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From my understanding you can have worms inside you without knowing it for months, until the worm has grown big enough to see it in your stool. But there are so many different parasites in Thailand. There must be some sort of drugs you can take which is safe without too many side effects , thats what Im worried about. Yes I have been eating unsafe food lately and a friend of mine who ate the same food was sure he saw something in his stool.

Well there you go eating all that Digital Bikey food and now you've got a rectum full of nematodes. Merry Xmas!

Go to Central Chidlom you can get really good shoes in large sizes too for 3000 - 5000 baht.

Perhaps it's due to my knowledge of english and how english farangs think but you know a farang wouldn't call his country free land. There is another country that does espouse values such as freedom like America yet they don't call their country free land which sounds rather corny to be honest

Corny??

Let's talk about corny and how"english farangs" think.

America was named after an Italian explorer who had nothing to do with discovering America". He did correct Columbus's assumption that the Indies were part of Asia. But really had little to do with the exploration of North or South America.

Amerigo Vespucci (Italian pronunciation: [ameˈriːɡo vesˈputtʃi]; March 9, 1454 – February 22, 1512) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Afro-Eurasians. Colloquially referred to as the New World, this second super continent came to be termed "America", deriving its namefrom Americus, the Latin version of Vespucci's first name.^[1][2]

^{And why was it named after his first name?}

^{It could of easily been named "The United States of Vespucci"!}

^{Burt Parks could have been singing:}

^{"There she is, Miss Vespucci land"!}

^{Before we talk about Thailand being corny, let's look in our own backyards....o.k.?}

I don't see anything corny about Prathet or Muang Thai.

My question:

Why did they choose " Thailand"?

"thai" is passa Thai. It means " free".

But, "land" is an English word. It means land ( duh) or " eee-din" (sp?) in passa Thai.

Why was is not called Thai eee-din?

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Please refer to post #93.

It's not eee-din it's tee-din.

I should have said Prathet Thai. Muang Thai is the everyday word.

Deerhunter watch the vid in post #66 they are de-bunked.

If you actually watch all of the link in post #66, the last two cases they admit that snakes did, or try to eat people

P.S It's amazing how many times people post links that disprove their argument

I believe we were talking about adults. I mentioned in my earlier posts that it would be possible for a snake to eat a child.

I remember in Malaysia about 20 years ago there was such a report. However man is not a snake's preferred meal.

I don't understand. What was he wanting money for?

Maybe he needed some money for gas?

so why not angleland or anglo saxon land?

Are you putting us on or just obtuse? Haven't you ever learned or noticed that languages have changed over the centuries. Just like peoples and cultures, they change, evolve, adapt, are influenced by other cultures & languages, etc. Thus shoppe turns to shop ... we park in the driveway and drive on the parkway ... etc., etc.

England is Angleterre in French which translated means Angleland.

BTW Thailand is NOT called Thailand it's called Muang Thai. Thailand is the English translation.

it means land of the free AND land of the thai people. makes perfect sense as it is the land of thai people AND it has remained free from colonialism.

Isn't thai = free? Therefore why would siam be changed to thailand aka freeland? Ok free from colnialism. That's right after all during that period surround countries were colonized so i suppose the country was called free land to show how it's free from wester colonialism am i correct?

Why would you call your land England? Land of the Eng???

It comes from Angle as in Anglo Saxon.

Nevermind go to the park/zoo and the Banharn Tower.

Don't buy a condo until it's at least half built.

Thailand has never been colonized but it has been occupied by the Japanese, British and Americans.

Isn't that apples and oranges, though?

It means that Thailand lost sovereign control of the Country during WWII but the foreign powers never had enough time to impose their laws, culture and control of the people. Even though this period occupation was limited to mainly Bangkok and the surrounding areas, the whole Country was never under full occupation.

Of the three countries you mentioned, it's only clear that Japan had the intention to colonize. I don't know about England. As for the U.S., we were never officially at war with Thailand and only came to help rid them of the Japanese.

Anyway, not trying to play the part of scholar here. Everything I know on the topic can pretty much be found on Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Thai_Movement

As an aside, the Free Thai Movement certainly explains the U.S.'s favored relations with Thailand when compared to other western powers.

