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In my 20 years here, I have yet to find anything at all 'unique' in the dim and dull making up 90% of the expat population here. The other 10% are of course quite interesting, delightful, and very few on the ground.My general impression of all this is that it's a bunch of cliched generalizations. Each expat comes to their new country with their baggage, and adjusts to the new reality in their unique personal way. There is no magic formula for success or failure, nor is their a universal definition of success or failure as an expat. In my view, staying a while and then running away is a success if that's what is the best for that person.
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I find this 'across the board' thinking incredibly irritating. I know of several Thai men who have married and taken on another man/men's children, one of whom married a Thai woman 10 years his senior with 4 children from a previous marriage. And I recently had a conversation with a Thai woman who was confused and upset by the fact that her farang 'boyfriend' (50+) finds it okay to bed hop 'because they are not married'. She told me that in Thai culture a man and a woman were 'exclusive' married or not. Yes, well. I did try to explain to her that with so many other Thai women out there looking for a farang they only had themselves to blame, but there we are.Although poorly worded this is quite good advice. Huge numbers of Thai men abandon their wife after the first baby is born. This is an issue that needs to be resolved by government through education.
Further Thai men do not want to marry a divorcee Thai lady unless she has significant wealth.
In many countries it will be a long time before their welfare systems can accommodate the misery of women in cultures like Thailand. Large numbers of Thai women are already married to European and American men. In those countries men of a certain age often do not have the resources to attract a European / American wife.
Speaking from the experience of a loving relationship with my Thai wife I recommend this social solution both to Thai women trapped by abandonment and poverty and to foreign men that have the means to support a Thai family.
This solution has the potential to resolve vexing social problems across the divide of East and West.
In fact this is already an important welfare bridge that functions well in Thailand and the west.
Pheu Thai MP Sunai Julphongsathorn’s words are perceptive of today's limitations and provide clarity to the present reality.
And I hope his prime Minister recognizes his wisdom.
I do agree that this upstanding member of their government should at least attempt to tackle the problems that motivate these women to prostitute themselves. I will not hold my breath.
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We HAVE more honest Thais like him. The Finance Minister (?) talking about 'white lies' (a lie is a lie folks) being okay? What's going on? Someone been slipping Truth Serum into their nam plaoWhat a dick. he should be telling them to get of their lazy <deleted> and get a job or two like the rest of the world.
You are a dick He is telling the truth you think it is love.
We need more honest Thais like him.
How could you that known that is the reason they marry Farangs.
Remember he is Thai
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An awful lot of roidheads do ...And still people want to visit Pattaya?
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Who is this fool Pravit Rojanaphruk? I'm presuming that whilst at Oxbridge quaffing something from his own wine cellar, he missed the lecture on propaganda. Idiot.
And how well I remember calling at a Thai friend's house to see her watching some guff which portrayed two whiter than white protagonists in some Thai soap on the Skyrail surrounded by brown skinned people (obviously 'green screened'). 'Oh look!' says I 'There're some Thai people in this!' to which my friend gave a sidelong sneer.
And yes, I am aware that some Thais have lighter skin than others. However, never seen a Caucasian couple as pallid as those two.
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And yet, no 'world class' public transport system ... sigh ...Phuket is undergoing a transition from a cheap tourist destination to a "world class" tourist attraction, (according to the Phuket Gazette). A transition like this means increase in rental prices, construction without end until there are high-rises and condos everywhere, poor people kicked out and sent packing to more remote areas, trendy little shops replacing cheap stores, more prostitution more drugs, more wonderful discos springing up....more wealthy people, more happy smiling Thai people smiling and smiling
ps the Tesco branch bottom of Sai Yuan is a bloody embarrassment.
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Wait until they get into their thirties.Most Thai girls i see are pretty slim
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I'm guessing you're not very big and a bit of a wimp. So. This is what you do. Get a hold of the film 'Trainspotting' and imitate the character 'Begby'. I assure you this works. Hope this helps.
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And which particular famille (if you're going to show off your limited knowledge of the French language, at least learn to spell it properly), are you referring too?Pretty ironic article as the PM is being controlled by the Master of corruption. Why even bring this up in the press? The whole country is continually being subjected to ridicule. What ever happened the the TAT Governor Juthamas Siriwan who received USD1.6M in payments over the Bangkok International Film Festival? Still at large - or maybe this one was not big enough to prosecute. Either way, reduction of Thailand's points status to say they are solving the problem is still way off a resolution and can 'never be' as long as 'La Famile' are still at the helm.
