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  1. So, it is highly unlikely they will pay you enough (50k minimum salary), have enough registered capital, enough registered thai employees (paying social security, etc.) at a local Muay Thai gym. It is too much of a headache for them. If they don’t care it won’t get done.


    This is probably the only realistic option if you wanted to do it, which you probably won’t. You need to start your own company with 4 minimum salary thai employees. Then pay yourself through that company. That company could then contract to manage the remote bookings through a contract or whatever other work. This will require a significant amount of work, time, and up front costs but could lead to permanent residence.

  2. On 4/7/2023 at 8:02 PM, mrwebb8825 said:

    OP - It would depend on if the games were being held in a public area or private area.

    Like a couples bikini contest vs a wet t-shirt contest

    Couple synchronized twerking

    Blindfold the guys and rate the girls kissing

     

    If you're going to have a meal you could have a biggest live lobster hunt (as it seems money isn't an issue)

    Best boobs-under-glass selfie (use your imagination)

    Kiss-a-cop selfie

     

    Enjoy ????

     

    Share some videos after please

    Definitely private. Will rent a pool villa. Last time we came down we each brought 2 young female friends back for some fun in the pool. Good times were had by all.

  3. 20 hours ago, DJ54 said:

    OP What is the money pool value… enough to get interest / enough for the assistant to be excited to win…

    I'm guessing around 20 k, with the scavenger hunt being the biggest share of prize money split between 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. This is of course just a bonus above and beyond the usual payments for their time and companionship.

     

    What are your thoughts?

  4. As the title says I'm planning a scavenger hunt and some competitive games. A group of us will beheading to Pattaya. I'm gonna be facilitating the event. Each team member will find a girl of their choice on Friday night that will join them as their partner for Saturday's festivities. They will be pulling money together as a reward for each team if they win the event.

     

    1. Any interesting ideas for items that can only be picked up in a single or only a few locations, difficult to find?

     

    2. locations or activities that make sense for a selfie in lieu of something to get there?

     

    3. Easy competitive activities? We already have go karts, bowling, chicken (in a pool), billiards, darts, and lazer tag as ideas.

     

    TIA

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  5. Lol at the Russian tankies. Russia isn’t coming out well in this… logistics nightmare after nightmare. NATO sending mostly soon to be obsolete prepositioned stock that was exclusively meant to be used against Russia anyways. NATO gets to let Ukraine whittle down Russia capabilities. 
     

    Nato isn’t an artillery centered force and so not set up logistically to support Ukraine this way. Not a major issue for defense. Russian supply lines are a joke… train based and can’t use European rail lol… in Paris lol… no. They struggle past 30km from the border 55555
     

    Russia is just speeding up what was already a slowly approaching demographic crisis. 
     

    NATO won big here for cheap. It woke up the EU military industrial complex. Russia paid dearly for a small amount of land and no major strategic objectives. Ukraine has a chance to reclaim some land… but at what cost. 

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  6. Recently accepted a job in Lopburi. Have done a little looking online. I mostly just find low quality rooms for rent. Doesn't seem much of a market available for quality houses for rent. 

     

    It is just me, so don't need anything big. Would be great if it had a pool and/or western kitchen, but I think unlikely to find. I saw some 4-6k small places which are ok... but would love something much nicer. I think everything nice is just for sale.

     

    Any recommendations or know any good agents out there?  TIA

  7. Didn't sell because I didn't buy (Been long energy since covid crash). (Edit:Crypto) is propped up by leverage. How many lost everything to "exchanges?" You knew the top was near when bar girls start showing you how they trade crypto.

     

    Most coins/NFTs/exchanges have been shown to just be pump and dumps, and ponzi schemes. With so many leveraged to the tits, when the music stops....

     

    If you want to keep your BTC, should definitely have it in a cold wallet. "Not your keys, not your coins"

  8. The US $ is near decade highs still. Should be happy with current exchange rates. Much of it is due to the FED raising interest rates. You could keep your savings in US $. Hard to predict what will happen in the future. If you get an opportunity, save until the exchange rate is to your liking. Just keep in mind, markets are forward looking and any surprises in rate hikes (or easing) can drastically change things.

  9. On 11/9/2022 at 3:13 PM, mikebike said:

    Define "woke" for us all. So many peeps use it in different ways, it is difficult to comment without a mutually agreed upon definition.

    It's mostly word salad... but... based on Post Marxist Critical Theory https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2021.1876669

     

    "We define wokeness as critical consciousness to intersecting systems of oppression" (See Intersectionality. Kimberle Crenshaw, etc.) https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1135942.pdf

     

    It focuses on dismantling systems (revolution). They believe it is better to focus on destroying/changing the system than help those in need:

     

    "Critical action can be understood as a form of civic engagement, but maintains a narrower focus on challenging oppression and is less concerned with traditional political participation or general community well-being (e.g., community cleanup). Critical action aims to dismantle oppressive social systems, distinct from civic and political behaviors that support established social programs, volunteerism, and service (Westheimer & Kahne, 2004). Furthermore, critical action within the framework of critical consciousness emphasizes critical analysis of social structures, while civic engagement does not necessarily consider analyzing systems of oppression (Shaw, Brady, McGrath, Brennan, & Dolan, 2014). For example, rather than involving volunteering at a soup kitchen, critical action would entail collective mobilization to change housing policies that lead to homelessness, or advocating, protesting, or demonstrating for social justice for marginalized communities, such as LGBTQ people or women (Diemer et al., 2020). This focused conception of critical action as combatting systems of oppression is consistent with the root of critical consciousness theory: the liberation of all people (Freire, 1970)." https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/166387/cdep12393_am.pdf?sequence=2

     

    The idea is to have a revolution in order to destroy/change the current systems (Praxis). 

