AlexRRR

Ahhhh to early to make predictions, Swans are slow starters as for the Woods game i turned it off at quarter time was dam boring, as for the new expansion teams people seem to forget there had the pick of the draft last 3 or 4 seasons.

Saints and Dees? hmmmm if i was putting money on it id go with the experience but since im not a betting man Dees for me...as for Clark hes only played a handful of games for us, so theres nothing to miss and it looks like hes finished as a AFL player too long out now were stretching it out to his entire contract as an injuired player.

Thais love the idea of coffee shops ive met a few at Starbucks ground floor MBK building ( and thats because both are well known and easy to get to), though that first date is most often a lunch or dinner date, The big downtown malls cover pretty much any type of place from coffee shop to restaurant.

my two bobs worth ...

'corruption' is endemic ... corruption covers many things ... no others species does it and its built into the human world order.

there are three organisations who use corruption to maintain their control; corporations, governments and religion. All use spin, outright lies and 'trust' to manipulate the larger herd.

By choice, I went to Uni. Indoctrination is the order. As someone else pointed out (a fellow Aussie), plagiarism / copying / cheating is treated punitively; however, if you want a distinction, the best way to get it is by referencing (and citing) every utterance in written books (age and relevance not important) and journals (more recent, but can be 10 years old).

Your opinion, work and day to day experiences (I designed and built energy efficient houses) count for naught.

So, the corruption there is the dis-allowance of a contrary proven opinion; that only someone 'in control' is allowed to make that decision.

[i'm getting close to the six minutes]

Example: Australia has a Building Code with a minimum (now) 6 Star Energy Rating.

In 2001 I had a booklet published (written evidence) titled 'guide to energy efficient house design'; I heaped shit on the 'energy rating system'. I told anyone who cared to listen and most said (or at least thought) 'what would he know, left school at 14). And to prove 'what comes around, goes around', finally ABC TV 7.30 Report (April 26 2011) they did a story (I will condense it for you) "that some 1.5 million houses built in Australia under the 'energy rating system building code are, in fact. not energy efficient".

Has it changed anything? Nope, because I don't have a Doctorate; my work, empirical data and summations don't count.

And that is a corruption.

If you are still reading: my hypothesis (proven) is that energy companies sell cheap energy to companies that manufacture (high embodied) building materials that cause houses to be hot, which translates into consumers needing more energy to cool or heat their house.

Australia is the highest GHG emitter - per head - in the world; Thailand, with all its industry, is much lower and do Australian companies abuse Thais (aided by Thai corporations run by people who sell their countrymen out), you can bet your left testicle on it. Corruption (of everything) is humanities calling card.

have to agree in part with the energy rating we got in this country, if you havent placed your house right you live in an oven even on a mid summers day here in melbourne, and an icebox in winter, to me unless you educate home builders and designers and legislate to use passive solar principles nothing great has been achieved.

How naive are people? corruption only in Thailand? Asia? they just do a better job of hiding it in the west.

Fortune tellers are nothing more than scammers preying on the vulnerable.

our leader has spoken

I'm running with you Alex. Pay me 500 baht and I will tell you your future.

I see a young boy in your life, you have a son?

A. No

Ah but you know someone who has a son, I see it in your palm.

A. F#@ck your good tell me more, will I be rich and happy.

Doris Day - Que Sera Sera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xZbKHDPPrrc

Fortune tellers. witchcraft and hocus-pocus.

Your guessing and hes not a boy and hasnt been for a long time....did you see the bit were he use to be a pain in the butt?

Funny now you reminded me, last TGF and i were in India about 12 months back and were looking over one of the many forts there think it was Jodipur, when in a room somewhere high in the fort was a fortune teller all set up very business like now this girl i thought was sensible and an accountant (good with her money) but when i saw her agree to pay this dude about 1000B (of her money) i thought she must be loco, i listened in for a short while then took a walk...to say he said nothing was vague and she was very disappointed, of course there was a que forming and she was rushed off, now you see my chooka i use to dabble in things like that so i dont discount that there are people who can see your past present and future but there arnt many real let alone good ones.

