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i think the wife and the tomboy have a full on relationship thats been going on for some years. the husband is just the meal ticket.
i spoke to a thai man the other day whos wife is living with a farang for 3 years he told me that when she has got enough money from him she will come back to him. same same for lesbien its not just about the money its all about the money.
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#5269841 Tomboy Gik
Posted
on 2012-05-03 11:31:00
#5226690 What To Wear In The Los To Avoid Looking Like A Reprobate?
Posted
on 2012-04-17 18:15:56
Depends on your goals. If you want to actually look "impressive" to the Thais, because you never know where you're come across a potential pickup or customer for your services:
- Downtown CBD - long dress trousers, light-weight wool is fine, shoes that take a polish. Dress shirt and tie, or for casual a polo shirt.
- Slumming it - neat jeans and polo, or maybe a T shirt, your call on sandals vs runners/sneakers
- Never shorts and sandals except at the beach.
If you don't give a stuff about the Thais - other than not being offensive, then wear anything you like except, when you visit a temple - they've long become used to us being sloppy, and most educated and farang-experienced Thais understand our appearance has little to do with actual status and wealth. But you won't get the same positive response from many compared to the above.
For pure comfort in hot weather
- go down to the wholesale cloth markets and buy a roll of 100% linen, either light khaki or ivory, the former being more practical.
- Have your tailor make up loose-fitting tab-collar shirts and jammie bottoms, some shorts for the beach. Wind blows through like open windows. Sandals of course, go commando for maximum effect.
And for all you guys wearing shorts and sandals with over-the-calf white socks!! My God, really??
- Downtown CBD - long dress trousers, light-weight wool is fine, shoes that take a polish. Dress shirt and tie, or for casual a polo shirt.
- Slumming it - neat jeans and polo, or maybe a T shirt, your call on sandals vs runners/sneakers
- Never shorts and sandals except at the beach.
If you don't give a stuff about the Thais - other than not being offensive, then wear anything you like except, when you visit a temple - they've long become used to us being sloppy, and most educated and farang-experienced Thais understand our appearance has little to do with actual status and wealth. But you won't get the same positive response from many compared to the above.
For pure comfort in hot weather
- go down to the wholesale cloth markets and buy a roll of 100% linen, either light khaki or ivory, the former being more practical.
- Have your tailor make up loose-fitting tab-collar shirts and jammie bottoms, some shorts for the beach. Wind blows through like open windows. Sandals of course, go commando for maximum effect.
And for all you guys wearing shorts and sandals with over-the-calf white socks!! My God, really??
#5226586 What To Wear In The Los To Avoid Looking Like A Reprobate?
Posted
on 2012-04-17 17:41:51
mjj, on 2012-04-17 16:53:56, said:
A question to those that wear jeans and shoes, dont you sweat like pigs and get your jeans sticking to your legs?
No, not really if you wear lighter, loose-fit denim.
I'll never understand those idiots who wear flip flops in bars & nightclubs then complain when some bird in stilettos impales their foot.
#5133449 British Man, Wife Murdered In Thai Resort
Posted
on 2012-03-14 13:18:09
RichardinBKK, on 2012-03-14 12:29:26, said:
it would have real value to know the name of the Resort. There is a thing called "voting with your money."
Thai Visa has a lot of readers, with a lot to offer in terms of local knowledge. Perhaps if we, as an Expat community exerted pressure on businesses we would see more of the results many writers here have pointed to as needing improvement. Many good comments followed the fires near Asoke, saying...if we start inspecting rooms, saying' No thank you, I will not stay in a room without sprinklers, locked fire exits...etc...business owner will simply follow the money, and realize..."I am losing business from a tight knit community that has cash to spend"
So, please...allow us the leverage to let the "invisible hand" of commerce exert some pressure on places who turn a blind eye to security, fire protection, safe wiring...etc...by letting us know what resort has what looks like "Zero security" in place. This was not a quite or subdued incident...and if it did not have generate a security response...we need to know that.
