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2 hours ago, ChaiyaTH said:

It annoys the FK out of me that people keep saying this, nobody EVER said this was the case, they said they wanted to turn songkran into a festival that lasts longer. NOBODY ever said the water fight days would change AT ALL. Seem nobody in this country, including most foreigners, are able to read + understand. 

There is a difference between being able to know a language, read something and processing it VS reading something, UNDERSTANDING IT and processing it. 

But yeah, knowing most people lack that capability, I guess it was a very <deleted>ty news message X 10.

I can read very well and the extended period would be filled with other activities than water splashing.. But there are no other activities whatsoever at least in my amphur or province...So why proclaim a extended version of nothing?

The more stories I read it seems that foreigners are getting tired of the double standards/overcharging of foreigners.... In fact they are right, but Thais will always talk and do in favor of Thais...sadly enough

2 hours ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

Oh you poor virtue signaller - it must be so bad being inside that victimhood head of yours - the inhumanity of it all 🙂

So you have been in a 'relationship' with a gay - well I do bow to your 'understanding' of your and your partner's feelings of victimhood.

But I do not bow to you speaking on behalf of all gays - the majority of who just want to be left along to live in peace, and who do not like the activism that has sprung up in their name claiming victimhood and outrage on their behalf.

I am not a victim and will never behave kike this only the people like you will never understand untill it happens to themselves. I will pray for it that it will happen to you or your loved ones and than we will see how you respond

2 hours ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

Your an ignorant person who has no idea.  I played golf most weeks for over 20 years with a gay guy - met his partner many times over dinner/beer, Both were good blokes - and he disliked the 'gay activists' a lot more than I do - and their views are very much what I am talking about and know a lot about. 

 

But people like yourself who see any comments from anyone that are not 'compliant' with the dogma being spewed out by the gay activists, label them as homophobic and thereby claim a win (virtue singalling).  I dont care if you are gay or not - I care about what sort of person you are and I will agree or disagree with your opinions impartially and fairly.  

you still don't have a clue...no idea where gay people have to deal with although you have fun and have a beer with them.... being friends with gays is something else than being in a relationship with a gay. Especially in countries that don't have any legal way for their relationships.. You don't know where they have to deal with it... and that is not playing golf with them

2 hours ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

They can all shove that BS up their ****   They (I use they/them to cover all variations) claimed a desire for equality under marriagelaws and that is justified, with resultant property rights after death, taxation deductions and rights, and other 'equality' issues under the Laws.  But I hope the Thailand Govt does not fsll into the same traps as the Western Govts did and cave into their constant demands for 'more and more equality' which has resulted in a man claiming to be a woman because he is wearing a woman's clothes, and children being medical changed for life. Certainly in the West, much more than in Thailand, there needed to be a balance taken against the old school belief that 'they' were to be treated like lepers - but that is not needed in Thailand where they are generally treated equally in Thai society.  Give them and they equality under Laws in a 'personal union' (marriage) - but nothing more and nothing less.  

Bit homo[phonic and you have no idea what you are talking about.....People like you should read and be informed first before making this kind of stupid comments

19 minutes ago, JoePai said:

Sloppy writing

Indeed foreigners wrong Thai the best

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Since when were marriages in Thailand religious? We go to the amphur to get married, PERIOD. People can choose to have a religious ceremony but that is not a legal marriage, only the legal signing in the office is a legal marriage.

It is the name not the cermony ... marriage is a legal invention  in religions for 2 people living together..... I don't care how it is named, but as you know marriage is only for people between man and woman... They should ban this word

32 Thais arrested..... why write everywhere what nationalities have done things wrong, but when it comes to Thai people they don't write it,

10 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Because I do not agree with gay marriage , does not make me homophobic. Civil partnerships should be respected as much as marriage in the 'emergencies' you describe. I see marriage as it is in the bible, man and woman, etc - though I am not a religious person or religiously brainwashed - it is my view. Both marriage and civil partnerships should be equal in the eyes of the law, society and people.  I have no issues with people being gay or being together. If any of my sons or grandchildren were gay they would always get my full support.  The problem is that people  tarnish all people as homophobic as they do not agree with gay marriage - that is the problem in society

good to hear... however marriage between man and woman is a religious thing and civil partnerships should be equal.. but because for many centuries homosexuals have been disapproved by the same religion as that for a marriage, there are no other choices.. Marriage or Civil partnerships.. maybe time to scrap marriage and make every possible relation legal as a Civil Partnership... all problems in all religions are solved too

It should be  Major Online gambling operation in Chian Rai shut  down 3 Thais arrests

It should be  A Pattaya Thai Van driver dies after falling asleep

And the driver was a Thai

maybe good to know is that in the Netherlands last week there was an item that because of airpollution probably 400 more deaths were in Covid period, as air pollution has a bad fluence on the lungs and makes the Covid more dangerous... How would that be in Chiang Mai?

Smof will have a minimum impact for Songkran,, who believes that crap?? 

Sounds good 435000 arrivals a day, but how many arrivals in Bangkok will go further to Phuket, Chiang Mai etc?? They are being double counted??

So Thais can have a suspicious behavior as especially foreigners are being watched.... Thailand for Thais only.... and scream that tourists don't come in big numbers anymore while wondering why...