Totster

For every one of us who loves Thailand (myself included) there seems to be at least one other embittered, cynical, expat who goes through life hating everyone and everything Thai.  I always wonder why they are still hanging around?

Had street fried squid with a new Thai friend/neighbour last night who told me that an ex of hers was actually jealous of the king.

It seems of little relevance but he was from Scotland and had no respect for Thailand or the royal family whatsoever.

How can you not like the King?

The king is somebody who for starters is farang friendly unlike some other people in power here - he has a love for his country which is so genuine it shines, he takes care of the poor, invents things, takes an active interest in his country and treats the rich and the poor with equal respect and even treats dogs with love and care setting a good example to all.

He's the ultimate good guy and is interesting as well as interested, anyone - ESPECIALLY a farang who has anything negative to say about the man should be horsewhipped until he learns how to respect and behave in another country, then he should be sent home (baggage class) in his underwear and banned permenantly from SouthEast Asia.

If I had met him and been unfortunate enough to listen to his ramblings I would have informed every Thai from taxi driver to policeman of his words and his whereabouts.

Any foreigner living in another country should respect that countries laws, culture, beliefs etc...

Something that sadly some immigrants ( i'm sure the minority ) fail to do.... If you do not like where you live or the people who live there then why are you there ?

On 26th November for this year

This takes place on the full moon in November (12th in thai)

IN ADDITION, HEHE , SING A SONG FOR LOY KRATHONG DAY NA KA

Wan Pen Duan Sip Song

Nam Koh Nong Tem Taling

Rao Tanglai Chai Ying

Sanuk Ganjing Wan Loy Krathong

Loy Loy Krathong

Loy Loy Kratong,

Loy Krathong Gan Laew

Koh Chern Nong Kaew

Awk Ma Ram Wong

Ram Wong Wan Loy Krathong

Translated into English:

The full moon of the twelfth month,

As water fills the banks,

We, all men and women,

Have really good fun on Loy Krathong day,

Float, float the krathongs,

Float, float the krathongs,

And after we have floated our krathongs,

I invite you my dear,

To come out and dance,

Ramwong [traditional dance] on Loy Krathong Day,

Ramwong on Loy Krathong Day,

Good merit brings us happiness,

Good merit brings us happiness,

Ram Wong Wan Loy Krathong

Boon Ja Song Hai Rao Suk Jai

Boon Ja Song Hai Rao Suk Jai

I'm sure that song is played to death on the TV in November

I love Mme Babirs on Suk Soi 11/1, not that romantic but bloody good indian food !

I'm her roomate !

Quick question....

How do you differentiate between language tones and music notes ?

Now my Thai skills are no where near good enough to be able to use this information.... i'm just curious

totster

Was speaking to my TGF earlier and she was telling me what she was cooking for the family tonight.

Seems like her mom got a good deal on some frogs ( 15 for bt20 ) that were fished from the rice fields at about 4am this morning.

She informed me they were having Tom Yam "frog" ( sorry can't remember the Thia/Lao name )

Saep Bor ?  

In Thai it is Gop, I have not had any in Thailand, but it a lot of prep work for 1 or 2 mouthfulls.

The Australian cane toad would feed a whole family.

Gop.... that's it !

She said they're quite small at the moment but will be bigger later on in the year

totster

Was speaking to my TGF earlier and she was telling me what she was cooking for the family tonight.

Seems like her mom got a good deal on some frogs ( 15 for bt20 ) that were fished from the rice fields at about 4am this morning.

She informed me they were having Tom Yam "frog" ( sorry can't remember the Thia/Lao name )

Saep Bor ?

Only you know what to do... it's on your conscience ...you have to live with this knowledge

My view is that by doing nothing you are just as bad, but if you do something you'd better make sure you are 100% certain this is what is happening.

Do the right thing !

Yes they should pay their dues.

If they earn money/receive money and if it is above any tax free threshhold of course they should pay.

And whats legal got to do with it?

Al Capone was not convicted for being a bootlegger, he was convicted and put away for tax evasion.

I left Canada because the government taxes everything from birth to death plus VAT. Also the western countries have many social services but Thailand does not.

I can imagine a bar girl telling a guy that "It's B1000 for short time plus 5% service tax plus 7% VAT, would you like a receipt ?"

I also think it would be next to impossible to prove how much a girl makes on the game if she's a freelancer. Different in the bars where there's bar fines and some sort of record.

Just because the bar has been paid for that night it does not mean that she is making any extra money !

Get a cheap Air Asia flight to Penang or Kuala Lumpur only 999 Bt per flight better bargain that you take a bus and you should booked in 1 week advance in net at

www. Airasia.com

Less hassle from border crossing,cheaper then you extance your visa fees 1000bt

I do it every month. You should try!

Good luck!

Sounds like a good idea, might try that myself !

As long as the women do not mind I would say it's ok. I think it would turn into a bragging thing pretty quickly though. We already have one member on this forum who thinks he is gods gift to women. He does not realize that the women he beds would not have anything to do with him if he was not an atm .

yep... bragging to all her mates about how stupid he is !

As I understood it girls like to have fair skin as it marks them higher in society... i.e dark skin shows that they work outdoors in the fields as farmers, however fair skin denotes the opposite, maybe a office worker or similar and of higher education.

I find the darker skinned girls very attractive however ultimately it doesn't matter what shade of skin they have !

Am I being singled out because i am Thai-American?? I know I am going to get slams I want honest answers when i get one I will leave thanks

Why do you think you are bring singled out ??

I can't see why being Thai-American would make people want to single you out !

No woman is worth the possible bullet in the head. I don't care how good her snatch smells.

most elegantly put

If they had to start paying tax on their earnings they would most certainly increase their prices to cover this...

Surely this would be more of a headache for the Government anyway... how can you keep tabs on how many customers and what she earns from them, couldn't be done !

I got pulled over once for not wearing a helmet whilst riding my motorbike... the officer was very pleasant ( considering the helmet was in the basket ).. He even looked after my keys until I had paid the fine !

I only "discovered" Leo the last time I was in LOS, gets my thumbs up

Would Parcel Force be able to help you ?

Guess that's why i'ts always a good thing to be right with the Lord. Jesus said the Devil is prowling around like a roaring lion ready to devour us at any time. These are only the signs of the end-times-can tell you a lot more if you are interested...We (the children of the most high God) are led in all truth by the spirit of God,(Holy spirit) and all things present and future are made known to us through Him. That is why the world will reject us, for the spirit that is in the world, (Satan and the demons) hates all which is of God-and by rejecting the truth, all will be kept in bondage to the slavery of sin. Satan keeps a veil over your spiritual eyes so you cannot see, understand or reason the truth, for it is rejected by and kept away from you through sin. When you give your life to Jesus, you will be led in the truth, and also understand everything going on in the world. When you reject the truth, you will be a slave to sin and not understand the things which is from God. My brother, the armies of the world will gather and bring fear onto all the people of the world, for the Antichrist is busy to pull the strings for a one world, one government and one religion government to the whole world! Can you not see that the US/British armies are everywhere?! Open your eyes! The only way they can put this into place is to bring "terrorism" into the world by fear, so the people can want a force to protect them. It all started with 9/11. This was all orchestrated to gain world dominance-through fear.You will see terrible fear, oppression, hunger, sickness and wars in these days. Love, Daniel

Uh-oh !

CAREFUL ... initiation ceremony springs to mind..

Bluecat said:

Totster said:

For anyone who is interested

Lodges in Thailand

totster

Sure.

Pilot and Totster.

So interesting that we are dying to meet you.

In the mean time, George, I think this thread can be closed,...

Ouch...

I occasionally see young thai men walking around with swastikas on their shirts. It may be offensive to people living in the US or UK, but you gotta understand that Thailand was an ally of Japan during WWII, so its not even half as bad to them as it may be to you. Just like Stalin may be offensive to some people because he killed millions, but not to South Africans. Why? He never did anything against them, so why should they care? I hope you get my point.

As i understood it Thailand were allies with Japan because they didn't want to be invaded, not because they agreed with what the Japanese were doing...

Whenever I stay with somebody, she is THE lady,...

What is this.... Role Play ??

I think I've found that post you were lookin for ..

Visa Run

totster

and this one

Ranong again

totster