TheLaughingMan

Lammbock, what absolutely disgraceful actions from yourself.

You should know full well that there was a plug in the road. It is a road after all, where else would you expect to find a plug. If you had been more careful and been looking out for plugs in the road then this would never have happened. You should always creep along incredibly slowly in case you should encounter a plug in t.he road and where possible you should stop, get out and completely check the road ahead for plugs

Imagine the stress that you must have caused that nice lady. She was absolutely right to leave her plug in the road, who on earth would expect a car to actually come along and run it over. What were you even doing in the road in the first place? You should know by now that everybody drives on the pathway. I think it's only fair that you were charged such a massive mark-up for a new plug.

And what if it was not for that nice, responsible drunk policeman? That lady would have had to replace the plug herself with another that is just as cheap as the broken one and maybe even consider putting the new plug somewhere that some horrible farang is unlikely to destroy by actually driving on the road.

Awful behaviour, I suspect that you are also the type of character that is so inconsiderate that you blind people by actually turn your car lights on just so that people can see you at night.

They are threatening to wreak havoc again, are they? To those who deny it, don't such threats alone, even as threats, qualify as terrorism? They seek to repress normal society and instill fear in the masses, not to mention tourism.

The hotel has a right, as any private company, to set their own policies.

Don't like them? Don't support them.

A company is always a for profit venture, so they only instigate policies like this if it makes sense in their wallet.

Ask yourself why that is.



(They should however have refunded them for their pre-paid booking.)

I fail to see how this is a problem.

Many bars do not let them in either, because we don't want to drink with them.

I said to a bargirl once, 'Why do you keep the blacks out?' and she said 'Because if Farang see African man, he not come in'.
I said 'Yep, you're right'.

All they do is try and sell me cocaine, and try to 'look after me' on Sukhumvit. It gets quite tiring.

Xonax, on 2010-09-28 12:04:32, said:

please don't talk bad about the red's as they are part of the REAL elected Thai gov. thank you

If George or another HIGH LEVEL administrator can get in contact with this man.  I wil pay his son's school and uniform fee's for next term.  George please IM me.

SamritT, on 2010-09-24 11:01:53, said:

a bit harsh! what if the shoe was on the other foot and YOU misunderstood?! same ruthless treatment applies?!

She has a green card, so what. I have a "beyond" platinum card. Green card cannot make payment nor withdraw cash. Who cares about green card outside USA. If I am the immigration office, I would politely tell the girl to put the green card away, as I won't be interested; and stop threatening me. Have green card does not make her my mother. I am only interested in her Nap passport, her real intention to visit Thailand, if she has the mean to support herself, any hidden agenda, is she likely to take up illegal employment, and will she be leaving Thailand after her intended stay, etc. . . . As the article is only a one sided story, I will take it with a bucket of salt. . . .     http://thaicatwalk.c...eyond-platinum/

If a Thai lady was refuse entry at a US port even though she have a US visa, will that make news? NO. This Nap girl has no visa, so she should shut up, and go back the way she arrives. Even if she has a visa, it is up to the immigration officer at the port of entry to decide. I am sorry if she does not know that. The airlines is there to do a quick screening, however the responsibility is with the passengers. Airlines do get a fine when their passengers get rejected. Further more departing immigration does NOT care which countries you are intending to go, as it is not their job.  If such thing can makes news, everyday tens (if not hundreds) of us (Thai women) are turn away from entries in various countries, with or without visa. Reason can varies if we are suspected of trying to gain illegal employment, or some because we are too sexy or dress like Paris Hilton. . . . . . There is discussion going on somewhere in ThaiVisa about such thing.

BB1950, on 2010-09-17 18:44:48, said:

Elitists and farang hi-so wannabees are the ones that need to be worried

newsite12, on 2010-09-16 12:33:26, said:

Well there certainly is now...and no wonder!!

How could you abandon your own children!

It's unbelievably how you are trying to blame your ex!

You have chosen cheap love/sex over the welfare of your own children, how could you?
Making merit to your own house won't help you, the Gods hate people like you.
"Ye reep what ye shall sow" I hope you end up in the gutter where you belong  

I don't understand how you could abandon your children in the UK just so you could come to Thailand and try to nail a Korat girl.

