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Check out the 'cole' baits by 'theFailure' on that site knickerelastic but make sure your not drinking anything if you value your keyboard!

Shows you just how stupid these scammers can be - 8 shipments of pure junk (a washing machine for gods sake!) and $40,000 down trying to scam a few laptops!

He's answering the baiters right now - he works the night shift!

Funny that - He's not on line during the day but at 0300hrs he can answer?

The guy is in for a hard time anyway because I have some friends on the job but getting him arrested would be icing on the cake!

http://thescambaiter.com/forum/showthread.php?p=56275

A copy was given to the manager of my Ubon branch of TFB today and a copy was given to the main police station here in Ubon but a copy being handed in to a Bangkok Police station wouldn't hurt.

Hard to do now so it's probably better to delete the post Boo.

If the post isn't deleted and anybody is willing to spare the time to hand in the details of this nasty piece of dogmuck please PM me.

It is NOT a charitable solicitation - it is a Nigerian scammer trying to make money!

The Tsunami disaster would be a very worthy cause but this scammer will give nothing to charity.

He's catchable and I'm sure the Police would take a very dim view of what he's doing, it just needs somebody in BKK to pop the details into the local station.

By this Nigerian scammer to pop these details into a Bangkok police station?

He's working out of intenet cafe's in BKK and has given his bank account details for the charity donations so he would be easy to nail.

Here's the scam that dropped into my catcher account and his answer with the bank details -

Received: from [125.24.6.81] by web37114.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:01:11 GMT

Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:01:11 +0000 (GMT)

From: Tsunami anniversary <[email protected]>

Subject: REMEMBER THE TSUNAMI VICTIMS

To: [email protected]

From:MR TOSAK YING.

Attn:The Managing Director

TSUNAMI ANNIVERSARY

ASSOCIATION OF

THAILAND

REMEMBER THE TSUNAMI VICTIMS

FOR KINDLY DONATE TO TSUNAMI VICTION IN THAILAND.REMEBER THOSE WHO LOST ALL THEY HAVE.

AND THOSE WHO LOST THEY FAMILIES

WE CALL FOR YOUR HELPS TO CARES FOR OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS

PLEASE CONTACTS US THROUGH THIS EMAIL ADRESS ONLY

BEST REGARDS

MR TOSAK YING

The Managing Director

OF ANIVERSARY .

His bank details are -

Thanks for your quick response .We are a Christian voluntary organization who is bent on helping the tsunami victims , we reach them through our officers who covers all the tsunami affected countries .

We give them financial,moral,material and spiritual assistance to enable them have a sense of belonging . For easy communication, you can always reach our regional director on number removed. You can also send your donantions directly to our account details below . Thanks, may the Lord richly bless you as you donate to the tsunami victims.

KASIKORN BANK . HEAD OFFICE

6TH FLOOR ,1 RATBURANA ROAD BANGKOK

10140 THAILAND .

TEL: 02-470-1444

TELEX: 82542,84798

SWIFT: TFBS TH BK

FAV : KBANK SOI CHARURAT BRANCH.

TEL : 02-6516459-63, 02-6517093-8

ACCOUNT NAME: name removed

ACCOUNT NUMBER: number removed

Yours faithfully,

Ying .

Goodness me - the internet is a really great place to find all levels of society, some are nice as cathyy and some will attack poor cathyy on the premis of being a destitite slut except for the ownewrship of a named bag!

Isn't cyberspace the place to be! No come backs except in cyberspace and nobody knows just how lonely and friendless you are!

When in Rome do as the --- ?

Gold is gold to Thai's and showing the gold is why they buy it - much the same as having the latest mobile (cellphone for the colonials) so if you have it you flaunt it and there are very few Thai's that will not do so.

If you can afford 10 Baht worth of gold you wear it to show that you can - if you can afford 100Baht you save it as paper in the banking system.

Having said that - if anybody wants to buy Brit Sov's at spot +2% just give me a shout - New Year will see a £300 plus price!

When my late wife passed away I got the 100 days as an extention on my visa with no problems - it's the mourning period and there is no immigration official that would give anybody a problem with the extention.

