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I went to an outdoor (with netting over the top) butterfly farm/museum in St. Maarten and it was a lot more interesting that I was expected. They had some amazing varieties of butterflys and they were in all stages of their life, from caterpillars to larvae to pupa to chrysalis to butterfly to ex-butterflies which you could buy mounted and framed. I haven't been to any in Thailand but they're probably the same. If you've never been to one, I'd recommend it.

Loles thnx but I detest shopping...durian sounds like good ideas...am waiting on hubby to make a plan but he is on thai time so will see...klongs boats sound fun as do orchids..what about butterfly museum? Anyone been?

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Western style rock. I already know of the big Issan rock club on the west ring road and a few others.

I'm looking for places that play 60's-70's-80's western rock music like a few clubs in Pattaya and Phuket.

It sounded like there might have been a place in Sisaket or nearby?

Take the F*ing illegal roadblock down on Chaengwattana road then...

I bet he bought his title with drug money.

Another drug baron... when will those British royalty learn that crime doesn't pay?

Durian contains a lot of sulphur which can inhibit production of aldehyde dehydrogenase, an enzyme which breaks down alcohol.

I think you'd need to eat a lot of durian or drink a lot of alcohol to notice it though.

I don't have an explanation for the tachycardia, it may have been unrelated. I'd suspect "feeling drunker" to be the primary symptom.

True is only available with satellite? No coax or fibre optic?

For Internet, in addition to fast I'd also like fast and either unlimited or enough GB/ month that I'm not throttled down a couple weeks into the month.

The smell isn't an issue for me. I like it but in small portions, it's a bit too sweet.

Which temple? Wat Daa Phuk?

Sorry if it's been asked before but I didn't get any recent hits on a search.

My criteria is a good selection of English-language channels. BBC, Discovery, History channel, Music, HBO etc. Sports, not so important.

I heard there was True and CTH(?)

I have True at my place in Bkk and I'm happy with that but if the selection were better through another provider...

I also need a broadband Internet connection.

Any recommendations? Thanks.

I'm having a difficult time finding a club that plays rock music on Ubon. Where's Kalasin? Or any places near Ubon for that matter.

After accidentally discharging a firearm into his testicles ? As opposed to what, all the people who shoot themselves in the balls on purpose?

Is this that common here that they need to make the distinction?

My thoughts too...

I thought we were talking about ketamine....

From what I've heard a usufruct needs to be registered at the land office and a bank won't give your wife a mortgage if you have a usufruct. The only way that method would work is if you paid cash for the house. It does seem possible to have her own the land and you own the house though.

I've also heard that if your marriage is registered at the amphur you wife can't sell the house without your approval and post marital assets are supposed to be split 50/50 if you divorce. The advice I've received is to document that the money came from you and in the event of a divorce, in court it may be possible to receive half the proceeds of the sale of the house.

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, but I did play one on TV.

I'm sure they will be more diligent, at least for a while. Like I said earlier, they had a pre-airport security ID check point set up in Ubon on Friday. They checked my ID 3 times and my boarding pass twice that trip.

"Security will be stepped up". So ONLY NOW are they going to check your boarding pass.

I fly over 150k miles a year and I feel no less safe of NOK Air than any other airline. I'm flying out of DMK with them tomorrow and I have no qualms.

I flew on Egypt Air from Cairo to Luxor 8 months after 9-11 and the guy in front of me had a roll of duct tape and a box cutter in a bag security ran through the x-ray machine. Security took out the box cutter, looked at it and then handed it back to him to board the plane with.

I had to change seats twice, the first one the back was broken and the second one the seat belt didn't fasten. I'll take NOK Air over that any time.

Strangely enough I flew from Ubon to DMK on Friday and for the first time ever they had a desk with four employees checking ID's right before the entrance to security. This was two days prior to the incident in Hat Yai, not afterwards. Usually they just check your boarding pass and ID at the gate.

If Thaivisa ever wants to change their name, I would suggest "Grumpy old men"...

I admit I skimmed over the last 20 or so pages but since the OP never met this woman and she wasn't in a relationship isn't it possible that she just likes sex and liked his friend's profile and photo and would have screwed him just for the fun of it and if he offered to give her money it was just a bonus?

I've had lots of women who wanted to sleep with me and if I liked them, I often did. I've never directly been offered money to do it but if I'd already made up my mind that I wanted to boink her, and then she said "can I <deleted> you and give you money for the privilege?", would I change my mind and say "no sex for you", or "I'll do you for free"? I dunno...

I've had women make me things, buy me things, give me gifts. It would be rude to turn them down. It was never a condition of sleeping with them and I sure never felt like a man-whore just because someone I slept with made me a jacket or brought me some smoke or drink.

100's of posts but not enough info from the OP.he never mentioned how much money. A million bucks like in "Pretty Woman"?

She's probably a freelancer but lots of women like sex and will do guys they like for free, and we all know that many (especially Thai) women like money. She could just be having her cake and eating it too.

When I went there in early February they said you needed to be there before 11 to get same-day, express service. I didn't get up to the counter until 11:30 or so and I still got it back the same day. If you're there before 10 and the line's not too long you should be early enough, unless they changed something since Feb.

Isn't there an arrest warrant out for Suthep? How f**king hard can it be for the police to find someone standing on a big stage yakkiing into a microphone every night?

I thought he changed tactics, apologized to all the business owners who have suffered since last December and all the intersection blockades were going to be taken down last Monday?

Do your last push and get the <deleted> out here!

It looks like what my parrot did to the rubber strip on the top of my refrigerator door. Have you noticed any really bored parrots in your neighborhood?

Come to Ubon if you want to feel like a minority. I think the farang count is me, five other guys and a woman married to a Thai man.

It will either be a 3 or 6 month visa. We'll know in a couple days. Her sister , with no job here, no school to finish, no real or personal property, no ties here except parents and siblings, but probably most important, no farang bf/husband, got a six month, multiple entry visa to visit her Thai aunt there.

If I were a CO, between the two of them, I would have been more suspicious of her sister going there to work illegally or not come back.

Here's some of the paperwork we brought the second time:

Letter from me stating I hadn't lived there for decades and had no residence there.

Proof of foreign residence with copies of old permits going back over a decade, Thai visa stamp, letter from my Thai immigration lawyer, marriage license, Thai MC and car driver's license, Thai house purchase agreement, copy of check for house, incorporation paperwork for the Thai company we own, papers of ownership of my foreign, non U.S. business, a bullet-point letter from her listing all the reasons she has to come back to Thailand and pages of copies with matching passport stamps from my passport of every stamp in her passport to prove we've traveled together on every trip she's made.

Why Hawaii? Nice temperature, nice weather, beautiful scenery, clean ( except for some trash alongside some roads) and the air smells like flowers. She's never been to the US and possibly, we might want to have a place there in 5-10 years. I've got some shopping to do and I'm going to see a few old friends in the music/entertainment industry who live there.

We are coming back though....

What an insensitive article to post. What if some of these illiterate Thais read it here? How are they going to feel?