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  1. 6 hours ago, JeffersLos said:

    Given the condition of the left hand lanes due to overloaded trucks on the half melted asphalt, idiots pulling out of little lanes without looking, and old women doing 10kph on their 30 year old waves, it's easy to see why. 

    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 ????

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  2. 20 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

    Let's see, can we say Thailands behind the times. My kids learned computer programming and coding in high-school starting 15 years ago, each one slso built their own gaming computer and my oldest built her own DVD player....my half Thai American daughter who is now in High School took coding classes last semester and is currently taking pre-calculus as a 10th grader. Starting next year she will be taking AP Chemistry, AP Physics and AP world history......

     

    Had she returned with me she would be way behind where she is now. Schools here are a joke unless your kids are in an international school, where my 9 year old step-daughter will start the new school year at in BKK.

    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.

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  3. On 3/16/2023 at 4:13 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

    I don't know where you hang out in LOS, but while the Thais are as racist as any society I've ever lived in, they are not as bad as you make out, IMO.

    Perhaps you live in a big city to get such a negative idea- rural Thais are nothing like that in my experience.

    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.

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  4. 2 hours ago, Credo said:

    You've been sharing a bathroom since you were in LGBTQ folks since you were in grade school.  LGBTQ people have been in sports for as long as sports have existed.  It's pretty common nowadays to get an announcement of another football or basketball player coming out of the closet.   

     

    Do you really feel in danger because someone in a bathroom might be LGBTQ?  

    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.

  5. On 3/8/2023 at 9:49 AM, ThailandRyan said:

    Some people just can't handle anything that's out of their comfort zone. Tattoos are another one folks thing derogatorily of.  How does having a tattoo make one not a public figure or a public servant. So many people in positions of power here, even at the top dog spot,  and elsewhere have some ink on them.  

    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.

  6. 9 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

    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.

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  7. 4 hours ago, jerrymahoney said:

    Without denying the above, I think many western guys settle in Pattaya because they are just more comfortable being around a large bunch of fellow farangs.

    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)

  8. 13 hours ago, Neeranam said:

    I guess you are in Pattaya. I'm amazed the guys that retire there and are surprised they are not welcome in the world's largest brothel.

    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.

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