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Kudos to him for not stabbing the driver with the motorcycle in motion, thus averting a possible road fatality. 

13 minutes ago, rwill said:

The wife and I don't eat at places that have precooked food.  You know they never throw the old stuff away and just keep bringing the same stuff out and adding more to it when needed.

The never-ending-stew is a taste to behold. Once spent 10 days deer stalking and we added new meat and veges to the same unfinished pot every day. Rangui Stew.

Ended up a combination of venison, goat, chamois, rabbit and I think we also got a tahr. The taste was exquisite, but the pot had to be thrown away.

I've used Sophon Broadband for over 10 years.  There office is on Pattaya Tai towards the Third Road end.

690 Baht for 20Mbps.  Rarely goes offline and then usually because some numpty has toppled a pole somewhere.

They are quick to answer the phone and can actually tell you why the system is down.  On two occasions (in 10 years) they were unable to resolve my outage issues and were at my house to check the router the same day.

Had a similar issue years ago - incontinent dog.  Tried off the shelf products to no avail as I believe the odour remained in the seat padding.  Rented a carpet cleaner and that solved the problem.

If your proposed tattoo involves any words, don't check the spelling. 

Had to force the bloke laying my tiles to use 3mm spacers, and leave a 5mm gap against the wall to be siliconed.  He thought I was bonkers.

Times have changed since I was growing up. 

Not long before it will be a "thing" that kids are scared to come out of the closet and declare themselves as being straight.

"...They told The Pattaya News that they would release the python into nature far away from the residential area."

Soi 6?

I wonder if it would have been an offence if he/she was standing up to urinate? It would certainly have made better video footage.

The idiot dropped to his knees and did a Wai as soon as he saw the coppers.  Standard Thai protocol to avoid a kicking.  If he had the sense to drop and submit, it makes you wonder how high he actually was.

More likely just your run of the mill nutcase.

10 hours ago, billd766 said:

IIRC a few airlines used to allow other airline crews fly for free, IF the aircraft was not full.

 

While that would work for cabin and cockpit crews, I am not sure if there are any permanent staff from India in Thailand.

Regarding the cockpit crew, I believe that according to the woke post-modernist newspeak language, cockpit has been politically corrected to flight-deck. 

Reminds me of the joke about a passenger asking to see the cockpit, but was told that as the flight crew were all female, the cockpit had been renamed.......and not as the flight-deck.

I remember this case.  They were importing a hand-held device that was actually a modified golf ball detector.  Not sure if they bought them from the English couple that sold them to a good number of governments, but the whole incident was oh-so-typically-Thailand.

Here's a link about the matter from 2014. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29459896

Toilet paper will be the post apocalypse currency du jour. 

I solved my sky-rat problem. I tried the plastic scary owl - didn't work.  I tried the spinning CD's - they just annoyed me.

I'd given up hope,  And then I observed they were routinely landing on the balcony wooden railing, taking a dump on said railing, and then hopping down to ingest the water dripping from the A/C drain pipe.

I also observed they usually came in pairs, and narrowed it down to actually only being two pairs of birds that were roosting on the A/C compressors of two long time vacant apartments on an adjacent condo.  It seems these two pairs had isolated my balcony as their preferred source of H2O.

I covered the pipe outlet so they had no access to the water. After about 5 days they stopped coming.  And there has been no pigeon turd on the balcony railing or tiles now for several months.

Funny thing is, I've since observed other birds doing the same thing to other condo balconies I can see.  I even know where my two pairs of pigeons get their water. 

Don't know if this will help anybody else, but it's worth a try.