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Perhaps if the Thais want to uphold their cultural values, they might look to their Burmese friends to see how it's done.

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Changed by the previous military dictator:

The day that 'traditional Thai dress' died and was replaced by 'traditional Western dress.' Thank you for posting this gem! Now I've got to translate it. This is great!

I may have to print this out and put it in my wallet for the next time I venture out in CM without a shirt.

BIB: "You no respect Thai tradition farang. 500 baht fine."

: "But Somchai, I am dressed in traditional Thai style."

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That would be worth 500 baht and a picture in the local CM rag with me holding up said poster and pointing to the man with a traditional Thai shirtless chest. lol

Only problem with that is that, in the poster above, the publisher is extolling Thais NOT to dress as in the left-hand picture, but rather to dress "civilised" (อารยะ), as in the right-hand picture.

I see many men in traditional British attire these days in Pattaya - cargo shorts three sizes to tight at the waist, due to recent expansion on account of excessive beer consumption, torn wife-beater / Tesco/Big C nylon shirt with buttons missing (for reason - see above), flip flops with loose central thong and no tread due to frequent necessity to do what is termed in dialect a "runner".

Someone grabbed my funs on Silom last night. I turned around but she was already fleeing....

Why only 90%? Hell, turn it up to 11!

The words reliable + taxi + Patpng don't go together well.

It's taxi + Patong = rip off

Oh, I don't know, I'm sure you could find one that reliably charges 2000 Baht....

This is a major step in the right direction. Now if Thailand's finest would turn their attention to the open-sandal problem, the country would be well on the road to a thorough reversion to Buddhist standards.

In short, there are too many middle-aged farangs wandering around the provinces in open-toed sandals - with many of them displaying naked big toes for all to see!

The correct attire, as every sartorially-educated foreigner knows full well, is a pair of business socks - black or dark grey, it matters not - worn between the foot and the footwear, to cover the offending protuberances.

A modest fine of, say, 25,000 Baht in the first instance would soon stamp out this gross offence to Thai sensibilities.

What makes you think your marriage would last any longer than the last man ? Save yourself lot's of problems and stay as you both are.

And what makes you think the OP is seeking your opinion on the longevity of his prospective marriage? His original post is clearly asking for legal advice related to his girlfriend's previous marriage. He also plainly states he wants to get married to assure his wife's future prospects.

I see no sign of the OP asking for gratuitous opinion from idle Thaivisa barstool jockeys with nothing better to do than post negative comment.

Stand at any major intersection. "Play" will find you within seconds, if that's what floats your boat.

Oh, not again....!

Beat the meat rather than beat the meter then...

make it look 2nd hand (no box and all separate parts in a different suitcase) and if stopped say its broken but you bring to fix in thailand, because thailand very clever.

worked for me many times.

Did you also tell the customs officer that he's a hansum man?

This type of behaviour offends the sensibilities of righteous-thinking Thais everywhere. Why, next they'll be playing cards with more than two packs!

i am proud to say nz was the first make it legal, people are generally surprised this this only happened a little over 10 years ago. where is the crime? where is the victim? now that it is mostly advertised online with sites like adultworks even the prudes dont have to be offended by seeing the girls on the streets. legalise it, tax it, make it safe. how can the world be so stupid to think it can be stopped?

And the land of l'amour too - it beggars belief.

Vigilante justice sounds nice except when they get the wrong man, or the punishment doesn't fit the crime. easy to call for it when the crimes are gruesome, tough to hear about if the guy gets beaten to death when all the guy did was steal some things but people's emotions got out of hand. mobs can get unruly pretty quickl

No matter how heinous the crime, mob justice serves only to reduce society to the stone age. People can be stunningly ignorant and unthinking in their blind fury to lash out at the first target they find: I am reminded of this case in the UK a few years ago: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/30/childprotection.society

The police and judiciary may be woefully inadequate at times, but they are the best we have.

Is there anything the disgruntled farang will not moan about, at the same time enjoying the many and varied exotic fruits that this country has to offer?

That's a result. Now if somebody high up had the cojones to tackle King Power, airport shopping might become worthwhile.

Oh dear, looks like this Einstein-in-a-T-Shirt is going down for a year or two. Clever idea, the helmet, though.

I think it's just posturing on her part…probably has a relative in the police.

This is a private matter between two people….bidness, as they say.

She offered you some real estate…you said I'll take it if you throw in some extra incentive….you sent her a picture of your goods.

Civil case at best, and one that deserves to be thrown out.

Number of thai girls sending pics of their body parts to farang men far exceeds your efforts.

I'd say wrong in almost every assertion: it is NOT a private matter once transmitted electronically; it is potentially a criminal offence; farang men do not register complaints with the police about such matters because sexual harassment (and that is what this is) is almost exclusively a male on female thing, not vice versa.

So, nothing to do with a 60 year old (whose reflexes would almost certainly be slower than a younger man) driving through the night with probably only a short break, if at all, getting into adverse weather conditions and rather than stopping to wait it out, carried on then lost control and was unable to recover himself in time?

Do you have this week's lottery numbers too?

These celeb snippets being fed to the media are so clearly teasers for what is planned to be a sort of Thai Kardashians. I'll get my pipe and put on my cardigan, this one is going to run and run.

Thanks for your feedback guys, I'll bear everything in mind but I still think a lot of food that is sold at the market does come from the same cook. In any case it's still delicious

You're right, I drove past the Terdsak Sattahip Universal Fishball and Mau Pla factory just yesterday. It was huge, and did it stink out the vicinity!

Why would any sane person want to buy a condo in Phuket???

No idea, but there are even people prepared to vote for the Hilldabeest. No accounting, etc....

Hah! When it comes to non-repayment of loans, Thais have nothing on Filipinos - they wrote the book on the subject centuries ago.