eyecatcher

the pro helmet gang always cracks me up. i personally love the guys who have 6 beers and take their bike home (but always wear the helmet)

if you're consistently going above 60km/hr then, yes, you should have a helmet on. if you're puttering around at 30-50km there is absolutely no need for a helmet. in fact, id argue a helmet INCREASES your chances of an accident at low speeds on account of reduced visibility, weight on your head, and the general lower awareness that a helmet inflicts, yes, INFLICTS on its wearer.

it comes down to awareness. if you can handle a bike and are aware enough to anticipate/prevent bad situations, then you'll be fine. if you dont possess those skills -- and riding a bike in thailand is very much a skill -- then no level of protection will prevent you from having accidents.

Sure is a lot of very stupid posts on TV!

yes I was thinking the same.

I pick up on the comment "if you can handle a bike.....can anticipate......youll be fine"

lets highlight the following exceptionally skilled drivers and riders, professionals in their own right, who all have the full monty of anticipation at their disposal.

F1 racing drivers...sadly many died due to others

Moto Gp racers...sadly many died due to others

race jockeys....sadly many died due to others

"tour" cyclists..sadly many died due to others

driving and riding here is risky come dangerous but its not feasible to assume everyone behind the wheel is drunk,or blind, or a girl without a licence;

It doesnt matter how much you anticipate each eventuality, you can never anticipate every eventuality; and having a helmet on could be your life saver.

so you're comparing puttering around at 30-60 km/hr to professional racing sports?

I was trying to illustrate that speed and your own skill/judgement are irrelevent really becasue there are likely to be events occur that cannot be anticipated.(even by the top pros) so wear the appropriate gear just in case. (like all of them do)

the liklihood of being hit by a car on the road is of course immensely higher than whilst you are walking on the pavement.

You put shoes on your feet every day to go out dont you? why do you do that? ...safety maybe?

the pro helmet gang always cracks me up. i personally love the guys who have 6 beers and take their bike home (but always wear the helmet)

if you're consistently going above 60km/hr then, yes, you should have a helmet on. if you're puttering around at 30-50km there is absolutely no need for a helmet. in fact, id argue a helmet INCREASES your chances of an accident at low speeds on account of reduced visibility, weight on your head, and the general lower awareness that a helmet inflicts, yes, INFLICTS on its wearer.

it comes down to awareness. if you can handle a bike and are aware enough to anticipate/prevent bad situations, then you'll be fine. if you dont possess those skills -- and riding a bike in thailand is very much a skill -- then no level of protection will prevent you from having accidents.

Sure is a lot of very stupid posts on TV!

yes I was thinking the same.

I pick up on the comment "if you can handle a bike.....can anticipate......youll be fine"

lets highlight the following exceptionally skilled drivers and riders, professionals in their own right, who all have the full monty of anticipation at their disposal.

F1 racing drivers...sadly many died due to others

Moto Gp racers...sadly many died due to others

race jockeys....sadly many died due to others

"tour" cyclists..sadly many died due to others

driving and riding here is risky come dangerous but its not feasible to assume everyone behind the wheel is drunk,or blind, or a girl without a licence;

It doesnt matter how much you anticipate each eventuality, you can never anticipate every eventuality; and having a helmet on could be your life saver.

What is it.

I have seen candling done is that it.

What, making a whole candle from ear wax?

good time to go on your birthday then, you can light it up and celebrate afterwards

Seriously for once!!....just in case cotton buds are your preference..............

did anyone recognise the one I photographed on the road to Samoeng, countryside area. It may have been crossing the road and got clipped by a car or a bike, injured obviously.

If Thais or better young Thais are lazy was a simple question, I don't want to insult anybody no matter what nationality. I just ask this to find out if there are more owners with similar experiments so I know what I have to look for. I owned a company for over 10 years with 14 peoples but this was never happen to me.

Thanks stigvinck for the tip!

A pretty Thai girl in CM that can speak good English and has a driving license will be expecting a wage of 20k+ a month. If you are expecting them to have a degree as well add another 5k a month.

