Oleg57

1 minute ago, ilostmypassword said:

Yes, we have seen how much evidence elsewhere that Trump plays the nice cop and Senate the bad cops. Approximately 0%.  But in this case the raging twitterer-in-chief has managed to display great self restraint?

Trump never was self-restrained. For better or for worse. Political correctness is fascism. What about free speech? Free-speech, free-market, damn the welfare state, make America great again.

Just now, binjalin said:

Millions?  well you are a Trump supporter, anti-feminist, anti-left and anti-Dem  (but Craig likes you) so what can we believe?

My own great-great-father and great-great-mother have been killed for being hardworking and successful peasants. In organized by Russians Holodomor millions of Ukrainians perished. Political repressions, deportations, GULAG, ect. - are the history.

And I am a Trump supporter, conservative Christian, and anti-feminist. All-right.

3 minutes ago, ilostmypassword said:

And what has he done to Russia? He has questioned the US commitment to Nato. Do you think that pleased Poland and the Baltic States? So what are his doings in relation to Russia?

you just wait. it is a game of nice and hard cops. trump plays a nice cop, senate plays a hard one. both are in the same team and with the same goals.

8 minutes ago, binjalin said:

I too love Ukraine Oleg and had many a date there in Kiev (before the orange revolution) but Ukraine has always been a part of Mother Russia (until fairly recently)even dating back to Kolchaks time. Millions of Russians live there but this is OFF-TOPIC it would make a great thread on it's own. 

There is no Mother Russia. Soviet Union was and present Russia is a concentration camp wherein people have no rights at all. Ukraine was occupied and millions were killed by Russians. Never trust Russians. They are good in betrayal, meanness and aggression to other nations.

Just now, craigt3365 said:

You mean a very long post where just one sentence says that?  What about the rest of the post?  Are you ignoring that?  Shows how you read things.

Guys, Trump is the American president and there is his team, There is Congress, government and Senate. Trump is sometimes just a talking head. Follow his doings, not talking. Anyway, America has to other way but to be great again or go to hell with Democrats, leftists and feminists as leaders.

Just now, ilostmypassword said:

Do you understand that Trump wants friendlier relations with Russian, proposed cooperating with Russia about Cyberterror, at one point questioned whether Russia had even invaded the Ukraine, and still has not said one unkind word about Putin?

I hope it is a game not to provoke a dangerous person to use nuclear weapons. As I said deep sanctions and even a blockage of financial an economical relations  have to be a tool to stop Russia. The same to North Korea.

46 minutes ago, craigt3365 said:

Sadly, I've met several who believe the BS on Russia Today.  They 100% believe it.  Unreal.

 

Yes, the #1 problem in Ukraine is corruption.  Without, they'd be in a different place now.  Without an ex-PM hiding in Russia.

Communists in Ukraine made a coalition with organized criminals and they are yet in power in Ukraine. The so-called president of Ukraine is a thief and a son of local mafioso of Soviet times. He is not a legitimate president. He got to power in the rigged elections and even so his term was limited to two years as  for an emergency leader. But with control of mass media, police and security forces he controls Ukraine. Patriots are not only get killed in the war with pro-Poo-tin terrorists but exterminated or jailed in the Ukraine. Active people understand the power of pro-Russian criminals and rather try to migrate from Ukraine than fight a hopeless civil war as the thieves have full support from A. Merkel and the EU officials. Dozens thousands, i.e. about 60,000, have been killed and more than million were displaced in a result of the Russian aggression and yet the majority of Westerns do not care and support Poo-tin the midget. Watching this hypocrisy of the Western European countries and lack of actions against Russia I may only say - you deserved the hordes of Muslim migrants that will destroy your welfare states, suck out your pension benefits and start the Jihad war against non-Muslims inside the Europe. President Trump is the only and last hope of white race to stop leftists, feminists, and globalists. At least, I wish to think so.

Good news for Ukrainians. At last America will do more according to the Budapest memorandum to protect the territorial integrity of Ukraine. The Ukrainian government is rather pro-Russian than pro-Western. They are criminals and thieves who rigged the elections and all years since 2014 working for Pootin's FSB against the people of Ukraine. The government even denies aggression of Russia in Eastern part of Ukraine despite of all evidences that Russian soldiers and officers are 80% of the "Democratic republics" troops. The rest is a bunch of criminals and bums.

