Coffee Dude

It is the exact opposite of Different Different but Same

I had always suspected that it was a rolled R with a bit of lazy thrown in. As example make a move to the palate with the toungue as if to roll the r but just before actual completion... give up. This creates the L-ish sound.

I have never been. But one man told me there were 2 things in his life that he would never forget. One was the full moon party and the other was the 36 hours he spent on the back of a camel in the desert of Lybia. He said he couldn't decide which was worse.

I may be wrong, but I believe that in the US you can only be subjected to a sobriety test if there is sufficient cause to believe you may be inebriated (i.e., driving recklessly, slurred words, difficulty walking).  Simply being in a night club would not count as sufficient cause to require one to submit to any kind of test.

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Yes you are wrong. In many states and at times some municiple laws allow for unwarrented check points where failure to submit to BAC test administered by breath analysis will result in your immediate incarceration. (Guilty until proven inocent) So I have to agree that the US is not MUCH different in this respect.

Coffee!!!

I hate the stuff. I tried it once in 1997 and I couldn't sleep for three days. This is a fun drug? No sleep?

last night when I finished DJ-ing, a well known farang DJ (name witheld) turned up to say Hi to my mate and immedietly disappeared into the toilet for some nose candy. When he returned he was over friendly and loud without realising it. I wanted to tell him to &lt;deleted&gt; off out of my face.

He then proceeded to have a go at the manager and tell him how to do his job while laughing at him with all his mates.

I have played at top model ***** *******'s party this year and was in the company of most of the top Thai / Luk-kreung models. Sadly, most of them were in the toilets every ten minutes powdering their noses.

" Use of cocaine in a binge, during which the drug is taken repeatedly and at increasingly high doses, may lead to a state of increasing irritability, restlessness, and paranoia. This can result in a period of full-blown paranoid psychosis, in which the user loses touch with reality and experiences auditory hallucinations "

I hate everything associated with this drug and its overrated effects.

Anyone disagree with me? Or have any experiences to share? I'm intrigued as to why a drug that makes people spout &lt;deleted&gt; from their mouths is sooooo trendy and popular.

By the way, if you ever come to one of my nights and offer me any, I'll grass you up.

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I have to give you a ditto on that. Been there done that and just don't get it either. But...To each his own I guess.

Coffee!!!

Try doing the same thing in Singapore.

Singapore is about as boring as it comes. I should hate to see Thailand go the same way

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Until some junkie mugs you, then you will ask why the Police don't do anything about drug users !!

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There are only 2 arguments that I know of as to why drugs are illegal in the first place.

1 They are unhealthy. Probably true but probably not as unhealthy as going to the Bangkok Hilton and certainly not as unhealthy as many other things that aren't illegal. On a personal note I don't want my heatlh issues to be dictated to me.

2 People who use drugs may be more likely to commit crimes. Also maybe true, but poor people have a motive and inclination to commit crimes as well so they can feed their families. Would it be acceptable to arrest people who are poor because they may commit a crime someday?

Coffee!!!

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Being poor is not a criminal offence.

Taking illegal drugs is.

Go party in Benidorm if Thailand is too strict, why bitch about it ?

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I'm not bitching DJ (I like your name by the way. There was once a fairly famous musician named Dr John the Night Tripper. He wore a hat very much like your avatar).

I was just making a point as to the possibilities of why drugs are illegal and the potential to commit an actual crime is high on the list. It was brought into analitical comparison in the Nixon era as a result of the Methadone clinics. This showed that Junkies, when offered free drugs, coincided with a decrease in crime. Then came an all out war on drugs. Simply following the same line of logic, this could be applied to poor people to lessen crime. Make being poor illegal and there would be less crime as well.

Coffee!!!

Try doing the same thing in Singapore.

Singapore is about as boring as it comes. I should hate to see Thailand go the same way

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Until some junkie mugs you, then you will ask why the Police don't do anything about drug users !!

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There are only 2 arguments that I know of as to why drugs are illegal in the first place.

1 They are unhealthy. Probably true but probably not as unhealthy as going to the Bangkok Hilton and certainly not as unhealthy as many other things that aren't illegal. On a personal note I don't want my heatlh issues to be dictated to me.