Black and White, the same the world over....

FA charges Newcastle manager Pardew for head-butt

LONDON (AP) — Newcastle manager Alan Pardew is facing a long stadium ban after being charged Monday by the English Football Association with improper conduct for head-butting an opposing player during a Premier League match.

Sorry to mention the round ball game here, just thought it was worth a giggle.

(Port Adelaide Magpies is the exception to the rule of course).

oh no ..Alexrrr will be back promoting the A-League

Ahhhh no i wont if you knew last weeks pathetic showing in the derby game at AAMI studum that i happened to go to...well they did just get of the plane from an Asians Champions League game.

I like the Magpies in the UK since Vaduka played for them, and i love Newcastle Brown Ale bu ti do think Mr Pardew has worn out his welcome up there.

And once the AFL season starts so will my atvar....

Fortune tellers are nothing more than scammers preying on the vulnerable.

Why do you write such crap? You like so many others who write to these forums seem to be rejects from your own country. I have never met a successful person who ever decided to make Thailand his home. Like most you have a big chip on your shoulders you probably came for the girls but now you have no money and no girls and sit all day and night writing "anti this" and "anti that" for this anti government website. Even your non de plumes give an insight into your loser personalities 'chooka', 'khun aussie ' etc. Some writers have more than 10,000 posts what a wasted life !!

Fortune Tellers give some hope to some people.

now look what you done chooka you have upset a thai, i wouldnt want to be in your shoes now buddy, i wont tell him where you live its safe with me ieie.

I think a lot of the smart posters here are insensitive to the importance Thais put on fortune tellers after all we can always go home if it gets to hot here.

Fortune tellers are nothing more than scammers preying on the vulnerable.

our leader has spoken

OK after watching the game today, I will be the first to say that St Kilda will get the wooden spoon.

They were totally disgusting as a football team, had no skills and wouldn't beat an under 12's. Time to dump the coach, Alan you are worse than that <deleted> Watters.

GWS has the;

SWANS

Saints

Melb

Dogs

in 1st 4 weeks, they can win 3 out of 4.

Saints have

Melb

GWS

West Coast

Adelaide

Can't see us wining any of those but can see GWS 3 out of 4 leaving the saints to rot at the bottom.

Can't tank as GWS still have 1st pick in the 2014 draft.

Wont help your chances in the tipping comp either. You pick the Saints every week.

In the tipping comp, I don't think I will be tipping the saints in any game. I am tipping them for the spoon. Saints are stuffed for the next 30 yrs and I blame Ross Lyon for that. He refused to blood young guys unlike geelong at the same period. Ross will do the same with freo it is a personal ting for him and he is after the flag and f&^ck the club.

Watters was an idiot and had no idea how to manage his players and they hated him. Alan Richardson amongst sainsts supporters is starting to look like an idiot also and people want him gone even before the season has started,

Inside, various coaches say we need to do this and that and he just says ok, no leadership, he is just laid back and let's everyone else do the work. The coaching group do not like him as the figure head

Here we go again.....................the massage man hanging it on the new coach...or is the boot studder? the door man? There is a reason the Saints have only ever one flag....think about it.

And its a bit like blaming the current economic mess Australia appears to be in on Ronald Reagan, come on man Ross the boss had the team to take a flag just a bit of bad luck, you hated him for leaving your shoot yourself in the foot club your putting all the blame on the "coach" in fact so are your informers, it starts at the top, the big buck boys.......... coach and players are just foot soldiers, if there has been a mistake made "again" go after the board and president.

And mr chooka its not a given you will get done by us.

By the way i saw your post on the northern succession talk thats been thrown around i think you should stick to football my man.

there is one simple step, move to another city.

Nice to know not all the fools who take after bar girls are old fat and stupid.