Ukraine can be a part of the Intermaria - the union of Central and Eastern nations between the Baltic and Black sees - in opposition both to Russia and the EU. If America will help Poland to build the union and stop Pootin agression.

I just wondering on how many Westerns are confused by propaganda of leftists and the RT to support Pootin the miserable nanus.

More tanks, submarines and weaponry for military and poems for farmers to stay calm and work hard. Right. Keep status quo. Everybody would be happier. What about corruption among elite? Keep it untouched?

Just now, simon43 said:

Here's a 'hi-tech' solution to the problem. (Actually, it has been used for decades in many museums).

 

- Get a Thai tour guide who can speak fluent Thai (I'm sure there is at least one person).

 

- Pay that person to record (in fluent Chinese), separate descriptions of all the tourist sights that exist in Thailand, (so a good few weeks of work for that guide).

 

- Upload these audio files to a web-server

 

- Provide all Chinese tourists with the address of that web-site.

 

- When the Chinese tourists are in the vicinity of a tourist attraction, they use their mobile phone internet browser to visit this 'Virtual Tour' web-site.

 

- The web-site application software grab's the GPS location of the tourist's mobile phone and automatically plays the correct audio file for that tourist attraction, (or the tourist can manually select the tourist attraction from a drop-down list of locations).

 

- The tourist can pause, replay the audio file as required, or can manually select other audio files, such as:

'What to do when you are scammed by a jet ski owner'
'What to do when your new Thai girlfriend has extra bits in their pants'

etc etc

 

So the Chinese save even more money, (no need to pay a tour guide), and the protectionist Thai guides are out of a job.

 

Problem solved... :)

Actually, foreign tourists are interested in personal opinion of an individual of their home country origin  about Thailand and the places to go as well as advising specific to them. It is rarely somebody pays any attention to information about attractions. Just visual impression. It is not attending museums. It is about having fun.

2 minutes ago, maewang99 said:

here is the Zero Sum Game mentality.... another thing mutually drummed and reinforced into each other's heads.... in every dollop of conversation, "schooling" etc etc.

it's all a Big Game where there is a pie that gets shared.... and the size of the pie is fixed. and.... this is why having a Thai Only tribe is so good for all of the Thai people.....

not.

pie sizes are not of a fixed size.  a pie made at a bakery might be... but I'm using the word 'pie' in a different sense. 

economics, and most things, are quite a bit more nuanced than we like to believe. or were told to believe.

in fact, economics is all but infinitely nuanced and that's why (1) simple theories don't work (2) it's interesting (3) can be very profitable if you agree with (1) and (2).



 

Free market normally works perfect. Any licensing, regulations, and bans - slow down economy and bring eventually any country to a collapse.

34 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

They weren't Russian. 

 

Also the stench from e-cigarettes is just as bad for  those of us who do not smoke. 

 

If you can't hold out for the length of a flight, don't fly.

 

The rules are quite clear and when you pay for a ticket, you agree to them. 

Alexandr Nikforovx and  Svetlana Galkinax - <foreign language removed>. This is how it will be in Cyrillic alphabet. Russian names.

They are Russians by origin no matter what passports and citizenship they are holding. Believe me there is huge difference between the native Estonians and Russians. For example, I am Ukrainian despite I am keeping Russian passport.

I recall times when smoking in airplanes was normal. Actually, a ventilation system in airplanes is efficient enough to suck out gasses expelled from anybody's anus as well as vapors from e-cigarettes. If it is so critical, the air-carriers may allow to vapor E-cigarettes in the rear side of the airplane cabin. It would harm nobody. I am nor a smoker neither Russian but discrimination of people suffering from addiction is disgusting.    

Russians. They smoke in a toilet during a flight at Russian airlines. Nobody cares. The Finair is different. Yet, I would propose to distribute a Nicotine shewing gum or E-cigarettes for hard smokers. It is hard for them to get 10-12 hours flight without a dose.

On 7/3/2017 at 3:55 PM, Tanoshi said:

How old are you and how old is your wife?

Have either of you had children before?

I am 60, My wife is 38. I have a son from my first marriage 35 y. old.

My wife was married 7 years to a Thai man  - without kids, after a divorce the guy remarried and got a kid with another woman.

We tried 5 years ago some treatments and checks. It is easy to check a man and I am absolutely fine for my age. Doctors cannot see any problem in my wife too but we tried artificially to conceive a baby 3 times and it did not work then. Next  week we will try to start all over again.