2 People who use drugs may be more likely to commit crimes. Also maybe true, but poor people have a motive and inclination to commit crimes as well so they can feed their families. Would it be acceptable to arrest people who are poor because they may commit a crime someday?

Coffee!!!

Because that was perpetrated by a small group of extremist terrorists. Not by any one religion or nation. Is this so hard to grasp? 

Quite different from the invasion of Iraq, or are you one of these ignoramuses that has fallen for a Bush-lie? 

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I can apreciate your dedication to a cause, but it is hypocritical. You boycott all American business even though all american business doesn't support the war in Iraq.

I've deleted my temp internet files, logged off and logged back in, and re-booted. I can change to a static gif and see the change but any animated gif I choose shows up as the old spinning head dude on my end.

Thailand has welcomed other cultures and taken from them what it likes and rejects the rest.  Don't forget that Thailand is the only country in SE Asia never to be colonized by a foreign power and who's reigning monarch also holds a US Passport!

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Are you sure he actually holds a US passport? I know he was born in Cambridge, Mass, and as such has the right to US citizenship, but it does not mean he has not renounced his citizenship. I've been curious about this ever since I found out he was born in the States. Does anyone know for sure if he still retains his US citizenship?

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I'd very much doubt it.

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Why should he need one ? The King doesn't have nothing. He doesn't need an ID, a passport, absolutely nothing.

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I'm sure he doesn't need one - the point being he's the only reigning King in on the planet who qualifies for one due to the circumstances of his birth.

Also, it might come in handy when he and Queen Srikit make their annual visit to Washington DC and their health needs attended to at Walter Reed Hospital.

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Things may have changed a bit recently, but before, you couldn't hold US citizenship while holding another citizenship after the age of 18. At this point the US required that you denounce allegiance to all other nations or lose your right to US citizenship. I doubt very seriously that the King would have done this. Does anyone know if this has changed?

Female heirs of the Royal Family can't ascend to the throne.

Coffee!!!

Any suggestions why I can't change my avatar?  I can remove it but no matter which one I pick to replace it I get the old one back.

 

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I wonder what's the girl in your avatar is doing?

Explorer

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You can see a girl in my Avatar? That is what I tried to add. I see and old guy cartoon with a spinning head!! What's going on?

Just because someone professes to be Islamic doesn't mean that they are. Most of what I've seen going on in the Arab world (and other areas that have been sucked into it) is so far from Islam that it would be disgraceful to a follower of that belief system. Islam is simply the following of the writings of the fourth profit of God. Mohamed followed Moses, Abraham and Jesus (referred to in the Quran as the virgin birth son of Allah). Its basic story is the same as all of the others but emphasizes "Hey, I keep sending profits and you don't listen!!!. Several lessons can be learned while reading the Quran. One is the criticism about some, but not all, Christians. The complaint is that they teach their way is the only way to get into the kingdom of God. This is one of the main failings of the so-called Islamic Fundamentalists. They say the same thing. The Quran makes it very clear, for those who believe is such things, that God a.k.a Allah will be the sole judge of who goes to heaven. And all of those who say otherwise better watch out!! "Hey, I keep sending profits and you don't listen!!!

I personally am not a very spiritual being but can clearly understand how some people can be devoted to a belief system. But I can read... and Islam is not at all what the people you are talking about are practicing.

Coffee!!!

Any suggestions why I can't change my avatar? I can remove it but no matter which one I pick to replace it I get the old one back.

Sorry I misread the question. I thought you meant drive motorbikes.

So I change my vote to yes.

Coffee!!!

Can you imagine Edison (Ed dEE san) in Thailand.

'hey guys, I've had this great idea. If we refine copper to a pure state, and make it into a wire, and then wind it around a coil, place a series of magnets around it, join it to another wire, and then run the wire through a fine filament encansed in a meticulously formed glass bulb,oh and find some way to spin it really really fast we will get an er...er....er....

[ED DEE SAN] And I've had this great idea for a phonograph...

[Ed dEE san] And there's this this this microphone so I can talk to you when I'm not here....... and a kinetoscope so we can peep in the hole and see a FLUMMOXED avatar

That stuffs' modern day equivalent all fits nicely into Karaoke bars though.

Progress can be ugly.

Coffee!!!

