Walker88

You seem to be making an assumption that all bargirls are bad, and all non-bargirls are as pure as the driven snow. That 'good girl' may well have had a few dozen partners and will angle for money, but plays the coy ingenue well enough to fool you. Each person is an individual and should be judged on her own merits. I did not grow up dirt poor in Isaan with a miserable parasitic extended family who knows how to exploit filial piety, so far be it for me to judge a working girl.

First number is if you're buying for your bargirl. Second number is when your bargirl sells it back so she can buy what she really wants.

In the times I've visited agogos post-Covid, I find just the opposite: lots of young and middle aged Chinese are barfining, and the women chosen run the gamut from light-skinned to mocha, clean to tatted, natural to lab-enhanced. I've even seen Chinese couples barfine women for "purposes unknown". The fact that China has 30 million more marrying age men than women (due to the long-held one China policy and preference for males) seems to be driving carnal behavior.

How far might this Potemkin moral fiber extend? Will Nana Plaza, Soi Cowboy, Walking Street and LK Metro be closed down? Will the dozens of Thai-owned Escort Services be shuttered and taken offline? Will "Soapies" be boarded up? Will massage shops begin offering only 'traditional' massage and no happy endings? Will high-ups and government officials be subject to arrest for taking on university students as mia nois? Will the business laws be changed and put "owning a business geared toward prostitution" on the same list as diamond polishers, hairdressers or wood carvers---jobs prohibited to foreigners?

You make a spurious leap. There is zero connection between bad behavior and negative repercussions, unless the cops get you or the aggrieved party knows who and where you are. The Universe plays no part in that. Karma is a concept drawn up in the infantile hope there is some retribution inherent in nature itself. There is no physical law to make such a thing happen. The examples you note are not random. To make a leap from planting corn seeds/later harvesting corn to 'do something bad and the Universe gets you back' is just a fantasy.

LOL. Research a superstition? Better to binge watch Peaky Blinders or pick the lint out of your navel. While you're at it, 'research' if my cousin Joey created the Universe last week.

It is totally random in matters such as good and bad. Individually it is totally random how we materialize in this world, too. One can be born male to intelligent parents in a developed country, and life is pretty easy. One can be born a female in rural Bangladesh and life is not going to be easy. Neither person 'deserved' his or her fate; it just is. The reason religions and superstitions exist is because most people are uncomfortable with randomness. Random means no control. Many will accept a malevolent entity (such as the Old Testament god) over random, because there's always a chance to strike a deal with a malevolent entity. No chance for a deal with randomness. On a large scale, everything is result of the basic forces of existence (and maybe 5). Electromagnetism, gravity, the strong atomic force and weak atomic force. Every other belief system is from the Stone or Bronze Age, was conjured by ignorant people, and has zero evidence backing it up. Yes, one can believe whatever one wants, but reality has no respect for foolish beliefs, so good is not rewarded and bad is not punished, at least by any unseen force.

Karma is real, the Earth is flat, and there's a guy with a white beard up in the sky who loves you so much. Oh, and astrology, ghosts, lucky amulets, levitation, reincarnation, and even when folks with severe Alzheimers die, the second they are dead all their memory and personality returns in an instant.

Maybe I'm wrong, but those officers look to be the Fashion Police, not Immigration, and looking at the Swede's outfit, he is surely guilty.

Some bargirls take an old foreigner to the cleaners by exploiting his feelings and need for young companionship. Some foreigners feed a bargirl's dreams by promising her eternal love and eternal financial support, then abandon her when he's schtupped her enough or is just bored silly with her. The foreigners who get taken have heard all the stories, yet convince themselves it will never be them. The bargirls who get abandoned have heard all the stories, but think their foreigner is different. Nobody can be taught a thing; some people are just made for disappointment. Sometimes, however, things do work out, for the foreigner who ends up trusting a bargirl, and a bargirl who ends up trusting a foreigner. Some 'live happily ever after'. I have no clue what the numbers are, but I suspect the Taken Foreigner and the Abandoned Bargirl are by far the norm. Ain't nobody innocent. Nobody will ever learn because nobody really wants to learn. Am I now an expert? Should I make a YouTube video or Facebook post? Is there anybody who has spent more than ten minutes in Thailand and doesn't already know all of this?

I knew trump was having trouble finding new lawyers to represent him, but daaaaaammmmmnnn! How the 'mighty' have fallen !

If trump is convicted in multiple jurisdictions, maybe he can be drawn and quartered, with parts serving time in GA, NY, DC and Leavenworth.

Never quite understand this male ego thing.... Odds favor the 'shop girl' NOT being a virgin, which means she had sex because she was horny. Bargirls have sex to make money, maybe even to take care of family. A shop girl's salary doesn't always cover what a family might need, and anyone who's spent any amount of time in Thailand knows how strong filial piety is here. 10K baht/month is often not enough. To me, it's an odd moral code that says "Horny = Good", "Money = Bad". I'm not a virgin, and I was not in love with every woman with whom I slept. Sometimes it was a one night stand, because I was in the mood. I would hope any woman I happened to fall in love with would not care. So as not to be a hypocrite, I cannot dismiss a woman simply because she has had many partners, out of horny-ness or for want of money. I understand being concerned about her activities after we build a relationship, but I suspect the shop girl is as likely to stray as the bargirl, or as me. I think lots of guys claim 'morality', when the reality is they are insecure about their own masculinity and wonder if some bigger, better guy satisfied the woman they are with.

