bradiston

Quality tourist indeed! Though I don't suppose you'll get much in your bowl on an empty beach. Reading the OP again, it has to be a joke. Asking how to be a bum in Thailand? ????????????

Campsites and beach bumming are not the same thing at all. Where's he going to pee and take a dump? Wash in 7/11? Eat in 7/11? So for 12 days he's really just checked in to 7/11. So, like I said before, why bother coming here at all?

Why would they not terminate an incestuous pregnancy? Or was it too late?

Good

Why come here at all?

"Net profits at JP Morgan jumped 35% to $13.15bn in the three months to the end of September. Revenue at the bank rose 22% to $39.87bn." And this isn't TAT talk.

I just bought a 35.7 sq m ground floor studio flat in an old condo, about 30 years old, for 900k THB, in Soi 6 Pratamnak, maybe 400m from the sea, spa and shops etc in Soi 5, Haad Dong Tan etc. £20k. It'll hopefully see me out. I had to put it in my Thai daughter's name as the quota was full. Still, she wasn't complaining!

Leading to a possibly off topic comment, but out of curiosity, how would the Chinese pay for it, assuming, probably erroneously, they don't have the money here? I ask as I have a potential buyer from China but we can find no way of sending 1m RMB to Thailand to change into THB. Any pointers anyone?

Presumably as with all SIMs, ID is required. Easy then to track the SIM user.

tldr

It was on Paetongtarn's FB page back then.

The man trying to nail him.

So trick him into suing the democrat, then unmask him as an impostor when he appears in court? A cunning plan indeed. Baldrick, you're a genius.

Yes, luring him out of bed will certainly prove he's faking it. Where do you get this stuff?

So Thaksin's lawyers will sue.

Much depends on the proximity of the pick up and drop off points. I've seen drivers picking up an iced coffee from 7/11. What can they possibly earn from that, unless it's for himself!

https://maps.app.goo.gl/gaAJAb2NK9ALcVKz6 Somebody posted this link. I went there a couple of years ago and it was great. I believe it's open.

"The ''tones'' thing doesn't exist - do not fall for it. All words are understood within context in all human languages." Weirdest comment so far. Just watch YouTube and everything will be fine.

I think if you're a delivery driver, you're under intense pressure from the customer and whoever it is you work for, to deliver fast. The more jobs you can do in a day, the more you earn. I try and keep out of their way. They have a job to do. It's dangerous and badly paid, but a last resort for extra cash for many, I imagine.

They're not the same in length or tone, that's why. It's possible to learn to speak Thai without knowing anything about tones I guess, if your ear can pick up and differentiate between them, and you can reproduce what you hear. I've had to ask Thais how they spell a word in order to figure out the tone. If you know how it's spelt, you'll know how it's pronounced. Might sound obvious, but it isn't. How many khao and ma and my do you know, some pronounced the same, some different, but each with a different meaning? I can't see the objection to teaching yourself the tone system, and the alphabet. Use a children's wall chart for the alphabet. I got the tone system from a very old linguaphone handbook, and rewrote it for my own use. It's a very simple table. Initial consonant class in the left hand column, live or dead syllable in each row, tone marker. We live in a country with a unique language.

Yes, but that's vowel length, not tone, if I read your transcript correctly. Vowel length plays an essential part in determining tones. As your example illustrates, khao, short vowel, falling tone, is entrance, long vowel falling tone is rice. It looks impossibly complicated until you figure out the tone system. For me it was a challenge like code breaking.

It doesn't, and you wrote it.

If you learn the alphabet, the consonant classes, and the tone rules, you can work out and apply the correct tone to any syllable. Otherwise you have to learn the correct pronunciation of every Thai word you encounter. Sure, it can be laborious, but it speeds up with practice.

Because, as I said, in order to write Thai, you need to know how a word is spelt. Sounds obvious, but there are many consonants (s, p, t, f, h, for instance) that have different characters. So 's' could be one of 3 or 4 different characters. Not simple at all. You'd need to memorise the spelling of each word in order to write it. With reading, it's there in front of you.

Just have to add, anticipation is key to defensive driving. If you assume that the guy in front of you is liable to chuck a left or right without any warning at any moment, just hang back that extra 5 m. Might save your life. And watch for the mobile phone user. Erratic braking and steering as they look up and down from their screens.