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From my experience it always needs 2 keys:

Key 1: - The individual key, specific to each box number, currently issued to guest XXXXX.

Key 2: - A master key which is the same for every security box in that 'bank' of security boxes. Must be used in conjunction with key 1 above.

This story seems to suggest having the master key alone gives total access to open every security box.?

Um.....I think you'll find that 99.9% of hotel security boxes of this nature are a single key set of boxes bought at Homepro or similar.

They certainly won't be Bank grade security boxes (where one keeps one's gold bullion and bearer bonds) with twin key entry.

So a single "master" key is quite normal to access all/any boxes by staff - which is a worry. A bash with a partially boiled potato would probably open the doors anyway.

I never use hotel security boxes or safes. Prime targets for any little tea leaf.

Are you a smoker?

I'm an alien in Thailand. But I live here, so I consider myself a RESIDENT when describing my situation to anybody other than the Immigration Department.

At the same time I'm a citizen of Great Britain, and a permanent resident of New Zealand. But guess what, even though I've lived for 50 years in NZ, I'm still an alien.

I could be a non-alien if I went to live in the UK, but that would be way down my list of preferred places of abode (just after Somalia).

Anyway, home is where you hang your hat irrespective of a technical/legal description used to describe one's status.

I mean, surely holding a Thai non-immigrant visa trumps holding a tourist visa doesn't it?

The problem is that if you ask a Thai what that white powder is they chuck in the food, they have no concept of MSG (as a scientific description of the ingredients, or as a health risk) and just say "make taste better", hence the confusion over the words.

To them MSG is just another flavouring ingredient and they wouldn't know which bush it grows on.

That's because it's NOT a "health risk". It's a seasoning. Good in moderation, like Sodium Chloride.

"What bush it grows on?" It was originally derived from beets, now usually chemically synthesized (like many things we eat).

In the West, we're the idiots for insisting on referring only to that particular seasoning by its chemical name, thus somehow "criminalizing" it. In all Asian languages, it has a regular name, just as "salt" or "turmeric" does. As it should be. There are absolutely NO scientific studies showing the so-called "health risks" of what we call MSG.

And please don't moan to me about how you "always get a headache after you've eaten at a Chinese restaurant". Not unless you're also going to talk about your headaches after you eat at McDonald's, KFC, etc., or after you use any bottled salad dressing, or ketchup, or eat crackers, potato chips, etc., etc....Western processed food is LOADED with MSG.

Dude, you've taken my flip response way too literally. I don't give a fig about the perceived health risks of MSG. In fact I use it myself occasionally and I don't get headaches - if i do get headaches then I can usually attribute it to Mr JW before I'd blame the MSG. And for clarity, I wasn't moaning about anything.

I was simply pointing out (as this is the language forum), that the average Thai hosewife doesn't understand what MSG is other than to describe it as a cooking ingredient, hence the confusion in Thai language when referring to MSG specifically, or generalising it by calling it a spice.

Lighten up Man - if you want to start a thread on MSG go to the food and cooking section.

The problem is that if you ask a Thai what that white powder is they chuck in the food, they have no concept of MSG (as a scientific description of the ingredients, or as a health risk) and just say "make taste better", hence the confusion over the words.

To them MSG is just another flavouring ingredient and they wouldn't know which bush it grows on.

Ah I see....no investigative police work necessary. The numptee crashed his bike and left a trail of breadcrumbs for the illustrious BIB to follow.

And to top it off, the prat left the bag on his bike for some other enterprising person to swipe. Dolt.

I bet there was some serious coinage fell into the back pockets of assorted officialdom during the construction of this replica. And now it appears to be moth balled.

On whose watch was the decision made to build it I wonder?

And why would the illustrious general not want any in-depth reporting on the matter? <---------------- A purely rhetorical question.

Please insert an alternative along the lines of:

"No, I'd prefer to have my testicles slammed in a car door."

That would be my preferred option.

So you want an entire film of clips of internet forum personalities having their balls slammed in car doors? I'll run that by the producers.

Hey JT, why the hell are you awake at 4:30am on a balmy Jomtien morning?

I'm only up because i have an early Tee off, but I have to say that your sense of humour is on fire for such an early start!!

p.s Let me know what the producers say. I do have some prior acting experience.

Actually, I've had a re-think about this JT.

Maybe if you included some video of Farangs on scooters being chased by soi dogs, as well as Farangs out walking their pedigree dogs and fighting off the soi dogs with everything from big sticks to umbrellas, to ski poles.....it would be a little more less boring interesting.

I'm off to buy a bikini as soon as the shops open and will be in training immediately.

Do you think i should shave my chest or just leave it au natural ?

Actually, I'm betting that if a certain member of the military gets to hear about this event, there may be a crack down, and I'm not talking camel toes.

Please insert an alternative along the lines of:

"No, I'd prefer to have my testicles slammed in a car door."

That would be my preferred option.

I have a live in maid. She's been with us for nearly four years and is one of the family. She takes my daughter to school, is her best friend and loves her like one of her own. She also washes the truck and does the gardens, makes sure my golf gear is ready for action and changes the water in the outside fish bowls.

She has plenty of free time and I gave her a scooter for her own use, I don't see her for most of the day plus one day off a week, but everything we want done is always done......and then some.

