Jangot

Why? Semper

He is BORED and nothing to drink?????????????? if he is in Aus still, he should get a bottle of Gentleman Jack....it's better than Canaduian Club.

Im actually sipping a Chivas Regal as we type. Its best served straight perhaps over a couple of cold ice cubes, but stuff that I like it with Coke. Think Chivas is a Scotch isnt it? Then again dilligaf.

I've never yet seen a warm ice cube.

Here you go - small factory just outside Nong Hoi on the CM - Lamphun road.

http://www.thai-a-fly.com/

Well I saw the movie, and the bridge above doesn't look anything like the wooden bridge in the movie that got blown up.

Who? what? should I believe?

Of course you should believe the movie! You should never let documented history challenge the veracity of the entertainment industry.

Where is Eliot Ness when you need him

To me, it seems that the phrase ",,,will not pay a satang.." says it all.

If those were the actual words used by the boy or his father, then the intent is clear. It was meant as a provocative insult.

If the father merely had some feeling that sin-sod was an outmoded custom no longer to be followed, or if he thought sin-sod not appropriate because the girls father is not Thai, then he would have approached the subject with better manners, explaining his viewpoint.

I fear this will not end well.

In a land with so many young,beautiful girls,it never fails to amaze me,why many Farangs have ugly G/F,Wives.

Maybe it's because they are not so shallow and superficial as to go by looks alone, but seek an inner beauty....

Well, just sayin' ;-)

He said he was a self made man - which only goes to prove the dangers of the unskilled and D.I.Y.

I believe that "fingers wot they used to be" is a very poor attempt at a pun of the (1950's ish) English song in a Cockney accent - "Fings (things) aint (aren't) wot (what) they used to be" A lament of the loss of the 'good old times'.

If this is so, then it is a very poor pun attempt and in very poor taste given the circumstances.

Saltire...or satire?

What do you mean?

Heraldry a diagonal cross as a heraldic ordinary.

7. Peter must use the highway only to reach the office. He has a meeting at 9 am. If he miss the meeting, he wouldn't get the important report. The highway closed all day due to the accident. We can precis that...

Peter won't be able to reach the office.

Peter wouldn't be able to adjourn the meeting.

Peter won't get the important report.

There's no correct answer.

it would seem to me that all of these are viable except the last.

In GAT mode, based on the limited information supplied in the statement, only the first answer is correct, he will just simply not be able to get to the office.

It doesn't say that the meeting is at the office, just that it is happening at 9am.

Then "GAT mode" is also wrong.

The first answer is also not correct. There is no time frame given for reaching the office, therefore Peter could viably reach the office the next day.

My girlfriends parents told me to buy.....!!??

Brilliant.

Your card has gone - and so has every other card in the first batch. Completely different set of cards in the second batch. Not much magic there!!

Dogs

Bit of an abrupt dismount there...has he no finesse?

Real "wam bam thank you ma'am" doggy

Or should that be "wam push'n thank you cushion"?

Dog & pony shows are all very well - but where is the pony?

Blether is a Shetland? That should do!

(was Blether heard to say "Smokie's a pal o' me, no?)

I didn't

There is a Triumph Mayflower (mid to late '50s I guess) parked at a house on a soi between Tha Pai Road and Loy Kroh (CM)

Looks to be in good condition. Iconic for the sharp edge styling that went against all the curvy bulbous cars of the era.

I met my first wife in a disco - there, I have admitted it. She had no degree, no Chinese ancestry, Her family did not have buffalos but horses, does that count?

Oh! the disco was in UK, and she was from the Fen district - about as Isaan as you can get in UK.

Judas how you do that then ??

Maybe you ask an English teacher to teach you?

I too am unable to see what point the OP is trying to make.

And why he feels a need to stab at English teachers. What relevance to his point(less) topic?

Naam hit the nail...

Darryl, yes of course it is only me to blame, I am in charge and I goofed by trusting (and paying) "advisors".

Yoshiwara, thanks for your advice...but it does not fit me as I have not been UK resident since 1982 and have not had any Sterling since way back.

I reside in Thailand.

In early 2010 I moved my Euros into Singapore dollars, about the only thing I have done right financially. (I think).

I recon my SGD at almost no interest is still ahead of where I would have been with GBP (or Euro) at 5% interest.

I am too old to risk capital, (what little I have).

Yes, I would have done better in Baht, but since ages I have been sitting here waiting for the Baht to collapse again!!!

I am facing a thing called the Jangot paradox...

I sold my UK house in early 87 and invested in equity funds just in time for the crash...

I finished a long expat project in '97 and invested the sizeable end bonus in Asian currency funds...

I then went into tech stock in 2000

My adult sons say their sure fire investment strategy is to watch what I do and do the opposite.

So I figure if I then watch what they do and follow them, I could be OK...or will it be a self cancelling circle.

Now, what do I do with my cash (such as I have left)?

HSBC keeps sending me proposals, but I swear I will never again pay some fund manager 5% just to lose me my money.

But the cash is just sitting there getting almost no interest.

What to do!!