I have to say that a problem is somehow deeper - in my wife's childhood. Her father died when she was 5 or 6 and left them without any money. Her mother was beating hell from her and her brother. Scars, a broken nose and horrible memories are a prove. Also, I have seen bruises on a body of the brother's son in age of about one year old when he asked his mother to take care of him. She did not beat the baby openly in my presence but the origins of the bruises and his fear of the grandmother were obvious. Soon the baby was taken back and the brother's wife arranged him to stay with her mother. Till now the son lives over there. It is a nice and smart boy.

My fault that I did not interfere. Such persons like my wife's mother should spend all life in a jail or in a mental custody. Yet, my wife tries to demonstrate that she is a good daughter. Sure at expense of our own family as she has not any own money. We actually tried to put her mother into a medical custody but after a month she have returned back. For keeping her permanently there should be a better reason.

Well, what I am trying to tell is that a woman with so stressful childhood may not develop a physiological ability to love, to have kids and own family. Because her feminine organs may not develop accordingly in her childhood and youth. Somehow unconsciously she  destroys own family in an attempt to show other people that she is an opposite to her mother - a good and caring daughter despite all horrors of her childhood and present. Sure, her other relatives push her in this direction to strip me from all funds and to shear trophies. They do not pay shit on future of my wife. And it is not just words. I told my wife it and confirmed by observations the intentions of her relatives.

My wife is a beautiful woman and indeed I love her and always tried my best to keep her happy. I put all my savings and all my care in her and yet it dis not work.

So, guys, whatever feelings of pity and selfless desire to save a person we may have it is probably a mistake to choose as a wife a girls from a not complete family without a good reputation. Or at least, take a girl to your home country and keep her away from any influence of her relatives. And do not invest any money apart of the mother's milk to Thailand. It is not safe. Whatever the wife may try to get from you - give her only money that you are ready to sacrifice. I did not follow this wisdom myself because in my situation there was no opportunity to take my girlfriend to Germany and to stay for long together to decide on marriage. German embassy would never issue a visa to a young and beautiful woman. I tried and failed two times. Even after marriage it was not easy. One rejection and a long waiting for a visa afterwards. In a year we got again problems with a visa for her and I have decided to leave Germany for Thailand. Well, she is not a Muslim refugee from Africa or Syria after all. Thai girls are not welcome to Germany. I am myself Ukrainian by origin. Anybody may imagine what are my rights in Germany. None.

I pray for luck and success in conceiving a baby. With kids of her own my wife may stay focused on own family. Cheers.

On 6/26/2017 at 4:23 PM, Oleg57 said:

The divorce is not yet in plans.  I just wait.

I make an update of my situation if anybody is interested. OK. My wife came to her senses and we will go through intensive therapy for her to conceive a baby. Inheritance issues will be resolved in this case as properties can be on the baby's name. It is actually what I want myself. Situation seems to be resolved.

It is very strange - why with 2% unemployment they need "emergency" regulations to kick out foreign workers. With disastrous situation in Thai educational system there are not enough high skilled workers in Thailand. All together with difficulties on taxes, ownership of companies, customs, deception/corruption of police and authorities, certain number of Thai per every farang, etc. make Thailand unacceptable for investors. China is SO MUCH BETTER for investments. And in time Thailand will be a part of Great China. Chinese will clean out corruption and incompetence from this country.

Allow foreigners to hold land under 50 years lease and to own companies in Thaland. And money will flow to the country.

4 hours ago, likewise said:

be careful out there.......try to get some assets/money back, move on and get a kid with a new wife who might be better for you and loving and caring.

The divorce is not yet in plans. I told my wife - I want to see - who you are. Please, make me feel safe that is make usufructs for the houses and my registration on the property. Then we decide on living together and continue her treatments to conceive a child. I do not want to have a divorce if you would be honest and kind to me. I gave time till November. She reacted as any woman would, IMO. She is not sure I will stay with her if a child will not come. My promises to be just are not counted.

I will survive anyway but kicking me off will result in a serious damage as I have a lot of instruments and tools, an apiary, chemicals for my research and other equipment. Relocation would be not easy. Not to mention that I have invested savings of my life in her and it is yet 4 years till my retirement. So, I have to find job in this case. May be outside of Thailand.