If you pay less, or expect long hours, you won't find anyone that will stick at the job longer than a week.

I don't think the Thais are lazy, I suspect you want too much for not enough.

big big difference between expecting and what is offered.

I think at a stretch you can expect lets say for example a pretty hotel receptionist in a 4 star hotel, degree in English a pre requisite in Phuket to get circa 15-20k in high season with service charge comissions, but same girl in same hotel in Chiang Mai, maybe 12k tops.

not sure who you know on 25/30k; we are talking the level of bank managers/lawyers/teachers with oodles of experience.

However that being said I hope to God my beautiful,fluent English speaking,28 days a month, 14hrs a day, reception manager, and bed partner doesnt see this post or i will have to raise her into double figures!

think it would work as not nice scent, have you ever smelled moth balls? Who held the wings?? (the same who hold true for buttery penises)

well......I am not putting mine anywhere near a snake thats for sure

dont they say hire a youngster whilst they still know everything?

The younger end to me, no matter whether in the affluent areas or santi...other areas seem to place such a high priority on drinking to excess each and every night until the small hours that they simply are not fit to be diligent and alert at 9 in the morning. So yes you even get the clever graduates discussing how to make their millions over beer, but I bet they are not discussing what jobs are on offer, more likely which business or dot com site they will run.

they dont want to work for someone else do they?

ok obviously not everyone fits this category, lets just say, its a factor surely.

and as for the OP washing his dirty laundry in public, I would never discuss, even anonymously interviewees or ex employees becasue you simply dont know where or if a backlash will come that affects you or your business.

we need to identify the snake...was it like this one?

I snapped this one sunbathing or "mao" on the road, very much still alive though and appeared to be more than 3ft long, nearer to 6ft.

when I came back must have sobered up or else it was due for someones evening meal.

Ama Ahka would have been on my list, but this year their iced latte went up from 35bht to 50bht, and there were rats running around the place. Right beside where I was sitting.

obviously a higher standard of clientele demands a higher price then now. ....ouch

I often decide a 60bt "chang yai" is much better value

Sorry, what does that mean eyecatcher....is that a brand name or Thai expression ?

a big bottle of Chiang beer.....I sometimes go safe than risk bad coffee

I am also very difficult to please when it comes to buying coffee. I always drink black coffee, as I dont like original flavours to be "hidden" with milk, cream and sugar.

Even then I find many of the coffees I drink here bitter or burnt or maybe "stewed" because they have been bubbling and evaporating from the machine since 7 in the morning.

it simply is not what I call fresh and infact often tastes no different to red cup instant nescafe.........on top of that for 40/50/60bt for a few slurps from a tiny cup; I often decide a 60bt "chang yai" is much better value

call me crazy, but i think CMwebs "biz" is just starting. lots of typos, different properties with the same pics, then a bunch of high-end condos in a building that won't be completed for a year (or more). my guess is that the pricing was decided by a dart throw...

Or hoping there are gullible farang's on TV..........which of course there aren't.

They called me gullible......and I believed them

Mosquito bites, I see young backpackers covered in bites ....... but they never seem to bite me.

They are not backpackers...........they are itch-hikers

I assumed originally it was your "check bin" she was bringing for you......yet another happy ending from where you least expect it.

I too was chained last week, maybe by the same policeman.;

I had been warned by the staff at Darets a year ago not to leave a bike or a car between 4pm and 7pm , anywhere from Starbucks to the Amora hotel as the police want the roads clear for the early evening rush…..

…..so they chain and clamp; how that helps the traffic flow is not clear to me.

In the past I have been very diligent about parking. On this occasion however excuses aside I was parked there and with another road criminal rapidly approached the policeman as he was chaining.

He had no interest in stopping what he was doing, no interest to even acknowledge us both and no interest in the fact that probably 6 bikes outside the old book shop adjacent to Starbucks were now all parked on the foot path.

