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21 hours ago, IvorBiggun2 said:

No it doesn't. For every time someone quotes the law someone will publish another variant. In Thailand everything is open to interpretation.

You're confusing Immigration policy with Thai law.

English translations of Thai law are rarely official (there are some rare "official translations" published by the Office of the Council of State), but for informational purposes only. The only official law in Thailand is in the Thai language, which is not open to interpretation. English translations will always vary slightly, but not enough to change the meaning.

Passport translations were not necessary at the Laksi District Office. I used an agent and it took less than an hour.

8 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Easy answer is to regulate. Does the government not have the brains to do this? Yeh! Silly question I know but a $1.2 billion dollar so around Bt45 billion baht will now be binned and black market money will go back to the criminals in the drug industry so the drug kingpins, generals, BIB, smugglers and dearlers. Yep! This seems like a rational thing to do.

Consider also that the black market will be more extensive and lucrative than ever before as more people have become recreational users during the 2-year free-for-all. Users will forgo healthy eating to save money for weed, which will be much more expensive on the black market.

3 hours ago, AreYouGerman said:

 

Yes. Laws. Let's start with laws against pornography, fornication, adultery and especially that 18 yo girls going online and become prostitutes. Oh, right, that's not an issue for you. Great moral compass you have.

 

Also, it seems you don't know about international laws. So, it seems 14 would be okay in many country, including Germany. As you are about laws and not about moral, lets follow the laws then.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent

 

Instead of trying to frame me as being upset, try to explain yourself why you are against a society led by morals. Why would it be wrong marrying a virgin (at the age according to laws) instead of a single mother in her 30s?

 

 

Yes, laws. It's better to have laws than none at all. I'm sure you have a decent life in Germany/Thailand/Philippines or wherever you live under the laws of those countries. There's no point dreaming about a utopian society that can't exist in the real world. Despite all their complaining, people are living quite well in many countries these days. Transport back a few hundred years to appreciate the difference.

BTW, if you find a deep province somewhere in the Philippines, you can live in a society that practices a version of "led by morals". The NPA take care of business without any help from the law. If you're mistreating your wife or kid, they will punish you according to the severity of the abuse.

1 minute ago, BangkokReady said:

 

I simply asked you to support your claim. No hijacking here.

 

 

Wow. Real mature. If you can support your claim, why don't you just do it?

 

 

You said you didn't believe it was in the rules, so I showed you the rules.

 

Like I said, I understand that the onus is on me to back up a factual claim.

 

Stop being butthurt just because you've been proven wrong.

 

 

Or reply to your comments? Sure!

Get a grip! If you don't believe something, prove it wrong - how simple is that? Instead, you want to blab on about it in 50 posts, begging for me to prove I'm right.

I'll give you a clue. Look up the laws on Sex Tourism in your home country. You must be planning on under 18 dating, so it is best you familiarize yourself with the laws in your country. You might be ok, you might not be - I don't care.

2 hours ago, AreYouGerman said:

Is it better to marry off a 16 yo girl into a marriage which lasts forever (very common until, let's say 1960) or cheering her on that once she's 18 she will post her first gangbang video on OnlyFans because that's what a liberated woman is doing?

 

Age of consent is ridiculous. A 18 yo girl is consenting to getting gangbanged on livestream and cheered on while a post puberty girl cannot consent to getting married to an older man. That's a sick society.

 

Oh, and all the cases of 18+ yo girls getting into a man's home and 20 years later she decided she didn't consent anyway and the current society agrees to that. I would advocate women should not be able to vote if they are not able to consent to intercourse regardless the age anyway.

 

Age of consent is ridicolous, it needs to be replaced with a high morale society, where the father is able to decide if a girl is getting married and when the marriage is consummated.

 

Saying men are pedophiles for having sexual interest in post puberty girls is a hoax by a female controlled society. Not to forget, news headlines about 'Pedophile imprisoned' and then reading about a 30 yo old man and a 16 yo old girl is only diluting the cases where it's a homosexual raping a 5 yo old boy because the word 'pedophile' lost it's meaning.

 

Unfortunately, it is necessary to have laws and set boundaries. If not, we'd be back in the Wild West where anything goes. Did the Romans have it right? They start having children as soon as they start menstruating. My wife's sister started at age 11. Are you upset about this subject because you plan to find a young virgin in the Philippines and you want to avoid any moral judgement?

