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Don't ask them how much, just tell them where you want to go and tell them how much you will pay. Up to them. Every price is negotiable in Thailand.

Last week I was at a motorbike taxi stand and the bloke that got there before me (two week millionaire judging by the blue varicose veins on the lilly white legs beneath the brown baggy multi-pocketed "standard issue" Beach Road cargo shorts) was asking how much to the same place I was going. He got told 200 baht and accepted the ride.

I laughingly told the "boss" at the stand that I'm going to the same place he was and I'll pay the usual 80B plus a tip if the driver drives safely. Laughingly, they accepted.

OP - I'm not trying to be smart, but one has to wonder why you didn't inform yourself about these matters before marrying a Thai National, or deciding to live and work in Thailand.

Can you say "I go wid you" ?

Footnote:  I don't think this OP will win the award for Troll of the Year, but nice try anyway.

Thx 4 da vid.

Tick......Tock.......

It sounds like The Nation is saying Prayuth still has a chance to decide (by his future actions) whether he is ultimately judged to be Captain Hook or Peter Pan.

I hold a full EU HGV licence and have driven 38 tonne articulated vehicles many times. A driver of a fully-laden vehicle like that would indeed be very unlikely to notice a rear impact by a sedan car. It is also possible that any flames were in the truck driver's rear blind spot, which is surprisingly large behind the trailer.

Or course it is also possible that he just didnt look in the mirror.

I agree - the impact would not be particularly noticable by the driver. The inertia of the 34+ tonnes versus the puny weight of the car (even at a considerable speed differential) would mean the driver would probably not notice anything untowards. I'm involved in the transport industry and over the years have had several similar such incicents occur with our fleet. The drivers reported not feeling any impact - but they did hear the impact.

However, a driver should be aware of vehicles approaching from the rear (day or night) and something about his story sounds a bit dodgy.

Let me think.......save 100-200 Baht by walking or driving all over BKK in the heat, parking problems, traffic problems, probably buy the wrong filter, and buy petrol engine oil by mistake.....or having my male appendage slammed in a car door.

The latter sounds less painful.

The fresh food vendors in the market that have their kids beating off the flies with an inflated plastic bag on a stick get a gold star from me. Those that have the little electric motor with two inflated plastic bags rotating on a bit of coat hanger wire get two gold stars.

But

I saw on the fresh market, when there were not many customer: Shop with meat, meat full with flies so he took the insect spray and sprayed the meat.....

More about that: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/696288-major-evidence-that-low-carb-diets-not-needed-for-long-term-weight-lossmaintenance-success/page-7#entry8028984

Yep, seen them spraying fly spray on the food as well.

But if you see them spraying the "fresh" meat with an innocuous looking spray bottle, be very wary. Formalin is being used as a preservative.

Murphy's choice - injest Maldison from the insect spray, or Formalin. My poison of choice would be the insect spray.

Unless the chap mentioned in the OP departs and re-enters Thailand frequently enough during the year on a Retirement Extension and Multiple Re-Entry. You have to report 90 days rom your last rfe-entry, not 90 days from your last report.

You'd only have to do two trips at the right frequency and not have to do a 90 day report (less a few days epending on how long you're away) at all until close to your next extension date.

The process involves a bank employee and an immigration employee. All of whom receive tea-money. Tea-money moves upwards in both organisations. Being investigated internally at either organisation is therefore unlikely as it's been going on for years. Although the recent clampdown by the military may possibly put a spanner in the works.

The best rate I'm aware of in Pattaya is 11,500B as of last week.

Anybody who thought the NZD was overvalued last week and leveraged to buy a truck load of THB heavily at the peak, and just unloaded the Baht with a 3% NZD profit would be quite happy.

Especially if he also bought 1.5M Baht of real money at the same peak and has it in a FCA in NZ.

He could live happily in Thailand for another year on the profit.

Just sayin'.

I wonder how full the bottle of JD was?

5000 USD. If it was mine no amount of fingers would have got to it unless I was incapacitated. When you are carrying that amount you simply take double care and precautions. Yes you could be subject to a violent robbery, but pick-pocket I think not unless the poor unsuspecting victim is a complete loon!

I concur.

Has that guy never heard of money belts? Either completely naive or barking. Either way, some people should not be allowed on the plane.

Ever tried getting $5,000 into a money belt and still getting it through the belt loops? IMO, anyone who has never carried around $5,000 at one time should quit harping on the guys that do.

I managed to stuff 200,000B down the front of my nickers once, deposit for my truck. Uncomfortable ride on the scooter to the car shop though - frontal overcrowding of the shorts.

Ebay ?

Dtaa phom.

Dtaa is the same as "eye". Mid tone, then rising for phom. Or use your own name or age classifier instead of phom.

Don't use it when saying "turns" as in a number of events or number of times, as in "two turns". Us Khrang with a high tone which means occasions, number of times, occurrences etc. as a numerical classifier.

A classic comparative example of US v UK comedy is the show "Office". The original UK version is classic satire. The US copy version is total crap because it "tries" to be funny.

I thought that they both sucked.

There is plenty of good American comedy and plenty of good British comedy. People who can't see that, are usually the ones with the problems.

As my full post only discussed satire and compared two specific programmes in relation to a US v UK stereotypical perceptions of satire, I do agree with you that there is plenty of good comedy that comes out of America.