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Maybe Im a bit paranoid and a bit jealous, but some guys are stupid and say what they want to whom they want, and others just dont take NO for an answer. The wife and I were looking at apartments a while back and one American guy who was very drunk boxed my wife into a corner and was ready to do something if I hadnt come along and dragged him off of her. Am I paranoid? No. Just because this is LOS, some guys think they can have any woman they want because so many women want farangs.

I dont have a temper problem. Im just defending my wife from some jackasses who dont have manners.

The way I've heard the story it's some scouser oblivious to everyone else in his presence harassing the wife.

Toilets in eating establishments ? ......

I know what you are saying, but what really can I do apart from telling the owners?

Not many of the places (because nice and clean establishments just do not exist) I have visited up here in Isaan the last two years would run in the country I come from. As a matter of fact they would be shut down the next day.......

Anyone actualy interested in what a good conciencious restaraunt has for a toilet? Should you ever be on Suhkumvit soi 22 , just drop into 'Cafe 22 ' order your coffee and ask for the toilet , it is a sight beyond your wildest dreams , i almost asked to have a table and chairs to be instaled it has such an ambience , puts even your home toilet to shame . By the way , does your 'Oriental '(quote) wife , G/F clean the toilet walls etc once a week with chlorinated water , mine does .

Worthy of a photograph?

When it gets down to it folks, we aren't looking for a fancy place with marble floors and a teak door. We're searching for a clean dry place with some real toiletpaper.

And if you're a bit uptight about restaurant bogs, remember your dog licks your face after he's had his morning bath and afternoon pleasure.

If a dog licked my face it would be licking it's own wounds shortly thereafter, disgusting. A dirty shitehouse is a clear message that the owner cares much more for filling his own pockets than customer service, laziness pure and simple.

There's simpler hand commands than clocking the dog, mate.

Go for it.

I dropped a heavy box on my big toe once. The toenail turned black and eventually fell off. It took months to grow back but it grew back as perfect as if it were drawn by Titian or Rapheal. If you got it in you you could go this route; I'd say it wouldn't help to think about it too long, just go for it.

-a

When it gets down to it folks, we aren't looking for a fancy place with marble floors and a teak door. We're searching for a clean dry place with some real toiletpaper.

And if you're a bit uptight about restaurant bogs, remember your dog licks your face after he's had his morning bath and afternoon pleasure.

I take it you're trying to avoid them, the brits? Head up to Korat or over to Ubon Ratchthani.

Dirty Toilets In Restaurants, Do they bother you?

they don't. i don't frequent restaurants and if i do i don't even think using their toilets.

So your wife can cook?

she can but she doesn't. cooking is done by our cook

Don't tell me you've gone and spoiled her? Snagging a good looker is easy enough, but getting one that can cook well now you're talking. Does she ever whip something up on occasions? You know cooking from the heart? Don't let her get away from proving her love in the gastronomical way.

I hear you Samuian. Now take a look at this W/C.

Look at the toilet. What do you see? That's right a floor mat which keeps your trousers from getting wet while you have a seat. It's that extra attention to details which distinguishes a proprietor who benefits his customers.

Generally speaking... I find the loos in LOS are as clean or cleaner than in Australia... and I don't frequent places that are better than 3-star 'cos I find so many to be soul-less. Obviously, I need glasses or I'm just lucky.

As for the soap I never use it unless from a liquid soap dispenser... I prefer to rely on my own hygiene rather than the last guy who used the soap before - yuk - lather his left over bugs on my hands??? It makes me shudder to think about using soap that's beeen lying around a lav for weeks;-(

I know a person who has anti-bacterial nappies sent over. He carries them along and wipes down everything beforehand. Then there are others who feel if they can jump in the sack with a Soi 6 gal or one of those girls along the Nakula way then what the hel_l can a dirty W/C do harm to?

Dirty Toilets In Restaurants, Do they bother you?

they don't. i don't frequent restaurants and if i do i don't even think using their toilets.

So your wife can cook?

Now here is a pic of an establishment in Jomtien. I didn't get permission from the place to post this so no names given. Wouldn't you feel happy to use these facilities? Use the bog and be at ease the rest of the evening. No need to rush home. Maybe even order dessert.

If there is no soap in the toilet you can rest assured that the owner of the business is English.

What gets me is that little rag they hang up on a nail in the wall and call a hand towel. It looks like a mechanics oil rag and finding a dry spot on it is impossible.

