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""This kind of intimidation is illegal," Mr. Sansern complained, "Please put an end to such action"."

Oh please,.... be nice and just stop all this nasty fighting and go home!

Seriously,... as if the perpetrators are going to pay any attention to what is or isn't lawful!

I've noticed many replies saying you can pick up your car same day or within days and yes this is true if they have you model and color in stock

but what I haven't seen mentioned is the fact that although you can drive it away same day, you won't be driving it away with registration plates.

It's standard practice here that you'll wait 4 to 6 weeks for your plates to arrive (mainly because the dealers are too lazy and uncoordinated to get some office errand boy or girl to attend the motor registry department and make it all happen).

We've bought 2 cars here and its always the same,... all smiles as you hand over the cash and drive away in your plateless vehicle.

They will (perhaps) offer you,.. or you can ask for,- a set of red dealer plates for a fee of 5,000 baht that will cover you for the first month,.. BUT,.. many people don't know that you cant drive at night on them or in the rain ( I kid you not). Something to do with their insurance. That means if you get pulled over by the BIB (Thailand's Plod) you would be fined (not a lot... maybe 400/500 baht) and sent on your way with a smile. Getting into a prang would be a whole different ballgame.

We drove both our new cars without plates for weeks and weeks and only ever got pulled over a couple of times and no fine... except once when we'd driven over the 2,000klm first 30 days limit and had to pay a whopping 400baht. Again the BIB were all smiles and very friendly!... oh BTW,... once you get a 400bht fine for having no plates I think that ticket will cover you for 7 days and then they could whack you again if you got caught a 2nd time (about as likely as getting struck twice by lightning I'd say).

Wishing you all the best for your Thailand adventure.

RIP to the deceased and condolences to their families.

Makes you wonder (and worry) about the building standard and safety of many of the completed Thai buildings that people live in and work in every day.

One strong storm or earth tremor and it could bring the house down so to speak.

I first came here in early 2003. Met a really nice girl from a good family and started a relationship.

She was really lovely and for a short while there I had hoped she would be a good life partner but despite coming back and forth several times and taking her to Australia twice, it didn't work out in the end and ended rather abruptly when I discovered she was dating another guy from the US (now her husband).

I had met another really nice well educated local lady on one of my trips here in mid 2003 and we'd stayed friends on and off for about a year when my previous GF hopes bit the dust and I told her all about it in an email.

Long story short,... we started chatting and emailing everyday for about 6 weeks and then I came to see her and from there we fell in love and were married 4 months later (bear in mind I'd already known her very well for a year prior).

10 years later,.. were still very happily married and have 3 lovely sons all born here.

She is my "Mrs Right" for sure. So I suppose my answer is that it really took about 18 months to find her even though she been sitting right under my nose so to speak for the last 12 of those months!

Best wishes with your search for happiness :-)

coup next week for sure.

No way... that'd stuff up Suthep's plans for another "D" Day that I heard he's planning in the next couple of weeks.

They need to ask Suthep first.... if he gives the nod then it'll be OK!

An admition the police won't do their job!

Yes.... but more relevantly the operative word is not "won't" but "can't"!!

I use PayPal as a major means of receiving and paying.

The exchange rate isnt as good as the banks but its within 3 to 5% which is not a lot to pay (cost of business).

If it were me I'd use PayPal and perhaps western Union.... as well as withdrawing big chunks to buy Gold necklaces and easily tradeable items with intrinsic market value that you can "wear" out of the country!

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Come on, thats not fair. We all know she couldnt win a debate with a cucumber.

At least allow her to have a teleprompter, assistants and to delegate the actual answering of questions.




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She will reject it. There's no way she can have a talk 'live' on TV. She will need 'advice' from overseas and love him or hate him, Suthep has more charisma than her. Of course, she could always cry on live TV. That way the stupid people can say Suthep bullied her. alt=whistling.gif width=19 height=18>

...and that's the PRIME reason why she's not fit to lead the country. She can't hold her own or express herself in any meaningful or decisive way.

I saw her on the Aljazeera interview and all I could think was how similar the conversation was on a UK show I watched where an ex bar girl was defending herself against her English husband's accusations of cheating. "preese,... I no lie you"! The tone of conversation and ability in responding was so similar!

""They always tell the public that their rally is peaceful. But from what they did to me it was not. Their leaders were aware of what happened but did not take any action. I want to ask their leaders, why are you so mean?" she said."

This says it all really!

This protest departed anything resembling a peaceful assembly a LONG time ago!

The army appears to be on the move.

Yesterday I saw 2 convoys of trucks including troops and some artillery moving from Chiangmai city along the Chiangmai - Lampang Superhighway at around 11 to 11.30am.

There was also a road block where they were checking all trucks traveling south,

As far as the army remaining neutral in a civil war. That will work only up to a point and then they'd need to take sides.

We didnt see any nuetral armed forces in the American Civil War, Vietnam, Korea etc.

