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What is it with foreigners thinking it's OK to have public sex in Thailand. I'm sure it would probably be prison time in their home country.

Dr Varichaporn at Chiang Mai Ram if you every get this far north. Practiced in the US, excellent English, and will check everything.

A few days later in Aseannow Thailand News: Police Investigate Claims That Foreigner Breaks Cans On Concrete Pillar In Order To Buy Them Cheaper The Next Day - Netcitizens call for a crackdown on foreign can abusers and deportations

Shinkflation. That's another reason I stopped buying soft drinks (and other products as well). When they only fill the bottles 70% full with 30% empty plastic? And then raise their prices to boot? No wonder the world is floating in plastic - corporation don't give a rip. I've become part of the solution and just stopped buying their cr*p.

There are quite a few products I've jettisoned over the last couple of years because the prices have simply gotten stupid. Soft drinks like coke and pepsi for one. When I compares prices of things when I first arrived in 2007 to now? When prices get close to doubling it's time to quit paying for excessive corporate profits. Baked beans - I stopped buying those too. I found I can make some pretty tasty dishes with dried beans (white, red, pinto, kidney) and a good pressure cooker and some imagination. So regarding corporate processed food products? Their loss as they price their produces out of the range I'm willing to pay. Not that I can't pay (I can), as I still buy olive oil which is getting stupid too, but it is one of the product I use in cooking where I'll splurge. On the flip-side, I eat a whole lot healthier as local fruit and produce out here in the rural boondocks haven't been jacked up to the stratospheric prices that you see in grocery stores and cities. The locals would stop buying and just plant them themselves and sell the surplus - which by the way, keeps the local prices in check. In 2007 you could find shops out here selling noodles of 20 THB. You can find shops selling noodles for 20 THB now.

I've got a Last Will and Testament that was drawn up by a lawyer but it's out of date. The cost for amending it is stupid and not worth the money. My Will is very simple. It's not much more than a listing of my Thai bank assets and a few personal items which go to my wife if she survives me or my step-son if he survives my wife and I both. Easy. To help keep this on-topic, this is only about a Will applicable to Thailand. I know Wills can be drawn up at the local Amphur offices. I'm curious if anyone has done this. If so, what is involved? I'm thinking it may also be easier to take to probate court if the Will is registered with the Amphur? Just wondering. Now in my 70s and as most 70 year olds should know - death happens. It's the way of it. Any direct experience with setting up a Will at an Amphur office would be appreciated.

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I see that on Highway 11 between Muang Lamphun and the cut-off highway which I turn off on to go home. See it too often. Some moron will plant themselves in the right-hand lane driving at 70 kph and backs-up traffic behind them as there are often caravans of semi-trucks slogging along in the left lane on that particular stretch of road which are also traveling 70 kph. Then though-traffic has to pass the moron on the left (which I don't like doing but it can be done safely) and then marvel at the number of cars and trucks that the fool is blocking as they refuse to move over to allow vehicles driving at the 90 kph speed limit by them. And then if unlucky you get something like the video.

Like the hyper-aggressive driver who caused the pile-up because, as most Thai drivers, he had no conceptual sense of judging space and speed in relationship to the cars and trucks in front of him. How many Thai drivers, who can't accurately gauge the the traffic in front of them, actually look in a rear-view mirror to comprehend and react to what is coming at them at excessive speed from behind and then to react? I've been in situations similar to that - where some road-raged driver traveling beyond the speed they can handle whips their vehicle into the left lane, or even onto the shoulder, to get around vehicles in front of them. Defensive driving 101 - maintain 360 degree vigilance including knowing what is behind you on the highway. And I make it a habit to know what is behind me. If I see some idiot coming from behind at high speed, I make adjustment to make sure I'm not in the pile-up that may about to occur based on the traffic in front of me. Those are skill-set I developed back when I first began to drive 56 years ago. If the white SUV saw Khun Road-Rage coming and got off the accelerator and tapped the brake, Khun Road-Rage may have cleared the truck, or if he hit it, the White SUV may have been able to avoid the pile-up. Instead? Put the blinders on and keep your foot on the gas pedal - damn the traffic and full-speed ahead. Thais drive in their own little bubble and seem to be totally unaware of what is around them. Hence? BAM!

If you are an "Anti-Trumper" then Trump is Hitler. If you are a "MAGA-Trumper," then Trump is God. If you are me then you don't care as you will be voting for Taylor Swift For President 2024.

With the US involved, should we expect Healthcare costs to increase 10 fold?

She should claim she is "a doctor" then she could ask the courts for 20M THB in compensation. But? Just a bar-girl so "sucks to be you commoner Thai."

The first casualty of war is The Truth.

Even the tourists will get bored within a week. This will be a wash-out, but those tourist who do book a extended trip with the intent of coming to Northern Thailand for a 3 week Songkran? After sucking "killer air" for three weeks and enjoying the wonders of a brown-hazed sky where there are usually mountains - they'll never come back this time of year, and they'll tell all their friends as well. Be careful what you wish for.

Good - it will clear some of the "killer air" out of the region.

