Ventenio

I know both.  Not all urban or rural is the same.  For me, NO to BKK for more than a few weeks, but NO to some super small place with nothing to do and no good restaurants or shops or the ability to walk around at night without drunk kids on motorbikes.  CM?  Ah, I would rather CM than most rural places, but it's definitely not perfect.  I think I need a city (haven't been to every city) maybe like the size of Nong Khai (maybe wrong spelling).   But, we are not prisoners, so I think a rural place is good for 3 months a year.  I need people, and not the same 10 people.  I also like to have some privacy within a bigger city, with the ability to explore new areas.  I don't like to shop for things I need if I can simply live in a city where I can find most things.  

Almost 200 today!!!!   How's everyone doing?   How's retirement?  You know what that American singer says, "you gotta know when to hold em and know when to fold em".

It's time to fold em...... Oh wait, next week all green for the next 100-years.  OK, stay!!!  5555

Estimates suggest that up to 11,000 deaths from heart and circulatory disease are attributable to particulate air pollution in the UK every year. A rising and ageing population means this could result in 160,000 deaths by 2030.

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Now imagine how much WORSE it is here...... but i'm sure everyone here values their health.  We must act now!!!  lol.  OK, back to your beer.....and don't say I didn't try to save you.  

Princes have been to Pattaya many, many, many times...

and now the royal family, after being in the spotlight, have decided to run away and leave their country behind.

it's the biggest disgrace in over 543 years 

You have to have some expectations to pay.  Let's say it's 3000 baht.  OK, is that OK?  If not OK, run away and don't look back.  You are marrying into a family and it's expensive, which is why you worked and researched and are willing to help the less fortunate.  What would I do?  I wouldn't be in this situation.  Because this situation has 100 more parts to it and it never ends well.  Take a hard look at your finances.  She might end up costing you about 300,000 a year, which is fine if you really cannot live without her.  Times that all the years you will be with her.....Yeah, of course it's a business decision for their family.  If you don't pay, you are bad business.  maybe a great person, but a bad decision.  

I waiting for the farang to lose his 800,000, all assets frozen, and deported for getting arrested for having a plastic bag that had food in it at one time.   lol

what would you do?  nothing.

since nothing is the correct answer, you retire somewhere else.  

and come here as a tourist for 666 straight hours in Pattaya

4 hours ago, dave moir said:

Ever thought this guy just might not be Thai!

 

Of course we have all thought that, but that's the absolute worst case of the worst case scenario, so we won't be having those thoughts out loud.  If so then it better be from a country whose passport I don't share.  

I'm surprised he isn't caught already.   Too bad, of course.  Look, most of us are well-balanced individuals and it's impossible to imagine shooting a two-year old kid unless circumstances are extremely crazy with the mother.  I don't think that's the case here, so I have to fall back to my lazy detective work of him being really high on drugs, because a rational person couldn't do this to a strange boy.  I can't imagine he's shooting a female at work when he could wait for another, better opportunity.  None of this makes sense, except really mentally unstable, high on drugs, trigger happy, but then how does he escape if on drugs?  To me, the kid's death changes everything.  I really don't care if I don't hear the real story as long as they get him.  

2 minutes ago, yogi100 said:

"Old white men are a cancer?"

 

That was not what he wrote. He wrote 'seen as a cancer.' Two entirely different observations. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't think this is ENTIRELY different, since the people who see Old White Men as a cancer do think they are cancer.  To me, entirely would be 100% different, and in this case there is a group who think they are a cancer.  Since White Men can't actually be a cancer, in the medical definition, that can't be debated.  So I'm a little lost.....yes, White Men are a cancer and seen as a cancer.  The real question is, What percentage actually believe this to be true?  In Thailand, very very very small percentage.  In Vietnam, I would still think very very small.  

PR 101:

Talk about it during high season, especially January and the February.

Then shelve the project until next December...

Dumb farangs will say, "YES!!!  This year will be different."  

13 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

The UK did not give him his millions!

The money comes from Prince Charles's income from the Duchy of Cornwall, a vast portfolio of property and financial investments, which brought in £21.6m last year. This revenue is used to "fund the public, private and charitable activities of The Duke and his children".

OK, where did this money come from?

ok ok

Nothing says, "I couldn't care less about the losers who have to stay in the country that gave me my millions, I'm leaving suckers!!!"

I think Queen Eliz should get a few mansions in Cali and rock it out like a gangsta...

while sending selfies to the suckers in the rain and mess of Brexit

Philippines have shoot-to-kill against drug dealers.  BBC said like 30,000 murdered and maybe 10,000+ possibly by "accident," or maybe the person was a political threat or just someone they hated.  

Another day of more air that saturates our body, slowing killing us all.  I've decided if you don't leave at 150 readings, you are not leaving over pollution.   Because then you have already admitted that you can allow your body to breathe the toxic air, so continuing to do so is easier than doing something about it.  Wow, just dropped to 129!!!   I wish someone would create a pollution life calculator.  200-days in 100 or above readings means you will be sick for 10-years and die 10-years earlier.  I wonder if that would do anything to anyone?  

Yes, this video should make you upset.

There is a lot of evil in this world, and it's up to us to be nice and add a little good to offset such hatred.  

Try this experiment.....give someone a 20 baht tip for no reason.  They will smile, and you will smile.  

I don't care if the married couple never discusses philosophy, current events, or anything deeper than, "Are you hungry?"; HOWEVER, I would want a wife that could produce an intellect to varying degrees.  Why?  Then I can trust them in all situations, and know they are smart enough to make good decisions.  Since none of us are really fluent, we have no idea if their IQ is 60 or 160.  In our home country, we know if the person is smart and if our kids will be smart/clever or not.  

Am I asking for too much?

Now I hear people say, 80, not bad.   555.  When you get 10 days a year under 50, 200 days above 100, and 20 days above 200 (I'm guessing), you are super happy, best life ever, best retirement ever, greatest choice ever, best decision to move here ever, happy to spend money here... when you see 80.    When pollution and health issues is a DAILY concern, you know you made the best choice for yourself.  

1 hour ago, allane said:

An undergraduate degree is sufficient.

Thanks, that's what I'm thinking.  I'll still look for my grad. diploma, but I don't plan on ordering a new one.  Nobody cares anyhow, unless I'm trying for an International school and my degree was in Education.

thanks

Sorry to hijack.......

OK, I might have lost my diploma (graduate degree), but I still have undergrad diploma.  I have a copy of my grad degree diploma, and it's about 1000 baht If I want a new one shipped over.  I might find it, but let's say it's lost.... now i have a work permit.

1.  When I  go to a new school, can I simply just say I have only an undergrad?  My grad. degree isn't in Education, so it's not getting me any more money.  I have transcripts that shows I started and finished the required coursework.  

2.  Would a copy work?

3.  Should I order one immediately?

Thanks

Just go to all schools at the beginning of a term.  I would guess 99% of all new teachers don't have a work permit, since it takes months.  

If it takes four months to get a work permit for a new teacher, they have time to catch everyone.  Of course, not sure if it would make sense to fine a government school.  but private school??

but this is in theory.  In practice, I'm sure less than 1% are caught.  

Most countries have powerful lobbyists and they fight this for 100-years, while saying they will save the environment and the plastic companies are following all the proper protocols.   The world would burn for 1000-years if it meant the richest 100 people on Earth made more money.