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Was the price that unreasonable?

Yes, he was overcharged. In case that happens, you should pay the bill and vote with your feet. I ALWAYS check the first tab that is put in my cup. I'll always pay for the first rip off but there won't be a second tab.

I always ask the price BEFORE I order...too pricy and I walk away.

Welcome to the Norwegian prison.

I wish Thailand could keep him for lifetime in prison .

With good behaviour in a Norwegian prison he'll be out within 6 years.

Norwegian prison...

3 stars hotel, single cell, own television and so on... his lucky guy

every kid can watch bloody movies where every 10 seconds someone get killed. But genitals or sex....everyone is shocked and sure that will damage the young one.....

It's getting more difficult to see the blood on UBC though. They even blur out a person's mouth when they are smoking a cigarette...isn't that something. I can see more blood on the local Pattaya News than on movies now.

They even blur the ads for cig when the showed F1 racing few yrs ago ....ridicules…don’t know if they still doing it.

What's all the fuss about..??

September has historically been the month with far more rainfall than any other month.

No big deal...except like Harley due (moo9), I also sometimes suffer, when riding my motorcycle in a heavy downpour....

...but a few km/miles later the rain stops and I'm dried by the tropical sun [uh, sometimes... ]

Actually October is usually the biggest in terms of rain. Still never mind I still do not think it will cause a Tsunami now will it. Although I do remember the big rain of 2006 when the second road flooded for hours. Beach road was scary then. I went past soi 6/1 and there was a gusher coming out of the drain system. now that was rain my friends.

I agree that October is the biggest in terms of rain. We who stayed in Pattaya Oct.1983 never forget the BIG rain, we had 450mm of rain in one month, Beach Road collapsed and I have some pic and post them when I find them.

A few photos from the big rain in October 1983.

What's all the fuss about..??

September has historically been the month with far more rainfall than any other month.

No big deal...except like Harley due (moo9), I also sometimes suffer, when riding my motorcycle in a heavy downpour....

...but a few km/miles later the rain stops and I'm dried by the tropical sun [uh, sometimes... ]

Actually October is usually the biggest in terms of rain. Still never mind I still do not think it will cause a Tsunami now will it. Although I do remember the big rain of 2006 when the second road flooded for hours. Beach road was scary then. I went past soi 6/1 and there was a gusher coming out of the drain system. now that was rain my friends.

I agree that October is the biggest in terms of rain. We who stayed in Pattaya Oct.1983 never forget the BIG rain, we had 450mm of rain in one month, Beach Road collapsed and I have some pic and post them when I find them.

I use Maxnet Indy, and other than the follwoing problem it is generally working well

However I have been suffering from hanging pages that eventually reset (ie timeout) in the very last authorisation step of transactions with my Nationwide home banking. lso Netbanx Verified by Visa step for internet credit card transactions fail similarly

When I noticed that I was also blocked from logging into Paypal, I got suspicious of Maxnet and tried a dial up connection from True. Everything was perfect.

Does anybody know whether there is anything special used by highly secure bank transactions that moves into an area blocked by Maxnet? Eg does https have deep secure protocols or ports that are blocked. (Most https works fine)

Has anybody else noticed similar?

Upgrade your Maxnet to Premier 2 MB,it’s only 1090 Baht + VAT/month. I’ve never had any probs and dl is steady 1800-1900 kbps.

There has been a lot of rumors about a so called "Storm surge", but this is the first I have heard about a Tsunami...

Tsunamis are not caused be rain, even excessive amounts of rain... they are usually caused by seismic disturbances, such as underwater earthquakes, or possibly a big volcanic eruption... a big meteorite strike would also cause a tsunami...

But not rain.

Tsunamis are caused by earthquakes, not rain.

Tsunamis can also be caused by landslides. In fact, landslides are capable of producing much larger tsunamis than earthquakes. In turn, landslides can be caused by excessive rain.

That said, for Pattaya to be hit by a tsunami, there would need to be a landslide on the opposite (Western) side of the gulf or somewhere underwater within the gulf. Since underwater landslides are unlikely to be caused by too much rain, is there anything in the news of there being a potential landslide near Hua Hin?

A tsunami is a series of waves created when a body of water, such as an ocean, is rapidly displaced. Earthquakes, mass movements above or below water, some volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions, landslides, underwater earthquakes, large asteroid impacts and testing with nuclear weapons at sea all have the potential to generate a tsunami. The effects of a tsunami can be devastating due to the immense volumes of water and energy involved. Since meteorites are small, they will not generate a tsunami.

A week ago I bought a new computer and at the same time I bought a genuine Windows XP Home SP2. My "plomplem" is that I can download the up dates but can't install some of them, how come? I tried Windows troubleshooter but that's a joke.

Some of that updates you need to install separately, one by one. For others I believe you didn't has the original installed like Office 2003 and the online check didn't allow to update the pirated version.

So, you need to try to install each update separate.

Cheers.

Another 2 installed….and 4 to go.

Thanks Reimar and have a nice weekend.

A week ago I bought a new computer and at the same time I bought a genuine Windows XP Home SP2. My “plomplem” is that I can download the up dates but can’t install some of them, how come? I tried Windows troubleshooter but that’s a joke.

Yes to all questions.

smells a little bit....nah??

http://www.pattayadailynews.com/shownews.p...NEWS=0000005855

Create a guest account - limits what they can do. (normal user ect)

Agree.

AVG.....Never any problems

I first came in October 1983.

Started my bizz 1989.

Permanently since June 1996.

