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silver sea
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Too late to amend my post above.
I am having breakfast at Paris Bakery this morning. I have just noticed that it will be shut for staff holidays from May 1st - 9th May inclusive. It will reopen on 10th May.
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I would recommend Paris Bakery soi 102.
Opening Times:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 7 am- 4 pm
Saturday - Sunday: 7 am - 2 pm
Thursday: Closed
Owned by shy Frenchman; his Thai wife and waitresses are polite and friendly, and speak reasonable English.
Hope this helps ????
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Snakes alive! And then he whipped his chopper out ????
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These foods, including the impossible burger, are not safe to eat!
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2019/04/16/burger-king-adopts-fake-meat.aspx
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It’s already been picked up by the UK press and they have provided additional background information:
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3 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:
How about "Pedestrian dragged under tour bus in South Pattaya" instead of "Foreign pedestrian dragged under Chinese tour bus in South Pattaya"?
Does the nationality of the people in the bus really matter?
And does it matter if the pedestrian was foreign or Thai?
It’s called ‘human interest’, mate. It adds colour to the story. Most readers are interested in the additional information.
The UK’s Daily Mail goes one step further and does a check on zoopla so that it can tell its readers how much your house is worth too ????
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57 minutes ago, Vacuum said:
Unless you have changed address, there's no point in doing the report.
43 minutes ago, yellowboat said:Funny you should mention that. Was talking to some Chinese students who were doing their 90 report. They thought it draconian and dumb. As foreigner living in China, you just need to get your housing contract and some other incidentals and everyone is really nice. It is just a formality and as long as you try to comply, nothing bad happens. You do that one time, not every 90 days. You get more smiles at immigration in China than you do in Thailand
50 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:We have already told them 4 times prior, TM6, Tm28, Tm30, yearly extension, and why not just presume we are still here unless notified.
Thank you for taking the trouble to reply to my earlier post.
But 90 reporting is not onerous.
For those who do find it so, then ‘draconian’ free China is the place to be ????
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18 hours ago, Peterw42 said:And then all of his changes where reversed and we all woke up like it had just been a bad dream.
It could happen, lol
16 minutes ago, Surasak said:All pig's fed and ready to fly, then?
If it can happen in Dallas, when Pammy woke up and found that Bobby wasn’t dead after all, and it had all been one big dream, it can happen here in Thailand too I’m sure! ???? but I guess some of you are are too young to remember Dallas 1986
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1 hour ago, RBOP said:For his replacememt: Please get rid of the 90 day reporting!. It's ownerouis and a waste of resources. But then again good money maker for immigration department (2,000 baht if late reporting). Borderline scam.
How is 90 day reporting onerous?!
We are living in a foreign country. Why shouldn’t we be required to check in to Immigration every three months, so they know we are still living where we say we are. Hardly Big Brother.
And the fine of 2000 baht for being late is hardly a ‘borderline scam’ either. You have 90 days to plan ahead and a ‘window’ of just over 3 weeks within which to turn up at Immigration (15 days before and 7 days after the due date).
If you are so disorganised that not even a financial penalty can get your a** in gear then there’s no hope for you.
I was sad when I heard about Big Joke. It seemed to me that he had made a genuine effort to make a positive difference, particularly with his crack down on corruption in his department.
As others have suggested, his apparent success and popularity has made others jealous, or has threatened some powerful people’s income streams. He has only been in post a short time. Didn’t take long for these vested interests to kick back at him.
Reminded me of the old legend of Icarus who flew too close to the sun. Although, judging by some of the gloating posts here, others see him as a later day Satan ????
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“... the suspect jumped into a lake and tried to swim away. Two policemen followed him into the water and dragged him back.“
So that’s why he’s called Svami rathan than Swami.
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Sounds like Club 18-30 for the over 60s. But they’re going to find Pattaya pretty tame and boring after enjoying all of that non stop entertainment for 18 hours. Do they need to provide an ECG when booking their tickets?
