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Just what we need, another 200HP rice-burner!

Now if they came out with a 427cu.in. V-8,with ape hanger bars, then I'd perk up.

Good luck on the bends.

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Can you please take down that picture of my scooter parked ouside the WW Agogo.

I happened to be visiting a restaurant close by, but my missus peruses TV and she may not understand if she sees it. Thanks in advance.

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OP - here's a tip.

If you speak/understand sufficient Thai and something is said about you that illicits a laugh/smirk from other Thais around you, and you're 50/50 on whether it's a good natured joke or a belittling comment, (because of the nuances that we learners don't interpret well) - simply adopt a neutral/polite smile, clap your hands at the joker, and say "gaeng maak maak louei" (loosely translated in the context as "that's really very good", or "a really clever comment").

If it was a genuine friendly joke, the joker and all will laugh more with you because they think you understood and it was in fun. If it's a shot at you, the joker won't laugh or he may do a double take, and depending on who made the comment, the others may laugh louder at the joker because he loses face as you're implying that you know what he said was derogatory. And even then it's all taken as a huge joke - a bit of double entendre which Thais generally love.

Either way, you're a winner. Although saying it to a cop in the wrong mood may not be a good idea.

Interesting - was there any reason he might have said that to/about you? Did you catch any of the other words he said?

Here's a description of a multi vote system that was advocated by one of my favourite authors, Nevil Shute. In his novel "In the Wet", he described a fictitious system that had been adopted in Australia. The book was written in 1953.

In the book, a person can have up to seven votes. Everyone gets a basic vote. Other votes can be earned for education (including a commission in the armed forces), earning one's living overseas for two years, raising two children to the age of 14 without divorcing, being an official of a Christian church, or having a high earned income. The seventh vote is only given at the Queen's discretion by Royal Charter.

While perhaps a little dated, the theory implies that the vote of the unthinking "common man" can be outweighed by the multiple vote/s of the educated, those that have strived in business, those that have lived stable lives etc.

I always thought the idea had merit.

Post it.

I want to buy a bar in Jomtien, so if you know of anybody who wants to sell, drop me a line.

Economists and Weather Forecasters are the only two professions that can get it wrong more than 50% of the time and still keep their jobs.

The incentives for the politicians to reach a compromise were not strong enough. He should have told them to come out of the room with a mutually agreed solution or they would all lose their heads immediately.

Now THAT would have seen them reach agreement in double quick time.

A girl on a bike just asked me where i go and jokingly i said cambodia..... she replied "you get shot if you talk like that" and rode off.

There goes the lift... you were just about to be offered.

ha yea..... the bar girls seem to be in a panic here.... there's negotiations happening on the streets that would make any government look incompetent!

Appreciate your ironical comment, but regret to inform you that ALL governments are incompetent by default

But you say it is filtered? Do you happen to know what the filtration system is?

Whatever it is, it will be as clean and effective as a 2 month old handkerchief folded in half.

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This one should be interesting.

Ok...what is this?

A sybian controller?

Good guess....no.

Umm, whats a sybian again? I forgot.

It's an old school video game controller. I think the top knob was also a joystick from memory.

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A thingy for adjusting tappets. But gimme a ring spanner, a screwdriver, and my trusty old feeler gauges any old day. Much more fun!

you dont know a lot about Thailand or its culture do you, Most respectable Thai women would not be seen dead with a foreigner.

Then i know several High So Thai women that must be dead on legs. Several TV female personalities are also married to Farang.

Not to mention more than a couple of female members of the Royal Family.

Perhaps Thongkorn's information and research only extends as far as TV Forums.

A reminder to check the card insert area for any add-on skimming devices and always cover your hand entering the PIN. I nearly pull the front off the machine in my exuberance.

I had a little turd of Eastern European extraction stand at my shoulder the other night and had to wave him off - well actually I towered over him and used language my Mother would not be proud of - he wasn't impressed but he moved. Heard of a few recent attempts (but nothing in the media) to do a grab and run as the money comes out of the slot.

I don't understand how these guys get pinged. They must be thick because the BIB's investigating abilities are close to as useless as tits on a kipper.

Do they stand in suspicious group at a single ATM for 30 minutes and get observed using multiple "no name brand" cards while stuffing notes into a 7/11 bag?

Their MO should be one machine, one card, for one transaction (say 20,000B), then go to another machine 1.5klm away. Change your clothes/crash helmet every three machines, and use ATM's from different (all) banks. You could do this all day in Patts and get half a mill, then repeat daily without ever using the same machine twice in a week.

So, the Chinese, the Vietnamese, the Malaysians and others all decided not to say anything about the US shooting down a plane? I don't think so. I think that even a hint of US military action would make for an unprecedented feeding frenzy.

What makes you think the US did the shooting down anyway? Don't you think anyone else is capable of doing it?

If your post was directed towards me, I concede that it could have been any of the military in the area including those twenty eight countries taking part in or observing the exercises at the time. If you apply the razor theory however, it points towards the US or arguably the UK as being the most technologically capable.

One wonders how he explains the millions being spent by multiple govts, including the US, on the search effort if they already know where the plane is.......

It's called a 'cover up'. The more time, effort, and money invested in a cover up tends to lend credibility to the hypothesis offered by those covering up.

I'm going with the Occam's razor theory on the basis that among competing hypotheses, the one with the least assumptions should be selected. More complicated solutions may eventually prove to be correct, but in the absence of certainty—the least complex hypothesis should be selected.

Somebody in the US military got trigger happy accidentally, or the plane was considered a security risk (correctly or incorrectly) and the instructions were issued to bring it down. The quantum of misinformation released subsequent to the disappearance regarding flight paths, hijackings, transponders turned off, etc ad infinitum is just too far fetched to accept.