Ventenio

1 hour ago, webfact said:

19 year old woman

didn't even BEGIN to live ...    kids are soo dependent on their parents.   It's right about 18+ where you START to make the separation, but it's really in your mid 20's where you get it...

one of the worst ages to lose your life......  

FML.   I forgot.   Trying to drink mouthwash........

holiday must mean the moon is doing something....

blood moon.

sounds like a bloody mary i wish i was drinking right now

hold on..... i can still buy glue.......... OMG, life saver.........  (inhales deeply)

7 minutes ago, webfact said:

Daily News called them resourceful but they were all arrested on Class 5 drugs and gambling charges. 

I just got the death sentence for trying to smuggle 10 tonnes of YaBa.....

Mom, look, The Daily News called me resourceful!!

That is absolutely the worst word I would have chosen.......it's a compliment.

drugs and gambling.........

Resourceful is when you use your bed sheet to save 100 legs from being amputated after being surrounded by the enemy and bombed for 400 days straight................ sorry, flashbacks........

That first picture is hilarious............says 10,000,000 words

the guy in red is saying :

"bloke, you told us mates we could have a beer in Thailand!!   This is your fault, and now my missus is calling asking about the guy at the other end of the couch!!!"

He continues, "If there is a fine, you are paying it!!!  It was your mate's job to look out for the coppers.....now I'm in the Daily Mail, front page!!"

It's funny....

The moon has exploded, the Sun turned Blue, aliens have invaded........

all those stories scrapped....

deported!!!!!!!!  I won't rest until justice!!!!!!

8 minutes ago, Pedrogaz said:

Better than napalm on your kids and bombs on civilians

wasn't done in fun.....there was a civil war, France was doing stuff in the 50's.....Communism was the word of the day......and it was war.  WW1 used some really horrible chemicals........

last month Israel was killing kids...now, Myramar killing kids as they extermination of muslims....China has kids in camps.....

let's get back to 2021......

34 minutes ago, canopy said:

 

 

Back in the 50's the mekong commission decided to exploit the mekong resources including damming it all up. China was not allowed to be part of the commission--it was a decision by SE nations for the benefit of the of SE asian nations. The US fully backed the plan as they saw it as a way to stave off communism in poor nations and everyone was happy. Now that China has their hand in the cookie jar the US suddenly flip flopped their position and has taken the environmental high ground and are dead set against anything china does and making big waves. It's fun to watch the US propaganda machine in motion because they have gotten the common man to flip flop in turn with US foreign policy so perfectly that these new environmentalists only care what china is doing and nothing of the hundreds of new dams being built in SE Asia on the mekong and its tributaries. These "environmentalists" condemn dams in china a thousand kilometers away on environmental grounds, but downstream in their own countries not a peep. Laos's new mega dam being plopped just 2KM up from the thai border will devastate Thailand, the environment, and the poor people living along it.

 

At the time, it was the largest single development project the United Nations had undertaken. No international river body had ever attempted to take on such encompassing responsibilities for financing, management and maintenance of water resources. The Mekong was considered one of the world’s greatest untamed rivers and riparian countries were keen to explore the potential for hydropower, irrigation and flood control development in order to capitalise on the river’s economic potential.

China didn't join the join the UN until later..."not allowed"?  maybe, but maybe they didn't want to join...... maybe for other reasons?  China in the 50's.....maybe....lots of stuff going on there...

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the report found that there would be a 35-40 percent reduction in fish biomass by 2020. Moreover, the report warned that hydropower development through 2040 will eliminate migratory fish in large parts of the Mekong. No Mekong migratory fish species will be able to survive in the reservoirs of dams planned by 2020 and 2040.

Given that the MRC fisheries department has reported the value of the Mekong fisheries — the largest freshwater fisheries in the world — at $11 billion in wild-capture fish (excluding fish farms) for the MRC countries alone, observers might reasonably expect deep concern about the dire prospect of fish extinction.

However, three of the four member states — Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia — surprisingly declined to endorse this landmark document based on five years of research

the dam in Laos does seem o b

Switzerland?   well........................hmmmmmmmmmm...... really?

Phetchabun is good for three days.......sure.   It's the Thailand of Thailand.  

Now Chiang Mai is the Paris of Thailand....

Bangkok is the Mexico City of Portugal...

and Phuket is the Hong Kong of Nigeria....

equally confusing

3 hours ago, webfact said:

● ‘I used to find pieces of gold the size of a tamarind seed,’ says Rodjana Thepwong, 64. ‘Now there are only tiny amounts’

● It is not only gold that is disappearing. Activists say the diets, livelihoods and environment of 60 million people have been jeopardised by the dams, and that effects are getting starker

If I'm a gold digger....no, wait.....gold miner at the age of 64, it better be for fun.  finding gold 50-years ago doesn't mean there's an endless supply.....

