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I've also been looking at the Subaru, but I have no direct experience of the brand. The Forester looks like excellent value .... it's a class above the HR-V being closer to a CR-V in size, it's very well equipped and has four wheel drive. Prices start at 1.2M.

Central Department Store in the Central Mall. I know Central Chidlom in Bangkok have them, so I guess Central Pattaya should also have them. They also have an App so may be able to order on-line?

Seems reasonable to me. While suffering a heart attack, he fell onto a chainsaw then into a freezer. Happens everyday.

Paddock are on Lazada, and currently have O'Neil helmets on sale. Happy with my O'Neil Sierra after a year of use. It's a Falang shape 'oval' rather than the Asian round head shape.

I thought they'd said they would never form a coalition with any party involved in the coup government?

The Move Forward leader has just done a press briefing (Channel 32 now) and he's explaing in English for the international press how the two main opposition parties will have enough to form a majority government. Interesting times ahead.

Ah .... thanks for the clarification. That's what happens when I try to follow current events on Thai language news ???? I'd better switch back to Auntie BBC.

My understanding is that they need much more than 50% to overcome the rigged election .... as 250 'seats' are the non elected military appointees? If we factor up the votes at the 30% count stage, and assume the three military government parties of Prayuth, Prawit and Anutin form a coalition, then add in the 250 seats, it looks like the top two opposition parties combined will be about 20 seats short. So may depend on how the smaller parties respond to coalition requests.

Pontiac Firebirds

Didn't the man making the video commit an offence under The Computer Crimes Act?

A Thai language commerce chat bot would be quite simple to develop .... Answer to every question: "Mai mee"

Sad to hear this. Such a knowledgeable and helpful person.

You mean Chang Water dresses, surely? Promoting beer is illegal. ????

What a sad indictment of the police and autopsy processes. This should have been stopped after the first death.

I'm not sure it you're being sarcastic or not. There's a TV ad showing a classic Airstream caravan sporting a Chang Cold Brew logo, three guys drinking from Chang Cold Brew logo cooler cups, and the voiceover says 'join the Chang Cold Brew club. Chang may claim it's an ad for cooler cups, a caravan or a fictitious club .... but it's obviously an ad for beer, and part of the 1 Billion THB advertising campaign. Are we also supposed to believe Singha spends millions promoting 7 THB bottles of water and 15 THB soda?

I used Mazars Thailand, they have an office in Bangkok. They were very efficient and helpful. They're not the cheapest, but their costs were only a comparatively small component of the entire process.

I had a similar experience in another international hospital further up Sukhumvit. Visited as a day patient for some minor surgery, had a good work insurance policy at the time. Doc kept asking me how I felt, asking about any other issues, I foolishly mentioned some lung surgery from years ago, and how Bangkok pollution can give me a cough. I was whizzed in for an MRI, lung function tests, chest X Ray and they were booking a bed before I literally walked out in disgust. They were clearly looking for ways to spend my insurance allowance. In contrast, the same hospital the year before, treated my girlfriend (now wife) for a serious of case Dengue, all covered by my credit card. She watched them closely, and the bill was very reasonable. Having insurance seems to be the trigger for a feeding frenzy.

I think there's very few houses with a swimming pool in Bangsaen. Some of the larger Moo Baan estates may have a communal pool. I think the concept of a pool open to the sun is more of a Western feature (that's why it's quite common in Pattaya and Hua Hin), but Bangsaen is predominantly a Thai persons resort.

You can a taxi that uses GPS navigation by using the 'Just Grab' option in the Grab App. But unless you miss the worn out shock absorbers, grinding wheel bearings, peppermint air fresheners and lurid pink paintwork of a Bangkok taxi, I'd recommend regular Grab or Bolt. There's an integrated translation function in the messaging feature, so easy to arrange pick up point.

Tap water. I have a water filter system installed at home. Thailand is not good at managing plastic waste, so I don't want to add to the problem. 99% of bottled water in Thailand is just filtered tap water anyway.

Office of the Consumer Protection Board (OCPB)

The UN is an utterly useless organisation, but why should Russia avoid paying into this parasitic bureaucracy?

So the newer version has more censorship.

I agree. It's an innovative interface for a search engine but it also makes stuff up in the interest of sounding like a conversation, which can be misleading. For example, I asked if a book was good, and it gave a waffling answer that included the line "this book has had mixed reviews, so you need to read it yourself and decide". But the book in question is newly published and only has 5 reviews in total, all 5 star and positive. So it made up the 'mixed reviews' part just to provide a natural sounding answer. If it was a person, we'd call him a b#ll-sh!++er.

Surely other countries get smoke from burning fields in Thailand? Trans-boundary is a two way flow. Need to sort out our own back yard too.