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12 hours ago, Denim said:

I'll second in Khao Kor. It's just like Pattaya but at a higher elevation and no hookers or bars. But loads of expensive tacky resorts. It's fun.

 

You can either stay in Petchabun town with its restaurants and cheap hotels ( 350 will get you a decent room with all mod cons ) and a wee bit of nightlife ...... or just for the hell of it and to say you've done it, stay in a wooden knockdown shed in Khao Kor , 45 minutes away for a paltry 1200 baht up. No nightlife except driving around looking for it then getting pissed up in your wooden shed. 

 

Then, if you really want to get serious kudos with just about everyone go to Phu Tab Berk, a spectacular slum on top of a high mountain where the orgasmic experience is to take selfies with clouds in the background. You won't be lonely. There will be thousands of people to share this intimate experience with you. If you are lucky the Bandidos biker gang will be there too. They went last year apparently but I got that secondhand from a friend who was there at the time and gave me the factual lowdown. His gf threatened to shut up shop if he didn't take her there.

 

So there you have it. My helpful advice. Sorry if it seems negative but it's as well to know where not to go as it is where to go.

Petchabun nightlife, where is that? I ride there sometimes, but never found any at all.

21 hours ago, connda said:

If you did that to one of my dogs I'd be tempted to beat you with your own bike then squirt bleach in your eyes when your on the ground considering that it would only cost me 5000 THB and a wai to the Thai public.  However, that's the part of me that I've been able to keep under a lid for most of my life.  However I would get the cops involved and track you down. And trust me, most Thais will do the same.  Bleach can permanent blind an animal you compassionateless fool.  The cops and the Thai public would not be impressed.  There are other ways to deal with dogs when walking or biking.  I suggest you rethink that idea.

Obviously you have not had a dog, or a pack of dogs attack you when riding a bike. If you had you would understand how bad it is.
If it was one of your dogs, one could ask, what the f$#k was it doing in the street attacking passersby? 

So actually instead of talking macho nonsense about repercussions, you could just control your dogs. Oh, and pick their damn s#it up while you are at it.

3 hours ago, Thian said:

Well the ones i know cycled all the way from Europe through Thailand and even further. They seem to forget that outside Europe there are no dedicated bicycle-lanes and not even drivers with a license nor police to keep traffic safe.

 

But even in BKK i see farang on bicycles in the superbusy traffic....I think driving a motobike is safer than a bicycle because if you're the slowest one on the road the danger comes from behind.

 

Since a few years i see many rich Thai cycling around in BKK (yes in lycra and with all the special gear), they should go to Holland where they have the best bicycle tracks of the whole world.

 

From ALL the Thai that i know and who drink alcohol they also drive after drinking (much). It's time the rest of the world knows these dangers.

 

 

They seem to forget that outside Europe there are no dedicated bicycle-lanes 

The Khao Chee Chan area has bicycle lanes, spent a fortune on them. But of course you have to ride to Khao Chee Chan, so a lack of planning!

As Offset writes above, if she was not married to the father of the baby, buy Thai law she has automatic right of full custody. 

Cataract op in Pattaya, 50k, totally f#$ked up. Follow up ops to try and repair 750k!

Hospitals need to be responsible for the doctors who do wrong.

4 hours ago, simoh1490 said:

Once again it's the scammers who have made it difficult for those people who have played by the rules, that was true when it came to misuse of tourist visa's to live here, education visa's, marriage visa's and now scrutiny of income. 

The British embassy refusing to confirm income is causing the problem? If playing by the rules (which proof of income was) what's the issue?

4 hours ago, Happy Grumpy said:

 

They have this Scoyco set for 3,600 baht. I have good enough experience with that brand. 

 

https://www.crsaddlebags.com/product/scoyco-soft-pannier-set/?v=2a700eebddf1

Great bags.

I have an CRF Rally and can't find a rack to fit to it to keep the saddlebags off the exhaust, so if anyone knows................

21 hours ago, connda said:

This is funny, but my guess is that whoever wanted that tat got exactly what they wanted.  If I was 35 years younger I might get that one myself! 

 

 

Spring Roll?  Who knows - maybe Phillis Farang has a passion for Spring Rolls and the joke is on the Thais?

The tattoo says "i (female speaking) love pussy" But in vulgar language ?

22 hours ago, Bogbrush said:

“Chan”? On a man? Maybe the skin artist was a trannie...

It can be used among close male friends, but for tattoos who knows?

15 hours ago, BobbyL said:

Anyone undertaking is a cretin and deserves any damage to their car or themselves. 

Even though it's the law to do so on a motorbike?

