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I think you'll find the social support systems of both countries are a tad better than what the Thai government gives out to the unemployed.

My Thai GF is my aged care plan. IMO it will be better than being shunted into a nursing home in Australia, and being fed pig slop to fatten the bottom line. I did ask her if she would be up to cleaning me when it came to the crunch. She replied "No problem, I can do." Given what I have seen her do for her father while he was dying a couple of months ago, I am quite confident she will do the same for me.

Just wondering what your previous identity on ASEAN was. Help us out here, post a link to your brand of information. Although that may not work too well if the link has the suffix .ru.

You may be right. Having said that, the online method has a fair bit of photoshopping and misrepresentation going on, by both girls and clients. Therefore, I think there will still be a demand for the bar scene, where a realistic assessment can be made, although perhaps not to the same degree.

Link to what you have read, please. Putin has been known to use poison on his political opponents, he's not going to balk at killing civilians. It's fantasy to think you can negotiate a settlement with a dictator. Chamberlain found that out the hard way. The Budapest Memorandum was signed by the Russian Federation. It guaranteed the sovereignty of Ukraine, free of economic and military coercion, on condition Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal. It's a matter of history who honored that agreement, and who did not.

Are you contradicting yourself? On the one hand you're telling me to not malign Arabs, now you are saying some were horrible. My experience with Arabs was they were the most work-shy race I ever encountered, and also the most delusional. During the Six-Day War of 1967, when the Israelis destroyed the entire Egyptian air force on the ground, the Arabs I worked with were quite convinced Arab armies were knocking on the doors of Jerusalem. Same thought pattern when the Yom Kippur war occurred in 1973.

Bombed hospitals and apartment buildings, civilians executed in the streets of Bucha. How much evidence of war crimes do you need, or do you think the Ukrainians did it all?

It's a bit difficult for Russian apologists to explain away satellite photos of civilians left lying in the streets after being executed by Russian soldiers, but they do give it their best shot.

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?