trainman34014

Same old same. Miracle Thailand..Hub of Bullshit.

I can understand his view

He is supporting the family for 12k a month, which is quite a lot. But rather than you paying a seperate amount in addition to the 12k he's paying, he wanted you to ease his financial burden. As you're in the UK (And I assume working there), it's likely a significantly smaller portion of your salary than what it is his. So he'd be thinking that you're a stingey prick, even though the main thing which you objected to was giving the money to him, not to your MIL directly.

You paid about right for Sin Sod, e.g. not much, just a token gesture (The gold should have gone to your wife not the parents tho right?). As being divorced with 2 kids, the Sin Sod has already been paid.

But even though you're right, you should try to mend the fence if you can, best to not have problems within the family as it makes problems similar to what you have now.

The only fence I would repair is the one I broke over this gits head. Family problems my arse; it's time to stand up and be counted as a British Bulldog instead of whinging about some 'Holier than thou' <deleted> who needs a lesson or two. Put up or shut up !

Two farangs were picked up from a Thai bar, not far from the moat, late this morning by immigration police. Neither were Australian so there could be no obvious reason for them to be hauled away. The problem was neither, one Dutch, one British, had their passports with them. The Dutchman, had a valid visa, but was taken to police cells for most of the day as immigration could not verify his visa on their computer as there was a three month backlog for Mae Sai visas. The Brit was not so fortunate - a long overstay. Despite the 20,000 baht fine being paid by a friend he has been kept in custody while his fate is being decided.

And of course there is more to this story than mentioned above. I don't think they were "picked up" at random.

Yes; I was thinking the same thing and it seems that the Brit was on a wanted list for some reason. Maybe somebody grassed him for not being pukka?

Right now there are fortune tellers scaring the population with predictions of 5 to 7 metre floods next year, any chance of putting a gag on these people?

Why do that when they are probably more accurate than the pricks who are running the country right now?

Golden Syrup. I can't make a treacle pud' like Mum used to without it.

Lard and shredded beef suet.

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Nah; can't be true because Yinglucks band of merry crooks said the floods didn't make any difference to Miracle Thailand, and we know they only speak the truth about such matters.

All this cobblers about having to have a return ticket to get a visa on entry is just that...cobblers ! If you arrive on a one way ticket you will still get a 30 day tourist visa and they won't even ask to see any tickets whatsoever. I know this to be true because I did it several times when I used to come here some years back. If you want to extend you can go to immigration and get longer for 1,900 Baht. After that it's up to you what you want to do and you can buy a ticket to leave the country in any direction you want to. You can then return on a single ticket and start the process all over again. Too many people hand out bum information when they've never actually done things for themselves.

Notwithstanding the aforementioned; if the OP wants to come and live here on $300 dollars a month I wish him the very best of luck....he's going to need it !

Shhhhh ! Don't tell too many people about our little paradise in the North.

And the jobless figure after the 2012 floods will be..........?

Let's face it, Thailand was incredibly lucky that a bunch of buffoons botched the bombings up.

Chalerm in particular has been shown once again that his mouth rules his brain.

All the government is thinking about is the loss of revenue. A distant second comes the safety of tourists and international officials.

I don't think anyone on this forum seriously believes that the government is able to prevent terrorists with bombs doing pretty much what they want as they do in the south. As we can see with drugs, the borders are so porous almost anyone and anything can get through.

I find the bunch of Baffoons running this country a lot more scary than the Iranians/Lebanese running around making sub-standard bombs. Can we seriously believe that the Thai 'Intelligence Services' are any good at what they are supposed to be doing? Chances are they are too busy in illegal gambling dens, cock fighting, or swilling home made hooch when they should be doing something about homeland security. We all know how efficient the BIB are, and the current Government is, so how can we expect anything other than more attacks? Next time they will most probably get it right with the bombs because they will send people who are a lot smarter than the tosspots that turned up this time.

Silly girl.

Not really justice.

