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I hate to admit it but Thailand isn't the only place where this happens often. I love my country (America) but domestic killings happen very often and thanks to the availability of guns it is far to easy to accomplish

I'm from the states too. This stuff happens all the time everywhere. We have had two shooting sprees recently. Doesnt happen often in Thailand.

Not about face. Just a jealous insecure guy with a firearm. It isnt a Thai thing.

This thread isn't about the US, and you are way off topic. However, I will post the graph one more time (maybe the tenth time) showing that Thailand has the 3rd highest gun murder rate per capita in the world, and it's ten times what it is in the US. And Thailand supposedly has tight gun controls.

It IS cultural. These figures are per 100,000 people.

Thank you all knowing Neversure. I never said it is about the US. I want to stop the Thai bashing and try to be a bit positive.

Are you Thai? Asian? You understand every culture? I hope you dont live in Thailand.

Perhaps NS is realistic eh.

I had a guy outside my place at 3 am emptying a 9mm semi, on two different occasions. A bar near me a guy was shot dead, last month a guy was cut up and killed in the same bar. Thankfully the BiB have closed it down because of the clientèle it attracted.

Remind me... where do you live? So I will know where not to go.

This graph is worrying if it legit. I would have thought a fair few south American countries would have listed before Thailand.

He is 35? Looks like a teen, Thais age so well man, however the ageing process might speed up a fair bit considering where he is going to. Silly and tragic mistake.

She must have had a very sharp knife. Or did she have to hack at it?

According to common perception the surgeon would not have had too much to hack at.

Funny you should bring up a topic like this as I have been having similar

thoughts as you.

Think european people are more experimental. Thai's can be a bit lame

in the bedroom department. I am 26 so I am still on a horny one most days

of the week, my girlfriend (thai) who is a year younger has recently got to

the point where sex is way down on her list. Says 'i'm an old lady now'.

So thats; hardly any experimenting, no bj's, just plain sex couple times a

week. Not always been like this but think its going to stay the same now.

God dam_n it I sound like a colomn in dear deidre!

OP I am feeling you about the cooking and cleaning, In my eyes my soon to be

wife (next week) makes up for her lack of sexual appetite by cooking me some

top notch meals while I am chilling. Thats why I never make too much of an issue about sex.................... its not the most important thing in a realtionship anyway.

This is really terrible..She should have just kick him out rather than cutting off..

This is not a 45 year old, pussy whipped, soft hearted, weak dude from UK or the stateside.

Do not think this man would just pack up and go on order or sleep on the couch after an

argument. Seems like you have been used to dealing with mice men.

Seriously.................. worrying stuff.

In my humble opinion and from my experience of being around women for 59 years, I have to say the Thai women are the best liars, bar non, I have ever had the pleasure of being around. Don't get me wrong, I like a good lie if well told. (I don't like people who lie when the truth is more interesting) When a Thai woman compliments me there is such a genuineness and sincerity there that it took several years and some tutoring by Thai male friends to see through the smiles and bag wan (sweet mouth). I am smart enough to know that if they are lying about good things, they are difinitely lying about the bad things but I love it anyway.Now, I just smile and don't take them seriously which is exactly the reaction they seem to want. I know that some of the lying is because of 'krieng jai' to spare feelings and a reticence to share their true feelings. As far as the cheating goes, Thai women will have to work harder to catch up with American wives

Best liars...............no. Most immoral liars......................yes. Just look at this piece in the

video, the eyes have it, could see her coming a mile off.

Jeremy Kyle is a bit a slime ball but I think he gave this man some good advice,

get rid of her on the double.

Rich Thais are not tight, they just take the piss out of their less well off compatriots

and they get away with it.

Not sure if the current state of poor Thais is down to past culture, laziness or lack of courage,

but I do think that the people have woken up now and will not except their fate quite as willingly

as in the past.................. bad thing is this could make for a volatile Thailand if it is not already.

Achievement, progression and morality.

Seems like the Dane was out for trouble and hit one of the English Guys from behind.

The other one hit him back.

But the Dane walked away.

Possible attack by 3 Thais needs investigation.

Very easy for Police to charge the English guys, but it smells fishy to me.

English eh?not British?

English is subset of British. British is a subset of European. Scottish and Welsh people do NOT regard themselves as English. Neither do some Cornish people.

No one in Britain will thank you for calling them European, so don't.

I am from Britain and have no problem being labelled European.

Just a continent categorisation, where else would you put Britain

into Africa?................. Well walking around Peckham or New Cross

that may be debatable but still.

Forget XP, load up windows 7. Best OS i have used.

^Some body has a chip on their shoulder by the sounds of it.

If all black men are all such fantastic loving machines then why is it that I had lots

of black london girls chatting me up back in the day??? Irish charm maybe.

As Chris Rock has said in the past, "If you see an attractive black girl with a white guy, you know her credit's bad". Strange that this phenomenon can reproduce itself so accurately some 8500 miles away in South East Asia.

Funny I saw Naomi Cambell with a white dude, pretty sure she has not got bad credit.

