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Rice and bugs = Carbohydrate's and protein = win win situation.

More to life than Thai totty......

Walt Mitty,boiler room operator,porn producer,fake lawyer,take your pick......

To me it's a no-brainer....for the sake of the kiddies, if you look and dress like a lady you use the ladies (whether you have a penis or not) and visa versa.

How fearful and confusing it would be for a child to see a person of the opposite sex (in appearance anyway) coming into their toilet while they are in it.

So, if I decide to wear a dress for an evening out, I am within my rights to use the ladies ?

And before you state that I do not 'look like' a lady, have you seen the majority of ladyboys ?

If you decide to wear a dress for the night you're a transvestite, not transgender, huge difference! A transgender person lives in the gender they feel more closely aligned to, a transvestite occasionally wears clothes of the opposite gender, but lives as their birth gender.

It's not quite as simple as that though, since the whole area between transgender and transvestite is filled with people who identify as gender fluid.

Poor soda can't win, if an effeminate gay male lives as a male they get shunned and called proofs, Nancy boys, faggots, etc, but if they feel more comfortable living with their effeminism as a woman they can't use the toilets!

Sometimes i feel like Mussolini......

can see nothing wrong with ladyboys using female toilets, not to sure about change rooms if they are still carrying dangly bits as they will cause a lot of worry among some of the females especially the younger ones. Totally disagree with those that feel they are female even though they dont have boobs etc using the female change rooms though, they really need to draw the line somewhere especially as it will cause conflict for more straight females than cross genders, if they are that concerned have gender neutral ones just for the cross gender people and leave the male/female ones alone.

What if a lady boy creeps up on you in the gents room and give's you a reach around while you are taking a leak?

Next up is groups demanding kitty litter boxes be put in all public toilets because certain groups feel like cats and........massive overly political correct crap.

Easy if one has a penis one uses the boys room,if one has a vagina one uses the girls room no need for that politcally correct crap .

The powers that be should focus on the real problems in their country rather than bickering over where a bloke dressed as a woman should take a piss or a dump,what is the world coming to ?

That really doesn't make much sense if someone is a ladyboy who hasn't had the final chop, but has had the upper half taken care of and needs to use the loo to touch up her make-up and curl her hair. As I said, I've seen them using the locker room in the fitness center and I could have picked up some make-up tips from them.

A woman with balls is a woman with a brain.......

Easy if one has a penis one uses the boys room,if one has a vagina one uses the girls room no need for that politcally correct crap .

The powers that be should focus on the real problems in their country rather than bickering over where a bloke dressed as a woman should take a piss or a dump,what is the world coming to ?

its the most common scam in thailand ...

If you look for a lawyer you should ask your embassy for advice!

As featured on the Andrew Drummond website a lot of these dodgy law firms run by foreigners posing as lawyers in Thailand have been known to be on a lot of embassy lawyers lists so buyer beware.......

There have been some high profile cases concerning the rich and powerfull in Thailand and in almost if not all they got away with it after paying a lump sum of money,If that is anything to go by on how the legal system works in this country.

If you are a foreigner with little or no money living in Thailand you are at a great disadvantage,no matter what does gun registerd on my Thai wife's name yanks tell you on here.

The two replies above "I'll be fine at 70k a month" and "it sucks to be poor".

I make more than this and with a combined income with my wife it's a lot more than this. Still would not be able to afford a full Western lifestyle I would have in Canada. If you can, please explain how with the expenses all laid out.

question: how much would be your Canadian income tax liability in % on that combined income?

How much is health insurance in Thailand en can one still get full insurance over 65 even coverage for prior medical condition?

that does not answer my question. but anybody leaving his home country where health services are provided and then thinks of health insurance issues has not done his homework.

People are always complaining about high tax rates in respective home country's ,but can get decent healthcare because of said taxes.......

The two replies above "I'll be fine at 70k a month" and "it sucks to be poor".