He cannot get a pardon from a friendly POTUS, even if an (R) gets elected. This is a State indictment, not Federal. President has no authority to pardon for State convictions. I suspect trump will be heavily campaigning for an (R) Governor of Georgia in 2024. Of course the 'Billionaire Beggar' will grift off of his goobers to pay for campaign contributions, as well as legal fees. The sentence for each count is 5 years minimum, so if convicted, his golf-playing days are over. First rant guess: he will include both 'witch hunt' and 'Fani dating gang members' (funny coming from a guy who schtupped a Porn Star)

Since you ask....yes on the kids. They did not materialize in this world in good circumstances. It's my middle finger raised to the deities in which I do not believe.

Tiger is actually more Chinese than Thai, but the Chinese have never claimed him as one of their own. Tiger's dad has some Chinese blood, while mom was half. I went to a party with Tiger once at the then-PM's house. Every Thai mother at the party was thrusting her daughter on to him. Tiger finally got fed up and walked out.

Is Hat Yai in Texas? Bet it was a Glock or Sig P-320. They come with their own engraved Darwin Award, suitable for framing. Lucky for him---but not his now-future offspring---that he wasn't appendix carrying.

Seems to me around 100K-150K a month is fair. A 9 or 10 makes that or a multiple of it. Toss in a little shopping at Armani or Chanel as a treat. Nice clothes make her feel sexy. The problem I have found is she wants a lot more sex than I want. Must be because she's just 21. I'm content with twice a day, but she's always angling for another schtupping. The only time I get any privacy is when I 'go where the king goes alone', so to speak. She even goes to the gym with me (which has benefits for her backside, so I don't mind). I'm sure all the guys here are stud muffins, and even Lisa Blackpink is weak in the knees for you. Lisa can even pay you for services rendered. Personally I don't care about a woman's past, as few non-bargirls are virgins, so what's the difference between if her previous schtupping was for money, or because she was just horny? Horny is a 'good girl' and for money is a 'bad girl'? Whose moral code is that? What man in his right mind would want a virgin anyway? Have you forgotten your own teen years? Those first few partners were fun? Hardly. Bottom line to the OP: let everybody do what he wants, pay what he wants, live whatever fantasy he wants. Others' wallets or bedpost notches are not my concern, nor are any other man's desires. Is there some scorecard we all get on the last day of existence, where extra points are given for schtupping the non-bargirl who has only had 25 partners? (If you can pick her up, someone else has likely done the same before you.) Extra points for hooking up with the hi-so woman who pays OUR way? Somebody needs bragging rights? Why? In the end the only thing that matters is if you've had fun and enjoyed your relationship. (There's a touch of sarcasm here and there.)

Most here speak of a hard life or rough times. I'll take the opposite view. Easier life than 99.99999% of all the people who ever lived. Totally undeserved. Life is about 95% dumb luck and 5% actual effort. All the good things I achieved were more a result of an accident of birth than anything else, and anything I might have messed up was my own damn fault. Given my circumstances of birth (white male in a highly developed country, born of intelligent and athletic parents), I would have had no excuse if I failed, and deserve precious little credit for succeeding. All I had to do was stay away from self-inflicted vices like smoking, drinking to excess, getting fat and out of shape. Good health is easy if one works at it, difficult if one is intent on self-abuse. Had two careers...one exciting albeit a touch dangerous, the other compensating me infinitely more than any value I added to society. Don't need a post-death paradise, because I've already experienced it. Dumb luck. Life is hardly fair, but I have no complaints.

They found plenty of interest to geologists. What did you expect? Dinosaurs? McDonald's? Jimmy Hoffa?

Do you know how cameras work? How light impacts them? What f-stops and film speed do? I think you don't.

Looking at the average retired expat I see in Bangkok and Pattaya, it does look as if most had a hard life. Most look beaten down by life, the majority are fat and out of shape, and few look happy---despite 'living the dream', at least when they email buddies back home.. No doubt members here are all happy and fit, but the expats I see out and about look like times have always been tough. One sympathizes.

The more things change, the more they stay the same---or revert to the mean. The US, under old school liberals, tried to become racially blind, beginning in maybe the 1970s or 80s. Music really crossed racial lines, with groups like Earth, Wind & Fire, Sly & the Family Stone, Tina Turner, etc., popular across the racial spectrum. White kids had posters of David Thompson, Walter Payton or later Michael Jordan on the bedroom wall. Blacks had Larry Bird or Joe Montana. Blacks and Whites were on the same TV show. Capt Kirk even kissed Uhura (Star Trek). By 2000, the best golfer was Black (Tiger) and the best rapper was White (Eminem). Now it's Blacks shows or White shows, and sports heroes look like you. The new 'liberals', whom many call 'woke', are reverting back to racial identity as being the be all and end all. College dorms are now segregated by race. Everything must be 'inclusive' and 'diverse' (except college dorms). If awards---even Oscars---don't have Black or Asian winners, it's prima facie proof of 'racism', even if there was no top level performance by non-Whites. Liberalism used to mean color blind. Today it's eyes wide open and we don't celebrate the differences, we demand they be seen.

trump knows he is up against it with a no nonsense judge, so his lack of given her a moniker is because he's scared. He should be. Maybe Judge Chutkan could declare a bench trial, especially if trump issues his usual dog whistle calls to his goobers, who then try to intimidate jury members. It might be of no interest to you (boring rant), but it wasn't written for you. I might suggest you block me, because I'd hate to bore you any more.

What else? 2020 was the year trump hashed his plan to overthrow American democracy. Remember? As for growth, as has been noted ad nauseam to nauseus, trump's first three years of GDP change were in the bottom 30% of all Quarters since the end of WWII.