I wasn’t angry at my mistake I was angry at the ignorant attitude of the policeman, who simply pointed us in the direction of the station to pay the release fine.

Now before you really all give me a good kicking; imagine you are in this situation. The bike has no plate or licence and under my seat by pure “luck” I have a disc/angle grinder.

At that moment I was all for getting my tool out; but fortunately there was no power source close enough, so in the end I did the right thing and went to pay the fine.

They just annoy me.

The women wandering around with no bra and a copy of 'lost planet' in their hands.

The shirtless guys just wearing swimming shorts.

The whole lot of them hiring m/cs while clearly never even sat on one before, let alone having a license.

(Although to be fair, the Chinese tourist are now doing the m/c madness thing but at least wearing t-shirts)

OK, so they spend money, but they sure bring down the tone of the place.

Wasn't that the sequel to Jurassic Park? do they really read that, with no bra on?

re .. Welcome to the Chiang Mai Forum, where food is a serious topic

and so it should be : )

dave2

I recognise this sunday roast, Sweetheart bar I think??

I believe no one who says they can recognise a potato or a yorky.....but that blue checked plastic table cover must be unique, surely this is the only place with such horrendous taste in tableware. where is it?

Let me elaborate and I should have been clearer.

The backpacker trade is a good one. They spend a lot for food and drink. It's the World-Trash scammer that gets grouped with the backpackers that create problems and go from free meal to free drinks to free drugs to free sex.

The same group (the males) believes that bar girls and working girls should service them for free because they are young and/or manly. This in itself has created a bad scene in the last decade where, "up to you" has transformed itself to "you pay me now (before)."

This would get my vote as crazy post of the day except it was made last night, Asked about a seemingly unwelcoming backpacker statement in an earlier post, the poster (David Duke?) then rants about Young "manly" dudes expecting free drugs, sex and booze, thus ruining the BG scene! ......reminds me of a statement made to me years ago by a local lady, "this is Thailand, everything cheap, nothing free".

what about your breakfast today at Raming Lodge???

He said ok just pay for coffee, I smiled and said no, don't want,

Did you pay for the coffee?

maybe he said he was just drinking the free refills....

The best way to play the Thai stock market is to open a brokerage account at one of the large firms in Singapore. Many of these firms are also set up for online trading therefore avoiding the huge brokerage fees charged when phoning in orders..

well one guy did quite well I recall brokering there and brought down the whole bank.,

its just as easy to set up your own account via your own country using the LSE, forex, iii, share centre. many many etc etc.

as for CGT, i dont think many of us need to be concerned about that, I certainly am not....maybe in 3yr hence

Why are all your comments to postings in TV of such a cynical nature. You must be a very uhappy person. You have rogue traders and bad traders in every country. Your reference to the LSE I am presuming that you are from England. How about the traders in England that have cost J P Morgan 4.5 billion U.S. and counting. How about Barclays bank that was just fined 450 million dollars for rigging libor rates..As I said you have rogue traders and bad traders in all countries.

your comments about rogue traders are quite correct but I dont see how you are making that relevant to my comments.

As for me being a very unhappy person yes you are correct I am as miserable as sin.

Winnie; your thread just goes to show how much further up the circle of life alcohol is. you have had almost 7000 views, and posts on our intimate forum from the rest of the world., members we never usually see.

Not around for help when we have a request for a blood transfusion or a cork notice board are you

it seems without doubt that alcohol holds a much higher importance than food everywhere except in Chiang mai.

The best way to play the Thai stock market is to open a brokerage account at one of the large firms in Singapore. Many of these firms are also set up for online trading therefore avoiding the huge brokerage fees charged when phoning in orders..

well one guy did quite well I recall brokering there and brought down the whole bank.,

its just as easy to set up your own account via your own country using the LSE, forex, iii, share centre. many many etc etc.

as for CGT, i dont think many of us need to be concerned about that, I certainly am not....maybe in 3yr hence

The Brits are great food critics when it comes to chips, tikka masala; donner kebabs,, what are you saying?......that our fine dining expertise is limited