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On 5/5/2021 at 7:22 PM, Sheryl said:

Do not delay, the pins and needles in your feet suggest nerve compression which needs to be relieved to avoid permanent nerve damage.

Ditto that. @userabcd I ignored pain in my upper back, shoulders and neck for over a decade because multiple successive doctors failed to give me a proper diagnosis, until it got so bad I wound up on IV Tramadol at my social security hospital. Turns out I have Scoliosis (incredible that it was missed, gobsmacking actually) and the situation is manageable in the long term, but it's inevitable it will give me more problems as I get older.

2 hours ago, Whale said:

It's perfectly OK to cry. Since turning 60 I do in most movies. It's the bioligical changes in men's bodies as they age. 

I am man enough to admit it, am sure there are others here who feel its more manly to hold back.

 

Hey ho. 

Pfft, I blubbed like there's no tomorrow at the Church dream scene in The Revenant.

What I'm saying is, a lot of these people are making themselves cry on camera, 'look at me and my emotion'. It's cobblers.

Just now, Surelynot said:

Not too sure everyone has your backbone and can actually choose to blubber or not blubber.........

I think you're probably right about that.

I come from a stiff upper lip kind of background. You can empahise without blubbering on the telly, although I'm not denying anyone the right to blubber on the telly, if that's how they want to empathise.

@Pilotman I have this since childhood (in my 50s now) and it comes and goes in phases. Sometimes it happens every night, sometimes I'll go months without it. Much of it is anxiety related. A British GP described it to me once in Hypnopompic and Hypnagogic terms (yes, they're real words). Basically I'll wake up in the night, sometimes in a state of paralysis, sometimes lucid and able to control my movements, but still in a sleep (a kind of adult night terror). Often I will be convinced I am on the edge of death and screaming in terror.

My wife and kids have got used to it now. It's a very unpleasant experience, but I can assure you, there is no danger to your health. PM me if you want to talk more, privately.

I think this is largely an American cultural import, and this has been a trend in the UK for a long time. For example, in the 80s, a lot of British started using Australian style word inflections because everyone was watching Neighbours. So, you see a disaster like a mass shooting, or something similar in the US news, and someone is talking to a reporter blubbering away on camera, even though they had no connection to anyone involved in the disaster. Always makes me chuckle.

Soi dogs make a lot of noise. Keep walking, they won't bite.

3 minutes ago, DBath said:

going to the endodontist for root canals and sticking a screwdriver in my ear. 

There is a point and a purpose in going through root canal treatment. There is no point to sticking a screwdriver in your ear.

On 5/3/2021 at 9:02 AM, WineOh said:

I find it degenerates good willed foreigners and makes us feel like criminals under constant surveillance.

Like we are Aliens from another planet that need quarantining.

 

That'll be TM.30 that does that. 90 day reporting on the other hand is just pointless for everyone involved. I've been doing it for decades, just to let them know absolutely nothing has changed. Some might find it a minor inconvenience, but regardless, what's the damn point (rhetorical, there is no need to answer, I know it's pointless). What really sticks in my craw is being fined for forgetting to tell them that absolutely nothing has changed.

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LOL! This is like starting a poll asking "are you happy with herpes?" ????

I have both subtypes, where can I vote?

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Now I have an agent who takes care of everything for me... it is a pleasure. 

That's like saying it's pleasurable to pay a stranger to do something pointless for you, like shaking a stick at the sky. I guess if you don't have the time or inclination to go shake a stick at the sky, you could indeed just pay someone to do that.

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Strange country this, they allow criminals in government to run the place but you want people with maybe a minor infraction banned from entering the country full stop ? ????

I'm pretty sure foreigners in Thai prisons are exempted from 90 day reporting. Amazing Thailand right?

20 hours ago, expatjustice said:

Is 169 Baht seriously that important? 

 

Come on...

Well in a country where you can stay drunk 24/7 for a few hundred Baht per day, I guess it only matters if you're Leaving Las Vegas.

