MrMuddle

Bill, I can remember our junior school collecting the milk bottle tops, to pay for guide dogs for the Blind. I can't recall when the collecting stopped, (we used to bring them from home, and from neighbours and family, as well) - probably when the government stopped giving kids free school milk.

A personal question - did you wear winkle pickers or brothel creepers to work ?

I tried to post this 3 times yesterday and gave up in disgust.

I used to collect milk bottle tops, aluminium foil and newspapers when I was a Boy Scout AND I was a milk monitor.

My first job after I left school was in the dairy and I wore black rubber wellies and the next 2 I wore school shoes as my Dad had died a couple of months before I left school and we were a bit short of brass like.

In January 1960 I joined the RAF as a Boy Entrant and for the next 18 months they dictated my clothing and shoes including drill boots with steel tips and heels and studsand so highly polished you could use them as a mirror to shave with.

When I was in mans service I used to wear tight black trousers, polo neck sweaters plus I also had a purple mohair sweater and course black winklepicker boots.

They are on sale at about £120 a pair.

I also used to ride a 1957 Lambretta LD 150.

This was recently sold for £1,850.

Say WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Geesh!!!... I had one those..top speed 55mph .....took me to Brighton, Blackpool etc etc...from north London..used to use dad's old engine oil for 2 stroke mix...paid for it with my milk round....think it cost about 2 pound ten ..bit of a wreck but did it up,pulled out the engine new rings etc.,sprayed it, fitted a double seat I found on a bomb site...changed front mudguard to an aluminum one, (my mate and I bought a motorcycle one and cut in half.)...add a fishing rod aerial with a fox tail on top, Exchange and Mart US parka....hush puppies, white socks.......soo cool we thought...lol

No photos David ?

Give him a kilo of H, a locked room and a needle and let him get on with it! People like this do not deserve to be in the public eye, nor have any fame or attention dished out on them. He was/is a crap singer who came to fame because he dated a beautiful model, it is this fact and his notoriety and bad behaviour that led to him being able to charge high fees for his attendance at events, in no way should an oxygen thief like this be able to afford a 12K a month rehab clinic. There are better people living on the streets of London this very day that deserve a fraction of the opportunities this clown has been given.

Did this guy kill your dog or sleep with your wife?

No, he slept with his dog and.....

I certainly do remember Big Daddy, wasn't his favourite move known as the splash ? He used to bounce opponents off his huge stomach until they could take no more, then flop on top of them. Giant Haystacks was his "enemy", the one the old ladies used to swing their handbags at ! My Mum and her sister, who used to come to our house on a Saturday, to watch the TV, both used to say Kent Walton was watching a different fight, to the one being shown.

My favourite wrestler was Billy Two Rivers, who apparently WAS a real American Indian ( I thought it was all made up), if I've done it right there should be a photo of him here.

Frank Ifield did the night clubs in the north-east for years, Bob Monkhouse appeared a few times too, but he was a bit "blue" for most of the mixed audiences at the time, as I recall. (How things change over a few years, and not always for the better). The Beverly Sisters were a little before my time, (but I wouldn't have said no to the twins ! ). I had the hots for the lead singer of the Ronettes, Veronica (Ronnie) Spector.

And Transam, I can remember the name "Flit", but I can't recall what it was - mouse killer powder ??

For a country of 5 million odd, there does seems to be a large proportion of members of Scottish decent who have an affinity for Thailand.

Tell us why your ass is in Thailand (or want's to be) and your heart is still in Scotland

My ass is in Thailand coz ma darlin wifie's fae here an aifter a trial run bidin through een o i worst winter's snaw's seen in Scotland in 30 yeers or so, she wiz glaid ti git hame,,, as was masel is weel ,,, anither thing noo ye mention "geein it laldy" nae so much choice o quality single malts here ti lead mi astray in a nicht oot, resultin in a clearer Heid nooadays.

I thought you could only post in English in TV?

No idea what language that was.

Aye well in a couple of years, when we're Independent, you'll need a passport and visa to enter Scotland - and if you think Thai Immigration are a tough bunch, wait until you see what's in store for Sassenachs !!

Saturday morning kids cinema, the ABC minors, if it was your birthday you could go up on stage and get a prize.....one kid went, and the fella giving out the gifts asked him, "Weren't you here last week ?", "No, that was my twin brother", was the reply.

