Bodrules

Could it be that man-made CO₂ emissions are slowing down the onset of the next ice age?

I really just cannot see how a trace amount of CO2 can have any effect at all on global temperatures.

So your hypothesis to account for the fact that the Earth is warmer by 32 c as a global mean temperature, than it should be for this distance from the sun. is what exactly.

They need to start with customer service from the Royal Orchid members, I tried unsuccessful for two days to call the customer service line, no answer as the line always busy. Wrote an email, no answer. Lodged my request to the receptionist at the Swampy Royal Orchid club lounge, no response. This year over 180,000 miles mostly on Thai and still treated like a lower class citizen......get your act together on customer service first Khun Kasemsuvan and the revenue will follow.

Okay, stupid question of he epoch, given the above ,what the heck are you doing still giving them your hard earned baht? Flew Thai once -crappy 747 LHR-BKK and it was from 'Back to the Future' land, I mean projection onto bulkhead screens? Subsequent back and forth has been via Cathay or Ethiad.

I vote the "nail in the coffin" comment as the most overused cliche on Thai Visa.

Yep, hopefully your comment is a nail in its coffin...err hang on a minute

No beer in Pataya...truly the anit-christ is amongst us

All my valuables are in my pockets at all times when travelling. Never in a bag that can be lost or stolen. I travel just with carry on luggage so can always put my bag into the back of the car with me.

If someone asked me to get out and push I'd pay the current fair, get out with my bag, and hail another taxi. No way would I get out leaving my stuff in there.

Didn't similar happen not too long ago?

Who writes / proof reads these articles btw...they need fired.

"they need fire" ... I guess they use the same proof reader you use

Meh proof reading police fail lol

How much graft can be crammed into this god forsaken scheme?

Depends on whether the house is complete and if they've managed to buy out the land they wanted....

Bit late really, there's several developments now where a cyanobacterium has been engineered to specifically produce a hydrocarbon of choice (ethanol or diesel or aviation kerosene), this is then directly secreted into the growing medium enabling efficient separation - basically, you don't have to drain, concentrate, dry, mill, chemically separate the triglyceride and then cleave the the fatty ester linkage etc.

One company reckons they'll be able to produce 25,000 gallons ethanol per acre per year and 15,000 gallons of diesel per acre per year (note that they have built the pilot plant and after one year of operation are now going for full commercialisation.

most thai ladies have fillings that include mercury

To those who have mercury dental fillings, consider this: In USA any mercury waste produced in a dentist's office must, by law, be stored in a special toxic waste container ... and then picked up by a toxic waste handling company ... and then disposed of in a toxic-waste dump. So, legally, the mercury can only be put into a toxic-waste dump, or patients' teeth.

I assume the same is true in Canada, Australia, NZ, Europe, and many other countries.

I saw a demonstration once where a man with mercury filings clenched his teeth together and rubbed the lower and top teeth together back-&-forth .... then a mercury vapor detector sucked the air out of his mouth and detected significant levels of mercury.

I had my mercury fillings removed twenty years ago.

To add to the insanity, crematoria are having to install filters nowadays to filter out Hg from the flue gases as the first generation to have Hg fillings become the main customers.

Better make sure she's got Health Insurance...

RIP fella, there, but for the grace of God, go I.

Drain smell isn't too unexpected in Thailand given the overall heat of the place!

Currently there's a rather nasty whiff emanating from the drains by Charing Cross and partway along Fleet St, time for Thames Water to get its finger out and sort it.

Awww ain't it grand to know how the new booze tax is going to fund mill owners retirement plans...

Dunno if this would be of any use to you, but here's my 2p worth

http://www.thaibev.com/en08/product.aspx?sublv1gID=12#tab

Best of luck with your new venture!

The one thing that does do my head in, is the neo-nazi scumbags in Russia, considering what that country went through in the Great Patriotic War it does take some level of ignorance / hatred to go around sieg heiling when the Fascist hordes butchered 15 - 20 million of your compatriots!

No one...in other news, a large increase in alcohol taxes has been endorsed...see 'the other place' for further details

I sometime despair of our species when you read of stuff like this, I'm sure that some gainful use of this sadsack o' s***** could be found...maybe as a human IED detector down South?

Mmmm I think someone is hoping to get one of those TV shows into redecorate the whole place in a more modern, fashionable style, the best route to that is to get in the press and round up every farang within 20 miles so we get endless complaint threads on TV about not only having to cough up "tea money" to the BiB, but having to also endure death by chintz and floral pastiche.

Falls happen, especially with the habit of using smooth tiles in the bathroom!

Done a quick google search for chemical data sheets, and found this link for an app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chemical-safety-data-sheets/id405208132?mt=8 that may be handy of you are away from your laptop!

Or try this site as well https://www.msds.com/

Baht Bus fares 10 baht

cheap buffets - still around, but not my thing

condo gluts - depends if the OP is hoping to tlak the market up or down

Pattaya is going downhill? - all change is unsettling, but get used to it as there's way more to come as the area between BR and 3rd Rd is redeveloped

Don't tell anybody, the cheapest beer in town can be found at NIDA Bar in Soi Bhuakhou, 35 baht for an ice cold Chang Export. Can anybody beat that, it has to be a proper bar, not private small shop or 7/11.

How about a large Chang (non-Export) for 50B? That's very nearly twice the size of your 35B bottle.

But it is on the darkside.

Right, you win. Went down there this morning to check. The NIDA Bar prices that I can remember are, Chang Export is 30 baht a small bottle (not 35 as I said originally) and 55 baht a big bottle. A normal big bottle of Chang is 60 baht. Leo small 40 and Leo big 70.

So where is this bar for 50 baht a big bottle? What is the bars name?

Thanks, will check it out.

Oh guess who

4. Baggy Pants

Somehow think they look better than this

fat-shorts.jpg

God I know it's highly unlikely, but I so want that to be some faked photo shopped POS....sadly I think there are enough people with such an intrinsic lack of self awareness around.

Still, you can't beat the old huge beer gut and speedo look I've seen in on some beaches

Sooo what's the latest on beer prices in Pattaya, crucial intelligence what.