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I’ve not found anything better than google maps. We’ve got Toyota sat nav built into the pick up and it is ? . Might be better in Thai but in English it is useless so it’s Google all the way.

18 hours ago, dinsdale said:

I guess this means down the drain. Maybe not all 28 million has been wasted.

Ok looked it up. Down the pan is actually a Cockney expression for down the drain.

Just to slightly correct you it means “ down the toilet”. In England the toilet bowl is sometimes referred to as a “pan”.

There’s a 2 way bike lane that runs from Pranburi nearly to Sam Roi Yot National park must have cost an absolute fortune. I’ve never seen a bike on it apart from me when we visit each year. Judging by the cow clap on it the local farmers are getting their money’s worth.Thing is the road edges are huge anyway and not so busy roads what a waste of money.

Managed to get secret film of the Thai driving test just follow the link.

Didn't realise you could get it by post anyone know the address (asking for a friend)

Hmmm I got a 700 Baht note in my change today not seen one of them before must be new


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And if you go to post 16 from 8 hours ago you will notice I already said that, you really should start at the beginning and work through it. 

 
Since 1000 Baht is the biggest note existing in the Thai monetary system, you will never receive a 1000 Baht note as change.

Never seen any Thai notes higher than 1000 Baht so how they going to give it as change to other foreigners ?

Very brave of you to post this on here with all the sharks waiting in the shallows for a juicy bit of meat to get their teeth into. But we are not all negative. I wish you luck with your business hope you get it sorted. From experience my wife's friend was in the same situation and I know it caused her great heart ache as she could not pay her credit cards, buy food etc. From what was said most Thais live from month to month with little savings for emergencies so the sooner you sort it the better. I know she immediately looked for another job.

The DLT only accepts an international driver's license model 1949 and NOT model 1968. Went to DLT in Ubon a few hours ago.
Problem is most countries issue model 1968.

 
Wander around Arizona on Google earth and you'll see hundreds (thousands?) of junked aircraft in the care of the richest, most wasteful military in the world.  In several boneyards.  At some point, they either hour out structurally, become obsolete or cost too much to maintain.
 
http://www.airplaneboneyards.com/davis-monthan-afb-amarg-airplane-boneyard.htm
 

My bet:
 
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1406214
 
https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/8368957
 

Anybody know why they have erected an aircraft near Tops in Khao Noi?. Better still does anyone know what type of aircraft it is can't seem to find it on Google.

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16 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Absolutely spot on Smed's old boy .. Trying to cross 2nd road ( particularly at night ) is a treacherous experience .. even if the large vehicles slow or stop for you its  the mental motorcyclists who will take you out .. Subway's or footbridges ( as they have in provincial cities and Bangkok ) are the only really safe options .. 

Completely agree with the footbridges as it's nigh on suicide crossing these roads most times.

Of course he's right although probably not his place to criticise. Until Thais realise the impact their littering has and start going online to protest/complain nothing will change. Needs education from a very early age and from what I've seen most kids are not set a good example from parents or elders.

huh?
 

LCD (liquid crystal display) is the technology used for displays in notebook and other smaller computers. Like light-emitting diode (LED) and gas-plasma technologies, LCDs allow displays to be much thinner than cathode ray tube (CRT) technology.
 
Not sure what I am on, I am not a computer freak - I use a laptop now, I am just a user.
Why do you ask?
 

Same with ThaiVisa, it isn't an inferior forum, it only has inferior posters.

Superiorty complex towards who and that statement is based on what exactly? Please explain.
Winding me up? Noooooo I am having a good laugh. Thanks.

And just to clarify things:

Do you believe that WW1 was between the good guys and the bad guys?

 

Just to clarify things are you on LSD ?

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Please do remind us of what your question was?
Lots of white noise here.

It's hard to respond to a post that is so profoundly confused on many levels.  You have a very emotional response, but many of us find it's easier to understand the course of events with a cold eye.
 
1.  The right to criticize governments and armies is not reserved to soldiers or veterans.
2.  The morality of governments, although an appropriate subject, is not the topic here.  We are discussing the policy decisions of the US government on the conduct of the war and the extent to which they belied both government statements at the time and the public understanding from popular media and propaganda.
3.  You do indeed need a history lesson since you apparently haven't read any. 
4.  All nations fighting WWII made sacrifices and nearly all the combatants in all the major armies fought bravely.  Neither fact, however, ennobles otherwise deplorable war aims or excuses atrocities.  So, that's pretty much irrelevant to this discussion.
5.  The decisive battles of WWI in Europe were Stalingrad and Kursk, both of which the Soviets won.  It's true the the food and Ford trucks (but not the inferior American tanks) contributed by the Americans helped the Red Army.  So, did the Allied invasion of Sicily since it forced Hitler to call off his last offensive in the East in order to divert troops to assist the Italians.  The distinction between a decisive battle and a diversion is nevertheless a fundamental one in military history.
6.  By the time of the Normandy Invasion, in the East the Red Army was rolling up the Wehrmacht which was never again to go on the offensive.  The Invasion itself and even before the Invasion, the threat of an Atlantic invasion forced the Germans to divert troops which could otherwise have been used against the Soviets.  Nevertheless, in war scale matters.  The total Allied casualties of the Normandy Landings were on the order of about 10,000 while the Soviet casualties in Stalingrad are estimated to have been 1.1 million. 
7.  Some Allied army had to take huge casualties to defeat the Germans.  The American and British leadership made sure it wasn't them.  The British leadership undoubtedly recognized that the British Army was no match at all for the Wehrmacht at any time during the war.  As far as I can see, the BA won one battle during the war, El Alamein, although Montgomery subsequently failed unaccountably to destroy the Afrika Corps even though he was in possession of accurate intelligence as to their much reduced tank strength.
 
The American position was articulated by the undistinguished senator from Missouri, Harry Truman, in 1941 as:   "If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to help Russia; and if that Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible. . . ."   So, on May 30, 1942 Gen. George Marshall promised Molotov that the US would open a second front in 1942.  The US reneged on that promise.  In the summer of 1942, Churchill went to Moscow and promised the opening of a second front in 1943.  Britain and the US reneged again.  US official policy was "Europe First", but in the event, the actual policy was "the Pacific First", which is understandable since that is where US interests actually lay.  The US and Britain eventually opened the long-delayed second front in 1944 probably just to stop the Red Army from going all the way to the Atlantic.
 
World War II was always going to be decided by troops, not trucks.  The US and Britain, either cowardly or shrewdly depending on your point of view, outsourced the fighting to the Soviet Union who suffered the greatest losses in history, but won the war against Germany.  At this point in time it behooves us to see clearly by judging the participants on their actions not their promises or propaganda.

I am not contradicting myself.
I only pointed out that you seem to think that the country that you are born in, is better than other countries. Just because you were born there.
I am sure the North Koreans think the same as you.
PS: N Korea is not  an inferior country, only it has inferior leaders.

Here's the short history of WWII in Europe: the only two Western nations that had positive GDP growth rates in the 30's, Germany and the USSR, fought a war.  The US waited on the sidelines until the eleventh hour when the Soviet victory was assured and then rushed in to seize "the greatest material prize in history", the Mid-East oil, from... the British. 
 
You may however prefer to get your understanding of history from insightful Hollywood movies of the period.