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Thailand also prides itself as the land of Smiles, but you need to look closer. .. Anyway what webfact posted is a very brief article, however true to form is chokeful of loose-ends and choppy statements so that opinions could be easily misconstrued (or maybe that's the intention - as often the case with this news outlet)- and spun away. Right at the top, "Fears of discrimination in Thailand" is a misleading title. Sweating out the details, tweaking the blueprint of a bill about marriage equality is the opposite of fears. Had there been fears this bill would not have gotten to where it is today. But stoking "Fears" is irresistible, it "sells newspapers" you see...

Oh, I didn't know that. So this is what google gave me: "Expats living and working in another country as a US citizen are required to file US tax returns and pay any taxes due by April 15, 2024, unless an extension applies.2 The standard deadline for Americans living in the US filing a US tax return is April 15, 2024.13 Expats are granted an automatic two-month extension for filing their US tax returns, which extends the US tax filing deadline for expats to June 17, 2024. They may also request additional extensions if needed.3" Thanks JT or tips re taxacct. Never used them before but will give it a try this year. Do they also do state return? Anyway, will give you an update in due course.

Granpa is loosing his marbles...No self-respecting gays would wear miniskirt and have an erection in a women's locker room. It's an impossible feat!

For all the inane ranting and tired homophobic vitriols that followed, you showed your root too early, mate. Right at the start: to declare that "Western Govts" - notice the plurals, that mean the Western world - would fall for the "same traps and cave into" shows a deluded mind, yours that is. In the old days we would say you suffer from "delusions de grandeur" roughly translated as delusion stemming from self-aggrandization ... You think you're so smart, ain't that right? More than all Western Govts combined, you can see the "traps" and they couldn't? Oh yeah, who do you think you're fooling? With the dosage of pseudo-intellectual jargon copiously "seasoning" your speech - one tasty morsel: Princess Bitchface Syndrome 2.0, published by Penguin Books Australia? Are you serious? Your state of mind is brazenly juvenile, as plain to see as dog turd on while gravel. Stinks to high heavens mate, but I figure your nose is so deep in it you can't even tell.

This myth usually touted by homophobes, I repeat, usually, and especially those who loudly claim they are not - so let's debunk it once and for all: 1) who are those people ("people who tarnish all people as homophobic as they do not agree with gay marriage")? I'm sure there are that kind of people but I for once, as a gay person "do not tarnish all people as homophobic as they do not agree with gay marriage." 2) Homophobes do not agree with gay marriage, you can bet your life on that, but that's not the only thing that get them "tarnished" as homophobic. So let's make that clear, people don't get tarnished as homophobic because they don't agree with gay marriage, they get tarnished as homophobic because of their stance against gays, one of the myriad application of that stance is their opposition to gay marriage. If you can not make out those nuances for example: << do not agree vs, opposition>>, or just want to whitewash them with your broad-stroke ("people tarnish all people") argument, then I think you have an agenda...Right, granpa?

This construct of argument, the second half of the sentence punches right back to the first half, "I'm not religiously brainwashed" but "I see marriage as it is in the bible..." is the de facto tactic often used by homophobic bigots, as in "I don't hate gays, I just hate that they have the same rights I do". Here another tactic, creating their own myth about those they want to criticize or put down, but too coward to do so outright:

So right, so soo right! FatBurger was one facet of LA in its twilight glory (in the 70s, say about half a century ago...) Wolfing down one with everything piled up high (including one EGG over easy, the cook makes sure the yolk still runny) before going up La Cienega and hunkering down inside Tower Records on Sunset on a Friday night. A whole enchilada of SoCal experience to be had for the cost of one FatBurger, as my salary of part-time pumping gas in UCLA/Westwood Village could only afford that much fun to be had. Last time I check California was already part of the United States during that era. I guess your "KhunLA" moniker is a misnomer, and I meant that DIS-respectfully.

Back in my stateside days, I used to work in Immigration related field (for third party doing contracted work off INS, as US Immigration was known back then) and run into quite a bit of Anna Nicole Smith scenario, ie young girls marrying rich old geyzers. Whenever we see a 20 plus year gap between the ages of the couple, us file clerks would quickly leaf through to page XX of the green card application, and sure enough we would see serious amount of income and assets from the part of the groom. Will that be any reason to deny? No such thing, INS don't rule out the possibility that these two are getting married for love/companionship - among other things -that constitute marriage between 2 PEOPLE. All the conundrum that surrounds the legitimacy of a straight couple would also happen EQUALLY to a gay couple when they apply for a marriage license. The question of which SEX either party belongs to will not be relevant in whether the marriage is going to be "genuine" (for love or money or companionship or a combination thereof). To put it bluntly, if a bar girl can marry for love, so can a ladyboy or any other gender-arrangement thereof.

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Following this kind of "scripture" and claiming such experience as living a "good life" is the Merriam-Webster definition of "there's no fool like an old fool." Luckily for us time is on our (younger) side...we won't have this Genesis nonsense "shove down our throat" much longer!