24 minutes ago, susanlea said:

What a total over reaction. You must be scared of something.

Yes, it was an incredible overreaction. He has difficulty finding the laws on Sex Tourism in whatever country he comes from. It wasn't very challenging... and anyway, who is interested in visiting foreign countries to "date" under 18s? Why is it even a debate?

1 minute ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   I am quite sure that some posters have been through tougher situations, rather than just sitting in jail all day .

   Tougher things like working for seven years , rather than just sitting there in a cell 

I can't believe you're serious. You just don't want to admit she's as tough as nails, getting through that.

1 minute ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   You only get considered for deportation if you spent more than six months in jail , then they can apply for deportation from a Judge  if they want 

If you're charged with an offence under the Criminal Code, any offence, they take your passport and cancel whatever visa you had. If convicted, whether you do jail time or not, you won't have a visa. The Immigration Office does not need permission from a Judge to deport you. 

2 hours ago, Shocked farang said:

Not tough I would say, but definetly resilient. She looks quite Ok now.

She's tough and resilient, and now smart too - turning this experience into a cash cow. Sure, she did something stupid back in 2000, but people can change. Who didn't do stupid things when they were young? She's done her time and there's no need for her to be retried here.

2 hours ago, natway09 said:

Difficult to have a lot of sympathy

She's not after your sympathy, but your cash.

Just now, BangkokReady said:

 

I'm merely replying to your reply.

 

It's OK.  You made a claim that you cannot back up, so your claim means little.  It's not a problem.

Talk about obtuse. I can back up claims, but I don't want to as I find your demands irritating. There is no obligation for members here to provide references, or proof.

4 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

 

You're "pretty sure" but you cannot confirm?  It sounds like you're not sure at all.  If you were sure, you would be happy to provide the source that supports your claim.

 

It's up to you if you cannot be bothered to substantiate your claim, but it makes it very unreliable.

You just don't let go, do you? I don't come to this forum for legal advice, and neither should you or anyone else.

If you need legal advice, check the laws of your home country before you start dating someone under 18. Most laws of most countries can be found online these days.

2 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

 

I'm not sure if what you are claiming is correct, so I suggest you check it and provide a source.  This is typical when making a factual claim.

I'm pretty sure it's correct and it's easy to verify, which I am not going to do for you. I suggest you do the checking if you want to "date" a girl under 18. It's not my concern.

3 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

 

Are you sure it's that, not if they travel for that specific purpose?  Do you have a source?

It's quite easy to find the laws on "sex tourism". Do you have plans to have sexual relations with a girl under the age of 18? 

On 5/6/2024 at 9:56 PM, Liverpool Lou said:

In Thailand the age of consent is set at 15 years old.

The term "age of consent" specifically refers to the minimum age at which a person is considered legally competent to provide consent for engaging in sexual acts. Individuals below this age do not possess the legal capacity to consent to sexual activities.

 

It's not nearly as simple as you describe here. The age difference of the participants comes into it too, and for countries such as the US and Australia, it's illegal for anyone to have sexual relations with anyone under the age of 18 in ANOTHER country.

15 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

heroin trafficking.... was she expected to move into a 5 start accommodation

Wake up! She figured if she was caught, it would be in Australia and serving time in better conditions.

3 hours ago, craighj said:

Who really cares?  She was a drug trafficker.  She should count herself lucky she was not executed.  Now she wants to profit from a book, silly B$#@h.

 

I'd rather be executed than go through that hell. IMO it was a fate worse than death, and she did well to survive it. She a lot tougher than all of the people commenting here.

6 hours ago, BigBruv said:

 

Me.

Partnering with people of different faiths (esp. the demonic stuff prevalent in Thailand) is pretty risky.

 

Let's also not forget that western civilisation was built on the shared values of Christianity.

Western societies been falling apart since Christianity was ditched in the 60s (eg. family disintegration, 25% of

boomer women on antidepressants (UK & US + 12% of boomer men) and so on.

 

But now we all 'follow the science' and believe in a 'big bang' and that the world and our lives are an accident,

nothing has any meaning, there will be no hell after death etc.

 

Christianity isn't bad as beliefs go.

