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"With the cards, each driver is given Bt3,000 credit per month and a discount of Bt0.50-Bt2 per kilogram, but their monthly purchase must not exceed Bt9,000. However, the project does not address the root cause" - the cost of Ya Ba itself.

However, on a serious note, what all of a sudden led to the idea that "taxi" drivers are hard done by, and very low earners?

Does the Som Tam woman with her little trolley qualify for an energy credit-card?

"Some taxi drivers did not bother to repay the credit-card debt because they misunderstood it as a cash give-away by the government."

Pull the other one, creeps!

-mel.

"At one time, peace-loving Thais paused under the power of guns. But when they cast votes again, they will vote for their choice. They are denounced as stupid voters, but that's their right and they are responsible for the negative consequences if they make the wrong decision," he said.

They sure are, pal!

-mel.

Until Thailand, like many other developing nations, can drop the stigma attached to being a "farmer", there will be less interest in careers in the agricultural sector. Farming is one of the most important businesses. No farmers, no food. Politicians and lawyers we might be able to do without, not so farmers.

Thai farmers in mosty cases are subsistence and small scale, but at least they can earn money. In the west, the farms are in the hands of multinationals. Most students want to study the 'clean' careers like business, law, medicine etc. In those sectors the rewards can be high.

Not so in agriculture.

However, there should still be plenty of opportunities if the government, particularly the PTP, pays more attention to this sector, as this is, after all, where their voter base is located to a large degree.

I agree, and half-agree. The PTP does pay attention to this sector; and yet controls the prices for mafia and top dog purposes I think you would agree? Their vote base has to acknowledge soon, that despite the bought votes, they are in the losing position?

Hence, the small quandry who wish to return home, after graduation, to milk non-bosomable intakes?

-mel.

They're just washing the pillow cases, That's all.

The last person in bed was wearing a bit of perfume, and they don't want wifey to get a smell of the strange odour that might give away that somebody has been 'sitting' in recently!

-mel

Students who graduate, after hard studies, including the ones from farming families, really want to go back to till the land; with little pay back?

Me thinks not!

-mel.

I don't really care what they say. I've never really been into ladyboys for various reasons. However, you'd have to be a liar to say that that photo isn't a photo of a stunningly beautiful woman! (at least, image of one!)

-mel.

PM me, as a private tutor - Thai speaking. I am also British, and teach at an International school. My rates are much cheaper than Inlingua, and I use Thai to explain when the non-native English speaker does not understand.

"In the first bust, police arrested four Malaysians and two Narathiwat residents allegedly along with 26kg of "ice", 25 grams of heroin and two sedans and one pickup truck."

They arrested 26kg of ice, 25g of heroin, two sedans and one pick up truck?

Next they'll be arresting subordinate lamposts...

Nicely worded, yet again....

-mel.

How would you regulate who comes in and out?

I'm easy as for location, however Bang Na is a bit far out, from Lak-si for me......

I would guess the majority would be in relationships, so a couple's night would be a fair game bet for destination suiting, and preferably, assuming this is a meet up for talking, getting to know members and common interests, then a quieter venue would be nice, as opposed to music madness and crazy dancing.... in my humble opinion, of course.

Timing should be to suit TV occasion and not all members availability, as the latter would just never work.

-mel.

Sent from my Betamax video recorder.

In order to help save tigers, would the Chinese government please publish information saying that eating parts of a tiger is not going to add three inches to your penis nor make it rock hard ????

That's like asking for the Great Wall to be torn down...

-mel.

BANGKOK: -- Police nationwide have been instructed to reinforce prevention of gambling before and during the upcoming UEFA European Football Championship or Euro 2012, which starts next month.

It is the police themsleves who run the rings and nets.

Of course they want no gambling outside of their areas of 'execution', as they are the 72-76% takers of normal gambling payouts to the banker.

The banker never loses..... so prevention before other causes become alluded to!

-mel.

Police seize tiger carcasses en route to China

What were Thai police doing making their way to China?

