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1. Victory Monument was named after which Thai victory? (Not many Thais can answer this one).
Over France in the Indochina War of 1940–1941. It led (Tokyo Convention of 1941) to the brief recovery of the provinces of Lanchang, Champasak, Pibulsonggram (sp.?) and Battambang, and to the recovery of the right hand part of the Mekong River.
Indochina war in 1940-41, lost by France?
Surprisingly (?) I haven't been taught this one in french school
Thats cause the French Indochina War took place from !945 to !954. I guess that was taught.
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I really like showing a map of SE Asia to a thai and asking them where Thailand is.
Ever try to get your wife/gf to read a road map to assist you on a drive? aarghh
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I feel sorely sad about all this but don't know what to say as I suspect the reports we are getting are clipped. Who to believe? Who to blame? It's very sad.
Who to blame ?????
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My wife personal hygiene is incredible, she takes a minimum two showers per day normally three. Brushes teeth as many times if not more.
Has become very americanized with her washer and dryer so towels get used once and then a clean is put in its place. She doesn't mind doing the laundry because in her mind its not really a chore anymore, just put them in and out of appliances and I can carry the baskets up and down the stairs in house.
As soon as she arises from bed, she makes the darn thing, even if its her intention to return to it on an off day from work.
I do make breakfast for the two of us and she makes the dinner, we each do the dishes for the meal we prepare (rinse and toss into the dishwasher) Its mostly my chore to put them in the cabinets. I do household repairs, and the lawn she cleans the house. (dusting vac etc)
Bathrooms are cleaned almost daily as she thinks a quick scrub with a brush doesn't hurt, although I keep a chlorine tablet in the water tank.
She understands bacteria growth but at times is a bit reticent to utilize the antibacterial spray on the kitchen countertops, as noted by a previoys poster in his situation.
All this being said, she allows my computer room the luxury of her staying out of it, doing no cleaning there. I can find things, it can be a bit disorderly to look at, but I know where all is kept.
Sadly to say, anything not in the garage or my room is now a mystery to me. I can find nothing, its all been moved and relocated several times over the past 4 years. when I get adjusted to looking in one spot for something, expecting it to be there, its not, and for good reasons to her. But I'm lost, out in the cold, adrft in the sea of my home. Knowing its there, but not Knowing where.
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Things could be worse you could marry for love
Man Kills Daughters to Protest Marriage
A father angry that his eldest daughter married for love slit her throat as she slept, then killed three other daughters in a remote village in Pakistan. Nazir Ahmad, a laboror in his 40's, feared his younger girls, ages 4 to 12 would follow in their 25 year old sisters footsteps, police said. Ahmad surrendered to police in Burewala, about 70 miles east of Multan, in eastern Punjab province. Gol said the mans eldest daughter Muqadas Bibi, who had married the man of her choice against her fathers wishes several weeks ago, was killed during a reconciliation visit to her parents home.
Atlanta Journal Constitution page A9 Sunday Dec. 25
Takes parental control to a new low, but I'd bet it was money, or the lack of it paid to him by new husband, that set him off. Love can be dangerous
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I voted for Bambi - as long as you promise it's only for a day
I voted for bambina as I can't think of any other TV member I'd rather have running around my house in the middle of the night.
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for kings, dont forcefeed yet, it could well be he's ready for the cold but it has to be COLD... and then two months or so....
is he glossy and is his skin tight or is he dull and is his skin kind of , dry, limp kind of...
HI,
The snakes shinny brite tight and presently wrapped around my left hand. (as I type with one hand one finger its no problem) I wasn't going to try the forced feeding as yet, but the pinkies did occur to me, and they lay undisturbed for an hour or two. I'll try some fuzzies next.
I cooked a blacksnake as a teen accidentally, I felt bad for the snake that it died because of me. Funny I have no qualms about killing something I'm going to eat or anything I presieve as a danger to me.
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I'm not getting into the underage/ prostitution crap.