Look mate I think we can all tell you have an agenda with white guys. You said you lived in Notting

Hill, probably one of the last places in London where white people are the majority.............. get back

to Brixton you slag................... just joking man.

Anyway I havenot got a problem with black dudes dating what race they want so why do you give

a shit if white guys date other races. So maybe its time to knock that chip off your shoulder or

look up the black panther forum.

By the way Chris Rock is about as funny as a kick in the nuts and definately not worth quoting.

I don't give a shit which races white guys date; why on earth would I ? I haven't a racist cell in my body nor do I have a chip on my shoulder but I thought it would be mildly amusing to engage in the kind of stereotyping that other, presumably white, posters utilized in this thread.

I would not worry about some of the white posters who used this thread to air some sort

of superiority in Thailand compared to other foriegners. To be ownest most Thai people

just tolerate white tourists and I never felt exactly genuinely welcomed by the locals, most

were just interested in me in some way or another to extract money.

^Some body has a chip on their shoulder by the sounds of it.

If all black men are all such fantastic loving machines then why is it that I had lots

of black london girls chatting me up back in the day??? Irish charm maybe.

As Chris Rock has said in the past, "If you see an attractive black girl with a white guy, you know her credit's bad". Strange that this phenomenon can reproduce itself so accurately some 8500 miles away in South East Asia.

Funny I saw Naomi Cambell with a white dude, pretty sure she has not got bad credit.

Look mate I think we can all tell you have an agenda with white guys. You said you lived in Notting

Hill, probably one of the last places in London where white people are the majority.............. get back

to Brixton you slag................... just joking man.

Anyway I havenot got a problem with black dudes dating what race they want so why do you give

a shit if white guys date other races. So maybe its time to knock that chip off your shoulder or

look up the black panther forum.

By the way Chris Rock is about as funny as a kick in the nuts and definately not worth quoting.

^Some body has a chip on their shoulder by the sounds of it.

If all black men are all such fantastic loving machines then why is it that I had lots

of black london girls chatting me up back in the day??? Irish charm maybe.

Word has it that Thailand is an experiment involving 60 million people to see who can be the most immoral.

The feral youths of London, black and white are a product left wing liberal policies. The hard working taxpayer has had to fund feckless young trollops who choose to have babies that enable them to have a life of fecklesss ease on easy street. We've now had 4 generations of these parasites and it is time for compulsory sterilisation and adoption, a reintroduction of the workhouse, corporal punishment and hard labour for men who shirk their parental responsibilities and who take or sell any drugs including cannabis. Unless we bring back the rope for murderers life will become even cheaper than it already is.

No benefits should be available for those who have not paid into the system for at least 10 years. Child benefit should be stopped forthwith as it should not be the responsibility of the public purse to fund the upbringing of a person's offspring. No govt has the courage to adopt these strict measures so the UK will gradually descend deeper into the quagmire from which it will be unable to extricate itself. RIP Britain.

You sound like a bundle of joy!

Before you condemn the youths in London maybe you should look at the youths in Thailand where

murder and prostitution rates are much higher.

The Africans can be a pain in the arse, sure, but they wouldn't be on the streets selling drugs unless there was a demand for their wares. The majority of their customers are Thais followed closely by whites.

The African prostitutes are there because there is a demand for their wares - The majority of their customers are Arabs followed closely by whites.

The hotel incident is a non-event. When I first moved here, I called a place called the "House by the Pond" on Sukhumvit soi 22 as I was looking for an apartment for 6 months or so. I was told on the phone that they had a number of vacant apartments which I could view at my convenience. I turned up and the Thai receptionist nearly fell off her chair.

"No haf loom", she trilled.

"But I called in advance and was told there are rooms available for rent", I replied

I should mention that my skin tone back then was lighter than many Isaan natives as I'd only just arrived from London. It's since, thankfully, gotten darker but at the time, the receptionist was utterly baffled by my British passport. Blacks only come from Africa, you see Anyway, the manager came out, apologised for the receptionist's ignorance and proceeded to show me around several apartments which, frankly, were hovels. I made my excuses, left and, for a while was a bit annoyed but, having been here a little longer, I think that any "racism" that foreigners experience here can be more readily attributed to differences in culture rather than colour.

Those in this thread who appear to condone racism against Blacks and Indians in this country would do well to remember that whites are only given a slightly easier time by the Thais on account of their propensity to behave like holiday millionaires. Any second-rate bar and, of course, the hoes therein will tolerate loutish, peasant-like attitudes of men who behave as if they'd never had pussy prior to landing at Suvarnaboom-boom. . . as long as it's accompanied by conspicuous largesse.

The Blacks and Indians DO have money for sure but they're not conspicuous spendthrifts that feel the need to impress fellow punters and the attendant in-house prostitutes with their determination to have a "better time" than everybody else. That's the main reason some Thai establishments refuse to accommodate them.

I've not met a Black or Indian guy destitute in Thailand but I've sure met a lot of whites in that situation. Any idiot can buy respect and tolerance in Thailand but some do seem to pay a higher price than others.

