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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

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

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

A very good point

The issue of racial 'superiority' seems to be somewhat hard wired into us. I used to think this was just some vestige of European colonialism, which was completely awful and racist. But then I began to reflect on my own life. I'm a whitey hispanic, and if I don't open my mouth and speak Spanish I blend into white America. But as a kid, other hispanic kids would tease me for being too white, and the white kids would tease me for being too Mexican So I'm conflicted if this is a learned trait, or something from deep in our DNA

The whole story is past horrific What decent man does that to his wife or partner? The guy is a monster, as well as the guys who participated in the abuse I thought the sentences for the abusing men were crazy lenient But at least Pelicot himself will rot and die in prison

Yeah I had a pretty happy childhood. Wasn't rich that's for sure, both my Mom and Dad were farm workers in the CA Central Valley. But I felt very loved, and as a rare thing back in the 60's, especially as an Hispanic I was an only child, so they poured their love into me. It was a happy time, all us kids played out in the street, and of course back then during the summer vacation you told after breakfast, "Go out and play" and you weren't expected to come home until dinner! My parents, especially my Mom pushed me hard at school and I ended up at UC Berkeley That said saw a bunch of school friends who were from less loving families fall to the drugs, gangs and ultimately prison. It's not a cliche to say that our childhood 'can' make or destroy your life

Hmm google translate is a wonderful thing, but it's a far cry from actually having a conversation. I'm a bit of a polyglot, I speak English, Spanish, my native languages, then Mandarin, Thai and Lao as my learned languages, plus a little bit of terrible French I've tried the translate app for languages I don't speak. They work OK but a far cry from actually having a conversation

Drop a pin in any city/town in Issan and forget about seeing many farangs. You can make it what you want, but won't be the Soi 6 world for sure I like Khon Kaen. Fairly cosmopolitan, infrastructure not bad. Decent night life, without the hooker shops and not bad restaurants A lot depends of course on language skills. In the tourist traps, hate them or not you can live without speaking Thai. Live upcountry and you better learn Thai pretty quick or you're going to find yourself in a pickle

Jeez three pages of total nonsense We're all human, I can disagree with the views and lifestyle of someone from my own country, but I don't think they are lessor, inferior to me. The English/Aussie thing, well you got some issues which deserve therapy

As stupid as it sounds, with endless posts from AI or deranged folks, I kinda enjoy a little human to human antagonism banter.. At least I think it's real not some bot churning out nonsense clickbate