DavidAlexander

Ummm... you should realize she, or he, is probably just using this as a jump-off to becoming an influencer, right? Updates, future dates, any and all drama will be included. Real or imaginary, people will be drawn in to it.

Take a thousand people (idiots), add unlimited booze and drugs, and well....hardly unexpected.

"The International Union of Sex Workers (IUSW)".... Regardless of who it is, I also look at polls done by special interest groups as highly suspect. These numbers look like something I would come up with given a couple hours on the internet and a spreadsheet.

They have the breakfast buffet at Duke's twice a month now I believe. Went six years ago in the first month or two of living here and met a guy and his Thai wife I've been good friends with ever since. You never know....

I wonder if alcohol played any part in that plan?

I live in Chiang Mai and know several students at Chiang Mai University. CMU is the 3rd highest rated school in Thailand and has several international programs, taught in English. An international nursing or engineering degree can get you out of Thailand and into a much higher paying job in the West.

4 hours ago, tandor said:

agreed...Second question, why can't she keep track of her money...methinks she is not capable of holding office!

Yes, so much cash she couldn't properly keep track of it and for some reason (ha) unwilling to put it in the bank leaving a paper trail. Assuming the secretary only stole an amount she guessed wouldn't be noticed - 5 - 10% at most, that adds up to enormous amount just laying about.

14 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

How does one accurately measure any kind of intelligence?

As there's a wide variety to choose from.

Well, without too much detail (you can google it), they've been doing it over a hundred years and have gotten quite good at it. The standard IQ score is a very good predictor of academic and chosen career success. This simply means high IQ people become doctors and whatnot and low IQ people dig ditches and whatnot. The anticipated problem in some western countries is that automation is gradually eliminating low IQ jobs. What then?

21 hours ago, proton said:

Haven't culturally compatible tests been devised and the results much the same? 

Back in the 70's/80's the government paid a few million to the University of Minnesota (Mecca of psy testing) to develop an IQ test that all ethnicities scored equal on. After three years they (quietly) gave up.  Regardless of the design, it always came up Asian, white, hispanic, black.

Wait 'til the end of March/April/May. In Chiang Mai alone I bet 20-30,000 overleveraged Thais were dependent on the Chinese tourists, now down 98%. I'm guessing credit card defaults will be the first to start soaring.

2 hours ago, nobodysfriend said:

Gunpowder was invented in China .

Discovered, not invented...big difference.

China will make up for lost ground in the inventing arena. Many very bright Chinese studying overseas who will learn western research methods and put it to good use back in the home land.

I teach High School math to Thai and Myanmar students. I've long since stopped being amazed, stunned, incredulous when they have to use a calculator to compute 10% of 100. Anything beyond single digit addition is beyond them without a calculator. But...maybe it's a worldwide trend.

One important thing to remember. I live in Chiang Mai and sometimes leave and re-enter the country in Bangkok. When I return I sometimes stay in the Bangkok area and visit friends or once went on down to Koh Chang for a week. When I get back to Chiang Mai I ALWAYS keep my return air boarding pass and hotel receipts to show when I do the 24 hour report-back. So far they've always been accepted as legitimate reason for not reporting back to CM immigration upon 24 hours after returning to the country.

Be cautious, as always, but also be aware....  The BG knows if she keeps in contact with 10 guys, maybe one or two will show back up. If she really wants out of the biz she probably has to go thru 50 or more.  It's all a numbers game, for both sides.

As my wonderful grandfather told me the day I turned 21, "There's two kinds of sex, sex for free and sex you pay for. The only real difference is free sex tends to cost a lot more." In the 40 years since, I don't think I've ever gotten truer advice.

Having said that, I pay my 'from-the-country' Thai GF 10,000/month, what she would earn working in the fields. She has a daughter and has to pay all the things associated with that. In return she cares for me like no woman in the West ever would. A fair deal I think....

I'm American. Why does Thailand have an aversion to 55 gallon (old oil drums) trash bins? In the States, admittedly more litter-conscious than Thailand, parks, BEACHES, street corners, anywhere there can be trash there is a place to put it. Why can't the Thais figure this out? And yes, I've heard, "It'll put all the 60yo street sweepers out of work", so don't bother. Also, I know several Thais, usually younger, who are environmentalists and are sick of the trash everywhere.

More tourists doesn't always mean more money, particularly for WS. Like all of us, I've watched the streams of Chinese following the flag bearer, I don't think I've ever seen any of them detour into a bar.

On 2/11/2019 at 1:09 PM, JimmyJ said:

"The search party found 30 grams of "ice" (methamphetamine) tossed in a trash can in the bedroom."

 

Not enough time to flush?

Most likely inoperable...

4 hours ago, ChipButty said:

5000 Baht? Id want more than that to marry a Thai woman it's obvious these guys dont know what their letting themselves in for

But the docs were forged.... no 'real' consequences, on the marriage, at least.