60 million people affected........

this number is way to big to get your head around.  falangs have zero power over the chinese.

easier to get mad for 100-years over the one bad falang who doesn't wear their mask!!!!!!!!!

60 million......and we do nothing!!!!!!!  and we take their vac.....lol

we are the dumbest species..........100 million posts on one guy who is on overstay..... ZERO on trying to help 60 million people......

don't worry TVF members, I'm on it

after my 20-baht noodle soup

4 hours ago, webfact said:

generating an annual income of more than 200 million baht.

Seven people.  let's make it easy and say 3 million each a year...

a cool quarter of a million a month.....250,000 

Filipino teacher makes about 18,000 a month.   

i would rather read about romance scams than drugs.....

let me send out 10 texts today.......'love you, miss you.....'    'send me money...'

ok, got another 400,000.   

military in Burma taking everyone's jade.......   making millions a day, easy

while I search for 2-hours to find enough coins for my 20-baht noodle soup

Stupid ethereum!!!!   hahahahahaahhaha

had a friend put in 50,000 USD.  He's rich, don't feel bad for him.

He was down BIG......I told him whatever.......he said "I'm not selling until I breakeven!!!!"

he actually ended up making a little money

now he thinks the game is super easy

i'm sure one of these times he will go 10x long and this thing is going to zero....

gotta flush out the weak longs before this thing can get legs......that's gotta mean like 500 from 2500.  have everyone giving up...........

gambling.   oh, it's fun......   until it's not.  lol

I'm on google thinking about going on vacation.  Excited to travel the world, spend my money..... let me pick a country!!!

police last night (May 21) raided the Honey Pot bar in Rawai and charged the manager for serving alcohol to foreigners.

OK, not that country......next

Mark is the typical falang ........   half bottle whisky.........  

Elephant pants, I still wear them after 20-years.    I still can't speak Thai.... I say ..............Kloooooooooup Khaaaaaaaaaaup         Kllllllllaaa     and then i do something with my hands......  

that video looked about 20-years old.......esp. because of covid

yes, Mark is everyone here!!! Mark is all of us!!!  Mark is who were were, are, and will be!!!!  Mark is the falang tourist

i also heard about cheap alcohol, accommodation, and amazing food.  dude, the oil they use is OK if you are under 30....and those drinks aren't cheap anymore.  a room?  depends how you define a room

Yours Truly,

Mark

It’s Bitcoin Pizza day in the crypto community! About 11 years ago on May 22, Laszlo Hanyecz, one of the early adopters of the newfangled cryptocurrency that had just been coded into existence, purchased a pair of Papa Johns pizza pies using 10,000 bitcoins.

hahaha

This thread went way off the rails....hahahahhhahahaha

all good, type whatever you want about whatever you want.....takes me one second to decide if i don't want to read it.

teaching in the middle-of-nowhere makes it easier to save on 30-40k, but maybe people working in BKK are actually saving more.  

bitcoin.......wow i remember BTC at $400.   and it seemed to be at $400 for a long time......mocking me.  lol

i'm 100% sure I've made more in passive income back home than all the hours at school and the 1 million pictures, videos, hot days without AC, bad contracts, etc...

all for that WP and a visa.........not all, kids are great.  

still amazing schools are offering 15,000 for a NNES.

but then i saw on Facebook some falang offered a job to a Thai for 1200 Baht a WEEK for 20 hours......

sad

The people who created the most deadly pandemic in the Universe will force us to take their "medicine."
 

Seems perfectly normal.

i'll actually take their jab........and if something bad happens my home country will laugh at me for being stupid.  if i'm fine, nobody cares, except me.  

i would feel better if China was a little bit more sympathetic after the outbreak......or should I say the media..........

still waiting for an apology China 

3 hours ago, natway09 said:

those of you spouting on Thai visa from the comfort of your armchair

Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And that my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.

get your rabies shots in THAILAND, not back home.   got them a few years back....

old, can't remember.  4-5 shots, couple thousand baht.  

but now i play with stray cats, dogs, skunks, foxes, wild boar...........oh wait, that was my ex-wife

anyhow, that's a different clinic and pills....haha

I would be very angry as well.  Hopefully it's not a theme in your new city.

Zero legal recourse, that I'm sure of......and your new school would not be happy hearing about you going after a thai

This year has been hard on us falangs......we aren't wanted.......I"m too dumb to read the writing on the wall, but after COVID I will learn how to read and try another place.

I've not been in your shoes........and curious if you speak Thai (that has helped me).....but it's too bad.

it is not a good start.......    surely you can tell us the name of the city?

wow......how hot is your wife or gf??

Our room goes to 11 degrees without the AC turned on........wasn't always like that.

lol

What kind of street value are we talking about?  2000 pills....

Yaa Baa, to me, doesn't really mean Meth.....it means  "medicine crazy"   but i guess it really still means Meth. lol

I'm the only fluent speaker here....lol....

2000 gone, 983743986384937489047328947982347238 pills still in circulation