jaywalker

Or, as Kamala Harris said "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! God! could you IMAGINE that cackling Bufoon in the White House with Tampon Timmy as VP? I love my President!

I had a rental car many years ago. 2002 or so. Being the naive Dummy I was, and not being able read Thai, I did not see that the insurance sticker expired about 2 days after I rented it...I had paid for 3 weeks and I cannot read Thai. Checkpoint. Expired insurance. "You must to pay 10,000 baht". "OK, now you go"....with no insurance. Some clown was speeding, in the wrong lane once and hit my wife's car. The cops told her, "You have Farang name. Farangs have big money. 10,000 baht or BIG TROUBLE for you". I went to Koh Chang once from Pattaya, and had a buddy with his wife and my wife in the truck with me. I told him we'd get stopped by the cops at least once. Sure enough some Kamikaze Cop ran out in front of me in Rayong. Claiming I was going 51 KPH instead of 50 KPH....or something....I never figured it out. I asked my wife what I was guilty of???? She just said "GIVE HIM SOME MONEY!" 200 baht later I was on my way. My friend and his wife (she is half Thai) were on their Honeymoon, recently married. They were APALLED. "Just give him some money????" ================= I was late for a meeting with a Colonel in the Royal Thai Air Force once, and GUILTY as they get in the Viphavdi Expressway, going 140 KPH, near Don Muang airport. The cop thought I was late for my flight, so he said "You must to pay 2,000 baht" I had a 500 baht note in my lap. I was sober. He said "if you drinking 10,000 baht". I was nice to him and said "No Problem. We go police station" He took the 500 baht and let me go. Stop me when I'm doing nothing wrong...Stop me when AM gulty of a traffic violation. Never got a ticket...just a couple hundred baht in my International Driver's License, which always came back light. I have been stopped by police, maybe half a dozen times in the USA over 42 years. I have been stopped by police HUNDREDS of times in Thailand, and they still cannot catch drunk drivers????

I cooked some blackeyed peas and cornbread a long time ago, in Bangkok. My wife had never heard of this Farang food. It's a 4 -5 hour cook time. Crumbe the cornbread & ladle copious amounts of peas & ham all over it. Fresh onion on the side. She LOVED it! Ate a BIG, HONKING plate of it. She is 4 foot 11 inches and weighs 99 lbs. She went back and re-loaded her plate like she hadn't eaten in a week. My sweet cornbread was just too good I guess? It didn't take long till the bread started expanding. She was on the couch and could not move for most of the evening.

I love my British friends, so this is not a jab at them, just a true story. Myself and my buddy Jeff got invited to a Hash Houise Harriers (very British) drive across the sand dunes from Abu Dhabi to Al Ain. It was 1998 & I guess the weekend was Thursday & Friday...Some Muslim holiday mixed in there, so we had a 3 day weekend. We came out of the desert to a VERY BRITISH villa, and they had food all cooked up & "HEY Everyone! EAT!" I appreciated the generosity & never said a word, but there was not a grain of salt, pepper, garlic???? PFFF! Just meat and bread. No ketchup no mustard. Just meat and bread. It felt like chewing cardboard. I was hungry and I ate it and I said THANK YOU to the hosts. I think it was John Letterman that had a British guy on his show, talking about how the British were searching for the Northwest passage to get to India. Letterman: So you guys were looking for spices? Guest: Yes So you guys love spices....why don't you put any on your food?

I would say the best food I ever ate is whatever I just ate. I just polished off a big plate of Navy Beans & ham and cornbread. I did eat half a raw onion with it.....could have murdered a few green cayenne peppers as well but didn't have any Just be thankful for what I have.

Well, a smidgen of Pla-ra goes a LOOOOOONG way. I normally get it w/ the black crab. ===================== Funny story about Pla-ra. It's a SUPER Fishy paste. I looks like refried beans & smells like dead whale's ass. My wife imported some into Kuwait. She is from Surin and was VERY careful with it...it had to last her 6 months. No bars in Kuwait but a THRIVING blaack market. A buddy came by & we worked on a jug of Johnny Walker. He wound up sleeping on the couch....No biggie. He had the munchies and ate ALL my wife's pla-ra! It took a couple days to figure out, and we all laughed....Still laughing about it today!

I was working for/with the RTAF for a few years. I had a crew that just HAD, to have a pot full of rice cooking all day right outside my office. I normally LOVE Thai rice, but I went 9 months back in the USA before I could stand the sight of rice. I DEARLY miss tom yam kung and som-tam though! ------------- Som tam is HEAVEN on a plate. My daughter is 20 now & has a dislike for Cambodians because they claim they invented som-tam. She's a cute little ding-bat.

OK..........British gal, worked for an airline. Who cares? What on earth is a stitch-up? I have spent the night in 45 countries. I can get by in four languages. I'm from Florida, and I'm guessing she was framed???? Help me out please, as I do not have a clue what a "Stitch-Up" is.

Eat all the bugs you want Brother, but don't get between me and a ribeye. I tried tucutan once. Not bad, but ribeyes rule! I can drink a fifth of Jack Daniels after a large ribeye and feel like a champ in the morning. Try that with a pound of crickets or silkworms....OH YUMMY!

I landed in Japan once (working on Okinawa). Fresh out of Don Mueng. The customs officer asked me, "Do you have any drugs? Marijuana or cocaine?" I started slapping all my pockets & said "Nope. Fresh out, but if I had some I'd share it with you. That way we could both get HIGH". He told me to get lost.

