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It's all the keyboard detectives that get my back up.

The way I learnt it, the national flag flies on top, any other nation can be flown underneath it. The Thais aren't too much into their heraldics anyway, I see the Union Jack on the back of bags and on peoples' bums everyday, so....

Not quite correct ..

"The courtesy flag is flown at the boat's starboard spreader, whether the United States ensign is at the stern staff, or flown from the leech. If there is more than one mast, the courtesy flag is flown from the starboard spreader of the forward mast."

Source - https://www.sailonline.com/seamanship/general-seamanship/flag-etiquette

Balderdash. Unless the OP lives on a ship.

The way I learnt it, the national flag flies on top, any other nation can be flown underneath it. The Thais aren't too much into their heraldics anyway, I see the Union Jack on the back of bags and on peoples' bums everyday, so....

Speaking as someone who once drove into a swarm of savage insects at 80mph with the visor up, for me driving without a helmet is maybe, how shall I say it, STUPID.

I saw a guy last week driving with his hand up in front of his face to protect himself from the rain. Maybe the helmet on the handlebars had a hole in it...

Anyway, many moons ago I was involved in collecting motorbike accident statistics and we found that ANY head covering was going to reduce the severity of injuries. Even a head scarf.

Get a different bank!

I'm retired and I have several accounts at Bangkok Bank.

Three weeks ago I opened a fourth savings account, no problem whatsoever and got another Be1st card 7 days later.

Branch is Kad Suan Kaew, Chiang Mai

NB I went with a retired friend (62) to Kaisikorn Airport Plaza, he wanted to open an account 500,000

They have 'a greeter' who asked to see work permit and said not possible....twice!

I walked over to the counter and explained what he wanted.

Apparently no-one told the 'greeter' that it's OK for long term renewal holders.

Account completed with ATM in 15 minutes

Good point. Those greeters are a pain in the arse. I think they get the job because they don't have the brains to work behind the counter - or maybe they go on looks or ability to speak English (yeah, yeah, don't laugh).

I went for the bank letter to certify by bank balance for retirement extension renewal and the bimbo greeter tells me I have to go to the branch my account is based at in Pattaya. Funny, done it at the same branch in Jomtien for years.

So I pressed my own button and got my own ticket number and sat down. The bimbo is telling my missus it can't be done. My number came up immediately, I was out in 10 minutes with the letter. Bimbo fuming as I gave her a big grin and a thankyou as I walked out the door.

We had a similar experience when we wanted to get our Truemove bill debited directly from our bank. The wife had on the wrong shoes (dirty and bitten by the dog). The lady looked at these shoes pointedly a couple of times and then said she would call us. Still waiting after two months. Meanwhile we have set things up at another office.

Maybe they will find signs of intelligent life on this planet if they look hard enough.

Doubt it. It's hard enough finding it on our own planet.

Is there a prize or something for being the third person to regurgitate the same joke??

QED.

OMG. I was referring to THIS bl*&^%Y planet in the first place, not THAT blo&^%$Y planet. That was splat! Another remark gone over the heads of our satirical humorists on TV.

If they can see water from 124 light years away then my johnson is a fire hose. Scientists say this, scientists say that. For farks sake they can't even agree on climate change

Deary me. Nobody has seen it you chump, it has been detected. Spectrometry I suppose.

Really cheap? Get yourself to Bobae market before sun up. You will generally have to buy at least three of everything but the stuff is cheap. https://www.google.co.th/maps/search/bobae+clothing+market+bangkok/@13.752915,100.514694,17z/data=!3m1!4b1

Plenty of second class stuff there also, I bought stuff where the hems were stitched wrong, but nobody will be seeing my underpants in public. Market traders from all over Thailand come here.

If you google electric fence, cats you will see remarks about this being cruel. (Rubbish). If you combine the fence with a yellow plastic band, you can be sure that the cats, that will only ever touch the fence ONCE, will associate yellow plastic with discomfort. Seems like a waste of money to install something that will only get utilised once or twice a year, but it works. If you live near Buriram I can give you a cattle fence box, no guarantee, I haven't used it for 20 years. Needs mains 'lectrics though.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

If it is a correctly installed cattle fence, no problem. You can find stuff on Youtube.

