theblether
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2 hours ago, Rich888 said:
My fiancée did it...I'd be amazed if it's not iron clad, she doesn't take prisoners when it comes to her kids!
I think you need to review Thai custody law. You'd be amazed at how often "remote" fathers destroy the best laid plans of mice and men. Request sight and get this document translated before you get a shock. And you better make sure its recognised and not written on the back of a fag packet.
ps - I hope I'm wrong but I personally know four examples where the spouse prevented removal of the child. That includes one former high profile member of this forum.
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12 hours ago, Rich888 said:
Still living, new wife and hasn't seen his kids, supported them or shown any interest for years. Signed away his parental rights during the divorce.
Make sure you have a copy of the document where he signed away his parental rights.
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23 minutes ago, Sheryl said:
I did not say "substantial". Just enough Thais that they can have at least a few Thai friends/classmates. There are middle class neighborhoods in the UK with Thais -- middle class Thais, hardly "rotten hearted hookers". I am staying in one right now.
I live in the UK and have assisted several Thai students to navigate Masters degrees. I have watched them walk away embarrassed by the lowlifes they meet. I also know many middle class Thais that avoid other Thais like the plague.
The UK Thai community is bedivlied by rotten-hearted hookers often married to oil & gas workers who spend their lives crowing about money. I have witnessed this, I know Thais who have witnessed this.and here you are making up stories about "middle class communities" in the UK.
The community is overrun with illiterate, alcoholic prostitutes. You've as much chance of encountering this fantastical "middle class" enclave as tripping over Brigadoon.
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Is the father still living? Is he okay with his children being removed from Thailand?
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28 minutes ago, Sheryl said:
According to UK gov website no issue until age 18. Below 18, whether age 1 or 16, same same.
He will of course have to meet the financials, and wife and each child are a separate visa application.
In terms of the kids' adjustment, I would recommend settling in an area with a Thai population, there are a fair number of them.
Do not, under any circumstances, seek an area with a "substantial Thai population." They are overrun with a demographic that any decent Thai family would avoid like the plague.
"Thai rak Thai" is a nonsense in the UK. No decent Thai woman flies 6000 miles to consort with rotten-hearted hookers.
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This is on my daily playlist -
I'm gonna take a freight train
Down at the station, Lord
I don't care where it goes
Gonna climb a mountain
The highest mountain
I'll jump off, nobody gonna know… Can't you see, whoa, can't you see
What that woman, Lord, she been doin' to me?
Can't you see, can't you see
What that woman, she's been doin' to me?I've gone to buy a ticket now, as far as I can
Ain't a-never coming back
Ride me a southbound, all the way to Georgia now
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1 hour ago, save the frogs said:
No one is ever going to stop lying to you.
Human beings will continue to lie. And AI will lie.
You need to increase your level of discernment as to what information to take in and what information to avoid and increase your intuition.
But also, will it be possible that one day we will have our own AI assistants and we can ask our AI assistant if another AI is lying to us?
Like ... what do you make of this news story, C3P0?
Copy and paste this in the search bar - it will take your straight to the article. "Aussie soccer fans slam veteran SBS commentator for sending them to sleep with boring call of one of the best World Cup games ever played: 'He ruined the match'"
That's just google in action. The major players, for example Apple and Amazon, have superb content checking AI. Your idea of a personal AI assistant checking the news will be available to you as an individual within a couple of years max.
I read people objecting to using AI - it makes as much sense as the blacksmith refusing to drive a car - it's here to stay.
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12 minutes ago, Lee65 said:
AN INTERNET ON LIFE SUPPORT
I used to think that the Dead Internet theory was just that—a theory, and an improbable one. Bots existed, but it was unlikely that the relatively dumb bundles of code behind them could have wiggled their way into every nook and cranny of the internet, generating nearly all of its content.
But with AI, it’s now possible that such a thing may happen, that AI could come to generate the majority of the content we humans see on the web. Indeed, a 2022 report from European law enforcement agency Europol pointed out that experts believe that as much as 90% of online content may be synthetically generated by 2026—90%!
If that’s the case, humans who want to engage with other humans and their creations may, for the first time in decades, have to avoid the internet and—gasp—return to the real world for authenticity. Sure, you won’t find shrimp Jesus there, but at least you’ll find some genuine human connection.
