1 minute ago, Rockyroad said:

Yep bored farangs pretending to be legends online. They can't even answer 2 questions. Weirdo farangs.

Rocky has never answered a question honestly. I already told about my life here, truthfully. Now it's your turn, as yes, you keep dodging the questions, possibly hiding a shaky background? How do you stay here without a retirement visa or work permit? Simple question,

2 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

Rocky has never answered a question honestly. I already told about my life here, truthfully. Now it's your turn, as yes, you keep dodging the questions, possibly hiding a shaky background? How do you stay here without a retirement visa or work permit? Simple question,

Are you okay? Why the same post twice? Time for you to have a lie down?

2 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

Rocky has never answered a question honestly. I already told about my life here, truthfully. Now it's your turn, as yes, you keep dodging the questions, possibly hiding a shaky background? How do you stay here without a retirement visa or work permit? Simple question,

I pay nil but buy gifts. She is in her 30s.

Your turn Fred.

3 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

Yep bored farangs pretending to be legends online. They can't even answer 2 questions. Weirdo farangs.

Says the queen of cringe.

2 minutes ago, BilllyGOAT said:

Says the queen of cringe.

Says a gay guy called Billly who has never been married.

2 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

I pay nil but buy gifts. She is in her 30s.

Your turn Fred.

I have said this before, which is why I asked you to answer questions we've asked for a long time. She works for the government, makes a good salary, and when i think she needs help, I help her. Along with buying her things she likes and needs. She's 43

4 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

Why?

According to AI "Yes, Lao citizens can work in Thailand, and they represent one of the largest groups of migrant workers in the country."

and

"The governments of Thailand and Laos signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in 2002 (updated in 2016) to create a transparent legal process for recruiting Lao nationals"

Maybe she told him she couldn’t work in Thailand and now you’ve grassed her up.Marriage wrecker!

15 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

The problem therein being you met your match with me and a few others, who are not only a lot more intelligent, having stored knowledge and not a need to go to AI, but well aware of the psychoses some have with that need to spout it in an online forum.

No dog in this fight, but when I read a 'Trumpian style' self-aggrandizing comment about one's own intelligence, I could not resist and bounced it off an AI (Claude) - she replied:

A few things are tangled together here:

1. "The problem therein being..." needs a connector. An absolute phrase like "the problem being X" normally needs "that" to introduce a clause, or should be rephrased as "The problem therein is that you met your match..." As written, "being you met your match" reads as a dangling participial construction rather than a complete clause.

2. The "not only... but" pairing doesn't match up. "Not only" is followed by two different kinds of things bundled together — an adjective phrase ("a lot more intelligent") and a participial phrase ("having stored knowledge and not a need to go to AI") — before "but" arrives to complete it with another adjective ("well aware of..."). Correlative conjunctions need parallel grammatical structure on both sides. Right now it's roughly:

• not only [adjective + participial phrase + noun phrase]

• but [adjective phrase]

That imbalance is what makes the sentence feel like it's straining under its own weight.

3. "Not a need to go to AI" is oddly phrased and shoehorned into that participial list — it doesn't share the same grammatical form as "having stored knowledge," so it breaks the parallelism further.

4. "That need to spout it" has an unclear antecedent. What does "it" refer to — the stored knowledge? The need itself? The reader has to guess.

5. It's a single overloaded sentence trying to do too much at once (assert superiority, describe knowledge, diagnose others' psychology, and land a jab about online forums), which is why the grammar buckles.

A cleaner version might be something like:

"The problem is that you've met your match — with me and a few others who are not only far more intelligent and knowledgeable without needing to lean on AI, but also well aware of the psychology behind some people's compulsion to broadcast that need in online forums."

That keeps the "not only... but also" parallel (adjective phrase / adjective phrase) and gives "it" a clear referent.

I like the banter, and for the original question - why was there a limit at THB 50K?

1 minute ago, fredwiggy said:

I have said this before, which is why I asked you to answer questions we've asked for a long time. She works for the government, makes a good salary, and when i think she needs help, I help her. Along with buying her things she likes and needs. She's 43

She must be desperate to date you.

4 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

Says a gay guy called Billly who has never been married.

Oh, look, the slop canon has shifted into high gear. You're really creepy, bro. 😂

5 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

She must be desperate to date you.

Name just one AN member you haven't asked out on a date yet.

Edited Tuesday at 12:16 PM1 day by BilllyGOAT

5 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

I have said this before, which is why I asked you to answer questions we've asked for a long time. She works for the government, makes a good salary, and when i think she needs help, I help her. Along with buying her things she likes and needs. She's 43

Do you give her money every month or just once in a while, when she needs help? How much have you spent in total over the past twelve months, for example?

Don't be coy. You're a man, aren't you?

11 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

I pay nil but buy gifts. She is in her 30s.

Trans or post-op?

2 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

She must be desperate to date you.

Why would she? She's only been with one man before me, her husband, who had her work while she didn't, didn't contribute, even after her dad bought him a scooter shop he eventually closed down. Didn't contribute to the kids. Hit her and took her money to buy beer I'm a man while he was a typical man-boy. I help her parents with their farm, treat her well, and don't neglect her needs, including communication. How again can you speak if you spend your time rooting women then leaving? You're taking advantage of naive locals and those, like me, are treating them well.

