Expats -- Are You Married To A Local Women?

[DrWho]

Though I've only been here for a short time, I've noticed that very many expats are married to local women.

I've met a few men (particularly from Australia and the UK) who have Thai brides.

My wife is English. We've been together for 16 years. So I'm not "in the market" for a Thai bride.

Out of very polite curiosity, what's the appeal of a Thai bride?

[Rob8891]

Judging by the way that you have spoken abusively to posters in the other two of "your threads", you may find that people are now not willing to share a lot of information with you. I certainly would not wish to do so.

[bkkjames]

I guess this is what you mean by starting a new topic...again.

Hint, before you get the urge to enlighten us all with topics like "I am young and my toy poodle humps my leg all the time" and similar subject matters that you feel are important, have a gander through [sortKey]=date&cType=forum&cId=2&search_app_filters[forums][sortKey]=date&search_term=are+you+married&search_app=forums&st=0"]http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=search&andor_type=&sid=ecf65f2c424aa9d589360969943de467&search_app_filters[forums][sortKey]=date&cType=forum&cId=2&search_app_filters[forums][sortKey]=date&search_term=are+you+married&search_app=forums&st=0 and pick one out that suits your spur of the moment feelings.

[CWMcMurray]

OP...

I've met a few men (particularly from Australia and the UK) who have UK brides.

My wife is Thai. We've been together for 8 years. So I'm not "in the market" for an English bride

Out of very polite curiosity, what's the appeal of a English bride?

[bkkjames]

OP...

I've met a few men (particularly from Australia and the UK) who have UK brides.

My wife is Thai. We've been together for 8 years. So I'm not "in the market" for an English bride

Out of very polite curiosity, what's the appeal of a English bride?

I think he is thinking of trading in for a newer model. Hope his wife doesnt read TV much.

[DrWho]

OP...

I've met a few men (particularly from Australia and the UK) who have UK brides.

My wife is Thai. We've been together for 8 years. So I'm not "in the market" for an English bride

Out of very polite curiosity, what's the appeal of a English bride?

Clever!

[Rob8891]

OP...

I've met a few men (particularly from Australia and the UK) who have UK brides.

My wife is Thai. We've been together for 8 years. So I'm not "in the market" for an English bride

Out of very polite curiosity, what's the appeal of a English bride?

I think he is thinking of trading in for a newer model. Hope his wife doesnt read TV much.

If ones believes anything he says, then he's already been trawling in Sukhumvit...... but that is a BIG if. His posts remind me strongly of someone who has recently disappeared from Tv..... If it walks like a duck.....

[bkkjames]

OP...

I've met a few men (particularly from Australia and the UK) who have UK brides.

My wife is Thai. We've been together for 8 years. So I'm not "in the market" for an English bride

Out of very polite curiosity, what's the appeal of a English bride?

Clever!

Now you are getting the hang of things. Instead of acting like a spoiled prat every time someone disagrees with you, just let it slide off your back like a duck would with water. you dont want people calling you DrNoNo do you?

If it looks like a turd, it must float, therefore it's made of wood, if its made of wood she must be a witch....

[Scully]

I don't tick the OPs boxes

I am single have a business in the UK which isn't international so only work there and don't hang around Sukhamvit or Pattaya.

[Chittychangchang]

OP...

I've met a few men (particularly from Australia and the UK) who have UK brides.

My wife is Thai. We've been together for 8 years. So I'm not "in the market" for an English bride

Out of very polite curiosity, what's the appeal of a English bride?

I think he is thinking of trading in for a newer model. Hope his wife doesnt read TV much.

Spot on! he's sick of being married to a cyberman

[DrWho]

Sorry if you want to ask more questions, I suggest you start a new topic. Going off topic on your own topic is not how things are done around here. Maybe the norm down Singapore way, but around here we have standards. Not high ones, but standards nonetheless

A reasonable attempt at humour.

But a fail, nonetheless.

Feel free to try again when you've had a bit more coffee.

[bkkjames]

Sorry if you want to ask more questions, I suggest you start a new topic. Going off topic on your own topic is not how things are done around here. Maybe the norm down Singapore way, but around here we have standards. Not high ones, but standards nonetheless

A reasonable attempt at humour.