From:
https://www.fastcompany.com/91092650/dead-internet-theory-true-tiktok-ai-influencers
This is why Musk is close to demanding subscription only access to Twitter and this week threatened "engagement farmers." As usual, he is ahead of the game.
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It's clearly fake. No serious author would write - "The crowd erupted in cheers as noodles rained down like confetti." And that was just one among many absurd lines.
Anyway - AI - if prompted - admits its unable to create nuance - and human's are not as consistent is style - hence experienced eyes can see it's fake in a couple of lines.
Also, there's a reverse text search available that tells you where the original text was originated - hence how many students are being captured using AI.
Plagiarism-style checkers are very advanced. While I accept that some people would read that and think it's true, others will uncover the truth in moments and until AI learns how to write like humans and defeats plagiarism software these articles will be called out.
Now, if you are having a go at certain "news" outlets who have gained a reputation for using AI - they are content spinning to avoid legal consequences including accusations of copyright theft. Content spinning was the scourge of the Internet at one time and it appears to be making a comeback since AI exploded.
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9 minutes ago, hunkidori said:
I bet secretly you whish you were born a Brit and this rambling nonsense is all down to your deep rooted jealousy of us.
If you enjoy some light reading, have a look at he anti-passport bro movement in Colombia.
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A married friend went to Koh Samui in January. He said it was an atrocious experience. Roads were mental and dangerous, prices more expensive than London ( in his own words ). He hated the entire vibe in Chaweng, says that daytime it was a concrete jungle, night time a cattle market full of drunk, rude and obnoxious tourists of all nationalities.
Phuket is boycotted by a large number of expat types, it's a rip-off hellhole. IMO Sukhumvit has lost the little bit of plot that it had, and that wasn't much. Pricing is laughable, the vibe poor and many a weird or dangerous thing happens after midnight down there. I know too many people who have either been robbed or ripped off by taxi drivers in Lower Suk. Walking the streets is like walking through the bar in Star Wars, literally full of creatures of all shapes and sizes, a surprising number either mentally ill or outright dangerous.
I haven't been to Patts for a while, the received wisdom is that town is going backwards fast. I was shocked at the level of passive aggressive and outright aggressive farangs in HUA HIN of all places, I wasn't shocked to read of serious assaults. Hua Hin police that I know told me they were delighted that the Patts ferry stopped, but the damage is done, the headcase brigade is already polluting that town.
Pai, high season, is laughable. CM, high season, is creaking under the weight of unsustainable tourist numbers. Crossing the road is a genuine heart stopping experience and when events take place the numbers are crushingly busy.
Others can comment on other locations. My opinion is that residual bad behaviour from isolated people re Covid is causing a lot of problems, and the hotspots can't handle the traffic.
I know no one of experience who thinks that Thailand is in any way, shape or form a better destination than ten years ago. Maybe we are jaded. My opinion is that we can see the evidence with our own eyes - the country has unleashed a dragon - and I don't know how they will slay it. Bringing in more tourists isn't going to be the answer, that's for sure.
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1 hour ago, bob smith said:
…what about the Thai Koh Tao killer, who murdered the british backpackers Hannah & David, got away with it, and is still hosting pool party’s every night?
Just because that happened 10 years ago should we all forget about it and move on?
bob.
I gave the specific answer to the incident mentioned, including the length of sentence.
Now you are diverting to another despicable incident in a pitiful attempt to win Internet points.
No sane person can forget what happened in Koh Tao and no person with class would descend to use that to win brownie points.
Truly pitiful post. Pitiful.
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8 minutes ago, connda said:
No - Actually I watched a video of a group of Thais beating the snot out of a elderly foreign couple with the final shot being when a Thai guy decked an old farang woman and knocked her out. What happened? Probably very little. Stories where Thais commit assault and battery on foreigners are memory-holed in the media. Memory-holed...made to disappear as Thai on foreign violence can affect tourism. So they stories disappear. Or are settled with a small fine and a wai.
But when a farang does something to a Thai? Well - open your eyes and look at the hyperbole.If you are referring to the assault in Hua Hin in 2016 where the older Scottish lady was kicked in the head and left unconscious along with her husband and son, all four were arrested and eventually jailed for two years each. Further, they were excoriated by the Thai media, in this case the Thai populace was appalled.
