thaibeachlovers

I'm the opposite. I've lived alone most of my life, so being alone now is my "normal".

Sorry, but hospital staff are far too busy to sit by you and hold your hand, unless you can afford one of those super expensive private hospitals. In London when doing agency I once worked in the hospital where all the lords and ladies went. Spent a day in ICU looking after one patient and there were two of us! However in the real world where most people live, nurses have many patients to look after.

No one.

That was certainly true when I was a tourist and claiming VAT refund on exit. It stated it clearly on the form.

IMO, #3 is hardly representative of ordinary Thai women that I've seen in real life. More like one of those soap stars.

Sure, just like all men are handsome in their own right.

Issan women look completely different from northern Thai women. The ( ? Chinese ) genes of women in Chiang Mai makes them far more attractive in my eyes. My wife was from a region close to Laos and she looked different to both northern and Issan women. Malay women look completely different to Singaporean and Thai women. Filipinas are really different from other SEA women. I worked with many. I might have a problem telling Japanese and Sth Korean women apart though.

You don't say whether the sexual harassment is horrendous, or it is something else.

That's probably true. To stop money laundering. Some years ago I read that the government was going to prosecute farangs that gave money to wives to build houses as they couldn't own them, or something like that. I don't know if that is still in force or if they changed their minds.

Oh dear. Try reading the divorce subforum to get an idea of what traps can be laid for a farang that buys a house in LOS. NO, YOU don't own the land even if YOU paid for it. Seems to me that you have zero rights to that property soon as the papers are signed. Some posters are sure to talk about the ways to ensure you can live in it if get divorced or she dies, but if the family want to make life unpleasant there is sod all YOU can do about it, IN MY OPINION. Personally I'd rather have been castrated with a rusty razor blade than buy/ build a house for my wife, and was saved from that particular hell on earth when we got divorced because I ignored all her hints to build a house in the village.

Women lose by it anyway. I never have a real conversation with any women now as whatever I say can be taken the wrong way. Safer to stick to small talk. Nothing new though. I stopped nursing in 2009 and for the 10 years before that I never said anything to any female nurse that could be construed as sexist. So no compliments, no congratulations, nothing "real". Certainly never tried to have a relationship with any of them, and I never ever said anything about Thailand to any of them. I still got caught out occasionally by angry with the world feminists to whom men were just awful people. I didn't care what they thought, but it was too easy for them to make an official complaint and cause trouble for me if I said what I really thought. I had to bite my tongue a lot back then.

Idiots with not enough to do in their lives?

LOL. I've had women at work call me "darling" even though I wasn't their boyfriend. Too many people looking for something to be offended by now, IMO.

They are stupid anyway. They tried to stop people calling male midwives by that name, but the origins of the word are apparently nothing to do with gender of the person assisting the pregnant woman. Google gives us What is the literal meaning of midwife? a person who assists women in childbirth Seems to me the western world is being taken over by stupid people.

No it's not. I never had a problem using home passport when entering home country from Thailand, despite using different passport to enter and exit Thailand. Far as I'm concerned, you only have to exit a country with same passport entered on. I don't see how they can stop anyone entering home country on an expired passport anyway. If one is a citizen one should have right of entry, IMO. It would be a problem trying to leave on an expired passport though.

I'm surprised. I think the first time I used internet was end of 1998, but I fail to recall what I did on it. I think it was just the thrill of the new. Obviously I didn't try and see if any Pattaya gogos had web sites. I just realised that it's only taken just over 20 years to become the monster that everyone on the planet seems to use and depend on. IMO the jury is out on whether it's a good thing or not.

Let's remember that there wasn't a Walking Street till about 1996.

What a crock of <deleted>. However they stopped calling men male nurses before 1985. #73 LOL.

As one that worked in the NHS for 10 years I'm not surprised. Too many incompetent managers and too few nurses looking after patients. The NHS also likes building flash new buildings instead of spending it on cleaning wards and patient facilities. The NHS is a classic example of a good idea being destroyed by bureaucrats, and exploited by consultants.

Should only be the ones paying NI.

No one is forcing anyone to have insurance, but don't complain when it all goes wrong and one needs hundreds of thousands of baht for an op, and definitely don't start asking other people to give you money for it.

x 100,000

Sadly, Lamphun immigration office opened too late for me to use it for extensions, so to Chiang Mai I had to go. Doesn't seem that long ago they set up the branch office, and moving already!

There was more than one gogo with "baby" in the name off Walking Street.

Sadly, situation normal in Pattaya. Still, someone is getting rich from not solving a very solvable problem.