Quite frankly, i'd be more heart broken if she left vis a vis my missus leaving me.

I pay her 12k a month and feel guilty paying her so little but my missus insists this is appropriate, so I make sure she has extras such as any extra days off (within reason) for a family issue, and give her a decent bonus of 5k on her birthday and at Christmas.

For a 9-5 live out girl, assuming she does a good job and goes above and beyond, I'd pay her 10k and see how it goes for bonuses.

Treat her well and the rewards will come.

One wonders if he had just left the massage establishment mentioned and the girl had called her "brother" to tell him of the Chinese tourist with a ton and a half of gold around his neck that was about to walk into the street.

I can't believe the conflicting opinions. Treat the taxman like a mushroom....keep them in the dark!

The OP should invoice in GBP, no VAT (either UK or Thai). Get the GBP paid to his UK account. He will then be subject to UK non resident tax status on any interest earned, but not the core payments, which doesn't mean bugger all as he shouldn't declare the income in the UK or in Thailand anyway.

His customer has a legitimate invoice in the UK so he has no problems.

Problem sorted.

Anybody who volunteers to pay tax is warped.

If the way they use the roundabout at Jomtien is any indication, use the new one at Phuket at your own peril.

Thais don't do roundabouts.

I'm sure it will all go swimmingly.

Rather than thinking of changing your injectors (and all the tuning issues that go with it), de-restrict the air filter and exhaust. The EMS should be able to make corrections for the increased airflow and you'll get an increase in power.

Mods to an injected bike just ain't the same as a carby model. But even in the old days, the first thing we did was get a high performance filer and a modified exhaust. Then you started on the jets - but nowadays the EMS and sensors should allow you to deviate the airflow say up to 20% from stock and give you a tuned engine.

Oh, and before you even go there, check to see if you can get a new chip or a hack for the EMS to de-restrict the factory de-tune that they all come out of the factory with.

EDIT: Here's a link that provides a Dynopower Power Commander type upgrade for a PCX125i. It may be of interest. The article claims a 30% power increase just by remapping the electronics. http://www.motorcycle.in.th/article.php/Honda-PCX-125i-Performance-Tuning_Gofast

I know a Thai that runs one of these in a market, friend of the missus. The shutters go up at midnight and the meat is left in place. Shutters come down at 4pm and on goes the grill with the same meat.

I didn't know this until i did some investigation following 3 days of turbulent bowel syndrome after consuming a kebeb that my wife brought home for me.

Never again.

It annoys the hell out of BMW and Merc owners when you suggest they're driving a german taxi.

What's in a name? That which we call a doner kebab, by any other name would smell as sweet.

I rent a 3 bedroom house and a have family of four.

All rooms have A/C and I estimate a typical days usage would equate to approximately 36 operating hours at this time of year. It can drop to no A/C use at all in the cold season for a few weeks.

Plus we run fans, fridges, hot water, numerous appliances and lights. I'm the only one that turns lights off when they're not necessary.

My latest electric bill was 5,500 baht. The cheapest bill in the cold season will be around 4,000 baht.

I don't see how a condo could run up anything like a 5k bill, even running A/C 24/7.

Are you paying 8 baht per unit ?

Nope, paying the government rate circa 4 baht.

My comments take this into account that I'm paying 50% less than the OP but obviously consuming probably three times the units that he could ever consume, as in upwards of 1,300 units per month in the hot season.

I rent a 3 bedroom house and a have family of four.

All rooms have A/C and I estimate a typical days usage would equate to approximately 36 operating hours at this time of year. It can drop to no A/C use at all in the cold season for a few weeks.

Plus we run fans, fridges, hot water, numerous appliances and lights. I'm the only one that turns lights off when they're not necessary.

My latest electric bill was 5,500 baht. The cheapest bill in the cold season will be around 4,000 baht.

I don't see how a condo could run up anything like a 5k bill, even running A/C 24/7.

Statistically speaking, taking an old school train is the safest bet.

They are as slow as hell, don't fall off the rails too often (and even when they do, they're going so slow you'd hardly notice), plus there are only two trains in the whole country which greatly reduces the odds of a head on collision.

Tell the missus you're going Indian style next time and sit on the roof.

The article is an amateurish piece of journalism from almost a one man band website. All written by a dude called Jacob Maslow who obviously knows freak all about Thailand. From the website....

"The Editor of eThailand is Mr. Jacob Maslow. A native New Yorker, he spent the first part of his career as a Payroll Manager but later turned his attention to his true passion, internet marketing and writing. Now married with five children, Jacob works from his home in Staten Island NY. Jacob is married with five children."

I once saw a slogan on a bargirl's dress that i remembered. It was a total mispelling exercise that I suspect came from China. It said:

LEST PASTRY TONIHGT

I suspect they were going for "Let's Party Tonight".

Seen so many bad T-Shirts and signage here that I hardly notice it now. However full marks to the guy in Jomtien that has a small taxi hire business - his signage calls them "Texi".

I never choose the fly struck chicken at the top of the pile, I dig deep for the chicken floating in the salmonella soup underneath instead.

Oh, and ever wondered what that strange chemical smell is around the market occasionally?.......formalin.