your social preferences are different and to you it sucks).

Yes, relationships end because the people in them want something different out of life.  Trust me, I know-- I've done it twice.  Sometimes you both have to do what is best for you, and what's best for each of you might not be the same thing.  It has nothing to do with how much you might love each other.  Unlike others, I don't expect her to give up her life and family just because you're not happy.  (I also don't expect you to give up your happiness to remain with her.)  Both will only lead to resentment for someone.

As far as the business, can she buy you out?

There are many places in the world, if you don't want to go back to your country of origin.  You suggest that you got along just fine in some of them.  Since you know there are places out there better suited to you than Thailand, it doesn't seem there's much to keep you in Thailand.