MaxYakov

4 hours ago, colinneil said:

Police advised the man to get a helmet?

What the hell, police should have not allowed him to leave until both father and daughter were wearing helmets.

Or sporting bandanas on their noggins...

1 hour ago, natway09 said:

I cross Sukhumvit Rd in front of the police box at Soi 4  & see all the time red light dashes & not stopping 

for pedestrians when turning left.

The BIB have 8 cameras in the police box to witness this & could even if they wished, look outside the window.

What do they do,,,,,,,,,,,, nothinjg

As I stated HERE. What would you have the cops in the box do? I'm sure the video (assuming the cameras work) would be accessed only if there were a fatal accident or some other interesting event (such as a man punching out his GF).

Ferris: You killed the car* - Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986

* = It was the Ferrari which had starred in the movie

Simple: Eliminate a lot of cars. Start with the frivolous-use vehicles and continue on to taxis. Impound and crush taxis where they refused to use the meter.

A merge gone bad. Trying to figure out what the road designer's intent was to merge the traffic into the main road. In the USA, there probably would have been a stop sign for the side road traffic. Then I realized that Thailand doesn't have many stop signs.

Then it dawned on me: Thai motorists, particularly motor bikers, do not like to stop or be stopped!

And they've gotten used to non-stopping merges and have gotten pretty good at it.

However, IMHO, non-stopping merges can cost more in accidents, as is illustrated by this fatal accident.

What be expected from a country that has a chronic case of "motorbike disease"? The same laws of physics are in effect in Thailand (regardless of popular opinion).

What's the typical "half-life" of Ferraris that are driven by idiots?

A little duct tape skillfully applied and it will be fine!

1 hour ago, greenchair said:

How did you make the jump from child head injuries to prostitutes and back to head injuries? 

The mind boggles? 

Errrr... That would be "prostitutesis".  

2 hours ago, hottrader77 said:

were you a headmnaster in a former life me and mates are all laughing at you ha ha 

Simply paid attention in what was pretty good English class and teachers. What's your excuse?

I don't like to see the English language murdered. Get enough of that from the Thais.

Unbelievable that someone would carry those valuables in a separate bag (that could be easily snatched or otherwise separated from one's person)!

4 hours ago, jouec said:

I'm a single Dad, and I just don't take my daughter in for these sort of days.

In fact when she was in her previous school, they told me I couldn't take her in on Mother's Day!

That was a horrendous private school though, full of Army & Police kids. 

The hatred for luk kreungs was palpable as the kids had been brainwashed by their families

Are you sure? Maybe so, but also maybe the kids quickly get "brainwashed" the opposite direction (or lose their school indoctrination):

Wiki entry for Luk kreung:

"In more recent generations, luk khrueng have become accepted and even highly embraced by society, and many luk khrueng have carved out a prominent role in the entertainment industry in which their often-fluent English and their Caucasian features (such as fair skin, larger or colored eyes and tall physique), which are deemed attractive in Thai culture, have proved to be advantageous. Much of the Thai population finds luk khrueng highly attractive because of these features, and within teenage culture, they are also extremely popular.^[6]"

Note: The citation [6] for the quotations was a book published in 2001 dealing with "mixed-heritage Asian-Americans".

See also[edit]

• List of luk khrueng people
• Bui doi

Misprinted Mis-struck 1 Baht coins 40,000% more valuable

32 minutes ago, manarak said:

yes, that among other things that are in dire need of regulations and control, such as

traffic

education

vocational training certificates

big game corruption

labor regulations

...

 

instead they concentrate on chasing street vendors away from places where said vendors were part of the icon tourists were coming for.

The low-hanging fruit syndrome. The items you listed are too difficult.

3 minutes ago, utalkin2me said:

There are novels with only a single period in them. Under 300 words is not even that bad. 

Best sellers, I'm sure. Can you name one? (are we off-topic enough or should we continue?)