36 minutes ago, soi3eddie said:

No! If by foreigners the OP means farangs then whilst we might learn Thai language, learn Thai customs, embrace culture and religious beliefs we will always think for ourselves and question things. The last two are something very few Thais could ever do as they have been conditioned otherwise. 

 

I used to think like you, but I had to adjust my general opinion the more young Thais I got to know. Further, last year we saw stuff going on in Bangkok that was unimaginable until it actually happened, even encouraged by their parents, in spite of their so called conditioning. There comes a point at which one must admit to oneself that one's ideas about the way Thais think is just wrong. Over the years, boy did I get it wrong, a LOT.

Thais tend to think all farangs love jesus and go to church. You're no better if you think Thais wonder around in Thai fisherman pants when they go to the office. I once saw amiddle aged farang walk into the Emprorium on Sukhumvit in fisherman pants on the bottom and a smart western style shirt on top. This is harmless and funny. The security guards could barely control themselves. Some people try too hard, some people don't try hard enough. Sometimes Thais will hate you for not trying at all, probably with good reason.

People like me, and others in this topic, are changing Thailand. Our children think differently, question things.  The world moves on, Thailand included.

On 4/25/2021 at 5:29 PM, spidermike007 said:

Even if we are married into a Thai family, we will always be considered a farang. I asked my wife the other day why she uses that word. She said it is because I am white, because I come from a great country, and she is proud of that. 

My staff call me Khun Led lolly Yellow Lolly. My wife calls me Led Lolly Yellow Lolly. If any contractors come here are refer to me as 'The Farang' even though they know my name and they've been told they can use it, they never work here again.

Even our local Kerry Express drivers call me Khun Led Lolly Yellow Lolly. I have a name and I find it disrespectful if it is not used accordingly. Don't get me wrong, I don't think there is any ill intent or racism in their use of the term, but you have a name, right?

On 4/23/2021 at 10:06 AM, Pilotman said:

No, further more, I'm not at all sure why anyone would want to fully integrate/assimilate and in effect, reject their own heritage. They are not, or should not be, mutually exclusive. That is why I cannot understand those who go for Thai citizenship. 

I've seen this attitude before from a friend in Bangkok. He's been here something like 30 years working for a multinational, I've been here something like 20. Even after 30 years he only applied for his first one year extension recently and only because of Covid. Yet, he poo poos my citizenship application and, like you, states that he doesn't understand why some one would want that. So I'll explain it, from my perspective. . .

My wife and kids are all British/Thai dual nationals. When we lived in the UK, it was just a natural progression for them to become British at the time, even though ultimately we are unlikely to ever return there. From my point of view, that was an act of securing my family unit. Nothing is more important than securing the family and keeping it together right? (rhet)
Here in Thailand, I analysed all the pros and cons. Bottom line is there are no cons. . . So I don't understand that if someone qualifies for Thai citizenship, why someone WOULDN'T go for it. On the one hand it secures your future legal status. On the other, it's an act of convenience, with one single act you swipe away all the preposterous immigration nonsense, and never have to go there and deal with them again. So you tell me actually, why not? I'm still British, although I have no conecpt of British pop-culture any more, it's been too long. I don't even watch the BBC much any more, except for HIGNFY, this is my weekly treat with a frosty beer. I don't feel I'm abandoning my heritage (for what that's worth).

Is it because you feel you become 'subjugate' to 'someone'? because you can be sure that even as a non-Thai, you already are. Most Thais I know ask me why it took so long to start the process. Indeed, why?

On 4/23/2021 at 1:17 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

In over 20 years of living in Thailand I experienced two farang guys who assimilated.

One of them lived here permanently. He went regular out with other Thai guys to drink and visit Thai brothels. As far as I know he didn't mix much with farangs, only for work.

And the other guy is here part time and part time in Europe. When he is in Thailand then he lives in a Thai area far away from any typical farang area. Sometimes he visits Phuket and as far as I know he goes there only to Phuket town. Not many farangs behave like that.

