Guitar God

Is it possible to "block" replies from certain members so their posts and replies don't show up when you login and read threads you started?

If so and it's always the same group of negative smart-ass, holier than thou posters you can choose not to display their posts in the first place.

It is annoying when the majority of posts follow the same format:

1 Sincere question

2 Worthwhile input

3 Smart-assed comment

4 Insult

5 Pissing match

6 Flame war

7 Four pages of off-topic posts

I agree, I prefer the hand-cranked wooden telephones and the helpful operators.

Can't you just block and hide " crazy, stalker bar-girl" from Line. If she's not in your friends list, there is no way anyone can connect her to you or see her homepage from yours.

Or do you have a reason for not blocking " crazy, stalker bar-girl"?

Tops Market has a wide selection of Lindt chocolate from Switzerland, Herseys chocolate bars and cooking chocolate and chips in both Ubon and Bkk.

For salad dressing, in Europe I could not find Western, (red French) dressing anywhere so I found a recipe and made my own and it tasted just as good, if you can't find honey mustard dressing I'm sure the ingredients are available and there's a recipe on the Internet.

Thanks for the replies.

I could try asking the hospital if they know of anyone but I just need hands and feet and assistance, not necessarily a nurse. Nursing is hard work, I've known many. Not sure how much anyone would like to doubletime that. You never know though.

I'm in Ubon Ratchathani city, hospital is close but her family lives an hour away. Both parents work full time and are busy with planting rice.

Two sisters already helping us out taking care of our business but they're in BKK, another sister also 700 km away working full time.

Cousins and other relatives fully employed or attending college. My wife graduated from U here and has lots of friends but they are all working full time and/or raising children. A lot of people would like to help but aren't available during the day.

What might the term be, maybe I could search? How do you advertise for temp help? Probably be easier in BKK but I am where I am for now.

While trying to avoid a pedestrian who walked in front of me without looking, I dumped my bike and broke my shoulder and injured my leg. My wife can't take off any more work so I'm stuck at home and its difficult to get around to get food, water, icepacks etc.

I don't want to jeopardize my wife's career, and as nice as she is, her calling isn't nursing anyway. She's taken care of me to the best of her abilities but it's stressful and I'd rather pay someone to assist me for a few weeks until I'm mobile again.

How could I find caretakers or temporary assistants in Thailand for situations like this?

You'd think there would be people wanting to make extra cash for simple tasks but neither of us can think of where to find them.

Here hometown is over an hour from where we live and she doesn't know of anyone here who is available or suitable.

Our mae baan helps out but she is here only one day a week and busy working the rest of the week. We haven't found any full time mae baans. Not sure where else to look after we've ask all our friends for recommendations.

Any ideas on where to find a household helper?

According to the ask-a lawyer forum here, to close a Thai company you need an up-to-date P&L, publish in a newspaper for six months that it's closing, then file for liquidation at the Department of Business.

How often does the ad need to run? Daily, monthly, weekly? Which paper qualifies?

I rented a modern, 9 room, 4 br 3 bath house with AC up and down for 6 months from a retired couple, both doctors, very nice people. I paid 6 months rent in advance plus one month deposit. It wasn't 3k pm though. I looked here and a small 4 room place, in not a good location, no parking, no yard, no AC was 5k. A studio with bath/toilet costs 7k pm here.

Seems like we lost the OP. Maybe his wife and gf bumped into each other ?

I'm fairly satisfied with my Maige box but I though it was supposed to be able to record and play back shows. I hooked up an external USB HD and although it will play files that were on the HD (which I could do easier by just connecting to my PC), there doesn't seem to be any way to record shows off the media box?

Does anyone know how to do it?

I have a 15MB connection and never have any problems with buffering, even with other PC's using bandwidth. There are probably 6 of the 100's of (primarily Chinese) channels that I watch, plus on-demand movies.

When I couldn't place an order, their tech support was quick and helpful but after-sales support has been non-existent in ,my experience.

I'm seeing a wide range of info, 50k pm will get you 3m, 25k will get you 1m, 50% of wife (or is it husband's ) income is the max monthly payment. Farang husband's income counts, or doesn't count.

She went to the bank a few months ago and won't go back again until the house is close enough to completion. Back then, with no car loan, they said yes to 2m mortgage based on 15 k pm income. Now the situation is 14k pm going out in car payment and an additional 35 k pm going into her bank account.

I'm wondering if the bank will consider the extra 35k pm since it's not salary.

Should things go tits up and she defaults, the bank ends up with a 6m house for 2 or 2.5 m. Seems like enough security for the bank to me.

Would a bank lend 2.5 m in this situation do you think?

Land in prime location, 200 talang wa worth 1 M฿ owned outright. New construction, house worth 5M฿, 50% downpayment.

Thai government employee with income of 20k pm from work, 35k "allowance" from husband for the past few months, farang husband income over 200k pm. Thai wife has good credit, only other loan is 700k car loan with 14k pm payment.

Pardon any errors, I just had surgery to repair compound fractures sustained in an accident and am getting 10ml morphine every 4 hours.

Belg- The bank added 50% of your income to your wife's income to determine household income and used that amount to determine maximum monthly payment and loan amount?

What was the value of the house and land the bank financed 3 million of ? Did she already own the land?

Which pool contractor servicing the Ubon area would you recommend for a concrete and tile pool?

Or has anyone here built their own pool and acted as general contractor?

What's your advice for getting a good quality pool at a good price?

I'm interested in a pool around 10-14 m long and 4-6m wide.

For Thais, what's the rule of thumb here on how much a bank will lend vs income? What income do banks consider, only their pay slip , investment income, other regular deposits to their account from sidelines, online income etc?

This isn't about Pattaya but I wonder if there's a connection.

