5 year multiple entry DTV visa (Destination Thailand) from 2024-xx-xx

[Expat68]

22 minutes ago, JamesPhuket10 said:

 

I agree especially if the topic is boring football, Coronation Street, or East Enders for example.

 

I wouldn't have a clue.

 

Seeing as you introduced knowledge of certain subjects, I  am amazed at the number of people who go on about AI as though it exists, it might exist maybe 100 years from now.

 

The simple solution is to ask ChatGPT if it has AI, it will tell you no, but it will tell you it has a set of complex algorithms, machine learning capabilities, and fast links to all sorts of data it can cross-reference in superfast time, much better than Google as a stand-alone system for example. 

 

But it is a fantastic tool as instead of traipsing through thousands of lines of reference manuals when I write system code for iPhone apps it can point me directly to the correct area to look at.

 

But we do have to keep an eye on the results it produces as many times it has got it wrong, eg I asked it to refactor about 300 lines of my code, it was a test to see how good it was, and it got it completely wrong and missed out half of the existing code.

 

Plus if we update it with some new information it says it can not use that info, hence another reason it shows it has no AI, it has to rely on database updates now and then. 

 

 

We are entering into what could be a very dangerous time of our lives, as yet no one knows 

[JamesPhuket10]

1 hour ago, Expat68 said:

We are entering into what could be a very dangerous time of our lives, as yet no one knows 

 

Yep, that is what the media and news are telling us to get our attention so we read their nonsense and so they make money on advertising, etc. Unless you are less than one year old you have nothing to worry about in your lifetime regarding the so-called AI, most people don't even know what it means, they just follow what people are saying blindly. 

[Expat68]

22 minutes ago, JamesPhuket10 said:

 

Yep, that is what the media and news are telling us to get our attention so we read their nonsense and so they make money on advertising, etc. Unless you are less than one year old you have nothing to worry about in your lifetime regarding the so-called AI, most people don't even know what it means, they just follow what people are saying blindly. 

While there are idiots in power there is always danger 

[JamesPhuket10]

1 hour ago, Expat68 said:

While there are idiots in power there is always danger 

 

The real danger is the idiots who voted for Labour.

 

I will be laughing my head off on the 31st of October when Labour tells us how they are going to rob the twits who voted for them. 

 

[Expat68]

57 minutes ago, JamesPhuket10 said:

 

The real danger is the idiots who voted for Labour.

 

I will be laughing my head off on the 31st of October when Labour tells us how they are going to rob the twits who voted for them. 

 

Agree. There is no such thing as labour anymore. Two faced Blair was responsible for that

[Thingamabob]

No, and neither I do I keep her on a short lease. Happily married since 1984.

[spidermike007]

Any man who comes from the West, decides to settle in Thailand and decide to settle down with the Thai woman, can decide whether or not he wants to be on a short leash. In my particular case that lifestyle never worked so I was just very honest and up front, early on. That wasn't the lifestyle we were going to embrace, I was not going to be tolerant of jealousy and possessiveness on the part of somebody that I was with, and though my woman didn't understand it at first, she sure did after a while, and we have both benefited from a great deal of Independence and neither of us is on a short leash, and it's very pleasant. 

 

I recommend that lifestyle to any emasculated man, however if you come here and allow her to dictate terms to you and then later decide that it's not working your only option is to leave, because once you allow her to become a monster there's no turning back, so it's all on you! Be a man or be an obedient mouse. Which lifestyle do you care to choose? 

[jippytum]

Anyone  divorce a western wife come to Thailand fall in love and marry a  younger Thai lady and then be coerced to be on a short lease is a wimp. 

[wavodavo]

On 9/16/2024 at 12:48 AM, NorthernRyland said:

The background, last year I decided I just can't take living anywhere near Chiang Mai and being exposed to the city. It's making me miserable being stuck in traffic and eating off the sides of noisy roads. All I see being built are these miserable over priced housing developments. Investors bought everything and land prices are absurd. It sucks and I'm done.

 

I told me wife I'm going to have a mental breakdown if I have to stay another year and so now I've been staying at my rental house up in the mountains with my dog and she can visit me on the weekends or wait until I'm bored and come down to here house for a few days. She's been totally fine with this and happy to have some space to herself and make noise watching stuff on her phone. Win-win.

