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if your wife took out the loans and she signed for them then they are hers not yours unless you co signed. I hope you are hitting her with fraud charges as that is exactly what has happened as well as seizing any and all her goods and chattles.

well all I can say is what several red posters are saying is all bullshit, so much for the sothern thugs, nazis etc comments, The protest in Phokhuntale road is extremely peaceful has been since it was set up yesterday. We have driven through it and walked through it, there is no signs of violence in fact the exact opposite, police are mingling with the crowds and everyone is quite happy, even the voters that turn up. They just accept what is happening and either walk through the crowd to vote or just join in the fun. Those trying to paint a different picture are simply pathetic that have nothing better to do than bitch. Just goes to show how small some minds are, their posts are becoming more and more laughable. Even though it is quite a large crowd, even living close to it we have no noise problems at out house at all, looks like the red brigade in here are full of s**t.

more violence from the southern thugs, intimate people with bodily harm if they don't do what they say.

I suggest you get some truth in your posts, I live a couple of hundred metres from this rally and it is extremely peaceful. Went for a walk through it this morning and they are all friendly and simply welcoming everyone, even the police are mixing with them. Love the way you lot have got to lie and use innuendo(big word for you hey) to try to push your bias, pathetic. Evert time I see one of yopur posts I simply piss myself laughing as that is all they are good for

so this idiot gives a wanted criminal a new passport and refuses to issue an arrest warrant for him, visits him regularly and now he wants suthep to surrender to police even though he has said he will do so as soon as the protests finish, what a hypocritical moron.

You know you’re Australian when…

1. You’re familiar with Neighbours, Home and Away, Playschool, A Country Practice, Norman Gunston, Barry Humphries, Blue Heelers, Ray Martin, Bert Newton, Lisa McCune, Jon Burgess, Number 96, Molly Meldrum, Kerry O’Brien, and of course, Kerry Packer and Rupert Murdoch.

2. You know that Burger King doesn’t exist. It’s Hungry Jacks.

3. You know that snow is a memorable and freakish occurrence. Sometimes it’s even fake.

4. You know the difference between thongs and a G-string.

5. You know that “stubbies” are either short shorts or small beer bottles, a “gimp”, “bogan” or “geezer” is a random idiot, someone in trouble is in “strife” and you’re liable to burst out laughing whenever you hear of Americans “rooting” for something.

4. You know how to abbreviate every word, all of which usually end in -o: arvo, combo, garbo, kero, lezzo, metho, milko, muso, rego, servo, smoko, speedo, righto etc.

5. You know that some ppl pronounce Australia like “Strayla” and that’s ok.

6. You know that there is a universal place called “woop woop” located in the middle of nowhere… no matter where you actually are.

7. You know that while we call our friends ‘mates’, we don’t use terms like ‘sheila’ and ‘shrimp on the barbie’, contrary to popular belief.

8. You know that none of us actually drink Fosters beer, because it tastes like shit. We export all the crap to pommie land.

9. You’ve seen Gallipoli, Crocodile Dundee, Young Einstein, Muriel’s Wedding, The Castle, Beneath Clouds, Strictly Ballroom, 40,000 Horsemen, and maybe even WolfCreek.

10. It makes you happy when someone in Hollywood is actually Australian… Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Baz Luhrman, Elle MacPherson, Olivia Newton-John, Midnight Oil, ACDC, INXS, Greg Norman, Cathy Freeman, Dawn Fraser, Pat Rafter, Ian Thorpe…

11. One word: Skippy.

12. You know that Sydney 2000 was one of our proudest moments in history. We just fuc_king rock.

13. You know that you are not going to die of cholera or other Third World diseases (remote Aboriginal communities are a different matter)

14. You know our country has never been conquered by a foreign nation (you don’t count 1788).

15. We know that the Metric system will always be better than anything inches, feet, pounds and fahrenheit will ever offer.

16. You drive on the left-hand side of the road.

17. If you’re a pedestrian and cars are stopped at a red light, you will fearlessly cross the street in front of them. ‘Hit and runs’ just aren’t cricket. Because Aussies stick together.

18. You know that New Zealanders are basically our naive country cousins, who have a weird fush-and-chups accent and, for some bizare reason, think that they invented pavlova. They are to be pitied. They have no hope of gaining the upper hand in the endless sporting rivalry between our two nations.