It is anyway astonishing to me that nobody has commented on Thailand's almost miraculous progress since the end of WW2.Despite all the difficulties progress is essentially about economic organisation and here Thailand has done very well, and I detect nothing in the Thai world view (compared say with many Islamic cultures) that will prevent it from achieving parity in my lifetime.

I can say, I am impressed with the rapidity that the Thai society and Thai people have begun to adjust to an international society and in such a relatively short time. Compared to Britain how many centuries? the USA 230 years, European countries for the most part have been at it for longer than history has been recorded very well and still have problems. Thailand as little a fifty years ago was nearly embrionic in it's growth and now it is easily recognizable as a growing capitalistic culture.

I have spoken quite a bit with the staff that works with me in my little business. They all happen to be family. They have asked me, "Why do Falangs have so much money"? The easy answer is, "Well, actually only a few of them do have a lot of money". But I go on to say, It isn't because we are magic. When I was a child.. (when the seas were young and dirt was new)... I lived with my grandmother... much like you did. We didn't have running water in the house, much you like you didn't. I had to go to the toilet in a little wooden house out behind the main house. We had a few chickens a couple of cows and sometimes some pigs. We had a small vegetable garden. That was most of what we lived on. We could sell some eggs and once a year we could sell a cow and couple of pigs to get enough money to buy the rest of what we needed. My point is... We are all born naked and ignorant. Where you go from there is up to you. It took me a very long time to get where I am. In that time I have been up and I have been knocked back down several times. This same thing will likely happen to you in your life. Every time you get knocked down you have to make a choice. You can stay down and hope you don't get kicked while you're there or you can get back up and try it again. I know that most of your life people have told you that you are just a poor Thai and all you will ever be is a poor Thai. But let me tell you something. Don't you believe it!! You can be what ever you have the courage and will power to become. But it won't be easy... If you want easy, it's best for you to stay down when you get knocked down.

I get the distinct feeling from these guys that no one has ever tried even in the slightest way to give them hope and a sense of individual 'response ability'. They let me know through action and demeanor that they appreciate this. And I let them know that when they put the effort forward to do better on a consistent basis that they will get better from my little business in return.

You are absolutely right. There is no real reason for anyone to fail. ther are only circunmstances that make it more difficult for some than others of any gene pool in any society from any cultural background.

Coffee!!!

I just got back with my TG and it cost me 40,000 baht for a 2 day trip including airfare from Samui.

I believe it has a lot to do with culture in a very broad sense. A growing number of Thai individuals have learned to make successful businesses in an international market without resorting to criminal activity. Many have not. I lived and worked in a remote part of Africa for a time. In that culture, if an individual had a job and an income, it was required tha they divide this equally among the family...a very extended family. The motivation to go out and bust ones butt and get the same reward as the other 30-40 people asleep under the mango tree was not a strong one. The result was; even if a person was lucky enough to get a job they only wanted to sleep under the mango tree rather than actually try to make a go of it. There is a vague similarity between this and the often seen situation of a child having to leave school after the 6th year to go work in the rice fields so the family could have the money. These socialogical practices work well in a survival situation like exists in the jungle or in a basic agricultural society. But, in an industrial or capitalistic society this doesn't do much for the growth of the society.

I can say, I am impressed with the rapidity that the Thai society and Thai people have begun to adjust to an international society and in such a relatively short time. Compared to Britain how many centuries? the USA 230 years, European countries for the most part have been at it for longer than history has been recorded very well and still have problems. Thailand as little a fifty years ago was nearly embrionic in it's growth and now it is easily recognizable as a growing capitalistic culture.

Is this a good thing? Many people would say no. Because the ancient culture of Thailand is why many foreigners come here in the first place. Many Thai people, especially in a rural setting don't want to change to "cityfied' ways. These things are normal. Basically it is a matter of choice. A large percentage of the people have not made the choice to pay the "price" to move in to a fast paced, restrictive albeit lucrative lifestyle change.

Coffee!!!

Samui is shit. its full of prostitutes and not all but many stupid(have no idea about Thailand) farang. Why would you want to goto any place that has a F###### MCdonalds? Never been to Phuket(dont want to) and also Pattaya( though i am keen to go for a look and see if its what people say)

Don't go!!! They have a McDonalds too also stay away from Bangkok, and Chang Mai because they have McDonalds as well. Oh my might as well go home Thailand has McDonalds.