Either way, reduction of Thailand's points status to say they are solving the problem is still way off a resolution and can 'never be' as long as 'La Famile' are still at the helm.
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Oh don't be so bloody naive.Comparing figures over time is difficult with changing sources and maybe criteria leading to the figures. That might mean that only the last few years could be compared up to a point. The last few years show:
2007 - 8.03
2008 - 8.00
2009 - 7.63
2010 - 7.60
2011 - 7.55
2012 - 6.57
Note that PERC uses an higher value to indicate more perceived corruption whereas for CPI it's the other way round. It seems in 2011 PERC has said "A grade greater than 7.0 indicates that a "serious" corruption problem exists"
BTW PERC website www.asiarisk.com seems unreachable at the moment
EDIT: correct 2011/2012 figures
Well Done Yingluck and the team for increasing awareness in the public domain. Progress in reducing corruption and increasing the penalties can only enhance the reputation of Thailand
People making nasty erroneous comments based on news reports can only confirm the disappointing depth of analysis offered by the anti government Tvisa team
Lets not get carried away and start patting yingluck on the back for a job well done just yet. These numbers are still very poor. The fact we've jumped from 10th to 9th whilst an improvement is hardly outstanding.
Celebrating a jump from 10th to 9th is the STD equivalent of going to the doctors and being told your gonorrhea has cleared up but exposed an underlying syphilis condition. Having syphilis, just like being in 9th place is hardly a triumph.
Lets get carried away with positive comment for a change, after all we have already experienced the embarrassing inaccurate comments and apologies from those carried away by the urge to criticise
The rest of your post belongs in the health section.......remedial action can be applied as with corruption
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This 1206 'hotline' was 'set up' many months ago, not last month. (Lie number 1) And, just 342 complaints? Were they dealt with? Why yes! (Lie no 2).
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I learned pretty quickly that 12 noon was the Thai Holy hour and not to attempt to bank/shop/book a ticket etc at this time as everyone goes off to eat together, and all points in between, takeaways are brought in. Some of the banks have at last cottoned on and introduced 12 and 1pm lunch hours. However, the rest of them never seem to stop eating. You're right in that they never walk anywhere. And the farang get the 'lardarse' label! All the Thais do is bloody eat. And the more 'deep fried' the better.Thais have always loved to eat, come miday and everything grinds to a halt whilst the whole country pigs out. They don't eat because they are hungry they eat because the clock tells them to. They seem to have some superstitious fear if the clock strikes 12.30 p.m and they haven't eaten they will drop dead. It is not a simple low calorie salad sandwich they have, it is normally a high calorie meal, something fried or high in fats.
They won't walk 20 metres to restuarant or roadside vendor they will ride the motorbike. Between meals meals they have snacks of sticky rice with deep fried pork or deep fried banana or porkballs on a stick. Now we see places like McDonalds, Hungry Jacks and KFC springing up everywhere and doing great business. I have never seen anyone here in Thailand buy a salad at these places.
Myself personally I eat when I am hungry and I am of these people who are lucky enough to have a good metabolism and I can eat what ever I want without fear of wieght gain. (been 83 kgs (185cm) for the last 20 yrs) I do exercise a lot also and ensure that my 5 yr old spends a lot of time at play outside also.
I have a Thai friend currently diagnosed with the killer high cholesterol. When I saw him a couple of months after being diagnosed, he was trim and looking great. I saw him a week ago and the weight's piling back on, but he told me 'no problem' he'd just shelled out several thousand baht on some US herbal medicine, rather than reverting to his doctor's recommended low fat diet. It doesn't bode well and very worrying. He's a nice guy at the wrong age.
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And here we go again with the the Libertarian Thinkless Tank.DRUGS: The Scourge Of Society
All the ones that are so intrenched in the supply of drugs are the ones that are the Bile of this world.
No...prohibition is the scourge of society. Keeping the profits available for criminals to take is what ought to be criminal. People are so freaking lazy in their thinking.
