CapeCobra

Sukhumvit south, in Najomtien turn left into Hua Yai at traffic lights. About 1km on left huge Isaan restaurant, drive in to big parking. 2 floors, wooden construction. Don't know name but can't miss at night due to lights. Ate there once. Dancing shrimps. Sick the next day. Must be authentic.

A Thai explained to me that Luk Kreung means half-blood. "You mean half human", I responded. "Something like that" he said smiling.

"I understand", I said, "They are half human and the other half is Thai".

He stopped smiling.

Ship in distress:

"Mayday, mayday, we are sinking."

German coast guard:

"Vot are you sinking about?"

In Thailand, they do it for money. In the West, they do it for love.

Ask Anna Nicole.

My solution would be

a) open savings/investment account in my name, make payments

give him the funds, whenever fit

c) make a will covering my untimely voyage to other dimensions

Where did you say are are?

Arrrrr you a pirate?

avast there.....

"Avast me pretties! Strike your panties and prepare to be boarded!"

And when searching for your ball, remember that ball in Thai is called "my bon". The caddy will always find her/his ball but never yours.

A Thai told me that a luuk krung was half a kid, meaning half human. "I understand," I said, "so, the other half is Thai?" He was not amused.

But tall girls give you protection

I miss my Cobra. She was incredibly fast for the first 50m. Close to doing a wheely. Very dangerous beyond 180 km/h. Sounded like 2 Harleys. Girls with long legs and mini skirts used to burn their calves on the sidepipes when trying to get out in a decent way. One asked me "Do you mark all your cows?"

The CM models look much safer. : (

@ttthailand,

You are right of course.. I don't mind the complaining because of course there are things wrong here. Its more the putting down of the locals all the time that gets to me.

There are plenty of valid complaints, but acting like the locals are all dumb greedy and so on.. just not true.

I agree but until you have walked in a man's shoes don't judge him. Who know what the guy complaining has been experiencing.

True.. but generalizing never works.. but its so easy the us against them. I am not from the UK but will try to give an example to make it clear what I mean.

Like if i were to see a drunk Brit with a shaved head causing trouble i could say all Brits are trash (not true of course) while a Brit would say all Chavs are trash excluding himself from the group.

Its so easy for a foreigner to slag off all Thais instead of being a bit more specific .. generalizing is never good and putting down each and every Thai is just bad.

For my edification,whats a chav.Couldn't find it my Ozzy English dictionary.

Chav

Picture this a young lad about 12 years of age and 4 ½ feet high baseball cap at ninety degrees in a imitation addidas tracksuit, with trouser legs tucked into his socks (of course, is definitely the height of fashion). This lad is strutting around, fag in one hand jewellery al over the over, outside McDonalds acting as if he is 8 foot tall and built like a rugby player, when some poor unsuspecting adult (about 17/18) walks round the corner wanting to go to mcdonalds for his dinner glances at the young lad, the young lad jumps up in complete disgust and says “Whats your problem? Wanna make sommin of it? Bling Bling” when the adult starts to walk towards the young lad, the young lad pisses himself and runs off to either his pregnant 14-year-old girlfriend or his brother in the army crying his eyes out.

My mate has become a chav what can i do? answer is shoot him before it is too late.

Derived from Chatham in Kent, this term can be applied loosely to every culture with a nasty, thieving element. There are many variants of this creature but all are subject to the following commonalities:

Chavs are completely Amoral, having never been subjected to right and wrong by their inattentive, uncaring and often absent parents.

Chavs are part Magpie, evidentially supported by their love of all things shiny, or as vaccuous, illiterate street-slang would say 'Bling'. They can be seen twokking from the Jewelry counter in Argos/Index.

Whatever their ethnic background, Chavs have a built-in affinity to hip-hop/R&B, even if they are inherently racist (see the Scottish). They see their life as glamorous and cool.

Chavs are for the most part, extremely stupid. However, some of them render a form of low cunning, which can be misinterpreted as intelligence. However this is false. A Chav has no desire to better themself through honest means nor learn anything outside of car modification.

All chavs think that they are nails. Again, this is false. Sitting in a beaten up nova smoking lamberts does not precipitate a healthy body. The irony being that a Chav owns mainly sportswear, yet will only break a sweat if running from the police.

Chavs are incredibly fertile beasts, and are highly successful breeders. Where they come unstuck is having to look after the offspring which their 13 yr old drunken fumble produces. More often that not the child will crow to be a Chav, having received no more guidance on life than the parent.

Chavs have a fond love for cars, as well as a Vin Diesel fixation. Rather than buy a nice car to start with, a chav will spend all their dole and tax-free labouring cash on upgrading a 10 year old car with 200,000 miles on the clock. The end product will invariably be a luminous monstrosity with at least one serious collision to it's name.

Come back with my bumper, you <deleted> Chav thief.

Commonly thought to be of inferior intellect, the Chavette surprises us with its cunning plan to avoid taking up a professional career and provide itself with free accommodation supplied by tax payers by spawning multi coloured mini chavs at a early stage in life, usually mid teens.

Clearly recognisable by their distinctive tribal Burberry they congregate in town centres and on street corners, Chavs have a reputation of being creative with public property and motor vehicles, building themselves Chaviots out of mechcano sets and strip lighting, and providing us with humorous banta written on toilet walls like ‘Shit’ and ‘Tasha woz ere’ in an attempt to relieve our boredom while urinating.

Their language is a basic form of English thus avoiding any words they cannot spell or pronounce, even to the extent of creating new words only they know the meaning of.

Hunting in large groups Chavs will single out the weakest, smallest prey and attack it without mercy avoiding any personal injury and insuring victory.

