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Thanks for the news. I'll be giving Pattaya a miss this next time round.

So, this is nice, but I IMHO I would not make the assumption that "we are all alcoholics". I'd take care in labeling someone alcoholic because they drank heavy for a number of years. Just because someone has a drinking problem or decides to quit after drinking regularly for years does NOT make them alcoholic. People who can quit on their own willpower, at least by AA's definition of alcoholism, are not alcoholic. They still have the will power or "discipline" to stop. They can do it on their own. Alcoholics are the ones who know they have to quit, try to quit, but go back to it no matter how great the wish or desire. This is alcoholism. The OP has not stated he is alcoholic, but rather specifically says he was a moderate to heavy drinker. The fact that he is able to give it up on his own tells me he is NOT alcoholic but a moderate to heavy drinker who decided to give it up There is a really good saying that you might here in quality meetings of AA. All alcoholics are drunks but not all drunks are alcoholics. Thorough study of AA literature outlines this simple fact. (read bottom of page 20 to top of page 21 in the AA book) Here they make the differentiation between moderate or heavy drinkers and "real" alcoholics. What I would say to the OP is this. If you find you cannot give it up entirely and drink again in trying to give it up then you are probably alcoholic and AA has an answer for you.

Despite what the history books say, moving to Cambodia is NOT the end of the line. Moving to Vietnam is. ChatGPT answer: Whether moving to Cambodia is the "end of the line" depends entirely on your perspective and circumstances. In Jim's case though it seems anywhere he goes he's going to wind up in a s#!t storm since his penchant for making really had decisions will follow him wherever he goes. Anywhere is the "end of the line" for Jim.

Generally speaking, in my opinion and experience, all rehabs in Thailand (and all over the world) are glorified detox centers and are basically an expensive introduction to AA or NA. All of them will encourage joining AA or NA once the stay is concluded and you are "on our own". Some of them will even start a "patient" on the 12 steps and have them do some of them while in "treatment". An inexpensive way to go about getting recovery from alcoholism (if the man is indeed an alcoholic) is, under a Doctors care, get detoxed from alcohol and then follow up by attending strong AA meetings. (Strong AA meetings are ones that encourage doing the 12 step program with a sponsor who uses AA literature to guide a man through the 12 step program to recovery from alcoholism) Your friend has to be willing to do all this though. If he is not willing to ask for help or work towards recovery than there is not much that can be done. The old adage applies. You can't help someone who doesn't want help. Desperation and eagerness to get recovery is pretty much essential to recover from alcoholism. It doesn't happen, for instance, by only going to AA meetings. In good AA meetings we say meetings are helpful but meetings do not bring about recovery from alcoholism. Doing the 12 step program does. If your man is willing to go to meetings, get a sponsor and do the 12 steps with him he can recovery from alcoholism.

Click bait for AN. Just because some unnamed source comes up with a chart like this doesn't make it valid or hold any truth. I find this chart to be wholly inaccurate and generalist in a very narrow minded and uninformed manner. To make any kind of general conclusions like this is in any accurate way, share or form would require a study polling millions of caucasian people. Obviously this kind of study has never been done. Quite frankly this is just Internet BS from someone claiming to be a source of reliable information. It is not.

The politicians more than likely know exactly where the majority of this money will be spent and, if they were smart, made preparations to make investments in or setup business to take advantage of this influx of cash into the economy. The gap between rich and poor is huge here and ever widening in most parts of the world. The rich here run the country as is the case in the majority of world societies.

Just give it a good home before you leave and find yourself a poor Soi dog here to take care of. If you do wind up pulling this off I think you will regret it long term.

Any hotel in Pattaya or Bangkok has been ok with either me showing my Thai ID or a copy of the front page of my passport which I keep in my wallet. Apparently this is sufficient for the TM30 report they make to the Thai immigration website. My Thai ID has my passport number on it which is what is most important. The TM30 immigration website does not require a scan of the passport. I believe some hotels make copies just as a formality to keep on record.

I sent them a note and they got back to me saying this: Thank you for contacting ACS Bangkok. You may obtain a current valid passport while a new one is being processed. You will receive notification email as soon as new passport is ready. Whether it will my punched passport or some kind of temporary document I don't know but according to them I'll be leaving with a valid passport. They will then email me when my passport has arrived and I can visit again and pick it up.