Thailand is the most LGBTQ+++ friendly country in the world. The problem is that in this day and age, those who believe they are "discriminated against" want 100% acceptance from everybody. It will never happen nor is that attitude realistic. How many LGBTQ+++ discriminate (and dislike) people who are not LGBTQ+++? The answer - Some. And there will always be "some." And how many non-LGBTQ+++ discriminate (and dislike) LGBTQ+++? The answer - Some. And there will always be "some." Just like I'd like 100% acceptance that I'm non-Thai and I want 100% of the Thai people to not discriminate against me. Unrealistic. There always will be some. The fact that a same-sex marriage law is passed at all is the equivalent to Womens' suffage (when women obtained the equal rights to men to vote). It's not a perfect world, but instead of bemoaning the fact that not all of the people will accept anything new all of the time - try celebrating the accomplishment of equality when it happens. It's a milestone. Be happy. Now - in that vain, perhaps its also time to grant foreign men married to Thai women the same rights as as foreign women married to Thai men. Now there is discrimination in all of its discriminatory ugliness which is still accepted by Thais. Foreign women married to Thai men: A valued core of a Thai nuclear family. Foreign men married to Thai women: Just visiting for a year and not valued by Thailand at all. So LGBTQ+++ in Thailand Get married legally. Enjoy you new rights and equality. Be happy.

Which is why the wife and I go to Cha-Am.

Thai "highway patrol" are for escorting VIPs, not for pulling drivers over and citing them for moving violation which is unheard of here. And if anything? The cops drive just as bad.

Saw it on FB. It shows a number of typical Thai driving antics that lead to accidents. Slow truck in the right (fast) lane which won't move left. Hyper-aggressive drivers. Road rage. Complete inability to read the road ahead of your own vehicle... And - BAM. It could have been worse.

You mean someone who owns a Status-Symbol-On-Wheels. Waste of money.

Just curious, but using your logic (considering you're in Utah), how can you accept sharing American women with migrants and foreigners? See, in the US that immediately gets you labelled as a racist, and rightly so. So, are you promoting racism in Thailand? You can't understand why Thai guys aren't more racist? Amazing Americans.

Easy - there are more women than men in Thailand. Go to your average village and you'll see a whole load of ageing spinsters looking for a husband. So the answer is: Thai guys don't want them.

If the "global youth" could afford million dollar beach-front properties on the ocean like the Obamas, the Bidens, and the Gores, then they probably would be jet-setting (like the Obamas, the Bidens, and the Gores) and enjoying a nice beach-front BBQ with their billionaire buddies (and don't think for a moment that the little curmudgeon Greta isn't part of The Club). Instead? Most of these kids have no future, they aren't going to own a house unless they inherit one from mummy and daddy, and for that matter most probably can't afford an EV without going so far into debt as to be unable to pay the student loan debts no less eat broccoli and kale at $10/pound. So? Why not sit on the road blocking traffic and clamoring about how the Obamas, the Bidens, and the Gores beachfront properties will be underwater by 2030 (expect those properties will be high and dry as none of them could obtain property or title insurance if "the melting of the polar ice caps flooding the world apocalypse" was really going to happen - but don't tell the kiddies that - ignorance is bliss).

If your name was Jane Average - Commoner, then "Yes." The UK legal system would hammer you. When your name is Greta Thunberg - Darling of Corporate Climate Activism, then "No." Her corporate and NGO sponsors will lawyer her up and paid whatever is needed to get her to her next scheduled event.

@george NortherRyland has a point. If you live out in rural Northern Thailand (Lamphun, Lampang, Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Mae Hong Son, etc) provinces and have any interaction with the locals, then you know the really ugly truth about the wide and pervasive burning of forest lands in the mountains surrounding Thai villages out here. There are at least two major reasons Thai villagers burn - one is to clear forest undergrowth and stimulate the mycelium in the forest floors in order to gather Hep Thop mushroom (which can fetch prices upwards of 600 THB/kilogram or more) as well as other mushroom species. Drive down Highway 11 heading south between Lamphun and Lampang and you'll see bunches of roadside stands selling mushrooms. That trade is built on the back of forest burning. The other reason is to gather red ant eggs for Kai Mot Dang salad. The people gather red ant eggs kill two birds with one stone and just let their fire burn for reason number 1. This is all economic. Oh yeah - everyone in the village knows the forests are being burn, but nobody knows who is doing the burning. "Shhhhh, be very very quite - shhhhhh!" The Big Ag issue is also a real issue. It depends where you live. Yeah, in the rural villages everyone knows that they can't burn their fields at this time - get caught and get fined (sound of a hand being slapped with wet bamii noodles). This comes down from the village heads and above. But in places like Mae Hong Son where Big Ag hands out seeds and supplies so that local can plant corn on completely deforested mountains? Perhaps a different story. "Car drive by. Throw out cigarette. Whole mountain of corn stubble burn. Not my fault." Then you have to ask yourself why the Thai government allows entire mountainsides to be deforested for growing corn in the first place. And we don't have sugarcane here yet, but given the talk between Thai ministers and Big Ag, they are rubbing their hands together in glee thinking of all the profits and revenues from growing more sugarcane to burn in cars. And with more sugarcane will come more crop burning at the Alter of Big Ag: Privatize the profits; socialize the costs of health damage from killer PM 2.5 air pollution. As others are pointing out though, right now? Most of this is forest arson. The government pays lip service year after year and on rare occasions arrests some patsy to show what a great job they are doing. But at the end of the day, there simply isn't any enforcement. And there is no "teeth" in the law if someone is caught. They are talking about throwing people in prison again for smoking ganja, but get caught burning forests and get a hand slap and perhaps publicly shamed. No "teeth" in burning laws - well unless you are burning a joint if Srettha and friends have their way at the end of this year. Burn a joint in 2025 and go to prison for a couple of years; burn down a forest? <shrug> So it never ends.