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I'll try a test as I'm bored as hell and all the Songkran two-week millionaires have made it impossible to enjoy a quiet beer and a game of pool at my local.

Funk - a kind of music back in the 80's

Curt - speaking sharply to someone

Cuts - what a knife does

Damn - the only swear word my mother knew

i think CP works according the deoclassliberal guidelines. And where you think to see any trace from ethnocentric behavior is in my view more salintant behavior.

Can you please explain the words in red as Google seems pretty much none the wiser................ ?

Personally, considering the ethnoobtusity and regioobtusity of the original post, I think he made his point very eloquently.

I'm doing my bit for water conservation. I always shower with a friend...sometimes two.

try hang up some good insinuating drapes on all the windows

that should work

This will work. A heavy set of drapes will block quite a bit of noise, especially the high pitched sounds.

Yeah, but insinuating drapes may not be the answer and could lead to paranoia.

Just eat street food from the dodgiest looking cart you can find. Have a good sleep, and your bowels will awaken you with some urgency at approximately 6:30am the following morning. Sorted

He want to poop not to die.....But your solution will fix the constipation for at least 1 week....

Yeah, I've never heard of anybody having constipation in Thailand - virtually unheard of. If the OP wants to be double sure of sorting the problem, have a fix of som-tam with the pickled fish (bpa-laa) and the bashed up black crab with the street food.

Op - the antidote when you do get the desired result is available at all pharmacies. Just walk in (assuming you can get that far) holding your stomach. No need for words, they'll see from the green look on your face and sell you imodium or similar.

Now that's a word I haven't heard since I was in primary school in Sheffield and some sod stole my brand new plimsolls. Sodding teacher made me walk around in socks all day in the middle of winter - sadist!. I wonder if "plimsolls" translates beyond the shores of the British Isles? We call them sandshoes in NZ.

Can't help you with your request, but I've seen some big size shoes in many of the malls around Thailand that cater for the European tourists.

Despite the fact that Thai immigration choose to call the visa endorsement in my passport an extension of stay, it seems that every dictionary available defines "visa" as more or less being " an official document or mark in a passport that allows you to enter or leave a country for a specific purpose or period of time".

On that basis, I have a Retirement Visa as far as I'm concerned. Just because the word "visa" does not appear on the actual document does not alter the fact that it is for all intents and purposes, a visa as defined by common usage in the English language.

Allows you to enter for a specific period of time. Once you enter you are permitted to stay for a period of time.

You are no longer on a visa after you enter you are on a permit to stay and that is what you extend.

Not in my world I'm not. You and others like you are hung up on a word technicality.

My credit card doesn't have the words "credit card" printed on it. It doesn't change the fact that it's a credit card. My shoes don't have the word "shoes" written anywhere on them. They are still "shoes".

The English language defines the word visa satisfactorily enough - for all intents and purposes, we all have visas of one sort or another issued by Thai immigration. The Australian and New Zealand visas in my passport do not have the word "visa" on them either, but they're still visas.

Ironically, the visa stamp issued by Thai Immigration upon entry has the words "Visa Class........" on it. So even the Thais understand the word "visa".

another stupid post, a visa is an endorsement on a passport indicating that the holder is allowed to enter, leave, or stay for a specified period of time in a country. once you enter the country and the visa runs out, you go and get a extension to you permit to stay, not your visa, your visa is finished. if you can not understand that well you have no hope, keep wearing the blinkers and stay in your world, nobody want to know.

Despite the fact that Thai immigration choose to call the visa endorsement in my passport an extension of stay, it seems that every dictionary available defines "visa" as more or less being " an official document or mark in a passport that allows you to enter or leave a country for a specific purpose or period of time".

On that basis, I have a Retirement Visa as far as I'm concerned. Just because the word "visa" does not appear on the actual document does not alter the fact that it is for all intents and purposes, a visa as defined by common usage in the English language.

Allows you to enter for a specific period of time. Once you enter you are permitted to stay for a period of time.

You are no longer on a visa after you enter you are on a permit to stay and that is what you extend.

Not in my world I'm not. You and others like you are hung up on a word technicality.

My credit card doesn't have the words "credit card" printed on it. It doesn't change the fact that it's a credit card. My shoes don't have the word "shoes" written anywhere on them. They are still "shoes".

The English language defines the word visa satisfactorily enough - for all intents and purposes, we all have visas of one sort or another issued by Thai immigration. The Australian and New Zealand visas in my passport do not have the word "visa" on them either, but they're still visas.

Ironically, the visa stamp issued by Thai Immigration upon entry has the words "Visa Class........" on it. And the big blue sign below is proudly displayed at Swampy. So even the Thais understand the word "visa".

Despite the fact that Thai immigration choose to call the visa endorsement in my passport an extension of stay, it seems that every dictionary available defines "visa" as more or less being " an official document or mark in a passport that allows you to enter or leave a country for a specific purpose or period of time".

