petercool

What blatant generalisms abound here.

Apparently many here move in the wrong Thai circles.

Most of the Thais I know do not read those comics.

But they like their own Thai TV soap operas, and why not ?

Not sure of the actual motivation. Thais generally meet their life-long friends very early on at lower school rather than at Finishing Schools although many meet up again at such schools in the UK or elsewhere. For a farang to enter certain Thai social groups at any age it is probably easier to do so at the Bangkok Sports club or via sporting activities. That's as earnest as I can get.

I guess this has come up before but I just recently moved and decided to "upgrade" from the regular hi-speed to the super 1mb download hi-speed service. It was finally connected today and is about half the speed of the old one !! My wireless modem shows 100% signal, this forum's speed test shows hi 800's rating but logging onto any site is painfully slow and actually chatting on a forum in the US would be quicker by e-mail, not that that is very quick either .... what gives ?