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The problem is that Pattaya Second Road and Jomtien Second Road are completely different roads? For years people here at TV complained about the construction on the road between Pattaya and Jomtien and always referred to it as Second Road construction, since the route started out on Pattaya Second Road

Based upon jbrain's post, the road that I always thought was Second Road in Jomtien is in fact Thap Phraya, which now extends all the way South to Chaiyaphruek and beyond

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I may be wrong Langsuan man, but I think the correct naming is that Thappraya road ends at the Thepprasit intersection and from there on either Jomtien beach road or Jomtien second road starts.

I am myself a little confused but East of the Hanuman statue idirection Chaiyapruek s Jomtien second road while South of the statue is Jomtien Beach road. Not sure what the section between The Hanuman statue and Thepprasit road is called.

As I understand it. Thappraya Road runs all the way from Pattaya Sai Sam intersection (at the overpass) going south all the way to Thepprasit Road intersection. Technically that is where Jomtien 2nd Road starts and runs all the way south past the statue, past the Rhompo markets, and all the way through the intersection at Soi Wat Boon (Soi Boonkanjana) and on to Chaiyapruek 2. It also runs past there but the road has been partially closed for ages although I see that it can now be driven on - not sure where it winds up but I think it runs eventually on to Sukhumvit heading south.

I see that they've installed traffic lights at the three intersections (The statue, Watboon, and Chaiyapruek 2), maybe 3 or 4 months ago but not been commissioned yet. ironically one of the lights at Watboon was taken out in a car smash last month.

I'm not sure of the name of the soi that runs from the statue to Jomtien Beach Road - many of the locals just call it Soi Zero as the next cross Soi heading south is Soi 1. Or it's sometimes called Soi Jomtien Complex, or "the soi with the gogo bar"

• These are the only KH models as listed on the website I previously posted. This claims to be an exhaustive list of all Kawasaki motorcycles. http://www.cyclechaos.com/wiki/List_of_Kawasaki_motorcycles

Here's the answer. $188,666,125.76

And here's the link http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

Thanks, and thx for doing the calculation. About 190M.

No problem, glad to help. So......can I offer you an investment strategy for your 190M? Only ask for 0.5% commission.

It's normally around that 50klm point in my experience in most cars/trucks I've owned.

Had a VE Holden (Chev) that had a fancy trip computer that would count down the distance you could travel on the fuel remaining. Once I was caught a long way from the next gas station and I watched the warning light come on and the trip computer said 58 klms of available fuel. Next town was 65klm away as I calculated later.

I nursed her at 80klm/h and watched the trip computer count down the kilometres. It got to only 3klm's of juice left but I still had 6klm's to travel. At about 3klms to go the computer said I had 1 klm of gas left. I made it. The computer stayed at 1klm but it was a bit hairy seeing that lone single digit on the trip computer for about 3klm of travel. I filled the gas tank up and managed to fit in 1/2 litre less than the supposed tank capacity, so I assume there was still a safety margin built into the system somewhere.

Here's the answer. $188,666,125.76

And here's the link http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

Well if we are talking about inflation and that calculator is a fun calculator, just work out the inflation rate between 1980 and 2005 and then factor in that $100 of gold you bought in 1980 would cash out at $100 in 2005 and you find that your gold will have lost over 80% of its value. A total disaster. 25 years of it.

Agreed re the price of gold. However, it traded in a huge range during that timeframe so anybody who felt gold was the correct asset to have their capital invested in would/should have been actively buying and selling to take advantage of the trading range. I'm a firm non-believer in the buy and hold investment strategy for any form of investment. The market (all markets) never move in only one direction - you have to take advantage of the ups and downs. Lord save us from a stable/stagnant market!!

Here's the answer. $188,666,125.76

And here's the link http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

http://www.cyclechaos.com/wiki/List_of_Kawasaki_motorcycles

This list seems extremely exhaustive. No KH750. And I always remember them as the H2 or just the Mach iv, but usually we just called it the H2 or obviously, the widowmaker.

Edit: there's quite a bit of reference on the web to a KH750 that refers to a KH500 frame and fitted with a H2 750 motor - maybe that's where the legend has arisen?