But a fail, nonetheless.

Feel free to try again when you've had a bit more coffee.

you better hurry up or that big presentation you are making for your meeting today or it will end up like most of your posts on here...rushed, ill thought out, lacking in details, and barely comprehensible.

if you keep replying to me instead of fixing the error of your ways, don't blame me that the whole office will be sitting there in silence while you read word after word of every slide on your ppt. Take a look around during your presentation today, see how many people are chatting away on their phones via facebook to the effect of 'man this guy is boring me to tears'. if you see more than 30% of the audience doing this, skipped to the learnings slide at the end, assuming there is one and wrap it up quick quick..

Edited September 25, 2012 by bkkjames

[DrWho]

Sorry if you want to ask more questions, I suggest you start a new topic. Going off topic on your own topic is not how things are done around here. Maybe the norm down Singapore way, but around here we have standards. Not high ones, but standards nonetheless

A reasonable attempt at humour.

But a fail, nonetheless.

Feel free to try again when you've had a bit more coffee.

you better hurry up or that big presentation you are making for your meeting today or it will end up like most of your posts on here...rushed, ill thought out, lacking in details, and barely comprehensible.

if you keep replying to me instead of fixing the error of your ways, don't blame me that the whole office will be sitting there in silence while you read word after word of every slide on your ppt. Take a look around during your presentation today, see how many people are chatting away on their phones via facebook to the effect of 'man this guy is boring me to tears'. if you see more than 30% of the audience doing this, skipped to the learnings slide at the end, assuming there is one and wrap it up quick quick..

Lame.

[Chittychangchang]

A message to Dr Poo from TV members

[bkkjames]

Ok last attempt Mr. Gold Finger...

Perhaps if you spent more time on your presentation that you are whinging about having to do instead of subjecting yourself to damage of the cranial variety on here, you wouldnt have to whinge about not having your presentation done.

But as an ex singapore expat I am sure you figured this all out on your own. My hope is you don't manufacture critical aircraft components for a living.

[Beetlejuice]

I guess this is what you mean by starting a new topic...again.

Hint, before you get the urge to enlighten us all with topics like "I am young and my toy poodle humps my leg all the time" and similar subject matters that you feel are important, have a gander through http://www.thaivisa....app=forums&st=0 and pick one out that suits your spur of the moment feelings.

Oh God, go to bed. You are pathetic.

I am just waking up mate. Stick around and I will do my best to keep you entertained all day.

For the record, to answer your question. Yes.

Why do you wake up so early?

It's 3H59. I'm awake because I have to prepare some BORING presentations.

My driver will take take me to the BTS at 6H00, and I'll be the first the office.

But why aren't you asleep?

Judging by the contents of your posts, you must be under a lot of stress.

Edited September 25, 2012 by Beetlejuice

[cooked]

I am bored,

you are bored,

he is bored, we are bored,

you (plural) are bored, and

THEY ARE b***** bored.

Why did I bother reading this c**p?

[Songhua]

To answer your question, we have been together 22 years and married for 19 of them. By the way, she's not my 'Thai bride' ...., she's my 'wife' and over the years has become as Aussie as I am. Naturally, you'll be unable to comment on that though because (according to YOUR other thread) no man should do so about another's wife.

Pull your skirt down a bit OP - your agenda's showing.

Edited September 25, 2012 by Songhua

[Nick in Thailand]

No offence to anyone here at all, but I also have never seen the appeal. I've had plenty of short-term Thai girlfriends and never found them to be a 'drama' like so many others. I think if you fawn all over them, they often treat you like sh1t, just like women the world over.

However, I've never really been able to get that close to Thai girls, or any of the other girls I've dated in developing countries. Many guys I've known have ended up with Thai or Khmer wives because they have broken relationships in the West and feel bitter and resentful towards Western women. I, however, have had some great relationships (and some bad one) and have never used the term that is so popular in Cambodia 'FWC' for 'Fat White Cow', a term that is applied to every white woman.

I also don't feel I've ever had a good conversation with a Thai girlfriend. I remember looking up at the moon one night, to hear my Thai girlfriend say 'you heb same moon England?' I don't find these things endearing, these comments do not make me go 'aaaaw'.

