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As appealing as that sounds, I'm just too damn lazy at this stage of my life I'll put up with the criticism of my pathetic house cleaning, take my lumps, and just look forward to some fantastic dinner MrsG will cook for me

I kinda laughed a little bit about this assumption that all Western wives are whales and Thai women are stunning. Right before before Christmas we went to San Diego for my Grandsons 2nd birthday. Both my wife and my ex wife obviously were there. Both of them almost exactly the same age, mature women, but equally I find them both stunningly good looking mature ladies, but ln different ways. They get on very well together, probably in their collective glee in bitching together about me A difficult divorce doesn't mean you need to believe every Western woman is an evil witch, they can both be beautiful

I'm a bit terrible in this respect We both work, but I'm in the bare minimal range of household chores category My wife love to cook and I look forward to her coming home and asking me what do you want to eat, We work opposing shifts, and on my days off, it's a rush to do the bare minimum, make the bed, tidy up and load the dishwasher before she gets home Can't say it makes me proud, but it keeps the peace

That may well be true. My wife's an odd ball after growing up as a teenager in the US with her aunt and uncle after her parents died and the kids were farmed out to various relatives But when in Thailand and when we're in the US, so many ask her do we know any farangs who want a Thai GF They have this distorted view that magical mystical farang land is a place where the streets are paved with gold. In some ways my wife adds to the distorted view. As I said she grew up in the US, and her life, HS, University successful career was so different to her three sisters and brother. Bar girl, one death from AIDS, another 3 failed marriages factory worker, and a brother who is basically living on the streets So they see happy successful woman, family grandkids, compared to the rest of her siblings, and they extrapolate that all Thai/Farang relationships are paved with Gold

Well maybe I'm lucky. I'm an oddity Hispanic and was an only child, so no sibling rivalries to deal with My second cousins, it's all good with them, but they are second cousins so it's always arms length so to speak. Parents, who I did have a great relationship, long dead, but I still miss them. But my kids are bringing me the next generation, and I so much enjoy being Grandad, all the fun without the changing diapers and sleepless nights lol That all being said, and I think it's a function of being an only child, I learned to be very self sufficient. Don't get be wrong I love my family, but I could function completely alone and never miss a soul

The worst eye opener for a lot is when farang takes them back to their home country. The dirty rotten truth is they often find themself in a small apartment somewhere, in God knows where, and horror upon horror they find that they have to go out and find a job to make ends meet. That wouldn't be the first time a lot of us have seen things go South, and the woman starts to look for other 'options' That scenario is rather common when the Thai lady, used to the older farang in Thailand is suddenly presented with an array of younger guys more her age!

Apart from stealing a truck, the fact thats he's 32 and his love interest was, what 16, be enough to through the book at him! Maybe I'm just showing my Western moral judgmental side, this is Thailand after all

Made me laugh I love your country, I'm a fully paid up American Anglofile. Spent a lot of time in the UK in my early career working there. But OMG, can you guys whine and complain. It starts off with the weather, two snowflakes the country grinds to a halt, I'm just going "yeah it's snowing but..." Distance. It's a small country yet driving 50 miles is seen as a life altering trauma worth hours of moaning And whats with the obsession with Supermarkets? Who cares where you buy your teabags and how much they cost, but that also seems to obsess the national discussion Again, I love you guys and your country, but national mental therapy might be required

Well I can't say who's the oldest, but I would speculate the vast majority are in the mid 60's to mid 70's age range Which means a darn lot of us are entering, if not in, the final chapter. Thing is, I don't see, AI bot posts aside, a new 50 something population emerging to replace us as we fall off the cliff

Contrary to a previous thread, as a Hispanic I've never seduced a white woman, except maybe my first wife. Relationships are almost by definition transactional, we all get something out of it, and we all give something to it. My marriages to an Anglo and to a Thai don't feel any different, the pulls and pushes hard to tell the difference

I'm not going to start it, but feel free to post something

Well thats a question that deserves a whole thread of it's own. Why should Tricare cover you 100% worldwide, yet Medicare doesn't? Both are Government programs. I'm in an Advantage program, which for my vacation trips gives me emergency care, but a far cry from a full coverage program.