Its obviously frequented by aussies.

Theyve nicked the soap, and the rag for drying is to make them feel at home

That little rag is for wiping up after a dribbling dick, didn't you know?

You re-activated a thread that was dead for one and a half years for this "crap"?

Anyone who thinks the towel is for drying your hands is sadly mistaken. I posted a bit of advice meant to help others avoid pitfalls they may encounter along the way. What's a message board for? Is it only here for to jacking *ff a couple of thousand posts? One of the services it provides is to act as a watering hole where fellow travelers or expats can read or post advice and warnings.

A message board doing restaurant reviews and providing pics of the bogs is doing their members and guests a service, I say.

Indeed. Any person taking the time to post reviews and pics of the bogs has the welfare and interests of others in mind. I consider them to be civic-minded and a local hero.

This one hasnt been done before.

IS THERE ANY RUSSIAN LADIES ON HERE WHO HAVE HAD THEIR LIVES ENRICHED BY OVERSTAYING IN PATTAYA.WOULD BE GREAT TO SPEAK WITH A RUSSIAN LADY TO SEE HOW THEY ENJOY IT HERE RATHER THAN THEIR OWN COUNTRY AND HOW THE WEATHER IS AFFECTING THEM,AS THEY ARE VERY WHITE.

I had a thai gal express her opinion based on the best of her knowledge, "do you know why men go with russian women?"

I answered, "no why?"

"Becuase they do it front and back."

If there is no soap in the toilet you can rest assured that the owner of the business is English.

What gets me is that little rag they hang up on a nail in the wall and call a hand towel. It looks like a mechanics oil rag and finding a dry spot on it is impossible.

Its obviously frequented by aussies.

Theyve nicked the soap, and the rag for drying is to make them feel at home

That little rag is for wiping up after a dribbling dick, didn't you know?

Cheers!

Does validating require a proctologist because I'm not too sure I'm up for that.

Fixed. Thank you.

Could someone validate my account? My profile states "Validating".

Thanks for the replies, gentlemen. The computer runs fine while plugged into an outlet and it will probably run for years until the screen fails. I'd still like to use it while I'm on the go.

-a

The battery is shot in my IMB 600 series 2645-4BU. It works while it's plugged into an electrical outlet. Which battery should I replace? The main battery or the secondary 'Ultrabay' battery (as IBM calls it)? Both? Any information would be greatly appreciated.

-a

I'm only here because I'm still waiting for Bud Zummwalt to return....

Those of us who remember him retain some of his spirit.

Free! I love this word.

Okay, Garp, it's not quite what you wanted but it's better than the alternatives, and I don't just mean the other forums.

Which, incidentally you should check out for quality if you haven't already - they're cr@p!

Most of us are used to speaking our minds, wherever we are.

There's still a bunch of countries who have never enjoyed that freedom.

For posting only the half of what the mods here allow through, we'd be marched off in the night, never to be seen again.

So you're saying things are so bad in your country that the policing here is good? What hellhole are you from? Surely, you're an immigrant to Germany?

Bud Zummwalt, Rod Kalashnikov, and the others are long gone. Their spirit can be found on the otter forum.

You're gracious to provide the opportunity. I'd like to add a bit of googling of postwar Vietnam.

It's difficult to determine what percentage of people fled Vietnam due to the Vietnam War and what percentage fled due to Chinese/Viet tensions. This US government website tells a clearer story of the ethnic chinese driven out as "boat people". The chinese were blamed for Vietnam's economic problems and the 1979 war with China compounded the problem. In 1984 there was another brief war with China. I may be wrong but it seems the majority of people who fled Vietnam as "boat people" in the early years were ethnic Chinese discriminated against by the Vietnamese government. That's a differnet story then people like to tell. They'd like me to believe it was due to the American war in Vietnam.

In March 1978, Vietnam nationalized the rice and other private consumer markets, and the number of people leaving Vietnam started increasing, a majority of them being ethnic Chinese businessmen and traders. This exodus was abetted by Vietnamese authorities pushing out some of the 1.5 million ethnic Chinese in both North and South Vietnam after blaming them for some of the country's economic problems. Many of them were subjected to "official harassment, property confiscation, and forced relocation to New Economic Zones." (Robinson, at 29.)

http://149.101.23.2/graphics/aboutus/history/july79.htm

Here are some dates I found while Googling:

1975 More than 130,000 refugees enter the U.S. from Vietnam, Kampuchea, and Laos as Communist governments are established there.