I do feel Thai Visa has enough members that we can actually make a positive difference. Perhaps we should follow the face Book model, circulate electronic petitions...and send them to business owners so they can better reflect in their offering what we, as a community require to do business with them.
There is a saying that when life hands you a basket of lemons...make lemon-aid. This horrid incident is, for me a tipping point, since a retired couple, living their dream has suffered a fate not worthy of any human.
Perhaps we can honor their memory by using it as the impetus for action that begins to solve problems.
Thoughts by other members are most welcomed.
Thai Visa has a lot of readers, with a lot to offer in terms of local knowledge. Perhaps if we, as an Expat community exerted pressure on businesses we would see more of the results many writers here have pointed to as needing improvement. Many good comments followed the fires near Asoke, saying...if we start inspecting rooms, saying' No thank you, I will not stay in a room without sprinklers, locked fire exits...etc...business owner will simply follow the money, and realize..."I am losing business from a tight knit community that has cash to spend"
So, please...allow us the leverage to let the "invisible hand" of commerce exert some pressure on places who turn a blind eye to security, fire protection, safe wiring...etc...by letting us know what resort has what looks like "Zero security" in place. This was not a quite or subdued incident...and if it did not have generate a security response...we need to know that.
I do feel Thai Visa has enough members that we can actually make a positive difference. Perhaps we should follow the face Book model, circulate electronic petitions...and send them to business owners so they can better reflect in their offering what we, as a community require to do business with them.
There is a saying that when life hands you a basket of lemons...make lemon-aid. This horrid incident is, for me a tipping point, since a retired couple, living their dream has suffered a fate not worthy of any human.
Perhaps we can honor their memory by using it as the impetus for action that begins to solve problems.
Thoughts by other members are most welcomed.
There is no doubt that boycotts work in civilized societies having a rule of law in place. To be effective requires media attention that is part of the pressure, so an "invisibile hand" is impotent.
Thai business owners don't seem to care what customers think. When is the last time you heard a Thai business owner apologize or offer a refund? And Thai customers are want to complain because they've been conditioned to not cause others to be embarrassed or lose face, especially those above them (business owners) as defined by the Sakdina system of institutionalized inequality.
Start pointing out problems in Siam and risk defamation, slander, or libel law suits. Is it not true that you may not publish negative restaurant reviews in LOS without getting sued? Notice how they avoid mentioning the names of the building owners responsible in the recent fires? Notice how the resort name is conspicuously absent in this report?
Doubt if TV is willing to risk allowing its profitable enterprise to be compromised for any purpose regardless of how righteous and well-intended the purpose may be. You'd do the same thing if you were them.
#5133168 British Man, Wife Murdered In Thai Resort
Posted
on 2012-03-14 11:48:20
cowslip, on 2012-03-14 11:40:20, said:
THis is terribly sad.
but it isn't helped by those who start crying and moaning about "crime on the increase" "it's getting worse" - these are ridiculous conclusions to draw from this incident.
but it isn't helped by those who start crying and moaning about "crime on the increase" "it's getting worse" - these are ridiculous conclusions to draw from this incident.
I don't think it's crying and moaning it's stating the facts,perhaps if you reside in Thailand full time you are more akin to seeing this type of headline on a daily basis and are hardened to it,some like myself who split my time between here and the UK don't always follow the day to day news items when back working in the UK,all I can say from my recent personal experience of the last 3 months being present in Thailand is that I am now more aware of the daily Farang deaths,accidents,stabbings muggings,child abuse and general crime.
