HoudiniXLogic

I've made it a habit to request the slip once my transaction is done, and will check my wallet for the card back in there before I leave the machine. But Bangkok Bank is good that if you forget your card after you took your money, then the two options left are really pointless for the next person, because if you want to continue your transaction you gotta put in your pin number again.

But I've lost 4 cards in 6 months before.

I skateboard, so I'll always find something to do on the weekend! Funny thing though, with all the old Westerners in Thailand, I'd have thought that somebody woulda said something, but I guess a dude skating a bench is much less complainable than taxi's refusing passengers.

I skateboard, so I'll always find something to do on the weekend! Funny thing though, with all the old Westerners in Thailand, I'd have thought that somebody woulda said something, but I guess a dude skating a bench is much less complainable than taxi's refusing passengers.

I skateboard, so I'll always find something to do on the weekend! Funny thing though, with all the old Westerners in Thailand, I'd have thought that somebody woulda said something, but I guess a dude skating a bench is much less complainable than taxi's refusing passengers.

I skateboard, so I'll always find something to do on the weekend! Funny thing though, with all the old Westerners in Thailand, I'd have thought that somebody woulda said something, but I guess a dude skating a bench is much less complainable than taxi's refusing passengers.

if you clear all the vendors to allow for traffic we'll get 50 taxis parked up instead.. all with no meter of course

Exactly what will happen.

you guys do know that Rangsit has a bunch of Channa Micropeltes

I'd stick with camera backpacks that have a laptop compartment. Kata, LowePro, Manfrotto, etc.

Oh come on, almost every Thai star takes some form of hard drug. I've smoked enough grass with a bunch of them to know that most of them are NEVER sober at any given time. What Chalerm did was more to protect the celebrities and stars who promote anti-drug values on screen rather than Pan Pan particularly. I mean with the Sek Loso media-attention and the BS that he probably had to put up with, Chalerm was probably just saving his nephew's barbie-doll from a bunch of the same kind of media scrutiny. I'm willing to bet that she's probably been smoking it with his nephew, probably in the same party as a bunch of high-so soap opera stars and models. But if anything, Chalerm probably caused this girl's family more grief by opening that mouth than if he just chose to <deleted>.

Everything is contradictory here, they dont even know it. Apart from the Hitler next to Captain America & Superheroes poster, here's another example. I was watching Channel 3 or 7 one morning, and they had a show on which started off with the pretence of preserving sharks and how many countries have banned shark finning, and that the show's hosts encourage the people watching to do the same thing, AND THEN the same show goes onto promote a Shark Fin restaurant and even have some shark fin dishes at that restaurant. Define irony...........

I have a serious question for you. Why do you (and some others) seem to think it smart or big to come on here admitting that you do drugs (even if you consider it recreational) in a country where the penalties for drug taking are very serious. Is it a macho thing that makes you feel big because you tell us that you do drugs and get away with it? All you had to say was " I've socialized amongst a bunch of them to know that most of them are NEVER sober at any given time.", but oh no we have to have the 'i'm a big guy and I do drugs'. It doesn't matter if grass is legal in the Netherlands, this is Thailand and to admit to such stuff is folly and dangerous and displays you in the same light as those whose company you keep...complete dumb arse's. I just don't get it.

A real story of caution for you, I frequent a professional pilots website that is sometimes referred to on this forum and it had various forums for the discussion of various companies. The Pilots and cabin crew would go on the site and bare all about their companies until one company in the UAE decided enough was enough. They got a lawyer to hit the website with a class action. Within 24 hours the site had zero option but to release all data on the 'anonymous' people commenting about this company. Within 7 days 8-10 members of staff in the airline, some of them very senior, had all lost their jobs and were sacked without privileges, pension or bonuses. IF the police were directed to your comment, they could have every single detail about you from the site owners within a heartbeat, all done legally and you would not feel so cool and big then when you are sat in the clink in Bangkok. Think about it!

Dude, you seem to be wanting to accuse me of acting "cool" and "macho" by admitting that I do drugs. If anything, I type what I type, and I type facts but I know enough to not disclose too much. I know full well the power of the internet and everything. But if you dont get it initially, then why try to understand?

