jayboy

Once again we see the bubble mentality at work, with expatriates in this fellow's mind seemingly restricted to tourists, sex tourists and non active former sex tourists (ok maybe a few beachcomber/adventurer types as well). There are also quite a few pretend businessmen around but they really belong to the mentioned categories What doesn't seem to occur to this fellow and those that made mostly tedious comments on his post is that very many expatriates came to Thailand to do a serious job of work.They are well paid usually, concentrated on Bangkok and the ESB - and have mostly go nowhere near AN.

Maybe they were browsing on TikTok and saw quite a few young tattooed louts without their shirts on expounding the delights of Thailand - like the 7-11 toastie - and encouraging other members of the feral British working class to "come on over."

In my experience, and speaking only for the UK, those who detest their own country are the least likely to be able to assimilate in Thailand.The most successful expatriates here definitely prefer Thailand but have strong connections with UK and have a great deal of affection for it.

You were slyly referring to Jews though you didn't dare say so. Don't patronize us. As the late and much missed Norm MacDonald pointed out, “What terrifies me is if Islamic extremists were to detonate a nuclear device and kill 50 million Americans. Imagine the backlash against peaceful Muslims!”

This reminds me of the story of the curate's egg, The curate is dining with the bishop, his superior, who declares that he has a bad egg. The humble curate, wishing to be polite, rejects a replacement, assuring the bishop that ‘parts of it are excellent’. The joke of course being that if parts of an egg are bad, the whole thing is bad.

If you are referring to the allegedly typical Pattaya sex worker - tattooed, dark skinned, snub nosed, avaricious and uneducated farm girl , I agree the prospects don't augur that well. On the other hand I have known unions developed from the seediest quarters which have worked out.Let's face it the foreign clientele in Pattaya and other sex resorts is also usually uneducated and short on money/class and almost always some combination of middle aged/ugly/fat. So I would suggest it is often a union of equals. There are of course courtesan/models/pretties in Bangkok and elsewhere who have a commercial view of their love life.But they would have no interest in some fat old sex tourist with zero sophistication and a dubious bank balance.

And that is relevant exactly how?

Isn't this an example of just how sleepy and antiquated the British civil service can be? It's not really a political matter just the inertia of stuck in the mud bureaucrats.Having said that a Ministerial order could introduce a change to online submissions in one stroke.Those who prefer a paper exchange could opt for one.In short there is absolutely no reason why proof of life cant be done online.

You are both correct in one respect and mistaken in another.Of course the vast majority of Muslims and Pakistanis abhor grooming gangs and would never become involved in such wickedness.However it is fatuous to attempt to deflect by observing that any religion or nationality can be sex criminals.Of course that is true but it shifts attention away from a very specific grooming gang problem where the overwhelming number of participants come from a subset of the Pakistani origin community, very often from the Mirpur area of Pakistani Kashmir. There is a specific problem with organized grooming gangs involving men of Pakistani, particularly Mirpuri, heritage in cases like Rotherham, Rochdale, and Telford. Reports, such as the 2014 Jay Report and the 2022 Telford Inquiry, detail how these groups, often from socioeconomically deprived and feudalistic backgrounds, exploited vulnerable girls, enabled by tight-knit networks and cultural attitudes that dehumanized victims. The scale—hundreds of victims over years—and the organized nature of these crimes, often linked to businesses like taxis or takeaways, set them apart. Of course most abusers are white, given the UK’s demographics (about 80% white). The issue isn’t just raw numbers but the distinct pattern of these gangs, which authorities failed to address due to fears of racism accusations, as admitted in inquiries (e.g., Rotherham Council’s inaction). Police, social services, and local authorities’ failures—documented in reports like the 2020 Home Office review—allowed these crimes to persist.

I looked at this.Nothing in there to suggest she draws a clear line between women and those that pretend to be.It's written from an extreme ideological perception (the comments are worth reading) but yet fails to pin down one convincing example of JKR's alleged transphobia.

Can you point to just one example of JK Rowling's transphobia.It doesn't count to say she believes biological sex is immutable.

What do you mean by "stupid money"? I would have thought the price was market determined and one can not blame working girls for charging what they can get.The truth is of course that pretty charming girls do appear in the bars from time to time but they very rapidly disappear to pastures new, once they become aware of their worth.In every country and age pretty charming girls from poor backgrounds (and boys for that matter though trickier for them) rise in the social scale.Though it's a universal trait, Thai girls seem particularly adept at it.To be honest this phenomenon is more apparent in the middle class Thai bars than Pattaya with its predominantly loser client base. If we have to label a group 'stupid', I would opt for the gormless farang punters - the majority of which to use your expression are old,fat and ugly.

Unlikely Not a bad idea

https://www.fairplanet.org/dossier/beyond-slavery/forgotten-slavery-the-arab-muslim-slave-trade-sex-trafficking/ I expect this pack of grifters will get round to Muslim slavers in due course.

Many thanks, a useful advertorial article.