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When I'm in a group of Thais and hear the word, "Farang", I know exactly who they are talking about, and at the point I tend to focus in on the conversation. It's fun catching them saying something derogatory (it doesn't happy often but it does happen) and then saying something that lets them know I heard and understood them, usually with me grinning and making direct eye-contact. Major loss of face. But most of the time it's a simply descriptor that identifies one person out of a crowd, or a specific somebody who lives in a Tambon that is rather free of Westerners. Other than that though, I don't care. I live in an area where I'm one out of another two 'farangs' in our Tambon, and I don't know either of them personally. Just the way I like it.

Ditto.

In that case, keep busting dance clubs and testing everyone for drug.

My standard method of crossing a cross walk as I nearly got killing crossing the road on a green in CM 15 years ago. Press button. Wait for green light. Look in the opposite direction of traffic for the moron who is driving the wrong way. Then shift back to the oncoming traffic and gauge everyone's speed. If someone isn't stopping? Don't get in the way, However slap the mirror and fall down - - or just slap the mirror - or just let it go. Keep your eyes on the traffic until you get to the other side of the road. DON'T ever assume that any driver is going to stop for you. Personally if I was on a motorcycle or had a clear path around the downed guy, I would have gone after the truck to get a clear license number, then back off. Go back and talk to the cops and give them then information.

He said; she said. He's dead; she's alive. If I was a woman and called three blokes to come over and murder my husband. I'd be telling the world what a horrible man he was. She may escape murder charges that way.

Alternate Title: Why some people should never consider getting married.

Like the topic title says, I'm looking for information, in English, on what is needed to start a Thai foundation. I can follow up with my Thai lawyer, but I want to know the basics first.

Do you speak and write Thai fluently. Well, there's your first hurtle.

Been there, done that. 45 years ago. I'm pretty amazed watching Thais weld with nothing but a pair of sunglasses, no leathers, no hood, no cares at all. Probably like the Pakastanis and Indian guys. However, I know one thing for sure. Given enough time they are going to fry their retinas. But like you, I've a ton of amazement and respect. But I'd never do it without safety equipment.

Sick people with weak immune systems should wear 3M P-100 masks. If you're healthy? There is no reason for you to wear a mask. All this hysteria began in 2020 and has become "mandated behavior." Funny - before 2020 it wasn't "mandated behavior" and the entire world survived. In fact, the eugenicist billionaires insist there at wayyyyy too many of us useless eaters contaminating Gaia and most of use should be eliminated. So? Why complain about Covid. According the them it's culling to commoners who need to be culled to save Mother Earth!

COVID surge just a “new wave” which will gradually fade after the New Year blah blah blah blah blah Maybe they should close the borders and lock the public in their homes. Sorta like China, where from what I'm hearing, members of the public are finding Zero-Covid as getting really, really old. Well, perhaps I'm being Captain Obvious but.... If I ran a huge media cartel and every time some member of the scientific community whom we refer to as an "Expert" begins to tongue-lash the public about the dangers of the brand new, absolutely novel, guaranteed to kill ya permutations of <gasp> Covid - imagine the power I can wield. Even better. If I know that I can go from my government job, to a job in the pharmaceutical industry, or rack in grant money for any study that supports the status-quo, and then in-and-out of the revolving door in order to make mandates, laws, and edicts? All the while being privy to the mandates, laws, and edicts before the public so I can trade the stock market with impunity? Lordy - ain't life grand? Well, of course. I'd attempt to scare the bejesus out of the gullible rabble and the rather ignorant commoners every chance I had if it help me amass power, status, and wealth. I'm 70+ years old. I've had more colds, influenzas, and various upper respiratory viruses than I can count, and no doubt, all of the viruses - back in the olden days - all had scientific names - and? Nobody gave hoot what they were called, well, unless the influenza of the day needed to be stoked by the MSM. I knew people who had H1N1 and it was brutal and it killed a bunch of people too. But - just another flu. In fact virtually all upper respiratory infections had one of two names: A cold, or the flu. Covid is "just another flu" (the Flu being and upper respiratory infection that makes you feel like complete <deleted>, for most people they get over it and it goes away, and for a handful it kills them) and if it isn't hyped beyond imagination, it will go the way of all the other flus, colds, and upper respiratory infection. Here today, gone tomorrow. Really - this constant Covid hype is insanity. Just freaking stop.

And, Oh my goodness. Especially in the United States of America. Check out how the courts fall on the side of large corporations and monied individuals when it comes to taking "The Lowly Commoner's Land" in the name of? Eminent Domain. The Government: "But but but - if we take the land your and your ancestors have had since the mid-1800s and give it to Walmart, Amazon, or Blackrock? Think of all the tax revenues we can have rolling in - as well as campaign contributions for us helping them urinate on the upturned faces of the America public!!! <--- This is called, "Democracy." ????