On that basis, I have a Retirement Visa as far as I'm concerned. Just because the word "visa" does not appear on the actual document does not alter the fact that it is for all intents and purposes, a visa as defined by common usage in the English language.

You know they sell that water based stuff in seven that has different aromas - much easier to wash off as well.

Yeah, but it buggers up the taste of the chips something awful!

Thai police doesn't have any tool to control drunk drivers.....

The Thai Police Boys in Brown are nothing, if not a bunch of Tools.

Mine has variable speed winders and I never encounter this problem.

...and for all you pedants out there, at Chiang Mai immigration you will go to a desk marked "Retirement Visa"

Same same at Chonburi.

Maybe one of the pedants out there should also inform the Thai Immigration service of their faux pas and set the matter right.

Hmmm.....turning the key off at red lights is a dubious practice. Fuel saved is extremely minimal, saving engine wear is negligible, but the brushes in your starter motor get hammered from excessive use and so does your battery.

And then one day you go to start it and it won't.

A quick look on the net for 2013 - 2014 3.0D-4D 4 x 4 Auto fortuner specs shows

Unladen weight 1895 kg

Gross weight (GVM) 2,560 kg

To me that says it has a load capacity of 665 kg

But, a % overload is engineered into most production stuff.

That's right Transam, and in Thailand the % overload tolerance is limited only by the drivers imagination or lack thereof.

We've all seen Vigos or similar with 3+ Tonnes of load on board that touches the sky and can't get under overpasses that are lower than 5 metres, and inverts the leaf springs. The OP could strap an elephant to the roof of his Fortuner as well as his one tonne load of stuff inside without raising an eyebrow.

OP - I'd do it, provided you can load things in a balanced structure. The coil springs aren't self levelling. Try and get the weight all over the car so you don't have all the weight at the back or front. Provided she steers safely and you allow for braking distance and corner smoothly, an extra 400kg or so (after you strip out the spare seats) won't be a problem. In fact you won't even notice it if you do it properly.

If you want to crib an extra 40-100kg, leave your spare at home and run the tank no more than half.

I've driven Fortuners and similar back home loaded to the gunnels - fat missus, 3 teenage kids, a dog, a month's supply of everything, plus a roofrack chocka with camping stuff and pushbikes, 18' ski boat on a trailer behind, and the boats loaded with <deleted> that we couldn't cram into or on top of the car.

Still got speed camera tickets. I'm not well known for observing manufacturers recommendations.

That makes the 1,850Baht imported Australian steak I had for lunch yesterday look a tad on the expensive side.

Nearly the value of 500 eggs....and that was only for lunch.....

That's true, but I stole two sachets of sugar and three toothpicks, so it was real value for money.

You really only need to counter steer to rotate the bike into the plane you want it prior to entering the turn. Unless you are power-sliding (intentionally over steering and sliding the rear wheel under power), once you start to turn you should no longer be counter steering unless you need to make a very quick correction to your line through the corner (ie. unseen obstacle, unforeseen decreasing radius turn, or dogs/kids/buffaloes running out on the road).

Off track I don't normally shift my weight fully as that is my reserve/emergency lean angle so that I can increase lean angle mid curve without low siding the bike (now that I am over my hooligan days I don't push it 100% on the street). On the street I will put 90% of my weight on the outside peg and lean with my upper-body but I leave my but on the seat unless I misjudge my line and need to get over further. Not sure why the outside peg thing matters but I was told to do it a long-long time ago and it seems to make the bike a bit more stable mid corner. If anyone doesn't know how to counter steer the easiest way is to drop your inside shoulder as you enter a curve and that will naturally cause you to push on the bar and voila you are counter steering. Even if you don't know what the hell we are talking about you likely already do it naturally.

Practicing counter steering and panic breaking are a good Idea so that if you find yourself in a bad spot you can work your way through it. Maybe the panic breaking thing isn't as important with ABS but I still think learning how your bike will respond to emergency inputs while you are still in a safe controlled situation is a great way to improve your survival chances.

Good post. Interesting about your outside foot - when I race I found that I can get better control if I put my outside heel on the peg and point my toes out at nearly 90 degrees. This allows my legs/hips to better spread (for weight shift) and get your inside knee down. I also keep medium weight on the outside foot and just by increasing or decreasing the weight, the weight/body shift allows that reserve lean angle to kick in or a decreased lean angle as necessary. Counter steering on/off also comes into play, but the on/off weight also helps the counter steer to be effective.

I have my inside foot with the sole of the foot actually vertical to the bike and touching the frame with the toe on the peg. This also allows for more flexibility in the hips to spread your legs and get your knee on the mac. Helps to have GP shifting as with the foot on top of the peg it' easy to stamp on the shifter to change up as you exit the bend.

I guess we all find our different little tricks that we're comfortable with. Something many riders don't appreciate is the need to keep your head vertical while in a fast turn and look as far around the bend as is possible. I see so many casual riders going fast round a bend looking 1 yard in front of their front wheel - scary!