She's petite and light hearted but hopeless.

[Skeptic7]

I've a wonderful GF here 4+ years and going strong. Petite, sexy, gourmet cook (see the Food Porn thread), very tidy, works part time AND attends Ramkhamhaeng University. Not sophisticated about the outside world, but curious and interested, so I constantly encourage those traits. We watch alot of Nat Geo and Next Step TV. Also loves physical activities and travel...both which we do often as possible. They are not ALL from the same cookie cutter...or mortar and pestle!

[ncc1701d]

After 18 months of saying "Jesus Christ" this and "Jesus Christ" that, my girlfriend eventually asked me who was this person and why did I keep saying their name. It was a epoch moment. I eventually stopped laughing and took it upon myself to get her interested in world events and history of well, the planet. It takes time and enthusiasm, but I actually enjoy seeing her grow.

[joeyg]

Hummm.  She's beautiful and honest.  2 outa 3 ain't bad.  No offense sounds like you've got hopeless covered.  Just sayin'...

Edited August 4, 2016 by joeyg

[giddyup]

40 minutes ago, flyingdoc said:

Giddyup is right!  What does it matter about what Thai men think about farang-Thai relationships? Such relationships should be subjective!

A lot of Thai men are hardly in a position to be criticizing or mocking falang-Thai relationships, they aren't exactly poster boys for successful relationships themselves.

[seancbk]

16 hours ago, impulse said:

Problem is, by the time you figure out your communication difficulties aren't just cultural and language, you're in too deep to throw 'em back. 

 

It takes me 2 mins to figure out if a Thai person isn't able to hold a proper conversation.  

Boggles my mind why someone would date, let alone marry, a person with whom they cannot have proper conversations on any topic.

 

[ClutchClark]

Just now, seancbk said:

 

It takes me 2 mins to figure out if a Thai person isn't able to hold a proper conversation.  

Boggles my mind why someone would date, let alone marry, a person with whom they cannot have proper conversations on any topic.

 

 

I have seldom seen anyone anywhere not look at their smartphone atleast once every 2 minutes.

 

Drives me crazy.

[seancbk]

Just now, ClutchClark said:

 

I have seldom seen anyone anywhere not look at their smartphone atleast once every 2 minutes.

 

Drives me crazy.

I do that.  

I've got over 1000 people I have know well for at least 15 years and in some cases 20+ years, I consider them all good friends and so I want to keep up with what they are doing.  

To do so means checking their posts on Facebook and Instagram (the two social media tools I use).   

I also post everywhere I go and most things I do throughout the day, so I then have to react to the comments etc I get from my friends.

We are obviously a different generation.

 

[Gecko123]

12 hours ago, Fabricus said:

I know what goes goes on here.

 

Please start a thread and share your transcendent knowledge. I, for one, am all ears.

 

PS. I've never once gotten the feeling a Thai person thought I was stupid. Most people say things like 'geng', 'chalaat' or 'kayan' (clever, smart, hardworking). When they get mad at me their preferred insult is rok jit (mentally ill). 

 

 

Edited August 4, 2016 by Gecko123

[ClutchClark]

15 minutes ago, seancbk said:

I do that.  

I've got over 1000 people I have know well for at least 15 years and in some cases 20+ years, I consider them all good friends and so I want to keep up with what they are doing.  

To do so means checking their posts on Facebook and Instagram (the two social media tools I use).   

I also post everywhere I go and most things I do throughout the day, so I then have to react to the comments etc I get from my friends.

We are obviously a different generation.

 

 

Obviously.

 

Do you have any consideration for the real live people who are sitting across from you?

 

someone who does what you describe--man or woman--would not be a member of my cicle of friends. BTW, I don't consider your definition of having 1,000 "close friends" as someone who has a firm grasp of the subject.

 

Cheers

Edited August 4, 2016 by ClutchClark

[Chapelroad]

25 minutes ago, seancbk said:

I do that.  

I've got over 1000 people I have know well for at least 15 years and in some cases 20+ years, I consider them all good friends and so I want to keep up with what they are doing.  

To do so means checking their posts on Facebook and Instagram (the two social media tools I use).   

I also post everywhere I go and most things I do throughout the day, so I then have to react to the comments etc I get from my friends.

We are obviously a different generation.

 

 

So what everyone has for breakfast, dinner and tea interests you !

[dukeandduke]

31 minutes ago, ClutchClark said:

 

I have seldom seen anyone anywhere not look at their smartphone atleast once every 2 minutes.

