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8 hours ago, ricklev said:

There sure is a lot of sparked outrage in the Kingdom these days.

Presented as "Top News".  Really?  In the days where everyone seems to record everything and then posts it online, then expect these non stories to continue.

On 3/29/2025 at 9:10 PM, hotsun said:

Boring sport. Very primitive sport. Thais are very proud of it

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.

9 hours ago, JoePai said:

Has to be someone in the UK co-ordinating this, too many similarities

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. 

On 3/13/2025 at 3:53 AM, quake said:

Blokes fighting 

What's new.  

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

On 3/10/2025 at 10:25 AM, SAFETY FIRST said:

Has Phuket got an equivalent to soi 6. 

 

He'll appear shortly, when the girls are done with him. 

 

He will need a dose of penicillin and a tube of herpes cream. 

 

 

 

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!!!!!

On 3/13/2025 at 9:51 AM, impulse said:

I wonder how many sphincters here on AN  tightened up reading this from the Mirror:

 

The UK Government website says a British citizen may still be able to claim some benefits even if they travel or move abroad, or even if they already live abroad. But there there are several instances where it is classified as fraud if you have benefits paid to you while abroad, which can include.

• Not telling office that pays your benefit you’re going abroad, even if it’s just for a visit
• Deliberately not reporting a change in your circumstances while abroad, like buying a property, working, or claiming a pension or benefit from another country
• Being dishonest in order to get benefits, like continuing to claim the pension or benefit of someone who has died overseas

Brit mum notorious for TikToks on claiming benefits living abroad 'locked up in Thailand' - World News - Mirror Online

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!

12 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Everybody is just assuming he got involved with some girl, but that would not explain him totally disappearing and completely losing contact with his family. It is more likely something far more sinister and far more serious took place. People disappearing is never a good thing, but when they aren't heard from for quite some time afterwards, that's a sign that something serious is going on or something serious has already taken place. Neither of which is a what any family wants to hear about their loved ones. 

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!

On 12/18/2024 at 10:48 AM, connda said:

She could have gone to the US and "snorted what she thought was cocaine" and end up as another fentanyl statistic. 

Thailand bad!

🔱  When you dance with the devil, you eventually pay the devil his due.  Don't want to die of a drug overdose?  Don't do drugs.  Mummy is missing the point that her daughter sounds like she had a drug problem. Where it finally caught up with her isn't the problem.

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

5 hours ago, BigStar said:

How about warning parents to teach their kids good morals, common sense, and discipline.

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! 

On 10/6/2024 at 8:16 AM, Bday Prang said:

It probably also renders him liable for military service     hope he has fun 

 

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.

6 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

Almost sound like he should have both British and Thai nationality. Or maybe the name is from other nearby country.

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.

12 hours ago, Gknrd said:

That is been going on for ever, why retire there if you loose?  Best to make it seem like you live in the UK I would think. Surely there are ways around it.

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. 

On 10/1/2024 at 4:35 AM, Jerry777 said:

Classy guy. Sure he wasn't russian?

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.  😂😂

12 hours ago, gargamon said:

There's just no respect for the elderly any more. It's becoming more and more like the west every day.

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. 

11 hours ago, PeachCH said:

As an agent can do the one year retirement visa without any money requirements, don't understand why falangs living in Thailand for many years, still obviously don't know. 

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.

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

I am all against any kind of child abuse, and I think that even attempting to have sex with a girl that young is is absolutely heinous. But they did come right out and say that he held hands with her and hugged her, so there was no sex. No nudity. Nothing horrible happened, as far as we know.

 

Granted, taking her back to his condo was improper, and very poor judgment, as was holding her hand and hugging her.

The guy is obviously not normal, but is he a pervert?

Is he engaging in child abuse?

Did he molest her?

 

Those are all very serious questions that need to be asked, and they need to be answered in a rational fashion. Society is way too quick to pronounce judgment in a situation like this. And these are the kind of judgments that can completely destroy a man's life on multiple levels. 

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.

On 8/28/2024 at 11:34 PM, Ralf001 said:

Whats the issue, he's just cutting out the middle man... the pumping stations that pump raw sewerage into the ocean !

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".

10 hours ago, Jonathan Swift said:

He had to have a reason for doing it. Maybe he WANTED to stir up a lot of attention. 

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!

5 hours ago, n00dle said:

One would think that confirming he got on and off the flight ould be a remarkably straightforward process. Thia police would have an image of him captured as he passed through immigration. The Finns, likewise will have records if he entered. 

 

So where TF is he?

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. 

5 hours ago, smedly said:

what ?  

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

On 7/6/2024 at 2:29 PM, nauseus said:

 

No history of ridiculous rants from the new cabinet then?

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!