I want to be able to talk about deep politics and philosophy sometimes... I want to watch a film that doesn't have slapstick comedy in or explosions every 3 minutes. I want to be able to crack a dry joke and for my girlfriend to get it. I want her to appreciate who I am, and not just love the fact she's got a white boyfriend.

Sweeping generalizations, I know, and it's nothing against Thai women. I made a pledge to myself some years ago (after a Ugandan girlfriend) that I would never date a girl from a developing country again (other than to just <Snip!>).

There's too much going on, they can't fall in love with me, not just because I'm an *sshole but because all they see are the opportunities that could be had if I was married to them. I always feel a good comparison is if I met a rich, Texan millionaire &lt;deleted&gt;.. all I'd be thinking is 'I have to make this work' rather than getting to know if we would make a good couple or not.

This just works for me..

Edited September 25, 2012 by metisdead
: Disguised profanity.

[Swiss1960]

I guess this is what you mean by starting a new topic...again.

Hint, before you get the urge to enlighten us all with topics like "I am young and my toy poodle humps my leg all the time" and similar subject matters that you feel are important, have a gander through http://www.thaivisa....app=forums&st=0 and pick one out that suits your spur of the moment feelings.

Oh God, go to bed. You are pathetic.

Oh dear.

You need to show more understanding for the Op and his situation... he is only in Thailand for 6 months and needs to make fast decisions, so TV members should endeavour to help him...

- need to find other expats with good jobs and drivers to the office (Thai expats vs. expats elsewhere)

- need to decide where to work next (where else have you worked)

- need to decide whether to exchange his English bride to a Thai (are you married to a local woman)

All reasonable questions and thus, Op is just trying to collect as many information as possible from all the experts here... we all should be more helpful

[CharlieH]

why do some like Whiskey and not Vodka, beer and not Lager, some dont drink at all......... its all a matter of taste and individual choice.

Edited September 26, 2012 by CharlieH

[Pinot]

What's the appeal of a Thai bride? That's it? That's the best you could come up with?

She makes really good som tam

[BoonToong]

Local? No.

I live in Jordan and my wife is from Kalasin.

Did I get it wrong?

[Travel2003]

Interesting thread.

Not because of the topic, since that have been "chewed on" quite a few times already.

What is interesting about it is how OP clearly under estimated the members here, and let himself be provoked, and he started to write some....... ehhmmm..... rather silly remarks.

OP should have done some reading first to see what type of Forum this is.

Not to forget how some of the "old dogs" hungry as ever, waited for someone like this OP to come along.

We have seen it all before.

[meatballs]

I couldn't find a wife back home so I came to Thailand. Life really sucked. At least here I have a wife. Wouldn't have anything if I had stayed there.

[pigeonjake]

if carlsberg made wifes,

they would be thai,

[Berkshire]

OP...

I've met a few men (particularly from Australia and the UK) who have UK brides.

My wife is Thai. We've been together for 8 years. So I'm not "in the market" for an English bride

Out of very polite curiosity, what's the appeal of a English bride?

Clever!

Perhaps so, but you didn't answer the question.

[farang000999]

Out of very polite curiosity, what's the appeal of a Thai bride?

I don't know what the appeal of any bride of any nationality is. it seems like most married men can't either. it is like you went into a state of unconsciousness and then awake years later and ask yourself how you got to where you are and have not a clue.

[Morakot]

I also don't feel I've ever had a good conversation with a Thai girlfriend. I remember looking up at the moon one night, to hear my Thai girlfriend say 'you heb same moon England?' I don't find these things endearing, these comments do not make me go 'aaaaw'.

I understand this. I had a similar experience with a Thai girl. She was quoting Kierkegaard when we looked at the moon one night. I felt I was on a different planet... hadn't she heard of Derrida I thought, while sudden disquietude seized upon me, making me go 'aaaaw'.

Edited September 26, 2012 by Morakot

[chiangmaikelly]

OP...

I've met a few men (particularly from Australia and the UK) who have UK brides.

My wife is Thai. We've been together for 8 years. So I'm not "in the market" for an English bride

Out of very polite curiosity, what's the appeal of a English bride?

Clever!

Perhaps so, but you didn't answer the question.

Bump, I agree. Are you afraid to answer?