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2 hours ago, SS1 said:I'm always amazed at how 99% of Thai people I meet can't swim.. in a country surrounded by the sea. In Finland, if somebody told you they can't swim, it would be similar to saying you can't read or something. They should put mandatory swimming lessons for primary schools.
‘ .... in a country surrounded by the sea ...’ My dear fellow, when was the last time you looked at a map of Thailand? ????
But I take your point. A FB friend posted a video, without a ‘graphic viewing’ warning. Three young, Thai children were playing on a narrow track running over a river. All three of them couldn’t have been more than three years old. A security camera attached to the house relentlessly recorded the tragedy as it unfolded.
One of them gets up, stands on the edge looking down at the water and just topples over into the river. The other two, immediately, do the same thing, one after the other. It was like a group mind, perhaps because they were siblings, that made them act as one. Three young children gone in less than 10 seconds; there were no adults, or older children, to supervise them.
And then there was a still photo of mum and dad sitting on the grass next to the bodies of their three children, which had just been pulled out of the river.
Although I could only watch the video once, and it was two years ago, the memory of it will live with me for the rest of my life.
I won’t post it here, even with a warning, because it is too distressing to watch.
They were too young to learn how to swim, but leaving young, unsupervised children near water, even if it is a shallow paddling pool, or garden pond, is often a tragedy waiting to happen ????
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4 hours ago, sweatalot said:
The parents are to blame - tried to flee a checkpoint, this way bringing the child in danger
It is well known in Thailand that police are chasing those who obviously avoid a checkpoint - and rightly so.
It is known that they might even shoot
The father risked his son's life
"The boy’s mother said the volunteer did not see the boy sitting between her and her husband on their motorcycle"
And since when is it allowed to ride with 3 persons on a motorcycle?It was a regrettable accident - no intention to wound the child. The volunteer wante to stop a potential criminalTwo wrongs don’t make a right. The father made a mistake in turning round and trying to drive away, but that doesn’t justify the volunteer’s subsequent actions. The fact he hasn’t turned up to be interviewed shows he knows he’s in the wrong.
Even if the volunteer, who is of 10 years’ experience, couldn’t see the child, he would have noticed that there was a woman on the back, and yet he still acted in a reckless way. They weren’t Bonny and Clyde, but just a young couple, who, foolishly, were trying to avoid paying the fine.
Thank goodness he had only a piece of wood and not a gun, otherwise the consequences could have been more serious.
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1 hour ago, nausea said:
No, the failure, when almost there, is what adds that extra tragic piquancy:
Yes the clip takes me back to 1964, when as a small boy I made my first trip to the cinema on my own. It was in the days when you got two films for the price of one. The Great Escape was, deservedly, the A movie, and 633 Squadron was the B movie.
The target is destroyed, but at the loss of the entire squadron, hence the final words: ‘You can’t kill a squadron.”
John Sturges directed The Great Escape. Afterwards, he worked on the first script for 633 Squadron, but dropped out to direct another movie instead.
Although largely forgotten, it was one of several British war movies that George Lucas used to plan the attack on the Death Star in the original Star Wars movie released in 1977..
I had forgotten all that, so thanks for the memory ????
The guy in the ThaiVisa story sounds a larger than life character. I have met someone like him in Thailand. Not a drug dealer, but he is intelligent and resourceful, an alpha male who takes what he wants, with menaces if necessary.. Superficially charming and helpful, you eventually realise, as you get to know him, that he has a hollow heart. He doesn’t really care about other people. The only thing he is interested in is money; it’s his god, and boy does he worship his god. The kind of businessman, who, if you shake hands with him on a deal, you need to count your fingers afterwards, just in case. I suspect the guy in this story is just the same. At the end of the day, he’s a ducker ‘n diver, who is dangerous to know.
