Sing_Sling

Sing_Sling, on 2012-04-08 19:13:39, said:

Couldn't teach anywhere else? Just my hypotheses!!

samsiam, on 2012-04-06 08:33:26, said:

The husbands licence should have been revoked 20 years ago...

Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity?  ~Steve Polyak

kawaiimomo, on 2012-04-05 20:15:12, said:

convicted by the coup makers

Kananga, on 2012-04-08 11:41:02, said:

The real scary part is that the guy is apparently a "teacher" and doesn't know irony from sarcasm.

I met a girl at a mates wedding whilst returning from Australia to Thailand for one month, to be his best man. (I'm English)
Fell in love virtually immediately! Saw the peaceful village life in rural Isaan and it suited me.Sold my business/house/guitars...in fact whole recording studio. Been here and married to the girl 10 years in July. My money goes a sh*t load further here than in the UK. Whilst I actually own nothing, wifey and meself have a large restaurant and 10 apartments that we rent out monthly and 10 more in construction. I'm 44 and do whatever the f*ck I want, when I want! Have a pick up, Honda Steed (springer.)(Also member of 2 motorcycle clubs. Koh Chang Brotherhood and Ubon New Species), a silly little Mio 'shopping bike' (as I call it).
I have a sense of humour and that's important here. I am firm on the reasoning that if you not likey here....F*CK OFF back to the pristine utopian country you left behind. I'm very comfortable here and like it. Wife, Weather, people 'I' chose to assocciate with, food and cheap holidays on beautiful beaches  2 or 3 times a year.
That is why I came to live here.

Ijustwannateach, on 2012-04-07 17:46:34, said:

And this from a Mod ,Good on ya, nice narrow view on life you have

It has been noted that the freedoms enjoyed here will be eroded as they have back in the West - and judging by the anti-smoking paranoia, that may well be correct - but since I don't HAVE fifty years (unless I make it to 110!) I don't care. 20 years of tolerable living will do.

The reasons I moved here 10 years ago, from England, are still valid: in England, it never stops drizzling - here, it buckets down for twenty minutes, then all is clean and sweet. In England, when it's 30F - here it's 30C. In England, the people are like the weather: cold, wet and miserable - while here, all is sunny.

Then there are the prices - okay, the baht is riding artificially high, while the pound is in the crapper - but it won't last (I hope). Even so, if you tried to rent a 3-bedroomed, split level bungalow, with a large L-shaped living room (all high-ceilinged) two full-size bathrooms, a patio (with sauna) a verandah and a large garden with three trees (plus assorted banana plants, etc.) for eighty quid - A MONTH...

As for health care - if you believe you would be better off back in Blighty, you obviously haven't been in one of their hospitals recently. I'd rather take my chances HERE - and if I peg out, at least I'll have left a country I LOVE.

Meanwhile, I have my Thai wife (Thai women make farang women look like MEN) plus my cat and two dogs - I love them and they love me. It all WORKS. Sure Thailand has its issues: Thai bureaucracy is a CANCER, the Thais have no idea how to drive those comedy motorbikes and as for the way they treat their pets... But I embrace the Thai way of life, their attitudes towards it - and their optimism.

The Thais distain for Health & Safety infuriates many - but then, it's all relative. Despite H&S, people still die in accidents in the West - while here, people RECOGNISE the dangers of life, take more care and - apart from the idiot kids on those afore-mentioned comedy motorbikes - live at LEAST as safely as in the West.

Farangs think they are embracing Thai culture by visiting temples - baloney! To truly embrace this culture, they need to understand the PEOPLE. Most farangs bring their attitudes with them - then grow sour and cynical when the Thais don't live up to their expectations. Then they yell and bluster at officials and wonder why they end up in jail!

Better they do as I did - leave their attitudes at Heathrow and grow NEW ones, here. After a decade, while I realize I can never FULLY understand the Thais (I have only spent the last TEN of my SIXTY years In This Place here) I still feel closer to THEM than I do ex-pat Brits.

Okay, my ramblings should have pissed off most of the readers of this thread - and if some "moderator" doesn't DELETE the monograph, it should get a round of ABUSE. But then, I've said my piece - and if ONE reader understands, it's served its purpose. Bye!

TommoPhysicist, on 2012-04-06 18:20:32, said:

thats really what its all about. i am an under-40 web worker, not farmer, but Thailand allows me a much better marriage and life than my previous married life in the US.

in response to the old, crabby complainers here, i am not caught up by "trust" issues even tho i make several million a year. i am happy that our house, lands and all i have will go to my wife and kids when i fade away. who should it all go to? my family back home that i haven't seen in years? the US govt so they can wage more wars of aggression?

as far as health, i pay 25k baht a year for 1st class health insurance that allows me top level care in any private hospital in the country, including the local private hospital which is as nice as a 4-star hotel. this after not being able to afford (or willing to pay) several thousand dollars in health insurance a year in the US (*before* paying deductibles, non-covered hospital bills, medicine, transport, etc.)

Thailand is the perfect place for some, and for others its a hell with too much freedom and not enough regulation. i am not yet 40, but i will be happy if i am allowed to live out my days in LOS.

5 Bulgarians, 0 Germans.
1 Bulgarian could get a German Passport somehow

Democrat;

It's amazing, in this day and age, we can gun down 90 or more of the opposition and get away with it and at the same time, evict the elected PM for cooking on a Sunday TV show.

The language barrier will definitely keep people away from information.

George Soros (US capitalist from Hungary) once explained his huge investments in telecom Infrastructure
for eastern Europe with "Internet is the guarantee for freedom and democracy in my home country."

Without a common language much of the Internet information is not as accessible so of course a barrier is in the
interest of those exploiting. So we can add another argument for necessity of teaching the english language
in Thailand:  Ensure and enhance democracy!

Ijustwannateach, on 2012-04-08 04:47:04, said:

Thats not irony.

Isn´t that what you are doing now?

NanLaew, on 2012-04-05 05:18:21, said:

"WAR IS PEACE"
"FREEDOM IS SLAVERY"
"IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"

RECONCILIATION IS PROFITABLE for the winner.
Reconciliation is one side getting to cook the books and not the other.

Top Dog is better than all Other Dogs,  better to be Top Dog, or die trying.
And the most obvious one:

LIES ARE TRUTH
if repeated enough.