#5132814 Fire Did Not Damage Evidence Against Suphoth: Bangkok Police
Posted
on 2012-03-14 08:40:37
Ahhh...the old fire in the evidence room trick. Surprised to see that this was made public. probably happened hundreds of times before or at the very least, evidence "walked" with the proper greasing of the proper palm. This reminds us of the movie "Serpico", the true story of the NY City police whistle blower who exposed a few hundred corrupt cops in New York to termination, jail time, and fines. These same corrupt NY cops were also featured in the movie American Gangster, where scenes focused on the "removal of evidence."
Coincidentally, American Gangster also focused quite a few scenes on the escalation of the heroin trade in upper country Thailand and Bangkok. One could easily speculate that evidence disappearance in Thailand is quite rampant and rarely if ever examined by the press.
Coincidentally, American Gangster also focused quite a few scenes on the escalation of the heroin trade in upper country Thailand and Bangkok. One could easily speculate that evidence disappearance in Thailand is quite rampant and rarely if ever examined by the press.
#5123213 5-a-side Football / Futsal -sathorn/silom, Wanna Play?
Posted
on 2012-03-10 17:24:58
smokie36, on 2012-03-10 11:31:31, said:
MiG16, on 2012-03-10 10:36:12, said:
They play at the quietest pitch in town too Troy 
Post corrected.
hehe, nice to see some people with some good humor here
#5122182 5-a-side Football / Futsal -sathorn/silom, Wanna Play?
Posted
on 2012-03-10 09:34:04
I'll drop you a message on that facebook group then
#5122529 5-a-side Football / Futsal -sathorn/silom, Wanna Play?
Posted
on 2012-03-10 12:18:40
MiG16, on 2012-03-10 11:45:58, said:
Lol u are such a sour grape
U up for a game then migsy?
#5122536 5-a-side Football / Futsal -sathorn/silom, Wanna Play?
Posted
on 2012-03-10 12:23:55
Lol I make an ok keeper
But only did that once cos the rule said u need one woman on the team
I saved one goal
And my arms hurt for days after that!
But only did that once cos the rule said u need one woman on the team
I saved one goal
And my arms hurt for days after that!
#4993074 Photos Of Naked Female Casino Dealers Shock Thai Police
Posted
on 2012-01-20 17:39:47
I'm shocked! Shocked!
#4958987 Improving Thailand's Education Quality Faces Many Challenges, Academics Warn
Trentham, on 2012-01-06 11:47:44, said:
On the other hand, she will know they are not doing very well and many will fail. She will lose face so she will pass them even though they do not know their work.
This is the best reason for employing non Thai teachers. We don't have this problem of face. I set and marked exams and was truthful about it. However the thais still wanted recognition so doubtless there was a second list of exam results.
Also I was surprised that I didn't invigilate exams I had set. This has nothing to do with good practice its just that the invigilators bent the rules and helped the students in ways that I wouldn't.
Another poster said:
"If students cannot calculate, read or write fluently, how will they be able to develop their knowledge further when studying more complicated subjects? "
They cannot calculate, read or write because they dont want develop their knowledge. They need to be taught enthusiasm first...learning comes later ( isn't that the basis for the suzuki music teaching system?)
#4958968 Improving Thailand's Education Quality Faces Many Challenges, Academics Warn
Posted
on 2012-01-06 12:01:52
The Thai MISEducation system is a joke. I know a young Thai husband and wife, both from wealthy families, who were so proud of their Master's in English, despite the fact they were barely able to hold a simple conversation, and I often had to repleat things in a much easier way for them to comprehend. Both taught here in LOS for a while, then decided to head for the "Land of Milk & Honey" and teach in the U.S. A year later they were back, humbled and humiliated.
It turns out that they applied to 8-9 different school disctricts, and were flatly turned down by all but one, with the reason being their degrees weren't worth the paper they were printed on. The last school district agreed to give them a chance, but only IF they could pass a standard 12th grade English Literacy test. Both failed.
He ended up working the counter in an auto parts store and she got a job in a library till they could save the money to come home, too ashamed to ask their parents for it. The one good thing to come from this is that the wife said that working in the library gave her the opportunity to read, and that she was totally and completely shocked by the books on the history of Thailand, stating they were so totally different from what is taught in Thai schools, which she now realizes is mostly myth, and even flat out lies.