36 minutes ago, hottrader77 said:

the army government did the same thing in pattaya they took away all the seats on beach road nice big comfy seats all along its 2 mile stretch and replaced it with only 2 seaters and only about 10 of them in a 2 mile stretch and cleared alot of girls working on beach road off the sea front to make it into a family orientated place , so tourists now have to sit on the floor at side of the beach as all the 10 seats are full and tourists sit on a dirty floor with cochroaches running about over them as there is nowhere else to sit also alot of girls disappeared as they got sick of the constant harrassment of the army authority messing them about and fine them all the time also they never spend any money on cleaning the beach and sea up so your swimming next to rubbish in the sea at pattaya beach and also rats are running about and living on the beach and also many thais who do taxis motorbikes go onto the beach and piss on it at night sometimes in the middle of the beach where people sunbathe a disgusting habit and as i say the army authorities never clean the beach so the money must be going in their pockets and treating tourists like rubbish is only going to send the wrong message they are useless and brainless people running it now and i cant wait till the thais have had enough of the army and get back to democracy , they also stopped the businesses putting deckchairs on the beach 1 day a week on a wednesday so the businesses are losing more money brainless baffoons same ones that are in charge of kao san road 

Wow! A 297 word sentence (according to the Mac's UNIX wc utility) with only two commas and without an opening capitalized word and a closing period. This has to be some kind of record. It makes me tempted to doubt the quality of the content.

4 hours ago, whaleboneman said:

And just how much is a tuk tuk from Khaosan road to Tijuana?

How much you can pay? ?

1 hour ago, Derek B said:

May I ask why a photo of a submarine as profile pic?

 

Historical significance with me (although I believe it's a Russian missile sub). Then there is this "lurking" characteristic and the torpedos... ?

"Traders spoke of a once busy and eclectic road and a thriving trade being obliterated in the name of progress and order."

Errr... Shouldn't that be "peace and order"?  Peace and prosperity, what's that?

This is a nightmarish story and superglue has always given me nightmares. I don't think I've used it once where I didn't stick one part of my body to another. Next time I have to remember to wear latex gloves and eye protection!

1 hour ago, LivinginKata said:

Just 2 nights ago 6 of us in Kata Pizza Co. 6 glasses for coke. 6 plastic straws, We handed back and chanted save the planet. Staff thought us crazy. 7-11 the worst. Buy a small single item must put in a plastic bag, I decline the bag. They insist store policy is to bag. Sigh

Carry your own plastic bag - No 7-11 crew has ever refused to use mine (even when they are from FoodLand).

20 minutes ago, DoctorG said:

I am with you there Max, but tourists usually do not have the facilities or inclination to do that.

Agree, it will have to be done with a total elimination action (aka force) such as what happened to the aluminum/steel can pull tab that was replaced with one that stayed attached to the can. The hotels could offer non-tap (pure) water dispensers at no separate charge to encourage, at least, re-use of plastic containers. I don't understand the replacement of plastic bottles with glass. Sounds untoward. Why don't they, instead, offer metal even if not vacuum-insulated.

I imagine it's impractical to hit the war surplus market for U.S. Government Issue military canteens (which were metal alloy, not glass!) with the optional fabric evaporative cooling cover, yes?

6 hours ago, DoctorG said:

The article was a bit short on detail about alternatives. Any place that you do not feel confident in the tap water you are going to have to buy water in plastic bottles. Tourists are not going to walk around town carrying a glass jug.

I walk/ride around with a stainless steel 500 ml vacuum bottle, no problem and a lot better than a plastic bottle for keeping drinks cold/w ice. Make my own ice in fridge (to ensure ice is not from tap water) from 20 l bottled water service (recycled) and have been buying 12 baht, glass-bottled Coca-Cola at 7/11 lately (which I immediately empty into the thermos with 50% ice). Better than plastic and even cheaper than the sugary drinks people, particularly the Thais, like to buy from 7/11 and carry around in plastic bags.