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Monks aren't allowed to spend the night in the same house as a woman, whether she farts or not. If they stayed there and she didn't that would be acceptable. A statue isn't going to protect anyone from ghosts nor anything else. Ghosts have never physically hurt anyone as it's all superstition and BS handed down through generations. I do believe there are spirits and have see their actions a few times back in the US. I worked at a sporting goods store, selling guns and fishing and hunting supplies. I was told there was a ghost there when I first started working there. I often closed the gun bar at night, and was there in my section with another person who tidied up the aisles while I counted guns and did the computer work on them. When I was standing at the gun bar, I watched as items on the end cap started to sway. This happened three separate times on different days. No one was anywhere near where I was working and they just started to move back and forth. I told others about this and they said, oh yeah, that's the ghost. I watched as items fell to the floor from the top shelves 3 times, and heard them falling a couple more times, again no one around. At my home, when I was married, my wife had a small terrier. Two times he ran into the bathroom and jumped in the tub very frightened and shaking. In that same house, two times I was home alone watching TV in my bedroom and I saw someone walking past in the hallway, just a glimpse, a shady figure of a person. Heard noises many times I couldn't figure out . Yes, I'm sure there are "ghosts" around, but they cannot hurt anyone as they don't have a physical body. I was told by a relative here that my house here has a ghost, even as the building was just being finished . She was supposedly good at this. I had heard they were only supposed to be in houses where someone has died. I hear things all the time here, besides the birds on the roof, at night. Doors I've closed open, knocks on walls, but it means nothing to me as it's just "ghosts", and I don't fear them.

As others have replied, tuk tuks are also used for deliveries. You can only be in one place at a time, and only for a short period, so you should be able to understand you see only a tiny fraction of 1% of the tuk tuks that are used daily here. Even if you took a poll, you wouldn't get anywhere near an accurate figure as this is Thailand, and things here are greatly exaggerated, especially where money is concerned. Making up numbers isn't going to work as this is a business like all others, and only if it was recorded like the Taxis (besides the scammers), would you get anywhere near an accurate number of how much money the drivers make. Here it's off the books, so no figure is possible for anything besides individuals you would know personally who wouldn't lie. Only If they all told the truth would you know how much they all make per hour, day, week or year. You can't be anywhere besides one place at a time, and only from that location would you get any idea what happens, even if you stood all day long watching and recording what they make.

Harrisfan, Do you realize you've received 99 thumbs down here and I didn't add any of them, which is rather opposite of your thinking I've given 10,000 thumbs downs with most of them to you. Basically, I can't see how you would know how much these tuk tuk drivers made, even individually, unless you sat in one place all day, every day, and watched how many people they actually picked up, and then it would be only the few in that small area, let alone the thousands countrywide you'll never see. You would have to also ask them, individually, how much they are making per day, even to guess a rough estimate they make in that particular area, as all areas are quite different countrywide.

Breakfast- 06:00, Small meal -09:30-10:00, Lunch- 13:00, Dinner- 16:00-17:00, fruit snack after Lunch.

So I'm guessing you finally grew out of that?

That all depends on what you were shaving.

You can also hide your own Easter Eggs and go looking for them later.

It's another really good movie, The Intouchables, |French with subtitles. I watched The Untouchables a little while back. I don't think I've ever watched The Name of the Rose. I don't have it, and have seen most of the good movies that have come along, so now that's on my list to find.

Leon the Professional, Goldfinger, Elf, Alien Vs Predator, The Intouchables, The Valachi Papers, For a Few Dollars More.

The difference being, I do understand what I post, as well as what others post.

There are certain people in this world who are called sociopaths, terrorists, etc , who have no place in society. The US has developed weapons to rid the earth of these types as they kill, without provocation, many innocents who aren't doing anything wrong to them. Any way you can find and exterminate these individuals or groups is necessary. If they see body parts flying and scattered around the landscape, maybe the next ones might think a few minutes longer before they spread their havoc.

A large majority survive here because they have many living in the same house, all doing little jobs to make a pittance, and have relations on farms where they can get the staples to eat to survive another day. They also share apartments and share the rents.