Sooner or later it comes down to 1 side verses another!

Am I the only one that came here out of puzzlement to the headline?

Transport Minister Chadchart dishes on private chat with top American cat and its owner also

&lt;deleted&gt;? doesn't make sense,... and is the word "also" meant to be the end of the sentence or is it just some kind of lost-in-Google-translation???

When you read all these articles on gunfire/bombings it is always someone else attacking the protesters that starts it, we are all aware the protest guards are armed but they are armed for their own safety otherwise we would be seeing multiple deaths from the assailants. Doesnt matter how our own tv reds try to paint the picture, the protesters have only ever defended themsleves, there is no shootings etc when they are left alone, it is the other side that is instigating it all yet they are totally immune to the police with no arrests as yet, why is that.

Self protection with Tavor / M16 and some pop corn

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Great camouflage for the M16 by using the Popcorn Bag,.. but the black balaclava and walkie-talkie are a dead giveaway!

"I cannot remember things very well but I do remember a police person being very officious."

Yeah,... that'd be pretty hard to forget!

Welcome to Phuket,... hub of stern and staunch faced policemen seeking settlement for one or more of their associates!

Probably way out of my budget at present but full marks and kudos to Thompson for winning the top dog award within 3 to 4 years of opening!

Quite remarkable indeed!

Simply exercise your universal and unalienable right to remain silent.

Don't sign any documents presented to you in Thai (you wont see any in English) even if there is a foreign English speaking police aid telling you its ok to sign as they are release forms or something that's a simple formality when 9 time out of 10 it will be some form of admission of guilt.

The fact that you didn't understand the document and/or were told it was a formality will mean nothing once you've signed.

If you get locked up or detained its best to seek the assistance of a known and trusted lawyer and/or friend/spouse etc and just don't play ball with anyone else!

Without evidence or admission of guilt they can only hold you for so long,.. but with it then they've got you by the short and curlies and you are Kcuffed!

Thai army chief cautions nation may 'collapse' as violence escalates

&lt;deleted&gt;,.... just roll out the tanks, enact a coup and clean up the streets and government buildings of all the thugs possessing them before this ends up in a civil war!

In the absence of a coup where the military retake full control of the country then at least a declaration of martial law for BKK would seem to be a step in the right direction because it seems that without some decisive intercession that the violence will inevitably keep spiraling in the wrong direction.

All sounds quite innocuous and well meaning,... but for..

1) Thai's don't respond well to outside "help" or mediation (case in point: Preah Vihear Temple dispute took 50 years to resolve after the initial UN ruling)

2) The UN is gearing up to become the fiercest sabre rattler in history when they become the military strong-arm for the NWO (a matter of "when" and not "if",.. just wait!)

I had to click on the story to see who he was..... just a soccer team manager, no one of any consequence.

He is the most successful football manager in the world. He has been knighted by the Queen of England for his achievments. He was the best of the best. Manchester United Football club even named a stadium stand and street after him.

That's why I had never heard of him, soccer is a minor sport in Australia so I guess that's why he would only be known to a very small circle of people who follow the game in Australia. I couldn't even name a single soccer team in Aust it is almost unheard of.

awww come on Chooka,... what about the Socceroos?

There was even a song written about them if I recall correctly,... something about "Up there Cazaly"?

... investors will be concerned that this nutter is now going after a non-shin company trading internationally. He and his cronies can never be trusted with the economy

Despite all the negativity surrounding Suthep (and justifiably so), I was so much hoping that he at least would be a more reliable and accountable alternative for Thailand,... BUT sadly I think you may be right!

Actually, in principle this makes a lot of sense.

I had a phone account with AIS and quickly changed it when they "stole" my very cool phone number and hundreds of baht of credit as 3G had been activated which I didnt want and they started to dictate which pack I "must" have.

Seemed to me that the Shinawatra ethos filtered all the way down from the top. So I shut that account.

I hear that the Shin Clan also own a huge part of the privatized electricity utility when it was privatized under Thaksin's watch.

So if everyone stops using electricity that will really hurt them!

Last man standing is declared the winner,... and the loser has to pack up and go home.

That'd be fine if Suthep won,...but if Chalerm was to win you could bet London to a brick that Suthep wouldn't pack up and go home!

How many more deaths will it take to end this Tyrants raging and self interest.

That was the question they asked about Stalin,.... and the answer; 15,000,000+ (15 million of his own people killed)

Well, speaking as someone who has a family and lives in Chiangmai, I don't like the idea of the PTP/YL govt coming to Chiangmai.

Frankly,.. it would do nothing in terms of moving the country forward,... and even worse (if we take it to extremes) it could be the beginning of a North/South country split as we have seen in Nth and Sth Korea and Nth and Sth Vietnam.

Just hope all this insanity soon ends and the country can start to move forward.

The best part of all of this is that the rice scam/scheme has ended and the 2.3 trillion "infrastructure" loan has been killed!