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Does make you wonder if there are some worried people when 2 of Khun T's daughters fly to London with 150 kgs of luggage then claim they are only there for a week.

Link http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/ex-thai-pms-children-cause-online-uproar/story-e6frfkui-1226761389615

You need that many pairs of shoes for a week in London.

Hi there Kitty Cat ... did 'Are we are war yet' posted by dog torturer not last long enough ...

Please be smarter and less transparent next time.

Love your style ... ... you're an asset to the Forum.

Sorry did not read that post.

Although I am just interested in a time frame really.

Less transparent ? I'm not smart that's a given fact.

The best post in that thread was by Rimmer - "One reported nonsense post removed". Absolutely classic!!

Don't worry. The tanks are expected to be rolling any day soon. With excellent strategic planning they're having a late coup this year to muck up the tourist high season. The traditional coup season is September/October.

Then expect 10 months of pontificating as all the players pay off old debts and stake claims to new favours, and then the carnival will begin again with a new set of players but ironically, the script will be unchanged.

Then if you're sick of the story and want to jump ahead a few pages, just hit the FF>> button to 2016.

C'est la vie.

Fat balding Foreigner wearing a wife-beater and shorts. We can safely exclude 8% of the Western foreigners currently in Thailand from the list of suspects.

On the other hand, looking for a fat balding foreigner in Tourist areas is like looking for a soi dog - you fall over 200 of them on every street corner.

Oh my goodness ! you must feel so out of place ..............'andsome man !

It's a cross I have to bear.

Following on from the James Bond theory, as well as the bullet proof vests, anti chase nails and artillery, they might have flogged this little idea from the famed 007 as well!!

Love the RD, looks awesome, clearly lots of care gone into it! Do you race the gsxr or is it mainly track days? I had a 2 year stint in the new era league in the rsv cup some years back, great memories!

Thanks - the RD has a history. After riding RD350's as a kid back in the 70's, I had a hankering for one as I approached my 40's and bought this one as a rolling wreck in 1997. Spent lots of dollars and hours restoring it - parts from all over the world via early ebay, and then for some stupid reason I sold it (along with most of my stable) to raise cash as part of a divorce settlement. That was in 2000. Saw it advertised for sale in 2002 and bought it back. It was still in as new condition, so I decided to do the jets, pods, and pistons, ports etc. Goes like a cut cat but I seized her twice because of inferior pistons not handling the over revs. I think once I didn't set the ring gaps properly either. Fitted wiseco's now and they can take the punishment as long as you warm her up. With rejetting (7 sizes up), she only likes one place on the rev counter, and that's way into the danger zone. Power band is awesome though.

Re the Gixxer - this one only trackdays and club racing. I had a K2 that I raced and more recently had a ZX6 that I raced in our Formula 3 for the last few years, and over the years have raced most classes at club level. TZ's, now they were a thing of beauty back in the day. I've seen a few around Pattaya attached to sidecars selling somtam.......my heart bleeds.

Nice looking Ducati. I love the breed but have never actually owned one. I don't know why that is. I got hooked on the RD's and then the Kwakas, and they blew everything else away back in the day, so European bikes were never on my menu.

At home I've got a GSXR1000(K7), a 1980 Yamaha RD400G (fully restored and wiseco's, pods, rejetted, DG expansion chambers), and a 98% restored/rebuilt Honda CB550F that I've done as a café racer.

I visited them last month and gave them a pat and a tickle under the chin, bit of a wash and a polish and nice new covers as early Christmas presents.

In Thailand I've got a PCX125 and a Honda Click 110. And while I miss the track on my Gixer, riding around Patts on a scooter is so invigorating that I don't miss track riding as much as I thought I would. Dodging the baht busses is nearly as much fun as dragging a knee around a corner.....nearly!

Mind you, I note that the Looney Season has started and the fresh of the boat, two week millionaires are running amuck on their rented scooters.

Hats off to the bloke at Thepprasit Road today - wearing a bandaged left knee and left foot (I suspect from an earlier accident), went past me while I was stationery at the lights, then proceeded to squeeze through too narrow a gap at speed, clipped a car and fell off on his right side. If you're reading this and it was you, I'm the bloke that rode past you as you rolled on the ground, gave you a toothy grin and loudly called you a prat.

Got any pics of the RD? used to love those when I was growing up

Here's a few, RD as initially restored to standard, and then with expansion changes. The seat isn't original as I could never track down one that was NIB. The CB partially restored as a café - it's rideable now but just have to fit the rearsets. And my Gixer in race livery.

At home I've got a GSXR1000(K7), a 1980 Yamaha RD400G (fully restored and wiseco's, pods, rejetted, DG expansion chambers), and a 98% restored/rebuilt Honda CB550F that I've done as a café racer.

I visited them last month and gave them a pat and a tickle under the chin, bit of a wash and a polish and nice new covers as early Christmas presents.

In Thailand I've got a PCX125 and a Honda Click 110. And while I miss the track on my Gixer, riding around Patts on a scooter is so invigorating that I don't miss track riding as much as I thought I would. Dodging the baht busses is nearly as much fun as dragging a knee around a corner.....nearly!

Mind you, I note that the Looney Season has started and the fresh of the boat, two week millionaires are running amuck on their rented scooters.

Hats off to the bloke at Thepprasit Road today - wearing a bandaged left knee and left foot (I suspect from an earlier accident), went past me while I was stationery at the lights, then proceeded to squeeze through too narrow a gap at speed, clipped a car and fell off on his right side. If you're reading this and it was you, I'm the bloke that rode past you as you rolled on the ground, gave you a toothy grin and loudly called you a prat.

Yeah, but this is the first time I can recall that a city official has been reported as actually pointing the finger (metaphorically) at the BIB and telling them they aren't doing their job.