That’s …nearly 25 years.

Seems to me that 6 years is not a bad life for a refrigerator that is usually operating 24/7

You Sir are a salesmans dream

Naka.

I bought 7 Mitsubishi refrigerator 18 years ago and 6 of them are still running.

Mitsubishi #1.

I don’t use air-con coz I don’t need air-con, ok it’s warm in Pattaya April-July but it’s not hot….I remember back in 1978 when I worked in Sinai dessert…geeez THAT was hot.

I was wondering if anyone could help me , i was doing a virus scan with avg and it found a virus, or trojan, i am not sure.

Called js Downloader agent .Avg could not get rid of it, and now my pc is running very slow.

I looked about on the net and it seems a few people have had this same nasty . As i said if anyone can help i would be truly gratful.

Move the virus/trojan to the Virus Vault.

PVC pump tubes, high pressure waterguns banned for Songkran

BANGKOK: -- Excessive and intrusive waterspray attacking has become popular among some and hated by many during Thailand's annual Songkran Festival, the sale of high-pressure waterguns or PVC pumpguns has been prohibited for Songkran, according to the Office of the Consumer Protection Board (OCPB).

OCPB Secretary General Rasamee Vistaveth warned that the companies who produced or imported such equipment as well as shops offered such toys should be aware that waterguns have been banned under OCPB regulations.

Using modified waterguns such as the PVC pump tube which produces high water pressure, or other high pressure equipment, could cause serious injury to others, she said, adding that spraying water with such toys at people driving moving vehicles such as motorcycles and cars may cause serious accidents.

Manufacturers in violation of the ban can be fined no more than Bt500,000, or face a maximum five year jail term, while sellers face a maximum fine of 50,000 baht or six months imprisonment, she said.

Members of the public can call the 1166 hotline if they see vendors illegally selling the banned water guns, Mrs. Rasame said.

The Songkran New Year water festival is regarded as one of Thailand's the most important traditions and the OCPB encouraged the public to stick to the more polite Thai traditions of splashing water respectfully when celebrating Songkran.

Songkran is the traditional Thai New Year's festival. It falls on the 13th, 14th, and 15th of every April. The government has declared the festival as an extended public holiday, to enable people to return to their hometowns for family reunions, merit-making and reuniting with others in their community.

--TNA 2008-04-04

Same same every year....bla bla bla

Phuket (back in the day circa 1991/1992) when there were hardly any tourists back then!

Pattaya

Bangkok

In that order

Statistics 1989 - 1993

1989 1990 1991 1992 1993

Total Visitors to Phuket 971,683 1,254,215 1,208,594 1,633,496 2,094,661

of which stay in a hotel 810,014 1,064,263 1,021,140 1,436,287 1,784,730

-Thai 437,505 499,874 618,271 417,608 780,416

-Foreign 534,178 754,341 590,323 1,215,888 1,314,245

So you mean that 590,323 visitors are hardly any tourists

1.Pattaya Nua

2 Pattaya klang

3 Pattaya Tai

Marry her.

....big mistake....

...and now this...

Swedish Woman Found Dead on Thai Beach

Saturday, March 15, 2008

BANGKOK, Thailand — A Swedish tourist was found dead Saturday on a beach in Thailand, police said.

The woman was identified as a 27-year-old who had been visiting the island of Phuket, one of Thailand's most popular tourist destinations, with two friends, police Lt. Gen. Sakchai Limcharoen.

One of the woman's travel companions discovered her body midday Saturday near the bungalow they had rented, Sakchai said.

She appeared to have been attacked with sharp objects, Sakchai said. Police were investigating the attack.

The Swedish Embassy was closed for the weekend and could not immediately be reached for comment.

You need to tell us how you will be using the water....will it be strictly household use?...or will you be doing alot of garden and yard watering?...if you will be watering a large garden or yard area will you be wanting to do that with large sized rotating impulse sprinklers?...drip irrigation?....what kind of shower do you like...a real large volume of water but at low pressure? or a really large volume of water at high pressure? or just the run of the mill shower? or low flow low pressure shower to save on water and electricity or for whatever reason? And finally how much will you be drinking (hahahahhahha).

Chownah

Nothing is simple! Seems I left out a lot!

The water in the 2 storage tanks are for household use. Not for drinking although I have been considering a filtering system for the house. Showers - well, I take one shower a day for about 10 minutes, the wife and child usually 30 minute (!) showers. Pressure is not important as I plan to use 3/4" fixtures off the 1" supply pipe. I "think" I should have sufficient pressure with this setup. Yes, I know that some fixtures will have to be 1/2" but a 1/2" pipe off the 3/4" should suffice.

Water from well will be used for gardening. Do not expect a large garden plot! Recycle time for the water well, i.e. returning to the 5 meter level is about 8 hours.

Hope this will be suffiecient. And thanks again.

Get rid of those ugly storage tanks and make a big one underground. Plant some nice flowers instead.

Buy a good quality sub.pump,mine cost 9500 Baht, made in Italy, to pump the water from the well to the big tank.

Buy a Mitsubishi,250 watt, pump to supply the house.

If the well water is not of good quality go for a filter.

I had this system now for 18 yrs and is still up and running.

Just bear in mind, there are a lot of negative people on Thai Visa. They are by no means representative of normal people in Thailand

Meet with the parents and tell them what you have. If they continue to ask for more, they're probably no good.

Most Thai people don't like farangs let alone allowing their daughters to marry them - they try to get some compensation.

Spot on Neeranam