Gsxrnz

And the correct protocol is BEFORE you tell her you're leaving her, have all your ducks in a row as in bags packed and personal <deleted> sorted. Even better, just do a runner while she's out eating or getting her hair done.

Don't continue to share a bed with a woman you've already told you're leaving her. At the very least, remove all sharp and blunt instruments from the apartment.

Sirs

Ladies( not just bargirls) say i am funny,got lovely blue eyes and hung like a donkey, i need to get away from Thailand,getting mobbed so much.Word gets atound that u are well hung and its getting bad now

Are you perhaps getting mixed up between a Donkey and a Mule.

Den

......or an Ass, which I think is more likely.

Sirs

Ladies( not just bargirls) say i am funny,got lovely blue eyes and hung like a donkey, i need to get away from Thailand,getting mobbed so much.Word gets atound that u are well hung and its getting bad now

Mr. Bernie Flint (Cockney slang for skint/broke), I hope you realise that to a Thai woman, the translation of "hung like a donkey" means anything more than 4 inches. You've seen the local condoms right? Really handy if your little finger gets an infection and you want to keep it clean.

Sorry to burst your bubble.

Blokes with big ones never actually say anything about it, they don't need to.

*little off-topic*

"Moo 10 Tambon Nong Prue, Amphur Banglamung, Chonburi province"

I thought this was an address in east-pattaya (nongprue).

Still haven't figured it out how the addressing system works here, or is there no system?

My "Moo" is 10 too and I'm way down towards the end of NPW on the Darkside. I guess it's a very big moo.

Most of "Municipal" Pattaya and Jomtien is in Moo 10 with a Post Code of 20150. And all of Tambon Nongprue is in Amphor Banglamung. and all of Amphor Banglamung is in Chonburi Province.

Not to be confused with Chonburi City, and Banglamung City.

However, as to "is there a system" Yes there is, but tell anybody your formal address and they will never find you.

Ok, but Nongprue is only at the east-side right? Nongprue is the city with it's own mayor so it's not Pattaya ... right?

Rather than explain it to you, go to Wiki and all will become clear Grasshopper.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang_Lamung_District

as my dear father used to say, "cats don't belong in fridges".

I miss his wise words

You're slipping with your particular style of Troll grammar.

You used an uppercase 'I' at the start of your second sentence - this does not conform to your cashpower norm.

However, I'll give you a Brownie point for failing to use a full-stop.

very unfair that bargirls are looked down upon and denigrated. in my country it is quite normal for young women to work as barmaids part time while they finish their education. it is not fair to attach a stigma to these girls just because they serve alcohol.

Hows your multi condo purchase going ? Did your flights work out OK. ?

I thought he was renting a Lear?

I think this is the real thing.

I've never blown it, bought it about a month ago near Siriraj

Hmmm....made in Japan I see. Pity they couldn't have bought locally, considering the political correctness and all.

Could it be that this law abiding Russian guy just saw an original, fake

copy of a replica iPod and thought it's necessary to confiscate the item?

Nuh, He's just a regular tea leaf.

*little off-topic*

"Moo 10 Tambon Nong Prue, Amphur Banglamung, Chonburi province"

I thought this was an address in east-pattaya (nongprue).

Still haven't figured it out how the addressing system works here, or is there no system?

My "Moo" is 10 too and I'm way down towards the end of NPW on the Darkside. I guess it's a very big moo.

Most of "Municipal" Pattaya and Jomtien is in Moo 10 with a Post Code of 20150. And all of Tambon Nongprue is in Amphor Banglamung. and all of Amphor Banglamung is in Chonburi Province.

Not to be confused with Chonburi City, and Banglamung City.

However, as to "is there a system" Yes there is, but tell anybody your formal address and they will never find you.

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I rarely get chated up in bars ,when i once asked a girl why ,she said"you live here ,you know to much ,not worth wasting time on people who live here".

As a resident I've had similar feedback myself. The first time "two week millionaires" are the ones the girls can spot and will target.

It's funny as a fight to watch the girls reactions when an obvious newbie walks into a bar (especially gogo bars). The newbie has eyes the size of a Frisbee, his tongue hanging on the ground, a winter suntan (so white you need sunglasses), wearing new but ill-fitting Beach Road shorts and a Chang/Singha wife-beater. He wai's everybody in sight while saying sawatdee krup so badly it sounds like Russian.

The girls can almost see the flashing "Newbie and Stupid" sign over his head and gravitate to them like a magnet.

I've seen reasonably intelligent looking blokes no sooner get their backside on a seat and they've been conned into drinks for 3 girls plus the service girl, then Mamasan wanders over and scores one, then he's throwing Ping-Pong balls, then a second round, then the girls bugger off for their next newbie victim that walked in.

