Lumumba

I live in Bangkok - on the East side.

I use tap water for cooking & to make coffee. Perfectly fine.

I filter my drinking water & the water used to make ice.

I am quite sure it's safe - it just doesn't taste good.

I would love it if the 2 week millionaires would shut up.

Buy your water at 7-11 if it makes you feel good. For you - Chicken Little was right.

What's a 2 week millionaire?

People on package tour?

Or touristic individuals here for just two weeks?

What about people losing their cabinet posts because some members of their party not toeing party lines in the censure debate.

Normally the party you belong to helps fund your election and put in the hours and connections that is required to carry the constituency.

If you want to vote with your conscience next time run as an independent.

Party politics is the only thing wrong with democratic forms of governance.

<<< last sentence is velly, velly, velly TRUE!!!

just like the ordinary street gangs, battle of the turfs. Sometimes you pull a kid off a brawl and ask him what the fighting was about, he says he does not know, but just had to help his friends teach the other group a lesson.

So where does one get hold of LSD in Pattaya cos this guy must be tripping?

He is 100 percent Mr. Natural which may make it more disturbing depending on your P.O.V.

He needs to be put on something.

Nothing mild IMHO.

Thai women/wife seem to be the latest must have in Oz, now know why no one proposed to the PM yet.

My wife of one month pawns the wedding ring for a 5th of its value, says she needs money. Good enough story for you. That is after I pay $56,000 bhat to the bank in mortgage payments that she is behind and pay to make improvements to the house, which theoretically the bank owns.

Just a month? I think she is upfront with you about what will be a miserable uncertain future.

My only advice, never get involved with a girl from a poor family, if they are all poor and especially if they are lazy. If you do, you will end up poor like the rest of them.

I ll give you a clue, dont study the girl, study her mother, because everything she does gets approved by her.

Most stories out here are all horror themed. Just read PDN everyday.

Following a tip-off that an African man was selling drugs to other African tourists in the area,

=Soi Ramkhamhaeng 81/4.=

I heard the beach is quiet in that area.

I wonder if the reporter actually did believe his own story.

Should have rightly read as- police busted a house and arrested a man that sold drugs to street peddlers or users.

Sorry about your situation.

But I think I am already done with any woman from a loose poor background.

If I may ask, is she your son's biological mother? As I would myself be inconsolable if they are not related and she has got him.

Its the farang's fault. Happy?

Geriatrickid, she must have had a bag and the house had doors and windows from which she could have escaped from this Man.

Why did nt she pack off somewhere with her giggolo and live happily ever after?

Justifying or trying to reason the intent of murdering a human being because he was talking down on you, you must be out of your knickers.

With the reported boyfriend on the side and a blood thirsty brother, the victim might have been not so happy with his Thai family and might have led to saying a bit more than necessary.

Loans are easy these days, the Sme bank handed me and other 4999 other people with business around Ratchprasong ratchdamri, ratchprarop roads virtually interest free loans of B1m due back in 6 years.

For the incoveniences of the red protests.

I thought it was a joke till I got the Cashier check with which to open an account with them.

Methinks she need a more expensive replacement. B8000, thats a cheap ring, Some Thai mothers hold their girls at ransom. They just dont care if she happy doing their bidding or not.

If you feel MIL is being a bad influence or making most days a bad one, you should consider moving her out or moving out with your wife.

I know a friend that have to pay for alcohol rehab for a MIL running into tens of thousands a couple of time every year. This MIL carries a beer bottle in her handbag everywhere in their house.

52 year Spaniard, helping a Ghana man (probably disabled) to take the bag to Bali, where she would get some $5000 to enjoy the local brew and boys.

When she grows up, she would learn to say "F'ck no,to men from Ghana ".