This is the second time in two days I've seen people referring to old and near ancient videos on this forum. The one posted yesterday was around 16 years old. You're an experienced guy here, you should know better than to post without context and the insinuation that it was memory-holed is blatantly false, it was national news.
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10 hours ago, bubblegum said:Last one I visited lasted 10 days and was well over 2 mil. baht.
Aye, very good. The topic is a foreign Christian heading into his eighties and you derail with this fantastical nonsense. Feel free to return with an answer to the OP's question - the cheapest funeral - when you reconnect with reality.
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You're going to have to ask your wife to explain why she thinks it will cost 400,000 baht or anywhere near. I attended a wealthy businessman's funeral last year and that was less than 150,000 baht. The last funeral I was at cost 30,000 baht and we attendees funded the majority of that. Heading north of 200,000 is wild, anywhere near 400,000 baht is absurd. Totally absurd.
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2 hours ago, rexpotter said:
Who cares. Dumb people who can't control themselves. If your parents don't take care and protect you, then you are on your own.
Ah, yes - people with good parents have never ever fallen into the drug trap.
Dunning-Kruger strikes again.
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5 hours ago, KhunLA said:Need to bring back the life & death sentences for distribution, dependent on amounts. Countries that stick to them, without the revolving door prisons seem to have less drug problems.
This has been tried in Thailand including the horrendous war on drugs in 2004 which resulted in thousands of summary street executions including many innocents. It was a convenient way for certain people to get rid of rivals ( including love rivals ).
Question for the people who think this can be controlled. How do you intend to police the 1800 mile long land border with Myanmar? How do you intend to stop poverty stricken and war torn Burmese from earning life changing money from one successful drug run?
I'll answer. You can't.
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Fundamentally, nothing can be done. I was at a Lahu New Year party a few years ago, two days later two of the guys at the party were shot dead by police as they were caught in the act of running yaba. I point out Lahu as I know Thais who have been arrested for the same crime and jailed without the risk of a gun to the head. In fact, one Thai I know is in for his second offence after receiving a pardon first time round.
Lesson 1 - if you ain't Thai and your caught involved in this trade you're risking instant death. You really don't want to encounter Thai border guards anywhere near the Myanmar border.
Lesson 2 - the level of stupidity and desperation involved to be caught running again not long after a pardon should show you the level of desperado involved.
I've watched Thai police kick the living daylights out of Thais suspected of being involved ( aka they were involved ). The kicking was a warning and I'm not going into detail except to say I wasn't the only person watching. It was authorised from on high.
Usage - I keep saying it on this forum and it's not sinking in with many members. The fastest road to the sex trade is to be a yaba user in the village. You will be excommunicated. Over the years I've seen several women hanging around bars who are severely rattling. I've seen bar owners melt down in a few short weeks as they get dragged into the late night sub culture. To be fair, I have seen people recover but once that drug is in your system relapse is easy.
You mention stricter punishment. In a country where the death penalty is still force for drug running, what stricter penalty do you suggest?
It's a sexual drug. Vulnerable ( aka often drunk ) women are either spiked or encouraged to try. They guys involved know what they are doing, they'd never dare try it on with the "protected" girls. It's fundamentally "low-life" city and rural youngsters at high risk. Although the net can reach upwards at times. One sometime PG I know got hooked, and was jailed three times for minor possession, then eventually put effective under house arrest with her parents. This decent looking but known wild-child type was reduced to turning tricks for 500 baht before her father in particular put the hammer down. By the way, she's now a single mother, father unknown.
In the sex trade, you know that old saying that nothing good happens after 2am? Some of the activities would make any slumdogs skin crawl and it's yaba at the heart of it. It cannot be controlled, it cannot be stopped, it will burn like wildfire until it's target market is wiped out. So let me finish with the saddest story I know. My female pals sister was jailed as her front door was kicked in by police who knew her bf was a dealer. She was clean when arrested, but jailed for dealing. A year later they both got out, her head was destroyed by the prison experience. She left prison, got back with the guy then started smashing yaba.
