NorthernRyland

I only ever lived in Colorado and South Carolina so I have a very narrow view of the whole country. Thanks for sharing.

I'm doing my annual trip back to Boulder Colorado, Libtard USA to visit family and do outdoor sports. The other day I had on a shirt which was a mountain range with the American flag over it and was made for a local race right here in Colorado. When my Mom saw the shirt she asked if I was a Republican now (I'm not). The rainbow flag here out numbers the American flag at least 100 to 1. Not even joking, if you proposed a law that flying the America flag was illegal some 10-20% of Democrats would vote for it. Hot take, but in 2024 I don't see Democrats as Americans anymore, the civil is really that bad. Please don't accuse me of being a Republican or whatever, I'm not, these are just my observations.

maybe they lost face, like you were raising their kids for them or something? seems crazy but I think Thai men can actually be that petty and jealous.

This begs the question, how are the Thai's dealing with all these millions of Indians? All indication is they don't like Indians much and would avoid traveling to India except as a measure of last resort. Frankly India appears from the outside like a global embarrassment and Thai people are aware too. Yes, I've seen some nice areas in Mumbai etc... but those are the minority. No idea where the bulk of the Indian tourists are coming from. Taiwan however is another matter. Looks like a nicer country than Thailand in many regards and they seem well respected by the Thai's. My wife wants me to visit Taiwan with here since she want once and said it was great and I'd probably like it better than Thailand. 🙂

Can't speak for all Asians but Chinese and Indians are two of the biggest chest thumping nationalists you could ever met. The pride they have for their countries is incredible. By comparison Europeans don't seem to care much about their countries at all.

come on we're that bad? Ok maybe we are but have you seen the average Thai man out there, especially in rural areas? No offense but they're not looking so great either. The women who cleans our house, sweetest women in the world, had her husband choke her last year. Lots of alcohol and abuse going on out there so the bar isn't really that high in many cases.

yeah on second thought actually keep the Thai women off or the forum would get shut down and we'd all be deported.

I can think of only one woman on the forum and she's not even Thai. I told my wife to make an account and start some arguments with us but she just laughed at the idea. Anyone else here should do the same. Personally I'd like to have some Thai women here to defend their honor against us all lousy Farangs besmirching their good name.

"do that dick hang low if I do I want some more, can you shove it in my guts can I put it in my throat" etc.. etc... but the "I love dick" shirt is pretty much all you need to know.

I think she explains it the best.

Money aside I hear from Thai women that Thai men take better care of them but the flip is side is massive rates of infidelity. The western man in 2024 is less likely to be pampering a woman but more stable and far less prone to infidelity. Usually the Thai woman has had a bad experience with Thai men and decides to look elsewhere as a last ditch effort. I think all things being equal most of them would prefer a Thai man that understands them better and can speak their language. The other big factor is if the woman wants to live abroad and experience life outside of Thai culture. In this case the foreigner is an imperative for them.

I'm not saying anything about the practice just that it doesn't give the impression that this is a culture that doesn't value women, indeed the opposite. Contrast that with India where the family needs to the pay the man to marry the women. That tells me the women are burden that need to be gotten rid of.

Really? You have to literally pay money to marry these women. There's quite a sense of entitlement around them too as to how much they think they're worth.

More flippity floppity from the hub of flip flops. We can only imagine what tomorrow will bring. Will it be a flip, or a flop?

Liam Michael Ross and Randall Owen Johnson, two men originating from the British Isles separated by two different oceans and hundreds of years only to be reunited in Thailand to engage in mortal combat and be killed. Tragic really to think they could have been neighbors 500 years ago.

This is rich because academic title seeking is associated with low IQ. Really makes you think.

You know what happened? During COVID there was some corruption and they allowed these new shops to be built along side the road by the river leading up to Pong Yaeng. Then the really killer was they cleared out all the "illegal" homestay's off Mon Cham and in their place came a new set of higher end resorts and that's drawn huge crowds. I used to bike up Mon Cham weekly when I had the house in Pong Yang/Mae Rim and Mon Cham had nothing up there besides some fields and a coffee shop or so. It's a dramatic change. Pong Yang is rapidly developing and some large houses are getting built on the mountains. It should be overrun in 10 years or so. 😕 Luckily Samoeng is far too boring so I hardly see any tourists except for people driving through from the long way to Pai but we'll see what happens in the future. Until I'm staying there and enjoy the real northern Thailand lifestyle. 🙂

I rented a little cabin across the street when they were building those in 2013 or so and now I have a house in Samoeng so I drive/cycle past that area often. It must be a scam, no one is ever there, no lights on ever. I watched them lower the price multiple over 10 years too and even though they took the signs down I'm incredulous they're actually inhabited. Is it just me or are "Bangkokians" at the heart of every property bubble in Thailand? I've heard countless times "all the land was bought by Bangkok people" and in their wake vacant properties with ridiculous price tags. The rich get richer I guess.

Only Asian women are doing slightly OK. 50% of black and hispanic women are obese. FFS.

The deeper question we all must ask ourselves, how can you be wrong or right in a country with no clear rules? I didn't file for many years and it only mattered when the IO decided it did. If they decide again it's not needed I'll stop filing. So the answer seems to be do nothing unless the IO says otherwise, and always do what they say regardless of the so-called "rules". TIT.

Not practical, no one is doing this for good reason. Cycling has a certain degree of risk involved everyone should be aware of. Not sure if this was a real accident or a tourist who thought Thai's will follow the rules of the road. So many ways to die here if you don't know how Thai's drive and how to navigate their misbehaving.

Instead of focusing on the fringe of society it's better to look at the medium and what is normal.

These were on the market starting at 25mil and went to down to 23 or something over the course of 10 years. I think they sold but I've never seen a light turned on so it may be just another investment scam. I don't know the size of that but it's a complete ripoff at 25 million. Property developers are scum. Anywhere they operate will be wrecked.

Imagine the levels of corruption present for this to happen. Doing a simple perimeter check to ensure the structure is within the bounds of the property is the absolute minimum a local government could do to regulate things. Surely the developers just built on the national forest, paid off the local officials and left the problem to the unsuspecting purchaser.

How about the popular deep chicken tendons? It's like chewing an old rubber band dipped in oil. Yummy!