NorthernRyland

being born in a stable doesn't make you a horse.

If you pay me 1 mil baht you can sexually assault me too.

fair enough but it's more about being polite most of the time. I always wai my landlord and various other older people whom I'm friendly with. It's reciprocal and builds social capital because when you're older they do it for you too. I think it's lovely tradition of theirs.

They're both good to know and should be adopted both ways. Ever shake a Thai persons hand? It's like a wet noodle.

Wai, bum gun and eating with a fork and spoon like a savage are my favorite parts of Thai cultures.

You can be poor, just don't bother people and loiter in popular public locations.

are they really that unaware of what driving is like here? 1 day in and there would be a serious injury or death. This is on par with an obese person thinking they could win a marathon.

Agreed however the new government may make an attempt, will they be able to pull it off? That remains to be seen. Any new governments in the future may try to tap this unexploited resource as well. It's always a looming threat but given there's no history here I agree now is not the time to panic.

What's your point? You have tons of money so why are we complaining about taxes? How about this, you pay your fair share since you like taxes and cover any pending taxes of us aseannow members. Then we'll stop complaining and bothering you.

My thoughts exactly. Some people are such pathetic chumps. Already spinning it their heads that they're doing the right thing and they think the rest of us should follow them off the cliff.

He's good on these topics because he questions the premise and authority unlike some of the browbeaten sheep posting here that believe they don't have a right to their own money.

the deal was we bring in money and spend it here and they let us use their roads and some public utilities like street lights. Very good deal for them. Everything else we pay for with imported cash. It's a much better deal than Thai's who spend already circulating money. We pay for 99% of the stuff we use anyways, we're not a burden by any stretch.

Exactly. If the police fail to do their job and you take the law into your own hands then the police will come after YOU.

still why does waiting mean you get to be corrupt if they don't pay you enough? doesn't follow. Obvious answer is they get to hold power over others and this in itself is corrupting. I don't believe you could pay people enough to not become corrupt anyways. Upright morals start at home anyways so the corruption in the Thai police form is a reflection of the Thai people themselves and how they raise their boys and view wider society. Thai's cower in front of authority but they don't respect the law in general.

The difference is those countries actually let you live there and work. Thailand makes you report your location every 90 days like a criminal and you can't own property, need permission from immigration to open bank account etc... It's entirely flipping their old arrangement on its head, which is you come and spend your money here and we keep you on a short lease.

They're horribly useless people and whatever pittance they get paid every month is surely too much considering that they do basically nothing. Police in Thailand are like a cargo cult where they dress in police uniforms which they believe makes them police, when in reality they're just corrupt lazy men that have nothing to offer society. I think it's the people themselves who are poor quality. All I want them to do is keep law and order but that's way too much to ask. They do however perform paperwork which is probably the most important part of the job. The times I've been in the police stations I see them sitting around filling out forms and other stuff. Since Thai's love to fill out paper forms maybe that's their benefit to society.

Why is it only police people make this excuse for? In other professions if you get underpaid you just quit or do a bad job, not become corrupt and start stealing. Police seem to attract the right personalities that will become corrupt naturally. Never heard of a cop in Thailand making so much money the need for corruption went away, in fact the opposite seems to be true.

ok well you're brainwashed beyond help. You can see 90% of gangs in America are black and hispanic but focus on the 10%, who are the majority of the country.

where are all the Asian immigrants in the gangs then? Where are the white rural poor? Gangs are a cultural problem and that chart clearly shows that.

America literally imports their gang crime problem. For non-Americans this is why the country has such high gun crime. Who would think importing people from crime ridden countries like Mexico with high rates of violence would have such outcomes. Shocking.

it's even stupider than that. They were literally just giving money to some women for nothing. Literally nothing, no land, no contract, no nothing. Imagine some women calls you one day and says pay me 10,000k/month for 10 years and you get some land and you agree and start sending money. That's basically what happened here it sounds like.

why is she paying rent on land she's never seen? Why would anyone ever buy land the haven't seen? Funny actually some relative of my wife bought land in Chiang Mai too which he never saw first. When he went to finally see it they discovered it was a bog and didn't have any access so basically a scam. This explains why there's so much over priced land all over Chiang Mai though.

if there's a shooting in the US and the race is not mentioned by the media you know with absolute certainty the perp was non-white.

sounds like this guy is trouble and needs to be gotten rid of entirely.

they started doing this to you too 5 months ago? Mine just started and if it goes on it's going to get boring fast.