If they are serious, they will need 50 new courts and 100 new judges this is so widespread of a violation. Why are they wasting time and resources on this 'victimless' crime. Does anyone believe that Rolex will lose a sale on a genuine Rolex watch because someone spent 1,000 Baht on a fake? No one who buys fake/counterfeit would pay retail for the real thing anyway. Are they worried it will give their brand a bad name if it fails to perform like an original? Anyone who buys fake knows it is fake because of the ridiculously low price they paid and do not expect it to be as good as the genuine article. I don't see who is being hurt except some people trying to make a dishonest living (common in every country). This is good for Interpol and it seems to make them look useful but really, aren't there more pressing crimes with actual victims that should be a higher priority? Does Interpol have every other crime under control that they can now focus of pirated goods? I don't think so. This smells of corporations pressuring politicians.

I suspect it's because the manufacturers of the genuine goods don't want copies to be available so that the prestige of the original goods remains high. Imagine a rich woman is sitting in a restaurant sporting her genuine Rolex, original LV handbag, and wearing some high fashion dress - the whole ensemble costing 30,000 dollars. In walks a chick fresh from her Thailand holiday sporting the same stuff at a cost of 3,000 baht purchased from street vendors in BKK. Watch the rich woman go green!

Most of the fashion or brand name genuine stuff is horrendously over priced anyway - the best way to maintain the price and the demand for their goods is to eliminate the copies. However in SE Asia, it is a mission that is virtually impossible.

Can't be much of a Fresh Fish market. At the market I go to in Jomtien the fish are still jumping around the table and have to be euthanized while you wait with the assistance of a wooden club. I feel a bit sad having to select a specific individual for euthanasia.....normally the one that's jumping the most.

Buy a decent knife and try filleting yourself - it's easy enough and if you're going to eat more fish it might be a handy skill for the future.

It's bad enough with Thai words that mean different things in English. Seen a bar full of staff pissing themselves when the Farang staying in the room upstairs lost his key. Instead of telling the staff that he'd lost his key, he mixed English and Thai and said many times "mai-mee kee, mai-mee kee". The more the staff chuckled, the more he said it.

kee/key in English = s**t in Thai.

Don't consider it to be revenge, consider it the right thing to do in protecting a fellow human being from being duped. Go for it!

There's actually an online community dedicated to baiting the 419 scammers. Here's a really interesting link how to bait them and scam them back, it's actually turned into an internet sport. http://www.419eater.com/html/baiting.htm

Somebody in the US makes a real hobby of scamming the scammers and he has had them do crazy things like dancing and singing on Skype or similar, and then he posts them on youtube. He also did something like convincing them that he had no spare cash but had 100 brand new laptop computers that he would send them (for the school charity or whatever the scam was) if they paid the international freight - he then sent the a pre-loved (knackered) gas oven COD and they had to pay the freight to get it released from customs - about US6,000 or something like that.

Just had a look on the web and found this video about scambaiting the oven as above.

Go to the following link - it's pretty much spelled out what their terms are and how to cancel/when you can cancel etc.

http://www.fitnessfirst.co.uk/learn-about-membership/how-to-cancel-membership/

Look at the Beatles; "I SOAR a film today Oh Boy" There's no R in SAW but that's considered proper English. English is almost impossible to define.

I agree with you. How do you say the number that comes after 39? Most English speakers would pronounce it fourdee, with no hint of a T. Or the word sweet - most would say sweedt with no aspirated T as it should be correctly spoken.

English is a very bastardised language. But as to the OP's original question, he's probably best to consider using a "middle English" (dare I say Oxford English?) accent as this will more uniformly conform to written English and word/letter structure.

. The "T" in sweet is aspirated if he word is spoken alone - try it.

In the phrase " sweet bun" , the T would have the aspiration "absorbed" by the "b" in bun. This

is well-known phonetics.

I don't disagree, if spoken properly and in accordance with the Oxford pronunciation. But in everyday conversation as many will say sweedt (closed mouth dt at the end) as will aspirate the T with an open mouth - try it.

Aussies can't say NO. It always sounds like NOI for some reason. I knew an Aussie English teacher that wasn't even aware until I pointed it out to him. It's not like a strong NOI but they say NO then raise their jaw which creates the y sound. I love Aussies but when they say NO it sounds like NOI.

Actually, depends what part of Aussie the speaker came from. Even in Aussie and NZ we have dialects of English that are virtually impossible for a non-Aussie or non-Kiwi to pick up on.