I wouldn't believe any of this. We have a direct comparison between "Christianity" in the Philippines and Buddhism in Thailand. There's no doubt that Thailand is a safer place to live with far less crime overall. 

The misunderstanding comes from thinking that most Filipinos are Christians. They aren't really. Catholicism in the Philippines is a weird mix with animism, the predominant religion before the Spanish arrived. It hasn't gone anywhere. Your average provincial dweller has a strong belief in animal spirits and many claim they talk to them. They never stop talking about "white ladies", lighting candles and praying to spirits.  

1 hour ago, Robert Paulson said:

If you don’t know the biggest problem in the ocean is plastics, right now, and especially in the future, I can’t help you. That is the hugest environmental problem in the world right now, but people want to focus on climate change. Something you can’t fix even if we do all decide it’s an actual real thing. Quite convenient. Are we getting it yet?

If anyone needs help, it's you...

If you revise my posts, you won't see the words "climate change" or "global warming" mentioned. I'm discussing coral bleaching, which is caused by a small increase in water temperature. You think plastics are the "hugest" and biggest environmental problem in the world? That's nonsense and has nothing to do with coral bleaching and the rise in water temperature which causes it.

23 hours ago, Robert Paulson said:

If anyone actually wants to help fix the ocean or coral or whatever the hell else, start with trash and plastics 

Vast coral reef zones suffer from bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef. Areas nearly as large as the whole of the Gulf of Thailand. I can assure you it has nothing to do with garbage, plastics or sewage. Sure, it would be nice if they could clean up the beaches, but it won't prevent bleaching.

The Gulf of Thailand is quite shallow, with an average depth of only 45m, up to a maximum of 80m. This makes water exchange slow (with the Pacific Ocean) with strong water inflow from rivers making it low in salinity and rich in sediments. In a good year, it's not an ideal place for pristine coral reefs to grow.

The Great Barrier Reef is 15 - 150 km offshore, and up to 65 km wide. The water is as clean as you can expect anywhere on earth. On the far side of the reef, the continental shelf quickly drops to over 2000m deep. Few people live in this part of Australia. The Great Barrier Reef is about 340,000 km2 vs 320,000 km2 for the whole of the Gulf of Thailand. Of course, only a small part of the Gulf of Thailand is an actual reef, around the islands and near the shore.

The only way to solve the problem is to install refrigeration units throughout the Gulf of Thailand, to reduce the ocean temperature by a degree or two. Other than that, we can pray for cooler weather.

6 hours ago, biggles45 said:

1. 70 years ago the populations of Thailand 20M and the Philippines 18.5M were very similar. Today, thanks to the Catholic Church, Thailand has around 72 million and RP has 118 million.

 

 

I know a lot of people like to blame the Catholic Church for the high fertility rate of the Philippines vs Thailand, but the truth is, they really want large families and it is seen as a way out of poverty, which for many, it is. The Catholic Church has little to do with that among the poorer populations which do most of the breeding. Thailand is a much wealthier country with growth more in line with what you see in Western nations.

15 minutes ago, AreYouGerman said:

 

You should add a disclaimer that you got divorced from a Filipina with whom you stayed 30+ years together. That might help people understand the bias against the Phillipines.

Not 30+ years, it was 20 years. This didn't end up with a bad divorce. I picked a very good one.

I'm too old for her, so I let her go. She wants children, I don't. I knew it would come down to this in the end and I'm ok with it. She still has some child-bearing years left so she needs to get on with it. We are still friends.

This has nothing to do with any bias but everything to do with what I learned from her family and community over a long period of time. I have deep knowledge of what goes on behind the scenes with her friends, cousins and everyone else in her community. Many live abroad. You'll never discover what really goes on, and even if you do, it'll probably be too late. You seem to know more, so good luck to you.

Before this one, I made a number of bad relationship choices. I can't count how many Filipinos I've "dated". I could write a book about my mistakes there in my newbie years, and I started older than you are now.

23 hours ago, freedomnow said:

Were they kind of neck-and-neck around 2000 but Bangkok has moved far ahead on urban development ?

I remeber visiting both around that time, and it seemed they were not much different.

No, not even close. I first visited Thailand in 2005 after 5 years full-time in the Philippines. I went back, packed my bags and never looked back.