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jimmy, thanks, i guess ill just have to wait and see, i really dont want to go true though. they have enough of a strangle hold on my life already.

resistance is futile

Yep I know, but I switched to Astro TV two years ago, so TRUE don't get my money for Telly.

I think it maybe a case of having a dongle with interchangable sim, and not locked to True, there was a link to that idea in one of the posts i made.

I am not sure where people on KP would find, the only shop i have seen dongles on Samui, is JIB computers... and trying to get the right info is hard to understand!

The other problem my friend pointed out this afternoon, is they may be a shortage of new suitable dongles .... that would be the end off the world as we know it!

i would buy in bangkok and just bring it down with me. The Huawei mifi is what im after, a 3g router and wireless access point to replace the novatel mifi cdma wireless access point they have so cruelly rendered obsolete.

it beggars belief.

There is an assumption that is anti-semitism which, though probably more likely, is not the only explanation for his change in attitude. Your line

" He looked at my company shirt and kept repeating the company name that was in the front" could suggest that he has a specific problem with your company or someone else that works there that you are not aware of.

lets stick with occams razor. Unless, of course, Occam was jewish.

the shirt does not really say jewish to my eye

i thought it was suitable for a flag rising... (even in one of the israeli settlements in palestine)...

it is significantly more ralph lipschitz than ralph lauren

so is this what was meant by making newbies feel welcome?

i get it now.

you can not live without beer a few days a month?

I do not think some people who post on this forum can

They are the ones complaining not the tourists

Yeah....that's right. All the Jetstar Bogons pile off the flight, arrive in Patong to find all the bars closed and they don't say a word.

Gotta love those Aussies for never whinging.

Please if you are going to quote an Aussie word spell it correctly. It is Bogan http://www.bogan.com...ition/index.php

thanks for the english lesson

you can not live without beer a few days a month?

i live most days a week without beer, but when i want one, i want one.

ok Bob, if you insist you weren't making a comparison, i will believe you.

I will.

Really.

I appreciate your bouncing tits...I do....really, they are incomparable

yeah I like the bouncing tits too... are they blue tits?

everybody gets a little blue sometimes ...

thats fairly authoritative for someone who claims to have never been with a hooker.

But I often sit with my sister-in-law, in a bar, where she works as a bar girl.

And I talk with the other girls, who all understand I will never be their customer.

so you married well.

Please don't do that. I may disagree with him more often than not, but turning it personal like that doesn't achieve anything.

fair enough, retracted, but you must admit it does provide insight to his interesting views on thai womanhood in general.

jimmy, thanks, i guess ill just have to wait and see, i really dont want to go true though. they have enough of a strangle hold on my life already.

resistance is futile

ok Bob, if you insist you weren't making a comparison, i will believe you.

I will.

Really.

I like the Robin Hood but think its gone down hill in the last few years. It seems to me that there are a number of bars being run by x and owned by y, and x doesn't care too much if he fritters away the investment of y. Robin Hood is one of many bars that could be much better than what it is.

i think you should ask yourself if there could be any other reasons why they may not need to make that much money?

lovely, innit?

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jessica-Ennis-Arse-Appreciation-Society/447131808640396

It's been fun reading various posters fantasies, but that's what they are.

The girls don't enjoy being with any customers, they endure it.

50% of the girls (if given a free choice), would be with another Thai girl (sleeping with guys for money has totally turned them off guys).

the other 50% would rather be with a Thai guy.

None of them want to sleep with a white guy of any age, they are working.

If they make no pretense of enjoyment, then no sponsors and no repeat customers.

If anything they avoid young men as 1) the guys won't pay as much and 2) they are hard work.

Much better to go with an old guy that falls asleep after 5 minutes, or can't do it at all.

thats fairly authoritative for someone who claims to have never been with a hooker.

i think the picture of the shirt pretty much clears it up.

bigotry is a strange animal.

its also a pretty fair example of the ignorant appropriation of a symbol that can and often does occur in this region.

it could just has easily been a swastika and you would have been fine.

