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Looks like they are using a grinding machine to knock down all the high spots prior to repaving.

Hopefully they have stabilized the road slab to prevent the new surface from undulating.

Yes I'm sure they'll be doing that, as well as creating appropriate runoff camber to appropriate drains so that 2nd Road will be alleviated of future flooding issues.

Um....How is the fork and spoon in Thailand any different to the knife and fork in Western countries. It's normal to be holding two utensils while eating a typical meal.

Although I do note that many Americans seem to like to cut up their food into small pieces and then discard their knife. Maybe that's where your comparison is coming from.

can anybody advise if they're just resurfacing the road or are they doing new drainage etc?

Give it 6 months and I bet we'll see a gaggle of three breasted ladyboys mincing down Pattaya Beach Road.

I'm starting a factory now to manufacture 3 cup bra's in anticipation of this trend developing.

Investors wanted - please PM me.

"A 12-year-old boy this morning was arrested by police after he was caught peeping on a teen girl in the shower and stealing her underwear."

Why can't he go to an internet shop and watch porn like every other 12 year-old boy?

I thought Yingluck gave those tablets to all the kids so they could view porn in the comfort of their own home?

without electricity and wifi???

Battery charged from car socket, aircard - sorted.

"A 12-year-old boy this morning was arrested by police after he was caught peeping on a teen girl in the shower and stealing her underwear."

Why can't he go to an internet shop and watch porn like every other 12 year-old boy?

I thought Yingluck gave those tablets to all the kids so they could view porn in the comfort of their own home?

My Toyota dealer uses sealed 1/4/5 ltr cans. They give me the empties as proof, plus any left overs..

My Shell garage does the same, watch 'em uncork the can and fill.....

Interesting. Thanks.

I wonder if there was a tendency for shops to charge for a premium oil while actually pouring in some cheap grade? Maybe consumers responded by insisting to see what they pay for?

Giving the empties is standard practice.

Not only that, if you get repairs done that involved replacement parts, they give you the old parts as well.

I had to replace the two half shafts in my diff. I went home with two old half shafts, bags of seals and bearings, and boxes of brake shoes that had been replaced. At my Toyota dealer, they even make you go through the invoice to make sure you have received the old parts that they have charged you for.

I drive and ride assuming that the people in control of every other vehicle on the road woke up that morning with the sole intention of killing me.

On that premise, driving defensively comes naturally.

I wouldn't give them the implied mana that being called "organised criminals" suggests.

They're simply criminals.

Kiwis

We also invented pineapple chunks!

Yeah I'll volunteer for that. Same as the other offer - a free lunch and a beer. Supply your own bike (and don't rent a 600cc, go for the smallest you can get, or nothing more than a 250cc).

I'm in Jomtien - lots of places out here where you can ride without getting nailed by a baht bus. I even know a huge vacant car park used by novice riders/drivers.

Ridden and raced sportsbikes all my life and only hung up my racing leathers a few years ago. Also done some informal race school training at club level.

EDIT: hey I just re-read your post. It sounds like you have NO experience at all, not even a scooter. If that's the case, I suggest you learn how to ride a scooter first and learn all the handling basics of road riding specific to Pattaya on that scooter. Then when you have some road confidence, learn how to use a clutch. Happy to teach you both - PM me if you want.

If you learn how to ride a clutch bike, then try and learn the basics of road riding in Pattaya on that bike from scratch, you won't be long for this world. Riding in Pattaya is unique.

If it's cycling on off all the time and you have all taps/faucets turned off, it implies that you either have a faulty pressure sensor/backflow valve in the pump, or that there is a broken pipe somewhere on the outlet side.

Is water actually being consumed? If not, it implies a faulty sensor/valve in the pump. If water is being consumed from the cycling, you've got a leak/broken pipe somewhere.

EDIT: And checking for a broken ballcock in the storage tank is irrelevant to the actual problem, although you will have to look into the tank to determine if water is entering the tank when the pump is cycling (and all known taps.faucets are closed) to determine if you have a leak on the outlet side of the pump. I suggest you turn off your pump, ensure the storage tank is filled or allow it to fill completely so that the ballcock valve is closed, then restart your pump and see what happens. I'm assuming that you actually have water pressure at the taps - if not it could be as simple as repriming the pump.

The OP is talking nearly three months.

And all the big (and most of the small) condos in Jomtien have an office that manages short or long term rentals on behalf of absentee owners.

Yes the price varies season to season and is more expensive for short term, but to say that the "don't look kindly on short term rentals" is misleading in my opinion.

I take it you're not a golf lover then?

Personally, I think the America's Cup would have been a more logical target for your scorn.

But I do take your point.

I go to Tesco occasionally. However I find that 85% of the foodstuffs they offer for sale are unrecognisable to me and no doubt probably unpalatable.

You don't know of milk, eggs, cheese, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, oranges, apples, fruit juices, bread, cake, rice, noodles etc. that would make up a vast part of what they sell!

You've got to be joking, right? There are entire aisles in Tesco and Big C where virtually none of the products on display would ever find their way into a bog standard supermarket in NZ.

I go to Tesco occasionally. However I find that 85% of the foodstuffs they offer for sale are unrecognisable to me and no doubt probably unpalatable.

Unfortunately, Italian is one of the worst accents to have to listen to as a native English speaker (after Irish and Scottish ).

I haven't heard you so my comments are a little generic and possibly stereotyped, but I do speak with a few Italians around here and they are difficult to understand sometimes unless you're tuned into them. There's something about the lilt and the dragging out of syllables and the adding of an "a" after many consonants and even vowels.

eg, written sort of phonetically, "I don't want to go shopping right now" comes out as "Ai-a dona wann-na go-a shopping-a a-right-a now-a."

Maybe work on ending the syllables with a hard aspirated consonant, and trying to remove the "a" from every other syllable. Also, try and be more monotone to remove the singing effect the language has.

There are new tyres - and there are new tyres, from the same brand... did you check the year of production?

They are manufatured in the 23rd and 24th week of 2014, or do you suggest that a tyre shop that moves a several hundred tyres each day and has probably several thousand tyres on the premises, is loaded with aged tyres?

Back in the day, it was common to buy a spare set of tyres when you bought a car and store them in a cool dry place such as a basement. Then, in 3 or 4 years when your car needed replacement tyres, the stored tyres were appropriately "aged" and would be allegedly good for an additional 20% mileage compared to a recently manufactured tyre.

I never knew if this was urban legend or not, but my Dad always had a set of tyres maturing in the basement alongside his bottled home-brew.