ccarbaugh

I'm 50/50. Bored with being "marginally-tolerated" but currently am enjoying my (good-woman) lady.

If we broke up, I wouldn't know where else to go - PI?, Lao?, Burma?...? I looked into Latin America 7 years ago before moving here and it didn't appeal to me. Stretching-out the monthly nickels so far....

Thailand is a Matriarchal society like China,the woman runs the household,keeps the money and gives the layabout drunken husband pocket money,surely most people have realised that by now?

Seems to be more so in

Muslim marriages - that I've observed.

(and of course without the drunkeness-

just going to the mosque to "pray"

5 times a day.)

A man wears shorts at the beach or gym, or at the park exercising. In a large metropolitan city (like Bangkok) one should wear long trousers in public. Period. Shorts worn outside the home, beach or gym are the province of women and little boys.

In Thailand, if you're doing any sort of business (including visiting any business establishment, store, office), or temple, you had damn better wear long trousers. Or risk being yet another example of the uncultured and uncouth farang barbarian. I mean, do we WANT to give Thais any more of a reason to look down on us?

What a croc.

I've experimented with this.

I've gone to Immigration wearing

shorts and a T-Shirt and was treated

very differently and couldn't get

anything done. Then, the next day,

long pants and nice shirt- No problem!

(This isn't the USA where Professors, Academicians,

Scientists, PhD's, ... CEO's of Facebook, ....

are at liberty to dress comfortably!)

Quite the opposite of "Up to you."

Here, "APPEARANCE" is EVERYTHING!!!

I looked into Central America

before moving here-

equally unfriendly attitude-

(except for commercial transactions of course.)

Also, you're regarded as a pedophile

as soon as you step off the plane!

I probably would've already

tried Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam

or the Philipines. if

it weren't for the lovely Thai-lady

in my life. (Sometimes Thai

nationalism really sickens me!)

Yes, the exchange rate makes me

have to look for ways to tighten-the-belt

budgetwise but I've done that all my life

anyway while being a wage-slave.

Great article! Yes, but Thais "Superiority Complex"

isn't just limited to their upcountry brethren and

their immediate neighbors!

I just found out that Krung Thai Bank doesn't have an "ABA Routing Number." They told me to use Bangkok Banks' ABA Routing Number in New York to pay my Citibank Credit Card. I tried it but it didn't work and now Citbank is charging me $39 for a "Returned Check Charge."

"But maybe I could get a "second-opinion" by someone,

that has been in the many parts of Thailand and had the chance

to discover "differences" among Thai's,

depending on where they live."

Been to many parts of Thailand (and around the world,)

and have learned to form "opinions" of others based

on individual characteristics- not generalizations based

on nationalities, geography, gender, religion, etc.

What is it exactly that you're asking for?

Mukdahan?, Kalasin?, Yala?, Tak?, Phrae?, ........???

I live on Ram Intra- 4km west of Min Buri. I am very near Fashion Island Mall. Here is the "suburbs" of Bangkok so I can take a 30 baht van to various destinations- Victory Monument, Morchit, Rangsit, Ngonwongwan ....

There is a "Siam City Park" close by that has a delightful swimming area and it seems to be a pleasant, family-oriented amusement park. Then, there's also the Fashion Island Mall with the Food Court, Big C, and the Major Cineplex.

I've seen a sign about some kind of animal park but haven't been.

It's a quiet area and my 5th floor balcony faces the rising sun and in the distance I can see the planes descending into Suwannapome. Many trees and birds are also visible. The traffic on Ram Intra is a nightmare most of the time.

Has she gained a little weight?

Methinks that during the campaign,

a year and a half ago, she was

a little more shapely and

maybe a few kilos lighter - ????

So what color IS her preferred Furby???

Farang satay long time no too mutt.

Kim Jong Un is just doing what ALL governments do-

i.e. creating the FEAR of "evil foreigners,"

so as to remain worshipped and in-power.

For him, and N. Korea, it has become too extreme and

I agree that his dictatorship "days are numbered."

(There needs to be some amount of credibility

to base such a an overwhelming threat to the poulation upon.)

"The war is not meant to be won,

it is meant to be continuous.

Hierarchical society is only possible

on the basis of poverty and ignorance."

evil thoughts. CIA operative policy I presume

I am out of the country, but my wife called home to her family in Isaan to find out the results of the election. During that conversation she was told that for the last few months there has been a push to register Isaan residents with new addresses in Bangkok so that they could vote PT in this election. Can anyone confirm this story?

wouldn't surprise me one bit. my hill tribe gf got offered 200 baht to vote for a Red candidate in a recent election. She said everyone in her dirt poor mu ban got the same offer and nearly all took the easy money. I asked her "why not take the money and just vote for whom you like?" She countered that the pu yai ban (village headman) knows exactly who each one of his peons votes for.

"They say that patriotism is the last refuge,

to which a scoundrel claims-

Steal a little and they throw you in jail,

steal a lot and they make you a saint,

There's only one-step down from here baby-

it's called the land-of-poverty bliss,

What's a Sweetheart like Youuuuu,

doooin in a dump like this?"

- Bob Dylan

Sweetheart Like You

YouTube

"The war is not meant to be won,

it is meant to be continuous.

Hierarchical society is only possible

on the basis of poverty and ignorance."

"...They say that patriotism

is the last refuge

to which a scoundrel claims,

... Steal a little and they throw you in jail

steal a lot and they make you a saint...

...What's a Sweetheart like you,

doin' in a dump like this?" Bob Dylan

They wifey tells me that none of these crooks

has ever gone to jail here.

Delicious!!! - Thank you!

I was on a reduction course until the "California Wow" gym closed. Now, inching back up

OMG!!! Actually encourage Thais to think? -

After they've been told all their lives that

all they need to know is "TRT?"

I find this whole topic to be stupid, and superficial. Obviously,

it gives non-smokers reason to feel superior but I doubt that

increasing the size of ugly pictures on the pack are going to

have any beneficial effect for anyone. There are so many

more important, more critical, more urgent issues facing

humanity that to worry about my neighbor indulging in a

self-chosen activity that has no effect on me seems rather

hypocritical.

OP - "Don't know about anyone else, but it's got me worried. I'd think that anyone on a non-o visa should be worried."

Ever heard the song, "Don't Worry, Be Happy?"