Go home and take care of the family you have already created. Save your money and come to Thailand as sex tourist like all the other sods.

slapout, on 2010-09-13 16:17:52, said:

Yeah...that economy along the Thai-Cambodian border is just booming isn't it!

Every time I do a visa run I see new 5-star resorts and industrial estates just begging for more workers...I guess all those people wandering about dressed in tattered rags, with bony hands extended at me when I pass by, are only in my imagination.

If these charities really want to help improve the lot of poor people, let them promote free-market economic policies that will increase investment and therefore economic output in them. This will in turn increase demand for labour and hence increase wages and slowly lift people out of poverty. Saving a few girls from the sex-industry, while good for raising money in the West to fund the salaries of the NGO employees, does little to solve the underlying issues that give rise to the problem in the first place.

Big-whoop...now they can find them work de-feathering birds at a chicken processing plant or or gutting fish at a tuna cannery for starvation wages.

A very interesting topic, thank you.
I'm not living in Thailand so my comment will be about the last relationship I had here in England, and relationships in general, but I will throw in my thoughts so far about the long-distance relationship in Thailand as well, as far as it relates to the topic.


As with all relationships there is change in your life when you commit to another person, I'm not sure that this can be regarded as 'giving up privileges' exactly but the lifestyles of both partners will change. If you see it as giving up something then you may well come to resent that later on.

This would be the same, if not more so, if you believed you had somehow sacrificed liberty or location to reside in a different country in order to be with someone.

My ex once said, whilst commenting on the breakdown of her relationship with her most recent b/f, that I had never criticised her, found fault with her, argued with her because I just wanted to be more 'right' than she was, in the whole six years we were together. She said that she never appreciated that until it was too late, she also asked me "how come?" I said, "because I loved you, that's how come".
To me, none of these things she mentioned were difficult for me, it wasn't like I was biting my tongue or walking on eggshells or anything, I just genuinely didn't find anything she did worthy of criticism. Finding fault with people is an unpleasant and wasteful thing to do, and 'winning' arguments is boring.
So it wasn't a sacrifice. I could do what I wanted when I wanted, all that was required, not by her but by my own sense of courtesy, was that I tell her if I was coming home straight from work or going out drinking. Quite often when i said I was going out she would quite happily inform me that she was already doing the same!

So, the gist of my comment is, I think, that in any relationship in any location, if you think you have made sacrifices, if you actually regard it in those terms, you may well soon feel that you have been, somehow, short-changed. Because you have already put a value on what you have 'sacrificed' you will then have to put a value on what you perceive to have 'been given' in return.

Whether the two values add up will depend on how you're feeling at the time, if you're not getting on very well with your partner you may begin to 'de-value' what you currently have and nostalgically ramp up what you had before causing a feeling of resentment toward your partner as if hey are somehow partly 'to blame' for your predicament. This is true wherever you are, in your home country it may be your 'freedom' that you begin to value higher. In another country it may be 'home comforts' you decide have been sacrificed. Or conversations in your mother tongue, or anything that you miss. You can miss things without it being anything to do with how your partner values those things.

It may be very difficult to do something about it if what you realise you miss is going to the football with your mates if you're 9,000 miles away! For me it wasn't so hard, I can walk to the stadium from my house!

I think it is important to realise the very personal nature of this value system and the fact that other people may be completely unaware of it, which doesn't mean they somehow disregard it or dismiss it, it just means they haven't gone through the same 'putting a value on things' as you have.

Having said that, my current g/f has often mentioned how she's thought about how we both grew up so far apart, in different countries with different language and cultures but yet we are 'together'. I did once point out to her that I wouldn't have travelled so far to come to stay with her if I wasn't serious about her but I didn't mention it in terms of sacrifice in any way. As far as the feeling of having given things up goes, who knows? Maybe in a few years time, when I've, hopefully, moved permanently to Thailand I will feel differently but I have to say that I doubt it.

I hope the fact that I'm not currently living in Thailand has not detracted from the topic. I'll be very interested in what others have to say.

Cheers,
Biff