2009

Exactly, it's just a sad version of massaman.

What makes it a stew?? Lemme guess, "It identifies as a stew", right? We've found an LBGT curry, lads ????️‍????

Don't hold your breath.

Exactly I always drive on the right at 90-100km per hour. I don't move for anyone. I don't see why I should be forced into the left with the slow-moving vehicles just cos some coconut wants to do 120km/hr. Never had a gun pulled on me thankfully, but I have had quite a few experiences where the car was driving about an inch from my back bumper. And a few even pulled up the side and infront of me with just inches to spare, almost like they were trying to drive me off the road ????

Thankfully in some ways: their ain't being groomed into the woke cult. Also, kids here have a far higher EQ and a fair bit more common sense in most areas. And I am sure they ain't any worse at math or literacy than their western peers.

Actually, there are some top Thai schools that are better than many schools in western countries. Not all schools in the West are good. And there are plenty of crappy international schools in Thailand too.

I am not sure Thais are ready for driving. Period.

I've lived upcountry and I've lived in Bangkok. I find them all the same. Infact, if anything, Thais in cosmopolitan parts of the country (e.g. Bangkok) are often a bit more open minded about foreigners.

I get the impression you haven't lived here and are basically a long term tourist visitor, right? Cos if you had lived here long term, you'd know Thais are as racist and bigoted as they come: they particularly distain blacks, Indians, Middle Easterns, Laotians, Cambodians, Muslims (even their own), and to a lesser extent whites -- but we are still just farang and never equal to them in their minds. Even mixed race Thai children are viewed as not equal to thoroughbred Thais. The only foreigners they actually respect are Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. And Thailand is a lot more conservative that republicans in America. Also, as someone has already pointed out the woke people in the West are displaying fascist traits and are ironically worse than the MAGA crowd.

Quite the deep thinker, aren't you? It ain't me I am concerned about. How about girls sharing a bathroom with men? Nah, I don't like that. How about girls playing physical contact sports against men? Nah.

I don't mind the LGBTQ people, but when it comes to sports and bathrooms, there needs to be segregation.

It's ironically an extreme form of feminism.

I knew a guy who applied to be a customs officer at the airport and he said as part of the application they had to swim a length in the pool wearing only trunks, no t-shirt. They were all aware it was likely just to check for tats.

I don't really think it has anything to do with age or gender really. Although, I do think that women expect to live off their man's hard work more often. When do men ever get a free ride?

This just sums up the local culture in general.

There may be some very rare genuine cases, but this new "right" is being abused as are children.

Yes, it might take 300 years for men to get all the rights that women have.

Finally.

So, what's changed? Making prostitution officially legal? Great ???? Why not? Far more harmful things are already legal.

Most likely.

Kids copy what they see. I don't think kids should be twerking in their underwear because that's what they've seen adults do. Have you seen the show that the LGBTQ community are doing for children in America? They are literally twerking at them. Normalizing this is dangerous and, imo, a form of grooming. There is a big difference between wearing a bikini on a beach and engaging in sexual behavior in front of children and even trying to engage them in it. And saying things like, "Sex work is work" in front of kids. It's just wrong. I am all for freedom but just cos your can do something, doesn't mean you should.

You should see a pride parade. I saw it in Bangkok. I'd have enjoyed it if they wore regular clothes, but it was sexualized: very little clothing, tight, see-though, G-strings, bondage gear, revealing genitals and asses as much as possible in public, deliberately sexually provocative, while carrying signs which read, "Sex work is real work" For the record, I ain't no prude. I have enjoyed such things in adult establishments at nighttime But there were children watching, it was daytime. They wear shaking their bare asses at kids. I was thinking, "This is how they try to fit into society??" Why not wear regular fashionable clothing, traditional Thai garments, their temple 'Sunday best', their university uniform, or their professional work clothing, or just normal casual clothing. So many choices. Why wear stripper clothing? Why does pride parade have to be tied into sexualization? It seems to be the main theme. Surely, there is more to them than that ???? and surely LGBTQ is not exactly about sex. Isn't it more than that??

Of course I didn't. You can't blame white people for the violent crime of black people. African Americans are some of the most privileged people on Earth. They wouldn't trade places with a Cambodian, Mexican, Ukrainian, or Ethiopian, I guarantee you. They hit the jackpot being born in a first world country, just as we did. Sure, their ancestors were enslaved hundreds of years ago. Slavery existed all over the world. It was common. Thailand had slaves too. You don't hear anyone else today whining. Most of us have a harsh history. England did unspeakable thing to my ancestors. Many blacks grow up in ghettos, okay. Well, many whites grow up in ghettos in Europe too.

Maybe they just feel more comfortable being around farang? Or do you think they'd be more comfortable being around Lao Kao guzzling alcoholics that are just a few drinks away from liver failure (which is all too common in the men in rural Thailand)

It would also be naive to think that you'd be any more welcome in a backwater yokel village, especially since the trollops in Pattaya are from those places. They are really not different in their mentality. In fact, I have noticed when village girls go to start their noble careers in Pattaya and other suchlike cosmopolitan milieus, they often come back to the village a very different individual: more educated and worldly. I may be pushing it a bit, but I'd say farang are more welcome in Pattaya than Nakorn Nowhere.