2009

Shagging, by far. It has the best margins of any tourism business.

Lol, I loved your last sentence. If you mean both sex and nitroglycerin are good for the heart, I can't disagree there. Most people don't get bent out of shape with worry over strep throat or bacterial bronchitis, so why Clamydia or Gonorrhea? Sure, there can be complications in rare cases. Pneumonia kills too, right? Most people don't feel concerned with hand/foot warts, but genital warts ..oh no! Doctors actually consider genital warts as an unavoidable and normal part of human sex. Herpes are harmless, whether it is a coldsore or otherwise. Genital herpes were not considered a big deal at all until the late 70s when they invented the antivirals and the company that made them launched a massive advertising scare campaign, which was apparently very effective, cos now we view them differently from coldsores. Untreated Syphilis is definitely scary, but it's hasn't been a big deal since the invention of Penicillin. HIV, obviously not something you want in your life, but it is exceedingly rare in heterosexuals. A few hundred new cases each year in heterosexual males in Thailand these days. Double that for women. Vast majority found in gay men (a few thousand a year). For perspective: will you be one of the few hundred straight males to be diagnosed with HIV this year? Or will you be one of the few hundred to die over '7 Deadly Days of Songkran' on the roads this year? And which one plays on your mind more? And although HIV is serious, we get really anxious about it -- yet most of us never give a second thought to more serious (and more common) things, such as: heart failure, stroke, cancer, organ failure, serious accident, disability, instant death from something, dementia, depression, even complications from diabetes (foot amputations, blindness).

Yeah,it really is rampant. However, I am not sure it is so often the blokes disappearing as it is the girl's family keeping the child and telling the bloke to go away. I have personally witnessed this and had experience with it. Amicable co-parenting after separation is not in Thai culture according to my EX. They don't handle these situations with much maturity. And it took a lot from me to get her to do things the Western way after we broke up.

....."the same"...... Not a chance. Some places are FAR worse than others.

Exactly Road safety and swimming lessons would save so many kids. The danger of STDs is blow WAY out of proportion to the point that our obsession with sexual health is something of a phenomenon. However, teen pregnancy is pretty damaging, IMO.

Teenage pregnancy is definitely a massive problem here. Condoms ain't that cheap, like most things considered a "luxury" here. They don't really have a culture of taking the contraceptive pill, either. Back West, when I was a whipper-snapper there wasn't a sexually active girl not getting the pill from her doctor. Here you can just get it from pharmacy, no prescription, yet I have never known a woman to use it properly. Most STDs are harmless and the serious ones are exceedingly rare in the heterosexual community, at least. But they need some real "planned parenthood" talks here. Part of the issue is, I think, having a child here is like having an insurance policy, or a pension -- not a responsibly. The number of Asian women who have told me the reason why they want a child is so they have someone to look after them is shocking. Yet, I have witnessed such sickening neglect, even in my own extended family. I think the brainwashing that goes on here about how indepted Thais are to their parents is shameful -- especially considering the rampant emotional and physical abuse & neglect (which is generally considered normal parenting).

Another tragic case of neglect. I will never understand parents here.

Following someone down the street kicking them isn't self defence. Lol You could call it: revenge, retaliation, fighting, assault, attacking, etc etc. Irrespective of what he did, she no longer needed to defend herself when she was following him down the street. The police understand the law. Village justice will just get you a criminal charge. Simple.

Noice!

Motorcycle tried to overtake while the farang was making a turn. Clearly his own fault. The police got it right. It would only be a farang's fault if he didn't signal่.

At that age they are worried about worse things: heart failure, stroke, cancer, dementia, diabetes (i.e. potential organ failure, foot amputations, blindness), or just the simple fact that no matter what they do, they are gonna die in a decade or two. That said, I have known a couple of guys whose retirement abruptly ended when they became fathers again, lol.

Actually, I am the one saying she shouldn't have resorted to violence, while most others are applauding her and saying he got off light. Some are saying he should have been "beaten to a pulp", "knocked out" etc. etc. Literally, the type of violence that could get an attempted murder charge, lol. Who needs therapy? And my point was: if roles were reversed, what would be a reasonable course of action? A woman certainly shouldn't be attacked for pouring a drink on someone. But a man should apparently. I am just trying to apply logic to the situation. And I am skeptical that there isn't more to the story. She comes across as a hot head. I reckon some insults were exchanged.

I just think it's a pity we didn't really get the full story. We don't know exactly what he was doing to be a nuisance, other than try to be sociable at her table and we dunno how she treated him. All we know is what he did with the beer and then what she did with her feet n fists. And that they both got charged with assault (and rightly so). Also, it was really not news worthy: nothing more than a sensationalized story.