If I were caught over staying I'd be on the next plane back to the USA, afetr a week or 3 in a Thai jail. Greetings from Florida. Ron Desantis will KICK your illegal tail off to ...someplace "else". Married to a Thai lady 24 years ago. 19 year old daughter with two passports. If Thai Immigration cops catch me on an expired visa? Guess what happens? I go to jail and get deported. Rocket science....Oh wait...Katy Perry (whoever that thin lipped gal is?) and Botox Betty Lauren Sanchez just told us all about rockets. Immigration laws are LAWS.

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

If they had decent parents, they wouldn't be covered in tatoos with purple hair and nose rings.

Tell that to the Jews (6 million dead), or Russia (20 million dead). Pol Pot wanted to eliminate the family structure to create a Utopia where government knew better than the parents, and he ONLY had to kill 1/3rd of his population...It didn't work. I'm sure the millions they all killed never thought, "Huh, well, I'm glad society hasn't broken down". TO EACH his/her OWN after they become an adult, but leave the STATE out of parents' and their kids' lives (aside from abuse), and I would argue that allowing my little boy to get a tatoo, or smoke methamphetamines, or get his willy lopped off all fall under the title of abuse.

I agree. It's up to the kid (when they become an adult). They see it every day. They can make a decision once they are no longer a child. I say Up2U when it comes to adults. I recall going through grade school with a boy that was 8 or 9 and CLEARLY, VERY effiminate, as well as a girl that very masculine...they were born that way, but for heaven's sake can we not all agree that genital (surgical and chemical, irreversible) changes should wait until the child is no longer an a child, but an adult? I have an 81 year old distant cousin, and a 38 year old nephew, and they are gay. I DON"T CARE! If they want to grow long hair and start wearing dresses.......It's different than gay. I have to admit, I cannot fathom never being able to have an orgasm again....and parents are doing that to KIDS??? Rock on Vivek!

Here ya go. Trans people are not. When the government gets involved, and FORCES the transition of a child upon parents, and takes away children from parents...THAT is destroying society. This is a Canadian example, but living in Thailand, one should realize that governments will do ANYTHING to get more power (and riches). Covid should have taught all of us Hoi Palloi that fact.

If a kid is gay, then they are gay. I have a couple gay relatives. It's the way some folks were born...I get that. I have no problem with that. All Vivek (and I) are saying is that little boys should not get their tackle lopped off, and little girls should not get their breasts lopped until they are 18. Then it's up to them, as an adult to decide how they want to live their ADULT lives. Humans below the age of 18 are called "children" for a reason. I recall being 7 or 8 years old standing outside in a thunderstorm, hoping to get hit by lightning, so I could then turn into a supehero. Bad idea. Transitioning before one's brain has fully developed is akin to hoping to get hit by lightning. Bad idea.

It's a mental disorder in KIDS. If a 10 year old girl said she was a 50 year old man....Something is wrong with the kid.

Poor baby. My daughter is 18 now. I keep wishing she was just 2. Cutest thing on the planet! Such a pretty life to see grow into an adult. Drag this POS to the nearest tree.

I encourange any US Army or Marine Veteran to check out Mat Best on Youtube. He is cathartic. He really helps. The worst part about being in the US Military (as a grunt), isn't being shot at and shooting back, it's what's going on in your head, both during and after. I started off in the Panama Canal Zone in 1985 and made it to Bagram and Baghdad. Mat Best does a remake of Dolly Parton's Jolie, Called "Jody"...

So Thailand joins an Elite Club. The USA and Eritrea are the only countries that tax folks domestically on income earned overseas...Now Thailand. Why on Earth should I pay US taxes on money I made in Kuwait or the UAE or Thailand? I pay local taxes. I've been DECADES outside the USA. It's just wrong. Aside from a USA passport (which I loathe), why does Ceasar still demand MY money? It costs a mint to every time I step in the US Embassy, and that's IF I can get an appointment!

It's profitable alright. I once took a taxi from the Hiroshima train station to the Hiroshima airport hotel. Roughly the same as Mo Chit to Suvarnabumi. $150 USD (I forget how many Yen...18,000 or so)... About 6,000 baht. Ouch! I only had 10,000 yen on me & I had gotten them from a USMC base in Iwakuni... At an ATM. Thinking 10,00 baht will get me from Don Muang to Chiang Mai...should be enough. I'm just going across town in Hiroshima. He had the meter on as well. I was able to put it on my expense report no problem, but the problem was finding an ATM that would accept international cards . The only one was in the Airport a half mile away, inside a Japanese Post Office that closed at 5:00PM and it was 5:30 PM by the time I hoofed if over there. The taxi wasn't hauling me another inch. He was an inch away from calling the cops. VERY nice hotel manager that spoke great English got us to agree that I would leave the money with him, and he would hang onto my passport in the meantime.......I took the bullet train to Tokyo for work the next day (I had bought the round tip ticket at a Travel agency on the USMC base), and did my work at the Tokyo port (2 hours working) and started wandering AIMLESSLY thru Tokyo looking for an ATM that was in English, and that took a Mastercard debit card. I stumbled upon a farang on the street, and he lived there. Canadian guy. He took pity on me and hooked me up with a Japanese Post Office that was open. WHEW! ============ I was in Iwakuni for work and got to see the cherry blossoms in March. GORGEOUS!!! Hiroshima was a beautiful city (this was all 20 years ago). The people were, to a fault ALL super nice. Riding the bullet train was cool as hell. Nuclear war is the worst thing that could ever happen, and I'm happy I got to see it as a really nice place.

Maybe it was a transgender transformer? Stranger things have happened!

99% comes from Farangs going 61 kph in a 60 kph zone. I've been pulled over by cops 3 times in the USA. I lived in Kuwait 6 years and Abu Dhabi 2 years as well. Never talked to the cops. I bet I have been stopped by cops almost 100 times in Thailand. Road trip to Surin or Ko Chang? Not a matter of IF, but WHEN will the suicidal BIB run out in front of me?

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