marshall stanley

Since these folks started visiting Thailand they have grown a taste for Thai food it seems.
There is leg of lamb in New Zealand ya know....Leg of policeman in Thailand?

In 2009 I got into a taxi at Swampy and the driver didn't turn on the meter. I asked him to turn on the meter, He said, 500 Baht to town, I said turn on the meter. He stopped the cab told me to get out on the expressway about 2 minutes from the airport.
Another taxi came by shortly that was empty and picked me up. I wasn't all that surprised and never bothered to report it.
Living in TH for many years now I am never surprised by behaviors that seem foreign to me. Too many other good things happen often enough.

Will the price of hookers go up or down?

It may force an Early-Bird special (like senior menus at Denny's)

Last time I was in hooker-soi I called one of them a cheap whore

she then hit me over the head with a bag of 10 Baht coins.

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That is also my experience with Italian food in Thailand....not prepared well. Iv'e yet to find a good pizza anywhere

Both the same shit in Thailand, as the pizzas and Italian food. Thais have no idea how to prepare western food, even in most restaurants with farang owners, because the owners are not able to teach the Thai staff. I love Italian food, but in in Thailand I not even think about it, they are even not able to prepare a good spaghetti or pizza.

I don't know about other locations but there's plenty of good locations for burgers and Italian food in Bangkok.

In the six years here I've had one decent hamburger - in BKK at El Gacho's steakhouse but it was costly.
Beef in Thailand is bad and even places where it's passible it's not cooked right.
You need to have pure beef at least one inch thick or more.
High heat so as to sear the meat leaving it blackened outside, medium rare inside.

A good hamburger does not need teeth to eat it, it breaks apart in your mouth.

Fast food hamburgers are not real hamburgers

A real hamburger needs little or no condiments save for a little bit of cheddar cheese and one large tomato slice.
Real cheddar is hard to find and tomatos in TH are too small and not juicy.
I have a photo but I see no way to upload the image here.

With all that glue those teens should stick to something else.

I have lived in TH for a long time now and get to the US about once every two years and I always dread the entry proceedures.

The word "Thailand" seems to be a trigger for a thourough search which seems to disappoint or befuddle the inspector when finding nothing but unlaundred underwear and I do make sure to tell that in advance just to get some fun out of this intrusive proceedure. I intentionally do not wash my garments before entering the US just to counter-annoy them even though they wear latex gloves now. Also I tell them while waiting that I have a bad case of diarrhea, they seem to hurry a bit then.

Delta was short lived on the BKK route but I don't think they flew it until very late 80's or even early 90's.

They didn't understand Trans Pacific marketing very well, neither did TWA or Braniff.

Lots of lost airlines on trans pacific due to marketing misques.
BOAC was another, Northwest was always terrible with inflight food, yet JAL always succeeded. Pan Am did a fairly good job but lost it all after years of decline and the Lockerbie tragedy did them in finally.

Airline marketing has changed since the 80's but I fondly recall Pam Am flight One's route:
JFK-SFO-HNL-TYO-HKG-BKK-BOM-BEY-ROM -LON-JFK. Upstairs table dining service 1st class 747.

I worked as an airline marketing manager in NYC for 10 years in those fun days.

Now they couldn't pay me enough to do that job in todays airline climate.

It's been said already but I'll say it also: Thai's put a teaspoon of white sugar in almost everything and unless you brush after each meal that sugar harms teeth. When I order Thai food I always ask they not use sugar, besides I think the sugar ruins the food anyway.

There is a Chiang Mai based motorcycle group running for many years by David Unkovich from OZ and website that has a wealth of info and somewhere on the site there has got to be some info for you.

http://www.gt-rider.com/

Be careful you may find yourself on there for hours though. Excellent riding up north.

Don't you see how foolish the US or any other country for that matter to get involved in internal politics of Thailand? The US cannot see this "request" as anything but a fools errand. The US must regard any sovern nation it's legitmately elected government even if they may not particularily feel that government is doing the right thing or not. Thailand and USA have a strong relation going back to WW2 and before and if Thailand were ever invaded by force by a foreign power the US would be there in New York minute to help Thailand out regardless of what party is in power in Bangkok.

It's an easy trip from Bangkok - Get the express bus from South Station in Bangkok they leave every 30 minutes to Kanchanaburi, about a two+ hour ride. On arrival get a tuk tuk to the guest house area near the river - I recomment the Ploy Guesthouse.

From that point you can do everything on your own. Rent a motorbike or hire someone at the guesthouse if you don't want to drive. The bridge is not very far from the guesthouse. Lots of eateries on that road where the guesthouses are located.

Train tickets at the rail station on the near side of the bridge if you want the train ride, its not very long a trip.

This works out much less expensive than taking a full tour from Bangkok and gives you your own time to do whatever.

The bus ticket is about Bt110 or there-a-bouts each way. The tuk tuk to the guesthouse should be about Bt60.

The Ploy guesthouse is one of the nicer places to stay and should run about Bt800+ per night per unit.

This info is about 3 years old which was the last time I did the trip.

Good story, has a wide "appeal"

A Greek restaurant might work if the food isn't too "greasy".

Well perhaps some tropical xanax could be administered for tropical depressions.

There is no pizza anywhere in Thailand. What passes for pizza here are dribbles on some low quality doah.

Being from NYC I think I can speak about pizza - NY pizza is only available in NYC, even crossing the Hudson River to NJ you lose that NYC quality. One slice of an authentic NY pizza contains more food than a whole pizza in Thailand.

Pizzas origin is not Italian it's from Coney Island boardwalk in the 1940's after the war. Italian immigrants working the boardwalk baked lasagne and other deep dish Southern Italian foods. They tossed some thickened doah onto the bottom of the ovens to catch the drips from the deep dish items - that's what they ate for themselves. Someone eventually started to sell the dripped sauce fallen onto the doah and wella pizza was born. Pizza became a bar-food, an easy way to get a liquor permit as NY law then had it that to sell booze you had to also offer food and pizza was easy and fast. Up until the mid 50's pizza was only available in NYC but gradually it worked it's way to NJ and then westward ho. and eventually found it's way to Italy and 'round the world but the NY recipe was never quite the same outside of NYC.

He got out of Switzrland by jumping on a scale and getting a weigh.

north Korea : one of the only country where the american idea of " bringing democracy and free people " would be justified in my eyes .

They are not up to that level - To have democracy and freedom demands a high degree of responsibility, they are too indoctrinated into being puppets to ever aspire to something more than being blind followers.

They behave like recalcitrant children do. This whole bluster from them is designed to get something from the West.

"Ok we'll pretend to put away our nukes if you send us some money and food and and and. wah...wah....wah."

Then when they run out of the free stuff from the West they will once again bring out their nukes to blackball the West

into giving them something for nothing.

Stand fast, don't give them anything and hopefully they will starve themselves off the planet.

This, combined with the new daily buses linking Bangkok to Siem Reap (Angkor Wat) and Phnom Penh is a step forward.

Well done.

No doubt the visa runners will be searching the possibilities of it making their visa running life a bit easier too.

Where does one find the info on this new bus service to Cambodia?

It seems Thais wait until things break, like airport runways with sink holes, instead of testing and doing preventative maintenance. Here is how to test runways, take preventative action, before aircraft are damaged. Could someone forward this to AOT?

Preventive maintenance? Are you kidding? That concept has yet to enter the minds in Thailand.

Are there requirements for a one year Non-Imm "O" visa ?

And can they be obtained outside of Thailand

Have British passport, moving from France to Thailand and want to get an "O" visa before I leave

Is that possible?

Thanks for any info