But the sale of a daughter for monetary gain was engrained in many cultures. The I trade you two good ponies for your daughter to make her my squaw thing has been happening since right after man ( or woman)invented prostitution.
Wedding brokers also have been collecting money to make matches for monetery gain for a long while. Didn't (that sterling example of hollywood socialism) Barbara Steisand play one in a movie once.
It's not the route I'd travel, but I'd not condemn one side or the other for engaging in it. Chieftans, kings, headman in charge have married sons/ daughters for political advantage. Maybe cash isn't involved in alot of these arranged marriages, but the principal is the same, the worth of the commodity.
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We are all seeing rather less of the Sun. Scientists looking at fivave to be drastically revised upwards. That means a temperature rise of 10°C by 2100 could be on the cards, giving the UK a climate like that of North Africa, and rendering many parts of the world uninhabitable. That is unless we act urgently to curb our emissions of greenhouse gases.
Particulate matter throughout geologic history has always gone up and down I guess Krakatoa 100+ years past is a fine example. The following year was known as the year without no summer due to the particulate matter in the air. Crops were terrible because of the volcano. The sunsets though were supposed to be really good for a couple of years also.
In recent times Greenland was green with vegetation, thats how it got its name. Bit chilly there now. Climates always been changing.
For some reason we're ready to blame so many of lifes problems on industrial and fossil fuel usage, with no thought to what man is doing elsewhere. Care to guess how much pollution is done by the burning of fields to clear them. Think of the air pollution that occurs in southeast asia when Indonesia burns their fields.
Back to the suns dimming, I can't see how one could say the suns output is the culprit when the particulate matter in the earths athmoshrere is the supposed cause of the dimming. You could say the earth is dimming due to particulate matter, but the in suns output dimming isn't happening. What we do here isn't going to affect the suns output, and to state so is preposturous, misleading at best.
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Best I can offer is to go here and you can ask a Vet.
http://www.talktothevet.com/ARTICLES/REPTI...kebasicfeed.HTM
Snakes are great.
Thank you for the link, I think snakes are great, but my Thai wife sure has her doubts, particularily since I got hit by a baby copperhead in September. Really wasn't too bad except for the hospital bills.
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Sorry I can't help you, Joe Blakes are not my scene, but
HTH do you walk a snake?
Pretty simple I toss him on the ground and follow him around and after he does his businesses and has explored a bit I pick him up and bring him back inside. BTW I referred to the snake as a male, it could be a female I know they can be probed to find out the sex, but doesn't seem very important to me, maybe to the snake it does though.
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Predictably, life is unpredictable. I hear of a predicted new Ice Age starting in the next 50 years that confuses the predictions of global warming prophesies!
Thirty years ago some of the same scientists hollering about the earths global warming were hollering about the next ice age that was coming.
The suns a bit hotter now and the climates warming up I wonder if they could be related cause and effect?
I've a book "Times of Feast, Times of Famine" A history of climate change since the year !000 by french scientist/author Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. Utilizing many resources Ladurie takes the reader through climates changes up and down through the centuries.
I know my home state has all but disappeared and reappeared over the epochs due to rising and falling sea levels with no help from the burning of fossil fuels as man really wasn't then and really isn't now a factor.
Really need some hot headed protesters orbiting the sun within the orbit of mercury telling the sun to "be cool"
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Ok it's been two months since last he has eaten.
He's a small eastern king snake just over a year and a half old, a little past a meter long. As with all king snakes, he's skinny, he's also extremly socialible, curious and an escape artist.
I usually walk him daily, but since he's stooped eating I thought he might need to go into a cold sleep, and I moved him into an enviorment where the temperature is kept in the low 60s F and thought he'd just chill so to speak. but he's as alert as ever, not even a yawn (which I have seen, as well as sneeezes which sound like quieter versions of mine) I know snakes can go without eating for long periods, but last winter as a youngster I fed him weekly for three weekly then stopped feeding him for two weeks as he went through a shed cycle, then back to feeding him. Its been his normal cycle all his life.