Have to say, I dont reaIIy quite see what insight the Iadies here can offer you. Im sure most of us have absoIuteIy no idea why your wife pawned her wedding ring. I imagine we have Iess experience of this kind of thing than the men in the forum have. So they are the ones to ask. Even if we specuIated it is IikeIy no different than the specuIation men can offer. So..for me personaIIy this thread is mispIaced in the Iadies forum. My onIy advice is why not just ask her..??

My reading of the original post is that this has happened on more than one occasion (OP used "does" rather than "has" or "did" or "would"). But maybe I read too much into the wording. Maybe it would be interesting to know if any others have experience of their partner pawning a wedding ring. If it were my other half I'd be pretty mortified.

Thats not the worst a woman can do, come on.

She could also sleep with your best buddy on your bed.

And think its not too big a deal.

Run my friend.

OK, pounds have been piling up thick and fast since the Reds took Ratchdamri and unknown elements eventually burnt down Central World with True Fitness inside it.

Anyone here know a good replacement with the area of Ratchdamri, ratchprasong, and Ratchprarop, where a good and decently priced gym could be found?

Should be open early or close quite late.

I am well behaved, so you can PM me if you dont want TV members flooding the place.

That is Hongkong rules.

If those are new rules and if they are enforced, TAT will not meet their target for 2011.

At least they would drastically bring down the average age of tourists and foreign residents in Pattaya, while giving the girls an occasional hard male torso to cuddle.

The whole gay community in Tehran may all decide to relocate to where their actions are not frowned upon. Its a win win for everyone, I suppose.

Who else on this board feels the crime rate in Patters in way off the charts.

Should be right to say the percentage of the population with dodgy attitudes and disposition is quite on the high side.

are there other publications where other less criminally content news are published?

Pattaya daily news should be a crime daily.

Its not the crime rate, mate, its the crime NEWS. Every item is reported from Pattaya, unlike from Bangkok where surely thousands of crimes happen daily.

17 million people call Krunthep home, how many call Pattaya home?

Come on, its a small seaside town, but may be its just me. I am tough lad, but I ll be humble next time I come down there.

Who else on this board feels the crime rate in Patters in way off the charts.

Should be right to say the percentage of the population with dodgy attitudes and disposition is quite on the high side.

are there other publications where other less criminally content news are published?

Pattaya daily news should be a crime daily.

Treat them as you have tourists to your hometown do to you.

I have thoughts I might wish to express, but I rather not.

Spread the word if it makes the world a better place.

What a way to start life in your twenties?

Have they actually tried and failed at something legit before this?

Or they could just be on commission just for withdrawing the cash, now left cold holding the baby, while the repeat offenders are on their yacht somewhere on the Indian ocean.

Condolences to the bereaved and RIP to the departed.

Christian bashing should not allowed in Chiangmai forum, as sleazy farang bashing is not tolerated in Pattaya forum.

People do not like to hear about hel_l fire, I understand that, but what harm could a missionary do to a community apart from the healthcare, education and love they promote?

Or do we prefer the missionaries leave and the Madrasas fill in the space?

As for the SUVs, you know the offices are in rough terrain and off road, a Honda civic wont be of much use.The sunday B300 lunch and nice shopping is meant to keep the body in super form to take the spirit to lands still unknown.

I was in Mukdahan three weeks ago, I went to that village where some young girls were killed in the 40 when they refused to renounce their faith in Catholicism. Its on the old road, there is a definite change of scenery when you get to that village where the Catholics have firmly rooted themselves, very good schools and other basic amenities in the middle of a jungle.

Say what you may, the missionaries do a great job, and has been for centuries.

I was born in a war zone in a convent (Missionaries of the sisters of the Immaculate heart).

The travel agents in Tehran must be doing a lot of Bangkok bound ticketing business.

Have nt they heard about the weekly arrests or the Mullahs imposed a a media blackout on the arrests?

These guys have too much access to Yaba to be allowed to own a nuclear warhead. More sanctions please.

there are apparently quite a few with poor reading comprehension. where does it say he is farang?

Did you take that picture in a gated community with dodgy neighbors?