I make more than this and with a combined income with my wife it's a lot more than this. Still would not be able to afford a full Western lifestyle I would have in Canada. If you can, please explain how with the expenses all laid out.

question: how much would be your Canadian income tax liability in % on that combined income?

How much is health insurance in Thailand en can one still get full insurance over 65 even coverage for prior medical condition?

Just to keep you informed folks, the OP sends nasty PM messages.

By the way OP, I will send whatever messages I like.

Please use the Report button to report any nasty PM messages. Forum rules do apply to PM's as well.

Wich means you guys read members private messages?

It is lawfull as long as you are the highest paying bidder in said conflict.

Of coarse they are not waiting for handouts, they don't get squat from the government.

They would take a hand out if offered.

Not true, poor people get access to a virtually free medical system (30 baht), free electricity under a certain level of usage, very low rate government loans and a state pension (provided they have made a minimum number of contributions),.

Yes, the Thai people have it made, their system is unmatched,it's groundbreaking stuff we can't match in the west.

Their pension is incredibly generous and the people are blessed.

When will they realise how lucky they are and stop taking of overseas to increase their already amazing Wealth.

The West has lessons to learn on this and always has; offer up loads of benefits and free stuff to the population and it takes advantage, shed loads of unemployed, really difficult to stop once it's started and costly to government. BUT, offer up just some basics such as health care and a few incentives and everyone goes to work, they have to! No unemployed to speak of and no large bills for central government.

What would do without the wisdom of certain members of TV forum.

Obviously, OP has never visited the Isaan.

I have many times nice place where most people drive nicer cars than most people in Denmark.

I have been travelling to and from Thailand for the last twelve years or so, however I have not been able to go back there

for the last 18 months due to some ongoing health problems which I am hoping will be stabilise within the next 6 months

to enable me to go back there for a couple of months break away.

Having said all that the purpose of my posting is to ask why is it that I often see written or commented by some posters that they consider Thailand to be a third world country. Personally from my own observations and experiences during the times I have been there that I cannot really see any merit in labelling Thailand as a third world country. It has numerous first class hospitals, many modern buildings and shopping malls all over the country, most of the supporting infrastructure overall is well developed in most

aspects Just to mention a few positives

Sure there are quite a few problems in some of the modernisation of several government services and organisations but I don't consider everything being equal that referring to Thailand as a third world country in true respect is justified or warranted.

I actually like the place overall and have not had any adverse situations occurred personally that has turned me off the country,

Certainly nothing that has given me the impression of it being a third world country

Maybe it is all to do with the way some people go about the daily life style when they holiday or live long term in Thailand.

First class hospitals yes if you have millions of baht to pay them for their services.

Insurance?

Yes very hard to get and expensive in Thailand at a certain age and will not cover pre excisting medical conditions,remember many people promote Thailand as a haven for OAP'S but most of said group are on very low pension income and the fact that a lot of western country's have frozen the indexation of pensions for years to come because of the banking crisis said group should stay in their respective country's.

It seems our favourite Walt Mitty and shyster operating a fake law office from Pattaya and on the run from Thai law Drew Noyes has been blacklisted from entering Thailand after an ongoing court case for extortion wich he lost of course.

Any body got any more news about this?

Beware of foreigners claiming to be lawyers and or big property hot shots in the resort towns or even in sakhon nowhere buyer beware, do background checks on these sort of people before spending a penny.

Plan B, Plan C...

I suspect this relates to some main extent to anticipation.

In most western cultures we strongly learn about anticipation by observation of our parents, wider society, education to anticipate things, 'what if' etc. I know my own parents emphasized this strongly, when my father taught me to drive he kept telling me 'be ready if ..... happens', 'what will you do if another car suddenly .....', etc., and it was an extension of the 'life lessons' I had experienced regularly as a child.

I grew up in a quite isolated area, 500 kilometres through close to desert to the next city, after I got my first car I wanted to drive the 500 kilometres to visit my grandfather. My father said 'OK but I want you to sit down and make a list of the things that could go wrong and what you need in the car if one of these things happen'. Deliberate anticipation.

I naturally took this same approach to life lessons in bringing up my Thai son. He was the captain of his university football team for a couple of years, and he often talked to the team about anticipation: on the field, planning for trips, etc. They thought he was crazy. Son now has a 10 yr old child, she regularly gets the same 'anticipation comments and lessons' from her dad. Example, we often have pizza at home nights, son's daughter is in charge of checking the pantry and making a list of what we need for pizza tomorrow night etc. In fact when we go to the supermarket she will often put things in the trolley because she's thinking about what's running low and what will be needed soon for pizza night. Anticipation.

My son met a girl at uni, now his wife, she asked me to teach her to drive. I copied how my father taught me to drive; 'be ready if ..... happens', 'what will you do if another car suddenly .....', etc. She was shocked when I did this - why, in all of her life she had never experienced this, from her parents, other older family members etc., anything which was anticipation. In fact she later shared with me she told her older brothers what I was teaching her, their comments were ' farang crazy', etc. But she quickly embraced the approach and realized it was valuable, and she has since used the same approach to teach 2 friends to drive.

Typical Thai government schools are another example, the teaching / learning process contains no anticipation whatever. Plan B, Plan C not in the picture, not at all.

I take this to be a cultural difference between rich people and poor people. In our rich, Westerner culture we expect to have choices and expect to be able to control events to a high degree. Poor people generally do not have such expectations. Poor culture emphasizes luck instead of planning. And there are degrees in this difference. So, it is an old saw among sociologists that, speaking of the West, one's position in life determines how much of the future one can expect to control. So, that the genuinely rich plan on passing wealth to future generations and focus on estate-planning tools like generation-skipping trusts. The middle class looks out only as far as planning careers and planning retirement on the whole. The poor live from hand to mouth. They have jobs, not careers, and they don't have savings. Instead of planning they have "manana" or "mai pen rai" that emphasize acceptance over control.

Choices and the resources necessary to make them are a kind of wealth. The culture of average Thais is a poor man's culture. Until only a little more than a hundred years ago, they were all slaves. A hundred years is not a long time.

And still upcountry bumbkin girls without almost any form of education working as bargirls can hookup with lovelorn foreigners and have them pay for everything.Get of yer high horses please......

Common sense and the belief that Thai woman are over rated as marriage material/life partners.

Why buy them expensive stuff like slushy machines?Why not teach them the basics of running a small shop like simple accounting ?keeping books on in and outgoing stock?

If not prepare to loose a lot of money in the ville coming from your pay check every month.

Op as a fellow Belgian i have been following this thread for a while and i don't know what part of Belgium you come from but i don't understand why a person coming from a country wich has the best social securety system and health care in the world would be without a roof over their head and basic medi care when returning in youre condition.

The basic Belgian health Insurance wich costs about 75 euro a year is still available to you providing you still paid every year or start again upon returning only for treatment in Belgium.

The social services will also provide you with a roof over youre head and food and an allownce until you can stand on your own two feet again.

Only thing you need is airplane ticket and money for overstay fine so please don't tell every body on this website you will not have any support would you return,unless youre looking for a free hand out on this site a have known a few people in the Belgian Thai community who where in the same situation as you and are doing fine now .

I remember this case has more to do with tycoons, something to do with image of exports, don't remember the details though

But you provided a link explaining everything about the Andy Hall case,are you high or drunk perhaps?

What about A ndre w H all, as an example, is this an example where stronger libel and computer crimes could come to the fore?

https://www.fidh.org/International-Federation-for-Human-Rights/asia/thailand/thailand-ongoing-judicial-harassment-of-mr-andy-hall

In the case of Andy Hall this is a very dumb move from the company who took him to court the international comunity is watching said courtcase and its silly libel laws and if he goes to jail the European Union will have no problem telling Thailand where they can put theyre pinapple slices or other Thai food export products wich means no export to Europe huge loss of face and money.

These Thai bussiness tycoons don't respect human rights and need to look beyond Thailands borders if they want to do busseniss on an international scale.