But it seems that you just read the first line and hit "quote" and made your response. I was discussing on how Chalerm was more trying to protect the elite group of contradictory celebrities who promote anti-drugs, but take drugs themselves.

Either ways, from the pattern of words you choose, I feel that I actually know you in real life. Anyways thanks for the warning bud!

He's a marked man for life. Knowing how radical this country is going towards the day, this video clip shouldnt be taken lightly and blame thrown to a made-up third party. The lack of communication between the rich and poor is so apparent that the poor are just holding...holding...then one day SNAP!

Londoner's is good, and much better on Wednesdays

Seeing as how angry Thai people can be and how many have taken more extreme measures lately, Thaksin would need his own Popemobile equivalent if he ever wants to do anything in Thailand if and when he returns.

How many times have you seen a Thai child say "I dont want to speak English, I'm Thai, so why do I have to speak English?". It's almost as though the parents ingrain this into their child's mind since young, so in their teen years they never pay attention to anything in English, and as adults they realise that they should've been learning English. I see that frustrated look on the faces of Thai students in ABAC when they are in class and forced to speak English.

As for the older generation thinking adopting English as the official second national language is going to make people think that Thailand was colonised, well I can say that the dinosaurs had their time for extinction and the world moved on fine, so can that kind of mindset should follow the same path.

" "I dont want to speak English, I'm Thai, so why do I have to speak English?" - Substitute any language and every teenage language student all over the world says that!

Actually the picture that popped into my head when I was typing my first post was a young kid on the BTS with his mother, when the computerised voice announced the next station in English, the kid closed his ears and kept saying that he hates the English language. Well it sounds like some issues right there.

How many times have you seen a Thai child say "I dont want to speak English, I'm Thai, so why do I have to speak English?". It's almost as though the parents ingrain this into their child's mind since young, so in their teen years they never pay attention to anything in English, and as adults they realise that they should've been learning English. I see that frustrated look on the faces of Thai students in ABAC when they are in class and forced to speak English.

As for the older generation thinking adopting English as the official second national language is going to make people think that Thailand was colonised, well I can say that the dinosaurs had their time for extinction and the world moved on fine, so can that kind of mindset should follow the same path.

" "I dont want to speak English, I'm Thai, so why do I have to speak English?" - Substitute any language and every teenage language student all over the world says that!

Actually the picture that popped into my head when I was typing my first post was a young kid on the BTS with his mother, when the computerised voice announced the next station in English, the kid closed his ears and kept saying that he hates the English language. Well it sounds like some issues right there.

How many times have you seen a Thai child say "I dont want to speak English, I'm Thai, so why do I have to speak English?". It's almost as though the parents ingrain this into their child's mind since young, so in their teen years they never pay attention to anything in English, and as adults they realise that they should've been learning English. I see that frustrated look on the faces of Thai students in ABAC when they are in class and forced to speak English.

As for the older generation thinking adopting English as the official second national language is going to make people think that Thailand was colonised, well I can say that the dinosaurs had their time for extinction and the world moved on fine, so can that kind of mindset should follow the same path.

" "I dont want to speak English, I'm Thai, so why do I have to speak English?" - Substitute any language and every teenage language student all over the world says that!

Actually the picture that popped into my head when I was typing my first post was a young kid on the BTS with his mother, when the computerised voice announced the next station in English, the kid closed his ears and kept saying that he hates the English language. Well it sounds like some issues right there.

Oh come on, almost every Thai star takes some form of hard drug. I've smoked enough grass with a bunch of them to know that most of them are NEVER sober at any given time. What Chalerm did was more to protect the celebrities and stars who promote anti-drug values on screen rather than Pan Pan particularly. I mean with the Sek Loso media-attention and the BS that he probably had to put up with, Chalerm was probably just saving his nephew's barbie-doll from a bunch of the same kind of media scrutiny. I'm willing to bet that she's probably been smoking it with his nephew, probably in the same party as a bunch of high-so soap opera stars and models. But if anything, Chalerm probably caused this girl's family more grief by opening that mouth than if he just chose to <deleted>.

Everything is contradictory here, they dont even know it. Apart from the Hitler next to Captain America & Superheroes poster, here's another example. I was watching Channel 3 or 7 one morning, and they had a show on which started off with the pretence of preserving sharks and how many countries have banned shark finning, and that the show's hosts encourage the people watching to do the same thing, AND THEN the same show goes onto promote a Shark Fin restaurant and even have some shark fin dishes at that restaurant. Define irony...........