Okay. Let's start with meth/ice/yabaa, flavour of the month if not this particular decade.
Show a potential user/customer a video/talk to those already lost to this devastating drug, as to how they will look in just a few short months time and ask them, as 'non previous experiencers would you like to go ahead and smoke/shoot up'? I believe most would decline, as to the rest? Natural selection. And the rest of us have to put up with them until they fall apart. We're not talking the occasional joint here.
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Sometimes the stupidity of some of posters on this forum leaves me speechless. How about, no, now I believe this might be a difficult concept for the ignorant 'hang 'em and flog 'em' brigade who, depressingly, proliferate this forum to understand, the 'authorities' go after the main suppliers? Or are they amongst the 'authorities' and therefore 'untouchable'? Seriously. Someone please name a major Thai drug dealer having been arrested/prosecuted ever?Maybe an idear to spike the drugs
going into the prison with arsnic...
Could stop the whole business
in on swoop.
better give it for free to addicted....that will take out the profit.
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Doesn't seem to have stemmed the tide at all. I was awoken at 6 this morning by some young Thai guy anxiously asking me for yabaa
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Odd. I believe this was recently posted by you on a currently running thread re 'unable to make a relationship here' [sic]?the fact that many men in long term relationships become too idle to engage in foreplay whereas a prostitute neither expects nor includes it in their service charge and so aging lothario need not bother. Rather akin to a blow up doll, but with a pulse.
I don't think you know much about the expectations of BGs in Thailand.
Quote: 'In fact I have never paid any woman (or man) for sex.'
Unless of course you are amongst the many here too big and too hansum to have to had to have paid for any of these 'BGs in Thailand'?
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Well then you really shouldn't have bothered with the 'gem'.May be there is a private master?
i really don't have time and money to go to bangkok.
All the Thais I know actually SIT with the gem cutter in Bangkok to ensure not more is taken off than needed for the finished product.
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Which may very well be the fault of the usage of syntax in this poorly written (even by PG standards) article.Re-read the head line. Director-General Damrong Phidet has transferred the chief out of Phuket. He is still here to continue doing what he's doing.
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Remind me. For how many years has gambling topped the 'crime stats' here now? Super Chu. Luv 'im
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And immediately after yet ANOTHER crackdown on corruption is announced.is this what happens to a person who takes his job seriously and cant be bribed.my personal opinion for what its worth is that he is doing a great job and should be left where he is in the best interests of the country and not big money.
You really couldn't make this silly little third world country up.
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I don't believe it's the sex per se. I'm a psychologist specialising in marriage dysfunction/counselling and, in my experience, have found these types of 'marital fatigue' lead to the frisson of a new 'romance' accompanied by the fact that many men in long term relationships become too idle to engage in foreplay whereas a prostitute neither expects nor includes it in their service charge and so aging lothario need not bother. Rather akin to a blow up doll, but with a pulse.The truth of the matter is
Many older guys still want and think about sex as an essential part of their lives.
Many older women no longer want, require or allow their elderly male husbands sex.
When the older guy encounters a situation where he can get what he has now been denied, he will take that option. It's nobodies fault that many older women deny their husbands sex, it's nobodies fault that many older men still want sex. I would suggest the marriage contract as it traditionally was and now we live longer, is no longer viable.
Maybe the contract should be altered to enforce the man's entitlement to sex with his partner.
Maybe the contract should be limited in length (maybe until menopause).
As it stands, in the west the man has no options and is always wrong, no matter what he does, and usually ends up living a life of quiet desperation, running off, or killing himself.
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TIGER PUB FIRE
Police still try to identify Phuket fire victims
The Nation
PHUKET: -- Police on Friday called on Phuket hotel and bungalow operations to provide information on any missing guests to help identify victims at the discotheque fire in Phuket.
Deutsche Presse Agentur quoted Phuket police chief Maj Gen Chainasit Wattanawalangkul as saying it was believed three of the dead were foreigners and one was Thai.
But he was waiting for autopsy to confirm the victims whose bodies were badly burnt.
A fire went off on the second floor of the popular Tiger Discotheque Bar on Pathong Beach at 4.40am and was brought undercontrol by 6 am.
Pathong Hospital spokeswoman Donraya Buklarak said,"We can’t identify the dead because the bodies were badly burned. We will have tosend them to Bangkok for an autopsy."