All we know is he was trying to socialize (clink glasses) with her and presumably her two male friends (boyfriend?) who she was sitting with and she somehow communicated to him to leave them alone. We don't know he was even trying to be romantic or flirty - just sociable. What she actually said to him is unknown. Wow. Beaten to a pulp? If she had poured a drink on him, would she deserve to be beaten to a pulp? I am saying nobody would care if it was a bloke. It wouldn't make news. It would be assumed he said something cheeky and probably deserved it. At least, people would wonder about it. Even if he had gotten the glass on his head and some stitches, not only the beer, it probably wouldn't be news worthy. And he wouldn't be applauded for retaliation and get nationwide praise. Lol.

This is exactly what I have been saying. There is two sides to every story, but in this sensationalist female victory story nobody is interested in more in depth reporting. He was trying to be sociable with her (and perhaps the two blokes she was sitting with), and she dismissed him. I wonder if she was unduely rude? Cos, if so, she deserved the drink. If a man is rude he gets beaten up and it ain't news, unless he is killed or in seriously condition.

So, the message here is that women can do as they please? Just because they are female? No matter how derogatory they may be, there can't be any repurcussions? One the one hand, it's apparently ok for men to be violently assaulted when they do something wrong, but a woman can't get a little wet? Come on.........IF she had been insulting, (and we dunno cos we haven't seen or heard that part of the story yet), she certainly deserved some kind of response. If she were a man (or a boy, even), she'd get a bloody nose and a black eye (at least!) and it wouldn't even be news.

So what you basically just said is you have to expect a (violent) reaction if your pour a drink on someone, but you shouldn't react at all if someone is verbally offensive to you?? Like I have been saying: we don't know why he poured the drink on her. We haven't heard his side of it. Maybe she deserved it for how she treated him. Maybe he deserved a kicking for what he did. Maybe they are both just as bad as each other. Something just doesn't add up about the story. She doesn't tell us many details on what happened with him interacting with her group. All we know is that he was trying to be sociable with her (or her group) and she didn't appreciate it and communicated that to him somehow.

No, I am pointing out that we dunno what happened to start all of this. When he was at their table clinking glasses, how do you know she was polite to him? Did she say, "No, thanks" or "F-off"? If she was rude, (by your logic) he had every right to be mad. And although, I don't condone wasting good beer on someone, you have to expect a reaction if you are rude.

Did you miss the part where she assaulted him repeatedly? Lol What was she thinking? Good on the RTP gor their fairness

You are missing the point. There was a guy the other day who shot 4 people cos of how they treated him. I didn't see him get a round of applause. Would I get a round of applause for bashing a woman who poured a drink on me? Don't think so. This is only getting attention cos it fits the women's rights narrative. I am still interested to know what lead him to pour that drink on her. Maybe he was spending too much time at their table for her liking, talking to her and the 2 men she was with. Maybe she rudely told him to F-off and didn't expect any consequence. All we know is he was at their table trying to offer glass clinks (to her or the blokes she was with) and she wanted him to go away. What she said, who knows.

She was sitting with two men at her table. Did this guy really try to get into her pants in this setting? He would have assumed one was her boyfriend, probably. Or was he just interacting with her table, talking with her and the blokes she was with, and offering glass clinks. Maybe she just didn't like his presence and told him to F-off rudely. Or maybe she spoke to him like he was low class and she was above him. Not uncommon. But anyway, all we know is that he beered her for some reason.

Something is off about this.... So, he approached her table where she was sitting with 2 men and tried to clink glasses with just her? All of them? Did he say anything to her? Was he chatting with the two men at her table? Then what? Did she say, "No, thanks" Did she talk down to him? Was she polite? Rude? Did she tell him to go away? Any colourful language? We still don't know any of the above. All we know if he held a grudge against her for something and he poured a drink on her. Then she attacked him all the way down the road for a while and screamed all kinds of insults and colourful language, while he exhibited restraint and relative calm. Amazingly, he loses his job while she is glorified. Though both are charged and rightly so.

It wasn't self defense. It was retaliation. She chased him down the street hitting him. Both parties were wrong.

I am guessing so too. Probably something like this: 1. He was interacting with her table (she was sitting with two guys) and trying to click glasses with them. 2. She wanted him to go away and pehaps was rude about it. 3. He poured a beer over her due to how she treated him. 4. He gets his ass kicked all the away down the road. 5. He lost his job. She gets glory. Lol. At the end, if you look at the interaction between him and the chubby guy who was at her table, it was one of mutual understanding, apparently. And why would he be hitting on a woman sitting with two guys at a restaurant. Unusual. One apparently her partner. I think she was rude to him which is probably what started the chain of events.

We really have to see what happened first. His "advance" and "rejection" Wouldn't surprise me if he didn't do anything wrong and was just saying cheers to the people at the table (including her) and she was rude to him. None of us actually knows what happened first, but we are quick to judge the guy who got his ass kicked all the way down the road.