They are no way a problem if handled correctly. I look after quite a few soi dogs,spaying etc,keep the numbers down

Probably one of my most heartbreaking tasks yesterday was one soi mutt a real pearl of a dog,gentle ,intelligent so lovings was taking her to the vet to be put down,her back had been broken. The vet initially refusing,but promising another 7 days she will do it. To me that's 7 days of agony watching her slowly die. Pathetic,but that's Thailand

These people dont realise that living in torture is worse than instant death.

How many times have you seen a Thai child say "I dont want to speak English, I'm Thai, so why do I have to speak English?". It's almost as though the parents ingrain this into their child's mind since young, so in their teen years they never pay attention to anything in English, and as adults they realise that they should've been learning English. I see that frustrated look on the faces of Thai students in ABAC when they are in class and forced to speak English.

As for the older generation thinking adopting English as the official second national language is going to make people think that Thailand was colonised, well I can say that the dinosaurs had their time for extinction and the world moved on fine, so can that kind of mindset should follow the same path.

Whenever I happened to be in Pattaya with my dog I always made sure to do "skate walks". Basically its where I walk my dog while riding my skateboard. I've trained my dog to do loose leash walking so he doesnt tow me and only travels at the same speed I do. This comes in handy on soi dogs since the skateboard doubles as a good whacking device (I've popped a skateboard into more than a few soi dogs' face when it was nearing in for a bite). Good thing my dog ignores soi dogs though, because luckily for them I doubt they'd stand up well to a 40 kg APBT, but still I dont need my dog to be aggressive at all.

Every Thai person I know is also very annoyed by taxi drivers. It's not just farangs who get the "too much traffic I can't put the meter on" nonsense.

Thats pretty contradictory because the meter tends to run up like hell when theres actually too much traffic.

Case in point: that turn from viphawadee-rangsit into chaeng wattana. Been there from JJ once when there was no traffic by that turn and the fee was 110 baht when I got to the Govt complex. Went there another time and there happened to be a train crossing the tracks, meter went up to 160 by the time I got off at the govt complex.

Internet-savvy people will still find a way to bypass.

Saw the headline and spat coffee all over the front of my shirt. Now I'm going to have to race home to change.

Oh well, it was worth it for the laugh.

Yeah totally man! I woke up late today as its my free day, this provided my morning laugh! Good one public transport, good one! Now lets hear the next joke!!!!

Either ways, whatever their nationalities may be, what motives may be, a murder was committed.

After a lot of years, I do get why a lot of taxi-drivers refuse passengers. Apart from the 4am turn-in time for rented cabs (these dudes rent a cab for like 800 baht a day), most of them aren't even from Bangkok. This is why a lot of people also distrust them, because rather than adapting to the values of city life, they try to bring their back-country behaviour to here. Basically just imagine a hick from some buttf*** southern state coming to work in NY or Boston, and bringing that whole thing over with him. Thats what these taxi drivers do here. And another thing is that the ones around Sukhumvit would rather just drive around there from mall to condo to mall to mall, etc. because of the ease of the next potential customer, rather than send someone far where they're not sure where if they're gonna get another customer, or if they do that the next customer might request somewhere even more riduculously further away.

So basically what you're saying is that people born and raised in Bangkok are good people and trustworthy and out-of-towners are bad... and that this taxi driver was probably an out-of-towner because he was bad.

BTW, this incident took place on Sukhumvit. It wasn't "ridiculously further away".

No I just said that out-of-towners bring their hillbilly life to BKK and try to force it on everybody rather than adapting to city life. Actually for a good number of people living in sukhumvit, Ramkamhaeng is considered to be "ridiculously further away", Even though its possible to walk from Major Ekkamai to the Mall Ramkamhaeng in 30 - 50 minutes.

This Thai high school student just had enough of it also.

http://www.clipmass.com/movie/519869047425454

No props to the grandma at the end trying to diffuse the situation with the "mai pen rai" attitude. Guess us bitter farangs arent the only ones.

http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2013/07/01/video-furious-high-schooler-sits-front-cab-after-being-refused-passage-back-home