Not sure how you would fare with it being your father in law but if you have the marriage certificate you would probably get the full 100 days if you wanted them.

My condolences on your loss to be.

You will have no problems when you do get here because the family will show you what is needed to be done - they are suffering too.

Rereading my posts I can find no personal abuse there at all and I'm sure that if I went through all my posts on these boards I would find no personal abuse in them but if the 'prof' believes I did attack him he has my heartfelt apologies.

Before tractors became affordable to local farmers the space under the house would be used to house the natural workhorse of the Thai farmer overnight and then used by the family during the day.

The 'Prof' is right toptuan in that the things prefer a nice damp leafy place and most of the year is fairly free of the things, the problems start when the rains come and flood the area's they normally inhabit.

Most recently built houses will be built on 'filled' land but very few people will go to the expense of filling the garden area at the same time so when the rains force them to find drier places you can guess where they will head for!

They are not slow moving as such but are slow enough for you to kill with ease if you see them.

Not an answer to be seen from the good 'Prof', still answering with a question and an insult is always a good way out.

No answer from the good 'Prof' so one would assume he's busy or actually posting from the UK as his info tells us.

Posting from research rather than experience is always a dodgy thing to do - if you have never seen a heavy 4 or 5 hour downpour flood your garden and take an hour to drain off would of course make you think that 'damp' conditions would occur in your garden.

Let's have a look at the main theory the 'Prof' puts forward - you get bitten by 'Da Kaap' and the venom gives extreme pain and huge swelling that will kill old people and babies but it's not the venom that does it but the pain and swelling? When you get bitten by a Texas coral snake your respiratory system fails and you die so it's not the venom that kills you it's the fact you can't breathe?

Fact or fiction - I asked 20 Thai's today if 'Da Kaap' will kill and every answer was a resounding YES!

Still, the 'Prof' will get home from work soon (1700 hrs in UK) and post the answer. Hope there's not an insult there though!

A pack rat? I put gold up for sale on the for sale board and got laughed at 6 months ago! Sold a small amount to a German at spot price that was about £230 at that time and put some onto Ebay but Goodness me am I so glad that most of it is still here with me!

When it goes to £300 an ounce after the new year I might sell some more. Anybody want some silver?

Why is it going up? The price of oil has a lot to do with it but buying at £217 and selling at todays prices I don't really care why it's gone up.

Thai's are not keen on Sovereigns but they do know that 22K gold is 92%!

''Scholopendra's prefered environment is the leaf litter especially in damp conditions therefore the rain will not force them into people's homes.''

Not sure when the 'Prof' thinks these things became Aquatic but when our garden floods in the rainy season they do seem to prefer the dry spaces that we have in our house!

Of course the 'Prof' is very knoledgable (well in cyberspace anyway) so maybe the reported death from a bite to this girl wasn't real?

''Scolopendra Subspinipes

We weren't sure whether we wanted to feature a picture of this centipede twisting its head into the substrate but decided that this was an appropriate pose. Subspinipes is probably second in size only to the giganteus varieties, and it would be an understatement to say that ours can become quite animated when their enclosures are opened. At cage cleaning time it can be advantageous to immediately feed the animal as it will be preoccupied in consuming the prey item. Large crickets, large cockroaches and fuzzy mice are appropriate. These are an Asian tropical species complex and benefit from higher humidity.

We find this species complex to be quite interesting, having several variations. The most common is probably the variety pictured above. Also of interest is the variation which has bright yellow legs. Varieties of subspinipes appear to be distributed throughout the Asian area and exactly which variations come from exactly where remains little studied. Specimens are frequently seen from Indonesia, but lately some Chinese specimens have been finding their way to market. The yellow legged variety may be Scolopendra subspinipes de haani.

All of these centipedes are voracious predators and their venom can be medically significant. A bite to the skin that does not reach a vein or artery produces extreme pain, headaches, vomiting, and more. Complications can lead to necrosis in the area of the bite. At this writing, only one death has been reported, a young girl who was bitten on the head. Treat all centipedes with respect.''

