OneMoreFarang

value Let me correct that for you: Total retail price 94.500 THB

And the water in Thailand is warm, and it shouldn't be a problem to survive floating in the sea for an hour or two. Ok, there might be sharks, but better don't think about them. ;)

Don't forget convenience. Why spend hours in immigration and maybe have headache about this and that? It's like going to a restaurant and eating spaghetti carbonara. In theory I could do it myself, but it's not easy to get it right. So, I let the professionals do that for me and I pay for that service.

Yeah, sure, he might intend to do that. Until his boss tells him what to do and think.

Don't confuse me with facts! ;)

I am sure it's an American invention. They have ideas like that.

Yeah, sure, there was only one little crime, which wasn't really that important, correct? Next time you are in front of a judge try your reasoning and look what will happen.

Such a lock would definitely ruin the look of my bike. I am not riding a PCX or something ugly like that. ;)

In the hindsight I was always impressed by the language skills of the girls which I met. In real life their English was very limited and certainly no written English. But those "love" letters...

Should I come to your home and switch on your TV? Or maybe read to you from the news? You should try it yourself sometime, it's interesting to learn about the world out there.

There is a big difference between making mistakes and setting up million dollar scams. She didn't just make mistakes...

I would not pretend to be PM if my sister would tell me to do that. And just in case I would be PM then I would follow the law and work for the people - and not my family. And if I would do above, then I would never be in the situation to think about running away from prosecution.

I think a huge problem in Thailand is the fact that it seems everybody can be a "property agent". I.e. a laundry shop in our condominium has papers with property pictures from within the building in their window. Ask her about one of those properties and she wants to full 3% commission from the owner - without any property expertise. Same thing with some people who work in the building management, security guards, etc. I sold a property in Europe. The professional property agent had lots of expenses to sell my property. I.e. he hired a professional company with laser measurement system to measure the property exactly so that later there was no issue if it was 120 sqm or maybe only 118.3 sqm. He advertised and showed many people around the property, he paid for energy efficiency analysis and all these things. All for a fixed commission. In Thailand: I want 3% - for almost no work at all. So maybe ask the agents what they will do to sell your property to the highest bidder and how they will find those people. Instead of telling you that you should lower the price so that he can sell it to the first person who asks.

I don't know the details of the Thai laws. But basically: - the people who commit crimes - the people who help above to do that. I.e. if I am in a shop and the shop attendant and maybe a security guard look to the back of the shop. That still doesn't give me the right to steal something from the front of the shop.

I think a very smart move which many girls seem to know is to let the guy suggest spending money. I.e. they tell him the buffalo is sick. And the guy asks if he can help, maybe pay for the buffalo doctor and medicine. They tell him their house is old and when it rains its wet inside. No problem honey, I can pay for the repair. How many guys gave money to their girl because she demanded it, and how many gave her money to help her and make her happy?

That reminds me of many years ago, no internet, email, etc. I was on holiday here with a girl I met in Pattaya. All fine, I didn't want to marry her. When I was back home, I received a litter from her. It was printed and looked like this: Hello _________ How are you? I miss you. And I miss our great time in _________________ last _______________ (to be continued) She sent me the printed form which she was supposed to fill out with my data and send it to me handwritten. So, it seems, some girls teaching others how to do that exist already since a very long time.

One thing which I recommend you make sure is that your walls are straight and plumb, and the angles are exactly 90 degrees. With my recent renovation I somehow assumed this is something we don't have to talk about. Yeah, so much about assuming and all that... For anything you do later straight and plumb and 90 degrees make life so much easier. Tiles on the floor and walls Cabinets Any difference is headache. In any future project I would insist on max 3mm imperfection - I wonder how many Thai builders would accept that and be able to do that.

My internal walls (in a condominium) are 10cm thick. When I have a switch on one side of the wall and another switch on the opposite side, then there is a hole between the walls. I use 20mm pipes for the electrical cables. Pipes on the same wall on the opposite site are possible - just about. When I drill screws in the wall, i.e. to hang the kitchen cabinets, I have to check the back side of those walls for cable pipes. Personally, next time, I would use at least 15cm thickness everywhere.

I really don't want to hear that stupid argument anymore. A politician does something wrong. Is that a political crime and it should not be prosecuted? And if a politician commits a crime and the opposition publishes evidence about this crime and demands that that politician should be prosecuted, what then? Should we call that politically motivated prosecution and ignore it? Or is a crime a crime, independent of who commits it and independent of how it was discovered?

She run away from an arrest warrant (or was she already under arrest). She should be punished for that one.

I guess they decided she just followed orders. Nobody ever suspected that she made important decisions by herself.

Obviously there are lots of greedy taxi driver in Bangkok. And they are easy to avoid. Don't step into any taxi which refuses to use the meter. And the taxi drivers who use the meter are IMHO mostly alright.

Mafia = organized crime. I am pretty sure that definition fits. And I am sure the drivers are not keeping all the cash from the tourists for themselves. And about recovery. That's exactly what they do. Like: We missed income for a year. Now charge double to that we recover that loss. ;)

Why does she want to stay in that taxi? The driver and her have obviously a "misunderstanding". Refusing to get out of the taxi won't make the situation any better. They are at a gasoline station and not in the middle of a dark road. She can just step out and avoid further trouble. Above is obviously no reason for the taxi driver to behave like that. But if she would just step away then this wouldn't happen.

Are you talking about Thai clubs or clubs in countries with decent police? I think/guess in Thailand many owners and manager know that they can't expect much from the police. And they know that they will get away with a lot if they make sure to keep the police happy. So what do owners and managers do? They do whatever they want. And that's how they operate their business. TiT. Personally, I don't fear any problems like that. I don't deal with drugs, I don't take drugs, I don't play with the girlfriends of the wrong people, and I know when to shup up. It's not a good idea to mess around with the wrong people.