What sort of girl do you have? .............a smart one

Im amazed to read that guys actually give monthly money. Im lucky to be with a solid girl who has a fine job and makes her own money. Give up the village girl OP and find yourself a normal quality thai girl

No thanks, not to my taste at all.

At least the ones I fancy have no interest in a fat bald old control freak.

Much more fun to at least start off on a purely transactional basis and then see if something "more real" develops later on.

Of course you have to keep paying, but as long as you're getting good value for money and don't threaten your long-term financial security, it's all good. . .

You dont think your a controller? you have hair on your head? but you pay? the ones you fancy want to be paid?

The image i get of you is of a hard loveless person with years of baggage who trusts no female and will unlikely ever find love because you wont ever allow it to come to you, you want to be in control of every situation your in you lack self esteem and dont trust yourself to be able to make a decision regarding how you feel about a woman.

The women you meet and pay to be in a relationship with you would be a slightly more upper class village and bar girl type properly low paid office worker (but im sure you comb through the bars too) that hang out in clubs that farangs would go to.

And your delusional to think that once love magically happens she would stop wanting to get paid, as well as this particular hot bit of pussy never ever saw you as $$$$$$ in the first place.

Most Thai women and were talking about the good ones dont hang out in farang hunted clubs and bars they socialize within there own group and often stay within there area where they live and work, to meet them you would have to be introduced or work in the same company or meet them on a dating website.

The women i have met this way and had relationships with "money" never came into it, ever, i was with one for 5 ys and she would often pay for lunch or dinner, im bald little bit overweight and 16 ys older than she was, maybe im just handsum, charming and trust myself.

And can only holiday for less than 2 months a year.

Westernized Thai women shopping habits change, they now can afford what they use to see in magazines.

You will never really know but you can lessen your chances for disappointment by your choice to begin with of course you will need emotional maturity and use the big head...the one that sits on your shoulders to do the bulk of your thinking for you.

Me? if i not trust i dont go there, i dont believe or disbelieve every word either, actions will often give me the clues i need and i know how far i will go especially when im spending my money.

As for Thai women its a whole new ball game compared to western women, but that dont mean every single Thai woman is traditional.

So in a nut shell......."trust"

I cannot fathom "paying" wife gf what ever....Thai couples work so can she. If you wanna get involved with village girls and the like or women with village mentality the precedent has been set by a number of expats before you.

15,000 is plenty if she cant manage on that she should be smart enough to get a job and you should show some authority, me i would have worked it out long before i slipped that ring on her finger and if she reneged id walk....no shortage of women in Thailand.

Yes im happy, to bad it wasnt on free to air tellie, and im not getting carried away, but i have been saying for a long time we do have a lot of early draft pics running around in that team, some confidence and an experienced coach is all thats needed to get off the bottom.

AND ive been saying since they interviewed Sheedy way back that we needed an experienced coach.

Your not much of a man if you cant do your own research to find out where to get the items for this camping trip.

For you my dear friend hire a van....and get KFC thats about your limit to camping skills.

farang00009999 the economics of providing a service dictates the price you were quoted, if you want a warranty and use of skilled labor then you go through a company who happen to have an office and a few cars to run power bills insurances phone line staff wages and entitlements to cover just so that you have have some one ready to rush out for 4 hours and do your job.

Better still do it yourself cant do it? get a handyman?

im self employed in building and i do a lot of quotes that dont get taken up, you dont factor in the time guys like me loose on guys like you.

tattoo of an anteater works every time.

There is enough in a Thai supermarket to satisfy most though i did when living there shop at 3 different branded supermarkets to cover my normal shopping basket.

About the only thing i missed were dry biscuits, couldn't find a substitute to what i had been use to back in Oz.

I coped, i changed, and all for the better when it came to food.

Yanks talk the loudest, brits...well some lack class...for me the most obnoxious has to me middle eastern.................................................