He went back to university and got another degree in IT Technology, and now has a good job in BKK. I'm not sure what she's doing, but it's definitely not teaching.
It turns out that they applied to 8-9 different school disctricts, and were flatly turned down by all but one, with the reason being their degrees weren't worth the paper they were printed on. The last school district agreed to give them a chance, but only IF they could pass a standard 12th grade English Literacy test. Both failed.
He ended up working the counter in an auto parts store and she got a job in a library till they could save the money to come home, too ashamed to ask their parents for it. The one good thing to come from this is that the wife said that working in the library gave her the opportunity to read, and that she was totally and completely shocked by the books on the history of Thailand, stating they were so totally different from what is taught in Thai schools, which she now realizes is mostly myth, and even flat out lies.
He went back to university and got another degree in IT Technology, and now has a good job in BKK. I'm not sure what she's doing, but it's definitely not teaching.
#4958934 Improving Thailand's Education Quality Faces Many Challenges, Academics Warn
Posted
on 2012-01-06 11:47:44
Why is it that only we non-Thai people are able to see and understand the problems with the Thai education system?
Students are not encouraged to read. They are not allowed to ask questions of their teachers. They have to learn things by rote. Corruption is rife throughout the system. They buy their degrees very often. Students who do not qualify for entry to uni bribe their way in or get in anyway because of who their family is.
A young friend is attending Bangkok University. He complains that the 35 students in one class cannot understand the lecturer, who is Thai, but teaching in English language. I told him to tell her- "No no," he said "We must respect her." - "Well explain it to uni administration."- "Oh no we I cannot. If she knows it was me she will fail me." Well go with a deputation from all the students. - "Impossible, they all have Thai culture. We cannot."
Now what will happen here is this. Some students knowing they will fail because they cannot understand the lesson will offer her a bribe to pass them. On the other hand, she will know they are not doing very well and many will fail. She will lose face so she will pass them even though they do not know their work.
And anyway most teachers cannot pass their own tests according to the polls.
Students are not encouraged to read. They are not allowed to ask questions of their teachers. They have to learn things by rote. Corruption is rife throughout the system. They buy their degrees very often. Students who do not qualify for entry to uni bribe their way in or get in anyway because of who their family is.
A young friend is attending Bangkok University. He complains that the 35 students in one class cannot understand the lecturer, who is Thai, but teaching in English language. I told him to tell her- "No no," he said "We must respect her." - "Well explain it to uni administration."- "Oh no we I cannot. If she knows it was me she will fail me." Well go with a deputation from all the students. - "Impossible, they all have Thai culture. We cannot."
Now what will happen here is this. Some students knowing they will fail because they cannot understand the lesson will offer her a bribe to pass them. On the other hand, she will know they are not doing very well and many will fail. She will lose face so she will pass them even though they do not know their work.
And anyway most teachers cannot pass their own tests according to the polls.
#4958939 Improving Thailand's Education Quality Faces Many Challenges, Academics Warn
Posted
on 2012-01-06 11:49:00
I suggest that the Thai Govt institute rigourous exams, not the drivel exams they currently provide for nearly all subjects. The next biggest problem is (dare I say) the Thai language. An inordinate amount odf student time is required toaquire fluency in written and spoken Thai. A fir t step would to do what Vietnam did in 1911 ... Romanize the Thai Alphabet, and simplify it to something like 30-40 letters. This allowed Vietnamese to be learned rapidly; thus allowing time for Math, Physics, Chemistry; however I am uncertain if this extended to History ... a definite lack of which causes me great distress. After living a few years in Thailand I find that i know far more Thai history, than anyone I've met, other than a PhD University professor. Thai's knowledge of their past 1000 years is nearly non existant.