I have not met a black person destitute in Thailand neither.............. then again I have not seen too

many there...................... but go to Hackney, Tottenham, Peckham, New Cross and you will see many.

Apartment in Bangkok for £495 a year! So you will be renting a

room in the 2000 - 2500 baht a month category. That is about

as cheap and nasty as it gets in Bangkok and that uni campus

is going to seem like heaven compared to the conditions and

people you will be living with.

Someone like me ends up at the less famous universities though... I had to walk through one when these lads were all coming out of the buildings and I didnt feel safe, like when you walk past high school and everyones coming out together and shouting... I didnt get any trouble but I felt I might be shouted at or something its how they were behaving.

And I hated school and it feels wierd if Id be called a teacher lol... but teaching adults in a language school isnt the same thing is it... and I just want to get out of England to Thailand in some way, and teaching English with a TEFL degree is how most people get into Thailand.

But learning Thai in Thailand is probably a better option if I *need* a university degree...

Does not matter. A degree from England even from a low ranked uni will look good compared

to any degree obtained in Thailand. Why do you think parnets from all over the world spend

large amounts of money so their children can have a piece of paper saying they studied

in England.

I think if you find a uni campus in the UK intimidating then Thailand is just going to be too

much for you.

I hated school so much Id hate going to university here in England but its probably better in Thailand so Ill google the intensive Thai courses.

right...

England has schools such as Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial. These institutes are famous

and attract some of the brightest academics worldwide. UK is probably the best country in the

world to obtain a degree and will be recognised everywhere.

^Cheers for putting me in the right direction. Know what to do now.

im a londoner too ! and i know only to well about your part of the manor, having lived best part of my existence in the u.k. in and around archway, tufnell park, islington, kentish town and camden. now living in bangkok. and no im not your son, alright geezer

and having dated a woman from the swansea area (otherwise known as a jack) i couldn't think of a more depressing place to live. tell me are the vetchfield faithful still harping on about how one day they will be back up playing with the big boys.

about the only good thing to brag about the place is the rugby team, the neath/swansea ospreys and the fact that you can pick up a half decent curry down the other end of the kingsway. the other half you can keep !

still things could be worse, you could have ended up in a place like port talbot.

Yeah Swansea is not great............... I agree.............. NW5 all day long.

Talking about the big boys your right there in Babgkok eh? Big fish little bowl???

I live in Swansea, if I tell other people that I live there they may look at

me with little interest and may bore them, tell people where you are now living

right now and see what kind of reaction you will generally get. Nuff said.

My girl arrived from Thailand on a fiance visa a couple of weeks ago. We have set a date to get

married in 16 days time. Basically we just would like information on what to do about upgrading

her fiance visa to a 2 year settlement visa once we have marriage certificate.

We would love to here from anybody with knowledge but especially people who have been through

the fiance to settlement visa process in the UK with enough time to post a reply.

Thanks in advance.

When I read an OP like this, it does make me wonder what brought the OP to Thailand in the first place. What sort of expectations did he have? Was his first visits to Thailand to Pattaya and other tourist places only? Did he think that all Thai women were like Thai bargirls? Did he really believe that he was a "hansum man?" Did he not know that Thailand was a developing nation? Did he not know about the visa laws? When somebody becomes this disenchanted with Thailand, it's usually because the reality couldn't live up to the expectations. I hope his expectations of life in Paris--or anywhere else--is a little more realistic. Otherwise, I doubt he will ever find true happiness.

Or maybe they just realised that they would like to live somewhere that is a little more respected internationally.

like swansea maybe

No like UK. You can diss Swansea all day long mate, its not my ends, just living here.

Im a London boy son so as you are making little comments lets here where you are

from and now living.

Next stop Paris.... I'm envious. Have a good time - A change is always refreshing.

I am not.

I lived and worked just below the ring road of Paris for 7 months and I thoroughly disliked the place.

The RTR and the Metro were good but the rental I paid was high, the food I bought at the supermarket and cooked at home was good and the bread and butter fantastic but outside in the evenings I had to go a long way to the centre of Paris if I wanted to drink as the bars locally closed around 8 pm though in most of the cafe/bars you could start drinking around 4 am.

Outside of Paris France is a real country and it is like saying Bangkok is Thailand.

It isn't and never will be.

Outside of Paris France is a real country??? So what is Paris some sort of illusion.

By the way Bangkok is the capital of Thailand so definately is Thailand.

When I read an OP like this, it does make me wonder what brought the OP to Thailand in the first place. What sort of expectations did he have? Was his first visits to Thailand to Pattaya and other tourist places only? Did he think that all Thai women were like Thai bargirls? Did he really believe that he was a "hansum man?" Did he not know that Thailand was a developing nation? Did he not know about the visa laws? When somebody becomes this disenchanted with Thailand, it's usually because the reality couldn't live up to the expectations. I hope his expectations of life in Paris--or anywhere else--is a little more realistic. Otherwise, I doubt he will ever find true happiness.

Or maybe they just realised that they would like to live somewhere that is a little more respected internationally.