 

I was just back in Colorado visiting family and I told my aunt about this arrangement and she was totally not ok with this and even went so far as to say she would divorce my ass if I did this to her. 😂 Honestly I don't care if I get divorced but I'm not staying in that city until my wife retires in 15 years and I'm not going to let her quit and take care of her so this is where I'm at. If had the same marriage as my aunt and her husband I would have bailed years ago. What a nightmare.

 

Anyways this got my thinking, are Thai women more accepting of this or is it just me? I know 3 of my wives friends that have husbands that work in other provinces and send money back home. Everyone thinks this is normal. Maybe the guys do this to meet their societal obligations and then see girls on the side and that's just how some Thai people do it. No idea but that's the impression I get because there's certainly a pattern here.

 

Curious to know what your experience is. Are Thai women different in this regard?

 

Sounds like your marriage is OVER.

[retarius]

No.

[MarkyM3]

On 10/10/2024 at 4:21 PM, JamesPhuket10 said:

 

I have a degree from a university in London.

 

And an MSc, from Trinity College, Oxford, both in software engineering, I think I can pretty much hold my own in any discussion.

 

I think most people in pubs talking about football probably have only achieved something like an 'O level' in woodwork. 

 

The thing that makes me laugh about footie supporters is they say "We did this and we did that" while talking about a game of footie they watched on TV as though they are part of the club, they fail to realise it is a business out to make money and they have no influence whatsoever on what is going on. 

 

 

I guess having an Masters from Oxbridge (which you've repeatedly mentioned on this forum, why not just add it to your sig so people know in advance) precludes people from having an interest in football or sports other than RU (a borefest imo but I wouldn't slag off or cast aspersions people who follow it)?

 

Plenty of degree educated people involved with or interested in football, perhaps they don't come up to snuff though in your mind.

 

Btw...isn't Thailand rather too downmarket for you, with "dim women" and simpletons everywhere? Surely your MSc could have got you a better location to ply your trade? 

 

Edited 17 hours ago by MarkyM3

[JamesPhuket10]

14 hours ago, MarkyM3 said:

 

I guess having an Masters from Oxbridge (which you've repeatedly mentioned on this forum, why not just add it to your sig so people know in advance) precludes people from having an interest in football or sports other than RU (a borefest imo but I wouldn't slag off or cast aspersions people who follow it)?

 

Plenty of degree educated people involved with or interested in football, perhaps they don't come up to snuff though in your mind.

 

Btw...isn't Thailand rather too downmarket for you, with "dim women" and simpletons everywhere? Surely your MSc could have got you a better location to ply your trade? 

 

 

There are simpletons everywhere in the world, and there are also very bright people in the world including Thailand, I never mentioned anything only relating to Thailand in my comments, but as usual people on sites like this frequently put two and two together and come up with five. 

 

I am not sure why you pointed out "dim women" to me, there are both dim men and women everywhere in the world as well as very bright ones.

 

I just chose not to mix with the dim ones, if you do that is no problem to me.

 

I mentioned the degree as it was very relevant to answering messages claiming I was dim, was I supposed to agree with them or give them proof why I am not?

 

You said, "Btw...isn't Thailand rather too downmarket for you...."

 

No, as I said there are lots of bright people everywhere in the world including Thailand, for example, I received an email inviting me to the Oxbridge annual dinner at the InterContinental Hotel in Bangkok in November, there are about three hundred and fifty members, most of them, of course, are Thai, unfortunately, I am going to the UK on 1st Of November for a month or two.

 

You mentioned "...ply my trade", well I am living off my retirement investments but I keep my brain active by writing iPhone apps from my own house office in Phuket, I can be anywhere in the world to do that, and sitting around just talking/watching footie would be far too boring. 

[norsurin]

My exwife wasn't a jealous type of women.When we lived together in surin she used to ask me if i have plan to go to karaoke at nigth because if so she would cook my dinner earlier.

I was often in karaokebars and she brought me there.. talked with the ladies there in a friendly way.Then she went back home I i went to surin city about 40 km away she just said enjoy ur time..and told me to take a hotel for the night and she picked me up the next day.

That time i worked in Singapore and malaysia.6 weeks on/off.

We divorced 7 year ago..2 kids together.I brought my exwife and our kids to Norway 17 year ago.They still live here.I meet my kids on a daily basis because they work near my home.Sometimes i run into my exwife and we talk together in a shop etc.No hard feeling's..past is past.Anyway after i get divorced i had 3 different gf in Thailand.I cant stand jealous girls so i said goodbye to this girl's.I choose to be single and i like that.I love my freedom.