 

Drives me crazy.

 

For me, it depends what they're doing.  Candy Crush or reading?  Does it drive you crazy when someone's reading a book? 

 

On crowded trains, it's a lot easier for me to read on my phone than read my book. 

[seancbk]

23 minutes ago, ClutchClark said:

 

Obviously.

 

Do you have any consideration for the real live people who are sitting across from you?

 

someone who does what you describe--man or woman--would not be a member of my cicle of friends. BTW, I don't consider your definition of having 1,000 "close friends" as someone who has a firm grasp of the subject.

 

Cheers

My friends all do it too.   I'm not willing to just end 20+ year friendships just because I no longer live in the same country as they do.

And for the record I said 'Good friends'  those are people I partied with from the age of 15 to early 40's and who if they were here we'd still be clubbing together.

Actually two groups arrived today from HK, so tonight I will be out drinking with about 8 long time friends in Thonglor.

My 'close friends' are a large group too, but not 1000 of them.  

 

[seancbk]

19 minutes ago, Chapelroad said:

 

So what everyone has for breakfast, dinner and tea interests you !

Not so much what, although that is sometimes interesting; but where did they eat, who they were with and were they having fun is nice to know.

 

[Chapelroad]

3 minutes ago, seancbk said:

Not so much what, although that is sometimes interesting; but where did they eat, who they were with and were they having fun is nice to know.

 

 

I meet up once, maybe twice, a week with some very good friends I have known since I arrived here.

 

What, where or when they eat does not bother me in the slightest.

[The manic]

18 hours ago, thai3 said:

Could be mines twin sister, mine does not cook, gets her sis to do the cleaning and ironing and i have no idea how much is in her 5 bank books. Conversation gets uncomfortable if it goes beyond food, family, music and if it's raining or not. has a terrible temper, argumentative and nags. Pretty sure it was not like this 14 years ago when we met, seems like another person. 

Sounds like hell to me. 

[ClutchClark]

 

39 minutes ago, dukeandduke said:

 

For me, it depends what they're doing.  Candy Crush or reading?  Does it drive you crazy when someone's reading a book? 

 

On crowded trains, it's a lot easier for me to read on my phone than read my book. 

 

OK, now I understand. 

 

You spend large amounts of time alone. In that case, I could care a less. I was talking about people who constantly look at their smartphone when participating in a real live social event. 

 

Specific to this topic, if a Thai woman were to look at her phone every two minutes then hopefully the suitor would realize she was not a "keeper". 

 

Back to the reading a book question...I don't equate reading a book with someone engaging on social media, which seems like a very superficial and narcissistic practice most times. 

 

Here is a picture of me eating at a sidewalk cafe in BKK. Here is me sitting on the beach. Here is me......

 

I remember way back when and people would take photos and have them developed into slides and then invite friends and family over for a slide show. It would be interesting for a short while but it usually took a few whiskeys to sit through it all since it was most often just bragging.

Edited August 4, 2016 by ClutchClark

[ClutchClark]

31 minutes ago, seancbk said:

My friends all do it too.   I'm not willing to just end 20+ year friendships just because I no longer live in the same country as they do.

And for the record I said 'Good friends'  those are people I partied with from the age of 15 to early 40's and who if they were here we'd still be clubbing together.

Actually two groups arrived today from HK, so tonight I will be out drinking with about 8 long time friends in Thonglor.

My 'close friends' are a large group too, but not 1000 of them.  

 

 

My mistake on the good friends vs close friends.

 

I never suggested you had to end a friendship.

 

I have some friends from different periods in my life who I still keep in touch with.

 

We use the telephone once a month or so.

 

I have no desire to see photos of them every few minutes on their "Wall"...except once each year in the family photo sent in the annual Christmas card.

 

None of us have the slightest desire to have a constant line of communication with anyone.

 

i use the Skytrain daily and look over the shoulders of the local Thai when I am not lucky enough to get a seat. It looks like a very shallow communication to me and quite fitting for a Nationality often accused of remaining emotionally immature. I don't understand why they are not reading news articles or subject matter that would help them get ahead in the workplace.

 

I will choose my paperback book every time...although I do like the backlight feature on my iPad.

Edited August 4, 2016 by ClutchClark

[realenglish1]

3 hours ago, freebyrd said:

 

Ask a Thai if they know Galileo, or who invented the Telephone  or what civilization  was the first democracy  in the world . Most will not know .