That's another good reason I will move back. There are no guarantees that living in the west will get you a decent husband, as my own daughters had a few dickheads before they found a decent one, but the chances of finding one here is minute at best.

I was more referring to children who are half Thai and half another, which is a lot of the children here , especially those with foreign dads. They automatically are citizens of the foreign country so can go easily. You go to a school in the west your chances of finding a good job that pays many times more than here is great.

If they made a decent sub sandwich here, I would pay the same as I do back in Texas, about 350 baht for a foot long chicken made in various forms. I've had Subway here and they aren't the same, although Subway to me is generic anyway, even though I do get them sometimes when I'm back home. When I visited Vietnam I had a Banh Mi every other day, and they're simple but great. There is one place in Austin, Texas run by a Viet that makes them comparable to those in Vietnam, average prices around 300 Baht. Like Schoggibueb showed, if you make your own bread, and get imported ingredients besides the chicken itself, you can come close.

Having a driver's license from your own country should be enough to drive here, as long as you keep it current. if you live here nonstop without visiting, I can see the requirement to change to a local one. One look at the stats here is all they need to know how their drivers are here compared to other countries, that the tests we already took in the west are more stringent. The basics of driving can be used anywhere, as most countries have international signage and warning signs aren't hard to decipher. It's up to the country itself to get into the right century as far as knowing there will be foreigners driving there, and to adapt to make everyone safe.

I did mean the passengers also must have one. I put need in there on the driver's responsibility.

I agree that there might be better schools here that actually teach things they need, along with learning English which can give them a better lifestyle if they choose to move to the west, but in the end, no matter what you've learned and how much you make, you're still going to be living here, which isn't a good place for girls especially. Look at what they end up with and how much they make even if they choose to go to university. Many end up going back to their village with a degree which isn't earning them anything, which does happen everywhere, and their jobs here will still only earn them a fraction of what they will make in the west. Then what is their choices of a partner in life? Someone who looks at women as second class already, is a lot more likely to leave after a child is born, and will more likely not help in the support of that child. A bad choice in the west at least has them mandatory paying child support. They have a much better chance of finding someone who will be a better partner than here.

It's best to stay away from things you don't understand.

I have a friend here that runs a very good English school in Sisaket province. His students normally do pretty well if they take his classes along with what's taught in their primary school, which isn't much. Those that have English speaking parents, especially those who are native English speakers, do the best, as they are also learning at home. The best time to learn another language is ages 5-7, but the schools aren't doing well enough for the students to learn. My daughter's school here in the village does very little. My daughter of course speaks English better than any of the teachers at her school, and the only thing she's actually learning there that will have an impact on her future is math, as whatever she learns will be put on the back burner once we move to the US. They hand her papers where she has to fill in the blanks on sentences, and she does pretty well because she's again, also learning at home. Her friends she goes to school with know almost no English, even though they've been in class 3 years. My friend hires all kinds of people from a few different countries, especially Cameroon the US and England. They have strong accents, which isn't easy for a student to learn along with the English itself. He had me helping out in camps because I'm a native English speaker, and he just wanted me to talk to the students so they know how to pronounce words. The camps themselves get students involved, but they're only a day or two and the students go home to parents that speak no English so their learning stops as soon as they leave his school. One student he had, who had an English speaking father,is 17 and cannot speak much English at all, which means his father isn't helping at home, and his primary school is doing nothing. These kids go home after school and they speak nothing but Thai to their friends and family, which doesn't help as consistency is the only way.

These seem to be the only way out........ Exemptions and Deferments: Medical: Individuals with disqualifying medical conditions can be exempt from service... Education: Those enrolled in higher education or the Territorial Defense Program can defer their service..Profession: Certain professions, like monks of a specific rank, are also exempt..Studying Abroad: Male Thai citizens can defer service by studying abroad.

Second time in a short while lifeguards were present.

Sandfly bites are what you're describing. It's called leishmaniasis, which is the infection caused by the bites themselves.This link shows the differences...........https://www.prevention.com/health/g33011148/common-bug-bite-pictures/

Lack of care for children in general. They know the driver has to wear a helmet but seem to dismiss that passengers need one also, to not get a ticket.

If a combination of environmental conditions where are all the other accidents on the road?