     

    "This is consistent with Freirian pedagogy, in that social action should naturally loop back to analysis and dialogue such that reflection and social action merge to form praxis, the foundation for revolution." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5892452/

     

    In Freire's Critical Pedagogy of which Critical Consciousness is derived: "Freire treats consciousness in much the same manner as Hegel and Marx". 

     https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307623266_The_Critical_Epistemology_of_Paulo_Freire

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298704499_Critical_pedagogy_and_marx_vygotsky_and_freire_Phenomenal_forms_and_educational_action_research

     

     

  10. 11 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

    Not wanting to "insert myself" into the discussion, but I don't think there would be any mitigating circumstances when it comes to child abuse, no matter where the offence is committed.

    There are mitigating/aggravating circumstances for most every law. E.g. if a law has a penalty between 3-10 years how does the judge decide how many years to give? As I posted things like previous arrest record, mental capacity, addiction, and intent all can be mitigating or aggravating factors. You wouldn't give the same sentence to a mentally handicapped 20 year old first offender that didn't know or understand as you would to a 50 year old multiple time offender that methodically grooms and searches for victims. The judge uses mitigating and aggravating factors to determine the sentence. If they didn't, how would they decide? Random? A mitigating circumstance doesn't mean you aren't guilty. Even if there is a mitigating circumstance they are measured against the aggravating factors so doesn't guarantee a lower sentence. 

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  11. 1 hour ago, mikeymike100 said:

    I am not saying or claiming that underage prostitution is OK and the Thai Penal Code will also not say that obviously. That is certainly NOT the point i am making.

    What I am saying, for the sake of argument,  is if it could be proven, in court, that the two guys were led to believe that the girls were of legal age and ID's were shown to corroborate that, then this evidence would be mitigating circumstances in the eye of the court?

    You are saying "Completely Irrelevant" I am disagreeing with you, I am saying it would be relevant.

    Surely in any criminal case there are aggravating and or mitigating circumstances that the court would need to consider?

    You are the one dancing around claiming "the law" doesn't say that?

     

    There isn't really a reason to engage him. I looked at his previous posts and he is a troll. For example with a guy trying to learn how to make friends with Thai men:

     

    "It’s impossible for farang men to make friends with Thai men. You gotta keep in mind that farang men are frustrated losers; overweight, bald, and fast aging moaners and complainers who have a superiority issue and are into dark farm girls."

     

    He posts nothing substantive and helpful on topics and just uses inflammatory posts to instigate. He does not act in good-faith. You could literally show him Thai male friends or copy and paste the law as I have.... and he'd be the same as he posts now. I'm not sure which is worse, he is a troll or actually believes what he says. 

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  12. 7 minutes ago, cocoonclub said:

    Again, read the topic before posting off-topic. Or don’t insert yourself into a discussion if you’re unable to understand what the topic is. 

    Are you saying you weren't arguing mitigating factors as they relate to crime in Thailand? You're not arguing that intent isn't a mitigating factor lol?  lol, you are obviously trolling. The Thai law you wanted to see is off-topic.... lol You can't make this up... 

     

    I get it... the law posts are too difficult for you to understand. It can be complicated with all the terminology. Especially where they intersect. I get it, it is much easier to just use argument by pigheadedness. 

  13. 53 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

    I am not saying or claiming that underage prostitution is OK and the Thai Penal Code will also not say that obviously. That is certainly NOT the point i am making.

    What I am saying, for the sake of argument,  is if it could be proven, in court, that the two guys were led to believe that the girls were of legal age and ID's were shown to corroborate that, then this evidence would be mitigating circumstances in the eye of the court?

    You are saying "Completely Irrelevant" I am disagreeing with you, I am saying it would be relevant.

    Surely in any criminal case there are aggravating and or mitigating circumstances that the court would need to consider?

    You are the one dancing around claiming "the law" doesn't say that?

     

    Coccoon is using:

    1. "The invincible ignorance fallacy,[1] also known as argument by pigheadedness,[2] is a deductive fallacy of circularity where the person in question simply refuses to believe the argument, ignoring any evidence given. It is not so much a fallacious tactic in argument as it is a refusal to argue in the proper sense of the word. The method used in this fallacy is either to make assertions with no consideration of objections or to simply dismiss objections by calling them excuses, conjecture, etc. or saying that they are proof of nothing, all without actually demonstrating how the objection fit these terms. It is similar to the ad lapidem fallacy, in which the person rejects all the evidence and logic presented, without providing any evidence or logic that could lead to a different conclusion."

    2. Appeal to the stone, also known as argumentum ad lapidem, is a logical fallacy that dismisses an argument as untrue or absurd. The dismissal is made by stating or reiterating that the argument is absurd, without providing further argumentation. This theory is closely tied to proof by assertion due to the lack of evidence behind the statement and its attempt to persuade without providing any evidence.

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  14. @cocoonclub Let me help you with forum rules too. We are to make it accessible to the majority of posters by posting in English:

     

    Standards of Conduct

     

    1. Do not respond to insults with more insults. Instead use the report button to report inflammatory posts.

     

    2. Do not post off-topic responses in an attempt to hijack the thread.

     

    3. English is the only permitted language anywhere on ASEAN NOW, except within the Thai language forum, where using Thai is allowed. Short Thai translations of technical terms are permitted in specialty forums. While we make allowances for members who do not speak English as their first language, we expect everyone to make an effort to post in a manner that allows others to understand their posts. As an international forum we have members from many countries in the world, and English is not the first language of every poster.

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