Everyone knows that Malaysia has the death penalty for this. She was not forced into it. She knew exactly what she was doing, tossed the dice and scored the death penalty. Can't change the rules of the game just because you lost. She has no one to blame but herself, she decided her own fate it was all 100% in her own hands.

do you think she deserves to die?

What he thinks, I think, or you think makes no difference. Unless this woman is lucky enough to get her sentence commuted to life imprisonment on appeal, which seems unlikely, she will be hanged in accordance with the laws of the land she knew that she was going to transit through. Tough call but nobody can make decisions for any other individual on earth. The only person we live with all of our lives is ourselves and we all have to take responsibility for our own actions. I get very tired of the Liberalistic views of people who always want to blame someone else for a persons serious mistakes.

Duc the Praslin is good for chocolates; but I'll be heading to the Oriental Bakery for some macaroons..

Macaroons ! Where's that place Winnie?

I built my relationship in Thailand over a four year period of coming here four times a year for one month visits. The woman I eventually married and settled with is 18 years younger than me and was a widowed working Midwife who had traveled widely in Asia but never to the West. Right from the start of our relationship she told me that she wanted to see Europe, Australia and America but had no wish to live in any other place than Thailand. Since we married I have taken her to the UK, OZ and the States and we have had long stays, especially in the UK, which was my former home. After seeing all that these countries have to offer my wife is always happy to come back home and says that whilst she has learned a lot about the World and other cultures she still has no wish to live abroad. As I am very happy living here myself and have no particular reason to want to return to the country of my birth, we have a very happy and stable marriage and I consider myself to be one of the lucky ones. However; I have friends who have had terrible experiences with taking Thai girls to the UK including one good mate who has been married to three different women he has taken back and each time they have crapped on him.

New tourism ad's could soon read......' Visit Miracle Thailand and see Bangkok.. the Venice of Asia ' .

Almost every High So family in Thailand has Chinese connections so they will always do more to look after their own.

Maybe they should just dig a big hole 10Km deep. That should do it.

jb1

The current govt is already digging itself into a hole...it's probably a couple Km deep already.

It's a pity 'The People' don't wake up and bury the Bastards in it up to their necks, then leave with the passing quip ' We leave you to await the floods that you say may recur' !

Thai Boy to Thai Girl.....'Hey Ubon, it's Valentines Day tomorrow and the Cops want us all to be home before 10pm so that we don't have sex'. Girl....' Ok then, we'll do it twice tonight and again on the 15th' !

Smells like someone higher up the ladder in the 'Controllers General Department' didn't get a big enough pay off !

Thailand... 'Hub of Task Forces' . I seem to recall one being set up to catch Green Mamba's. Are they still out there tasking or did they ever find one?

The only thing considered noteworthy about this article is that Mr. Lor failed to sufficiently pay his tea money to the satisfaction of the pigs up top.

Agreed; and as soon as that is rectified no further action will occur other than his business returning to normal.

Why point at Chalerm all the time....the man is 6 months?? on the job.......it took the americans 10 years to find bin laden........it will take a massive internal clean up first of police and military to get to the hot shots.....

.according to me ......

He is doingin an excellent job sofar.

Actually, Bin Laden should have hidden in Thailand. Providing he paid enough to appropriate parties he would have never been found.

Valentines day....damned if she does, damned if she doesn't ... that was a well thunked out conundrum on her part.

She won't off herself, crazy but not that stupid. I'd be curious how many people show up to take videos.

If there is a middle-aged farang guy present she might be so busy laying her hustle on him she'll be distracted. If you want her to ignore you wear a kilt.

No doubt they will erect a stage so that all the BIB TV stars can get prime positions to watch. After all, we can't have any news here without the BIB top brass getting their share of footage.

Expect most to maybe all of the province governors are awaiting money from the central govt to begin any serious flood prevention measures.

You can be sure the one strategy they have already worked out is what percentage they will be keeping for themselves. 'Serious' flood prevention measure won't come to much, a few more dirt Klongs and the odd shoddily built wall will be the order in a lot of area's, and when it all goes wrong they will all blame each other....as usual.