Assurancetourix

24 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Lovely photos, but the bike does not add anything- just the opposite. It's like a selfie obsession, but with a bike.

As far as I am concerned, I often put my MTBike on the photos because many members do not believe that I am going with it.
Obviously, a tortuous mind could answer me: "you just got off your mountain bike from the bucket of your pickup and you make us a" fake "photo.

It would be something to try on some roads visible on Google-map and which are in reality almost impassable even at the wheel of a 4x4 vehicle .

Never trust Google Map if you don't know the area where you are.
You will very often have very unpleasant surprises.
There, I can not answer anything .. to these "St Thomas" ..
The Farang and Thai friends with whom I cycle know very well what and where  I go on a MTBike .

11 hours ago, Nanaplaza666 said:

No indicator light and waiting untill he's in the other trucks ass before overtaking , just another day on thailands roads

It is not specific to driving in Thailand.
You don't have to drive often in Europe.
By their egotistical behavior, motorists of all countries, except in UK where courtesy is a rule (or was, it is a long time since I have been there), find themselves confronted with this: a truck overtaking another begins by deporting before occasionally putting his direction indicator otherwise he will never get there.
By cons what I never see in Thailand, it is the little call of the lighthouse of the truck that is passed so that the one which passing by  can quickly fold down safely.

1 hour ago, cnx355 said:

I think braking a little would be better than  honking and no accident would have happened. ! THai drivers do not anticipate. Just the usual day on the roads !

The delivery truck is a Thai Post truck.
The way he got out, we can't know if a few km before the guy who went to bed wouldn't have made a mess of him;

53 minutes ago, Jimbo in Thailand said:

YUK!!! And here I am about to sip my morning java. Suddenly lost my appetite.

A Thai friend made me drink it once;
the bottle is small, tiny and  from the first throat I wondered if I did not have a sewer outlet;
it is foul;
how can we appreciate such a horrible thing?

9 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

What part of " no we are not interested " is he not understanding .. 

Does he really understand English?

2 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Colin knows nothing about it, but that's neither here nor there, ha ha!

I thought we already talked about it with Owl's visit too.
But I think that these two visits will be done by pickup because since our meeting I have caught a bizarre but very restrictive illness: chronic fatigue syndrome.
the slightest false flat on a bicycle and even 10 meters of walking make me feel incredible fatigue as if I came from a half marathon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_fatigue_syndrome

It has been planned for a long time;
when Bluesofa and I can take a free walk again, there will be a party at Colin's

On 4/26/2020 at 2:54 PM, transam said:

......on wheels.............

Miracle in Lourdes!
Colin and his chair went to the miraculous pool;

it came out with new tires.

1 hour ago, Bredbury Blue said:

Is that what they teach in french schools?

I don't know ..

I left school half a century ago and from what I hear or read here and there, school in France is more and more like that of Thailand;
that is to say that we don't learn much.

7 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Lower photo looks like the hill road between Lamphun and Lampang. My wife's Hilux ute used to power up those like they were hillocks. I very much liked the drive. Happy days long passed.

This road is a four lanes one ; I drove there many times ; 

There are not mind-boggling percentages like on this road between Doi Angkhand and Mae Sun

15 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Tell that to the 50,000 Americans who died from that virus until now.

who actually died from the flu or some other filth; the Covid having only accelerated their death.

When all this is finished, I hope that we will make the real accounts;

those who actually died from Covid, that is to say not many people and those who died from another disease accelerated by Covid.

Just look at the "cheeses' and other tables that can be found on most newspapers;

the Covid accelerates the death of people over 80 who already have one to three pathologies.

To bring the world economy to its knees for a negligible percentage of deaths is for me an heresy;
negligible, yes because 50,000 compared to 350 million is peanuts.

14 minutes ago, Will27 said:

What about, "he got caught having a lamb shank"

I like certain Japanese things  

On 4/26/2020 at 9:13 AM, theoldgit said:

But the Thai Government don't seem to be handing out shed loads of cash to the unemployed, affected businesses etc on the same scale as some Western Governments, all of which will have to repaid sooner ot later.

This is unfortunately correct for the first statement;
when the second, since Nixon decided in 1971 that the dollar was no longer convertible into gold .... this currency is worth almost its value in paper ie peanuts.

This is also the case for the euro; currencies that are worthless but that are the ones that all markets use.
the baht next door is nothing

It is said (in authorized circles ) that at the end of the Covid, so in a few months if not years, the European countries would return to their national currencies because the euro will have exploded.

On 4/26/2020 at 8:56 AM, madmen said:

The baht will NEVER die. No matter what you throw at hit, condo! Market wont crash in fact prices will increase, Thai bussines logic will prevail 

madmen was not born in 1997; it probably explains his answer. 

and eartha kitts ( with a "s" ) = tits 

7 minutes ago, faraday said:

Ball of chalk - walk

 

What happens though if you get caught short & need a Eartha?

About a Eartha ; I need an explanation 

I know the signification of  Eartha Kitt ( and who was Eartha Kitt ) and Eartha Kitts ...

Owl's thread will become a slang school 

4 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Perhaps the cards were imported? There would be no gambling without them.

Farang cards sure !  

Vegas is not in Thailand ; up to you ! 

Plastic cards; but poor quality plastic, Chinese, maybe? Sure !

Many cyclists and a single route to climb to the Wat which is still far from being at the top of Doi Suthep;
climbing to the Wat is very easy except the last 500 meters which are a little steep.
on the other hand going to Phuphin Palace is something else, the percentage is higher
If this really happened, I find it odd that the police did not intervene;

it was very easy to block the road at the zoo level or even a little higher at the very large mark road

13 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

I went to see on Google what it is ..( Tolkien ) 

except that in Cockney Rhyming slang the definition is quite different  

Thank you to the three nice members who put me a "like" because they could have made fun of me. 

8 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Did you look that up, or have you just made it up?

look that up ;

not yet good enough to invent an expression;
I hope that I will be able to do so soon.

2 minutes ago, AndyAndyAndy said:

I drove on the road from Udon to Sakon twice last week and both time I didn't see a single worker. On the road between Si Songkhram to Nakhon Phanom you at least see a few guys aimlessly driving tractors, although nothing seemed to progress in the past year too. ????

Yet they are there and well there, but not before 8 am .. Oh! they are Thai;
first a good somtam then we go slowly;

should not be a contracture by starting the job ...

as for Sri Songkhram to Nakhon Phanom, there, we are on secondary roads very far from road 22