Chainsaw
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So Phuket is the end all of Bu??er all A. Well I never, I was first there 25+ year's ago and then yes it was GREAT. Lovely CLEAN beach's no problem's with the tuk tuk peep's go mile/km for a few pence then they would wait and bring you back. I was last there 9 year's ago no different from Pattaya. Well I tell a lie three time's the price for everything. You just enjoy. but maybe you should get out and about and see what the real Thailand has to offer. I have never heard one derogatory thing said about my Nakon nowhere how about you???Sorry but I took it for something that's not the norm. This is Thailand is it not, I live in the middle and apart from the odd rain shower it's been hot/sunny for the last 6 week's. Next time we have a crappy day maybe I'll put a post in. That's if I've got nothing better to do.
Oh dear......you don't live in Phuket, but, in mind-numbingly boring Nakorn Nowhere.
I feel your pain.
You obviously never got past Patong.
Ahem......"mind-numbingly boring Nakorn Nowhere". That's derogatory!
BTW this may come as a surprise to you but different parts of Thailand have different weather patterns - amazing Thailand eh?
I too feel your pain.
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I know exactly what you're saying GOM. It is a gorgeous Sunday.
I took the opportunity to visit a good friend of mine. We sat on his balcony looking down on the yachts in beautiful Chalong Bay while listening to some mellow music and downing a couple of grapongs.
Makes one glad to be alive and living on this paradise island.
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Got a new bigbike August 2009, my 4th in Thailand, the other ones where noisy. Superquiet stock exhaust. Very dangerous, had bikes and cars totally ignore me. Stubborn and kept it quiet for 3/4 year. Then replaced to exhaust providing more power and noise. Much safer ride, heard by other motorists, and some cars even yield.
What a load of utter tosh! So by your reckoning all the guys with nicely tuned, sweet sounding Harleys etc. should make them as noisy as possible for their own safety?
You can't ride safe without a roaring exhaust? Lots of other folks do!
All the rest above does not fit me - You sure?
In noisy Thailand, noisy exhaust is safety on a big bike.
If noisy bikes annoys you, simply move to a more quiet area. I live in the middle of Kata, but still totally quiet at night, except for a few neighbours on occasion
I live in a very quiet area, down a cul-de-sac soi. I am regularly woken up in the early hours by plonkers starting their bikes (and revving for a while) when they leave bars which are over a kilometer from my house!
In my local bar, all conversation has to stop when one of these plonkers goes past,
I love this bit "and some cars even yield" Says it all really :jerk:
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Make sure you have the necessary work permit!
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Big noisy bike = penis extension
Additional accessories:
bandana, dubious tattoos, various piercings, leather waistcoat (optional), terrified bargirl passenger, obligatory tough guy scowl.
Impression the rider thinks people have: " WOW!, look at that big tough biker on his big, noisy, shiny bike. I really envy him".
Actual impression people have: "What a plonker"
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you think a single member of the entire cast of Hangover II had a work permit?
yes, i do. as does every major performer who performs in thailand.
But what about the farang 'extras'? Do they all get work permits?
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A lot of <deleted> written here by posters.
If a Thai musician, or sportsperson, comes to UK or USA to do their thing, they need a performers or sporting visa. No difference here.
I knock Thailand a lot, but I don't see why people who can strum a guitar, or play the piano, should get off with financing their stay here by earning a few baht without the proper permissions and permits.
You're right about <deleted>, and it's mainly from you!!
So you're saying that if a musician (of any nationality) walked into a pub in the UK and decided to get up and jam with whoever was playing, they would 1st have to apply for a 'performing visa'? - Utter <deleted>!
Financing their stay by playing music? In Thailand? Get real!
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Hi Desidude
Many excellent restaurants down here in Rawai.
Le Celtique (French cuisine)
Norbus Steak House
Nikita's (great seafront location)
...and many more.
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PAD & Dems; I've got one word for you when you both start whinging about red shirts on the party list: KASIT PIROMYA!!!!
That's two words!
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I suggest you try SGM Video productions on Sai Yuan Rd. Rawai.
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Uh, move away from Patong...
I agree, Patong is the wrong place to be looking for quiet areas, unless you head up into the hills.
Try Rawai.
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I'm looking for 2 books in particular:
'Hanta Yo' by Ruth Bebe Hill
'The Education of Little Tree' by Forrest Carter
If anyone comes across these titles while browsing the book stores, please let me know.
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An expatriate (in abbreviated form, expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing or legal residence.
Farang is the generic Thai word for a foreigner of European ancestry.
These are the actual definitions of these two words, therefore the OP, by definition, is an expat farang. Which makes his 'not so humble' opinion both arrogant and irrelevant.
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An expatriate (in abbreviated form, expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing or legal residence.
Farang is the generic Thai word for a foreigner of European ancestry.
Simple really when you can Google.
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Harlan Coben
Jeff Abbott
Michael Connolly
Tami Hoag
John Lescroat
David Baldacci
Stephen Leather
John Grisham
Lee Child
Just finished reading Keith Richard's bio LIFE - excellent!
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Am I the only one who is really not interested in the whole thing?
De javu perhaps or was it only yesterday that a fuss was being made about one Diana and a proper Charlie, the one who loved the camelion but accepted the advice to keep quiet about his true love for the sake of siring kids for the nation. Job done return to Camelion and talking to trees about carbuncles.
