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spidermike007

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  1. The thing about this guy is that he appears intelligent but I really don't think he is. What they don't seem to get is that taxing people to death is not a solution, so if you reduce luxury taxes people will start buying luxury goods, if you reduce wine taxes people will start buying fine wine. They keep talking about it but I don't see them doing it, it's basic common sense. 

     

    Thailand could have a very vibrant fine wine industry, the five star hotels could really benefit with major wine events, and the country could become a regional mecca (hub?) for wine afficionados. But they need to lower the tax to a reasonable rate (10 to 30% total, including local taxes and Vat) and then you've got an additional appeal for the wealthy tourists that they keep on talking about. 

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  2. 1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

    Being Jewish does not give your opinion any more weight on it though, when you consider the event recently where Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars acceptance speech and the controversy over his statement led to more than 450 Jewish creatives denounce his Oscars speech in open letter

     

    Well you are likely right, but Glazer's speech simply proved how little tolerance there is for open descent, when it comes to Israel, Israeli policy and breaking the ranks with other Jews. 

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  3. What can one even say? Perhaps this guy was absent when they were passing out genetic brain material at birth. What an idiot, what was he thinking, did he really think that he would get away with it? What was his plan? Perhaps the guy was so dense he just never even thought about it. Never pondered it, never considered the ramifications of his stupidity. Hopefully this guy will spend some time in the big house, I'm sure that the local Thai guys will have a lot of fun with him. 

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  4. Yes it's likely allergies, and and it's likely due to the horrific air quality that we've been experiencing for the last several months. I experienced something similar in Los Angeles many years ago, went to a very good doctor, he did a series of chest x-rays, blood panels, and many other tests all of which came back negative. I thought I was suffering from lung disease, as my symptoms were of a respiratory nature. He told me that I had simply developed an allergy to pollution, and that over the course of a lifetime we develop allergies.

     

    Millions of people throughout Thailand are having enormous problems due to the air quality, which the authorities seem to have absolutely no interest in doing anything about. One of the few things we can do to protect ourselves is to buy very high quality, very high-end air filters for use within the house. 

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  5. 10 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

    Are you saying it's OK in Thailand to steal intellectual property?

    Absolutely. I think it's okay to steal from corporations anywhere in the world, however in the west they pursue you for that kind of stuff. Here they don't thankfully. I steal movies, books, music, TV shows, software, and anything else that's available on the torrent sites, and it doesn't affect my conscience one iota. As a matter of fact I love stealing from corporations, it's a hobby of mine, any opportunity I get. 

     

    If you want to give these toxic corporations your money that's your business. 

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  6. 8 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

    Errr, what's the chance that a random Thai woman met by chance speaks English well enough to a/ even understand a western joke b/ has a western sense of humour?

    I've never encountered any Thai woman that had a western sense of humour, and I have never been amused by what has them rolling around laughing fit to bust.

    What I have encountered are Thai women that pretend to understand western humour as they can sense a big pay off comin'.

    I supposed it just depends on one's perspective, if you have a good sense of humor, if you're goofy, if your light-hearted and you have good banter, Thai women love that. Hopefully you're able to get a woman to laugh. If you can get a Thai woman to laugh and if you can get a Thai woman to think that you're funny, you're way ahead of the game. 

  7. 8 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

    I knew that many western women that were prepared to go out with a guy to get the freebies, but are not interested in giving him a home run. I imagine it would be similar in LOS.

     

    I even had a nurse friend that used to to go to pubs for an evening with her friends, the guys would flock around and they would get free drinks all night, then they would leave.

    She used to laugh about it, and she was actually a nice person. I hate to think what nasty women get up to.

    While I think that applies to a percentage of women even in Thailand, I do know a number of guys who get to the prize, and it happens more quickly than you would think. Of course it depends on how the guy looks, his age, his charm, his intelligence, his wit, his banter, his humor and things like. 

  8. 15 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

     

    I think, in general, that sums it up.

     

    Maybe we should ask: How many Thai women would choose a farang if Thai men with the same income were available for them?

    It seems most mixed relationships here are between relatively poor Thai girls and women and farangs who have a lot more money/income than those women.

     

    When I met my poor, small, cute and brown gf, I don't think any Thai men were interested in her. The Thai males I talked to (in general) all wanted white, tall and not so skinny girls. 

    Even now, when I ride in a taxi, and the driver ask me if I have a wife, I say yes, she is small and brown and they laugh. Like, why would any guy want a small brown girl?

     

    There are huge differences in our culture and almost anything else. We can overcome those hurdles, but a relationship with people with similar upbringing is just so much easier. 

    Brown and caramel is an absolutely gorgeous skin tone and pale skinned white is so unbelievably overrated. I once came up with the idea of opening a bar and calling it The Chocolate Bar and only hiring women who had dark skin. It would be so much fun to interview the pale skinned girls and tell them that they weren't qualified because their skin was too light. 

     

    Light-skinned people need to get over their feeling of superiority based on nothing but their skin tone. Black and brown are beautiful. 

  9. 15 hours ago, hotchilli said:

    About time, I just hope the senate don't put a spanner in the works.. so to speak

    This is true and we certainly know how toxic the incredibly corrupt Senate is, where their power comes from, and how half of them were installed by the most toxic institution in the nation. The Thai army. 

     

    Aren't their terms supposed to expire this year? 

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  10. Everything in life comes with the trade-off. Nothing in life is free, if you're going to invite tens of millions of tourists in your country you're going to have a few bad apples, you're going to have some idiots that don't behave properly. Same applies to expats, a small percentage are going to misbehave, so you treat them just like anybody else, you discipline them, you fine them, you arrest them, you jail them, whatever is appropriate.

     

    But you don't just complain that foreigners are misbehaving, it's just gets to the point where it's just boring, and very old after a while. Stop with the nonsense, deal with it like adults, do what adults do, which is to face problems and they deal with them. Children moan and groan and show outrage online. 

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