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Who's Anuban?

Is DP'ing with other men a hobby of yours?

Run it through a translator if you would like to know what Anuban is: อนุบาล

Doesn't he know that Thais don't like Chinese people?

Lol, what is this? 1950? Thai people love Sino-Thai women because of their beautiful skin. Older thai people may remember the Chinese immigrants and some negativity may stem from then because of their lack of manners (my mother always had endless things to say about them, "don't tuck your shirt in too tight, it makes you look Chinese", "don't pick your nose, only Chinese do that", etc), but much of that negativity has been lost through the assimilation of the Sino-Thai and the generosity of their elite. Any negativity you hear today tends to come from the lower class people, in particular from Isaan who don't have much exposure to them or are just jealous at their success.

I drove for months without a front number plate, I got stopped by the police once at the BKK end of the elevated Bang Na Trat, I just explained what happened (motorbike clipped my plate while filtering in front at a light) and they let me off.

Still haven't gotten around to re-attaching my plate.

Why are you all complaining, it only blocks what people shouldn't be writing anyway.

"Things that people shouldn't be writing"

There are no laws in my country telling me what I should and shouldn't be saying.

What country is that?

Why are you all complaining, it only blocks what people shouldn't be writing anyway.

Its illegal by Australian law to travel with more than 10,000 aud without declaring it.

sounds fishy to me.

$10,000 per person, so they wouldn't have needed to declare.

Maybe just an act of road rage, not surprising given how these mini buses drive.

Seafood Market and Restaurant Co.,Ltd.

89,Sukhumvit Soi 24(Kasame), Sukhumvit Rd., Klongtoey,Bangkok 10110,Thailand

Tel : 022612071-5, 026611252-9, 022596580-1

http://www.seafood.co.th

Thanks but that's the one I was talking about, hoping for some place cheaper.

This kind of thing doesn't only target farangs, Thai's also fall victim to this, they just don't carry the self-righteous farang attitude with them (which only leads to more problems in thailand). If it happens to you, just put on a smile, keep your cool, if they ask for too much, bargain it down a little, 200 baht is reasonably cheap in Bangkok, but outside Central Thai, you can usually get away with 50-100

I have never seen this "self-righteuos farang attitude" you talk about, pray tell me what goes on?

They have meters in the taxis in Bangkok now, far easier.

200 Baht, unless your traveling right accross the city, I bet they are queueing up to get you in their cab.

Not referring to the taxi, but to the police. If I understand the post correctly, he had to pay the police 200 baht for confronting someone. Many farangs would have been too self-righteous and argued it as they believe the police has no right to demand money like that (I'd agree they're right, but arguing it won't get you anywhere here).

Anyone know a good restaurant that serves Maine lobster? I've been to Seafood market but it seems like a farang oriented place with such prices (mud crab was close to 2k/kg). A decent sized lobster there costed 6000 baht!

So I'm sure there are cheaper restaurants that serve it, around 2000-3000 would be nice, anyone know of any?

This kind of thing doesn't only target farangs, Thai's also fall victim to this, they just don't carry the self-righteous farang attitude with them (which only leads to more problems in thailand).

If it happens to you, just put on a smile, keep your cool, if they ask for too much, bargain it down a little, 200 baht is reasonably cheap in Bangkok, but outside Central Thai, you can usually get away with 50-100.

DMZing the local IP of your computer should work, but it will be completely exposed to the internet, not recommend for Windows.

Port forwarding 3389 is sufficient.

Make sure you open 3389 in any local firewalls too.

Is this Thailand or the UK?

I was thinking the same, I thought when a law didn't make sense in thailand the state didn't follow it.

The article says that the truck driver ran a RED light. The truck driver also ran away because he knows he was wrong.

As I had established earlier, it's very likely that both vehicles went through a red light, there is a reasonable time frame in which both drivers can be aware they would collide, which driver was capable of avoiding the collision once they could have become aware of it? The motorcycle driver. Who is likely to suffer most in such an accident, the motorcycle driver. The motorcycle driver clearly had the duty of care.

Once the motorcycle crossed the path of the truck, there is nothing the truck can do. If the motorcycle driver had looked for oncoming traffic like any experienced driver would, there would not have been an accident.

You can throw around blame everywhere, the truck driver for running a red, the state for not teaching motorcycle drivers to take care, the parents for allowing the same, but at the end of the same, the motorcycle drivers took the direct actions which led to their deaths, unfortunate as it was more than likely out of inexperience than anything else.

Green has never meant its safe to blindly run an intersection, not in Thailand, not anywhere.

Witnesses told the Gazette that the truck, traveling on the bypass road southbound, ran a red light as westbound traffic pulled out of Yaowarat Road in the direction of Kathu.

I find this questionable.

a.) Motorcycles normally pull out of the intersection a few seconds before it turns green.

b.) Only two motorcycles were hit, they were obviously not paying attention to where they were driving as other motorists avoided it.

What I believe happened is that the truck was heading to the intersection avoiding breaking down the slope in order to reach a green light. The two motorcycles ignored the oncoming vehicle and entered the intersection. The truck may have just gone through a red-light, but only just, to have hit any traffic in the intersection, the traffic would have also had to speed off into the intersection while the light was still red.

If you've ever driven in thailand you'll find it an all too common occurrence to see children cutting you off in a dangerous way (for them). I'm not saying that's the case here, but I wouldn't be so quick to judge the truck driver.

I'm looking for a place to sell 7kg of silver (in 1kg engelhard bricks) in BKK but all of the bullion dealers only want to deal in gold. Anyone have any recommendations on dealers of silver? Also what in regards to taxes here, I understand that silver is taxable in Thailand, so will the dealers offer much less to cover for this tax? Any experiences would be helpful.