TF

You can find after hours bars and other dens of questionable virtue in most of the places you've mentioned. You can still have fun. If you want to carry on without the search, buy a bottle or two of tequilla and invite a bunch of the bar ladies back to you place after closing time for some shooters. Usually no extra charge for that (other than the tequilla) and a great way make to make friends and influence people.

Coffee!!!

Interesting idea for a poll, Dr. Burrito, but can't find the option I want to vote for.

If anything, the "Same sh!t..." option would be closest, but don't want to pick this as it sounds too cynical. Something like "Going with the flow..." would be closer.

How about 'Riding the Rapids' or "Another Shitty Day in Paradise'. But of all the places I have lived and worked I still like Thailand the best "hands down".

Coffee!!!

I don't understand this discussion. American, Thai, Mexican whatever are nationalities not birth defects. To me, when someone says they are Mexican/American, Thai/American whatever I assume they have dual citizenship.

My children were born in Mexico to a Mexican mother and an American Father. They are Mexican/American becasue they have dual citizenship.. If I tell some of my Latino friends in Texas that my children are Mexican they can't understand how I can say that (and they ge3t a little upset at the insinuation)...even though these guys have never been to Mexico and call themselves Mexicans.

I doubt very seriously that Tiger denies his ancestral roots, however, with his mother still very much in his life.

Coffee!!!

COFFEE,

I too am ashamed of some of the things that our government has done over the past few years but I am still and will always be proud of my background...

We all make mistakes and most of the time we learn from them and learn to live with them...

But I feel we are way off the subject of helping and taking care of our expat people by lowering down to talk about anothers country....

Are we here to help others asking questions or are we here to try and outdo the others???

I like this forum but I think at many times we get carried away and forget the points or questions asked....

                                           

  I dont hate or dislike anyone!!!!!

                                            KHUNDAN SENDS

I'm not ashamed.

But back to the herding thing. I have noticed (being an American) and IMHO, in my immediate surrounds, that Americans tend to be happy to see another American (just because of the rarity of it) but don't tend to hang in groups as is often seen with others nationalities. Exceptions to this would be if an American owned establishment was airing the World Series or Super Bowl. THEN you get some herding!!! .

Coffee!!!

cricket?...'fraid not...it's Major League Rounders although played by large muscular men with large bats rather than school girls in the UK...

True...but basically it's a girl's game

Girls do play what's called "softball" in the states. It's either fast or slow pitch and some of those chicks would blow away a cricket bat with the speed they deliver!

btw...Houston Astros are going all the way this year!

Yeah!! It's about time!! Go Astros!!

As usual I am glad to learn more about hystory, geography or maybe just about english language :

2) Protection against foreigners coming to compete for the occupations that Thai nations have the ability to do and keeping them sufficient in quantify for the demand of the labor market within the kingdom;

thai nations .... with an "s" at the end .... well I did not know it was still existing many thai nations in 2004 ... In the past yes, at least it was white and black thai in vietnam ....

Or maybe it's a mistke made by the translator .... if there is one, what not other ... Who is sure this translation is well made?

This is another sample how some people spread "erronate" information to reach some personnal goals ... increase business for exemple as last year with fear about the visa control ...

Regards

ROXAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANe

This is not something that I normally would comment on but stick01 you made a comment about thai nations with the "s" and just prior to that you spelt history incorrectly with a "y" instead of an "i".

I have absolutely no connection with Indo Siam at all but if it was a literal translation then it was possibly an error in the original.

I cannot read or write Thai though I try to learn, but if you are not sure that there are other mistakes or not, I suggest that you apply for a copy of the original and either translate it yourself or have it done at one place and checked at a different translation office.

I concluded before reading your posts that 'nations' was a simple typo intended to read 'nationals' which follows logically into the context, sentence structure and intent of other nations permission to work regulations .

I truly considered voting for Samui. I opted out by a nose only because of the lower head count in comparison to Pataya. The scam brigade is beginning to infiltrate heavily though. After living here for a couple of years, my new objective is to move out. It is diminishing my view of Thailand and that isn't fair. I have to say, though, that Pataya isn't where I would consider relocating.

Coffee!!!