9 minutes ago, mistral53 said:

No dog in this fight, but when I read a 'Trumpian style' self-aggrandizing comment about one's own intelligence, I could not resist and bounced it off an AI (Claude) - she replied:

A few things are tangled together here:

1. "The problem therein being..." needs a connector. An absolute phrase like "the problem being X" normally needs "that" to introduce a clause, or should be rephrased as "The problem therein is that you met your match..." As written, "being you met your match" reads as a dangling participial construction rather than a complete clause.

2. The "not only... but" pairing doesn't match up. "Not only" is followed by two different kinds of things bundled together — an adjective phrase ("a lot more intelligent") and a participial phrase ("having stored knowledge and not a need to go to AI") — before "but" arrives to complete it with another adjective ("well aware of..."). Correlative conjunctions need parallel grammatical structure on both sides. Right now it's roughly:

• not only [adjective + participial phrase + noun phrase]

• but [adjective phrase]

That imbalance is what makes the sentence feel like it's straining under its own weight.

3. "Not a need to go to AI" is oddly phrased and shoehorned into that participial list — it doesn't share the same grammatical form as "having stored knowledge," so it breaks the parallelism further.

4. "That need to spout it" has an unclear antecedent. What does "it" refer to — the stored knowledge? The need itself? The reader has to guess.

5. It's a single overloaded sentence trying to do too much at once (assert superiority, describe knowledge, diagnose others' psychology, and land a jab about online forums), which is why the grammar buckles.

A cleaner version might be something like:

That keeps the "not only... but also" parallel (adjective phrase / adjective phrase) and gives "it" a clear referent.

I like the banter, and for the original question - why was there a limit at THB 50K?

Take a little while, and look over his comments to most members here, and you'll understand my reply more.

4 minutes ago, BilllyGOAT said:

Name just one AN member you haven't asked out on a date yet. Can't! 😂

You have stalked me for months. You're gay. You have no hobbies. No gf. No wife. Just a loser. You joined the forum to stalk people lol

29 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

The problem therein being you met your match with me and a few others, who are not only a lot more intelligent, having stored knowledge and not a need to go to AI, but well aware of the psychoses some have with that need to spout it in an online forum.

You do realise that you have thrown your BFF @Hummin under the bus with that comment, don't you?

He is infamous for using AI to think and create posts posing as himself.

You guys literally have no integrity at all.

4 minutes ago, BilllyGOAT said:

Trans or post-op?

How old are you? You talk like a 14yo boy but likely 64yo weirdo.

2 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

Take a little while, and look over his comments to most members here, and you'll understand my reply more.

No, they won't. You just want people to believe your raving mad nonsense.

3 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

You have stalked me for months. You're gay. You have no hobbies. No gf. No wife. Just a loser. You joined the forum to stalk people lol

So, out of all the hundreds of AN members you've asked to go out on a date with you, how many have accepted your offer so far?

6 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

Why would she? She's only been with one man before me, her husband, who had her work while she didn't, didn't contribute, even after her dad bought him a scooter shop he eventually closed down. Didn't contribute to the kids. Hit her and took her money to buy beer I'm a man while he was a typical man-boy. I help her parents with their farm, treat her well, and don't neglect her needs, including communication. How again can you speak if you spend your time rooting women then leaving? You're taking advantage of naive locals and those, like me, are treating them well.

Sounds like she is getting a good deal. 😊

5 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

It varies month to month

I remember one month around 100k baht, it was her birthday.

When we go to the village, visit family, I deposit 50k baht into her account

Wow.

Why buy when you can rent 🫤

3 minutes ago, BilllyGOAT said:

So, out of all the hundreds of AN members you've asked to go out on a date with you, how many have accepted your offer so far?

Why are you so weird and creepy? Did your uncle molest you?

2 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

Why are you so weird and creepy? Did your uncle molest you?

Maybe a GOAT did it

3 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

Why are you so weird and creepy? Did your uncle molest you?

I must say, Raquel, you are into some really deranged stuff. Go on...

11 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

Why would she? She's only been with one man before me, her husband, who had her work while she didn't, didn't contribute, even after her dad bought him a scooter shop he eventually closed down. Didn't contribute to the kids. Hit her and took her money to buy beer I'm a man while he was a typical man-boy. I help her parents with their farm, treat her well, and don't neglect her needs, including communication. How again can you speak if you spend your time rooting women then leaving? You're taking advantage of naive locals and those, like me, are treating them well.

You are a weird 69yo man. At 43yo she should be dating a 50yo who acts normal.

7 hours ago, Rockyroad said:

Do you pay a monthly salary to your partner?

You worded the question wrong and it provided too many outs. The number would be well over 50% if you asked how many supply over 50% of the household expenses as well as help with the mom's expenses. I'm surprises close to 100% don't pay a salary :) In america when I grew up it would have been about 90%.

3 minutes ago, Celsius said:

Maybe a GOAT did it

For you I imagine it involved a 7-Eleven and a foot long...

3 minutes ago, BilllyGOAT said:

I must say, Raquel, you are into some really deranged stuff. Go on...

Never married lol

No gf lol

Stalks people online. Somebody messed you up. Maybe you slept with your mum like Freud said. You are the biggest creep on here by a mile.

4 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

Why?

According to AI "Yes, Lao citizens can work in Thailand, and they represent one of the largest groups of migrant workers in the country."

and

"The governments of Thailand and Laos signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in 2002 (updated in 2016) to create a transparent legal process for recruiting Lao nationals"

Yes, some of her sisters do this. But it's back-breaking/soul-destroying work for next-to-nothing, and my wife has a house and son to look after.