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When I was in country a few years ago, I asked the Immigration guy on the way in whether a copy of the passport was sufficient and he said yes unless they are out to get you for something :-). I was very polite and he just smiled.

My Australian wife and I are looking at moving to Thailand when we retire, although that might be sooner if I can't get a job soon :-(. We are budgeting on living near Chiang Mail for about $A1,500-2000 and plan to use that as a base to explore the region. Whilst we like our luxury, are also happy with budget quality lifestyle if where we are is interesting.

High speed trains are expensive, they would want to be pretty sure that they will get the patronage as the annual interest bill on $100 Billion baht will be a burden for a long time whilst they pay it off. I live on the Gold Coast in Queensland and they are building a fairly useless light rail project at the moment. Does not terminate at a major transport hub until at least Phase 2. The term white elephant comes to mind.

Seems rather silly to be caught over staying. The rules are in place, we very well may bitch and moan about them (and we do), but their country - their rules. We are just guests there and if we don't like it, go back to where we come from. If you live by the rules, you can stay permanently, buy a condo and live reasonably more comfortably than you generally can in your home country for a similar amount of money.

If he had a girlfriend and had run out of money, you may wish to guess who dobbed him in, either the girlfriend or her family. Just saying......

I am not sure if it is a right in Thailand, but from my understanding, the Thais (if you are a foreigner) let you contact your embassy and arrange for legal representation. But if as the story says, he was questioned by a US Justice official, he is certainly within his rights to demand having legal representation before answering any questions. I know that I would request that at home or abroad (I'm an Australian) and I have nothing to hide (at least from the police :-)) but one never knows what they are looking for and it is not completely unknown for them to get it wrong occasionally.

OK - I'' bite. What does sep ili mean?

Was at a wedding reception recently. They have done the bridal waltz and the DJ announced that it was time that all of the married men stood up and went to stand with the person who made their life worth living. The poor bar man nearly got trampled!

Yes

Oh please! That okie is older than I am!

Absolutely brilliant

You my friend are on a roll - or are trying to get to Super Member really quick? :-)

Wow, can someone last that long???? :-)

Cute!

AnMP was seated next to a little girl on an airplane so he turned to her andsaid,"Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up aconversation with your fellow passenger."

The little girl, who had just started to read her book, replied to the totalstranger, "What would you want to talk about?"

"Oh, I don't know," said the MP. "How about global warming,universal health care, or stimulus packages?" as he smiled smugly.

"OK," she said."Those could be interesting topics but let me askyou a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff -grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty,but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?"

The MP, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, thinks about itand says,"Hmmm, I have no idea."

To which the little girl replies,"Do you really feel qualified to discussglobal warming, universal health care, or the economy, when you don't know sh!t?"

And then she went back to reading her book.

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My teacher pointed a ruler at me and said:

A Guy's eye is

Faster than Google in searching a

Beautiful girl in crowd...

In Bed,

It's 6AM,

You Close Your Eyes for 5 mins...

...& it's 7:45

But in Office,

It's 9:30am

You Close Your Eyes for 5 mins...

& It's Still 9:31

Let's be frank, shall we? Some radical elements among the redshirts are not one iota better than the brownshirt intimidation and assault squads during Germany's early Nazi era.

And if you're stating such an obvious and undeniable correlation, you are often branded as being "against democracy and social equality" by some of the redshirt sympathizers in this forum. So be it.

Hey Guys, the situation in Australia is not much better at the moment. The government is in trouble mostly due to its own incompetence and corruption and when a local newspaper chain (owned by Murdoch) takes them to task, they threaten it with forced sale and laws to curb free speech. Sounds like Thailand is a beacon of freedom by comparison.

Boom Boom

Oh Yeah - mind you, one could use any prime minister, president or actually any pollie

I'm a thai and it's so nice to hear the good news once awhile on this TV that not all thais are retarded and incompetent.

I have had better luck with both doctors and dentists in LOS than back in the home of the brave.

When I was in Thailand in 2006, I met an English gent in Pattaya who had a DVT. Went to the international hospital and got seen, treated and with a follow up and got change from 200 quid. Sorry, but I have never thought that Thais are incompetent or retarded. You are definitely different from us Occidentals, but just like us, you have good people, bad people, clever people and not sso clever. I still plan to retire there.

You really enjoy living dangerously don't you? Or are you single and likely to remain so :-)?

An aeroplane was about to crash; there were fivepassengers on board, but only four parachutes.

The first passenger said, "I am President Obama, thechosen one. The world needs me, I can't afford to die."

So he took the first parachute and left the aircraft.

The second passenger, Julia Gillard, said, "I am theprime Minister of Australia and I am the smartest woman in Australian history,so Australia's people don't want me to die."

She took the second parachute and jumped out of theaircraft.

The third passenger, Bob Brown, said, "I'm theleader of the Australian Greens and the nation needs my guidance and myboyfriend would miss me."

So he grabbed the parachute next to him and jumped .

The fourth passenger, ex-PM John Howard, said to thefifth passenger, a 10-year-old schoolgirl, "I have lived a full life, andserved my country the best I could. I will sacrifice my life and let you havethe last parachute."

The little girl said, "That's okay, Mr. Howard.There's a parachute left for you. Australia's smartest woman took myschoolbag!"

Is your name, Kevin Rudd (currently Australian Foreign Minister - and full time bag of wind)?

Actually I thought it was, "dam_n, I knew that I shouln't have got an iPhone!"

Think what a ridiculous idea it is: all those ships, all that technology and they don't know where the coast is and can't figire out who they are communicating with? They would have know a full day or more -- and had photographs as well as actually eyes on it from aircraft -- of anything potentially in their way.

And the commander of the whole operation -- a man with decades of experience and training etc an entrusted with HUGE responsibility - gets in an argument with some guy on the radio?

You must be a real joy at parties!

The idea of resentment over global power is something largely invented by yourselves to shield yourselves from the reality that most of the rest of the World don't look to America for hope or inspiration. Except our British Government, it seems...

Guys, It is a joke! Chill out! Besides the USS Montanna is an Ohio class missile sub - itwould be nowhere near there!