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  1. 2 hours ago, tlock said:

     

    I see alot of this sentiment on TV.  It's not very common in the US to look down on poor people like that, I think maybe it's a European thing?

    It is a very English thing dating back to their invention of the Class System, Snobbery, the Oxford accent, and the public school. This obsession with class has subverted reason to produce a nation of eccentric nuts.

  2. 3 hours ago, steven100 said:

    is this the cheap Charlie forum ...  ?      geeeze ......  how do you guys ever get a Visa.

    It is shameful not to be rich, one can only sneer at them, and remain aloof.

    I can't imagine why you are on this low class topic!

  3. 2 hours ago, Rc2702 said:

    I never pay more than 20 baht for market veg. It's a 20 baht shop everything like tomatoes, cucumbers and the like is 20 baht. But fruit is a bit tricky sometimes.

    Yes, quite right, If one shops where the less well off Thais shop..everyone is happy.  If one is a regular, the Thais get to know one, so be prepared for a little banter,  which does not occur in Tesco.

  4. 2 hours ago, tropo said:

    Yeah, and shop in air-conditioned comfort in a clean environment, along with a far greater choice... and where the electronic scales work, rather than rounding up to the nearest 1/4 kilo or so, and then rounded up some more to the nearest 10 baht.

    GreedyTesco has too much expensive GM and imported radiated food.  Why not support your local hard working Thais?

  5. On 22/09/2017 at 6:07 PM, AloisAmrein said:

    Minimum salary in Thailand is 300 Baht per day, so if working 27 days per month they get 8100 Baht. And even not all get the minimum pay, specialle cheap workers from Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia. So many Thais and foreign workers live with about half of the "cheap way".  Would like to see him living this really cheap way.

    My wife earns 300B /day...she is not keeping me in the style I'm accustomed to.

    There is no doubt living in Pattaya is not cheap, but it is most enjoyable to go round the Thai markets and select some amazing vegetables/fruit and make a cheap nutritous meal yourself 'keenio style'.

  6. 16 hours ago, Mark mark said:

    Thanks for the Discussion, I think that BKK is not that dangerous, as most people here say, and well, the cops are just the Cops. ...

     

    Things are not getting much better with them anywhere, the Population pressure stepping up, as we slowly fill up the whole world, so that there is not spare room left ... and Human beings being Human beings, ... they all try to carve their Little Piece of the world out. ...

     

    Yes the Rose coloured Glasses of the 80's ???  …  Well, I think that it is a LOT better here now !!! ... Like my stories of how safe I feel here, are from NOW, not the 80's ...

     

    My 80's stories, go something like, so drunk that I nearly fell on the Policeman’s table in the Restaurant, and knocked their drinks over, …. And when they said "Hey Folang, do you know who we are" … I just said,  “Yes !!! Sure I do”, .... And staggered out of the open fronted place, and just managed to get on my Motorbike, and rode Home .. …  But well yes, No rose Glasses, I am 64 now, and have stopped drinking, even though I do live in Thailand !!! ... And well that REALLY has made it a MUCH better Place for me, … and well, I probably will live a bit longer now also …..

     

    So Please excuse my Just trying to tell you about it, Enjoying Life, and not worrying about the cops or the other Dramas … that are just …. Human actions results of the environment, …. And just to be factored in ??? Within reason, …. If you actually want to Know about, and enjoy Life  

    Hi Mark, I'm a 'potato sack'. and still giggling.

  7. 15 hours ago, daveAustin said:

    Any? Really? You've spent time in them all then? It's not just about behaving oneself, their also talking health/infrastructure and are probably on the money.

     

    Took till post #10 though, not bad.

    Take a  'butchers' at todays BBC news from London, its on some sort of high alert danger level red to off the scale pink to Fukashima run to the khasi and panic warning.  Certain no-go areas in London have been the norm for years.

     

  8. On 17/10/2017 at 10:03 AM, Justgrazing said:

    Hyku 1147 .. I would have liked to have seen the " Great Vowel shift " circa 1350 to 1650 ad included within you're comprehensive roll of Brit history .. Other than that you are underemployed here Sir , University Challenge need look no further for its next quizmaster host .. 

    Did you mean the "Great Bowel Shift"?...If so, that happened this morning.

  9. 31 minutes ago, Aditi Sharma said:

    What Thai women dont make you realise to their eternal credit that Western women do is that sex is work, which it is not when you are making love. Having failed at love men came to Thailand  to <deleted> love and generally settle for mind-blowing sex and get an imitation of it ( inspite of the bargain they dont get it)- the Thai woman is normally absent when the mind gets blown whereas the Western woman is always present getting hurt in between the bed and the door! 

    Western women can not love a man.

  10. 4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

    Magna Carta was, IMO, only meant to apply to the nobility. I'm sure the idea that the peasants should be free would have been anathema to them.

    Didn't stop them enslaving people for centuries.

     

    Yes the English started the industrial revolution, and now they make sod all.

     

    Equal votes for both, but now it's a women's world.

     

    Scary to think that the world was saved from Nazi/ Japanese domination only because of Mitchell, and the probability that Hitler was insane.

    Stalin had a lot to do with it too, but only later, and Britain would not have survived without telephone engineer Tommy Flowers designing Colossus. Turing helped there too, and then they persecuted him for being homosexual till he killed himself. Funny old world, isn't it.

     

    Never mind, we always have western women to complain about.

    Hitler made many attempts to maintain peace with Poland, and GB, but Churchill, the insane warmonger refused every time, insisting that he wanted Germany destroyed. After the war, a famouse American general is quoted as saying that we have beaten the wrong enemy. As they say 'The victors write the history'.

  11. 1 hour ago, oldhippy said:

    According to statistics (OK, you will say that I just made them up), 20% of women come 20% of the times when they have sex. That means 1 time out of 25.

    After faking it 24 times out of 25 for a couple of years, they may decide not to bother any more?

    Actually, those statistics were recently quoted by a sexuologist and apply to western self confident educated women... She added: to obtain sexual pleasure for both partners, it would be best to abandon the idea that a penis can be used for female pleasure.

    Simple explaination for a world wide phenomenon?

     

     A 2Hz vibrating mechanism?

  12. 3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

    Missionary position- how boring.

     

    Darwins mistake was not explaining that apes and men came from a common ancestor but are not the same in a way that people understood it. That gave them the means to discredit him.

     

    I absolutely loathe cricket and IMO forcing school children to play it should be a capital crime.

     

    Not into formal ballroom dancing but love old tyme dances. Pity they don't have taxi dances in Chiang Mai, that I know of.

     

    I hate footy even more than cricket.

     

     

    Darwin got the wrong way round. The apes evolved from us. They have freedom, they dont need laws to govern their actions. and they don't have a silly human brain that gets them into all sorts of bother.  They have cracked it mate.

  13. 27 minutes ago, pgrahmm said:

    Actually, my wife has never thrown a tantrum....Haven't noticed it in the family either....

    My Thai girl friends (states/here) never did either....

    I think it's individual, regardless of ethnicity + a byproduct of behaviors that has worked for that person.....

    I'd never hang around a tantrum thrower in any aspect of my life....

    Ditto,... its a childish western thing...don't you just miss the slamming door?

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