dunroaming

You mean like cage fighting and UF contests I assume? Even though these sports have grown massively in popularity over the last few years and get a lot of tv coverage now. Not to my taste but Muay Thai is becoming very popular. Each to their own.

Obviously, but sounds like brain dead amateurs at best. There is so much home grown cannabis in the UK it is hard to see how this makes much sense.

Probably the fact that most of them were wearing bras and thongs?

Well he's not some fat balding drunken westerner so he certainly won't need to visit the bars on Soi Bangla to get laid. Therefore the need for penicillin and herpes cream probably won't be needed. Nor will be the need to buy his entertainment. My son is twenty one and and spent 8 months last year travelling with friends around Thailand Seems he rarely had a night without "company" with lots of memory photos of the numerous, very attractive girls he spent some time with. Some Thais and many other nationalities on their gap years, including Italian, Swedish, American and French. One of his friends hooked up with a Japanese girl and ended up back in Tokyo with her! As the father of my 21 year old son, am I jealous? You bet I am!!!!!

Certainly not the sharpest knife in the box. I can see why she finds Thailand an attractive option. Lot's of people get stuck and hand over their children to be raised by others. The difference being that that is usually due to unwanted pregnancies and abandonment by the moronic males responsible! But the biggest problem for her is that she can't keep her mouth shut and her head down! She obviously gets off on her notoriety and now it has bitten her on her botox enhanced backside!

In Thailand many Thai men have one or two Mia Noi wives. What we in the west call mistresses but in Thai means "2nd wife". It is very common for men to two or three Mia Noi relationships and they are usually tolerated by the wives. Nothing to do with religion

As we know this was posted extensively on another thread when he was first reported missing. The majority view then was that he was shacked up with a bargirl somewhere and the whole thing was quite amusing. Others urged a note of caution, seems like they were sadly right to do so.

It's always easy to go with the "shacked up with a bargirl" tag and it may be true again this time. But Thai's are far more openly aggressive now than they used to be, especially when it comes to foreigners stepping on the wrong toes. I hope its the former scenario especially for the sake of his son!

Maybe a little balance is needed. The woman (at 36 she is a woman not a girl) wanted to party with her partner and they bought what they thought was a line or two of cocaine.. They were conned and ended up paying a terrible price for their mistake, Recreational drug use in the world continues to grow far quicker than the use of alcohol. Cannabis being the most popular, but cocaine becoming more and more readily available and the cartels and others make millions and millions of dollars from it. As with any commodity it is all about supply and demand with the key here being "demand". There are millions of people throughout the world who use recreational drugs, are they all hopeless druggies ruining their futures? These "druggies" can be found from all walks of life from universities like Harvard and Cambridge, high flying businessmen and politicians etc. etc. I am not advocating the use of drugs or even alcohol par say, but both are an integral part of life for many people from all walks of life. So let's not be too quick to judge others as we sit at our keyboards smoking our cigarettes and sipping at our gin and tonics. Merry Christmas

Well she was 36 years old so not a kid at all. In fact old enough to have kids of her own and certainly old enough to make her own grown up decisions. A tragedy certainly and it looks like there was some naivety involved by this pair. This is Thailand and as with everything here, it is very much a case of buyer beware!

Depends on his age. We handed over a brown envelope to take that threat away, but you do need to know who to hand it to. Military service is the luck of the draw otherwise, with less than 50% being the unlucky ones.

Certainly sounds Thai. In which case why hasn't he got a Thai id card? My son was born in Thailand and we moved back to the UK when he was 7. He has a British passport. Recently he decided to spend time in Thailand where his mother has a house. So he applied for his Thai id and a Thai passport. It not only allows him to work in Thailand but also negates the need for any visas. We have Norwegian and French friends who have done the same, although over a certain age you are not officially allowed dual nationality by the Thai authorities. That may have changed now though as I haven't enquired about that for years.

You need to keep a UK address (could easily be a relatives) and a bank account for that address, where your pension can be paid into. However if it is found that you are not living in the UK then you may well be in trouble. The British pension is pretty pathetic compared to other European countries anyway. Hard to enjoy life if that is all you have to live on, even in Thailand.

Australians can even give the Russians serious competition when it comes to being drunk. As can the Brits. Not so much the Americans though, who seem to be quite lightweight by comparison. 😂😂

I hope the girl gets the help support after suffering the constant verbal abuse by her drunken grandmother. Abandoned by her mother after birth and then not allowed to complete her education, while trying to protect her younger brother from the abuse. No wonder the red mist finally rose. The girl needs help, not chastising.