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1 hour ago, chiang mai said:

I sense a book in the making perhaps, "A Critical Review of Chiang Mai Parking Lots", author, Parker Carr, a right riveting read!

Just what I've been waiting for,  A Critical Review of Chiang Mai Parking Lots, by Parker Carr.

It would take pride-of-place on my bookshelf alongside The Ruptured Chinaman by Won Hung Lo.

Just now, ClutchClark said:

 

Demolition Derbies also require a good offense  

Not if you want to live to tell your grandchildren about it.

Driving in Thailand is like participating in a Demolition Derby.

If you want to survive it you have to drive defensively and try to be aware of what's happening on all sides.

Impossible to do that all the time... just hope Lady Luck sticks with you.

2 minutes ago, lostinisaan said:

 

   If you're not familiar with the Thai language, you should use Gung. A double OO could make it to a O sound. Like a gong. 

Then goo would be pronounced go.

Up to you, my friend.

Just now, lostinisaan said:

 

 It all depends on where you're from.............

True to a certain extent, but there isn't much variation in the pronunciation of goong... meaning shrimp.

5 minutes ago, lostinisaan said:

A troll should make a poll.....................

 

       BTW, it's Gung not Kung. 

Gung is an improvement on Kung, but Goong is the closest to the Thai pronunciation.

The Life of Katherine Mansfield by Antony Alpers [Oxford 1987].

The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield [Wordsworth Classics 2006].

Fascinating reading about her childhood in New Zealand; coming of age in bohemian and literary London before, during, and after WWI. Last days at Gurdjieff's chateau and commune at Fontainebleau.

My thanks to Irish George at Backstreet Books in Chiang Mai. He has provided me with a lot of reading pleasure over the years. I hope he stays in business for a long time to come.

11 hours ago, mogoso said:

this might help      http://en.numista.com/catalogue/thailande-1.html

Thanks for that valuable source of information about Thai coins.

The photographs are excellent.

3 minutes ago, williamgeorgeallen said:

it is more likely that the cops dont know much and that is why they are not releasing any details. pretty much every case i have ever seen involving the coppers here they immediately release every bit of evidence they have even if it is not verified. surprised they have not released several theories of what they think has happened.

I said ...appear to be handling this case better...

Who knows what's really going on?

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

16 hours ago, HenryB said:

The Yellow Steam

By

I Pee Daily

The Yellow Stream?

I always thought it was written by I.P.Standing.

13 hours ago, Berkshire said:

OP, this has nothing to do with the Thais.  It's more about your GF and her dysfunctional family.  All the Thais that I know love their families and show it, probably more than westerners do. 

Exceptionally good post, Berkshire.

Concise and to the point.

You really plugged his hole.

1 hour ago, madmitch said:

It's quite pleasing that the police aren't releasing names, coming out with speculative comments and making themselves look foolish, which so often happens in Thai criminal cases, and instead are keeping information to themselves.

 

 

Agreed.

The Thai cops appear to be handling this case better than so many others in the recent past.

Welcome to the forum, lemon.

What ideas do you have?

Care to share them?

8 hours ago, ClutchClark said:

8 hours ago, ClutchClark said:

 

Actually they salvage many parts from those mothballed aircraft so it is our tax dollars at work.

 

One of the few things I don't mind paying taxes to finance.

 

You're being ironic about taxes, of course.

Maybe some of those junk parts from Davis could be used to upgrade the F-35 which has been termed "Flawed beyond redemption" in spite of the $40 billion+ spent on it already.

Or they could come and look for what they need in this rice field in Doi Saket.

Another Kool-Aid?

6 hours ago, kenk24 said:

 

Sanuke - that must be a nuclear explosion of fun, sanook... 

 

Yes, I enjoy myself here in the same way... and I assume from your other post that you speak some Thai... as you learn more and move further out of tourist centers, if you have not already, you will find people friendlier and quite willing to engage in chat... 

You nailed it, ken.

Get away from the tourist traps and everything is different.

Made your day, did it?

I guess you've never been to Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona.

Home of the biggest aircraft boneyard in the world. The sight of it is really mind-boggling.

Your tax dollars at work.

"...what chance of Peace?"

None whatsoever until Israel stops building illegal settlements on Palestinian land.  That is what provokes Palestinian resistance and international condemnation.  The coming weeks will see a challenge to the naval blockade of Gaza.  If moderate Israelis don't prevail soon against the hard line Zionists there will be endless bloodshed and the reality of an apartheid state where Jews will be a minority under siege.

In the old days it was called yellow journalism.

Sensational news stories to sell their publications.

Now government agencies are in the game to promote their agendas. 

Agreed.

CM Ram is one of the best hospitals in Chiang Mai.

Perceptive reply.

Although reading the posts of complaining misfits can be amusing at times - even for those of us who enjoy our lives here.

I can see this thread going on indefinitely.

Soon reports from those who attended will start coming in.

There might even be someone who claimed to have seen Alan Hall flogging investment opportunities to the members again.

The US and Australia have been joined-at-the-hip militarily since WWII.

Chinese money and influence are a direct threat to that relationship.

Expect the US to do everything in its power to counter that incursion.

No, it's not a non-event.

Even though it is part of a pilots training and is done on simulators, the reality of being faced with that situation would test any pilots courage and skill.

It wasn't Palestinian looters who left Gaza in ruins, it was Israeli warplanes.

From what is known so far it sounds like the pilot kept his cool and luck was with him.