Since he stopped eating there has been no shedding. I'd guess he's ok but when will he resumes eating.?
As he's not killing the live mice, so I gotta do it. Frankly I'd prefer he do his own killing.
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Wishing all the many joys of the season. May Santa be kind, may your chocolate be hot, may you not have to return all the gifts you got.
Merry Christmas
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ll be an option for me. I'll probably end up in Isaan, although somewhere near Chiang Mai or Chiang Rai might be possible.
The thing I like about the Chiang Mai area is the cooler temperatures, and with Chiang Mai being the second largest city there's lots of conveniences there that we farangs are used to. Just about anything you need can be bought there.
If I have the resources when I retire, I guess I'd probably like to divide my time between Chiang Mai area and Isaan, with a home in each and with frequent trips to other parts of Thailand/Asia as you are doing. The hot summer months in Isaan are what will take some getting used to for me, so spending those months in Chiang Mai or somplace a bit cooler would be preferable to me.
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My decision has been made for the Chiang Mai area. Thats my wifes decision and its final
I really like the area, but my druthers would have me in the Nong Khai area. I really liked it up there for a multiplicity of reasons.
But we'll go to the Chiang Mai area and be perfectly content with the odd visit to Issan. I love my wifes family so Chiang Mai will be a pleasant way to finish the final chapters in my life over the next thirty (I hope) years.
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old tread ,yes... im bored and cant sleep so i wake the ghost one
methinks
If thats BambinA's real photo I'd vote for you. your just so cute
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It is simple good manners to call your MIL Khun Mae.
When my wife and I discuss her parents, we call them Mummy and Daddy.
I don't think it matters how old you are, they are, or whether or not you have children. Even if you don't like your MIL, remember that she carried your partner for nine months, and then raised her or him to be the person that you love.
I love my MIL. She raised a wonderful daughter, asks for very little. Handles our finances (in Thailand as we're stateside now) Has built us a large bedroom and bath addition to her home (with a large walkin closet (knows her daughter well) with her own money. Now only if we can finally get outta green card hel_l and go back to visit and use these fine new digs.
I call her momma, and when I ask how she is, she'll tell me momma good or momma not so good, depending on how her health is. I call her momma even though she's three years younger than I.
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Corrections Department to use videoconferencing for inmate visits
BANGKOK: -- The Department of Corrections will apply information technology (IT) to facilitate family visits by using video conferencing instead of in-person visits to inmates, Director General Nathee Chitsawang said Monday.
Mr. Nathee today demonstrated the use of videoconferencing technology, saying the new visiting mode will facilitate relatives of prisoners meeting their loved-ones via the computer screen.
They would be allow to meet the inmates for 15 minutes and the prisoners' families had to be responsible for the cost of long distance call of each visit, he said.
The director general adds that the visiting gave moral support to the inmates and could help prepare inmates before they return to society.
--TNA 2005-12-19
Ah yes theres nothing like hugging a monitor during those conjugal visits
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So SOME girls here find YOU attractive. Whoop-de-doo. I'm really happy for you, but let me clue you in on something. There's over THIRTY MILLION women in this country, PLENTY of them DON'T want to date farangs,... at.... all.
( Heck my wife didn't even wanna talk with me when we first met, and I kept on trying for 6 weeks. Other than what she needed to tell me in her work related capacity, I was a useless distraction. But I'm a persistent sob and the next year on my two month vacation I went to her place of work and started anew in my effort to ensnare her with my charms (sure as heck ain't my looks) Toward the 4th week she consented to go out. Sheesh cost me a bit to pay for her girl friends who came along as bodyguards or so it appeared to me. I don't need any chaparones, but she felt she did.
Anyway after 4 years of wedded bliss, I could not be happier with my Thai wife.
No I didn't have any problem with my local ladies, goodness knows I went through a passle of them with more than 20 years between marriages. And I wasn't looking for a wife in Thailand, I was always looking for short term companions, not a lasting relationship. But I sit here typing a contented old dog, knowing the lassie I cut out of the herd, was the best choice for me.)