19. You know that you can’t eat Fantales alone… Otherwise who will you play the ‘Who am I…’ game with when you’re reading the wrapper?

20. You know that Sydney should be the capital, because Canberra is a hole.

21. You know that Americans think we’re all Steve Irwin clones. And crickey, they couldn’t be more wrong.

22. You know that lawyers wear wigs and gowns. And we make it look good.

23. You have some time in your life slept with Aeroguard on in the summer. Maybe even as perfume.

24. You feel obliged to spread salty black stuff that looks like congealed motor oil on bread… and actually grow to like it. You’ve also squeeze Vegemite through Vita Wheats to make little Vegemite worms.

25. You believe that democracy means the freedom to draw caricatures of good ol’ Johnny Howard.

26. You have the ability to compress several words into one – ie ‘g’day’ and ‘d’reckn?’. This allows more space for profanities.

27. You’ve ever used the words – tops, ripper, sick, mad, rad, sweet – to mean good. And then you place ‘bloody’ in front of it when you REALLY mean it.

28. You know that the barbeque is a political arena; the person holding the tongs is always the boss and usually a man. And the women make the salad.

29. You say ‘no worries’ quite often, whether you realise it or not.

30. You know what fairy bread tastes like, and you can’t imagine your childhood without it.

31. You know the first verse to the national anthem, but still don’t know what “girt” means. And you’re ok with that.

32. You’ve drank your tea/coffee/milo through a Tim Tam.

33. You know that backyard cricket is a nice way to bond with family and the rubbish bin. And the ‘one bounce, one hand’ rule always applies

34. You know that we are home to the just about all of the world’s deadliest of animals. That’s why if anybody messes with us we’ll get some funnel webs on their <deleted>.

35. You see people walking bare-foot on the footpath and don’t scorn…. because you’re doing it too.

36. You know that in summer a seat belt buckle becomes a pretty good branding iron.

36. You know what trop-fest is and it makes you happy.

37. Sausage rolls and meat pies. End of story.

38. You firmly believe that in the end, everything will be ok and have offered advice that included the words, “she’ll be right, mate”.

39. You have a story that somehow involves an excessive consumption of booze… but you can’t remember.

40. You own a Bond’s chesty. In several different colours.

41. You’ve ordered a steak the size as your head and only paid $5 at your local RSL.

42. You know that Italy should never have been granted that fateful kick in the 2006 Soccer World Cup.

43. You know how to slip, slop, slap like it’s nobody’s business.

44. You’ve heard the Prime Minister dismiss anyone who disagrees with him simply as ‘un-Australian’, and that’s enough to make us sit down and shut up.

45. You know that the value of a public holiday is measured in terms of alcohol. God bless the queen and her 4-day birthday.

46. You refer to someone you like as “a total bastard”, but call someone you don’t like “a bit of a bastard”.

47. You know there’s no lbw in backyard cricket, and over the fence is out.

48. You know Drop Bears exist. Positively.

49. You know you that roo meat tastes pretty good, but not as good as barra. Or a meat pie.

50.You know Australia IS the best bloody place on earth. Bar none.

I'll be cooking a some lamb chops and snags on the barbie, and washing them down with a few tinnies

Happy Australia Day!

Happy Australia Day! Didn't know much about Aussies, this help a bunch.

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hahahaha, after reading it a few times, over the fence was six and out for us, mate bloody brilliant, old bastards carry a card to state they are "old bastards", bbq today and tomorrow we can come back in and ask "djahavagudday"

happy aussie day everyone

Some cherished memories for our Aussie mates across the ditch.

sorry mate but I am going to have to give you a fail, no passionfruit on the pav.

Bugger, had to do an edit, had a second look and saw a couple of seeds, sorry mate, not having passionfruit on pav is like wiping your arse with newspaper, just not what we consider kooth and kulcha

her brother gets around 60,000 baht(20 days x 3,000 or 15 x 4,000) a month driving a tractor, come in spinner. Thats more than teachers and some business managers make, somehow I dont think you have been given the right numbers unless he makes it up to that through gambling, the thai minimum age is 300 baht a day and he gets 10 times that, I dont think so.