Was the nature magazine Spick and Span ?

Dixon of Dock Green, another of my Dad's favourites, was a must see in our house, Saturday was the Wrestling, followed by tea, then all tidied up in time for Dixon. It's available on DVD now !

Wasn't that followed by the Black & White Minstrel show ?

I went to a live show of the Black & White Minstrels in London. Had a small box right near the stage.

What was so obvious was that the music and singing was recorded for many songs with the principle artists miming. A great show neverless

I'm glad you posted this, I'd completely forgotten my Mum had dragged me along to see the Minstrels, which is unusual for me, normally I remember long ago quite clearly but as for yesterday....

I can also recall going to see Lonnie Donegan, and another of Mum's favourites, Frank Ifield, both in the early 1960s.

While I'm not a great fan of the American stuff that dominates the sports channels, we used to go regularly to see the wrestling, Jackie Pallo, Mick McManus, Les Kellet, Bert Royal, Kendo Nagasaki, great entertainment, though you had to be careful to avoid the ladies handbags, swinging at the bad guys, if you sat at the front.

Happy days.

Bill, I can remember our junior school collecting the milk bottle tops, to pay for guide dogs for the Blind. I can't recall when the collecting stopped, (we used to bring them from home, and from neighbours and family, as well) - probably when the government stopped giving kids free school milk.

A personal question - did you wear winkle pickers or brothel creepers to work ?

I tried to post this 3 times yesterday and gave up in disgust.

I used to collect milk bottle tops, aluminium foil and newspapers when I was a Boy Scout AND I was a milk monitor.

My first job after I left school was in the dairy and I wore black rubber wellies and the next 2 I wore school shoes as my Dad had died a couple of months before I left school and we were a bit short of brass like.

In January 1960 I joined the RAF as a Boy Entrant and for the next 18 months they dictated my clothing and shoes including drill boots with steel tips and heels and studsand so highly polished you could use them as a mirror to shave with.

When I was in mans service I used to wear tight black trousers, polo neck sweaters plus I also had a purple mohair sweater and course black winklepicker boots.

They are on sale at about £120 a pair.

I also used to ride a 1957 Lambretta LD 150.

This was recently sold for £1,850.

Say WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By 'eck, I'm well impressed.

Scottish on my fathers side, (Clan McIntosh), Yorkshire on my mothers.

Independence for Scotland and Yorkshire !

We've been into our local branch today, and came away more confused than when we went in. We had bought our receiver, many years ago, and after reading comments on here, about exchanging new for old, (at a cost), I took it with us. At first they told us that could not sell us a new receiver, as they had none in stock, but would have stock in three days. We could however rent one, but had to pay 6 months deposit (9000 Baht), first. We decided to wait the three days. Then they discovered they did have some receivers for sale, at 3900 Baht.

We decided to buy one, as we were told to rent a receiver box was 1500 baht a month, with Gold package subscription fees of 1400 baht, on top of that. We asked to have the HD channels included, (extra cost 290 baht), and also the BBC package of Entertainment & CBBC, (a further 170 baht). after the True shop got in touch with whoever runs this joke of a company, we were told that the HD channels and BBC packages were only available to customers who rented their receivers - I thought the purpose of running a business was to make money, but it seems True can afford to turn my money away.

After I had stopped banging my head on the wall, we bought the receiver, but with only the Gold package as a subscription. It took the girls in the shop, (there was seven of them, and we were the only customers, apart from a couple of folks paying bills), over two hours to sort this out for us !

I have been a customer of this company, and UBC before it, for 12 years or so. I cannot understand why they differentiate between customers who rent their receivers, and those who buy them.

It seems they have no idea of how to treat loyal customers. Frankly I am amazed that any Thai people can afford to pay a monthly rental of 1500 baht, with additional package costs for whichever service they subscribe to, on top of that. Ridiculous way to run a business.

Sounds like a total fiasco. The receiver rental cost is 155 baht a month, platinum package 2,000 baht a month, which includes BBC Knowledge and BBC Lifestyle, Entertainment and CBeebies are extra (but I seem to get them for free).

http://www.truevisio...kage.aspx?id=39 All the monthly costs are listed here and should not vary from branch to branch. It sounds like the shop is staffed by a bunch of scammers, trying a fast one or just idiots.