So, having never loved her, we have a state wedding, a bit like this one due today, where Briton's finest morons camp on pavements or glue themselves to TVs or hold stret parties with neighbours they've spent the last two decades fighting over leylandi with and will again come Saturday. Pockets emptied by buying plates with the happy couple on them. Plates that will later rather than sooner see a ham sandwich and a car boot. Muge too. There are a lot of mugs right now.
Kate believes she is destined for this Royal tunnel of love, whereas Diana was just destined for a tunnel. But then I don't expect the morons who worshipped her ever wanted to see that she was little other than a highly manipulative bitch who used the Press to attack the dysfunctional family she was married into. Let's just consider the in laws for a mo then: many of the good ones have died off. Princess Margaret who apparently had a ponchon for shagging any bit of rough she could find, and that included ex-criminals. Good old Philip who would consider all Thais just part of the slanty eyed Chinks he describes the Chinese as. Edward the frightened, no right to wear a uniform, gay embarrassment. Andrew the divorced work shy bumbler. His better half who at least did it for the money [ ask any paying US TV station.] Ann who at least is thankfully like her mother and so does her bit, shuts up and goes home. Harry and Wills who despite trying to be themselves have been sucked into and at least one is to be spat out of the Royal machine and confined to a life time of waving from cars. It's what his right hand is for. Kate's too from today.
Interested? Well it's certainly not interesting unless you've been lobotomised, like reading Jeffrey Archer, voted Tory and believe the Thatcher years were the good old days, coming from Watford you supported Man U claiming to be a life long fan who moved South as a lad when your dad up sticks from his Strafford window cleaning round, changed for Chelsea under Vialli and now claim to be an ardent Man City fan as they are in the Cup Final next month but are considering a quick reversal since the 2-0 against Shalke and Fergie forcing another Euro victory; have a Thai wife who is 'not like that' and you describe her as 'a good one' and explain you met at a fauna and flora demonstration you happened to visit in Chiang Mai and she was also on the coach, you just got talking etc.; and not having met her anywhere near the Mai lu See bar on Soi LK metro after she'd finsihed her pole stint [ the Pole in question being a cocaine selling 27 year old ex-pat ex-con who flogged real estate fronting a Russian mafia money laundering go-go bar scam, where you paid the bar fine but couldn't remember much else about the night other than your clothes were missing and she'd taken everything to laundry but not your wallet to the cleaners, it was love then; spend your days moping around Malls as she does the shopping, drinking coffee which she tops up with coffee mate that she sniffs up her nose, need to lose at least two stone, have bad breath and are basically amoral and cowardly, desiring only to conform, be liked and fit in. So far you've avoided selling your mother's house to pay for the life style but are making enquiries as her birthday is coming up.
Hence, no BBC TV for at least 48 hours and even then only turn on for the football.
I'd rather eat som tam poo parah and spend the night vomiting than be force fed mindless banal commentary describing flags, horses, crowds, the dress and cheering. It is a meaningless nothingness that satisfies the hungry and need only of the hungry and needy. Do I know who Jordan is? No. Do I care about who is seeing Rhiana? No. Do I need to know 25 cars that stars drive? No. Do I follow the East Enders star who wants to be in Corrie [ what is a Corrie] ? No. I have heard of the North star but couldn't point it out.
In short, if your life is so empty it needs filling with celebrity pap, mindless dross, sugar coated fawning, adoration and psychofantic action - then try twisting the top off a large bottle of valium along with that of scotch, taking a razor to a vein or a step off the balcony ala Pattaya style . Better to end it then.
To borrow a line .................................. I'd rather stick pins in my eyes. Rusty ones with barbs.
Get the picture?
Succinctly put mate. You are not the only one who finds the whole thing totally boring.
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Katabeachbum -
I think it is sweet that you are Ricks Knight in Shining Armor. Always there to protect and defend him.
But, When did I ever mention Rick as selling tickets?
Why dont you ask your organizer over at the Kata Beach Resort about the sale of tickets.
Milanman, why don't you provide the evidence for the purchase of these tickets, as Rick asked? Vague references about 'someone you know who bought a ticket' just confuses the issue.
Clarification about your original post is needed here.
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David Callen played by Edward Woodward
Link ---> http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A4609749
Thanks for the info.
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squirrels...
Would also like to know what their name in English is...
rodents
As a youngster in Sussex my father called them
"Tree Rats"
As a schoolboy The Min. Of Ag. used to hand out 1 shilling for a tail, so
I went out at dawn several times a week to boost my pocket money. Had to be sure of a kill as a cartridge cost 6p.
Then, they were regarded as vermin, and had more or less wiped out the Red Squirrel population. Where can you see a Red today?
There are still some red squirrels in the Lake District but the greys are gradually taking over. Quite sad really.
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Proliferation Of Incredibly Noisy Motorbikes In Phuket
in Phuket
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The noise from the noisiest pickup truck doesn't come anywhere near the racket that you decibel junkies make. The noise from trucks, though slightly irritating doesn't cause any conversations to be put on hold until some macho plonker with his BIG pipes goes past.
Now I suggest that YOU get a life other than desperately trying to get yourself noticed by being noisy (that's really sad).
It may come as a shock to you, but the people that watch you ride by, wrapped in your noise cocoon, are not looking at you with admiration but with contempt.
As I said before, I have no problem with hearing the sweet sounds from a properly tuned and cared-for big bike. I admire the bikers that can manage to ride their bikes safely without having to resort to extremes. I have quite a few biker friends in this category.
It's just a sad few who can't seem to manage it and to try to justify the noise by saying it's a safety feature - what a load of BS! :jerk: