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1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

If she had a heart, there wouldn't have been any goodness in it.

Bad to the bone, just as I like them.

So, you paid.

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

When I got divorced, I got the house in the divorce settlement 'cos she couldn't (wouldn't) make the repayments.

I still live in that house with my son.

And, out of the goodness in her heart she let you have the house.

On 1/4/2019 at 8:46 AM, BritManToo said:

I put my house (90%) in the bank's name, it solved many potential problems for the next 27 years.

But you misses getting hold of the company shares is a new one on me, naughty girl!

It goes far beyond that. Being clever does not mean being good. I know a man who bought a house and lot for his sweet thing thinking that Thai law would award him 50%, if ever they divorced. Yet, like so many others, he bought in her village. When they divorced; they put the house up for sale. No one in the village was willing/had the money to buy the house. So it stayed on the market for several years while she continued to live in the house. Finally out of frustration; he agreed to sell the house at a very low price. He got much less than 50% of the twelve million baht expenditure he made for the house. Funny, she still lives in the house; with her "brother".

11 hours ago, mikebell said:

The trust was all from the farang who put the house in their wives' name and they are paying dearly for it.

Placing trust in the untrustworthy is ignorance indeed. Buying anything which you cannot control is beyond ignorance.

4 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I'm just happy to have a young one in my bed at night, she doesn't need to be 'good'.

Yours sounds a bit too old for me, but she's probably 'good' enough for you.

Am I supposed to be impressed? I too can have a young one in bed; so can anyone who has the money. I hope you are proud of yourself that you can have what so many others have already had.

My wife is indeed good enough for me and she is much younger than I. She still draws the looks of younger men, which drives their admiration of me. They do not even know her virtues, intelligence and capabilities. You know, those things you have never found in a woman.   

11 hours ago, roo860 said:

How dare you say you are happy and found trust worthy people in Thailand!! It isn't possible!!!!!

Seriously, you're certainly not the only man to find a good woman!!!

 

 

 

 

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I have found good and bad people wherever I have gone. I have seen other good women, so I know others have found them too. My concern is the vast numbers of men who have never been able to find a good one. Maybe good women are smart enough to know a loser when they see them.  

12 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I once sat with a guy telling me all that over a drink, I had banged his wife the previous night.

But I guess he was happy he had found a good woman.

And I, more than once, have seen losers blaming women for their own inadequacies. Just because you have never been able to attract a good woman does not mean there are none.

12 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I believe that if the foreign guy is one of these, trusting/sharing/truthful fools.

The Thai guys that go that path are often cheated too.

 

Never trust a woman, they ain't designed to be trusted.

That may be your personal experience. I often wonder when I hear men or women complain that all members of the opposite sex are no good. Seems to me, it could be you who is attracted to that type of person or your actions generate that sort of response in others with whom you interact. I have found truthful, trustworthy, and good-looking women--in fact, I would have no other. Can I be the only man capable of finding a good woman? 

1 hour ago, mikebell said:

Yes.  I live on an estate of 62 houses; my four closest friends are suffering from Thai wife syndrome.  Retiree 1 put the house in his wife's name; she drinks herself senseless daily & is barely home.  Retiree 2 also gave his wife the house and is daily abused and treated with contempt.  Retiree 3 also put the his wife's name on the deed - she made his life so unpleasant he became clinically depressed and now lives in Cambodia.  I was clever & put my house in a company name & found to my horror my wife had acquired 50% of the shares when I did my annual tax audit (signing 46 pages of docs all in Thai.)  I left her; took up with another woman and now am being sued for 6 million as her feelings have been hurt.

I don't know everybody's story - there might be more. 

How many of those wives were bar girls? How many had drug and or alcohol problems? How many married for the money rather than for love? If you talk about only those sorts of women and relationships, you can expect to have some problems?

You speak of anecdotes, so I will too. I know many farangs happily married to Thai girls, some were bar girls. However, few happily married ones have women with alcohol or drug  problems and even fewer yet have women who married only for money.

However, any woman from any country who has a negotiable virtue and has alcohol or drug problems and who moves in for money only is a candidate for problems.

In all you mention it appears there is a problem of trust. Did the women have other boyfriends, was the farang just a cuckold and nothing more than a long-term customer? From your descriptions it certainly sounds that way.

On 1/2/2019 at 5:36 AM, mikebell said:

There's no equality in a Thai/Thai marriage - the man rules the roost; there's no equality in a Thai/farang marriage - the woman takes him to the cleaners.

Gee whiz oh omniscient one; do you really believe that? 