I bought a new camera a while back for around 17,000 baht and 800 baht was my refund amount as well but you have to be leaving the country within 60 days to get it. I just tossed it, was worth buying a flight out and back for only $25 or so in a refund.

I should be able to tell you all some great answers over the coming days, they are now camped a few hundred yards away from our house outside the police training school, moved there this afternoon.

Government continues to crumble. They're just delaying the inevitable now - the Shins are going to have to go.

Ok the shins have to go. So what do you want to take over the sutheps???? These are murderers of 90 people and dont have time to go to court to plead NG. What a joke.

actually suthep maybe an idiot but he is not guilty of murder, the army is if anything. The army are the ones that decided to pull the triggers, they were put there to keep the peace and returned fire after they were shot at, thats also self defence. When will they arrest the reds that murdered the people/soldiers or are they ok because thaksin said they could do it. Until proven in a court which will never happen(due entirely to the truth) suthep is innocent of murder, just guilty of being

lets be honest here, the only reason she is offering to postpone the election is because she knows they cannot pay the rice farmers before feb2 and she will be shit. If she postpones it she will be able to try to get the money for them and buy their votes back, anyone saying any different is just a fool and easily lied too but then thats their choice to be totally ignorant.

You know you’re Australian when…

1. You’re familiar with Neighbours, Home and Away, Playschool, A Country Practice, Norman Gunston, Barry Humphries, Blue Heelers, Ray Martin, Bert Newton, Lisa McCune, Jon Burgess, Number 96, Molly Meldrum, Kerry O’Brien, and of course, Kerry Packer and Rupert Murdoch.

2. You know that Burger King doesn’t exist. It’s Hungry Jacks.

3. You know that snow is a memorable and freakish occurrence. Sometimes it’s even fake.

4. You know the difference between thongs and a G-string.

5. You know that “stubbies” are either short shorts or small beer bottles, a “gimp”, “bogan” or “geezer” is a random idiot, someone in trouble is in “strife” and you’re liable to burst out laughing whenever you hear of Americans “rooting” for something.

4. You know how to abbreviate every word, all of which usually end in -o: arvo, combo, garbo, kero, lezzo, metho, milko, muso, rego, servo, smoko, speedo, righto etc.

5. You know that some ppl pronounce Australia like “Strayla” and that’s ok.

6. You know that there is a universal place called “woop woop” located in the middle of nowhere… no matter where you actually are.

7. You know that while we call our friends ‘mates’, we don’t use terms like ‘sheila’ and ‘shrimp on the barbie’, contrary to popular belief.

8. You know that none of us actually drink Fosters beer, because it tastes like shit. We export all the crap to pommie land.

9. You’ve seen Gallipoli, Crocodile Dundee, Young Einstein, Muriel’s Wedding, The Castle, Beneath Clouds, Strictly Ballroom, 40,000 Horsemen, and maybe even WolfCreek.

10. It makes you happy when someone in Hollywood is actually Australian… Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Baz Luhrman, Elle MacPherson, Olivia Newton-John, Midnight Oil, ACDC, INXS, Greg Norman, Cathy Freeman, Dawn Fraser, Pat Rafter, Ian Thorpe…

11. One word: Skippy.

12. You know that Sydney 2000 was one of our proudest moments in history. We just fuc_king rock.

13. You know that you are not going to die of cholera or other Third World diseases (remote Aboriginal communities are a different matter)

14. You know our country has never been conquered by a foreign nation (you don’t count 1788).

15. We know that the Metric system will always be better than anything inches, feet, pounds and fahrenheit will ever offer.

16. You drive on the left-hand side of the road.

17. If you’re a pedestrian and cars are stopped at a red light, you will fearlessly cross the street in front of them. ‘Hit and runs’ just aren’t cricket. Because Aussies stick together.

18. You know that New Zealanders are basically our naive country cousins, who have a weird fush-and-chups accent and, for some bizare reason, think that they invented pavlova. They are to be pitied. They have no hope of gaining the upper hand in the endless sporting rivalry between our two nations.

19. You know that you can’t eat Fantales alone… Otherwise who will you play the ‘Who am I…’ game with when you’re reading the wrapper?