 

Fair comment, but that would be true of most people in the UK under 40 and most in the USA of any age.

Ok I do not agree Ask an educated Farang and they know As an educated Thai and they have no clue

[Enoon]

13 hours ago, Fabricus said:

 

No. I'm not alone.

 

Unlike the majority of western fools (most of whom can't speak, read or write Thai) I know what goes goes on here.

 

Sorry if the truth hurts.

 

Thai men also know the truth, btw. They laugh at farangs. Do you ever wonder why?

 

 

 

Because so many foreigners in Thailand delude themselves that they understand, and know everything about, what Thais think?

Edited August 4, 2016 by Enoon

[dukeandduke]

12 minutes ago, ClutchClark said:

 

 

OK, now I understand. 

 

You spend large amounts of time alone. In that case, I could care a less. I was talking about people who constantly look at their smartphone when participating in a real live social event. 

 

Specific to this topic, if a Thai woman were to look at her phone every two minutes then hopefully the suitor would realize she was not a "keeper". 

 

 

I hear you, but it's not me that you're seeing every time on the train.  There are a lot of people commuting alone.  Back in the day, they read the newspaper or a book.  Now it's often the phone.

 

Wait, you meant that you couldn't care less, right?

 

People together?  That's weak.  I've stopped seeing women over this issue.  Yesterday, a guy was playing Candy Crush while with his woman.  She should have left the pussy on the spot.

[bitcoinforever]

first university degree in Thailand is about as useful as a GED even from the best schools here. History and current events are not offered to the population inThai. You need to not only speak English to figure it out but not think Thai . Big difference speaking English and thinking Thai is what they do here in Asia. Government and elite who run the country keeps the masses like mushrooms in the shit ,the dark and they know nothing better.  So one who graduates from the education system in Thailand is someone who is thoroughly indoctrinated read brainwashed into THAINESS.

[adwbkk]

14 hours ago, Fabricus said:

 

No. I'm not alone.

 

Unlike the majority of western fools (most of whom can't speak, read or write Thai) I know what goes goes on here.

 

Sorry if the truth hurts.

 

Thai men also know the truth, btw. They laugh at farangs. Do you ever wonder why?

 

 

 

Tosser

Edited August 4, 2016 by adwbkk
Not sure why Wan ker would be deleted

[rasg]

For those moaning about their wives or partners maybe they need to find a good one. The best Thai food ever, a burning need to know whatever is going on in the world around her, an inbuilt GPS, an incredibly hard worker and she loves the UK. We can and do talk about anything and iTranslate or Google Translate is our friend. Having left school at 12 and she was then packed off to Bangkok to work. She went back to school at the age of 32 to fill in a lot of gaps. She has no interest in the typical gossip that so many Thai women seem obsessed with. She is the love of my life and I had to travel almost 6000 miles to find her.

 

Downsides? If they had sleeping in the Olympics she would win the Gold medal for Thailand. Fortunately I would come a close second with the silver medal for the UK. She loves to shop and I hate shopping so we have a deal. I go and drink ten cappuccinos or just drop her off at the shopping mall and pick her up when she's done.

[lostinisaan]

    I've been married for a year to a woman I've dated for 6 years. OP, you can't be serious.  

 

If you really dated her for so long, then you should know her bad habits and shouldn't have married her, it's that easy.

 

          My wife didn't graduate from a university, but she's clever. She does all the cleaning, clothes, has a part time job at a restaurant and she's the first who gets up every morning. 

 

She cooks fantastic food, also Western food. She's got a great character, never gossips about others and everybody in the neighborhood, or people at my school like her a lot.  

 

    Of course did she not know how to do simple math, because her teachers didn't weren't good at math and she wasn't allowed to ask any questions. 

 

     That your wife doesn't know "world history" doesn't surprise me at all. None of my Thai colleagues know the difference between Adolf Hitler and Jim Beam, or Jack Daniels.  

 

  One more of your sentences: " But it baffles me how she can't see through the nonsense of it all "

 

       She also needs to "survive" you and that seems to be a tough task, reading your thread.

 

      I married my wife after being together for two years and I haven't regret one day of our marriage. 

 

 Of course is she also watching her soap operas, but that's in no way different to people in Western countries, watching "talk shows", listen to "TV preachers" and other nonsense. Dude, Thais grow up in a different culture. 

 

         And another classic one: . "All I get offered is a boiled egg and or toast."  Why didn't you marry a cook, or why don't you make your own breakfast, bring it to her and have breakfast in bed with her?

