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Are you the "Daffy Duck" that got banned from Bangkok Tonight forum?

More weapons uncovered as the Thai police FINALLY clear out the sites of the "peaceful protester" thug mob:

https://twitter.com/joe_black317/status/434165622251859968

Don't know where Ratchada is, if it's not in BKK, they may give you a quote instead. Always tell the driver to turn on the meter right when you get in, if he refuses, tell him to stop the car and get out, take another one.

3rd (departure) floor or the ground floor - doesn't matter you can get overcharged anywhere if you're naive, the only difference is that on the 3rd floor you don't need to stay in the line up and you don't pay airport fee (they still may ask you to pay it though).

Hint: If you go to the 3rd floor, don't take a cab that stays there waiting for someone to come out (there will be few even though they're not allowed to wait there), talk to a driver that just dropped someone off. Those drivers also are more likely to refuse turning on the meter.

You don't know where Ratchada is?! Seriously? Or are you saying the taxi driver didn't (100% impossible)??

Most Thais seem to be reasonably happy in the USA but my wife only eats Thai food and it can be very hard at times because she literally has to cook every single meal she eats so she spends 5 hours a day cooking and washing dishes. I try to buy her farang food every now and then and it usually results in me being yelled at.

Haha, I'd yell at you if you tried to feed me take-out farang food as opposed to home-cooked Thai!!

There is another possibility of ror ruea ending a syllable: if 'ror reua' has a preceding consonant, but no vowel it has a 'ORN' sound

The Kasikorn bank name has both examples of this use:

ธนาคาร กสิกร ไทย

thanakarn Kasikorn Thai

We're talking final CONSONANT sound here. The simplest rule is always the best: final ร = "n" sound. Full stop.

Your best bet is to fly into Udon the evening before you're planning to apply for the visa. Take the 200 baht, 40 min. van from the airport to the border, then stay overnight in Vientiane, apply for your visa in the morning. Stay a second night in Vientiane (a very pleasant, laid-back city), pick up your visa in the early afternoon, and then leave Laos in time to make the evening flight out of Udon (same van, same 200 baht) back to Bangkok.

If you need more details than that, search the numerous detailed reports on Thaivisa.

Here's one for you: a dark, backward belief born of stupidity: "when you feel a cold coming on, take some vitamin C, or echinacea, and soon, your symptoms will vanish"...

oh, wait! that's a folk belief of FARANGS that's totally unfounded and not based on anything remotely resembling science....hahaha

It always indicates an "n" sound at the end of words.

well if this is not a troll post then I would say that once the shins are removed from the scene Thailand should do quite well. The only thing holding it back are all the finances that are being used to pander/ bribe their supporters. once it goes back into genuine renenue and used for the betterment of the whole country it will make a heap of difference. As long as we have the reds/yellows at each others throats everything is uncertain but if thaksin/the shins can be removed from the scene there is a good chance the country will do very well, especially if all the corruption can be controlled/eliminated and the police start doing what they are paid to do. Still lots of maybe's but I am hopefull and will be here to watch it unfold.

Hahahahaha...oh, c'mon, can you hear yourself talk?!?! Do you REALLY believe that corruption in Thailand began with--and will end with--one family, one administration?! Dream on, dream on...

it will be interesting to see where in Thailand there are the most juvenile pregnancy

I will not surprise if its in Issan

when you know that all girl work in nightlife entertainment comes from there

ํYou don't really believe that, do you? If so, you show your ignorance far too blatantly. A huge number of the women in the sex industry come from Central Thailand, as well as the North. The only area of the country not represented in the sex industry in Bangkok (I assume you're talking about Bangkok here, probably the only place in Thailand you've been besides Pattaya) in significant numbers is the South.

Also, in recent years, a growing number of sex workers in Bangkok are actually FROM Bangkok, as in, they were born there, and so were their parents...

Yeah, the title of the thread is rather dumb. I understand that it's an attempt to be cute with a "direct translation" of a Thai term, but direct translations seldom do anyone any practical good and usually function to make the language of origin in question sound stupid..."luk khreung" doesn't mean "half children," of course, it means "person of mixed ethnicity," or something to that effect...

I found that the most difficult part in learning Thai language is reading their texts. Their sentence have no space between words.

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Theproblemisn'tnospacesbetweentheThaiwords,theproblemisthatyoudon'tyetrecognizeenoughThaiwords.Seehoweasyitisforyoutoreadthis?That'sbecauseyoualreadyknowalltheindividualwords.LearnenoughThaiwordsanditwillbethesame.

Simple, nobody uses condoms except sex workers. Seriously, in a relationship, if one partner tries to use a condom, the other will accuse them of having cheated, "why else would they use the condom"? You're only "supposed to" use condoms with sex workers (and many don't wear them then, as well).