Good on him and we can hope that something tangible comes out of it. Yes.......hopeful I know, but it's got to start somewhere.

I learnt the hard way that it's one sharp blow to stop, and two to carry on/proceed. Now have a very nice ding in the chrome bumper after reversing into a wall.

Mind you, I'm still fairly sure I felt the bang before I heard the whistle. The security guy didn't hang around to debate the issue.

before you stick your card in, grab that lump of plastic and give it a hard yank, if it comes off easy you are the proud owner of your own skimmer, maybe if lucky even a small camera

Yep, always do that but with a modicum of caution.

I've nearly been the proud owner of the front dashboard of the ATM - it must have been pulled at so often that the whole panel was about to let loose.

I can imagine trying to explain it to the BIB.

What about buying a condo within resort and rent to tourists? Or there is still too many places where people can stay?

Thanks

petr - I don't rent properties and never have done. I have a slightly warped view on both the risk and returns of residential type properties that is in the negative. I invest in commercial properties (not in Thailand), and that is done through companies that have a genuine reason to occupy and trade from the property. That's a different story.

If you're a novice buyer and don't have a network of potential occupants for your condo - I'd say you're possibly looking in the wrong direction from an investment perspective. If however you have lazy money and perhaps intend occupying the condo in the medium term, then you have different reasons for purchasing.

For me it's all about risk v return and comparative investments. My earlier reply implied you can get a 3% return (and better in some countries) from a rock solid bank. So if you buy a condo you can expect an additional 3-4%, maybe a little more. You have to decide if that profile fits your investment desires.

Do the math - if you unit is only occupied 30% of the time (and that is quite normal over here), then you're really losing investment opportunity on your money.

There is generally no wrong or right in making investments at the time of the investment. It's only TIME that proves the initial decision wrong/less wrong/right/more right etc. I've made investment decisions that on the face of it should have been wise......until the fan gets hit with the dung. Made other investments that were basically throw away money, and they've paid big dividends.

Spread your risk, don't put all the eggs in one basket.....old fashioned clichés but no less relevant today.

Didn't take long for this thread to go pear shaped did it!!

OP - he meant that your 90 day extension expiry date is 30 days longer than your annual renewal. "Come back 30 days early" means even though your 90 day expires in Feb, your annual renewal expires 30 days before that. Just do your annual renewal as normal, and then your 90 day reporting as usual at next expiry.

He was basically reminding you not to forget to do your annual renewal, even though the 90 day reporting date expiry is 30 days after that date.

Edit: I've heard of several cases where guys on a retirement permit have assumed that the 90 day reporting date somehow supersedes the annual renewal date and they've lost their retirement permit and had to reapply, plus pay overstay fines etc. He was trying to do you a favour by reminding you.

I'm skeptical, TA.

Me too - that's a Kiwi fridge full of my favourite brand and advertising my favourite music station. I suspect it's located in Dunedin or Christchurch.

Edit: Yep, googled it, and it's an old promo they ran back in 2010 to win a Smeg fridge full of beer. On a side note, Smeg is just not the right name for a line of kitchenware.

Bypassing the fuse - a very bad idea. If the fuse is hot and then blows then there may be a partial short circuit and that needs fault finding and repair. Maybe the fuse rating is not correct. Get a qualified electrician.

 Seems good advice thanks - can you recommend any please? Maybe someone with enough clout to check 500 units if I can convince the management committee there is a problem that is.....

I wouldn't bother. Virtually all electrical installations are faulty at the time of installation. Twenty years of alterations, repairs, re-jigs, fuse jumping, mickey mouse modifications means that essentially, the building is no more dangerous than it was from day one.

If you live up to the 20th floor, buy a quality mountaineering rope and a set of abseiling gear. If you live any higher, consider a parachute.

And while I'm slightly tongue-in-cheek with my reply, it's not too far from reality, and the evacuation advice is sound.

Chateau de Cardboard?

Missus just told me that the Red Shirts are holding a protest at the corner of Thepprasit and Sukhumvit, opposite Tesco today (Thurs14 Nov).

If today's the day you were going to buy your baked beans, you might want to reconsider.

She also tells me that the news on TV is advising people to have plenty of cash on them in case the banks have to suspend services due to all the current crap going down in BKK.

I was told the "compulsory" insurance stays with the bike through change of ownership. Anybody riding it is insured.

i think they are German Shepherds in disguise.

.....and doing a damned good job of it as well!

I confess to having ridden a Hardley once. The owner was an acquaintance in a Ulysses motorbike club, a club for over 40's. Most of the club rode sportsbikes (and knew what the throttle was for). This guy insisted that his Sportster was as good as a any superbike on tight twisties and begged me to swap with him for a 10klm section of gorge riding to see what I thought.

He went through first and waited for me. I rode his Sportster at full revs all the way and used the gears as you would on a sportsbike (not easy on a Harley). According to others waiting with him, when he heard me ringing the neck of his bike he said (and the guy had a bad stutter), "J J J J Jeez, there's n n n n no f f f f f f f urkin need to ride it like that!.

Handed it over to him, footpegs on both sides were a little short, exhaust stunk like it had a dead fish strapped to it, and the engine had that "overheated" smell. Not quite cooked, but reasonably well done.

We swapped back to our own bikes and carried on. Three klm's later his bike died - seized. I felt slight remorse, but then I thought nuh, it's the designers fault, not mine. I found out later that the cheapskate was using 30 weight oil because the bike had a tendency to burn oil and he thought the heavier the oil the better. Numnuts!

That's the first and only time I've ridden one, and don't really feel the need to repeat it. It was a scary ride and everything about them is wrong - brakes (lack of), handling - absolutely none, acceleration - you nearly fall of backwards from lack of it, transmission - well, it has a transmission box but it's really just for show.