I walk around the village with the dogs twice a day. I am male. I have had 'harassment' from both females, when they are in larger groups / drunk,and also from males who assume that I don't understand them, same category as the ladies but different comments about my physical attributes. A lot of the kids shouted out Farang when they saw me,that has died out.

I can't say I really care about this stupid behaviour, but then again I don't think anybody wants to rape me. The worst harassment I have seen has been by Kosovo construction workers in Switzerland. I can't repeat their rubbish here, but racism really did raise its ugly head in my mind.

Stay cool.

I didn't read all the posts. I explained to her that in Leap Years, on the 29th of February, ladies are allowed to propose. Worked like clockwork.

05.30 isn't early in our village. It gets dark, you go to bed, the sun comes up.you get up. That's inconsiderate? Go and live in a concrete box on the 14th floor somewhere.

Maybe they will find signs of intelligent life on this planet if they look hard enough.

Tried it. Couldn't tell the difference with or without so threw it away and haven't bothered since.

You guys must have seen a Thai dress up a bowl of noodles. First a huge spoon of sugar. Next a teaspoon or two of chilli power/flakes. Then comes the fish sauce. Then perhaps some vinegar, crushed peanuts. All gets stirred then tasted with a lot of lip smacking. Not satisfied, they hardly ever seem to be, a little bit more of some of the previous condiments, more lip smacking, more condiments etc until they seem satisfied they got it right.

I have to agree with that, I can't taste vanilla and I can't taste a difference with MSG. I tried sprinkling one side of a home made pizza with the stuff, the committee here agreed that there was no difference.

Mine is called Bayofol, I can't remember where I bought it and the label is nearly washed off.

There were suggestions at the time that the guy that was killed had ratted on one of his superiors shortly before the jump. Whichever way you look at it, this is a despicable story.

It takes quite a while for the plant to absorb these elements and then of course, leaves that are yellow are going to stay yellow. I started feeding a peppercorn plant with microelements in June, results became visible after a couple of months. In my opinion, you can have too much of a good thing, so don't over do it, two or three doses a month apart should do it. I did this for 'my' rosemary plants too, but only one dose, they like alkaline soil which is what we have.

Here is a case of Magnesium deficiency in Hibiscus... other plants showing similar symptoms would looks the same, yellow mottling in the leaves....

My soil is fairly sandy and needs more organic matter,... that would also help to "hold" the fertilizer in the soil... and help feed the plants!

My struggling remaining tomatoes.... got an attack of leaf minor over night! I used an organic spray to see if it clears up!

Definitely too much work and time trying growing Toms!

iron and magnesium deficiencies look similar, and they often occur together. Heavy clay soils tend to prevent the plant from absorbing certain minerals which means you have to find easily absorbable micro element fertiliser.

Rosemary doesn't suffer in this respect! (private joke)

Please remember that if you drive with a health condition that is considered as illegal, better pray not to get involved in an accident since all odds will be against you.

I doubt it, many people are driving around half blind (glasses don't look good and are expensive) but their eyesight is NEVER tested . Not just in Thailand.

I fail the Ishihara test every time but have never been awareof having difficulties with colours apart from disputing whether something was grey or washy blue.That's why I didn't become an astronaut.

hmm... 50 years ago we didn't know anything about kids' high chairs and many didn't have the money to buy a pram, let alone complain about pavements. For me, a kid friendly environment means not noisy at night, a clean beach to play on, a lack of 'strange' people roaming around the place, which cuts out Pattaya/Jomtien entirely. I know where I will be going in the school holidays but it probably wouldn't suit you as there is nothing to do that costs money. Sorry to be rude.

In Buriram the Christmas decorations are still up from last year. Anyway, this just means that I have to buy in enough beer for a week, no way am I going to be on the roads on these days.

If you guys would just check upon the different DNA testing methods available maybe things would become clearer. The most simple test reveals ethnicity ( I was born in the UK, where my family has been for at least 300 years, but got the Caucasus as ethnic origin). A good high school in Switzerland can do this test.If you want to narrow things down to the 'one in a hundred million' category, then it gets more complicated. Never mind.

What is most important that all the police reports over the years concerning 'DNA tests have proved' or 'disproved' such and such are rubbish.