20. You know that Sydney should be the capital, because Canberra is a hole.

21. You know that Americans think we’re all Steve Irwin clones. And crickey, they couldn’t be more wrong.

22. You know that lawyers wear wigs and gowns. And we make it look good.

23. You have some time in your life slept with Aeroguard on in the summer. Maybe even as perfume.

24. You feel obliged to spread salty black stuff that looks like congealed motor oil on bread… and actually grow to like it. You’ve also squeeze Vegemite through Vita Wheats to make little Vegemite worms.

25. You believe that democracy means the freedom to draw caricatures of good ol’ Johnny Howard.

26. You have the ability to compress several words into one – ie ‘g’day’ and ‘d’reckn?’. This allows more space for profanities.

27. You’ve ever used the words – tops, ripper, sick, mad, rad, sweet – to mean good. And then you place ‘bloody’ in front of it when you REALLY mean it.

28. You know that the barbeque is a political arena; the person holding the tongs is always the boss and usually a man. And the women make the salad.

29. You say ‘no worries’ quite often, whether you realise it or not.

30. You know what fairy bread tastes like, and you can’t imagine your childhood without it.

31. You know the first verse to the national anthem, but still don’t know what “girt” means. And you’re ok with that.

32. You’ve drank your tea/coffee/milo through a Tim Tam.

33. You know that backyard cricket is a nice way to bond with family and the rubbish bin. And the ‘one bounce, one hand’ rule always applies

34. You know that we are home to the just about all of the world’s deadliest of animals. That’s why if anybody messes with us we’ll get some funnel webs on their <deleted>.

35. You see people walking bare-foot on the footpath and don’t scorn…. because you’re doing it too.

36. You know that in summer a seat belt buckle becomes a pretty good branding iron.

36. You know what trop-fest is and it makes you happy.

37. Sausage rolls and meat pies. End of story.

38. You firmly believe that in the end, everything will be ok and have offered advice that included the words, “she’ll be right, mate”.

39. You have a story that somehow involves an excessive consumption of booze… but you can’t remember.

40. You own a Bond’s chesty. In several different colours.

41. You’ve ordered a steak the size as your head and only paid $5 at your local RSL.

42. You know that Italy should never have been granted that fateful kick in the 2006 Soccer World Cup.

43. You know how to slip, slop, slap like it’s nobody’s business.

44. You’ve heard the Prime Minister dismiss anyone who disagrees with him simply as ‘un-Australian’, and that’s enough to make us sit down and shut up.

45. You know that the value of a public holiday is measured in terms of alcohol. God bless the queen and her 4-day birthday.

46. You refer to someone you like as “a total bastard”, but call someone you don’t like “a bit of a bastard”.

47. You know there’s no lbw in backyard cricket, and over the fence is out.

48. You know Drop Bears exist. Positively.

49. You know you that roo meat tastes pretty good, but not as good as barra. Or a meat pie.

50.You know Australia IS the best bloody place on earth. Bar none.

I'll be cooking a some lamb chops and snags on the barbie, and washing them down with a few tinnies

Happy Australia Day!

brilliant, the only thing, you left out aunty jack in "1" so she'll rip your bloody arms off and vegimite on the neck is a sure fire deterrent for drop bears but over all, way to go mate, you f*ckin beaudy.

There is nothing wrong with people being rich if they have obtained their money honestly. If the poor want to more go out and work for it. Form unions to presure for better pay and working conditions.

Oh and don't sell your vote to corrupt polititians . It keeps you poor.

In this country if you are rich it is because you were born rich, or a member of the sino-thai merchants who made their money the old fashioned way; through corrupt officials. If all politicians are corrupt why shouldn't I sell my vote, are you giving me money for my daily constitutional down at the bamboo hut. The hubris of the expat.

goes to show you know absolutely nothing about this country, my wife comes from a very poor family that had nothing but she is now comfortable middle class. Her teacher aunty put her through school and helped her with uni and by having an excellent work ethic she climbed the ladder by working hard so that she is now in management. A lot of the poor people are there because they refuse to do anything to better themselves, its easier to bleed your relatives and others. My wife is pure thai, not sino-thai, you simply read/listen to too much propaganda crap to know what the truth really is like a lot of other posters in here. Anyone willing to do the hard yards can make it in Thailand, they just need to get off their arse and be willing to work.

