Real Love?

[papaguido]

LL,

I would also like to add my congratulations to you and your wife. It's always good to read a positive post, especially when we have so much doom & gloom involving Thai/farang relationships on the forum.

Again congratulations and "Charlie Mike"...

[LoongLee]

Thanks PapaG,,,, and I hafta ask,,,, I'm stumped,, what does the phonetic "Charlie Mike" stand for? I don't recall that one,,,,,LL

[Dagnabbit]

I'll add my congrats to the list LoongLee. It is nice to hear someone say that and be happy about it. It means you succeeded. (whatever that means) I made it to 27 years with asian lady once. Ups and downs.... wow....

I wonder, since you and looks like several others have had long long marriages, If you guys might want to comment on what has changed over the past 30 years or so with Thai-farang relationships. I bet the invention of the internet changed things the most and really got the ball rolling. I would love to hear some anecdotes. Maybe this too , another thread.

So you must have been in Lincoln for a while, unless you were SAC. Did you live in Meadowlane or out at Airpark? Or did you break the mold and live in random part of town, as some did? What years were you in Lincoln?

73
X-ray Yankee

[LoongLee]

Thanks Dagnabbit,,,, 27 years is not bad,,, sometimes people just grow too far apart to recover. I think you're right about the internet being the biggest change. That and also the huge change in Thailand's standard of living, along with the baby boom; huge numbers of Thai youth with big expectations based on what they see on TV, videos, the "net" etc.

To answer your question,,, Which I think is a ref to my being stationed in Nebraska,, no we were at Offutt AFB in "Oh my God" (Omaha) for a very short time (3 months) until I could arrange an assignment back to Thailand.

By the way Dagnabbit, are you currently married to a Thai lady? If so, best of luck, and if not, get out there and find one....

[Dagnabbit]

No, I am not married to a Thai lady, but I am certainly attracted to them.

I am the guy dreaming of retirement and a laid back lifestyle with a nice Thai lady. Getting ready to start vacationing there and get some experience of actually being there.

I have been in several asian places via my work and have always been drawn to the ways there and the thinking of the culture ( especially if you subtract corruption from the equation).

I am not interested in trying to sort out a bar girl, but not opposed to visiting with one....

That said, I do not intend to be a sex tourist. That gets too far over the line for me.

Right now I am studying the language and culture. It is about all I can do at the moment

[LoongLee]

Dagnabbit wrote "Right now I am studying the language and culture."

That puts you way ahead of a lot of guys,,, keep it up and you'll do OK. LL

[papaguido]

Thanks PapaG,,,, and I hafta ask,,,, I'm stumped,, what does the phonetic "Charlie Mike" stand for? I don't recall that one,,,,,LL

"Charlie Mike" = continue the mission. Army speak I learned in Jump school, thought it was common soldiers lingo.

[LoongLee]

No wonder I was stumped,,,, as a retired AirForce puke who was taught relentlessly "never jump out of a perfectly good airplane", I never picked that one up,, thanks PapaG.

"Charlie Mike" indeed!

[papaguido]

#-o No wonder I was stumped,,,, as a retired AirForce puke who was taught relentlessly "never jump out of a perfectly good airplane", I never picked that one up,, thanks PapaG.

"Charlie Mike" indeed!

Well that's figures...Air Force, the country club of the Armed Forces

[aznyron]

some how I thought this post was about love but it drifted over to jumping out of air planes well I guess that could be a first love but I would not know about that since I never jumped from a plane now back to my love of life is my current & final wife well I don't know how to explain it in simple terms but yes I do get angry with my wife but I love her dearly & i would sacrifice every thing including my life for her I guess that real love would she do the same for me
I don't think so but I could be wrong I guess i will have to ask her carry on with your jumping out of planes I know it not for me at any age it takes a special breed of a man/lady to do that and I am not one of them have a nice day every body I know I will

[jackspratt]

Ron I think your analogy about jumping out of a plane in spot on.

To marry someone from another country, and live in that country, could be seen as akin to jumping out of an aircraft.

The big problem however, is that some jump without strapping on their parachute, and some others find halfway down that the 'chute has far too many strings attached, and fails to open properly.

Those who check their 'chute before taking off, and keep checking it during the course of the flight, generally end up having a soft landing - and have many more successful jumps after that

[papaguido]

Ron I think your analogy about jumping out of a plane in spot on.

To marry someone from another country, and live in that country, could be seen as akin to jumping out of an aircraft.

The big problem however, is that some jump without strapping on their parachute, and some others find halfway down that the 'chute has far too many strings attached, and fails to open properly.

Those who check their 'chute before taking off, and keep checking it during the course of the flight, generally end up having a soft landing - and have many more successful jumps after that

Right on Jack, wish I would have thought of that

[LoongLee]

PapaG wrote "Well that's figures...Air Force, the country club of the Armed Forces."

Ha! absolutely,,, and I don't regret one minute of that decision,,,,,

Aznyron and Jackspratt,,,,, Great analogy! and spot on appropriate,,,,,,

[arjay]

Aren't we getting a bit hung up on analogies here.

Why would I want to be jumping out of a perfectly good plane and risking life and limb in a parachute? If you've found real love or whatever it is you want, why jump out of the plane at all. Sorry I'd much prefer to stay in the perfectly good plane.

No one's mentioned the Navy one about the captain going down with his ship yet!!

[Fawn]

Oh, I disagree. Uncle Ronnie employed effective use of imagery in using his aeroplane (airplane, Yanks) as a metaphor for risky intercultural relationships. Very impressive.

I believe there's a current post on captains and ships raised by Wazza, although I understand old Pugwash did not go down on his ship (but the Cabin Boy may have).