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Putin has repeatedly expressed his desire to revive the USSR. I am just taking him at his word. You worked with Arabs in Arabia, I worked with them in Port Hedland, Australia. Perhaps I got the dregs.

Fair enough too, and that's the way it will be.

As a superior alien being, I would start posting warnings on ASEAN that the human race had better shape up or ship out.

I wouldn't say I wanted a relationship lasting more than a night when I first came here, my GF grew on me with her ability to make me happy. I had my share of women in Australia who wanted to be considered as my equal. They weren't, except in the family law system. My former wife tried really hard to reduce me to her level. Never needed to be knocked on the head, I've always taken responsibility for my decisions.

The 41 kg reference was a dig at the fact my interlocutor resembled a beached whale.

You don't have reasonable dialogue with a dictator. War crimes nonsense, when the Russian army shells hospitals and apartment buildings, and executes civilians that are left lying in the streets? You may be older. I'm damn sure you are not wiser.

The old are frequently insanely jealous of the young, because they still have ideals and principles. You have previously cherry-picked the bits of Ukraine's history to suit your pro-Russia agenda on other threads. It's pretty obvious where your allegiance is, and wisdom has nothing to do with that. I'm not on the side of murderers and torturers, who lie like pigs in s##t when presented with satellite evidence of their war crimes. Nor do I support separatists who bring down a civilian aircraft, just because they could. It's evident you support both. On ignore now, another Russian troll I can't stomach anymore.

You'd better get in quick before Songkhran, then. IIRC, you're the guy who gets laid 5 times a day, so your hormone levels probably stay stable.

I had the opposite experience at a party in Australia some years ago, when one of the women decided decided to take me to task about having a Thai GF. She asked why I would do that, when there were plenty of Australian women available. I said she is 23 years younger than me, and a great lay. She weighs 41 kg. She cooks for me, washes and irons my clothes, cuts my toenails, and gives me a massage if I am tired. She can't take half my assets if we split up. She prays to Buddha every night for a long life for me. Tell me where I can find a woman like that in Australia, who would even want me. I thought she was going to throw her glass of wine over me, but she thought better of it.

I use private hospitals because I don't like waiting six hours to be seen by a doctor. I check every medicine I am prescribed for side effects and interactions, because some Thai doctors are just shills for the pharmaceutical industry. I have caught several quite dangerous medications that way, such as one that aids in snapping tendons, and another that causes hallucinations. My main beef with doctors here is only one has ever asked me to describe my previous medical history, which is quite extensive. i would have thought any doctor worth the salt would want to know the previous history of a patient, and what medications they are currently taking.

Grab and Food Panda motorcycle drivers. Minivan drivers. Workers on roofs with no safety harness. Workers doing welding with no eye protection. Workers doing roadside slashing with no eye or ear protection. Cooking roadside snacks in oil for a few seconds. The oil is sometimes older than the vendor. The OP would narrow the field if he was to ask what safe behaviors we have seen.

I do love a good bull$$$$er.

It's not, it is a kleptocracy. I was harking back to some time ago. The CCP pays a fair bit of attention to capitalism, as long as it is on their terms.

For the same reason the West has fought in Asia, to try to preserve democracy and deny totalitarianism. There is actually nothing too much wrong with socialism/communism in theory, the problem is it does not take much in practice to morph into a dictatorship.

What I find different is the attitude to sex. Western women demand orgasms as some kind of birthright, which is self-defeating because it creates performance anxiety in their partners. IME Asian women don't make the same demands, if they can climax themselves it's a bonus. I can guarantee my Thai GF has had far more orgasms than my former Western partners, she's equally happy if she doesn't get there. I am no stud. I have no wish to change her. She prays to Buddha, believes implicitly in ghosts, and the family is the locus of her being. In terms of arguments, we might have one per year, and it is usually the result of miscommunication. I can't recall any that have gone past an hour in terms of mood. A considerable change from my Australian wife, who could hang on to a sulk for a month.

Perhaps you are giving her too much money.....

No argument from me, although it does beg the question: If he's an idiot, what does that make his supporters?

So what? It's comforting to have the insurance policy. I suggest you read up on the findings of the Royal Commission into Aged Care in Australia, the Thai model is infinitely more preferable.

This is one on the 118 going out of Chiang Mai.

They are cheap for a reason, it usually boils down to after-market service. If you don't have a Chevvy service shop to go to with a problem, you are then dependent on finding a service shop that knows what it is doing with the brand. In Thailand, that is a lottery. As Dirty Harry would say, "Do you feel lucky?"

LOL, personal freedom in the USA is mandatory. Ever heard of the NRA? In most states, one can ride a motorcycle without a helmet once they turn 21. Only 18 states have helmet laws. As for masks, a former president refused to wear one. I suggest you check out mask and helmet laws in China, or perhaps you missed them with your rose-colored glasses.

There's a Latin aphorism, res ipsa loquitor. " The thing speaks for itself." No intimate knowledge needed, the performance of the Russian military in Ukraine is ample evidence of the deficiencies beforehand. A stalled 50 km long column of Russian tanks and support vehicles does not speak to good planning, logistics or flexibility. Patton would be turning in his grave. Or p$$$ing himself laughing. The Stingers, Javelins etc. are making life hard for Russian pilots and tank commanders, and they cost considerably less than an aircraft or tank. Perfect tools for counter-attacking. Stingers helped the Afghans boot the Soviets out of their country, you'd think the Russians would have developed better defenses against them 30 years later. Apparently not, it's what happens to militaries when there is a bunch of kleptocrats running a country.

Possibly not as a life partner, but there are plenty of Thai girls AT university who are advertising their services as sideline girls. And plenty of mostly older Thai men availing themselves. The deal is, while they are getting a fairly useless degree, the guy pays for their fees and living expenses, in return getting as much sex as he can handle from a 20-something. One estimate I read said about one-third of female students are thus supported through university.

It's a pretty broad generalisation to assume all caddies and massage ladies are selling sex until they get too old.

I have news for you, there are quite a few Thai women who want nothing to do with Thai men. Given the abusive nature of some relationships, hardly surprising. Educate me, what percentage of Thai women are (a) well educated (b) well paid?