15 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

Ill think of you when Im in FKK Oase. You get wet, Ill get.....

 

Arff, arff...

If I do not want to get wet, I do not get wet. And, I can get plenty of  . . . .

9 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

I dont bitch about it. I just leave ????

 

 

Just run away then; like a whipped puppy

Well, you have to hand it to the old cronies, no matter their age. What a bunch of wimps.

I will be 74 this Songkran, I enjoyed my first Songkran at 22 and I still enjoy it.  If you are afraid to get wet, lock yourself in your room and wait it out.

If you go out, simply take a small waterproof bag with your phone, wallet, a second shirt and any other things you want to keep dry. If you are worried about getting something in your eyes, wear goggles. If you are worried about something in your mouth, keep it shut.

I have often made a game of going out and trying to stay dry--easy if you have a car or take a taxi. However, I prefer to play the game on my Harley. The goal, of course, is to make it to your favorite pub and watch or even partake in the revelries.

Of course, if your are an old fogey, no matter your age, just continue bitching about it.

On 12/31/2018 at 5:23 PM, Psimbo said:

Are you in Phuket and traumatised by this issue? Do you need counselling?

 

Nope, didn't think so! 12 pages of drivel yet again.

You're suggesting the TV drones should be deprived of their drivel?

On 12/31/2018 at 1:52 PM, Vacuum said:

Doesn't help if he can't see them.

Duh, go slow enough to see the holes and react--if he still can't see them, stop driving

On 10/30/2018 at 12:35 AM, Cuba said:

Not yet........

So, you believe the Thais will kick-out those foreigners who meet Thai requirements?

11 hours ago, JackThompson said:

I would not bother doing this until the next police-order goes into effect - and even then wait for some digestion of it at the local-level.

 

This is the prudent step - agreed.  And be sure the xfer method used causes the deposits to appear in bank-statements as "foreign" transfers.

While I am pleased to see you see some merit in my statements; I still believe you are better-off talking with the IOs and getting their opinions. As I said, and we all know, Thai immigration has alternate opinions--especially with new rules and their opinions may even differ within the same office. The IO who issued my first retirement extension is still in the same office he was eleven years ago; thus, my wife and I are well known to him, other IOs, and staff--they do see us several times a year for extensions, 90-day reports, and re-entry permits. The IO with whom I am best acquainted admits he is not always aware of the changes until they are made--like the two times (2015 and 2017) I was asked to provide monthly income in Thai banks--but he does have good insight and input to provide. Of course, since he has seen our finances and paperwork yearly, he is certain of our compliance and we have earned his respect. So, I must reiterate my advice, get to know your IOs, earn their respect, and they will talk to you.

Doesn't it appear Thai immigration has something to do with this? As I understand it, the Thai  government is requiring income guarantees and the embassies are reluctant to guarantee any income amount for their citizens for various reasons--information security, lack of manpower, lack of dependable method, etc. Go for it if you think you will change their minds.

Based on my talks with Thai immigration, it seems the Thai government wants to see the money--B800k/yr or B65k/mo--deposited to a Thai bank.  Simply proving you have the money in a foreign bank is not enough.

I suggest you talk with your immigration officers to form your own opinions; however, since we all know Thai immigration has alternate interpretations, it may be best to just start depositing the money into a Thai bank. Then, at extension time, you can arrive at immigration with Thai bank statements in hand showing the required deposits. 

On 12/20/2018 at 7:08 AM, BritManToo said:

Thai boyfriends,

Ex bfs in Thailand have visiting rights for sex.

Accept it, or move her somewhere her former boyfriend can't find her.

 

Thai girlfriends,

Don't give her more than 2k, and then only the morning after.

The notion that someone along the line has fed you a rash of hogwash is understandable, but the fact you seem to believe it, amazes me.

On 12/20/2018 at 5:59 AM, Carib said:

Yes, those are all. 

Yes, those are all what; embassies, countries, words??

On 12/17/2018 at 5:36 PM, timendres said:

Now I understand why he resigned.

yeah, he was so bad he couldn't even get a hooker to stay for dinner

On 12/19/2018 at 2:56 PM, pattayadude said:

true. however you do that once in your 20's and lesson learned. but not in your 50's!

Some never do it in their 20's, and many men do them in their 50's or later do it and other even more stupid things.

An old China sailor told me to undress them in the bedroom and send them to the bathroom. Then, do two things before you join them in the bathroom--1) hide your valuables, and 2) check the crotch of their panties.

On 12/18/2018 at 11:43 PM, Nyezhov said:

He doesn't look the type to have more than plated.

I made a factual statement; you provide superficial bias