who are you behind that avatar?

[zyphodb]

Read my profile & look at some of my posts if you really wanna know...

[smotherb]

I first came to Thailand in 1975 while I was still in school, shortly before my 21st birthday. Two yeas later I moved here and I recently turned 60. Thirty years in Bangkok and seven years in Chiang Rai.

cudos brother, I am older than you, came her before you, but have not lived here as long as you; although I have lived outside my home country more than 37 years

[Kerryd]

What I got from the answers to this is simple. People here enjoy their privacy.

apparently so..that way they can continue to be keyboard warriors without any worry at all about anyone ever knowing squat about them

So says the member named "Smurkster" with the profile data:

• AgeAge Unknown
• BirthdayBirthday Unknown
• Gender Not Telling

[Smurkster]

28 been here for four years, first came on extended holiday, have been here m ost of the time....

[wwest5829]

Started scouting Thailand at 62, retired here at 64. As a result of retiring here and having a dedicated Thai wife to care for me, when asked my age, I reply - Mai yoom gee = ageless!

[ezzra]

Mine is my first love, ok, second love, a 1963 GS 160 Vespa I use to ride when I was

very young, many, many moons ago....

[wayned]

I came to Thailand to stay when I was 53, I'll be 70 in December.

I came here to DIE!.. I was diagnosed with coronary artery blockage and was having serve angina and was schedule for surgery. I sold everything and concelled the surgery and came here. After I landed the angina went away and my ticker is still going 16 years later.

[TechnikaIII]

Since I recently turned 60 my mind has deteriorated.

I don`t know where I`ve been, where I am or who I am. The benefits of this is that I no longer dwell on the past, no longer worry about the future, live life from day to day and rarely wonder who or what is behind the avatars.

And here is what I really do here that is probably the reality as to what most of the posters whatever they call themselves actually do in Thailand:

I can imagine you explaining yourself at the border, with a monumental Overstay ...

"I don`t know where I`ve been, where I am or who I am. The benefits of this is that I no longer dwell on the past, no longer worry about the future, live life from day to day and rarely wonder who or what is behind .... all this immigration stuff."

[BWPattaya]

What I got from the answers to this is simple. People here enjoy their privacy.

apparently so..that way they can continue to be keyboard warriors without any worry at all about anyone ever knowing squat about them

So says the member named "Smurkster" with the profile data:

• AgeAge Unknown
• BirthdayBirthday Unknown
• Gender Not Telling

You beat me to it! I was just about to check the OP's profile. Basically he/she is asking everyone to publish details without offering anything about him/herself.

In a previous topic started by him he does say that he lives in Nongbualamphu, is 25 years old and married to a Thai girl.

[Rykbanlor]

Arrived in 2001, been here continuously since then, now I'm 36. I was travelling but I wanted to learn a new language and live in a new culture. My first visit back home (Scotland) was in 2011. That was an adventure - I realised that I was completely used to living in Thailand.

[notbkk]

You, nosey person, don't even HAVE an avatar!

[socksy01]

Here forever. Married an 'eejit' and got a life sentence

[bobbyd1]

I first came to Thailand in 1972 at the age of 22, serving with the U.S. Air Force. Spent a total of Three years at Udorn & Korat back when. Eventually my Thai wife and I retired back to Thailand in 2007 (Chiang Rai). Now I am coming up on the age of 65 years young now, how time passes us by. But I am not planning on dying, but just fading away into retirement paradise here in Northern Thailand.

[Oziex1]

For those who make it to the TV Lounge gig in Bangkok on July 4, will you introduce yourselves using forum name or would that leed to fighting?

[NeverSure]

I am your worst nightmare. I grew up on a real, very rural, Western US ranch.

To understand me, you need to ride a horse in government timber for 3 days straight and never see another person, road, or building.

Sleep on the ground knowing there are black bears and cougars in the neighborhood because you saw some that day.

Keep your rifle in your sleeping bag so it doesn't freeze.

Wake up when it's so cold you roll over and light the fire you made the night before, so you'll have some heat when you get out of your sleeping bag.

Look for stray cattle and herd them and drive them. Give them a bait of grain at night so they'll stick around. Go find them in the morning if they slip away. They won't go far.

And do it all alone when you're 15 years old.

