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Sorry for being so vague.I love the Isaan forum but of late it fills up with posts by Muffdiver and his pal buttcruiser. All the other Surin chaps are lovely.

How about the "Home and garden forum" with a built in Surin filter.

He's up to his eyeballs in French totty while i'm tapping at a keyboard.Whose the smart one?

Nice to know what the semaphore means but i certainly would not trust the message.By the time the truck has got to Nong Khai from Bangkok the driver is probably on his second yar bar.

Burning tyres and car jacking,could almost be back in sunny Brixton.

Do chaps like purdy get some kind of buzz by posting such rubbish?Am i missing something?

What do you get if you cross a bulldog and a Shitzu?

Potentially a lot of trouble if the mother is the Shitzu.Could be looking at a caesarian.

Sometimes i am sure the driver ahead is doing some kind of semaphore with his indicators but i'm not up on the code.Is the left indicator flashing a sign not to overtake?

utilize a carrier who treats me more like the other people who live in this country, which is my home.

Spot on Ray,The thing to do is vote with our feet.

Here in Nong Khai they do not ring you to let you know the result.

My recipe for a life free of beatings here is to try and avoid the drunk Thai male.

They seem to put a large tree branch on the road

Yes and normally right across the motorcycle lane.

The peace and quiet of South Africa

If the locals take a slight dislike to you,don't they slip a burning tyre around your neck?

In this neck of the woods,Nong Khai,the locals use their hazard lights to indicate they wish to proceed straight ahead.Now is there a signal i don't know about for warning of a hazard in the road ahead?

And criminal gangs use to drive around and steal teak- trees at night

Around here large branches disappear over night and eventually you end of with a pollared tree.

As for the land it is very cheap and might suggest unclear title or land reform land that can only be past to lower generations and not sold legally.

Is South Africa somewhere you can recommend as in the UK it gets an awful press.

Took about 105 days to get my first extention under your circumstances.(Three visits after the initial interview,30,30 and then 45 days)

The locals here have real trouble getting visas for Australia,even a lass with a brother there was told they thought she might do a runner.

I know a guy here though who prints an own publication. he got a journalist visa

What are the criteria for getting a visa for work on your own publication?

Local police have only come round to visit me once in all these years and at that time i had to fill in one side of a sheet of paper asking various questions.

Could he be singing "samaw" which means anchor/stone ?

I would say an average of 25000 Baht a month is close to what i spend.

I don't know if she is taken the Mick,but the wife says Thai's don't like them because of the colour.Yellow is a religious colour associted with monks and temples and around here no one ever wears yellow clothing.(except farang)

When i did the visa runs i found going to Laos to be the most enjoyable.

Tiz,i had to sign all the papers for a mortgage my wife took out against a commercial property.