One girl usually stays with him (as organised by the girls on a rotation basis or who needs the money the most basis) to see if they can offer further services, but usually the bloke is a bit slow on the uptake or often it's the chubbiest of the girls that stays, and then she leaves him as well.

The newbie is then left sitting there with no company and his Bin is 2,000 baht or more. The wide eyed Frisbee eyes then turn into that stunned mullet look as he checks his bin. Then he probably gets short changed and doesn't realise it.

And no.......I can't say that something similar didn't happen to me either before I got my sea-legs, but that was a long time ago. width=19 alt=whistling.gif>

Couldn't have described that better myself................

Cheers. I should add that when I am occasionally approached by girls I wave my wedding ring finger at them and tell them I have a wife. Invariably, and 100% of the time, their immediate response is either "no problem" in English, or mai-bpen-rai in Thai. Aahhhh.......Thailand.

I have often wondered. Is there a Thai word for irony ?

Ilonnee.

Boingggggggg

My Missus I-rrrons my shirts. And her verb to describe what she's doing is I-rrroni. Goes out of her way to nail the R, but doesn't manage the ng as in ironing, so it sounds remarkably like a Glaswegian saying "irony".

Re the whistles - I bet the counterfeit copiers are annoyed that the original counterfeiters have blown the whistle on them.

Half time - change ends!

Looks a bit like my old Box Brownie. Obviously takes the same crap pictures as well.

In Reply Gsxrnz

You might be right - But mostly irrelevant - Unless you have the data - Even point to members here that have done that in the last 12 months - This would be helpful.

This link should answer your question.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/a0e8cb69-89cb-43c4-b873-c613bb16a983/the-settings-saved-on-this-computer-for-the-network-do-not-match-the-requirements-of-the-network?forum=itprovistanetworking

What a waste time and energy.

And "what they are really trying to achieve"!!?? Maybe the one clueful guy that wrote the rule in the first place.

For the thousands of bureaucrats working on the ground that follow, they couldn't give a toss about rationality or the real world, they have their rules, and if you want to deal with them efficiently and move on to more productive pursuits you simply provide what their rules state in the format requested, they put stamps all over the papers and you move on with your life.

Put some of that creative intelligence into an activity where you'll actually receive some real benefit in return.

What am I trying to achieve?

OK its a fair question>

Simply this.....Knowledge of what works and what does not work.

Asking why ?

• Is healthier than moaning about confusion.

• Being curious rather than accepting - bit by bit - will be useful forever.

The personal benefit so far - Having a friendly and very open relaxed conversation with the officer formed a kind of a relationship that was comfortable enough for him to gave me his personal details - This is not time spent trying to 'change face' in a transaction - This is time invested in a conversation.

Next time you go to see your "friend", hand him an envelope with 10,000 baht in it and he will suddenly see your unique form of logic.

That's why he's talking so amicably to you.

Thinking this - Died a long time ago - It is lazy and unhelpful to others.

Suit yourself. It's as obvious as dog's balls that he's playing with you and leaving his answer open ended. Did he rub his chin and give you that inscrutable look as he considered your investment maturity suggestion?

You don't meet the criteria - end of.

He's implying that he could possibly consider your 85k investment as "income" and will sleep on the matter. This means he is waiting for you to wake up and smell the coffee at your next meeting.

If you feel uncomfortable handing him an incentive, don't. It happens a million times a day all over Thailand and he won't be offended.

The stupid part of this is, do you really believe the PM and her ministers are sitting around at home watching TV and waiting for the protesters to come to there homes and capture them.

Well not at the moment, but when her favourite soap comes on at 8pm she'll be glued to the telly.

What a waste time and energy.

And "what they are really trying to achieve"!!?? Maybe the one clueful guy that wrote the rule in the first place.

For the thousands of bureaucrats working on the ground that follow, they couldn't give a toss about rationality or the real world, they have their rules, and if you want to deal with them efficiently and move on to more productive pursuits you simply provide what their rules state in the format requested, they put stamps all over the papers and you move on with your life.

Put some of that creative intelligence into an activity where you'll actually receive some real benefit in return.

What am I trying to achieve?

OK its a fair question>

Simply this.....Knowledge of what works and what does not work.

Asking why ?

• Is healthier than moaning about confusion.

• Being curious rather than accepting - bit by bit - will be useful forever.

The personal benefit so far - Having a friendly and very open relaxed conversation with the officer formed a kind of a relationship that was comfortable enough for him to gave me his personal details - This is not time spent trying to 'change face' in a transaction - This is time invested in a conversation.

Next time you go to see your "friend", hand him an envelope with 10,000 baht in it and he will suddenly see your unique form of logic.

That's why he's talking so amicably to you.

At Thai banks the spread is typically 30 satang above/below the midpoint, extremely good value, the spread at Western banks is far higher and is typically a rip off.

What is a 'satang' ?