I would return the receiver to the shop and call the customer service number rather than try to deal with the shop face to face http://www.truevisio.../contactus.aspx , report the local shop and order what you want over the phone. I believe you can even sign up on the website but haven't tried it.

I would not advise buying the receiver either, rent it; you'll have to pay 2,000 baht deposit and I doubt you'll get a discount/ trade in for old receiver as you bought it (had it been rented they should simply swap them over for free). Good luck,

Well my wife rang Truevisions and the chap said we should go back to the shop (Phetchabun) tomorrow and they should change us over to the rental package, using the money we paid for the deposit and to subscribe to the Gold package. He also said that the extra channels we wanted, the HD package and the BBC package are available, as a la carte extras, and the girls in the shop should know this. We'll see what happens, but either way, I'm writing to the head office to complain. How hard can it be to have people working in a shop who actually know what they are talking about? I feel that we were conned today, Disgraceful way to treat long standing customers.

I deal with Phitsanulok Immigration office too, much the same to report as Vatman, very impressive service, polite, helpful staff, in and out in next to no time!

PS Vatman, next time you go, it's worth a look in the new Robinsons Shopping Mall, there's a supermarket there with a fair selection of farang food !

We've been into our local branch today, and came away more confused than when we went in. We had bought our receiver, many years ago, and after reading comments on here, about exchanging new for old, (at a cost), I took it with us. At first they told us that could not sell us a new receiver, as they had none in stock, but would have stock in three days. We could however rent one, but had to pay 6 months deposit (9000 Baht), first. We decided to wait the three days. Then they discovered they did have some receivers for sale, at 3900 Baht.

We decided to buy one, as we were told to rent a receiver box was 1500 baht a month, with Gold package subscription fees of 1400 baht, on top of that. We asked to have the HD channels included, (extra cost 290 baht), and also the BBC package of Entertainment & CBBC, (a further 170 baht). after the True shop got in touch with whoever runs this joke of a company, we were told that the HD channels and BBC packages were only available to customers who rented their receivers - I thought the purpose of running a business was to make money, but it seems True can afford to turn my money away.

After I had stopped banging my head on the wall, we bought the receiver, but with only the Gold package as a subscription. It took the girls in the shop, (there was seven of them, and we were the only customers, apart from a couple of folks paying bills), over two hours to sort this out for us !

I have been a customer of this company, and UBC before it, for 12 years or so. I cannot understand why they differentiate between customers who rent their receivers, and those who buy them.

It seems they have no idea of how to treat loyal customers. Frankly I am amazed that any Thai people can afford to pay a monthly rental of 1500 baht, with additional package costs for whichever service they subscribe to, on top of that. Ridiculous way to run a business.

The real high society will go to great lengths to ensure that they do not make the list. The last thing one wants to do is to draw attention to oneself. Until one is harrassed by charities and the parade of people looking for handouts, donatons, support etc., it is difficult to appreciate. As well, one does not need to attract kidnappers and extortionists.

When I was in school, one of my classmates came from a billionaire Hong Kong family. They led a very low key public life. The father was a big supporter of philanthropy, but did it discreetly. There was also another kid. He came from some old German aristocratic family and made sure everyone knew about it. His home was eventually foreclosed by the bank(s) and all of their leased and financed cars were taken away. Chinese kid went to summer camp with me and he lived in a tent and suffered mosquitos and balck flies like the rest of us. The hairlipped aristocrat spent the summers on his daddy's boat in the mediteranean or at their villa in the south of France. He made sure we knew how "rich" he was. Fast forward a couple decades, the Hong Kong Kid is still married to his wife, is a quiet businessman and seems to be following in his father's footsteps. The aristocratic kid has been in and out of rehab, has had a messy divorce and is a royal mess. I know who is high society.

From the above

"The real high society will go to great lengths to ensure that they do not make the list."

No, I'm not on the list either !

So Jayman, share the joy, what are the ingredients & method ?