If things will get wrong, a condition of a remarriage can be pregnancy of a fiancee. Would any woman agree on such a condition? I am in doubts. In past I was thinking on to provide money for investments to my present wife only after seeing her pregnant but it was not coming for long and she got so sad that I made it in advance to keep her happy. Happy wife - happy life, I told to myself. I was such a fool. But let us see what she will do. In fact, everything is in her hands. I just wait.

On 6/23/2017 at 0:55 PM, Tanoshi said:

Read this link for an understanding of the law.

https://www.samuiforsale.com/knowledge/inheritance-laws-thailand.html

 

Should you be fortunate enough to have a child, then you and the child as descendants will equally share the assets.

Thanks a lot for providing legal information of the issue of inheritance laws in Thailand.

I see that situation is not so gloomy as I was thinking first.

A problem that my wife repeatedly pushing me to agree on a transfer of a major part of our family common property to her closest relatives that are her mother and her brother. Knowing that I am a bit crazy to get kids of own she used my approval on the transfer as almost a condition for having sex with her. And considering that I already pay for special medical treatment for her to conceive a baby and she is already 38 years old and therefore at the edge of her fertility time, it was like a last straw that made my backbone broken and made myself unwilling to have any close relations with her. I should say that when I met her 8 and half years ago she was completely broke and ill - no money, no job, no education, no place to go as nor her mother neither her brother had a house of own, no health and ability to work as she was suffering from awful head aches. I loved her back to life. Anyone may see her photos before and after we met. And I assume that it is so important for any woman to get at least one child of own that she SHOULD cooperate with me in this question.

It is my problem that somehow I believed that love can be based on the gratitude for saving her life and long care about both her mother and my wife. Both of them did not work since our marriage. I do not have any harmful habits and my health is OK. I was always most gently with her while making sex. Yet, I see that nobody can buy love of a woman.

OK, all is fine. I will survive anyway and find a just and legal way to resolve the problem.

I share my story in hope that somebody may learn from it. I have been told by many good friends of mine and my relatives not to put all my savings in one basket. Yet, I was thinking it is necessary to demonstrate to my wife that I fully trust her and wish to have life-lasting marriage and kids with her. It is sad to see my efforts failed. If there will be not radical change  to better in our relations I will start a divorce process in November of this year. And wait till then. Yet, I see  her in discussions with her relatives and am afraid that she is plotting something. Almost inhuman behavior it is, if it is true.

8 hours ago, Tanoshi said:

 

Assuming you invested this money after marriage.

Under Thai inheritance laws your wife is technically correct, except when legally married, then the husband automatically inherits 100% unless a Will to the contrary leaves her 50% to her family.

 

You cannot inherit land, so should have an usufruct in place to protect your right to live there in the event of your wife's death.

Thanks. A big relief. I cannot inherit land, sure but at least houses, vehicles, and other stuff. It is already something. Land was a major piece of the investments. I will try to care about it. All was purchased after our legal marriage. 

It is my huge delusion but I was very serious to have a family and dreaming about to have kids from my wife so that they will inherit all. Didn't see why it cannot work. However, my wife has serious issues with her health and it seems so that she cannot have kids. We already were through stages of special treatments but in vane. Right now she is in the middle of another quite expensive  medical care to conceive a child. But after recent events that she demonstrated again no serious interest to get own kids and instead to deprive me from funds and to transfer them to her big family. I just cannot have sex with her. May be under drugs or in a state of hypnosis.

I believed that it has to be her CORE interests to have a loving husband, kids and happy future together. I cannot complain that somebody does not love me but misuse and betray in the interests of her relatives who never cared about her. Yet, I was the only person at this planet who cherished her, providing with all means for better life. She is already 38 that is at the edge of her fertility. She was married with a local guy for 7 years, no kids. That guy got re-married and a kid from another woman. I used to have a son but it was long ago. A tragic  story of my life made me a bit crazy about having other kids. So many times I asked her to be wise and to act responsible to her own life. Otherwise, she will be have gloomy childless future while being surrounded by her hungry for money and rude relatives. And they NEVER cared about her. NEVER! In childhood mother was repeatedly beating her to bloody mess, have broken her nose. And alcoholic addiction of her mother is another nightmare stories. Yet, she is loyal to her big family, crashed own family and virtually rejected an idea to have own kids. The only reasonable explanation that she and her relatives do not consider me as a human but a source of easy money.

OK, I will think all around. To the moment a divorce and re-marriage seems to be a solution but I should not be in harry. Thanks again.