Then why bother to speak to us then??.

Define who "us" is. I don't understand your question anyway - are you trying to make some specific point? Please clarify.

If I (as an Englishman) cannot understand what you are saying then what is the point of having a conversation?

Example: If someone was talking to you in Hebrew what would you respond with?

You have misunderstood my post. I said " Even in Aussie and NZ we have dialects of English that are virtually impossible for a non-Aussie or non-Kiwi to pick up on." This means that we have slight vagaries of accent/dialect in our spoken English that we can determine between but a non-Aussie or non-Kiwi won't.

A good example is that most Americans and English that I've met are unable to tell a Kiwi from an Aussie based on speech unless the Aussie or Kiwi has a very strong accent that highlights the key differences in our two forms of English. To an Aussie or a Kiwi, the accents are miles apart. And even inside each of those, we have a range of dialects that can be differentiated only by our own ear.

Just like in say a range of villages in Sussex only miles apart, the inhabitants will recognise somebody from a specific village based on a slight variation in their accent, that to an outsider sounds identical.

Aussies can't say NO. It always sounds like NOI for some reason. I knew an Aussie English teacher that wasn't even aware until I pointed it out to him. It's not like a strong NOI but they say NO then raise their jaw which creates the y sound. I love Aussies but when they say NO it sounds like NOI.

Actually, depends what part of Aussie the speaker came from. Even in Aussie and NZ we have dialects of English that are virtually impossible for a non-Aussie or non-Kiwi to pick up on.

Then why bother to speak to us then??.

Define who "us" is. I don't understand your question anyway - are you trying to make some specific point? Please clarify.

Aussies can't say NO. It always sounds like NOI for some reason. I knew an Aussie English teacher that wasn't even aware until I pointed it out to him. It's not like a strong NOI but they say NO then raise their jaw which creates the y sound. I love Aussies but when they say NO it sounds like NOI.

Actually, depends what part of Aussie the speaker came from. Even in Aussie and NZ we have dialects of English that are virtually impossible for a non-Aussie or non-Kiwi to pick up on.

Look at the Beatles; "I SOAR a film today Oh Boy" There's no R in SAW but that's considered proper English. English is almost impossible to define.

I agree with you. How do you say the number that comes after 39? Most English speakers would pronounce it fourdee, with no hint of a T. Or the word sweet - most would say sweedt with no aspirated T as it should be correctly spoken.

English is a very bastardised language. But as to the OP's original question, he's probably best to consider using a "middle English" (dare I say Oxford English?) accent as this will more uniformly conform to written English and word/letter structure.

I know a Thai person in an identical position - abandoned and a child being cared for as well. They consulted a lawyer to file all the doc's along the lines that Mario has posted to cover the divorce and the child custody. The doc's had to be filed in the persons registered district and this involved two trips there with the lawyer. I think once for the initial filing and second for child custody appearance.

Also, in the case of child custody, two witnesses are needed to verify to the court that the child is supported etc by the sole parent and also generally endorse the claims of abandonment etc.

Lawyers costs were slightly over 20,000 baht including 3 meetings, 2 trips to the other district (6 hours each way). As Mario pointed out it could be done for free if both parties are prepared to sign uncontested at the Amphor, but if it's contested or you can't find the other party, and if custody is involved, I'm 98% sure you have to use a lawyer.

To get to the other side!

Nuh, that's far too obvious an answer...remember, this is a Thai deer!

Does the vehicle have a warning light for the cam belt? My Toyota Vigo has a light but I'm not sure if it's programmed to come on after a set odometer reading or of it has a sensor that senses any frays or loose cords around the actual belt. Just turned over 100,000klm but the light hasn't come on yet.

I was wondering why the deer were crossing the road......?

Depending on her level, I recommend a book with CD specifically designed to help with pronunciation called 'Ship or Sheep'.

Thanks for that. Well worth a try. Any sugestion where I can find.

They're actually "ship" in New Zilind and "sheep" in Orstraileea

British accent?

BRITISH ACCENT??????

American accent?

AMERICAN ACCENT??????

Jeez....imagine how much a visibly drunk Russian must have consumed based on the OP's hypothesis that almost a 750ml of vodka has no effect - we're talking truckloads by the sound of it!