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Quick... to the cellar..... a Twitter is coming!

Sounds like some a'holes pockets got burnt on this. Nice one. I hope it teaches them a lesson.

Many years ago I paid for 850 meters of cable so I could have a phone and internet. They have since run phone lines along our road but I mention this just to show it's possible. Living in the rice fields is the best thing ever. https://www.flickr.com/photos/99821753@N05/10638332744/

This image used to be on the Ministry of Culture website (until the 2011 Songkran episode):

The offending image was changed after the MoC condemned topless revellers during the 2011 celebration and a flurry of people pointed out that the MoC had an image of topless girls on their website !

When my kids have grown up and left home I'm going to hang this in my bedroom if the wife is okay with it

May his gentle soul rest in peace with the Lord. I just keep doubting why almost a day can't past without us hearing about the death of a British here. What is really the matter with them dying so many here?

First of all you assume he has a 'gentle soul'. He smashed a mirror in anger for goodness sake. Then you assume there is a 'Lord'. If there is a Lord and and he's watching over us then why didn't he take care of this (angry) gentle soul when it really mattered. Religion makes me sick to the stomach. As do people who preach it.

There is science and there is reason and logic but there certainly is no God. Pathetic thinking.

RIP,

Made some bad choices....

1) Wrong kind of woman...

2) falling in love with same.

3)Hitting a mirror and breaking it....broken glass cuts, cuts bleed...sometimes way too much.

Bad choices.

I see no mysteries here.

I agree completely. My condolences to the friends and and family of the mirror. I feel a grave injustice has been done and no one so far has mentioned the fate of the mirror. Meantime we have a guy that smashed a mirror in anger, might have even picked up a piece of it and cut himself deliberately after finding out that his 'girlfriend' was cheating on him with another farrang. I mean...come on!!! That's what bar girls do for goodness sake. Multiple streams of income etc..

The mirror did nothing wrong.

Very little forecast for the entire month:

http://www.accuweather.com/en/th/khiri-mat/320970/astronomy-monthly/320970

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Quite right too. Sorry my last one crossed over this one.

Most Thais who are in the modern consumer culture grew up in circumstances where buying a new appliance or vehicle was a big event.

Most of us took those things for granted... it was no big deal.

Spot on. Well said.

Stupid country with stupid gun laws. A@#ssholes. The NRA kill people for profit!
Don't bother replying or arguing with my opinion because I won't reply, I won't even read it. I have had my say about this and that is all.

australia needs to introduce re- education camps preferably in the outback.Teach them the wonders of donald bradman,jack brabham,herb elliot, etc etc plus the almighty socceroos.Then teach them some skills including sport,and just for fun get them braking up rocks,digging holes and then filling them in.They have obviously got too much time on their hands and have no direction in life.Perhaps all they have to listen to is whingeing parents wanting to go home?

Play them some midnight oil.

Blue Sky Mine was okay though.

The quickest way to get Oz citizenship is to be a world-class sportsperson - then you will be given your passport and fitted for a gold jersey.

Green & Gold.

I don't mind when I hear the driver was the fatality. One less idiot to try to avoid but this time it sounds like the driver is the only one unhurt. Seems very unfair. I'm off out to buy some more amulets.

What a bunch of cynical posters you are.

".....requested a budget .......... to support officers who will be working on land and in water to watch over the reefs ".

They are doing what they should be doing in my opinion.

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The Chinese are driving on the opposite side of the road to what they are use to. Driving fast in unfamiliar surroundings is only a recipe for disaster. It has nothing to do with Thais.

This has everything to do with thais, its probably the Thais fault for being there.

If the government had not pushed to attract the Chinese then the accident wouldn't have happened.

Being the only country in the area to drive on the left is also the Thais fault

Besides the motorcyclist should have had more amulet's

Careful now axact. You're likely to make a hole in your cheek if you poke your tongue at it any harder.

Heart-breaking. There's nothing more to say.

It seems like the last 5 times I've done the visa tun to Mae Sot it has changed and you never know which window to go to at each stage and end up stuck behind 30 Burmese at the wrong counter so here's how it worked for me yesterday.

Entering the bridge on the left to exit Thailand the window is no longer one of the brown ones at the front. After them are 3 new white booths. You need to go to the last one and window number 9. Get your photo taken and your exit stamp and walk over.

At the Burma end it's still on the right hand side. It was the 2nd last sliding door. Go in and sit down. Way less formal this time. No computer check, no photo taken. No forms. The officer just stubbed out his smoke, stamped the passport and asked for 500 baht. Have a nice day.

Walk back over to enter Thailand on the left. Walk past all the windows (and all the Burmese - not easy with the tight barriers to the road now and go to window number 5. Again this is a newly constructed white booth. If there is a queue there never mind. Go straight to the front and politely ask for the arrival form to fill in. There's a writing desk behind you. I saw a farrang fill in his form and then push straight to the front again to get processed. I'm not sure if that's acceptable or rude but when I filled mine in I went to the back of the line as there were only 3 people there.

As always double check they gave you the correct entry stamp.

There was no health checks for Ebola this time.

I hope this helps some folks. Otherwise you could end up waiting for two hours behind Burmese AND in the wrong queue all the time. It can get bloody hot standing around there.

Cheers

Ollie

"...whose hands were clinging onto a cloth around her neck attached to a light fixture".

Probably just me but I can't visualize or make any sense of this description.

Unless that's the design of the dress it's a lot of blood.

Glad to hear you have the support of the police. That's a good start to clearing your name.

http://www.state.gov/m/ds/dssmw/fugitivelist/226330.htm

Erez Arsoni

I'll keep a lookout for this scum but he's likely in Pattaya or Phuket.

Astronomy is my hobby and my telescope is smoggin' useless right now. I have to look forward to the breaks in the cloud during the rainy season.

39 in Sukhothai. The wife was out in it digging up shrubs. I flat refused and said we should pay someone to do it. She's nuts that way. It was still really hot outside at 6am today.