wefearourdespot

Cuba sounds better and better.

My friend, you are really hopeless.

" my GF is asking for a salary"

GFs don't want a salary, prostitutes do. It's your choice.

They want marriage, so they can get everything.

That's way more than a petty salary.

After having spent many years together (on and off, as I go back to my home country to work), my GF is asking for a salary, but she tells this is not about business, it is about love! I ask her how much? She tells me bar girls can get about 30,000 B, so maybe my salary should be about the same. Of course, she was shy about talking about this at the beginning, because "it is not polite"! I am supposed to be a gentleman! I also must help her parents! I must also help my parents. Is she helping my parents? Is she going to? Nope! I am confused! Should I run?

So do your math

I was not able to come home...

Either you are a troll, or you used the visa shake up as an excuse to damp your money sucking girlfriend.

Thailand has many problems but there is still something the draws me.

With all the 'bad press' appearing in some forums is this a good time to consider a move to BKK?

It's always a bad time if you move to Thailand for anything else.

wealth is money and what you can buy with it.

Dump her, double quick.

If she stalks you, change address.

Is the AbomiNation biased ?

Of course it is, nothing unbiased could ever survive the Despotate's censorship.

i agree with Laopo, by letting go such acts (extortion), KP discredit itself.

Yes the thieves must be punished .

But it seems obvious that KP don't care that a band of thugs have set up

an extortion business (bound to problems that all stores can enconter : shoplifting)

involving KP shops.

From now on I will not put a foot in these stores and i will advise all my friends

to avoid them.

Singapore, Dubai and Argentinia are Third World countries?

The map is old and one has to distinguish between Thailand and POOR countries like the Least Developed Countries, as defined by the United Nations

Thailand "Scores o.k in " Developed Countries"

Really a nice map.

I do really appreciate the way it puts Thailand on the same level of North Korea, Libya, Venezuela and Cuba

To have an opportunity cost you must have had a cost at start.

Thai gov has never spent a satang for expats so what are you speaking about ?

I made a very neat question above, would you mind giving it an answer instead of pathetically climbing mirrors ?

go on, do yourself a favour and look up the concept. You are just making yourself look silly now.

The one looking silly is you.

You stated expats were a cost for Thailand because of infrastucture spending.

I asked you what infrastucture has ever been built for expats by Thai gov.

I'm still waiting for an answer.

infrastucture is built for everyone and no one in partiuclar. Here's another two economic terms for you to look up: "free riding" and "externalities"

As for infrastructure: The airport you landed in. The road that you drove away from that airport to your house/hotel. The power lines and water mains which connect to your house. The refineries which were built by the state which make the fuel that go into your car. The teachers who teach your kids. The free schooling and university education provided to those around you. I coluld go on.

OMG you are unbelievable

Each time I use the airport I pay a tax included in the air ticket.

To use the road I have to pay a bus ticket or a taxi fare. If I drive I have to pay VAT and taxes on the vehicle I have purchased plus taxes on fuel.

Refineries get paid also.

Please don't call teachers the brain washers who take care to delete whatever sign of intelligence and free thought in Thai public school pupils (I don't have kids anyway).

Expats don't get any free schooling and university education.

Please feel free to go on, we all want to have one more laugh

Just sharing this. As far as observations are concerned in some threads in here, there's a little bit of similarities. Some differences in the time frame though.

very short lived marriage

by izzix on June 21, 2009, 9:55 pm

from stickman this week

http://www.stickmanweekly.com/StickmanB ... ishBar.htm

Another only in Thailand story this week, the events of which happened to a Danish victim. He met a girl in a beer bar, fell in love with her and married her. They had a big party and there was the usual transfer of wealth - ring, gold and cash from him to her and her family. They took their honeymoon in Phuket. She received a phone call in the hotel room and spoke in Thai. It was obvious to him that something was up. He went into the shower and when he came out she was gone. He searched for her and couldn't find her. He has not seen her since! Unfortunately for some of these women, marriage means a big party with a farang guy with lots of money coming their way. Soon after the party they revert back to their own ways and feel that they can do whatever they want!

Most farangs are not lucky like the one above.

Usually bar girls leave only after they got a house a business and a car in their name, not just the sinsot money.