[JLCrab]

Wow -- what an unusual, unorthodox life as someone else might've said.

[SDM0712]

I have my genuine photograph and contact details on my profile.

Perhaps if everyone did the same the forums might become a bit calmer. There's something about anomimity that turns normal polite people into something very different once they get behind a keyboard !

SDM

[transam]

Mine is my first love, ok, second love, a 1963 GS 160 Vespa I use to ride when I was

very young, many, many moons ago....

Hmm, just reminded me of my 1965 SS180,..........

[JLCrab]

I have my genuine photograph and contact details on my profile.

Perhaps if everyone did the same the forums might become a bit calmer. There's something about anomimity that turns normal polite people into something very different once they get behind a keyboard !

SDM

Well it's kinda hard to wrangle some of the well-heeled ThaiVisa members as clients if you are anonymous. My situation is the opposite: I once mentioned on here my contact details and that my US NGO work involves the United Nations and all that followed was a stream of comments that the UN would be better off if it fell into the East River of NYC.

[tubby johnson]

A bit disingenuous of the OP Smurkster to ask. He won't disclose any information whatsoever about himself, yet interrogates everyone else on this forum.

My private details are private (obviously). My avatar's on an LSD trip and google "tubby johnson" if you're at all interested.

[JLCrab]

A bit disingenuous of the OP Smurkster to ask. He won't disclose any information whatsoever about himself, yet interrogates everyone else on this forum.

My private details are private (obviously). My avatar's on an LSD trip and google "tubby johnson" if you're at all interested.

It also creates a problem for those whose identity and life-story behind the avatar/Member name is totally fictitious.

[freebyrd]

It could be a generation thing. I would guess most of us on here are a good deal older than 25. Facebook is apparently where everyone gives their information away, quite freely not me, now or ever. I'm on LinkedIn for business purposes but will ditch that when I retire.

In person, once I've know someone for a while, I will give of myself, in cyberspace that's not the case as experience has taught me that information is retained in the ether forever and I'm not comfortable with that.

All that said, it seems to me that the main attraction of TVF is the anonymity? One man's meat......

[transam]

Think my avatar shows my 22 year love affair............... ..................

[JLCrab]

There are places out in the web-o-sphere especially Twitter where you will not be taken seriously or given any credibility if you post anonymously. It's just on here that I don't care if I am taken seriously or given any credibility.

[malt25]

I have my genuine photograph and contact details on my profile.

Perhaps if everyone did the same the forums might become a bit calmer. There's something about anomimity that turns normal polite people into something very different once they get behind a keyboard !

SDM

Maybe it should be mandatory for all posters to have name, age & gender listed prior to posting. What do you have to hide ? Old saying goes something like..... "if you're not prepared to sign your name to it, don't say it." Pretty simple really.

Just my opinion.

Cheers..... Mal.

[transam]

I have my genuine photograph and contact details on my profile.

Perhaps if everyone did the same the forums might become a bit calmer. There's something about anomimity that turns normal polite people into something very different once they get behind a keyboard !

SDM

Maybe it should be mandatory for all posters to have name, age & gender listed prior to posting. What do you have to hide ? Old saying goes something like..... "if you're not prepared to sign your name to it, don't say it." Pretty simple really.

Just my opinion.

Cheers..... Mal.

Ooooooooh noooooooooo, then we will have the young bucks continually using the "age" card, or perhaps visa versa. Plus, lady members will get flack, seen it with known lady members.

[ozsamurai]

unsettled wanderer mid 40's, after 20 years in Japan couldn't settle back in the west, go to Thailand? Think its getting a bit old for me here though, nice but.... a definite lack of good yoghurt makers.

Oz

[Tchooptip]

This is me.

Life at the Farm takes it out of your skin.

I used to be 48 ... I need more cream.

Lest I still have my hair.

Lest I still have my hair

But your teeth ???

[BIACK]

32 years in Thailand and I never go back to the Artic.

[Tchooptip]

What I got from the answers to this is simple. People here enjoy their privacy.

apparently so..that way they can continue to be keyboard warriors without any worry at all about anyone ever knowing squat about them

So says the member named "Smurkster" with the profile data:

• AgeAge Unknown
• BirthdayBirthday Unknown
• Gender Not Telling

Best answer to OP so far + +