 

   All you're trying to do with your post is to make your wife and many other Thai women look very bad behaved, lazy and stupid. 

 

      But if you think about your own post once more you might find out that the only fool in your marriage is is you.

 

           The headline should be:

 

Why do so many fools marry Thai hookers,who're used to do nothing else than open their legs, but only when getting paid for it?

 

 

 

 

      

 

      

 

      

[Deepinthailand]

I love my wife she loves me that's all that matters.

 

[giddyup]

5 minutes ago, lostinisaan said:

    I've been married for a year to a woman I've dated for 6 years. OP, you can't be serious.  

 

If you really dated her for so long, then you should know her bad habits and shouldn't have married her, it's that easy.

 

          My wife didn't graduate from a university, but she's clever. She does all the cleaning, clothes, has a part time job at a restaurant and she's the first who gets up every morning. 

 

She cooks fantastic food, also Western food. She's got a great character, never gossips about others and everybody in the neighborhood, or people at my school like her a lot.  

 

    Of course did she not know how to do simple math, because her teachers didn't weren't good at math and she wasn't allowed to ask any questions. 

 

     That your wife doesn't know "world history" doesn't surprise me at all. None of my Thai colleagues know the difference between Adolf Hitler and Jim Beam, or Jack Daniels.  

 

  One more of your sentences: " But it baffles me how she can't see through the nonsense of it all "

 

       She also needs to "survive" you and that seems to be a tough task, reading your thread.

 

      I married my wife after being together for two years and I haven't regret one day of our marriage. 

 

 Of course is she also watching her soap operas, but that's in no way different to people in Western countries, watching "talk shows", listen to "TV preachers" and other nonsense. Dude, Thais grow up in a different culture. 

 

         And another classic one: . "All I get offered is a boiled egg and or toast."  Why didn't you marry a cook, or why don't you make your own breakfast, bring it to her and have breakfast in bed with her?

 

   All you're trying to do with your post is to make your wife and many other Thai women look very bad behaved, lazy and stupid. 

 

      But if you think about your own post once more you might find out that the only fool in your marriage is is you.

 

           The headline should be:

 

Why do so many fools marry Thai hookers,who're used to do nothing else than open their legs, but only when getting paid for it?

 

 

 

 

      

 

      

 

      

Because that headline has been done to death and I'm not even sure there's any truth to it, and it's probably just a figment of the imagination of some of the falangs who think they know everything there is to know about Thailand.

[Deepinthailand]

6 minutes ago, giddyup said:

Because that headline has been done to death and I'm not even sure there's any truth to it, and it's probably just a figment of the imagination of some of the falangs who think they know everything there is to know about Thailand.

 

Same old reply from Mr grumpy married a hooker lostinissan I see

[Jedsada3]

I can imagine that people who wakes up everyday with the worry of how they or they relatives will manage to pay their debt or with the worry of how they will manage to feed the children or with any other worries don't have the mood to know what happens in Syria or what currency they use in Laos.

They know that their 300 THB daily salary will be too short to go sleep without thoughts so why do they have to know about square yards, millilitre and 1.35% interest?

They were born with worries, live with worries and certainly will die with worries.

Sometimes, they see a light and they hope and are happy. Sometimes it's for a short moment then the light goes out when the Farang goes back home.

 

Don't blame anyone because they don't want to know what happens around them. We don't know what happens in them.

[akentryan]

I had 3 divorces in the USA and one marriage here in Thailand. She was a lawyer and passed away after 23 years of prosperous bliss. Learned to speak English quite well. Now live with a 39 year ex-bar girl who is learning passable English very quickly. I speak enough Thai so we can communicate. She is my gardener, housekeeper, cook, dishwasher, pool cleaner and true companion and a helluva lot of fun while never asking for money. Wasn't easy finding the right one - I had four failed candidates before the present one. Keep looking gentlemen, there is a "right one" out there for you

[MissAndry]

2 hours ago, ClutchClark said:

 

I have no desire to see photos of them every few minutes on their "Wall"...except once each year in the family photo sent in the annual Christmas card.

None of us have the slightest desire to have a constant line of communication with anyone.

 

 

I quite like seeing what my family and friends are getting up to. Because of FB I am in touch with people I haven't seen in 30 years, and some distant relatives spread across the globe I have never met in person. If they post constant streams of garbage I can restrict what I see of their postings. It isn't hard.