NorthernRyland

Assimilation is myth. America is starkly divided along racial and ethic lines and the numbers are so great now they've formed a coalition with immigrants (except the evil racist white South African immigrants) against the original American population. The majority of blacks will align with the new coalition just like the mayor of L.A. All of this was totally predictable and the reason why multicultural societies can not exist for long.

the land is a pre-marital asset I think so it belongs to her. In a marriage though your money is entangled. If she gets 10MB then the man can give her less of his own money as she doesn't need it now. Of course this will cause problems and could be marriage ending but it's a game two can play.

Imagine how annoying you'd have to be to make a Thai person that mad.

Half of Thai culture is very lovely but the other half is mental.

Do you need the money? if not then probably carry on with your original arrangement and let her do whatever. It's certainly not nice though so that's got to hurt a little.

Probably her idea all along was to get a piece of his pension and housing then help take care of him as he's much older than she is I believe. It makes sense from her original goals to not share her money with him. That was never the plan I'm sure. I think it's understandable under the terms of that particular relationship. It's harsh but that's the reality is it not?

No, I understand you, THEY don't. I've told them to reduce the price and get it sold but they can't agree on the terms. The dad is 82, doesn't need 4 Rai and could use the cash. The price they set land for in CM (Mae Jo is way north outside the city even) makes it only viable for a developer who is going to build a housing project. 25MB would be the starting point then they need to invest 10s of millions more for houses. That's a tiny market they now have. It's never going to sell and the dad is going to die eventually then my wife and sister will have to fight it out in court or something or they'll probably sit on it until they both die too and they have no children. It's a disastrous financial error if you ask me. Could be used for some productive investments instead.

yeah but that's what rational people think and therein lies the problem.

seems every Thai person is sitting on a massive fortune of land. They're all filthy rich. My wife's dad (82 now) has 4 Rai in Mae Jo and she say it's worth 25MB. They can't sell it now because they can't find a buyer and blah blah blah but it's totally worth 25MB.

Well then maybe I'm not her first choice, but she's likely not my first choice either. 🙂

They'll find a way to kill themselves even with helmets. You can't fix stupid.

not at all, there's good hard working family women there.

Those girls don't do casual dating and are very insular in their communities. If you want to get involved with them expect to get married and have children.

You can drive like a total dick in Thailand and no one (not even the police) will say or do anything. That's part of how they've cultivated their culture of dangerous driving.

Don't care, not cutting off my foreskin for any woman.

Nah you really should apologize to the people as soon as possible so they're not left wondering what the hell just happened. I would feel so bad and guilty if I just walked away like that.

Indeed. Even so 7000 non-gay drug users getting HIV out of 350 million is insanely low. Looking for stats to compare by. It's about the same as hand gun homicides? That's lower than I thought. A gay man has 3x higher chance to get HIV then be a homicide victim by hand gun. How's that for a stat. 😂

I'm seeing a massive increase in dodgy looking tourists in Chiang Mai. Are they getting pushed out of other areas? Really sad to these people are coming to Chiang Mai now. Looks like it was biker gang loser. Obviously this guy needs some jail time.

90? it says 67 there right? I'm very skeptical of CDC so I'm curious if gay men have overlapped into some of the other categories.

I believe this. So many dodgy stairs with no rails and landings too short to put a full foot on. Safety is simply not a strong priority in Thailand.

Look at that link I posted about. A quote: " HIV affects some groups more than others. Social and structural issues—such as HIV stigma, homophobia, discrimination, poverty, and limited access to high-quality health care—influence health outcomes and continue to drive inequities. " Before presenting the data they feel the need to do damage control. People probably know not to have unprotected butt sex with poor, dirty looking men but this is reenforcing a "stigma" according to the propagandist at the CDC.

only 7,000 HIV infections in the US in 2022??? That's in a population of 350 million. That's basically nothing even. You have probably have a great chance to die from a hammer falling on your head. https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/data-research/facts-stats/index.html

yes I never heard that before. I assumed it was something trans. Also that one woman in the interview called the Arab a Farang. I'm offended they can't tell the difference.

oh I see, yes you're correct. Please disregard.

@MalcolmB PS, translate that text. It's an English forum. They'll probably delete the post otherwise.