Last evening in beautiful downtown Ubon I drove past a street that is normally full of little karaoke bars (the ones with the (fairy) Christmas lights for decoration and nothing but provacatively dressed women sitting outside) and every single one of them were closed. 9 pm on a Friday night, very strange.

I don't know if the police/military shut them down or what but as far as I know they've been there for months, probably years and now all of a sudden they'd shuttered up on a week end night.

The oddest thing that happened to me is when I was using a new credit card that I hadn't signed the back of yet.

They processed the transaction, I'd signed the slip and when they went to compare the signature to the back of the card and saw it was blank.

They said they coudn't accept an unsigned card so I signed the back of the card, handed it back to them and after they compared the signature I'd just written on the card to the signature I'd just written on the charge slip and were satisfied that they were they same, they gave me my card, receipt and purchase and thanked me for my patronage.

It's 300 THB an hour for private lessons at English Center Ubon with a 5% discount if you pay for 50 hours and 10% discount for 100 hours. She has her own book (but I don't know the title). She's open to using other books, or conversational Thai, answering questions or a customized program.

I haven't taken any lessons yet but her English is very good and she seemed pleasant and capable.

And interestingly enough, the Netherlands doesn't have a meth problem.

Calling for a reduction of prison terms for drugs??

Arguing that the harsh policy has failed to curb dealing?????

And you think lower sentences will do this?

Do these people not see the damges done by Yaba and ice.

HIgh sentences don't make it better, but neither wil lower ones. At least they feel the pain of their mistakes unlike Holland where sentences are ridiculously low

What is the exuse as a buddhist to try to and make a profit by ruining others or at least aiding them to ruin themselves.

Once a year they burn the marijuana they find ?

I'd do the same thing if I found some, just in smaller quantities and over a longer period of time.

I wouldn't want to be downwind of a yaba or heroin bonfire though.

I can't imagine the seized items being destroyed considering the large gap between the monetary value of the items and policemen's salaries. so let's assume that most of it is released back into the market. Combine it with all other supplies that managed to get through (which I assume is most of the total supply, as seizures are only a tip of the iceberg), then it is clear that the rate of consumption of methamphetamine is enormous. Now how much of this consumption has led to problems? Can anyone provide drug-related crime statistics? I think that the proportion of consumption of illegal drugs that directly results in harm to society is so small that the strict and costly enforcement of drug laws may be a huge waste of taxpayers' money and may be inflicting more harm than the drugs themselves (such as imprisoned parents like those mentioned in the article not being able to properly care for their children). Please provide evidence to prove me wrong.

Even though you can't imagine it... One year ago Thursday:

Thailand destroys almost 6 tons of confiscated narcotics and marijuana

http://goo.gl/Tkg9GG

Check the photo. And even though you can't imagine it... roughly the same will happen again this June 26, which is Thursday. Imagine that!

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You don't have too many jing-joks, you have too few tokays.

Any suggestions for a good Thai language teacher or school in muaeng Ubon Ratchathani,

other than ECC?

I like Thailand but there are a few things I miss that I was used to buying in the US and Europe.

I've found TopMarket to be a good source for some US and UK imports, Makro, Tesco/Lotus and Big-C and Subway usually have A&W rootbeer (something I never found in Europe) and I finally located pipe cleaners in the liquor store at TopMarket in Siam Paragon BKK.

Has anyone else found any good sources for US or EU products in BKK or Ubon?

I'm still looking for: English Muffins, lefse, Tootsie rolls or Milk Duds, decent priced Moët Imperial Nectar, Proseco, pepperoni, Swedish meatballs, good cheddar cheese, a guitar shop that does repairs, stuff like that.

They usually commend me on my Johnson...

I agree with you about socially acceptable, annoying habits. I'm a pretty liberal and tolerant person and pretty much anything goes with consenting adults in the privacy of their own space but some thing when done in public, especially to excess, can infringe on others enjoyment.

I don't care if someone puts bleach in their eyes after taking a ketamine enema while they pork their dog up its bunghole while sitting in front of a burning pile of Justin Bieber CD's, inside a pentagram, while drawing cartoons of Allah and yodeling opera as long as I don't have to see it or smell it.

Where there's alcohol, the more that's consumed, the louder it gets. If there's live music I'd rather listen to the band than drunk people howling or some idiot yelling "Freebird, Freebird", to a reggae band. Too much alcohol and there's fights, or someone vomiting on the floor.

Not a fan of cigarettes either. Fine if people want to smoke but I enjoy breathing clean air while I eat and don't want my clothes smelling like smoke. My least favorite are drunk smokers who drop lit cigarettes, lay them on tables or burn holes in your clothes when they stumble past you.

Most people would never think it's okay to throw a burning object out their car window, cigarette butts are somehow exempt from that logic.

I might have annoying habits but I don't inflict them on others, getting shitfaced drunk at a club or chain-smoking at restaurants is somehow acceptable here. I can drink a bottle of champagne and not get loud or violent, I don't play my theremin outside at night, smoke weed around non-smokers, burn patchouli incense in movie theaters, or light farts in restaurants. I wish smokers and career drinkers would be as considerate, but nooooo.

A Thai massage lady commended me on my fit and firm body (I'm 66). I don't drink alcohol (perhaps one glass of wine or a small beer every now and again); She then went on about how fat a lot of farangs are and how much alcohol they consume. Quite frankly, it may be none of my business, but when I see these guys drowning their sorrows in glass (or should I say bottle?) after bottle, it makes me wanna puke. Along with smoking it's a disgusting and pointless habit.

It was nightime, that would explain why he took his sunglasses off.

Saw this guy enjoying himself in Phuket last year. Fun, fun, fun.

He was probably examining something in the sky, and laying horizontal makes it easier.