any other forums for Thai fiancee

[Mouserkm]

khonrai -

Bingo.. I am not bothered by Paul. He is an interesting person when he is not slamming women.

I do confront his prejudice towards Thai women and people in general.

Kirk

[ukjohn]

It is time for you to move on and to give us all a break. Please don't go down the same old road again like before.

Can I also ask other forum members, that instead of taking Paul's bait and writing an angry reply, can you please just report the post? So far only one person reported it and that person is a moderator! We cannot act if only one person complains.

With respect, I disagree,
I think it's a sad day when people can't express an opinion that others may not like.I don't really think it fair to try and encourage members to report a post by paul_au they don't like.

I don't agree with some things that Paul says but I respect his right to have a different opinion. You don't have to reply to his posts & you can ignore them.

[Nu]

Paul, what method did you use to learn to read Thai so well so quick? I am definitely intrigued. please share.

Betti, I went to investigate the aforementioned site. It is aptly billed as 'Friends without Borders'. It contains news from around the globe and forums devided into countries where Thai women can make friends in their own regions, sharing recipes adapted for local ingredients, places to shop etc. It is very useful in my opinion, for those who are new to the region and looking for a place to start their new life. I wish I had such a resource in my days.

To the OP, congratulations to your girlfriend, you are such a considerate and caring and thinking of the welfare of your love. Congratulations to you as well, Sir.

[Marie]

Betti, I went to investigate the aforementioned site. It is aptly billed as 'Friends without Borders'. It contains news from around the globe and forums devided into countries where Thai women can make friends in their own regions, sharing recipes adapted for local ingredients, places to shop etc. It is very useful in my opinion, for those who are new to the region and looking for a place to start their new life. I wish I had such a resource in my days.

To the OP, congratulations to your girlfriend, you are such a considerate and caring and thinking of the welfare of your love. Congratulations to you as well, Sir.

Thanks for sharing the above, Nu. It's amazing how others are quick to dish out opinions without bothering to check facts.

Interestingly, that's the heart of my signature, which you can find below. Aside from being the depth of ignorance I think that an opinion based on mere attitude is also irresponsible in some instances.

[Mouserkm]

Betti - thanks for checking it out. I am going to PASS the site to Rin. I was just to busy with work and you were fast on your feet.

Marie - I say what you said above.... I suffer stupidity unkindly....

Mouserkm

[Pailin]

Can I also ask other forum members, that instead of taking Paul's bait and writing an angry reply, can you please just report the post? So far only one person reported it and that person is a moderator! We cannot act if only one person complains.

I appreciate paul because you know where you stand with him. His idiocy is clear from his very first post In this way, he's not at all threatening or degrading because his opinion simply isn't valued.

There are so many more idiots here who mask their hatred of Thai women or Thai men in luscioius stereotypes and confused metaphors.

[Betti]

Betti - thanks for checking it out. I am going to PASS the site to Rin. I was just to busy with work and you were fast on your feet.

I think you meant Nu she checked out the forum for you. I cannot read Thai well enough to wade my way through a forum

I was simply making a sarcastic comment that wow Paul must have learnt Thai really well using some miracle method if he can understand in so much detail what Thai women are talking about in Thai in their Thai expat forums.

the thing with Paul is, regulars know what to make of his posts, but whenever he offers advice to new members who only see that he a senior member at this forum, I feel uncomfortable. in addition, he also posts information that is factually wrong (recent land purchase questions). some members / mods are spending lots of time mopping up his mess, like trying to follow a not yet housetrained puppy around your apartment and doing damage control.

[Marie]

I think you meant Nu she checked out the forum for you. I cannot read Thai well enough to wade my way through a forum


the thing with Paul is, regulars know what to make of his posts, but whenever he offers advice to new members who only see that he a senior member at this forum, I feel uncomfortable. in addition, he also posts information that is factually wrong (recent land purchase questions). some members / mods are spending lots of time mopping up his mess, like trying to follow a not yet housetrained puppy around your apartment and doing damage control.

This is what I find most annoying, just throwing advice left and right like he knows what he is talking about. When in fact his facts are erroneous, leaving the poor askers -who are not gifted with Pailin's wisdom -the impression that they're getting sensible advice from this forum.

[paul_au]

from the one bad experience that you had many years ago.

I would just like to clarify this false impression,
For people who have not been on this forum as long as me, I will summarize my view and not others, This supposed bad experience is about my former Thai girlfriend I had way back in 2002.
My supposed bad experience that every one considers I had, involved being dumped due to not financing her to the life style she wanted to be accustomed to and her bitter vindictiveness after I was dumped, the fact is I don't hate her, but she hates me to this day with a passion.
Like all relationship very few are perfect, there are both negatives and positives, the above part of the relationship I mentioned was the negative part that every one remembers, but I also had a lot of positive moments in that relationship and if I add up all the positive moments, they far out way the negative moments, so in fact over all the relationship was positive and I have no regrets having had that relationship, I'm not bitter, I went into the relationship with an open mind, with my eye's wide open, and she did not do anything I was not already prepared for, If I had my time over again using hind site and 20/20 vision, would I have done things differently, well I can say I would still have done the same, apart from taking her to MK restaurant on our last night instead of KFC as she wished. I just feel and obligation to others to protect there finances and my financial ideology date back long before I met my former Thai girlfriend, they go back to when I was a child and realized I could be conscripted into the Vietnam war, because of gender discrimination, so my I ideologies are based on being a human rights activist specializing in gender discrimination.
While I'm here I will list some positives that came from this relationship.
1) I was never ripped off.
2) I got to have the best holiday I had in a life time,
3) Meeting and living with the real people of Thailand and not just seeing the tourists area's
4) I'm still friends with her cousin to this day.
5) My former Thai girlfriend was a good host and tourer guide.
So over all I have no regrets, I hope this clears the myth so you can see the reality.

[paul_au]

he also posts information that is factually wrong (recent land purchase questions). some members / mods are spending lots of time mopping up his mess, like trying to follow a not yet housetrained puppy around your apartment and doing damage control.

Yes I apologize for the part of that post that had a factual error, it was not deliberate, but I would also like to mention that there are many others on this forum who make factual errors from time to time and how ever that error did bring value to the post as it opened up more debate and discussion to the areas I mentioned giving at the end very valued & accurate insight to the situation originally implied.