 

Personally I am often enough in fresh markets in Bangkok were I very seldom see any other farang. I feel comfortable there and I don't really notice anymore that I am the only farang around. But am I integrated and one of them? No!

 

I also think it's great for most of us that we are not integrated. Because that means we are not part of the Thai hierarchy. We can do lots of things Thais can't do or wouldn't do. We get away with all those "crazy farang" behavior. I like that. It makes life easy and uncomplicated.

 

 

I don't know how similar or dissimilar I am to other white trash in Thailand. I have a handful of farang friends, I could count them on a single hand, that I only see in person maybe once every 2 or 3 years. One of them is posting in this topic ('ello mate!). I have a couple of Thai mates that I know I could rely on in a pinch, I work with one of them. I drink with him but he knows his limit whereas I don't. I speak Thai but I don't use it much, my family speak fluent Ingrish, so meh. . . I live pretty much as I would had I continued living in the UK. I prefer to avoid a$#holes, the majority of whiteys here look like people I'd prefer to avoid.

I also used to have a Japanese mate I lost touch with, also a poster here, that lived in Thailand on annual extensions for decades, even though he's a Thai citizen. Go figure. This is just beyond my comprehension, why someone would make life so difficult for themselves. I think for most that answer 'no', even though they lived here for decades, are probably already fully integrated, but they don't want to be, and try to find excuses, such as "it's not possible" in order to try and paper over their own baseless preconceptions. Get your head around that I guess.

22 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

"...the majority of women under 40 are sex workers".

Chuvit did not say anything like that, those are your words.

Actually it's you quoting me out of context. I know precisely what he said, and Thai demographics are readily available to make a comparison. I'm paraphrasing Charles Dilke (among others) that "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.". Chewit made up the figure and it's his own speculation. I'm saying I don't agree with it. While I was no angel before I got married, the suggestion that such a high proportion of Thai women are sex workers simply does not reflect my own experience of Thai women. These numbers are quoted, people pickup the quotes and run with them, even though they have no basis in reality. Why the world thinks all Thai women are whores and I live in Thailand because I'm a peadophile, right?

1 hour ago, Tropicalevo said:

This man will never be a real politician here. He talks too much truth.

Have you actually considered his claim, at all? If what he says is the truth, then off the top of my head, the majority of women under 40 are sex workers, this is not factoring in the ugly fuglies that no one would pay to poke. It's nonsense. I've known it was nonsense after some christian missionary group decades ago claimed there were 500,000 sex workers in Thailand and I did the maths on that and quickly realised it didn't add up, unless of course, you can get your head around missionary groups are just fundraising back home.

Is this what we colloquially call fake news?

3 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

as soon as the air starts to clear and I think I am going to be able to breath fresh air once again, the villages start racking up the leaves and burning them,

They have to be wet leaves right. Dry leaves don't make enough smoke. Tonight's sunset, suck it up folks...

On 3/1/2021 at 3:07 PM, darksidedog said:

There never are and never have been.

If the cops, whose duty it is to uphold the law could get out there and actually stop every speeding driver and red light runner they might start to get somewhere. All the meaningless chat in the world will do absolutely zero, but it is all I have ever seen in my many years here. Sadly I suspect the 2022 and 2027 numbers will remain fairly in line with what we see now.

I honestly think there are good cops out there that want to do better but they're failed by the system.

On 3/1/2021 at 4:13 PM, Kwasaki said:

Oh dear another long thread. ????

Just doing my bit, and I know no one will ever read my post.

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So are we having the problem because somebody wants to save money ?

Basically, yes. The fact it's been with us for weeks (or more?) indicates either cluelessness, or indifference.

Boarding an aircraft is a private matter with the airline you can still leave and enter even without a passport, legally. Immigration will wag their finger at you, but they can't stop you... And by the way, a passport IS a right, even though government will try to extend it to you as a 'privilege'. Why the Shamima Begum case is so interesting. If we assume she was registered British as a child, the UK government will almost certainly lose the case (naturalisation and registration are DIFFERENT).