travelmann

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This is actually very clever and useful information. Are you sure you want to give it out though? Like everyone will be trying it and there certainly will be no more upgrades.

No it isnt its not true go read flyertalk from airline staff about this it doesnt work that way + the person posting does not tell us if he is a gold or silver member.

As a gold member I used to get regular upgrades for free now I only travel once a year I get none I have to pay for them

Im sorry your answer is absolute tripe, it simply doesnt work that way anymore.

A recent reply in "flyer talk" from staff at the airport and on the gates say its all done by tier membership ie if you are a gold or silver regular flyer these are the ones who will get the upgrades as these are the customers who spend the most on flights.

I don't know if it is an actual law or a proposed law, but i understood it is forbidden to sell alcohol or cigarettes within 500M of a school or a temple?

Maybe a bit of selective enforcement going on as i know a temple not far from me that is opposite a 7/11 selling both??

Maybe the shop was there before the law ?

And ive never seen a Monk smoke.

Having been informed of the law you now wish to ignore it.

I guess it will not be long before you're back telling us the police are harassing you.

The spirit if the law is to keep alcohol away from students. How well it works is another matter. Move your business. Next time do better research before you open at a particular location...

yeah he'd be better off opening a knife and gun shop by the looks of things, an funnily i bet they would allow that?

More than 1,000 rai of paddy field was flooded Wednesday as the water level rose one metre higher than the Chao Phraya river

The abrupt flooding was apparently a result of the government’s three-day drainage tests

oopsies

Dont worry each family affected will get a shiny new tablet to eat and 500 baht for damages.

Lets just hope by the time they realise something has gone wrong that its not too late.

What you mean like , let the water out then go for lunch for a couple of hours!

That's a very trusting wife you have there

What's the purpose of said hole Mr Travelmann?

I just like digging!!!

Haaaa no its a water supply for my hobby of growing palm trees but as Im down Hua Hin way its quite dry down there and wa s just planning ahead.

A month or so later it was half full and that in the dry season, I removed all greenery from the land and now any water runs straight into my hole, I expect its full by now but I havent been down there for 10 weeks.

Thanks cmsally.......I'm asking for a reason, I reckon there is a calculus for the water consumption of trees. I'm trying to work out how many hectacre's of forest have been lost, and by dint how much fresh water is rushing unused into the sea.

Incidentally, I haven't seen many flood reports this year.

Dont worry Blether old chap, I dug a hole to catch all that water, wife in bottom for scale

I have an invisible girlfriend to stop anyone speculating

I have never understood why someone lives in a country where they are miserable. The first thing that pops into my mind is that the worldly, well traveled and educated farang was outsmarted by a Thai country girl. For that reason and now not being able to afford to relocate is perhaps why they stay.

some people are miserable wherever they are, its just the way they are.

Submaniac: For information, the Scots are as British as the next man.

Well I don't see them complaining very much.

Or many from Tibet either............... Scotland pop 5 million England 51 million

More fool them for not planning ahead , would these be the same people that keep no money saved away for emergences etc

Its taken me and the wife 6 years to be at the point where we can now think of having a baby not just humping blindly away with no thought to stopping conception.

The first thing everyone blurted out after we got married is "when's the baby coming"

Probably the same people who will spend a fortune on a wedding or even borrow it to have the wedding.............my wedding cost about 5-600 baht sheeeeeeesh I sure lost face there eh.

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Anyone in Thailand (or anywhere else for that matter) that does NOT have any of the soft green stuff to manicure anymore actually miss their time taking care of their yard or garden???

yes there is. my gardener took all that joy from me

Bloody Thais stealing our jobs!!!

Look at the bigger picture........."Earth" is my home

abolish the stupid hierarchy system and that means to the TOP............ nothing will happen

Coincidentally, this weekend, myself and a friend went to donate some clothes and books and we found the Foundation for crippled Children established by Her Royal Highness the Princess Mother. It is just north of Bangkok in Prakked near cheang wattana. The children seemed well taken care of, although they definitely need contributions. The facility houses, rehabilitates, and educates hundreds of children. There is special education for the mentally handicapped. And vocational education for the older children. Some of the kids stay there while others come for therapy. And many from other provinces.

Just behind this facility is an orphanage, a facility for autistic children, a facility for orphaned babies, a vocational center and several other facilities. The entire area must have been maybe 100+ rai.

Ive been to a similar place with Wifes work colleagues a long time ago and found it abysmal, more a case of look at the monkeys in the zoo type of experience, we fed the kids and wandered thru some ward, left some parcels and went.

It felt "uncomfortable"

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Flatery gets you everywhere.

But flatulence doesnt ,although the wife swears it wasnt her?

Op Im sorry I ran over your daughter whilst blind drunk but heres 50k baht so its ok now, she was only 8 years old but dont worry she'll come back a much better person.

Based on my conversations within my area it would seem those that have some kind of physical or mental issue are generally the result of a motorcycle accident usually involving alchohol.

There two cases here as an example, one with brain damage (drunk collision) another with missing limbs from a car/motorcycle accident.

It would seem from a brief chat with the wife that disabled people are generally kept out of the way, that is to say, not in public, or kept behind the scenes.

If a child is born with a disibility the child is generally kept at home and almost deemed as an embarrasement. Likewise employers may employ someone with a minor diability but they would never be in the customers view, kept out of sight in an office role as an example.

The wife was amazed and quite shocked on a recent trip to the UK when the Bank clerk we encountered has quite severe physical disability and she commented on how you would never see that in Thailand.

Probably like guttering "not beautiful"

As for one group with disabilities, you certainly do not see a lot of wheelchairs out and about.

I have wondered about this before and thought that , in the case of wheelchair bound individuals, that it is hard for them to be out and about in the general streets and markets and shopping/eating areas. The streets and sidewalks and markets are not well equipped to deal with wheelchair bound people.

Going further, there could be less wheel chair bound people around, from vehicle accidents, due to inadequacies of treatment after an accident. ie: the person dies, rather than lives and is thereafter wheelchair bound.

Getting around Thailand is difficult enough even when able bodied, I can only imagine a wheelchair in a Bangkok street.

For those of you wishing and hoping and predicting that one day there will be a revolt against corruption, you all live in la-la land.

Opinion polls conducted by Abac continue to support this attitude.

The percentage of respondents who did not mind corruption by a government as long as they also benefit from it was 64 in January 2011, 64.6 per cent in November 2011, 64.7 per cent in January 2012, and 63.4 per cent in June 2012.

With those sorts of statistics, corruption isn't going to come to a grinding halt any day soon. And....ask any of your Thai friends for their opinion. Most will likely vent anger and disappointment. Ask them what they'll do about it...they will just shrug their shoulders.

Which is because they dont hold all the cards/ guns /tanks/ planes but ONE DAY like all revolutions it WILL happen.

Condolences to the poor Policeman.

Based on other similar cases, let me make a quick prediction as to the outcome:

1. Suspended sentence, accidental death verdict, community service, no jail time.

2. Someone finds their bank account swells considerably.

Yep F****ing pathetic you could say Red Bull sh*t

Lake is a comedy character not a real person, he is no different to Ali G or Borat, the actor who created and plays him is called Christopher John Treebus, and is a comic genius, he also wrote the part of Brendan the Irish gypsy trying to make it big in Britain, he is played by his partner Freddie Jordan, they are a gay couple and are happy living in a shabby looking flat above a hairdresser's in a small town in Berkshire.

According only to you and your pseudonym on you tube