pattayadingo

Be on the lookout for a gorilla - size 13 !!

Do you have a cesspit? That could be the answer.

If no cesspit obviously ignore this

I popped into my local sat shop and he says another week!

Still, I can always go to the pub and watch the games

Yes, yes, replying to my own post.....

Had a word at my usual bar last night for watching football and they seemed to have no idea true had even lost the EPL !!

Sigh, had to explain about CTH and got blank looks.

Now then, what was that I foolishly said about watching footie in the bar??

But, hey man, I look sooooooooo cool in my shades!

I want you to see me, not me look at your visage.

Wait, I'll take my sunglasses off to see what I've typed......

I have prescription glasses that are dark so I do not have to change so often. I do not need to carry around extra glasses. It has nothing to do with appearance

It's all in the humour

30.76 today at BigC

I popped into my local sat shop and he says another week!

Still, I can always go to the pub and watch the games

Get some by Creative u can get a decent set for 2k, iv had mine 2yrs and still going strong

+1

I also use wi-fi headphones plugged into the tv and can have the volume as loud as I like when others are asleep. Cheap enough too at about 400 Baht from the local computer shop.

Used them once a few years ago without any drama. A seat on a plane and something to eat if you wanted it. Don't expect too much and you will be rarely disappointed...

Yes, to get there and back (or there, in my case), on time and in one piece is all that is really required.

Thanks for the input.

Wow - you're a brave man

Of course. Good ole Yorkshire stock

As promised here's my experience.

Jet Airways were an absolute bargain for the fare of 30k. Nice clean planes, personally I liked the food, cabin crew were friendly and all legs arrived on time except for the arrival in BKK which was 10 minutes late.

Now the downside. Going to the UK the transit through Mumbai was a nightmare. Organised chaos would be a complement to describe the huge line of passengers that were separated into male and female lines which each had only one scanner each. It took forever and airline agents came along the line frantically searching for passengers caught in the queue and holding up flights. Security staff were stressed and unhelpful. They ran out of security tags for the cabin bags and I had to leave the line to go and find some more myself. Passports and boarding passes were checked a total of six times. However returning to Thailand we were very lucky, Breezed through transit as they had a full compliment of scanners working. However as I went through the body scanner I took at the queue and it snaked back out of view.

Would I use Jet again? Maybe if I was on my own. Wifey said never again as she hated the Mumbai experience. Maybe if both legs go through Delhi

It's a shame that as excellent value airline is tarnished by the airport you transit through.

That has been my experience twice in Mumbai.

Delhi is supposed to be much better.

A nice, quick arrest by the BiB

Quote.....

She also expressed her concerns over the well-being of Thais living overseas, adding that she has instructed the Interior and Foreign Ministries to look after them and assist them when necessary....

Would this involve bribes being handed out to schools, teachers, government officers, police officers and many others to smoothe the students way through life?

We went to the Big Buddah Temple. 20 Baht for flowers, joss sticks and gold leaf and we made merit to Buddah 20 Baht each to the monk to get his blessing.

There's something wrong there.

Why?

That is the way very many Thai people do it.

The 20 Baht each is a donation. You do not have to give it.

Besides this is not really on topic, the topic itself is about managing on less than 50K per month. I was merely showing a few examples of daily life that do not cost a fortune..

Relatively expensive. Try Localphone

But they do not mention calling the U.K. from Thailand?

Calls into Thailand @ 1.8 c but that is different.

I have to ask in all of your examples of seeing bodies in the road, did you ever stop to help? Check and make sure people okay or did you drive on with mai pen rai attitude.

I live in North Isaan and have never seen a body in the road, many dogs most of which I have moved out of the road and into the side for safety (and yes all were dead).

Just curious.

I too have never seen an unnatended body in the road except for the odd drunk at the wayside. Once or twice I've seen bodies covered with sheets - m/c riders - but they have had people there attending to them.

It does seem odd that one person can see so many bodies simply laid in the road.

Why is this news? I'm sure people get caught stealing from 7/11 hourly in this country considering they have 345454654756 locations

345,454,654,756 that many 7/11s in Thailand.

That is about as news worthy as the whole article.

Must have been a slow day for the Pattaya News or killings are getting so common they are not newsworthy any more.

"...or killings are getting so common they are not newsworthy any more." Lousy thing to say. I think that you have been exacerbating too much. Makes one's brain go soft you know...

Would that make him an exacerbationist?

Is that legal here?

Do you do it with or without clothes on?

My mind boggles

pattayadingo

Thanks for that, useful, had heard of it but forgotten.

I`ll get one next time I`m near a CAT shop

You are welcome

Same with me sometimes, have had information before and forgotten it and it is nice to get the info again.

airlinequality gives them 2-stars, compared to 3-stars on Sri-Lankan and Jet.

skyscanner are showing Air India, at about B15k one-way early-mid-August, might be preferable ?

skyscanner.... thanks, I'd forgotten about that site after not flying or searching for flights for a long time

I can see the fares to the U.K. from BKK are cheap.

What about the airline itself? Any reports on them? Anyone used them?

via TAS Tashkent, Uzbekistan

with a 2hr 30 min stopover.

Cheaper than Sri Lankan and Jet Airways

Problem is I may need a 1 way flight in August (middle of the summer holidays in the U.K.) and need a cheap flight

As I recall when informing the airline (cannot remeber which one - but I think was Etihad) I could not fly the 2nd leg. Economy seat too.

I got the taxes refunded but not the cost of the actual fight.

Is this ticket never going to be used in that name? The reason I ask is that, yes, you get 1 free change but you could always talk to them to use it at a future date beyond that and pay whatever the premium is (under the same name, of course).

You want to make calls to land lines with standard STD codes or to mobile phones?

From your mobile phone to a landline with an STD code (01642 for example) I'd use a CAT phonenet card. Cost 2 Baht per minute but you must use a minimum 200 Baht card. ( With the 100 Baht card, calls cost more.)

To a mobile they charge 6 Baht per minute.

http://www.thaitelephone.com/EN/RateTable/index.php

^^^ for prices as of 09 July 2013

Buy at any CAT shop (one on Pattaya Thai).

Yes, it uses VOIP but I've never had a problem making calls to family, friends, the bank etc.