2009

18 hours ago, NativeBob said:

My point is: even 17 years thai girl still has a mind of a child, unable to sort things rationally. Sorry to say that but its just a dumb kid. And not just a kid, but rural dumb kid from remote village. What consent?

Old fart lured her into "You show me yours I'll show you mine" game.
Disgusting!

Mate,

1. This is a country of adolescents. You are gonna have to look hard to find anyone with a higher mental age, especially in the villages.

2. Lured? Something tells me this bird - like many - is going to be very good at choosing blokes for their assets (her reason for choosing him), marrying for the dowry, then leaving them broke before doing the same thing over and over again as many times as possible.

You don't think she is doing this for love, do you? There's not a lot of innocence around these parts. You see all the 18 year olds on dating websites looking for guys and their ages range is like 40-60, lol. Are they being taken advantage of? Gimme a break.

6 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

It's getting to a point where I'm avoiding all foreigners wherever I go. 

Interesting, they've never done any harm to me.

I prefer to avoid most Thais, haha

4 hours ago, NativeBob said:

 

I think it depends on the location: I can't imagine how folks live at Onnut,

It wasn't that long ago On Nut was the end of the BTS line and there was nothing there but Tesco, the market across the road, and plenty of cheap little fan rooms where all the Sukhumvit workers lived.

What's it like now? Surely, must be better?

6 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

Isaan is boring. I like boring. As with living in any rural area I have found, if you didn't bring it with you, it ain't there.

I find Isaan to be "real"

As much as I like Bangkok, most of it is just commercial artificial <deleted>, downtown anyway.

Sure it's fun, for a while. But it's like living in an amusement park - it doesn't feel like real life. And the dreggs of society have flocked here especially to cause mischief with us. Again, fun for a while. But there's more to life.

Gimme a 60 baht large bottle of beer overlooking a lake in Isaan, over Soi Cowboy any day of the week.

But everything on moderation, I suppose.

Isaan has more than it's fair share of socioeconomic problems, particularly outside the cities.

24 minutes ago, connda said:

Rural anywhere preferably in the mountains but within an hour's drive to Big C and Makro for the times of the month that you stock up on food supplies.

Living the dream.

Yeah, I agree. This beats the beach, easy.

It's great if you don't have children. Cos they don't have much of a future growing up there.

I could see myself going back to live there one day though.

23 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I like to experience good things while being a bit fuzzy.

In the day, 2-3 wine coolers, at night 0.5gm of MJ.

Happy to do both in my CM home as I already have an attractive enough woman in my bed every night.

 

The newly arrived single guy needs to surround himself with women and entertainment for at least his first year here (Pattaya). Then he can move somewhere quieter with the new love of his life (Hua Hin or Chiang Mai).  

 

Note to n00bs ........

No capital expenditure in your first 2 years (beyond a scooter).

The car/house/condo/farm can wait a while.

The women are THE most overrated thing in this country.

2 hours ago, Sparktrader said:

See it in all big towns and cities.

Yeah, but in most places the ego allows oneself to use the break pedal.

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Are those strange things that look like waffles hash browns? Too small for me, as I like my hash browns large size and at least 3 of them. Also, no fried onion and only 3 mushrooms is taking the p.....

Swap the tomato for black pudding.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

He also called on all Thais to help in the issue and promote "professionalism".

Indeed.

This man understands.

The only place you find professionalism in a tourist area is on the red light street.

Forget it in pubs, restaurants, traditional massage, taxi etc. etc.

42 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

yikes. sounds like you're yet to master the good old jai yen yen. I regret clicking on "show this post" ????

Love how you managed to cherry-pick one negative thing I wrote out of the numerous positive things I wrote. ????

Are you one of these, "You gotta love everything about Thailand" guys? ????

Which kind of specialist do you want to see?

Very often around hospitals you'll see lots little after hours clinics nearby. They are generally doctors from the nearby hospital who have their own out-of-hours clinic/business. 

Their speciality will be written on the window or on a sign (in Thai, of course). 

If you have a look around you'll be able to find the specialist most likely. If there is anything their clinic can't handle, they will set up an appointment to see them at their day job in the hospital for further tests or whatever.

8 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Interesting... even if he is named on the Childs Brith certificate, because they are not married he’s not considered the legal father ?

 

IF so...  the confusion is starting make a little more sense. 

 

 

 

 

Correct.

His choices are:

1. Get married

2. Wait til the kid is about 7 years old then go through child legitimization process with mother's participation and witnesses at registry office (amphur)

3. Go to court to prove you are father and get a court order so that the registry office will issue the child legitimization document without mother's participation or before child is 7 years old.

3 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Are we missing something here

If you are not married, the child is not legally yours (as the father).

Therefore, unless he is willing to marry (which would be the easiest way to become legal father) then other legal avenues must be used 

The birth certificate - in Thailand - is useless for the unmarried biological father.

13 minutes ago, BonMot said:

You're still here?

Why wouldn't he be?

5 minutes ago, Robin said:

"If you think about  something, or talk about it, you will make it happen" 

So much better not to think about anything unpleasnant.

Explains why they don't wear helmets or look around corners before driving onto the road.

10 minutes ago, Gluuay yai said:

You clearly do not understand the basic principles of Thailand.....EVERYTHING up to Buddha.

But then Thais don't understand Buddhism.

Buddha ain't some kind of decision making god.

Well, up to them. None of my business.

22 hours ago, KIngsofisaan said:

If you had to do it all over again starting in 2022, would you sell everything you owned in your own country to move to Thailand forever?

I don't think I would ever do this.

53 minutes ago, BonMot said:

Yes, that's exactly the idea. The teachers that are fussing about, clueless, not interested in teaching but merely mcjob may get blindsided.

 

By all accounts three waivers are easily granted. That's 5-6 years. Maybe by the third year hopefully the teacher would be thinking they want make the job long term (note: I did not state permeant ???? ) and they'd quickly navigate themselves to proper information, a school and a license.

 

If you're end of third waiver and still lost I suggest you sort yourself out.

 

I suspect that anyone completed grad study, waiting for exam, failed... Just guessing but I bet you can get another waiver and maybe two simply due to chaos and confusion.

Yeah, maybe so.

I am just wondering where we CAN teach without a waiver?

International schools?

Technical colleges?

Or is it just universities and language schools?

3 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Yes. Another way of putting it, is that they are comfortable manifesting the incredible dignity within femininity. Unlike most of their Western counterparts, who seem to be pathologically afraid of their own femininity. 

 

I think Me too has already come here. And Thai women have rejected it. They have said why would I want reject my greatest asset, my femininity?

 

When Matt Damon recently came out and stated that there was a big difference between a little pat on the butt, and forceful rape, he was nearly crucified by some women in Hollywood, (especially the shrill, elderly, and way, way, way past the sell by date) Minnie Driver. That alone demonstrated to the most reasonable mind, how far out of control this "war on men" has gone. It is beyond ridiculous. It is petty, silly, surly, and just plain old dumb. Not to say there are not men who deserve it. But, a pat on the butt, or a man putting his hand on a woman's thigh, when they are engaged in a friendly conversation is NOT the same as rape and does not constitute sexual harassment. And yes, I would feel the same way if it happened to my daughter. Give me a break. 

Yeah, and here they seem to have zero concerns about being judged because of their choice of partner.

In the West, they are super picky just cos of social judgement