This gal has self dignity and life skills? She has an only fans page and is more than likely already a sexcam girl. She has "adult" content YouTube videos. She actually "by the way guys please check out my OF page" LOL. She sounds like she is European. Not from USA. Can't quite place the accent. Her profile says UK but I think she might be from elsewhere originally. Anyways, not worth the time

You're welcome. I know talking about the news reports here can be a bit risky but news media outlets sometimes tend to reach pretty far to present content and, IMHO, this is one of those reaches. The coverage here can be pretty decent but at times seems to be articles filling a quota. In this day and age generating content seems to be the real challenge for anybody who is trying to make a living on social media or other onliine media. So, generating may, in some cases, mean actually inciting events rather than reporting events. I recall the old 70's film "Network" .. I'm mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore!! Or even worse that Movie "Nightcrawler".

Well, sure. Just one look at Jomtien beach on a sunny day confirms this LOL!!! .. And they don't mind wearing bikini's LOL

Yes, just view her profile on youtube. Not too hard to do a little research. onlyfans.com/goddessbeautyy

Yea, who cares about the opinion of this wanna be influencer, OnlyFans girl ( onlyfans.com/goddessbeautyy ) Anything to generate content. She's probably pissed off that nobody is giving her the stare downs she gets while walking the local mall back in the West. I find myself totally ignoring the USA white women who visit Bangkok, Pattaya and other places I visit in Thailand. For instance, on the BTS, I don't really have any reason to look at most of them while there are 10 hotter looking Thai girls standing about. The western (mostly American) white woman demeanor also bothers me. They are usually with their white boyfriend or other girlfriend talking loudly while alternately holding their phone in their face. Nothing attractive to me at all. I left USA because of the entitled balloon women walking around like they deserve everything. Completely unattractive to me. I am from CA but have property outside of the state now. In this particular state a good 75% of the women are quite overweight. Just disgusting. On the other hand there are some very pretty eastern european white women visiting Thailand who appear to have a different attitude and demeanor then these western gals.

Is this the social media outrage? AN is exploding with concern!

My friend all those programs are purely entertainment and mostly hogwash.

Capt Kirk would surely agree!

Wow, these videos of birds flying are pretty cool. I think this also proves the earth is flat and that man could not have landed on the moon.

Just my point. The workings girls attitudes and Thai attitudes towards these guys are out of experience and gossip. Nobody is rounding up freelance girls and bringing them to special "india man/ middle eastern / arab man" bashing classes. My own experience living in Pattaya confirms some of these stereotypes. It's unfortunate but there are enough common traits to form some general conclusions about these guys.

A lot of mixed reports here but in my experience Thai DL works for hotels 100% of the time. The question in my post is now moot as I am fairly certain my current passport will be returned to me punched during my appointment at the Bangkok US embassy where I'll be applying to renew.

Could be, although not sure how this really matters. My main concern is violence and exploitation toward women. Your concern seems to be about the prejudice that exists and in some cases the segregation that is a by product of the disdain of the behavior of men from certain countries by men of other countries. As I've read through this thread the behavior and traits I earlier described have also been observed by a number of the board members here. Poor hygiene, entrapping girls into gang bangs etc. The examples I sited are repeated and documented bad behavior of people from certain origins and is enough to make some fairly accurate generalizations and conclusions about this particular type of tourist from certain countries. BUT there are of course many exceptions. The thing is a large portion of tourists visiting Thailand are of a certain psychological demographic of every country. Men that are completely OK with pay for play. that in and of itself is a particular mind set that carries certain behavioral traits. Narcissism to some degree being one of them from what I know. The repeated news of Indians and Middle Easterners having trouble with Thai women or trans women, starting fights, engaging in squabbles and fights etc is indicative of their general demeanor and is evidenced in the repeated news events. The tragedy is certain males from certain countries are notorious for poorly treating females and have no problem violating them and harming them. India has an especially bad record in this area. So "no india man" in Thaifriendly profiles and other dating websites are there for a definite reason.

sorry, but I think that is the problem. Everyone has an opinion. I'm outta here. This is soul sucking and time wasting. When Kamala Harris wins it will all be OK.

That goes along with isn't everything in Florida considered a gun range? (From the movie bad grandpa)

We are speaking English here yea? How the hell did you get that from what I just posted. Read the black part of the post. He is sewing a lot more outrageous negativity than only supporting the 2nd amendment. During the debate the guy just kept bashing and bashing. Nothing uplifting. Just criticizing everything. And his criticism is very general, not even any detail at all. This is dumb, this is really bad blah blah. He's really very inarticulate. His command of English is very limited. it's easy to be a critic it's much more difficult to actually outline plans that are reasonable and can really be acted on. Deporting millions of illegals in the first couple months of his term. That is impossible and just complete BS that his simple minded supporters actually believe could be done.

Considering Trumps outlandish and outrageous daily lies and false claims I wouldn't put it passed him and his unhinged supporters to pull stunts like this. These folks are power mad and will do or say anything .. literally. Listening to the debate was nauseating. They have folks drinking and lapping up the fear filled double pack double sugar Kookaid .. Fux news etc.