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For me , the most important sentence in your story is : " I have an advanced education in Engineering and it was easy to find a very high paying job in the USA" .

That explains a lot . For people without it , it would not be so great.

I guess beauty IS in the eye of the beholder.

I know this is the Bangkok forum , but if you are worried about Bangkok water , people living in rural area's should be panicking !

Water is different here every day . Sometimes it reeks of chlorine , other times some other chemical , if we're lucky a neutral smell.

Sometimes it is sandy , other times it has stuff in it that clogg the shower head.

I sure don't drink it, but people here let their dog drink it.

Pretty sure restaurants use it to wash food with it. Cheap restaurants don't have filters , and are not going to use the big 20 ? liter plastic bottles for it.

Bad enough I have to wash myself in it. Sometimes it's so bad , that I wouldn't wash my car with it.

So Indonesia is going to take over as the hub for foreigner murders from Thailand ?

Lifelong can be very short...

Don't see Aussie on the list

It said Australia still needs visa but can buy one on arrival. That is all to do with Australia giving them shit for the execution of the 2 Aussies for drugs.

And for spying on them !

This is the price we pay for the coolest winter in years.

Maybe in central Thailand , in the North is was a short warm winter compared to the last 2. This year is hotter and dryer , less clouds to lower the suns heat.

Coming to live in thailand , is leaving behind most problems you have in your own country and exchanging them for a whole set of new ones.
Listing those problems here , is a thai bashers' dream , but will not deterre people that
want to come and live here, because they still have a rosy view and you have to live here and experience it. The poll of this post is much to limited to give a good picture.
There are so many drawbacks to living in thailand depending on your personal views , finances... But the country you left is much worse , otherwise you would not have moved here.
I'm just here surviving on internet & aircon , serving my prison time for making bad descisions and burning bridges.
As soon as the greeks blow up the euro , or some other scenario , I 'm on the next plane out.

You do not know what I find acceptable. And you couldn't answer my question about what you find unacceptable. Because to answer that you would have to admit that the IS can go no lower. You found no examples of more abominable behavior, but you did list some parallels. You mention a number of atrocities and somehow find them justification for the actions of IS. You are either a collaborator or you have a problem processing logic.

If someone raped your aunt, does that mean that rape is no longer off limits, can someone else now go and rape your mom or sister?

Maybe it's ok now to burn people in cages, because by your logic the precedent has been set.

Think of this list: Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Genghis Khan. Do you find the things they did more or less horrible than what IS doing now? Or are you going to try to justify their actions as well? Why not, certain emperors of Rome had done things equally as bad.

To answer what I find unacceptable , is going even more off topic of the OP.

All the people you mention (Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Genghis Khan ) went much lower than ISIS.

If you don't see that , you've got eye blinds for history.

No examples of more abominable behavior ? How about rwanda , to stay recent ? 500.000 to a million getting hacked to pieces with machetes just because you were from a different tribe (hutu & tutsi's) ?

Rape is another subject , going way off topic to reply.

It is not ok to burn people alive in cages , but in the eyes of ISIS , these pilots are war criminals and got their sentence the way they killed people with their warplanes and as a warning to other pilots.

What did the germans love to do in WW2 : flamethrowers. It is not justification for ISIS actions , but is just as low or lower.

I'm not justifying any action , just stating that compaired to all the atocities in history , ISIS is still mild.

And again if you compaire ISIS atocities to what is goinig on in the meat/fish industy , ....why bother no-one cares anyway.

So as a canadian ( from your TV name canuck) , go clob some baby seals.

So much anger towards ISIS ... this is a war . You think the serbs were that much different in bosnia ?

(to use an example close to home ). You think wars in europe the last 1000 years were different?

You think the civil war in the US was different?

Of course back then there were no youtube video's...

So I guess you condone all of the beheadings and the kidnapping of young Christian girls as sex slaves to other pervert Muslims? You have absolutely NO idea what you're talking about do you? Serbs and Bosnians being different? There is hundreds of years of hatred there, the most immediate from WW2 and then to 1945 when Tito recognized Bosnia Herzegovina which pur the Serbs nose out of joint. I won't go into a history lesson Comparing Serb/Bosnian conflict the whole slaughter by IS is insane. This IS thing is no war. There has been no declration of war, IS is not a country nor a state just a particularly violent and twisted terror group

You sound like a sexpat in thailand , being jealouse of them having young christians girls.

Forced "marriages" of underaged girls , is still going on in some parts of the world , and has always been in the past especially with muslims.

If you don't like the comparson of what happened in bosnia with the serbs and kroatians , look at the slaughter in rwanda , hacking away with machetes , or what is happening in dark africa now , but no-one reports or is interested in.

Yes shooting some-one in the head is so much better than beheadings.....

So much anger towards ISIS ... this is a war . You think the serbs were that much different in bosnia ?