District police Colonel Jiraphat Fuchanaphan said, "We think the fire was caused by an explosion of an electricity transformer near the club."
Pathong and much of Phuket experienced frequent blackouts Friday morning because of heavy rains, putting a strain on the electricity system.
Eleven people were admitted to the hospital, of whom two were listed in critical condition, one French national identified as Benjamin Tallanotte, 30, and a Thai woman.
The nine others, including three French citizens, were allowed to leave hospital after receiving treatment for minor burns.
It was unclear why the nightclub was still operating after thelegal closing time of 1 am.
"We had stopped services at the club, but there were still peoplethere sitting around drinking," Tiger Disco Bar manager ThamrongsakBoonlak said.
He said the club would pay full compensation for all victims ofthe fire.
The Tiger Disco Bar is one of the biggest nightclubs on Phuket,which is located 700 kilometres south-west of Bangkok. It has a dancefloor on the second floor and several bars on the ground floor.
-- The Nation 2012-08-17
This 1am closing is stupid ridiculous in a place like central Patong and downtown bkk come to that. And no, there are many tourists unaware of the open untill we're partied out TOURIST areas, Patpong's an embarrassment, in more ways than one. Outlying neighbourhoods, yes, we were happy when the sodding catterwalling karaokes were forced to close at 2 am in the residential area of Chalong. But Patong?TIGER PUB FIRE
Police still try to identify Phuket fire victims
The Nation
PHUKET: -- Police on Friday called on Phuket hotel and bungalow operations to provide information on any missing guests to help identify victims at the discotheque fire in Phuket.
Deutsche Presse Agentur quoted Phuket police chief Maj Gen Chainasit Wattanawalangkul as saying it was believed three of the dead were foreigners and one was Thai.
But he was waiting for autopsy to confirm the victims whose bodies were badly burnt.
A fire went off on the second floor of the popular Tiger Discotheque Bar on Pathong Beach at 4.40am and was brought undercontrol by 6 am.
Pathong Hospital spokeswoman Donraya Buklarak said,"We can’t identify the dead because the bodies were badly burned. We will have tosend them to Bangkok for an autopsy."
District police Colonel Jiraphat Fuchanaphan said, "We think the fire was caused by an explosion of an electricity transformer near the club."
Pathong and much of Phuket experienced frequent blackouts Friday morning because of heavy rains, putting a strain on the electricity system.
Eleven people were admitted to the hospital, of whom two were listed in critical condition, one French national identified as Benjamin Tallanotte, 30, and a Thai woman.
The nine others, including three French citizens, were allowed to leave hospital after receiving treatment for minor burns.
It was unclear why the nightclub was still operating after thelegal closing time of 1 am.
"We had stopped services at the club, but there were still peoplethere sitting around drinking," Tiger Disco Bar manager ThamrongsakBoonlak said.
He said the club would pay full compensation for all victims ofthe fire.
The Tiger Disco Bar is one of the biggest nightclubs on Phuket,which is located 700 kilometres south-west of Bangkok. It has a dancefloor on the second floor and several bars on the ground floor.
-- The Nation 2012-08-17
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And your definition of 'civilised tourists' is ... ?Its now global UK Guardian site says " "It was probably due to the strong rainfall, which caused a transformer to explode. The fire then spread to the pub, causing significant damage," a police officer in Kratu district told Reuters by phone. Moreover the paper says " Lax safety standards are a problem." Indeed Thailand is negligent and do not give me rubbish about poverty etc., Thailand has plenty of money to spend on many things but needs to get its act together especially as Tourism is one of its major income sources. A country which allows crazy speeding mini-buses, babies on motor bikes, poor electrical standards - is not for civilised tourists.
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And THIS is why I like living on the constantly-slagged-off island of Phuket
There's so many of us farang here the locals just <deleted> and get on with their lives instead of having nothing better to do than sit in front of their tv's all day whinging about the farang.NB: I'm aware that some do, but they're aware we don't give a toss. Hell, live in the boonies? No way
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There's so many of us farang here the locals just <deleted> and get on with their lives instead of having nothing better to do than sit in front of their tv's all day whinging about the farang.
2 Years With Thai Man Now And Still Confused By Relations! Help!
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