When I exchanged some US dollars for Thai baht a few days ago the spread was 32.62 verses 33.26. That appears to me to be a difference of 0.64,...or about 2%

Those nasty old banks!! How dare they buy something from you so they can sell it to somebody else and make a profit on the deal. It's just not cricket!

I like to know where those idiots are who projected that the baht would fall. They are very silent now. Never trust a online FX.

Money can't be made if the market is stable.

Lord, let us pray for a falling/rising/falling/rising/falling/rising ad infinitum baht/dollar/pound etc....at least until the cows come home and all those pips find their way to my bank account.

BOOM!

This lunatic has finally flipped..!!

Yes I think you're right.

I also believe he's become swept away with his own rhetoric (read: propaganda) and is unable to stand back and take a more lucid view of the situation.

He actually believes he's leading a righteous revolution of all the people that will not fail, that whatever sins/crimes he commits will be forgiven and proven necessary when he leads the people from the hand of tyrannical oppression.

Now....if the Thai people were truly oppressed a la Sadam's Iraq, and he had the ethics, morals, and principals of a Gandi, then I'd probably be his biggest supporter.

But he's not. He's a tin-pot corrupt political megalomaniac and if he was on fire I wouldn't even piss on him. And the same goes for every other politician in Thailand, including any colour or flavour you care to name. There's not a politician in Thailand I'd trust with 10 baht, or trust to not line their pockets at the first (and every) opportunity.

Whatever change this present disruption might bring about, the chances of the lives of the greater Thai people being improved is zero on the Kelvin scale. There will be a change in the political control of the country, there may be a new constitution, and their may be a lot of people in power that endorse the changes. But the next day it will be business as usual. Ka-ching!

I say again that the person that will eventually lead Thailand out of the corrupt cesspool it is has not yet been born and at least a generation must pass before any significant gains will be made.

I don't agree:

1. As can be seen in the protest numbers and the make up of the protestors, and as I hear regularly from my adult Thai son and his friends, people want change now.

2. Yes Suthep has quite some baggage and yes during this protest, at times, he's not been good at clear communications, and the message I hear is that folks don't him as the next PM or whatever (and partly because they a slew want new faces / different types of people) but they are prepared to follow him if he can generate actions to gain reform then an election.

Ok, I agree that there is a groundswell that want "change". But ask any of them (man on the street or politician) to clearly define what changes they want and a roadmap to get there, and they will struggle.

Do they want a corrupt free Thailand where the politicians, the police, the military leaders, and government administrators do not take bribes or commit blatant acts of thievery against the state and live on there meagre salary? And elections are heralded by the international community as free and honest?

Do they want a safe Thailand where busses don't crash routinely killing hundreds, where safety standards truly are 1st world, bridges don't fall over, and everybody obeys the road rules?

Do they want a prosperous Thailand where everybody's wealth and health are improved, income is taxed, and the government provides genuine social services for the people?

Because if that's what they want, it ain't gonna happen in your son's lifetime. Even if a Gahandi or Mandella figure existed in Thailand, and assuming he could avoid assassination, it would take him 20 years to make one iota of change as he'd be blocked at every turn - even with a groundswell of support from the majority of Thais.

And because of that, I'm of the opinion that one day in Thailand there really will be a civil war. It will be bloody and violent, and it will devastate the country. But it will only occur when somebody worthy emerges to lead the fight and rebuild in the aftermath.

This current megalomaniac may well lead the country into violence but it won't be a civil war - the irony is that he'll probably force some theoretical beneficial changes (on paper) that will not actually be followed through on, thus placating the Thai people for a while and prolonging the current corrupt system.

For the moment, it really doesn't matter who is in charge - change will only be given lip service by whomever assumes power.

Political change in itself just will not work here. The feudal system is too entrenched.

Make a note in your diary for 5 years from now and PM me that corruption in Thailand has been eradicated in the police and all government departments, and the country is now equal to the USA on the international corruption scale - it will be interesting reading. It won't happen of course, and I forecast that Thailand will be no better on the corruption scale than it is now, probably worse.

I can't figure out this one as well. If the floor or stairs move (moving walkways and escalator) Like at airports and stuff. Why people can't continue to walk. Floor is moving for me time to stop..... Not so bad if everyone kept right but people always wanna stand beside each other. I normally bellow excuse me before pushing past. Maybe I am rude but when I have been in a plane for a while I just want to go home

You'll love this - at Central Plaza on Saturday the elevator on level 4 to the outside viewing deck on level 3 wasn't working. I walked down them for a cigarette. I watched 4 or 5 groups of Thais approach the escalator at the top, realise it wasn't working and do a U-turn.

Five minutes later, two of the groups appeared at the side door to the viewing deck. They'd obviously gone in to the inside escalator, a walk of probably 50 metres, gone down, and then walked the 50 metres to the viewing deck. Go figure.

There were many that did walk down them, but it was funny to observe these two groups take the long way down.