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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.

It all comes down to intentions really. If he intended to stay in Thailand, then the easiest way is to get yourself a local girl and marry her. Then you get yourself a married man's visa. Avoid bargirls for this and go for someone a little older who is not looking to fleece you.

I agree with you and I think there is more to this account that has been reported here. It would be useful to know if there are any other complaints been laid against this man in the past. Sounds like it could be the early days of a grooming process if he just held her hand and hugged her. But then this could just be the girls description of what happened. Clearly she is in a lot of trouble with her parents and may be trying to play down any activity that actually happened. Fourteen year old girls often develop crushes on teachers and he being American could be an extra attraction. The fact that the girl lied about where she was shows a level of complicity. But that is why teachers like this must never cross the line nor get even close to it.

I live next to the river Thames in Surrey (UK) and the amount of raw sewage pumped into the river is staggering. Everyone told not to swim in it and warned of dangerous levels of e coli. Massive problem in the UK unlike this story which is merely a "Drop in the Ocean".

I lived in Hong Kong for a while and travelled extensively in mainland China. I am assuming that the Chinese woman and her daughter are relatively well off and well educated by the amount of western swear words they know and use. That sort of confidence usually comes with that MO. When I lived in Hong Kong I had a HK Chinese girlfriend who was very opinionated and argumentative, so having my clothes ripped off was a fairly common event. Thankfully it was usually followed by enthusiastic rumpy pumpy. Also when our relationship came to an end, she repeatedly used the phrase "You cannot go! You cannot go!" Not because I was the love of her life but because if anyone was going to finish our love affair, it was going to be her and not me! 😀

Maybe got led astray by a Fin called Helga or Linnea, who had tugged on his heart strings while in Thailand and decided on a diversion on the way home. If so, best to keep that to himself or face a very angry girlfriend back home!

I know this is a bit obvious but Finnair do cheap flights to London from Bangkok via Finland. Could he have changed his flight for some reason which would explain why he was on a flight to Finland. Of course that doesn't explain where he is now, but may be part of the puzzle.

Lot's of speculation as usual with the bargirl scenario being top of the list. If he is out there enjoying himself then he will inevitably be drawing down money to do that or if not using his cards. That should be easy enough to check. Bringing his return to the UK forward and speaking to his girlfriend the day of his flight doesn't sound like someone planning to go AWOL. Sounds more like he was missing his girlfriend back home, which does raise cause for concern. Not everyone holidaying in Thailand is led by their D*ck, especially a fit 27 year old old with a girlfriend back in England.

Pattaya has grown and been developed as the sex tourist capital of Thailand, if not South East Asia. There are always going to be places like this and the demand remains high. Better to embrace it for what it is. That way it is easier to promote other parts of Thailand as family destinations. There isn't a carpet big enough in the whole world to sweep it under but it can be orchestrated better. Legalise the prostitution and issue work permits for the girls over 18. Put in proper medical centres for the workers. Don't try to tax them as that will just encourage them to go off grid. Of course none of this will ever happen as the whole industry is rotten to the core. There are too many iron fists controlling the industry using threats and intimidation. As always, TIT

Time will tell but so far they are just getting to grips with the dire state the country has been left in. I have no love for Labour and won't hold my breath but there was an enormous gasp of relief once the Tories had finally been ousted. This Labour is clearly Blair mark two but hopefully without the lies and bull!

I think it ended up with five seats after a recount. Prediction was 13 seats for reform so not such a great success. The results showed all parties increased their share apart from Conservatives and the SNP. The Liberal Democrats were the biggest winners apart from Labour. But let's be clear, (I borrowed that from the politicians handbook) this wasn't some great swing to Labour, it was people voting to get the Tories out. Where I live in the South East there was a big swing to the Lib Dems as expected, they were never likely to vote Labour. Even the Greens picked up seats. There were a lot of votes for reform from the right wing side of the Tories when they couldn't bring themselves to vote for the cretins running (and ruining) their party. So the obvious protest vote turned them to reform. I am actually quite pleased that Farage got elected. It is important to always have a clown in the mix and now Johnson has been binned, Nigel will bring some comic relief with his ridiculous rants.