Must admit, my escalating health insurance cost was a factor amongst others decision i n going home The writing was on the wall sooner or later, either they would drop me or it was going to be crazy expensive, I dropped in to US medicare on time so I'm content. When you get to the age in Thailand when <deleted> can hit the fan, you roll the dice I'm on the chicken <deleted> side of that of that dice roll. Now when I'm in Thailand my US insurance kicks in if something bad happens

Well @ChipButty you tweaked my interest, and I looked it up at work in Timatic, and UK is one of a handful of countries that don't allow an urn to be carried in a carry on, but can travel in checked baggage. Not sure I understand why the UK would have that restriction, but I'm sure some apparatchik sat at a desk in London could come up with a perfectly reasonable explanation why carrying ashes in the main cabin was a threat to security or health, or both. So buy a hard sided case and some bubble wrap and that loved one will arrive safe and sound in LHR

Obviously not $400, but the point I was trying to make was that freight is always cheaper than a human sat in a seat on the same aircraft. So just look at the price of a one way ticket from BKK-LHR and the freight charge on that same aircraft will be significantly lower than that. Add in the embalming costs, the inevitable Thai admin fees etc, but still not even close to 34K. I personally don't get the point of shipping corpses. If you need to bring loved ones home, cremation and take the ashes home in an urn in your carry on bag

I'm always sorry for anyone's loss. But the numbers don't add up. I work for an airline, and I've shipped my fair share of Human Remains, albeit all within the US. But the cost is pretty cheap since it's classed as freight. Typical HR shipment within the US is around $400. No way you can multiply that to GBP35K to ship an HR from Thailand to the UK, the everyday math doesn't work

Well I'm one who lived in Thailand full time for a decade, then called it quits and now it's annual vacation. Don't hate Thailand, but I did bore of it. I am American and I don't think I have ever posted anything about Trump, or US politics at all. This is a Thai forum. Our aim, now all the kids are settled is 1-2 months every year back in our Thai house, that for us at least is the perfect balance between Thai craziness and a life in the US

If you are worried about flying on a 737 your options are going to be pretty limited At the end of the day you are more likely to die driving to or from the airport than you are actually on the aircraft

Wow wow wow, this is ridiculous. I am latino, and I along with most other latino men don't or ever have, thought of myself as some sort of sex God from a Mexican telenovela. Yes I was married to a Anglo, but our marriage didn't break down because of cheating, but more a case of drifting apart because of me being away from home 80% of the time due to work. When I met my Thai wife at work in Singapore, don't think she saw me any different to the other westerners in the office. Maybe it is just the attraction opposites. My Thai/American latino son has ended up a quite a handsome young man, and he ended up with a white American woman. now married and with my second grandchild, they look like any other happily married couple. People love to justify stereotypes with mangled statistics to prove their point. Now back to my current telenovela, basically a Thai lakorn but the women have huge breasts, just proving the 'fact' that all latina's are well endowed in the breast department!

I just listened to an aviation expert on situation. Whatever the reason the landing gear didn't deploy will be discovered later. However what killed everyone was the solid wall at the end of the runway. What he stated was normal construction would be the ILS antenna as a stand alone and designed to collapse in the event of an aircraft overrun, certainly not running into a wall which caused the aircraft to explode.. Now many of you know I work for an airline, but I'd never been out to the movement area before, but I did take a trip out today, and sure enough I saw the ILS antenna and then basically an open field. This guy contented that the Capt. performed a perfect gear up landing, and without that wall everyone would be alive!

I hate myself for doing this, but well this is a chat room not accident investigation. If Jeju was a birdstrike and it took out both engines resulting in a total loss of electrical power, the RAT would be deployed restoring electrical power, and subsequently keeping hydraulics online. Thats why I'm puzzled by the lack of landing gear

It's been a bad week for aviation, but it's an outlier in the overall picture of air safety. I think most folks understand that air travel is the safest of all transportation. But somehow back in the primordial brain stem, it's the fear that if it all goes tits up everyone dies. This week I think it's pretty clear the Azerbaijan crash, wasn't a crash and was shot down by Russian air defenses. Jeju well lets wait and see. But what I would say watching the video, the reasons given so far suggest weather and a bird strike. I'll go with bird strike, but the weather looks perfect, and if you look, I can't see the main gear, but the nose gear certainly wasn't deployed

So I can't comment on the Thai scene since I was never into that. But what I will comment on todays young. Most of the kids that work for me are under 30. Their lives consist of playing video games on their phones, I'm pretty sure most of them presented with a Thai hooker in a bar from years past would be deers in a headlight. Today their world is online, Only Fans and the like. I asked my youngest daughter years ago how she met her boyfriend, now Father to my Grandson, and her response was "Nobody meets anyone in a bar anymore, it's all online" So afraid to say, the old guys in Thailand are going to have to be content with the aging buffalos in the bar, cos the young ones have moved on Oh just for transparency, I've been married to an aging Thai lady for now close to 30 years. I'm rather OK with my feisty, menopausal lady as much of a pain in the ass as she can be I often don't understand my kids mentality, so good luck with some random female half your age, maybe if it works just go for an aging buffalo and have a peaceful last chapter

I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, that post makes no sense whatsoever in the context of this thread I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that maybe it was written after a few too many drinks at a bar

I'm hoping Night Manager Season 2 will work. The original season was the perfect mini series and ended spectacularly well. I always worry when something so great is brought back I hope the story isn't too contrived Will Roper be back? We all assumed he was going to be killed after that last scene in the paddy wagon