Being a beach "tourist" destination doesn't define what people can or cannot wear in certain places. it's the culture, law, do's, do nots. If people choose to be ignorant and no enforcement to do otherwise, nothing will change. Personally I just think it is totally ignorant and I cringe when i know it is someone representing my home country. Even round Wat Plai Laem, which is a total p*ss take, walnuts in a condom couldn't put himself in a bigger bag for half an hour.

Dubai is a massive tourist destination bikinis and budgie smugglers are tolerated round pools or the beach, but you wouldn't walk down the street in a white sheer cock pouch because you would get arrested.

At least there are some youth that see the side of it us older gentry do;

umm, yeah.

Dubai/Samui

Great parallel that, very relevant, not a stretch at all.

there are a couple douchebags with harleys on my soi.

sounds like they are breaking the sound barrier when they are moving at a whopping 15kmh.

oh what fun.

good lord, certainly i hope not!!!

ooow, what brand?

I need some.

http://www.kettlebra...to_chips/?pid=4

dont recall the red spicy logo on the bag, but these were most certainly them, i like the sea salt and pepper ones as well

it would seem there are 2 varieties of Kettle jalapenos at villa on 11,

the ones above (better)

and these (still good, but not as IMO)

http://www.shearers.com/OurSnacks/KettleCookedChips/Jalapeno.aspx

the Shearers are 10 baht a bag cheaper though.

Gary, do you have to replace or re-activate the charcoal periodically?

Of course it depends how much water you put through it. Just using it for drinking water, it will last for several years and then it should be replaced. It cannot be cleaned. If the water has any taste or odor, it needs replaced.

In fact, I'd like to replace it anytime now. If anyone knows where I can get a decent bulk price please advise. I need about 18 liters of it. All I can find locally are those little plastic bags for the sink top filters.

My water filter outside was made by a compny called Mazuma and I ordered the charcoal from them the last time I replaced it.

Their website is here.

http://www.mazuma.co...boutus_eng.html

page 6 gives the contact details.

I have emailed Mazuma and so far, no answer. Emailing Thai companies rarely gets an answer for some reason.

did you email them in thai?

im pretty happy with sprinkle.

24 x 18.9 litre coupons about 1500 baht last time i looked.

delivered every monday, for the last 10 years.

just put the empty bottles out front of the house with the coupons in the neck.

my house goes through around 3 bottles every 2 weeks litres a week from a water cooler.

sure beats waking up hungover with no water in the house.

I suspect this thread could provide some pretty good insight as to how attractive some of your wives are

Many thanks, Any one have any idea whats up in chaloklum?

connection there was bullet proof for years, really solid.

unfortunately i just remembered that CDMA was going down and i have tenants in this saturday.

Just need to know if i need to find a new solution yesterday

A few bars (and others) for sale in Lamai. Not an exhaustive list by any means. There are many shops empty in various places. I think these are the kinds of things the OP was thinking about.

And, dare I say it, the exact kinds of places that I wouldn't touch with a barge pole!

At least one of these bars (Eden Bar) was a successful business providing a living for 3 owners and 2 staff, until the landlord suddenly decided to double the key money and lease when it came up again last year. At the time we all thought it was because they had got a better offer from someone, but there it still sits, another business ruined purely because of the greed of landlords who are basically farmer's children with no business sense of any kind and dollar signs in their eyes.

It's fair to say that the reason that most of these bars are for sale is not because business has gotten worse (Although a lot of them went to the wall after the Floods/Volcano/Redshirts triple whammies last year), but because the landlords have increased the lease prices on the existing tenants and forced them out. Thai landlords would rather have their properties sit empty than lose face by negotiating a lower price than they originally demanded.

i would suspect there are other reasons for super sub's demise

Is CDMA still broadcasting on Koh Phangan?

I cant remember the announced cutoff date and the cat office waffled around then hung up.

whats the scoop?