Exactly, I am kind of surprised that TAT has not been zeroing in on the gay tourist dollars all these years... My close circle of "sisters" ie gay friends in the States toil away all year in their medical/pharmaceutical cubicle (most being doctors and pharmacists) waiting for their annual pilgrimage to Thailand.. which just happens to "coincide" with the Gay pride month ==>> where they land on the island of Phuket like a flurry of fairies, allegedly to "shove it down the people's throat " with all the "flag-waving, dancing in the streets" of Patong, and indulging themselves in the kind of unabashed decadence that could only take place in a homophobe's wet dream, ehr, I mean, imagination! Kidding aside, to have gay wedding/honeymoon trips here in Thailand would add substantially to the Thai tourist industry, and big bang for the gay tourist buck. For the money one would spend on an average, boring if not sad-looking wedding in America (or Europe for that matter) you could do 5 in Thailand, with decors and catering like you wouldn't believe. Friends and families would jump at the chance of coming over, partaking "a slice of paradise" (in their mind it's mostly lounging on "white sand beaches lapping turquoise water," among "other things") and getting more out of their investment than they ever would. say if they chose Hawaii instead... Practically speaking, straight couples usually would prefer to wed in the home country, just because of the sheer size of the invitees, whereas gay weddings tend to be smaller, more intimate affairs, therefore require less time/budget planning and can afford to be more "package-able." Again I'm surprised that so far only Thai banks have shown interest in luring more gay clientele with their gay-recognition ads. But now that the lawmakers are taking a big step, let's hope for more exposure and validation for the gay community in Thailand. Bravo!

If in BKK go to the ear eye and throat hospital the other side of the river. Excellent, quick and not expensive. Yeah that' the name of the hospital.

Go to a seasoned pharmacist. The young ones fresh out of school won't have seen much of anything.

I have wax built up inside one ear canal to the point it gets hardened and I would have to use a ear-scratcher to dislodge it. If the crust is yellow than it's not blood caking (which is simply a sign that you have scratched and got the skin to break and it bled.) But this is yellow, it could be just wax. However if it's really itchy, it could be something else. "this crust building up few hours" sounds a bit alarming to me. Could you check it first with the pharmacist, maybe it's something they have seen commonly? If not, then I would consider a doc visit.

[ their/THEM here refer to women.] If I'm in a good mood I'd say this person is talking from both sides of his mouth. If I'm in a not so good mood I'd say, oh never mind.

Who's asking for approval? Not the least from the gay-bashing bigots like you. So stop deluding yourself. This thread is about the law, Thai law to be exact, regarding same sex marriage to be precise. You're the one who poked your hairy nose in other folks' business. Then got brazen talking about "shoving it down peoples throats." Thief sounding the alarm much? Hypocrite.

Great idea. Always follow the wise men saying: "Better to be thought of as a fool..., then open your mouth and get whacked for sounding like one!"

Well, another "same old twaddle..." (and sorry I don't need no "curry support"!) And you've got to stop SPINNING, otherwise people might mistake you for one of those UFO Light Up Spinner Tops on sale on Amazon.

Sounds like the "Eternal Sunshine of the Demented Mind."

Women in the Western world should feel so grateful that some savant - with the above world view - would define for them their role in marriage: As the old saying goes, "give a fool enough rope and he will hang himself."

Hold the same standard to your hetero kin and you'll get punched in the face pronto. Try that, don't be a coward.

Yeah, that's the sad reality these bigots are trying to run away from, longing for their matrimonial "paradise lost" - if there ever were - and taking it out on other people not like them. One can easily deduce why "puke, vomit, sickening perverts" frequently make up the main part of their baseless argument: They were simply looking at themselves in the mirror... Hypocrisy is their name.

"Its posts like this that do more harm than good the the LBGTQ community." Really? "Stoking up anti LBGTQ feeling by telling people who have a different opinion that there opnion is wrong and is bigoted." Can you read? Or you would rather spin? I didn't tell "people who have a different opinion that there opnion is wrong and is bigoted." so don't broad-stroke my comment. I'm calling a bigot, quote by quote, a bigot. Simple as that, got it? FYI, bigotry is always there, all around us, but unlike soi dogs, you don't make them go away by ignoring them. On a forum like this one, if you don't play wackamole with them, they'll metastasize like cancer. However, bigoted comments are allowed to run rampant whenever gay topic - marriage especially - comes up. Unfortunately, yes, but that's nothing new.

Me too am going through the same ordeal...After 2 weeks of OTC self-medication (decongestants only, no antibiotic) at the 3rd week when the coughing got really really (tear-jerking) serious, yesterday I went to Ramathibodi Hospital off Victory Monument for a check up. The young lady doc who saw me spoke pretty good English, ie I could chat with her, she had me open my mouth for a look in, listened to my breathing both back and front. The diagnosis: pharyngitis AND bronchitis. She reluctantly ordered an xray - at my insistence though later I found out her reluctance was probably due to the high cost of xray - my lungs look fine. At the end she prescribed antibiotic along the usual decongestant stuff that I have used previously OTC. 2 capsules of Azithromycin 250 mg before dinner for 5 days. (Initially she prescribed something else but switched due to my allergy from Penicillin.) The services there was top notch, admins all around was prompt and courteous, totally on their feet. Even though I asked for a follow up appointment, the staff advised that if I needed to come back then I should go directly to the specialized department next time. As of this morning, the coughing has subsided considerably, because of that I'm feeling much better. Lesson learned: don't wait till it gets serious, get PROPERLY treated ASAP.

Watch his language - which I multi-quoted in my post- the terms he used are not "Just because he doesn't agree." "He has a right to his opinion," sure but he couched his biases/prejudices in flowery/arcane terms to fool you. If you don't see them or don't want to see them, then of course you have the right to your opinion. Doesn't make him any less a bigot though.