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If you knew that two of your friends (but not really friends) wifes were doing the dirty behind their backs would you tell them??

How about asking them for their advice?

If you tell them you know someone whose wife is cheating on them but don't know whether to tell them or not, they will tell you exactly what you need to hear. If they say they'd keep schtum, so be it. If they say they'd tell, then tell.

Unless of course that's exactly what you're doing by asking in here...

A good guide for telling which way people lean is to say 'look at your fingernails'

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Should I be concerned ? and should [can?] I ‘redirect’ his sexuality at this point in his life? or should I just let him grow [or not] out of it? Have discussed this with my wife, who says that I should spend more time with him, but he chooses to stay under mom’s skirts. I thought about getting him involved in some martial arts like karate or judo.

Any other suggestions will be appreciated.....

At the New Year Party for our soi, one of the local 7 year old boys was dressed in a skirt with makeup and his parents seemed as proud as anyone when he did his party piece song-and-dance in front of the neighbours. It seems quite accepted around the soi, even by the youngest kids, that he will be a katoey.

I'd say try to influence him in everything you do and everything you say and try to be a role model that he can be influenced by, but allow him to reject that influence and be whatever he is in whatever way. Either you will accept him for whatever he is, or he will grow up with a feeling that his father is rejecting him, and he will probably suffer a lot while he comes to terms with that.

This is more likely to be som Tum Plaa which i dont think is puffer fish...... it might be, but I think it is a local river fish in Isarn they leave out to rot......

Does anyone know what the fish is they use?

According to the television news yesterday (via my wife), the puffer-fish had been used to make the stinky, rotten fish knows as bplah rah. This had then been served as 'somtam bplah rah' and people got sick...

we used Isomil, can be bought in tesco lotus. never seem sma of any kind in thailand

Isomil clogged our baby's system up for nearly 10 days. We're trying the ProSorBee next...

NOT FIX IT? You must be nuts! Has the squirrel landed on your head and thought that it was your nuts, just to chew away on that little brain? It's a 2 year old car that would be up for sale next month, (Not fix it? STUPID)

Well fair play to you for they way you're looking at the accident, but the above is a bit over the top.

Sure I can pay for a new rear bumper (but I dont want to), so we will see. What will happen in a week or so??? I am excited...

Have a go at me for letting him go... go on, i dare you all

Go on - be one of those 'better farang' you were talking about a while back. Take something to prove the point maybe, but let him go away thankful that you've been jai yen yen about the whole thing.

Don't pay for a new bumper unless it's really fubared if you don't want to. It's only a car...

The books are upstairs at the moment for lack of shelves but anyone is welcome to pop upstairs and browse through them.

Ok - I'll pop along at sometime and have a proper look. and I might have inadvertently given you one of my wife's books which she hasn't finished with...

I am wondering why you all spend so much time at ThaiVisa.

About 20 mins a day unless there is something interesting I want to reply to or read up on.

I came when I was looking for information about visas. Sometimes now I'm able to help other people and occasionally contribute to the general discussions that go on.

Give your golden rule for 2008.

Know yourself.

The ''little library'' is at my wife's restaurant. As you will see from my previous and other posts, I am trying to expand the library. There is now a slowly increasing selection thanks to donations by others.

Is this up and running now? When I dropped off some books before, your wife said it wasn't quite organised yet.

254 is not going to make it - you have to deduct MPs who join the government, upto 35 of them. These MPs can't vote in no confidence motion and the opposition can easily win the majority and oust the government. Anything below 270-280 is unsafe.

And the reported existence of vote buying again. Apparently there will be more news on this tomorrow when red cards start to be handed out. I believe it could affect the number of seats held by various parties.

especailly at night

how do you cope / deal with them???

A pop-open umbrella: keeps the rain off, keeps the sun off, and has scared off any dog I've had to brandish it at so far.

Your local immigration office is another source for this letter,

usually FREE.

Some immigration offices (mine included) only issue to people who are registered with them for visas (and possibly other things like WPs) that require 90 days reporting.

I would think that a baby's size is determined by a number of factors - DNA, for one - imagine a man with a husky bone structure and a petite woman...

I would've thought genes have just as much chance as coming from a petite mum, and there are a substantial proportion of those in Thailand, which is what I was getting at.

But it wasn't really that important. Just a throwaway observation that has nothing to do with the original topic...

I'd like to buy a couple of reindeer. Has anyone ever seen them for sale in Thailand?

I heard these guys had a load of them. But maybe they've done something with them by now...

http://www.edible.com/shop/browse.php?cmd=...mp;productId=35

C-sections are more common here because the average Thai woman is smaller.

I was thinking that, but then I wondered: aren't babies here generally smaller too?

I would like to 'Register' with the British Embassy, as a Brit. living in Thailand. It would seem that their online registration system is out of order presently. Anyone else 'registered' recently?

I registered a few months ago using the form you mention.

As for benefits - well you need to be registered with them to get a letter proving residency (for driving license and car ownership if you are not on immigration's books because of the visa you have), but that's maybe it. Others might also see it as a way that your government can keep tabs on you for whatever reasons.

Yes, I do know that I am not the most sociable person around here but how many friends do you have here in Thailand.

After two years, but only 6 months settled in one place, there is one farang I consider a good friend who's now on Koh Pha Ngan so we see each other occasionally. There's an old schoolfriend in Bangkok I kept in touch with when I first got here but that's fizzled out, and a couple who live on Koh Pha Ngan who I'd say are acquaintances.

This isn't new for me - in the UK I probably had 3 or 4 real close friends who I never fell out with and always enjoyed seeing, and loads of work colleagues, drinking buddies and friends of friends who I would knock about with, but without considering them to be true friends.

I suppose it's where you draw the line though. Some people might consider anyone they've spent more than 10 minutes with to be a friend. My true friends are those I'd drop everything to help if they needed me, and who would probably do the same if I needed them.

Is it me or he may want to lighten up his schedule and proceed with a cesarean anyway?

I attended the birth of our son with no problems. There was also a time when my wife was...er...rather keen on having a cesarean but the doctor encouraged her not to, without telling her she could not.

If you're paying for the birth, I can't see why you should not get what you want. Within reason of course.

I may be incorrect here but I think that in Thailand the husband is required look after his wife and that is the reason it is easier for her to obtain permanent resident status.

Ah okay - so it's pretty much the same as applying for PR, but maybe the criteria are different with it not being expected that the farang woman is the main income earner?

"Foreign women who marry Thai men already have this privilege."

Can anyone confirm how this works right now for a farang woman marrying a Thai man?

Do they have they have to go through some application to get Thai nationality or is it automatically granted (somehow?) at the time of marriage?And how does this affect visa requirements?

or even just plain old stir fried with egg,& soy sauce.

Or with egg and a teaspoon or so of fish sauce. A nice side dish with Kooa Gling Moo.

So, is the white box really compulsory, or is there a way around it?

IME, compulsory and no way round it.

And if you send a parcel as a 'small packet', my local post office insists it is not sealed (with the string and sticky tape) before the weigh it. I have no idea why.

Normal the Acer laptops having an "hidden Partition" with the whole software which was coming with the Laptop.

Usually Alt + F10 at POST for Acers, but you might need to 'Enable recovery boot partition' (or something like that) in the BIOS first.