1975 - In the next few years, more than 1.5 million Vietnamese “boat people” flee by air and sea; many settle in US

1976 - Socialist Republic of Vietnam proclaimed. Saigon is re-named Ho Chi Minh City. Hundreds of thousands flee abroad, including many "boat people".

1976 Nov: The first Vietnames boat people arrive on Australia's northern shores (about 2000 between 1977 and 1981)

July 2, 1976: The National Assembly, at its first session, officially reunifies Vietnam (Capital: Hanoi), renames the country Socialist Republic of Vietnam and decides to elaborate a new constitution. Many people who supported the Saigon regime are sent to "re-education camps". Over the next years more than one million of Vietnamese and ethnic Chinese ("boat people") flee the country.

1978: More than 100,000 people flee Vietnam on boats ("boat people")

1979 - Vietnam invades Cambodia and ousts the Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot. In response, Chinese troops cross Vietnam's northern border. They are pushed back by Vietnamese forces. The number of "boat people" trying to leave Vietnam causes international concern.

1980 The Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees set up an Orderly Departure Program to enable Vietnamese to emigrate legally.

In the early 1980s many Chinese and Sino-Vietnamese fled Vietnam, either to China or as ‘boat people’ to overseas countries, sharply boosting the statistics on people fleeing Vietnam since 1975.

Additional tidbits I discovered while searching Google.

From a UN url:

NOTES #10 at the bottom of the page: It is also a gross insult to hundreds of thousands of Laotians who have been massacred or compelled to take refuge abroad since the occupation of Laos by the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, to the Hmong national minority in Laos, exterminated by Vietnamese conventional and chemical weapons and, finally, to over a million Vietnamese "boat people" who died at sea or sought refuge abroad in their flight to escape the repression carried out in Viet Nam by the Government of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam.

http://untreaty.un.org/sample/EnglishInter...rIV/treaty1.htm

Australia and New Zealand: From 1989 to 1998, most of the boat people were Chinese and Sino-Vietnamese.

http://www.unescap.org/esid/psis/publicati...ps/06/chap1.pdf

Let me ask this question. How different would Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos be today if the US hadn't bombed the living sh!t out of them all those years? How different would Central America be today if the US hadn't interfered in their affairs? How about the Middle East? How different would the USA be if the Pilgrims/Colonists who reached the east coast had integrated peacefully with the native inhabitants, who had been there there for centuries already, instead of massacring them? Something tells me it's a chain reaction and that possibly Thailand might be different if the US military hadn't come. One reason for the close US military involvement in Thailand was/is the close ties between the Monarchy of Thailand and the US.

I rmemebr the 80s, if the USA hadn't been so vigilant, I don't think we could have counted on Continental Europe not to rollover and allow a russian boot to the back of their necks. The UK stood a chance. They had the sense to vote in Maggie Thatcher. God Bless her. Will she get a statue or will London get yet another statue of Nelson Mandela?

A statue of Nelson Mandela would not be suitable for Trafalgar Square, a panel of art experts has said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3006663.stm

If you read a bit of Native American history you'll find some tribes had slavery and some would capture and then kill prisoners for theatre. Pilgrams weren't Americans. They were British. They manged to wipe out a good percentage of the coastal tribes before they revolted and became Americans, thank you.

p.s.

The Soviets weren't great stewards of the enviornment either.

I like a slutty wife who has never slept with another man. Everything she demonstrates was picked up from listening to gossip and due to her vivid imagination. I've had a string of great luck that all my gfs have been such women. I seem to attract them.

No seriously, can she cook?

Croaking Frog Motion Detector

Size: 8" long

Requires two AA batteries (not included).

These croaking frog motion detectors are now hard to find in stores, but we still have them. A motion detector in the frog's mouth sets off his ribiting sound.

If they come back you might try one of these to scare them off.

I find cherry tomatoes prefereable for several reasons: much more flavor, and more likely to ripen. anything larger, often lacks flavor and takes too long to ripen fully - leaving it vulnerable to insects and such.

If you have the opportunity try this Sungold variety. It bears fruit quick enough and it is sweet like candy. Great flavor too.

Info:

http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/us/en/product/840/1

Tomatoes do need calcium otherwise the bottom of the fruit turns brown as if it were sunburnt and rots.