Recently, my Thai wife told me that if she would somehow die, e.g. in an accident, all possessions of our family that are formally registered on her name will be inherited by her mother as her closest relative while me - her husband - will get nothing despite it was all my money we payed for everything we have. we are married 8 years and half, have no kids of own. I have invested about 150,000 Euro in her - farms, houses, a car, tractor, etc, being sure that it will be appreciated. it was a shock to me to hear such things and I am seriously considering a divorce because in this case with good lawyers I have a chance to get at least half of my money back. no kidding.

Anybody can clarify on it? is it really so that husband gets nothing in such a case? In in civilized countries a wife and husband are the closest relatives to such extend that the wife inherits all properties of the family if her husband is passing away and vice-versa.  how is it possible that husband is not the closest relative? should I mention that her mother is a special kind - single mother, an alcoholic and served in jail for homicide? I really loved my wife to life as she was in very bad shape. and what I hear from her leaves me speechless. it is not so that I was planning to arrange an accident, quite contrary. I take good care of my wife. She never worked while we are married but she is a careless driver. So, I am scared.

On 6/17/2017 at 9:38 AM, aussie11950 said:

Please show where you got your information. Show some facts.

Your personal opinion is hard to believe.

Well, about contacts with TGO that has about 60 employees, I have send short messages to about a dozen of the people - no reply from them till now.You may contact me with Linkedin community to get details.Are you in?

About fuel savings. If you are interested to test I would provide you a pack of additives for free but we need an agreement that you are not going to through the chemicals or transfer them to anybody else without my approval but use them honestly to evaluate fuel savings. please, contact me oleg.kulikow(at)gmail(.)com

If in larger amounts I ask 25Thai Baht for the pack per a liter of engine oil plus cost of mailing inside Thailand just to compensate its cost  Yet, can provide for free if conditions of the test are interesting for me

As for global cooling,may I suggest you to check an YouTube channel Adapt 2030. There are a bunch of other channels on the subject but the indicated one is in my subscriptions.

Please, be more specific if you have any other questions.

We are in global cooling, thanks to higher cosmic rays energy that produces clouds and increases albedo of our planet. This is why we got recently more rains in Thailand and colder weather in Europe and the U.S. As I reside in Thailand the global cooling is good. Food shortage in the world and higher food prices because of the cooling are good for Thai farmers. Weather gets much better in here though floods are nasty.

Personally, I work hard to contribute to the cooling, e.g. I've invented recently lubricants that almost eliminate friction losses. It results in 20%+ better fuel efficiency in the IC engines, for example. Anybody who wants to help and participate in tests, let me know.

As for millions of USD the TGO will find a way to spend them nicely. I have sent a few letters to the TGO by the linkedin as their website is not accepting any contacts. Let us see their interest to reduce emission of the greenhouse gasses in Thailand. 

For 8 years in Thailand I never used state hospitals. If there was any problem, a private clinic and paid medical care is available and not expensive. I just paid but very rare I need it. Once in two years to pay for a dentist. Like this. That was all my needs for medical care. Why should I have a medical insurance in Thailand? If new regulations are going to be enforced, it should not be for those expats who are residing already in Thailand. Only for newcomers and tourists.

As for the fake medical insurance, I recall times when it was possible to buy a fake insurance 10USD per month to travel Germany, as  an example. Issue of a fake insurances is a gold mine for fraudsters. Anyway, if it will be enforced, Thailand is going to be no-go zone for many expats and tourists. My sister with her family three years ago visited me in Thailand and because of complications with entrance permit already in Thailand she told me - never more i will come to Thailand. Spain is far cheaper and better in all means.

5 hours ago, owl sees all said:

I know your where you are on this muzmurray. I've read the piece a couple of times and it's easy to pick holes in the grammar. But at least it is readable and understandable!

 

For me, the beauty of a good forum is not only debate but member's personal experiences; and this we got.

 

Some of the posts on Tvisa read as though the poster had just returned from the bar, is ready for bed and can't be bothered to put in any decent contribution.

Common, English is not my mother tongue. I see myself some wrongs in sentences. Did not care to check. However, it is easier for Thai and even to native speakers to understand me than some Americans who are mumbling words and use slang in conversation. Native speakers can be of great help for advanced students. Not for an ordinal Thai school. And as you said, sharing of experience matters. Grammar probably not so much. Cheers

What is muzmurray, BTW