Newspapers and journalists also have to bear some responsibility. The Nation for instance, a blatantly anti-thaksin newspaper, is pumping out the propaganda (and probably generating good sales due to the gullibility of its target market). I believe they should show a bit more social and journalistic responsibility instead of fanning the flames.

yes, totally unlike what you have been doing in here of course

Does this mean all the reds are turning blue, couldnt happen to a nicer bunch of people, sorry for all the non reds though, poor buggers could have afforded to buy warmer clothes if the govt had of paid them instead of "losing" the money.

Isn't a car's 'heater' just a pipe running heat from the engine (since all engines must generate heat) into the cabin? Obviously, AC's don't produce heat, so just letting a car's own engine heat the cabin seems the most sensible way to do it.

A cars heating system runs off the cars radiator water that flows through the engine. There is a valve on the piping that lets the water flow into the cabin area and go through a heating element which in turn heats ther car as air goes through it(either from the fan or fresh air). Pretty simple really, if you want it to circulate quicker just lower one back window a little bit and the car heats up pretty quick.

again let me rephrase if you live in Thailand your pension will STOP you check website

Only under specific criteria e.g. return to Oz to claim Aged Pension, must meet residency criteria & be resident for 2 years in order to qualify for overseas payment if permanently re-locating. If you wish to contradict, please provide the Human Services specific website link

Yes the payment will stop if you have not allready met the residency requirement this is because there is a requirement that you be officially resident in Australia at the date of claiming the pension. Centrelink regulations define a 2 year peiod for this. If you have not been resident for 2 years they in effect provisionally pay you if you are still in Australia but not outside. The pension itself is portible if this 2 year provision has been met. If it has not been met you are not entitled to a pension.

I live in Thailand and my pension does not and will not stop as I was in Australia for the two years prior to the claim and hence am entitled to the pension.

Same,same Harrry,I have been receiving the OAP for ten years,I am classified as an Overseas Recipient by Centrelink,moved here in 2000 and my pension is paid into my Thai bank in Thai Baht monthly.

what sort of exchange rate do you get, bank rates are lower than thai rates of exchange, plus how did you set it up so they pay into a thai bank, would save n\me heaps

l have two and a half years to wait to worry about that. Now my main thing is the visa to live there maybe you can give me advice on that can I apply for the marriage visa in bkk or must it be done in aust marriage is set for next arrival in bkk

you can get while you live here, get a 3 month non o visa first in Australia(Brisbane is the best one to go through) then get your marriage visa after you are here, if you have 400,000 baht in the bank for over 3 months or earn 40,000 baht plus a month(aussie pension) you can get a marriage visa (if your married to a thai of course,5555555).

State Pension in Ireland is €230 (8,510 baht) a week. Is that better or worse than Australians State Pension ? Sorry for hijacking your thread OP.

they get the same money with no extra benefits, for a single man it is around AUD$750 a fortnight(every 2 weeks) which is around 21,000 baht.

There are a lot of views being bandied around in here, one thing thai visa members have that a lot of thais dont is the ability to really know exactly what is happening in Thailand, we can make up our minds without being paid or bribed to do so. Seeing this is the case how about thai visa run a poll for all members to vote to see if people with the true knowledge would vote for shinawatra or Thailand, this isnt about reds and yellows but the country as a whole, something a lot seem to have forgotten in their own biased versions of events.

How about it mods, can we run a poll to see who would get our votes, would not be for any party but for either the shinawatra clan and their policies or for the Thailand people and the removal of the current policies/corruption from politics(not the dems or suthep), certainly would silence a lot of nay sayers and some of the twisted comments, they are just getting worse.

...marries men(local marriages only) so they can also take care of her but she hands over all the money she gets tp them and they spend it on their real wives.

Amazing. So she's "married" to a man that has a "real wife", but still works at a bar and gives her "husband" all her money?

the only thais that hang out with her are scumbags, if she doesnt give them what they want, they hit her, simple, no sooner has she finished with one than she is with another one, we refuse to have anything to do with them. We actually had her daughter living with us for many years but once she turned 15 she wanted to be like her mum and have no rstrictions.

wife took my passport there yesterday to be stamped/updated(it was) and it was open, suggest you check it yourself