I wonder how the pious "oh you're so brave, good job lad" crowd would react if there were a fascist, anti-democracy movement in their country, and some random foreigner tried to interfere with them yelling at a couple of the fascist cabal? Hmmmm? Farangs in Thailand should mind their own business, especially where politics are concerned. It doesn't sound like the women and kids were in imminent danger of physical violence from the taxi driver. So the OP should have minded his own damn business. He got off lucky, IMO.

Suhkumvit 81 or 83 I forget but is on opposite side of road to tesco . If you get of BTS and walk towards bearing station on the sky bridge to the end and go down the last set of steps on your left the soi is just there . It is a rather long soi but many places down there . My sister-in-law lives there in a reasonable apartment furnished for 8,500 baht/ month plus electric. Hope this of some help

It's Sukhumvit 81 you're thinking of. I lived about 600 m in about 10-11 years ago for 3,500 a month...but that's going to be much more now. Still, if the OP is going to meet his rather ridiculous criteria anywhere, that's certainly worth a shot. BTW that's On Nut BTS station.

Are you going to whinge all the way through this thread?

??? What's your problem? I gave some practical advice, adding to another post of practical advice. Go pick a fight somewhere else, little keyboard warrior! hahaha

Suhkumvit 81 or 83 I forget but is on opposite side of road to tesco . If you get of BTS and walk towards bearing station on the sky bridge to the end and go down the last set of steps on your left the soi is just there . It is a rather long soi but many places down there . My sister-in-law lives there in a reasonable apartment furnished for 8,500 baht/ month plus electric. Hope this of some help

It's Sukhumvit 81 you're thinking of. I lived about 600 m in about 10-11 years ago for 3,500 a month...but that's going to be much more now. Still, if the OP is going to meet his rather ridiculous criteria anywhere, that's certainly worth a shot. BTW that's On Nut BTS station.

It's not about being old and boring. It's about getting blasted in your eyes by some drunk foreigner who's filled their mega water cannon with very dodgy water. If you are out and about, going to dinner or trying to get some business done, it's just not fun. Especially when that blast ruins your expensive smart phone you've got in your pocket.

If you are a tourist with the appropriate attire and ready for war, then you're OK. But this subject has been done to death here on TV.

I don't recall ever seeing a Farang (much less a drunk one) in Isan during Songkran.

Battle gear: Plastic bags for everything you don't want wet or leave it all at home.

Oh, please. Isan is crawling with farang at any time of the year. At any rate, Isan is one of the better parts of Thailand to be in during Songkran, in terms of avoiding idiots.

I dream of being here for songkran some year. It's the hottest time of the year, people throwing water all over the place, fun energetic holiday. I don't want to become old and boring. Deal with it and have fun! Try Banglamphu I hear its a little quieter there.

Haha, yeah, spoken like someone who never has been.

Granted, it was fun for the one year I engaged in it...kind of...but it gets old FAST...especially if you've previously experienced in a village (I have), where it still has the meaning it once had: it's a time of renewal, when the splashing of water is primarily intended for Buddha images at the temple, and the HANDS (not heads) of one's elders...and for the young folk, lots of fun water play. This goes the same for groups of friends in the city as well...with some good-natured over-the-head dousing too, as you wish your close friends to be washed free of all that was bad of the previous year, and a good clean fresh start, etc... This is not something I want strangers doing to me. It loses all its meaning.

It has deteriorated--in Bangkok and elsewhere--into an aggressive frat-boy douse-fest. In my one year fully out in it in the middle of the day, I witnessed some horrible things, totally contrary to Thai culture, such as the full dousing, with a bucket, of older people in business suits, who begged for the traditional symbolic pouring of water over their hands, which was totally ignored by the young punks.

Anyway, one year of this brutal farce was enough...every other year I was in Thailand, I stayed safely holed up in my apartment by day, and only ventured out at night.

I feel that for the most part, the hygiene of most Thai food service workers in this regard is just fine. How do I know this? I lived in Thailand 6 years and visited once a year for four years before that, and since I left Thailand (5 years ago), I return for long trips, 3 times a year, spending a total of 3 months a year in Thailand...

...and I can count on one hand the number of times I have gotten sick from the food in Thailand. As opposed to, say, Cambodia, where, just about every time I go, I get sick.

There is a certain degree to which your system, over time, "gets used to the local bacteria"...but this does NOT apply to, say, e-coli resulting from a lack of hand-washing. I feel Thailand is pretty good in this regard.

Bit of a shame that the OP didn't return to tell the whole story. He got what he wanted (sort of) regarding contact numbers but didn't say where he was in the country (or did I miss that?).

But he also asked for discussion on his problem, which can't have closure without the little facts being known.

Um...because he made it all up to get a rise out of us.

Obviously a wind up thread. 6 pages in and the supposedly incensed OP hasn't responded.

Haha, yes, it was obvious several pages ago that the OP is a troll. Still, it's been entertaining to see all the armchair tough guys come out of the woodwork and blabber on about how they would have "handled" the "situation," if it did indeed exist...