sidneybear

When you first arrive in Thailand, you fall in love with it. Next comes a period of culture shock. Finally, you accept it for what it is. As another poster said, a trip home will make you look at Thailand more positively.

Exactly my thoughts. We came to Thailand because it was more laid back than the West. Some people get culture shock, and try to change Thailand when they get here.

Bangkok Bank has never been very user friendly. SCB has always worked for me. The only reasons I keep my Bangkok Bank account open are: it's best not to rely on just one bank, and; Bangkok Bank allows me to pay my UOB (formerly Citibank) credit card. Now I'm checking and I can see that SCB has started to allow that too ....

I'll concede that times might have changed. But I can't help thinking that Thai girls might resort to dating apps if their relationship through conventional channels hasn't worked out. Mainstream girls are conservative by nature.

I think face scans for Thais are easier, because when you open an account they read the chip on the Thai ID card, which has the photo of the account holder in it. They probably can't read similar information stored on foreign passports

In prison, she won't know which way to turn.

Agreed US politics is irrelevant and boring here. I was under the impression that forum rules state that all topics must be Thailand related???

Definitely a matter of taste. Personally, I think tattoos are ugly, especially on women. Most people seem to regret having them done later in life too.

Mainstream girls generally find boyfriends through social circles or work. Online dating isn't as big as it is in the West.

Rules, rules, rules. Thailand is becoming as regulated as the West.

It does seem ambiguous: In my SCB, I have a Transer limit of 2,000,000 Baht per day, but a Transfer/Top up per transaction limit of 50,000 Baht per transaction with face scan, which presumably means that a face scan is necessary to transfer more than 50,000 Baht in any single transaction. My BBL app, has the same 50,000 Baht per day lmit, which can be overridden with a face scan, presumably after which my 2,000,000 Baht daily limit applies. These are both accounts that I've held for several years, and I have Thai nationality. I read somewhere that there new 50,000 Baht limits have caused an uproaor, so they'll probably be walked back later on, and the Bank of Thailand is already on the defensive. Kbank are so condescending, refusing to grant me a temporary limit increase to transfer my own money, and treating my like a small child. I'm glad I closed my account with them, and will never go near them again.

Kbank did the same to me, so I closed my account with them. Bangkok Bank and SCB still allow me 2 million Baht limits.

They're just a miniature fan oven. They rock. They make the best crispy bacon in the world.

Because it's a failed lefty experiment that has caused society to fragment, crime rates to soar, housing to become unavailable, and unemployment of our own young people to skyrocket.

Hampstead or Islington? That's where most of the Lefties come from, and you weren't there in the 80's, so you can't talk to the OP, who was talking about the period when I lived there and you didn't. Diversity has destroyed London. Much of it isn't English anymore.

So tell me where I'm wrong then, instead of this daft sniping. I also lived in London from 1983 to 1988, so I can do the same then and now comparison that the OP is making.

Places like Moscow are nice too. Unspoilt by woke lunacy.

Yes I did. I did really.

No. It was because there were so many people who didn't speak English, abd looked like they'd washed ashore in rubber dinghies.

I was in central London just a couple of weeks back, and I thought I was in the Middle East.

Modern London is a diversity hellscape. A complete cess pit of a city.

Staff at some of the bars in Soi Cowboy hold your package too, so shop around.

This is the West meddling again, through a proxy, because it wants to recreate Thailand in its hellscape image, where the cancer of unfettered mass immigration has blighted all that was once good. Thailand should stick to its guns, chuck out economic migrants who compete for the livelihood of its own citizens, and stick its middle finger up at western interference.

Nope. Are you?

She's nearly at nine holes.