"Thailand has enough trouble with drunk farang that it really does not need to deal with the pot head-stoned farang " <---- Your race-based quote @kingstonkid Because you insinuated that "Farangs" are an issue. We can probably insinuate that "Drunk Farangs" (your words) insinuating that White people in Thailand are a sort of uniformly problem of alcohol abuse across the Thailand. I hate to inform you, but drunkenness is is not a racial trait. Drunkeness and drug issues transcend race. Don't make "farangs" being drunks and "potheads" an issue as it makes you're assertions border on overt racism. And honestly? If find that disturbing. By the way - you set the stage that you yourself are now dancing on. Go back and read through your own threads. 1. "Thailand has enough trouble with drunk farang that it really does not need to deal with the pot head-stoned farang " (Farangs are white people of European decent so.....your diatribe is anti-white. FYI-"White", as in 'white skinned' is a color in case you didn't know and a racial ethnicity.). 2. "Me think you have smoked too much of the woke tabaccy." (When all else fails, resort to ad-hominid attacks of another member's character.) So: Just to point out Aseannow Modation rules which you seem to flaunt: "Do not flame, troll or stalk other members". "Me think you have smoked too much of the woke tabaccy." <--- your flaming words. And 15: "You will not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, age, religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability, medical history, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, paternity, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other irrelevant factor. " " "Thailand has enough trouble with drunk farang that it really does not need to deal with the pot head-stoned farang " <---- your racist diatribe aimed on light-skinned individuals of European decent - or any other light-skinned individual whom most Thai would refer to as 'white' (farang) based on their skin color. Let me make a recommendation: Really - mellow out. Have respect. Don't attack other members. And realize that "People of color includes the entire color spectrum." ❤️

You missed my point. Thailand isn't exactly the epicenter of human compassion especially when it comes to pain relief and palliative care. I wish I could help! But like a lot of my fellow farangs here in Thailand, I know there is no such thing as hospice care. Unfortunately if you're dying of a dread disease, as far as I know ending your own life is one of the few options. Personally I'd like to know. I don't particularly want to have to check myself out in order to escape pain that is easily treated in Western countries for the dying. In fact, many of us older expats planning to simply die in Thailand probably want to know too.

Compassion is lacking here.

Agreed. Contact a Dee Money Rep directly.

That should make a few million cannabis criminals as well as a few thousand 'cannabis traffickers' with just a wave of a hand by a judge. Better build concentration camps and the prisons won't hold everyone. Of course, the judgement would never apply to "Special People."

I want to talk with a highly knowledgeable Android-based Smart Phone salesman who can speak fluent English, ie, I need them to understand the phone, the underlying Android OS, the phone's specifications, and it's ability to be rooted. I've worked with enough Thai sales staff who can talk in broken English and don't display much understanding of the phones they sell past the common User Interfaces. Finding a sale staff who is technically proficient and fluent is as rare as hen's teeth, but they are out there if you can find them. I'm just trying to find one. So can someone make a recommendation for a shop and a specific sale's staff member who fits those qualifications in Chiang Mai or Lamphun where I live, however here in Lamphun the 'broken English' variety are pretty much all I can find. Because my eye-sight and fine-motor skills are lacking, and because I don't want another phone that I can't force to upgrade if need be, I want to have an understandable conversation with the Smart Phone sales staff who can knowledgeable answer my questions. And although my my eye-sight and fine-motor skills are lacking, I don't want any expensive, bulky, large-screen Adroid phone. I don't use a Smart Phone enough to warrant the extra expense. If you know Android Smart Phone sales staff like this, please let me know. I would sincerely appreciate it. Thanks!

I've had exactly that same thing happen. I know others who have had that happen to. I swear that USPS is deliberately sitting on 7162 the receive that are tracked, toss them in a bin, and don't deliver them until after the SSA 7162 cut off date. It really does look deliberate as malicious as that sounds.

They really want to kill the goose laying golden eggs. And like alcohol, I say they only want their close friends and connected buddies to enjoy the economic benefit. They'll just drive the commoners back underground and throw a ****-ton of people back into prison considering that a few million people in Thailand will be holding contraband cannabis in amounts that I consider to be 'personal use' but they'll state is amounts for trafficking. Some absurd amount like a few grams. In the meanwhile the methamphetamine trade is simply going gangbusters. Pills retail at 10 THB down from 200 THB not that long ago. Everyone in the village knows who is dealing, therefore the cops do too. ???? Meth really is a scourge to society. Long-term meth-heads/tweakers eventually go bonkers and can become unpredictably dangerous. Local kids with no future (i.e., unwilling to work hard like their parents before them who still work in the field) turn to robbery, theft, and other unsavory ways of making money to supply their habit because meth IS addictive. So Thailand will make cannabis illegal for the plebs to grow, sell, and use. Thais who have just found a way to make a better income will now become criminals overnight. Weak enforcement gets even weaker as cops who should be concentrating on reining in hard drugs that really do screw up society end up chasing down recreational cannabis users who smoke a spiff on occasion like many will drink a beer on occasion. I wonder how many of the doctors and 'concerned puuyai' who are demanding recriminalization of cannabis routinely get skunk drunk on their Chivas Regal and JW Black and then driver around in their luxury cars like lunatics?

Dayz

Does anyone even care about the World Cup this year? Nope.

Actually, it's going to be a fun-less high season.

I've had the same thing occur when tracking it via registered mail. It sat in Wilkes-Barr USPS facility for two months and then was delivered after the due date.

I've sent the form via registered mail before. It took about 10 days to get to the US (NY). Then a few weeks to get to Wilkes-Barr USPS. Then it sat at Wilkes-Barr USPS until after the due date on the form. Then it was delivered. There is something very wrong with USPS as the form gets stuck in THEIR system for upwards of two months.