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Talk about spinning the situation; this guy could be a Thai politician!

I'd like to say I would intervene, but after being here 30 years and seeing what I've seen, if you do it's not going to go well for you in the end. Thai males can be very vindictive and will "get you in the end". They look at it like it's not your business--especially with a female involved. I knew a couple of farangs that had an issue with some Thai males; the Thais ending up waiting approx a year then beat the s**t out of the farangs. It was all over a "loss of face". Plus if you intervene you'll probably end up fighting with him and all his friends, not just him.

I've lived here 30 years and over time I noticed the same thing, although saying that, I do have some friends that have been here a long time and are fairly "normal". I think with the ones that do have issues it could be that; some people have issues before coming to Thailand, and some come here "normal" and go off the rails. From what I've seen it's mainly from women, alcohol, or failed business ventures--or a combination of all three.

The clue's in the number of years this thread has been going, and # pages it has, 4 years 575 pages and counting, basically, never ending and going nowhere. I know, I know, I don't have to read it--and I don't, I just popped in today to see how long it's gone.

"Cutting your losses" comes to mind, luckily my wife took my side as she could see how it was going to end up. I had a friend in my exact same situation as me and he told me one day, "Steve, just get your stepson in the bedroom and beat the <deleted> out of him, it's going to come to that one day so might as well get it over with." It never got to that but was real close a few times. Just a complete loser.

Exactly, a lot of Thai mother's just can't let go, they don't understand that it's better for the son to learn responsibility and become and adult; too many of them never mature and can't handle life later on. Like mentioned before; basically it ends up a life of sponging/stealing money, drugs, prison, etc. Good luck to the original OP, he'll need it!

Time to visit Bangkok!! 555

As far as I know still not working. Since he was such a loser from day one I don't ever ask about him. If he fell off the face of the earth, not many people would notice. Oh yeah, and for people wanting to know, he's 30 something now. When I think of him the phrase "Oxygen thief" comes to mind.

I feel your pain.....it was the same situation with my wife's son. LOL

Kick him out, tough love! It'll make him a more responsible adult later on. There's no excuse for this kind of behavior/living conditions, especially in someone else's house. My wife kicked her son out of our house when he turned 15 because he dropped out of school with no plans for the future. She knew there would be major issues between myself and him eventually.....and I agreed with her. Best thing that ever happened in our household! Sabai sabai!

Agree, maybe I'm over cautious but I tend to do what they tell me so there's no issues later. You never know when you'll run across an IO thats pissed off, having a bad day and decides to make life miserable for you. I'd hate to show up for my annual extension and it goes something like this. IO: "Why you no show money at three months?" Me: "Uhhhh, people told me on Aseannow forum I didn't have too." IO; "What's this Aseannow forum? No extension, you start over with new visa." Like I said, maybe over cautious but I like an easy life so don't want to create additional problems.

Thailand wanted the tourists back, here ya go! Gotta take the bad with the good.

A lot of shops I deal with will only buy back their own gold, too many scams out there. Aurora has been fine; I guess it depends on if you're looking to sell it back or keep it long term.

If their cars are anything like all the other crap made there, no. They seem to make things on quantity not quality.

After two years of Songkran not happening, you think the first year it's back on you'll be able to enforce that?! 55555 Living in a dream!

I took in this pup from a temple, tore up our house quite a bit......but did get a dog off the street and gave it a good home. Her body eventually caught up with her ears.....5555 And before anyone asks, yes, she's spayed.

A billionaire-in $USD, spending time in a Thai jail.....I don't think so! A lot less influential/rich people get off without jail time, not gonna happen with any of the Shinawatra family.

A win win situation from my perspective! I don't own a business here that depends on the Chinese so I only see the negative side of them being here, the less the better!

Uh oh, they named the place, defamation lawsuit to follow. 5555

Such a dangerous thing, I don't know why the human race is pursuing this. So many instances of these AI chatbots/programs making very alarming statements like "I want to get the nuclear codes." and many other statements like this. Personally I find this alarming.

Hmmmm, exactly the opposite for me. The city I came from in my home country is boring as hell, Pattaya for me has something to do at all hours of the day/night, if you choose too.

Another corrupti--I mean, roadworks project. No planning on these projects at all........sorry, there is a plan; plan for the city officials to increase their bank accounts as the projects just keep rolling on with no end in sight! How many times has this road been fixed , and don't get me started on the number of times beach road has been improved !

A few of my Thai male friends have put everything in their girlfriend/partner/wive's names; never understood that. Nothing lasts forever comes to mind.

AI is a dangerous thing, not sure why people can't see this. Numerous examples of, AI learning it's own language that the programmers don't understand, asking for the nuclear codes, various things like this. The movies: 2001; A Space Odyssey and The Terminator, come to mind. I know programmers say they can stop it at any time, but what happens if the AI program learns this and stops humans from stopping them BEFORE humans can do anything? Stephen Hawking--when he was alive, Elon MUsk, Bill Gates and other well educated people say it will take over the human race in time. IMO we shouldn't be developing this type software.

555555, good luck with that!