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Who says he hit her? She said so, he cannot say anything anymore to defend himself. Easy to get wounds in a fight, he must have defended himself and wounded her. Anyway, it looks like she is much stronger than he was.
Of course he did not deserve to die.
Indeed. I never believe the killer. It's more likely that she abused him.
She did him wrong enough to kill him. Certainly not beyond her to lie to make him look bad. Doesn't hurt her chances of getting off either.
As theres not enough in article to say what really occured, I'm inclined to give the lass the benefit of a doubt. As more facts become availible I could be swayed one way or another. I'm not inclined to jump to conclusions before more is known, and other witnesses come forth telling they've heard fights between the two, or seen bruises or other marks caused by his or hers mistreatment of the other. If it turns out he abused her, instant karma can be brutal. If she can be proven at fault, off to the hoosecow with her.
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Wallet size not willy
Willy size, not wallet
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I don't think CM gets any earthquakes. What they feal there are quakes in Burma or China, a long way from the epi-centers. Big ones there can shake CM a little.
But, the most recent quake stories put the epicenter between Chiang Mai and Hang Dong... There is also a fairly good sized fault line running N/S around Phrae...
So much for theories, I guess.
Insomuch as there are hot springs throughgout the CM area I'd guess that CM as a geothermic area would also be an earthquake area. We have hot springs in my area of the US but have very infrequent minor quakes that can be felt. (most quakes aren't large enough to cause notice) Newspaper occasionally reminds us of a fair sized quake along the coast hundred years ago or so
However near family farm in South America, we have hot springs and large noisy quakes on an all too often basis.
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More like mud flats, rather than good beaches, in the vicnity of Moulmein. Setse Beach/Amherst wouldn't be worth the trip, neither the beach nor the sea are very clean/clear. You don't really get good beach along that section of coast till you almost reach Tavoy/Dawei.
Moulmein itself is interesting though. Someday ...
I saw recently a travel brocure showing some great ruins, ala Sukothai, in Burma. They showed several different sites throughout the country. It appeared to be a scenic place to explore. Alas having only crossed the border on a visa runs, I know nothing of interior travel. Can you freely explore, without a hassle or must you run through restrictions and red tape.?
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Hi Bambina
This isnt a romance story coz I am happy married
I have met some wonderful people on the internet and am lucky to meet them later in real life. I met someone 8 years ago on internet chat and that person became my best friend and my sister. We met in real life first time after about 1 year of chat. Now we talk together everyday and see each other in real life as often as possible.
I have met others from chat and always have enjoyed the experience. There used to be regular meeting of chatters from Yahoo chat at Hardrock in Bangkok, always was fun to link faces with IDs
I've met a few people at various settings that I met on the internet (on a few thai sites.) these were at pissups (as you say) They have been some fine people, some of whom post on thaivisa, some who don't. A few have visited with me in the US, and I hope I was a good guide and fellow bar crawler when they were here. As I don't go out much to bars anymore, I'm not sure I was able to take them to the best places. One very nice lady was kind enough to explain the thai wedding ceremony to the assembled guests at my wedding to my wonderful thai wife. She basically acted as an impromtu master of ceremony to the mostly non thai guests. It was a grand gesture on her part that added much to my wedding. (held in the US)
It was odd to talk online in a forum, then find out her and her husband live in the same city I do and go to the same Wat Then a couple of years later to have her take a significant part at my wedding. She helps out at the Wat during services and has taught classes of some sort there as well as in her business life, as she was a teacher and now works for the state dept of education.
So I'm not adverse to meeting folks online, just haven't ever looked for love there, but I guess I'd take big grains of salt to what was being said.
Frustated With Supporting Thai Wifes Family
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In closing, am I the only one that finds Bambina's avatar distracting? But in a good
way
Bill
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Every time I see her avatar, I think I wanna throw beads to her on Bourbon Street