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Does begging my wife for sex count?

She no doubt 'fines' you 30K THB per month for the service.

Where is a beggar going to get 10000 baht?

There are no benefits in this country. Being a beggar is similar to someone being on an unemployed benefit at home. Some people are not cut out to do a 9-5 job, they want to be free to wander. They are not hurting anybody and not stealing. Leave them alone.

Then you don't understand the connection between the Thai mafia and the beggars that are put on the street, especially the kids. Don't feel bad, people aren't suppose to understand. 'Marks' are just suppose to feel guilt and then open up their purse strings.

Excellent documentary if you have 5 hours to kill.

https://youtu.be/oODjsdLoSYo

Then make up your own mind. However, there were war crimes committed by the Serbs, Croats, and Bosniacs. Once the Dogs of War are released, humanity goes out the window and it's the civilians who suffer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_indicted_in_the_International_Criminal_Tribunal_for_the_former_Yugoslavia

If the VP selection isn't Sanders, I'm wiling to wager that the riots that didn't materialize in Cleveland will instead materialize in front of the Democratic Convention.

I'm sure the climate researchers whose ship is currently stuck in the Arctic ice are really glad to here that. "Yeah, the ice will melt soon!"

adding that he has travelled in and out of Thailand using so many different names.

Obviously his passports are pretty good.

Even with a shrine, that corner seems to keep it's grip on the seriously bad ju-ju. Maybe they need another shrine for the shrine.

If the minister is serious they should look at prosecuting westerners who come here to buy sexual services, a few prison sentences would soon see bars (brothels) closing down. Don't go after the girls, go after the customers, many of them are perverts anyway Some of the popular bars have girls dressed in School 'uniforms' or have petite girls who look underage even if they are not, quite. Then there are the BDSM dungeon places, blow job bars with 'nurses' and and 'clubs' offering women in pairs who will do almost anything for a few k, romance and sanuk it certainly is not.

Simply answer: If they started tossing the 'johns' in jail, a large segment of the male population in Thailand would be incarcerated. Considering that it's expedient to maintain a functioning society and counter-productive to arrest those contributing to the GNP, I doubt your suggestion will get off the ground. You seem to know a whole lot about the really seedy underbelly of the sex trade here. Interesting.

Very happy cukes, bitter gourd (mara), lime tree in background, various herbs and flowers

Long green beans (tua fuk yaow), lumyai, and plants from picture above in background

Very happy tua fuk yaow

5 foot basil shrubs, various flowing plants (some eatible <foreground>), tumeric (upper-right background behind basil)

Very happy lumyai tree (logan), various herbs and flowering plants, ginger, and kha

Ginger, kha, herbs

Raised (thai-style) bed with clintro, lettuces, corn, and various fruit trees including chompu (rose apple), farang (guava), and aloe vera.

Lumyai (logan)

Ginger, lime tree, kefir, coconut tree, banana tree, and lemon grass

And of course a happy banana tree

I put in snow peas about two months ago but have had no luck with them. They have grown about 6 inches high, spindly, and just stopped growing and are now shriveling up starting at the base of the plant. The tua fuk yaow (green beans) that I planted at the same time are 2+ meters and producing like crazy.

I've planted another batch but wonder if I'll have the same problems. Any suggestions welcome.

This is the first year that we have put in a serious garden on the land adjacent to our house. We created a raised bed and planted various seeds and seedlings. Now about 6 weeks later I've noticed that the top soil has form a very hard crust that the seedlings and plants have to grow through. Some things seem to be doing ok such as onions, corn, tomatoes, and various herbs and lettuces, bitter gourd (mara), and tua fuk yaow (green beans). Other things are not so well and I'm wondering if that hard top crust of dirt is causing problems.

Long term solution is to add sand, compost, and other organic stuff to the soil to alter the composition of the soil, which will be a project for next year. I have to work with what I've got this year.

Should I be breaking up to hardpan soil around the plants and seedlings this year, or should I just let it go?

Picture of beds (orange hand spade in upper right portion of frame

Picture of soil crust with hand spade

I'm open to any helpful advice. Thanks!

To echo the sage advice that was given to me many moons ago by my drill instructor in bootcamp, "It's just another f****** day."

An assault is carried out by a threat of bodily harm coupled with an apparent, present ability to cause the harm. It is both a crime and a tort and, therefore, may result in either criminal or civil liability.

Humm. Obviously assault isn't illegal in Thailand.

I'm sure they will 'take care' of you once your Thai care-takers 'forget' to arrange for your 'elderly aged care visa' annual extension renewal at which point the immigration police move you from the care-taker's premises and relocate you to an over-stay prison to die in filth and squalor, well, unless your family can fill the 'brown envelop' with sufficient monetary persuasion. Of course, old age with it's concurrent sickness, forgetfulness, and dementia is no excuse for over-staying a visa!

Using the 'cockroach' theorem (if you see one there are 100 more that you don't see), then there were probably 10+ million violations of which 100K were committed within sight of a RTP road block.

100% organic in my backyard. Want to be sure your produce is 100% organic? Grow your own.

And all this this time I thought her name was Mrs. Egg. Well, either way, Mrs. Chicken now has egg on her face (hen-ce the blurred photo) as the state prepares to broil her for trying to hatch so many devious plots against unsuspecting spring chickens.

The White House would be a great place to start.

I see psychology and drug treatment is still in the Dark Ages in Thailand.

I think the government misunderstands its role. It is to govern for the good, safety and prosperity of the people. It is not to control what they do with their private life, such as drinking, choosing where and with whom they have sex etc.

Someone should tell the unelected fascists running the EU that.

I wonder how many of the Puu Yai ministers of morality can be found with a bottle of Johnney Walker Black in hand, three sheets to the wind in a karaoke bar after a hard day at the office making pronouncements to the unwashed masses?

kobkarn.jpg

This the Minister of Sports and tourism, Kobkarn Wattanavrankul. I believe she is correctly referred to as a woman.

Not bad looking. I wouldn't want her all night but a short time sounds good. How much?

dude get your peepers checked out

She should be put in charge of "The Ministry of Silly Rules." Much more fitting.

“Tourists don’t come to Thailand for such a thing. They come here for our beautiful culture.”

Someone seriously needs to clean their 'reality goggles' and then start taking their 'meds' again. Anyway, if they do manage to close the primary commercial venues, they will simply drive the industry underground, and my guess is that the Thai sex industry posing as 'karaoke bars' will still be doing a thriving business for Thai men.

Thailand is <...> deeply conservative...

...which is why the largest segment of the sex trade will be left untouched although the industry will pull the covers of legitimacy even tighter over the Karaoke bars frequented by Thai men.

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