It should have read 'carcasses bound for China'.

-mel.

In a month's time, the lovely lady Yingluck will have some healthy competition in the looks department from sexy khunying Sudarat

-mel.

This guy is a regular Einstein

Is it just me... or does his name sound like "Plod The Sod"?

No. Just Plod.

For some reason when I hear his name I think of Bill and Ben, the Flowerpot Men.

Only when they talked they made more sense.

Yeah.. like the time Bill and Ben were in the bath. Bill farted, and Ben said, "Quarter past four!"

-mel.

To be perfectly honest I believe that Yingluck's personal appearance down there was a good start. She should make more appearances down there make it look like she is searching for solutions. Easdy to sernd the army and set up different agencies and make it a impersonal thing.

Show up and let them think you are personally involved.

I am sure just her physical presence in the deep south from time to time would go a long way.

She certainly should make more appearances down there. There's nothing more beautiful, be it ars* or tit*, than the view of the top of a Lady's head in e/a state.

-mel.

Could always recommend not putting in the MSG, but actually there is no evidence of MSG having a negative impact on the body.

Instead of putting in the palm oil, put in a beer Chang export..... much healthier.

-mel.

The Minister has expressed confidence that the dam will not produce any impact on the environment.

This comment is surely intended for domestic consumption. How any educated person can utter such a statement with a straight face is beyond me.

Cutting down one tree, flooding one rai, building one road, all these things have an impact on the environment.

What he might have said if he was being really honest was " We intend to build this dam, there's lots of money to be made and frankly I don't give a shit about the environment". Thank you.

"This comment is surely intended for domestic consumption. How any educated person can utter such a statement with a straight face is beyond me. "

Please, pleeeaase don't feed....... as most Thais might actually try to physically eat comments!

-mel.

Mind you, there's an idea? ... write "ice-cube" on pieces of paper, and sell them for consumption.

Rice?

Tom yum soup paper... hot and spicy paper with additional flavours...

Na! Let's not go there, it might work...

-mel

Government to step up work to resolve insurgency

Which Government? The one with Yingluck, or the one without?

Seems the latter is more common-place!

-mel.

How about The Barber of Seville?

A 'good barber' and 'Bangkok' are words that are not usually associated with each other...

-mel.

Its taken the science minister all this time through scientific reasoning and deduction to discover what most people knew at the time the flood happened, brilliant work Sherlock.

His homework got lost in the floods.

-mel.

"Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday declined to comment on whether she was under pressure from the banned 111 Thai Rak Thai executives to reshuffle the Cabinet."

Yeah, course she declined. She was on her way to Bahrain !!!

Everytime there's a question at hand she has this nagging habit of being absent!

-mel.

May we reply to the first issue first?

The second one is too confusing for us farangs. I'm sure a Thai will respond with a new topic of response to this one soon though!

-mel.

Well of course they are in control of floods. The whole place is in drought.

Next we'll have the MoFCD.... Ministry of Fixing Cracked Dams.

Cracked, or cacked even, as they were never supposed to be empty from the foundations up!

-mel.

Of course there's lots of large eggs, and small eggs.

The mid-range eggs used to be a staple diet, usually 3 with a meal that would be a sustenance meal for a family of 247 people with sticky rice as an additive.

Now rice is being out-ranged, and mid-sized eggs at 2.4 Baht a piece being in low demand, as she puts it 'cos there's plenty of fruit, there's not an iota of a problem.

What she really means is cut out the middle-men and then mid-range sized eggs will be asunder, in 8-10 weeks time, but alas they will be out of date (if there were ever such a thing in LOS).

I smells me a few new Thai dishes of delicacy being cooked soon: Khao Pad TangMo (Melon fried rice), Pad Thai MaMuang (Stir-fried noodles with fish sauce and lychees) [ewww ], Tom Yum Thu-Rian (Spicy fish sauced hot chillied Durian )

As for the pigs and their pork, and their prices? They'll just remain in the Houses of Parliament.

-mel.