I guess that the keyword is "torrent"...

correct.. torrents have all the content you could ever want in very HD quality all out there free for the taking. No sat dishes or program guides required. I use a NMT that I tell it what I like to watch and it monitors the schedules and as soon as the shows air they are downloaded and wait for me to press play on my TV. Stuff that TRUE would never carry nor any of these other asian sats. It really all depends what you want to watch. I don't watch sports as it does nothing for me to see men running around playing grab ass.

What do you want to watch today?

http://eztv.it/

http://www.bt-chat.com/

http://www.seventorrents.com/

oh cool.. just noticed that Breaking bad season just started Sunday night in US and now the new episode in HD has already been downloaded and is waiting for me to press play. And Weeds... who doesn't like weeds?

How do you keep your downloads per month to under 5GB ? Or is there an unlimited download package in Thailand I'm unaware of ?

I've had True visions for 11 years, was with UBC before, I pay my bill every month and now can only get the basic channels NOT the Gold package I'm paying for. My receiver is a Samart DSTV unit, does anyone know if these are now blocked ? We'll be giving them hell in Phetchabun tomorrow, that's for sure. Doesn't the Thai government get involved in cases where a company screws it's customers like this ? Absolutely disgraceful way to run a company, and a country !

ok boys i except your point,

but it still pisses me off,,

we cant all be happy,

jake

I would rather be a man like you that objected to women being casually abused and disrespected than be them

I frequent a bar in Chiang Mai where a few of the staff are refugees from Loi Kroh road, they've been there, done it, got the T-shirt and got out before they were consumed by the monster.

Women take a massive, massive step in their psyche when they go down that road, I believe the women that have the nous and strength to turn around and walk back up the road deserve respect

Guys that treat women like second class citizens are saying more about themselves than they will ever know.

From the above

"Guys that treat women like second class citizens are saying more about themselves than they will ever know."

It's only July, but that would be my nomination for TV quote of the year. Well said Sir.

I think when you wai you should feel your wai to be sincere in paying your respects physically, mentally and spiritually towards someone.

I don't feel this way when I go to a gogo bar or beer bar.

And beleive me, I see Farang doing it every single time I go for a massage or have a couple beers at the bar.

Have I got this right, you frequent go-go bars and beer bars, and are writing on Thai Visa to correct other poster's moral etiquette?

You must have a wonderful sun tan, living in your house made of glass.

Saturday morning kids cinema, the ABC minors, if it was your birthday you could go up on stage and get a prize.....one kid went, and the fella giving out the gifts asked him, "Weren't you here last week ?", "No, that was my twin brother", was the reply.

Was the nature magazine Spick and Span ?

Dixon of Dock Green, another of my Dad's favourites, was a must see in our house, Saturday was the Wrestling, followed by tea, then all tidied up in time for Dixon. It's available on DVD now !

Wasn't that followed by the Black & White Minstrel show ?

Very Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Your Majesty.

Forgot - bananas sliced, on wholemeal toast, an excellent way to start the day.

Sorry if this is a bit vague !

I read somewhere years ago, that UNICEF or the WHO had done surveys, and it was found that children who had bananas for breakfast, and at lunch time concentrated better, and got higher exams results than children who didn't have bananas.

Bill, I can remember our junior school collecting the milk bottle tops, to pay for guide dogs for the Blind. I can't recall when the collecting stopped, (we used to bring them from home, and from neighbours and family, as well) - probably when the government stopped giving kids free school milk.

A personal question - did you wear winkle pickers or brothel creepers to work ?

SAF and Joey Barton....I'd love to see that.

Can't really imagine that, but would be funny. Barton will probably have a spell in the Thai Premier League before that happens.

Didn't Barton punch a kid in Thailand, when he was with Everton ?

Blatter's now come out with some drivel about how he knew all about it, but it wasn't illegal at the time !

Personally I think corruption is still rife at FIFA, it's the only possible explanation of why Qatar and Russia got the World Cup Finals.

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Majic, you were lucky, three quid a week ? My first wage as an apprentice was 2 Pounds, 2 Shillings, and 10 Pence ha'penny.....though why the ha'penny I have no idea!

But it went a long way, as the young 'un in the factory, I had to make the tea, and do the morning bacon sandwich run to the local greasy spoon, I used to make more in tips than I did wages.

I was lucky, I got my tranny from my older brother, who worked on the docks........it fell off the back of a ship.

Is it just me, or was life more fun back then ?