One wonders if any deaths occured in Nakhon Nowhere and where not reported? Wouldn't want a baby in my family to be the next statistic!

Venom from 'Da Kaap' CAN kill the elderly and the young although a normal healty person will just have an extremely painfull reaction for a few days. The rainy season will drive them indoors and sightings and bites will increase.

Very common throughout Isaan and I disturbed a nest of some kind last week whilst gardening but they are not really fast movers and quite easy to kill - it's the ones you don't see that have curled up in your bedding for some warmth and a bit of dry space that will get you.

Before the advent of electric water heaters in every province I ran about 100m of half inch Upvc pipe down the south facing wall of the house (luckily it was a side wall) and fed the shower from that - you could complete your ablutions before the mains supply came through and you had to be careful you didn't scald yourself when you first turned the shower on!

Although you could buy a quality water heater for 4-5,000 baht nowdays, the cost to set up the same thing today would be about 1,500 baht and no electricity charges. The water in the pipe stayed hot through the night so an early morning shower was warm if not hot - an evening shower n shave was hotter that the water heater we have now.

Solar power can't power your house - all it can do is add a small amount to what you take from your power source, if the houses had no power cables running it means they had no power.

There is no way you will run a fan or AC on solar power alone but you can buy banks of solar panels that you can tie into your power supply - it's like double glazing in the UK, pays for itself in 10 years, or is that just a selling point?

Solar cells cannot return the energy that goes into making them yet - more research is needed before the oil runs out but we have more important things to spend the money on at the moment.

A lot of hotels in BKK have huge banks of cells on the roof but, as BambinA said, the cost to savings ratio really does need carefull consideration.

With the privatisation of the electricity supply and the price rises that this will entail it might be something worth looking into in the near future.

http://www.tgs.co.th/

But there's no info up yet. They are in Khon Kaen though -

''The ING Thailand Temple Run has teamed up with Thai-German Solar, a producer of solar lights to light up the race course after sunset. With the late afternoon start organizers face the challenge of lighting up dark stretches of the course. Large parts of the course will be lit by ordinary street lights while the parts without street lighting will be lit with more than 1000 globe lights placed by the side of the road so that the whole course will be safely lit. Together with the Thai cultural bands this will create a special atmosphere for runners still on the course by night fall.

Franz Roecker and his Thai-German Solar team from Khon Kaen will set the lights up in the afternoon and Franz has assured organizers that the lights will last for a minimum of 10 hours. The globe lights will be placed 12 meters apart and will ensure that runners return to the finish line safely.''

The elder one in this pic is just about deaf and blind now and works his way around the gardens by smell and memory but at 20 years he's not doing too bad!

Jay-uk

Not sure what %age of dalmation is in her as it was just another teacher at the school asking my wife if she wanted a puppy. Although ferocious looking and sounding when somebody comes to the gates, Dee Dee is a pussy cat with people she knows and is the smatest dog we have.

We have 4 dogs and the biggest and most ferocious is a dalmation cross! Nobody gets into the grounds without a chorus from our dogs and a show of teeth from the dalmation. we have never been burgled and have never had problems with unwanted guests because we have always had dogs around the house, sadly a lot of them are now buried around the garden and will soon be joined by our eldest dog who is 20 now.

There are a couple of places around that will sell you dogs but it's mainly puppies that you will see, the market opposite BigC has a couple of pet shops with dogs but I would say your best bet would be a visit to Chatu chack market in Bangkok before you travel to Ubon. The last time we went there the pets area had a good selection but again they are all puppies.

Long way to travel for a Sunday dinner though Lampard!

Must admit that mushy peas would be a treat though as it's the only thing I have never found in LOS and have always had to bring the dried peas from UK. There was a pub/restaurant that served them in BKK a lot of years ago just a few paces away from Soi Cowboy but Geordie sold out and the new owners stopped doing them. I am sure that there are bar/restaurants that serve mushy peas but I've never found one that is easy to get to from where we stay when we go to BKK.

Tesco/lotus here in Ubon used to sell Bisto but seems to have stopped now, they also sold malt vinigar but have stopped that too.