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The Sun article says:
Emily said: “We were there for hours; in the end we saw a fisherman and he helped us contact the people who worked on the beach.
"It took a lot of effort and persuasion but the three men came and got us and the journey back to Thailand was very quiet because everyone was so angry.
"The icing on the cake was they refused to refund us - which we half expected."
Icing on the cake? Errr I don’t think that’s what you mean, Emily: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/icing-on-the-cake
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Mother Nature has the answer. It’s mushrooms!
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What he should say is: Big Joke! Ha ha!” But he can’t because someone else, more famous, is using that line already 555
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On 3/3/2019 at 10:42 AM, sanemax said:
I am feeling a bit lacking , everyone else seems to have a wife who they have sex with in the morning ,a girlfriend who they go and visit for sex in the afternnoon, a girl from 7/11 who they have sex with when going to buy a beer and then they go for a special massage in the evening .
I am feeling rather inadequate , think that I'll go and have some oysters for lunch and try and buy some viagara to perk the pecker up a bit ,
20 hours ago, roo860 said:You'll a box of tissues to complete the ensemble.
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17 hours ago, AlexRich said:Not to mention ladies stockings, a noose and an orange.
but only if you have upset MI5 and they have decided to kill you.
It is standard procedure by spy agencies the world over. The deceased’s family is then too embarrassed to make a fuss for a public enquiry. Remember the Welsh maths wizard with a Cambridge PhD who worked for GCHQ and MI6?
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/extraordinary-life-death-spy-found-15308075
But I am sure sanemax is safe enough
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Judging from the photos on the linked article, he was lucky not to demolish several other buildings too and a concrete column.
Difficult to see what happened. There must be a junction directly opposite. The bus was coming down that road and instead of stopping to turn left or right, it went straight on accross the road, then the grass before hitting the building.
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3 hours ago, Date Masamune said:
“....Thinking the Brit here may have mental problems the way he is handling the situation is not normal.”
I think you may be right. The OP includes the comment: “The latest events in the drama follow a more than two week standoff after Australian born Brit, David Maclean 50, barricaded himself into his 9th floor room at Supalai Park.“
An “Australian born Brit”? Never met one of them before. What Aussie in his right mind would choose to become “a Pommie B’stard?” He could never go back to Oz. Talk about burning your bridges.
Presumably, he paid a deposit at the start of the contract. If so, can landlord show the receipt, if only to prove that she and her family do indeed give out receipts?
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6 hours ago, soalbundy said:
Why would anyone pay without getting a receipt, especially in Thailand, doesn't make sense.
6 hours ago, NamKangMan said:Correct.
I always use a third, and independent party, for the issue of receipts. They are called, "a bank."
March 2018, I flew from Heathrow to Bangkok Airport with my suitcase and my small backpack. Got on the airport bus to Hua Hin airport, then the free shuttle to the Clock Tower in the centre of Hua Hin.
I didn’t have anywhere to stay. Wandered around for 20 minutes or so, found soi 57. The first hotel wanted 1000 THB per night which seemed a bit expensive. The next hotel was 600 a night for fan on ceiling and en-suite shower room. Just what I wanted.
I have been staying there ever since. I pay 10,000 a month in cash; no receipt. If I want to go away for a week or so travelling, I clear my stuff out of the room and put it in their store cupboard. She then freezes the contract while I am away, and it restarts on my return. Thai family owns and runs the hotel. Total trust between us on both sides. Honest, hard working Thais the lot of them.
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11 minutes ago, jaiyen said:
Never see any African Blacks deported or arrested for drugs. Bet the Big Joke knows why !
Happens sometimes:
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30329362
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GOOD SAMARITAN : Quick-thinking bus passenger helps police arrest phone thief
in Bangkok News
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And the incident on the bus happened only because he got stopped by the police at a checkpoint for not wearing a helmet. Presumably, they impounded the bike, not because they knew it was stolen, but because he didn’t have enough money on him to pay the fine.