A chaotic year later, now with a weeks old baby ( gawd knows how much yaba flowed through that wee one's veins ) she drank battery acid in desperation at her addiction. She lived for a week in intensive care then died. Tne coward of a father fled to the monkhood, abandoning the baby who was then delivered to the elderly parents door. My pal had to take on an extra job to pay all the expenses. I don't know how the kid is doing now.
Yaba is the devil. You'll never be rid of it. Never. Drinking battery acid to escape it's grip? dear me - it's the devil indeed.
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Sickening to see the forum GLORY IN A WOMEN SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ILLNESS.
I've seen this before. The Thai authorities will interact with her and if need be she will be sectioned. I've witnessed two foreigners sectioned this year already. On both cases they were released after a few days with appropriate medication.
Almost all of us of a certain age have witnessed mental illness in our friends or family circle.
Some of you guys need to get a grip. Think before you post.
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10 hours ago, Classic Ray said:
Most Western countries use a tractor with a cutter attachment to control verges.
Surely the road authorities could use the same method if they truly wanted to deal with the problem?
Burning is cheaper short term but not long term.
First, they don't have the money. Second, it's not just verges, they burn around 20 metres back to stop the fireload from piling up year on year.
I don't think members of this forum really understand the staggering heat generated by a well-fueled wildfire. A walk through the debris shows the wildlife caught out by the rapid spread.
If forum members saw these fires in action they would support defensive burning. Due to terrain there is no realistic alternative.
Since realising this I have supported the idea of a one week burning blitz and get it over and done with. However, I maintain there is no excuse for open field burning. Treat the mountains and the fields as seperate entities.
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3 hours ago, Hanuman2547 said:
Younger working expat farangs have been dating and marrying university educated middle class Thai women since the 80's and probably before.
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Yes,, but numbers have vastly increased in the last decade plus.
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Many things can be true at the same time. No decent Thai man wants a woman with the scent of the sex trade.
Also, farangs are universally a laughing stock among Thai men, they can't believe who we wrestle with.
However, you made a different and more valid point. The arrival of the younger expatriate generation has increased competition for young Thai men. It's not unusual to see middle-class girls dating and marrying stable younger farangs. That is starting to annoy some younger Thai men as their general xenophobia mixes with sexual jealousy. All of these relationships that I am aware of are thriving. One friend has just given birth to her second baby, she lives near The Somme, France. I can't think of any relationships that have broken up but neither do I have a drone pursuing pals across the world.
So, no - Thai men are content to allow farangs wrestle with the sex trade "belle's"
And, yes - they don't like having their better ladies stolen away.
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44 minutes ago, SamSanuk said:Curious if anyone knows how much money the mushroom trade brings in. Millions of baht?
The only figure I am aware of is the average Mountain Family would gather 15-25,000 baht worth of Hot Thep each season. To put that in perspective, most of the families involved have a cash income of less than 36,000 baht per year otherwise. So you're looking at an income boost of around 50% of their cash income. That money has multifarious social impacts, arriving around Songkran is always welcome, but some families borrow on the strength of their Hot Thep crop. The idea of surrendering that cash is unimaginable.
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Just now, theblether said:
I'll not get into the usual sugarcane/commercial burning arguments - they have been done to death.
Burning is essential for safety reasons in the mountains. One thing people miss/don't know, don't understand is that municipalities end out teams to burn road verges etc. In the mountains, bad enough on main routes such as CM-Pai, the roads in the interior are tight, dangerous and often dreadful condition. One friend was killed as she was washed over a cliff edge in her SUV. With rapid foliage growth, many of these roads are reduced to effective single lane status. If the fire load is allowed to build the villagers would be cut off in the case of a wildfire or similar.
Helicopters, which I see overhead many days during the burning season, would struggle to rescue people due to the terrain. So routine defensive burning is essential and is practised by the villagers and authorities.
Well before the attack on Hot Thep, authorities need to get a grip on open field stubble burning, whatever the crop. They are the open goal awaiting action. The mountains can wait.
I forgot to mention, I know oil & gas engineers who are looking for solutions on a hobby basis. There are serious people of many nationalities keen to see an end to the burning, or at least to reduce the worst of vagaries.
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Are You Reading AI-created Fake News?
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I'm not mixing them up. I mentioned content spinning, I mentioned plagiarism, I mentioned unnatural AI text. They are separate issues.