Comments on: The Road is Wrong With Many a Lisp and Burn

By: John

John — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:41:04 +0000

Dutchie great post but the only trouble with this world we live in is the minority have the money and a even smaller percent have any common sense and the will to change things
unfortunately if your education is poor you have little chance of making a decent income that goes for any country
its easy to judge the girls but they are faced with much harder choices then i have had to face our likely will in my life
Catherine yes the girls are talented to a certain extent but i think this is compounded buy the gullibility of a large percentage of there clients and to give you a further prospective from a male point of view its easy to lose yourself having sex with a slim sweet smelling female when the female.s back home drink pints swear and stink because they are so fat and sweaty yuk give me a flat footed issan farm girl any day but don’t tell the wife

By: Hoo Don

Hoo Don — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:37:26 +0000

Catherine I am sure the girls do have immense guilt but in some strange way that I don’t know the meaning of their Buddhist upbringing somehow gives them the belief that what they are doing is for the better of their families. Not a good explanation but I think the answer is somewhere in that mix.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:41:54 +0000

‘What I meant by the added comment was that not everyone would or could do it because lying on your back and thinking of England, Thailand or wherever must take a certain amount of guts and desperation. The guts side of things would rule out many of them.’

I see what you mean. And yes, it would take guts. Guts, and (from what I’ve read) an astounding ability to be believable. With all the talented actresses out there, Thailand could have a highly successful Hollywood.

Desperation, for sure. Because after seeing photos and reading about the activities of some clients in the ‘hot spots’ in Thailand, I often wonder just what these girls think of when they are alone with their thoughts. Even in a ‘mai bpen rai’ culture, it can’t be pretty.
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By: Hoo Don

Hoo Don — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:17:59 +0000

Dutchie the girls have little chance of work let alone profession. The better paid jobs are off limits due to their poorer rural education and the lesser jobs are in short supply but I will agree that if they really chose that road a good proportion would eventually find work. A lot of the problem is that nowadays most villages have a foreigner or two staying there and the younger women see the wealth and security that comes with it and not all but a high percentage of these foreigners village wives have met their man whilst working the bars.

You are absolutely right that by stopping the counterfeit chain then precious money would be depived to thousands of people. Unfortunately some of the big players in the counterfeit game use the profits on drug supply and other unsavoury acts. A real no win situation.

Customs is a whole new ball game. In the UK customs are hot on drugs, booze, cigarettes, porn and excessive counterfeit items but a half dozen football shirts and 600 fags normally doesn’t bother them. I will add your cash cow issue to my list and give it some serious thought. Thanks.

By: Dutchie

Dutchie — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:03:38 +0000

The mass sex industry in Thailand has been going on for 4 decades. I think the newbies would hv wised up abt this fleeting world of make believe where the whole business is abt money changing hands for a good time, as far as the punters r concerned. It would be very naive for both parties to think otherwise.

I also wondered if a collective change of mindset might benefit the girls to choose another profession, even if it means working very hard for very little ? Self respect is a priceless virtue, I would hv thought.

On counterfeit items out of Asia, the dutch Customs r diligently checking the bags ! They raised the penalty to 180% of the original price n then cart the items for destruction. We often debate abt how our purchases r keeping the asian manufacturers n retailers in bread-n-water. If tourists were to stop buying them, a great part of their economy will surely collapsed ? Besides, it’s part of a holiday fun n the Customs r bent on spoiling it for us We hv stopped stocking up on pirated DVD music ,films n software (where it’s legal for the locals there). Brand clothings we could do without. Food we could not do without, hehe. So far the Customs hv allowed it even tho the bills were well over the S$ 600 limit ;-p The only nuisance is having to carry old bills for our digi cams as proof that we didnt purchase it overseas where a levy is due in NL ;-s

We r of the opinion that if the prices of branded goods were reasonable, we would gladly pay for them instead of this cat-n-mouse game with the Customs. Very much the same abt capital gains tax (which is on our minds recently due to UBS n the USA govt), isnt it ? Perhaps u could touch on this cash cow issue some other time ?