4 hours ago, Nong Khai Man said:

A deliberate, malicious act by the truck driver who was 100% to blame........That's <deleted> & YOU Know it,Did You pass a driving rest ??.....Errrr,NO You did NOT If you drive like that !!!

The hard shoulder is an emergency / motorbike lane, neither should have been in it.

6 hours ago, bert bloggs said:

DONT UNDERTAKE,your to blame if this happens.

The pickup was wrongly in the hard shoulder, the emergency lane, so was the truck. Equally to blame.
If on a normal road on a motorbike you are expected to undertake, i have actually been pulled over by the police for overtaking. Crazy! 

1 minute ago, shillhater said:

why would you want children playing in the road? the garden or the park is a better place. 

 

So there is no shit in the parks?

1 hour ago, Grouse said:

I think you do misunderstand independence. What do you want N Korea? No, it's the amount of sovereignty you are prepared to share with other like minded states.

I seem to understand it more than you. To simplify, self governing.

1 hour ago, Grouse said:

They can be Denmark with kilts and whisky. Why not? Do you not think Denmark is independent?

Is this the Denmark you moved to to improve your life, or at least were planning to do so? 55555

The Denmark that was forced to vote again on the Maastricht Treaty by the EU? Do you think that is independency?

Last i heard they had illegally set up land borders to control illegal immigrants. If they were independent, they could do so without the threat of the EU punishing them.

10 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

Possibly we have differing views of what constitutes independence. But, to be fair, it is not correct to say that all those who support Scottish independence also support remaining in the EU; there are some very prominent former SNP members, most notable former deputy leader Jim Fairlie, who are very against an independent Scotland in Europe. At the time of the Brexit referendum, I saw figures suggesting that as many as 30% of SNP voters voted to leave the EU, although I have no idea where those numbers came from.

 

Personally, I want independence for Scotland first - after that, the political landscape will change immeasurably. We can turn our attention to the issue of the EU then.

 

 

I have made no statement regarding those who support or not Scottish Independence. Just my views on what independence means. Staying in either the EU or the UK is not Independence.

I do at times wish we could have English independence, but we never are offered a vote about that ?

2 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

Can you be a bit clearer? What is a 'REAL independent country'?

 

Maybe this will help:

 

Clearer? If Scotland decide to go independent in the real meaning of the word, they will be just that independent. Not part of the UK or the EU.
I am sure there are reasons from both sides within Scotland for staying or leaving the UK, but if they do and become a member of the EU they are not independent.
Or i am misunderstand the meaning of independence?

As already stated, Scotland wants independence from whom? If they remain in the UK or the EU, they are not independent.

Are they in a position to actually be a REAL independent country? 

21 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

Its most likely purely an economic decision, someone has probably done some accounting and realised that its not much point stocking the mini bar with overpriced alcohol as nobody drinks it, serious drinkers will probably go elsewhere, most buy their own at 7/11 etc, the general hotel demographics dont drink much so why spend money providing it for a minority.

 

Its probably nothing more than it costs X to provide alcohol and it brings in Y, operates at a loss, so can it. No different to not providing a shoe shine service because everyone wears sneekers and it runs at a loss.

 

At the end of the day its a hotel right in the middle of 127,000 bars, so why try and compete, the accountants probably worked out years ago it doesn't make money.

But they have restaurants and pool areas where you can't buy a drink. At 7k a night i would want to be able to order, not have to go looking outside.

8 hours ago, a977 said:

So you paid the cop 300thb thereby contributing to the problem you are complaining about. If you had not paid what was going to happen he fine you, you go to bank or police station pay fine no contribution to police benefit fund.  You are not required by law to give police your licence only court can take licence from you. You are required to show police your licence for the purposes of I.D. and to check your details they cannot confiscate your licence.  And you wonder why police corruption is so rife!!!!!!

In Pattaya for sure the police have taken away my licence, then told me to collect it at the police station when paying the fine.

One Songkram i went out without my wallet and phone, just cash in a plastic bag for obvious reasons.

Police road block were stopping everyone, so many bike keys were taken away, followed by a long walk to pay the fine. 50k for that would be ridiculous. There is a difference between having a licence, but not on you against not having a licence. 

20 hours ago, ezzra said:

So.. until now, they were deaf and blind drivers on the roads?...

You are allowed to drive/ride if blind in one eye. But to do so you need to go to an hospital (Bangkok Pattaya International, if living in Pattaya) and have a full check up with an eye surgeon who will check your working eye is good enough to be allowed to drive.

23 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Travel north to Chiang Mai or Chiang Rai. Hire a scooter and go up into the mountains.

I promise you won't be bored - you'll be too busy trying to stay alive.

Agree, but lots of flooding there at the moment.