PeaceBlondie

I never liked downtown for beach or swimming, Preferred Kao Takiab. But that's not what this thread is about.

My partner bought his PXI three weeks ago. Likes it so much he's getting rid of the Nuovo Elegance. Says he gets 52 km/l.

I was taught the Salvation Army was a Protestant denomination http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvation_Army_corps

Rastafarians: "Its adherents, who worship Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, former Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-1936 and 1941-1974), as the Second Advent.." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement

Weird.

In the words of Rodney King, "People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?"

I guess he's younger than Tina Turner. Would we go to see a surviving 75-year-old, 300-pound Elvis?

Columbia is Ivy League. Few Thais know that, or could name half of them.

It's gotten so bad here, that I accidentally locked my partner out of the house and rode to town when he was watering the back yard. He never says hi, I'm home; or see you later. I give up.

Welcome. Your educational qualifications are great. But whether you can find job teaching history or international affairs, who knows?

Don't list address on resume, just local mobile #. And a full color photo, to eliminate the few bigots. There is no strong bias against male teachers. BKK is a better job area than elsewhere. Good luck.

You never know. We didn't pay the land line; it was deducted directly from the landlady's husband's account. He never noticed for 2.5 years....retired police general.

It's not racism here. Even if you thought it was.

Ballpoint, that's why I belong to a local pacifist church without centralized control, who never fornicated with emperors.

Correction: small dealerships don't stock CBR150 or Phantom 200.

In Mexico and Nicaragua, dark-skinned Caucasians are called negro, the name of their skin color. President Aleman was called fat. Similar here. Politically correct here. Welcome to another world.

New CBR150, about 67K out the door. Thousands of dealers.

Thais usually, often, apparently prefer that foreigners not volunteer. Maybe they don't want our help, and maybe they prefer (not) to do it themselves. I'm often wrong.

Ballpoint asked, "When was the last time you heard of an atheist suicide bomber killing thousands? Why do you never see a war between the atheists and the agnostics reported? Yet we see christians killing christians, christians killing muslims, ...., all for purely religious reasons." I've never seen reports of a devout Christian pacifist killing anybody.

Dexadrine - called Ritalin in the USA

Maybe I am I just getting old, but in the US I always thought that dexadrine was simply called "speed". Ritalin was just a politically correct name for the same drug often over prescribed to children.

5 or 10 mg doses of dexadrine don't equate to speed. For someone properly diagnosed with ADD or narcolepsy, it barely keeps us awake and alert. There are cases of misdiagnosis, but probably no overdoses. But if your dog eats an entire month's supply of Adderol, you'll have to have his stomach pumped, as my daughter had to get.

Dexadrine - called Ritalin in the USA and Rubifen here - is NOT illegal. It is very tightly regulated for sufferers of ADD and narcolepsy.

Geriatric Kid is right, as usual, The separation of church and state, which was invented in Rhode Island in the 1600's, is NOT in Thailand. Buddhism is a State-established Thai religion that has 'divine status' here.

I know I am a little slow, but i cannot reason out why tubeless tires hole air better than tubes.

However, I also am checking and refilling the tires on my wife's bike. Whereas my CBR can go on and on with no problem.

Same here. Don't understand why tubeless should hold air better than tubes, but it's annoying always having to go and check and refill the air.

Could be something to do with porosity of the rubber, presumably a tyre is thicker and would retain air longer than a thin inner tube. Could the tubes in your CBR be imported from Japan and possibly be a better quality rubber?

I dread and postpone going back.The trips themselves. Nights in strange rooms. Fitting into their schedules. $80 meals, Trying not to mention I've been openly gay since 2001...

When asked something in Thai I don't understand (which is everything), I sometimes answer clearly, Ñgakaï pazonk," with a rising umlaut on the zonk.

If you fill with clay, the garden/lawn need to topped with porous topsoil. And a perimeter fence. Much more expense.

Yes, he would. But Chiang Rai does its own thing. They don't shop for a 20,000 baht Arai or Shoie in Bangkok.

tubes here are crap?