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Notting Hill Carnival Samba Dancers 2012

Hi astral, lots of hits for Kite Hill on Google, even on maps of the Heath.

Here's an alternative version with different soundtrack

Thanks. Not too expensive. I use it for neuralgia myself.

While talking about acceptable posts, interesting to note the OP's occasional use of the word 'yid' on the board.

http://www.tfd.com/yid

eg

http://www.thaivisa....ost__p__4008371

http://www.thaivisa....ost__p__5027698

http://www.thaivisa....ost__p__4591304

Fan dance รำพัด at the Songkran Festival, Thai Wat, Wimbledon, London 15/04/12.

Cute Thai girl performs the Umbrella Dance at the Songkran Festival, Thai Wat WImbledon, London, 2012.

Can anyone in Thailand who buys tramadol report on the price? I would imagine it's off patent now so any company can make it.

Thanks in advance.

Footage set to Ennio Morricone's "Nella Fantasia".

Burmese Mask dance

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A thread that should have been called, things you have never seen before and irritate you because you have never lived in any other developing country. I have seen nothing mentioned here I have not seen in other Asian countries.

Amusing nevertheless, mostly because it says so much about the posters.

For me what is most uniquely Thai is the blend of Buddhism and animism you find here that permeates pretty much all levels of society. You find animism in many Asian countries, but it just seems much more practiced here. I think it may because of the lack of European influences (or communism in some cases), particularly in religion that happened in most other Asian countries.

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Yes you are indeed a vastly superior variety of expat. i would suspect that you could better every story i could tell, that your local knowledge would beggar my own, and that you have become so at one with the various cultures you inhabit that nothing could possibly phase you.

congratulations.

As for animism and buddhism, have you spent much time in Laos, or were you busy spending time in other developing countries?

Yeah, he's annoying, that guy, full of himself. I think he uses the same name on another Thai web board where he posts in a similar condescending manner.

What can he do where there is an endless line of folks who continue to set up his repeated punchlines?

I logged on for the first time in ages just to say this.

You have been using the same joke for years, over and over, does it not EVER get boring? Have you no life outside waiting for an opportunity to say the same thing yet again on these forums?

Just wear your ThaiVisa polo shirt.

People will know that your relationship is real, you're obviously a wealthy professional and the missus is a Thai Chinese astrophysicist from the elite end of the society whom you met at the gates of Harvard University

No looks of disapproval, only wais and people falling over themselves to help you.

ThaiVisa shirt : Never leave home without it.

It's not Thailand that you love or hate, it's your own life and what you have done with it that you love or hate. ( Heng )

er...he could try a new joke. Or a new signature for that matter.

Or get a life maybe.

...NOTE that pits LOVE LOVE LOVE people. They are awesome dogs for families. But most are not good around other dogs. What you will hear on the news when they are attacking people is 99.99% of the time when people jumped in to try & break up a fight between a pit & another dog, and got nailed...

A quick search on the BBC website brings up plenty of stories where the pit bull attacked a human, no other dogs involved. Not much 'love' involved here:

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/comm..._says_Rukhsana/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/6976444.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/774366.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/5287924.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/6305057.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/47563.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/notting...ire/3847753.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4763119.stm

Whenever you see one of these dangerous breeds like pit bulls or Staffs being walked by its owner, there's invariably an air of menace about the dog. And it's owner, for that matter. Why anyone should be allowed to walk around in public with a dangerous animal off the leash, which if it attacked you, would be almost impossible to pull off and may even kill you, beggars belief. At the very least, there should be laws making it compulsory for them to be muzzled and leashed in public. Ideally the pit bull breed and the like should be put into a mincer and eradicated.

I think he knew that. Just wanted to make another post bragging about his 'supposed' wealth and hi-so status.

Do you need to justify yourself?

I find so many 'expats' seem to have this real need to justtify [sic] themselves...

[snip]...long drone...

Subtext of your post appears to be that other expats are in some way inadequate, with...inter alia...poor Thai language skills etc, but you're not.

Whatever makes you happy...

I often hear about Thai and Asian face, as though its something mysterious and hard to understand, but is it really that different to Western face? It's most probably a universal human trait not to like to lose face and be embarrased in front of others, even young children can get embarrassed eg if they fall over etc. This isn't taught, it's an instinct. And people also like to gain face in front of others, for example receive compliments etc. Perhaps face harks back to primeval instincts and caveman times when there was a pecking order in a tribe and it was important to maintain your place and position for survival.

I think where things may differ is that Asians place more emphasis on not losing face and respecting others' face. In the West we do to some extent ride roughshod over others' face, so perhaps we have developed thicker skins and don't go about killing others over loss of face so easily, but it does happen nevertheless.

Anyhow, just a few brief thoughts, would be interested to hear others' opinions.