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Chiang Mai has nothing to do with what I've been saying. If it's a gay hangout, along with the other millions who visit it, it still hasn't any bearing on your ridiculous comments.

No, I didn't, You calling me a fool doesn't bother me as I'm not near foolish.

The heat here isn't that much of a problem, as it's hotter on a yearly average back home in Texas than here. If you don't like the heat, there are much better places to live, as staying inside all the time you can do anywhere. What's hard to tolerate is the bugs and rainy seasons. If you're an outside person, again there are much better places to live, 4 season places, with moderate temperatures and less extremes. No one can stay outside long here as it does get too hot.

You do need to read books, as you go by assuming all the time here, which means you take other's opinions and run with them. Do you see how many disagree with what you say daily, that your replies are one liners intending to provoke, and you disagree with people who have proven you wrong? A person can know quite a lot about a country without ever going there. More than a person that just goes on a vacation. Of course if you visit a country 50 times and don't just stay in one place you'll have more knowledge on it. You can learn more from a few books than being in a couple places for a week or two. It's plain to see that you aren't a reader, and that means your knowledge on things is only based on personal experience and other's opinions, which is nowhere near what you can learn by reading. That you diss books shows you aren't willing to learn also, as most anyone knows knowledge comes more from the written word than other's opinions, which might be biased or having little experience themselves. There are people who live in Bangkok who couldn't tell you where a certain street is, which happens all over the world. Being in a place doesn't mean you know it well, unless you're out there doing things all over for many years. I've asked people directions countless times, both here and back home, and they couldn't tell me where a place was that was 3 miles from their homes. Just like some that live here and have no idea the amount of violence that happens here daily. Your replies in this one topic are assumptions based on your opinions, thinking gays are the only ones who run after 10:30, that those who eat croissants are gay, and that you know if people are gay by looking at them. Ridiculous but it's you. Look at your thumbs down just here, and maybe you'll see it's a daily thing in all your replies. there's a reason for that that seems to be over your head.

Which has nothing to do with what we're talking about. Remember, everything about Thailand has been in the news since we were in kindergarten, and media has shown more each year. Many living here have no idea what actually goes on outside their village, but research can find you anything about crime, culture, political issues, food, interests, climate,traditions, history and western influence here.

I probably knew more about Thailand before you even knew it existed, so assuming again, doesn't work. It's the same everywhere. Some flaunt it, most don't., everywhere. Ladyboys are more common here than most other countries,.........https://www.nationthailand.com/perspective/30252466 but gays in general are still looked at as having bad karma, seeing most here are Buddhists. People hide it for many reasons. fear of being attacked, letting those close to them know they are from embarrassment because they might not accept them, applying for jobs in some places, and it's not a white thing only. The two faces of Thai tolerance Tourism authorities are trying to market Thailand as a 'pink' destination, but local gay and transgender activists say the campaign disguises a darker reality _ that beneath the veneer of public tolerance, conservatism and discrimination remain rife. ..In 2013, the Bangkok Post said that "while Thailand is viewed as a tourist haven for same-sex couples, the reality for locals is that the law, and often public sentiment, is not so liberal." A 2014 report by the United States Agency for International Development and the United Nations Development Programme said that LGBT people "still face discrimination affecting their social rights and job opportunities", and "face difficulty gaining acceptance for non-traditional sexuality, even though the tourism authority has been promoting Thailand as a gay-friendly country".

Actually it's pretty easy to sleep after aerobic exercise, especially if you're a morning person and not a night owl. Straights have sex all hours of the day, as do gays. I worked out in gyms 50 years, around sweaty people all the time, and made many friends there. Gay has nothing to do with it, and croissant eating doesn't make you gay. I've known many gay people in my life that weren't openly showing it, especially in public areas. Things don't just sound gay. They are or they aren't, and most of the time in public you will never know it.

You don't understand that I live here yet? I was asking you specifically about what you think you know about gays in a certain area, and that straight people don't run after 10:30, which is just your assumption and false, as all types of people run at all times of day and night. The truth is, you go by surveys and then make assumptions about them in general. I actually knew quite a bit about Thailand decades before I moved here, and it has been proven since to be true and worse than what I heard. Some act obviously gay and aren't. many, actually most, don't act overtly gay and if they didn't go to gay hangouts, you would never know.

I'm wondering how you know how many people there that are gay, and that straight men don't run after 10:30 PM. Do you talk to them, asking if they're gay, take a poll or just assume, because the majority of gay people aren't overtly showing it?

"Straight blokes arent running at 10.30pm" .."We went to Dao and there were lots of gays. Ko Samet has lots of them".............. And croissants aren't gay. They're a very popular dessert that millions enjoy, although high in calories..

I'm thinking he jogs to earn those croissants. Some exercise just so they can eat and "get away with it". As to the OP, maybe he never touched a foreigner and just wanted that experience. Next time check for your wallet, as hugging is one of a pickpocket's methods.

And you know this how?

On private land with nothing around to hit, and you sitting next to him, there's still a chance they can hit the gas instead of the brake, but it all depends on how much acreage of fields you have. They are better off knowing the controls of the car before just letting them drive with no experience at 15. Not around buildings or other cars. I taught a cousin here to drive who was already in her 20's with no car experience. Scooter experience does help in this instance, especially seeing they've already been on roads. She learned pretty quick with my help, and was driving her car on the roads after a few lessons, and is still doing okay. I first drove a car, a full size Lincoln Continental that was my friend's mom's car, in the early 70's. It was scary, seeing the care was close to others parked on a street on both sides.

Assumption # 34,987 I'm betting you don't know any Thais personally that have ever said they don't like Israelis, and that's your trying to enlist others in your personal hatred

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No, there is fear of being hurt physically and fear of things that can't hurt you unless you let them. No power but a person's own weakness from being taught a lie.

There are many variations on the rules, saying no, saying allowed but not in same room, saying another man should be present etc.............. 4: It is mentioned in the Vinaya rules that a monk is not allowed to reside under the same roof with a woman. Buddhist eLibrary http://www.buddhistelibrary.org › buddhistworld › faqmonks

No, it's common sense. An inanimate object has no powers. Of course others believe in all sorts of things.

It's a rule here.

Quotations on how much people make here are many times guesses, going by what the most have said they make, the average being 200-300 baht in the country and 500 a day in the cities, at shops, on farms, restaurants and 10,000 a month at 7-11's and other stores of that type. With drivers it varies, so the numbers are still assumed. 13,000 to 19,000 depending on area. Tuk tuks 500-1500 a day. The average Thai makes around 16,000 baht a month, all inclusive. Amazon coffee, KFC, McD's around 10,000-15,000 also.

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?