Chavs unfortunately don't yet fall into the category of rodent and in effect cannot be bludgeoned to death under the guise of pest control. Darn!-

I think I speak for everyone when I say thank you Chavs for the great contribution you’ve made to this country, you’ve made it what it what it is today – a shit hole.

(From Urban Dic App)

What is the problem with the baboons,,It doesn't matter about the name and legality of the drug they use,,, If it does the job give it to the bastard.

Why are you insulting baboons? The stupidity of the Oklahoma idiots and supporters like you is uncommon in the civilized world that abolished xeath penalty long ago. Worse, than that: Yes, he was convicted. It doesn't mean he did it. Read this http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/richard-glossip-and-the-end-of-the-death-penalty. I haven't found a reliable statistic about the percentage of innocent convicts tortured to death by some States. My guess is 10%.

Your Jesus weeps.

The next step will be that all other manufacturers will be tested, and, big surprise, they all have the same problem .

Bad week in Wolfsburg with VW going down the pan and now this. Whenever I watch German football it's characterised by awful defending. Matts Hummell was hailed as a great defender and he's still at Dortmund, no takers. Saw Emre Can playing at right back for Germany a couple of weeks ago. As effective as when he played there for Liverpool.

"Bad defending" made them World Champions? Lewandowski scoring 4 against Real Madrid in CL semi finals was bad defending? You must be a follower of Mou's disgusting kind of soccer. German football reigns supreme. All the money laundering billions spent on EPL clubs won't change that. They still can't buy a Reus, Hummels, Müller or Neuer.

Further "education" available at http://ineedcoffee.com/why-we-hate-starbucks/

Steve Martin: “I’ll have a half double decaffeinated half-caf, with a twist of lemon”

Starbucks & Co offer fattening coffees suitable to American "taste". Unacceptable to peoples with more sophisticated coffee palates, like Dutch or Austrians, among others. The best coffee, I found at a small place called Benjamit at Soi Buakhao Market. They make their own coffees that I buy for my Boncafe machine.

Sacha Baron Cohen would have done better. Hopefully, he will not get that low for some footage for a "documentary".

We change. But, no delete button for tattoo messages.

Warning for golfers!

1. Prostitution is illegal on and off the course.

2. Sleeping with a Thai hooker is a bit like playing a round of golf.

You're likely to come across a couple of balls that aren't your's.

If you had of bought a condo in Thonglor 10 years ago, you would be very happy with today's value, the right location.

Yes you have made a small fortune......so yes, condos do appreciate, production costs go higher and that will never stop, cost of labor and materials keep climbing...........renting is ok short term stays, but if you decide to stay somewhere for 5 years or more best idea is to buy, but do the homework first.

If in 1989 you bought a second hand Lancia stratos at the going price, you would get now about 40 times or more the money invested.

If at the same time you bought a BMW M1 you would now also fetch about the same profit.

If instead you bought a BMW Z1, you will now get about half of what you invested.

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And if your auntie had a knob, she would be your uncle.

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Let's say you bought a condo in 2008 for THB 3m and sold it in 2014 for the same price. You paid cash from Europe. Now you transfer back. This results in a profit of about 36%, because you paid €55866 at 53.7 and received €87209 at 34.4. In addition you saved rent for 7 years. This scenario worked well because you made the right moves at the right time. If the location was great and the area in demand like the South of Pattaya, you may have yielded a higher price which would turn your condo into a big moneymaker. People tend to forget the impact of currency fluctuations.

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Currency fluctuations have nothing to do with real estate appreciation. You could have put the money in a bank account and made the same profits, and additional interests.

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That is correct. But you can't live in your bank account.

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Let's say you bought a condo in 2008 for THB 3m and sold it in 2014 for the same price. You paid cash from Europe. Now you transfer back. This results in a profit of about 36%, because you paid €55866 at 53.7 and received €87209 at 34.4. In addition you saved rent for 7 years. This scenario worked well because you made the right moves at the right time. If the location was great and the area in demand like the South of Pattaya, you may have yielded a higher price which would turn your condo into a big moneymaker. People tend to forget the impact of currency fluctuations.

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I think you really need to buy well if you want to make money most condos sold are overpriced to begin with and the glut of unsold condos does not help.

There a many market factors involved. Due diligence will tell you which condo is overpriced in relation to other projects. At this stage, there seems to be a plethora of condos and houses. Competition is fierce. It is a buyer's market. Select a developer very carefully. What are their chances of survival?

My advice: Stay away from business you may not fully understand. Buy a shirt first.

Charging THB 40 for a towel would piss me off in such a place.

The bill looks ok. Food AND Drinks 8039. Then the food is itemized. Not the drinks, except for 1 tea. Less than 10% tip added.

Contrary to the believes of some punters, mandatory service charge of 10% plus VAT is the rule in most expensive places. If the service was good you add a small tip for the waitron. But, they will give you a decent VAT invoice.

This restaurant has no class. Lack of customers is the result. Paying commission to Tuk Tuk drivers tells it all. Stupid tourists deserve no better.

10 years ago, I went to the Ratchada Seafood Market and ordered a lobster. What size? Give me the biggest, I said. Little did I know. They gave me a 3 kilo giant served on the biggest plate I'd ever seen. A number of waitresses watched the scene giggling all the way. I started eating without batting an eyelid and finished it off. I paid over 5000 Baht and my Thai business associates laughed for days about my foolishness. But, best lobster I ever had. Absolutely delicious. Since then, I check the lobsters before I order. Btw, the protein overdose did no serious damage. My fear of turning into a sperm whale was unfounded.

WarpSpeed knows that the real advantage of auto driving is: You don't get a sticky gear selector.