(to use an example close to home ). You think wars in europe the last 1000 years were different?

You think the civil war in the US was different?

Of course back then there were no youtube video's...

A war? against which nation? Seems to me they are at war with free will and humanity in general.

If these guys don't strike you as a group whose actions should be condemned, just exactly what do you consider unacceptable?

I know what you call acceptable :

Sitting safe in your aircon bunker 5000 miles away, playing with your drone joystick , blowing stuff up , and counting the bodies via satelite .

You think burning a pilot alive in a cage is cruel ? What about all the people burned or blown to pieces by those pilots?

You think cutting thoats is cruel? How do you think your cadavre/meat on your dinner plate is murdered? 100 of million times a day.

What do you think went on before the Geneva convention about POW's. And all the times since then when is was ignored? ( spoils of war : men killed in worse ways than ISIS or enslaved , women raped and baby incubators , and of course plundering)

Sure , clean history books don't mention that , nor said to the kids in school, but it doesn't mean it didn't happen.

It doesn't have to be declared between countries , to be at war.

Ethnic or religious cleansing is war too.

So much anger towards ISIS ... this is a war . You think the serbs were that much different in bosnia ?

(to use an example close to home ). You think wars in europe the last 1000 years were different?

You think the civil war in the US was different?

Of course back then there were no youtube video's...

Can we add names of immi officers that want 500 B for residency paper with no receipt , while other do it for free or ask the standard 200 B WITH receipt ?

first Ricardo 1000 farangs who spend every year 1million500thousand bath is 1billion500millions bath .

second , if all the farangs who live like expats here , make house , buy car and bike , have all the comfort so that they make live a lot of thai peoples include all the family of their GF live thailand , it ll miss a lot of billions baths for thailand .

How about finally letting us OWN some land and build our own house.

Perhaps the General might assist in this, by instructing Immigration to give 90-days on-arrival, instead of just 30-days ?

And then by including Re-Entry Permits with Extension-of-Stay, so that if you're allowed to stay for longer, then that automatically includes the right to come and go within the extension-period ?

Just two small changes, which would make Thailand a more-friendly country, and easier to visit for longer !

While you're at it : no more mandatory informing of immigration office about staying more than 24 hours away from your residency or informing immigration or police at the place you are staying at.

I feel like a prisoner here. Abolish fines for small motels/hotels for not informing immigration of foreigners staying.

So Ayutthaya11 , may I ask what pills you're on to be so happy that you need musical downers ?

Or are you planning on a suicide party and looking for the right "mood" music ?

I think children from the age of 12 /13 should be forced to go watch a slaughterhouse.

It will traumatise them for life and turn them into vegetarians.

The holocaust of the meat industry ( and fish industry) makes hitler look like a new born baby.

Meat is MURDER.

Baht too high ? Have you seen the graphic for the last 10 years?

2 years ago , still under yingluck , it was around 29 B/USD , now 32,5 , that's more than 10 % lower.

The euro , aussie ,yen, ruble.......are much lower , but it has nothing to do with thailand.

The yuan /thb is pretty steady for the last 2 years @ 5,2B/yuan.

Selfish as I am , I would like the thb to get even stronger ( 15thb/euro is fine for me), but it is not going to happen.

The last time we heard some noise from the BoT , devaluation started , yes about 2 years ago , from 28,6 to 33 thb/usd.

So I expect a weakening of the baht in the coming weeks or months.

Bobby Vinton : Honey

Moody blues : Nights in white satin

Peter Kingsbery : Only the very best

Good luck with that piece of insecure crap then.

Unbelievable that people are still using this buffalo dung.

Now go and wash your sweaty , greasy fingers and go play with your touchscreen tiles...

Well if I was former employee Herve Falciani , I'd be looking over my shoulder for the rest of my life. A lot of p!ssoff rich people

might need revenge.

At that time there was something like bank secrets . It's like a lawyer ratting out on his guilty client.

The real criminals here are the HSBC leakers !

That's not the way I see it, they (HSBC) knowingly aided and abetted these people to break the law. (Whether it's a law that we like, or agree with, or not).

HSBC did the same in the UK, the only difference being, their Tory mates will probably make sure they get off scot-free!

I meant : the real criminals here are the people (or the one person) that leaked personal/private information

of accounts to governments (of a lot of countries).

That HSBC is a criminal bank , is already well known for many reasons.

They are not at fault for finding tax loopholes for their clients , it's their job to assist their clients.

So what is Bill gonna do ? Interview interns for their oral skills ?

The secret service is gonna have a party , watching (and partying with) Bill. And the white house laundry working overtime for cleaning "stains".

You know she is going to win. 47 % intitlement masses , 97 million non working on government aid , and most of the women , will be voting for her.

And the nsa will have sh-tloads of leverage on her and her hubby , to keep them in line.

Call off the campain and save a couple of billions.