To have an opportunity cost you must have had a cost at start.

Thai gov has never spent a satang for expats so what are you speaking about ?

I made a very neat question above, would you mind giving it an answer instead of pathetically climbing mirrors ?

go on, do yourself a favour and look up the concept. You are just making yourself look silly now.

The one looking silly is you.

You stated expats were a cost for Thailand because of infrastucture spending.

I asked you what infrastucture has ever been built for expats by Thai gov.

I'm still waiting for an answer.

The first cost is the cost in terms of infrastructure needed to service these new older expats, that will never be recovered via a decent history of cummulative tax payments (income, VAT etc etc).

The second cost is the forgone benefits of targeting expat retiree's at the expense of targeting more productive migrants (for instance) or fixing the economy so there are better jobs for locals to do.

What the fuc_k are you blabbing about ? What infrastucture is needed to service who ?

What infrastucture has ever been built here to service older expats ?

Expats are a totally cost free (and mostly undeserved I must say) source of revenue for the Kingdom.

Your "second costs" are even more delirious than the first: as nothing has been ever been spent for the expats, how could nothing be used to target something else ?

The truth is just the opposite: if Thai Immigration had not persecuted and chased away expats and tourist with its racist ,xenophobic and avaricious rules a lot more of free revenue had flown to Thai people, therefore actually contributing to their well being.

But the well being of Thai people seems to upset the few who are already being well , so the inflow had to be stopped.

no such thing as a free lunch. Sorry. To say foreign expats incur no cost is delusional.

Look up the definition of 'opportunity cost'.

To have an opportunity cost you must have had a cost at start.

Thai gov has never spent a satang for expats so what are you speaking about ?

I made a very neat question above, would you mind giving it an answer instead of pathetically climbing mirrors ?

The first cost is the cost in terms of infrastructure needed to service these new older expats, that will never be recovered via a decent history of cummulative tax payments (income, VAT etc etc).

The second cost is the forgone benefits of targeting expat retiree's at the expense of targeting more productive migrants (for instance) or fixing the economy so there are better jobs for locals to do.

What infrastucture has ever been built here to service older expats ?

Expats are a totally cost free (and mostly undeserved I must say) source of revenue for the Kingdom.

Your "second costs" are even more delirious than the first: as nothing has been ever been spent for the expats, how could nothing be used to target something else ?

The truth is just the opposite: if Thai Immigration had not persecuted and chased away expats and tourist with its racist ,xenophobic and avaricious rules a lot more of free revenue had flown to Thai people, therefore actually contributing to their well being.

But the well being of Thai people seems to upset the few who are already being well , so the inflow had to be stopped.

She doesn't ask for money monthly

I'm not a troll. I understand where you're coming from, but believe me it's not a trollpost.

WHy would you think it's a trollpost? Because the guy who assaulted her is Thai? And nothing bad about Thais can be said on this forum?

Here's an option.......Stay home and you won't need to worry about it!

A bar is out of the question but surely other business opportunities are out there!

Are Democrats going to amend constitution to save their asses? I don't see it.

I agree. Whoever is guilty has to go, just like with other parties. This is the most stupidest thing to be caught on, since it is a well known part of the constitution. Any politician caught on this (regardless of who it is) shouldn't be holding a public office.

The Democrats are not going to amend the constitution because of this. To do so, would lower themselves to the level of Thaksin's horde. They are better than this.

LA Times saying he has died...

oh no..

Are you one of his many creditors ?

Busy working, last I heard

Even for myself a relatively new member of thaivisa forums i've noticed that some members who had been here for a long while and recorded a thousand or even thousands of posts just disappeared for some unknown reason. Leaves me wondering "What suddenly happened?".

Can anyone give me the lowdown why and perhaps well-known puzzles of former members in the past who just fled or disappeared one day ....

It seems that being away from the comforts and support systems from back home, being away from what we know, our friends and family and culture, can cause some expats to feel stressed, anxious and depressed.

OMG how could you put so much bullshit in just two lines

Most people in the West are stressed, anxious and depressed just by their family (nagging wife), friends (which friends?) and culture (= wank yourself cause you cannot afford even a prostitute).

Support systems ? Call them extortional taxes making your life miserable and you get the real picture.