Yes you are correct Japan would have tried to colonize Thailand but America never colonized Japan just occupied it. Same with the Allies and Germany.

Deerhunter watch the vid in post #66 they are de-bunked.

Thailand has never been colonized but it has been occupied by the Japanese, British and Americans.

Isn't that apples and oranges, though?

It means that Thailand lost sovereign control of the Country during WWII but the foreign powers never had enough time to impose their laws, culture and control of the people. Even though this period occupation was limited to mainly Bangkok and the surrounding areas, the whole Country was never under full occupation.

All of them.

Thailand has never been colonized but it has been occupied by the Japanese, British and Americans.

Whenever a poser like this comes up I ask my good lady. So I just asked her what does the Thai word "thai" mean...I got the usual answer...Mi-loo. I asked her what is the Thai word for "free" or "freedom"...she rattled off something that was a million miles from the word "thai". I come across this a lot. I could ask 20 Thai people what a certain word means and get 20 different answers. I also sometimes ask Thai people what a word I hear regularly in use means...and a lot of the time i get "Mi-loo" again. Kinda puzzles me how people use a word a lot of the time and don't actually know what it means. One I have been trying to find a meaning for is "Na"....as in "Na-Krap". I have never met a Thai person who can tell me what the "Na" means even though is used a million times a day by many people?

Thailand means freeland but this is a highly debated topic so don't be serious about it.

Issarapharp means free as in emancipated. Na doesn't have a meaning it's just polite to add it.

ATF could win, however he is too nice to be corrupted.

It was nice to be invited to the party but I gracefully declined. Thank you for your kind support.

And if Soibiker is lucky enough to win, the speech will read "suitable beginner"

I still don't see him on the roster but we'll need a suitable explanation about why he wears his mother's clothes around the house.

Looks like someone bought palm oil farm at the top.....

Like who for instance ?

Look Buddy you had dreams of living off an empire of palm juice but those damn Malaysians are too efficient even without subsidies.

Biz 101 sell at a loss until everyone else goes out of biz.

Jingthing...... c'mon..... You should lighten up a little. Yes you have been the butt of a few jokes in the Pub, but it was all in fun and nothing serious. No one slagged you off.

Mr Toad has received as much stick as you have and possibly Costas too. No-one hears them complaining.

BS. They don't have to deal with the constant crude gay sex jokes. It's like some of you are still in grade school. For many, no matter what contributions I make here all they can think about is anal sex. An openly gay man can't ever win here in a popularity contest (and that's what it is, it is NOT a merit contest) competing with cute baby pictures. Prove me wrong. I know you can't.

JT calm down you can depend on the Gay and Jewish vote and maybe the black vote too, if you are black.

The baby pictures are a volatile bunch more concerned about their ability to procreate than for intellectual contribution.

Who is Todd Weston never heard of him.

Steak and eggs way to go.

It is as others have said Siam means Siamese people, the Bangkok and Central Thais.

Thailand encapsulates all the other ethnic races in the Country.

Anyone can be Thai but anyone cannot be Siamese.

they can be thai inhabitants or citizens but not necessarily ethnic thais.

Exactly same thing with foreigners calling themselves British. The are not ethnically British but they have a British passport.

british isnt an ethnicity

Correct. British is a mixture of the different British races but now means anyone with British citizenship.

Seems to be a setup to me. Sorry about the woman trying to do her job, The Perps are probably on the Cop's known criminals list but they are too afraid to tackle them.

"Seems to be a setup to me."

Based on what? And idioticic speculation doesn't count

If you can't indulge in intelligent debate put your foot back in your mouth.

How did these muggers know this woman had money? She doesn't look affluent.

Why notorious?

It became a total smack den where dealers weren't too bothered with quality or hygiene, and the coppers were happy to get their kickbacks daily. In the 80's and 90's they had literally ''a corpse a week'' being reported in the BKK Post. Staying at the Boston became another stop on the proto Banana Pancake Trail during that era. The Malaysia was for pervies, the Boston for druggies and drunks....

Wasn't the Killing Fields filmed at the old Railway Hotel (Now the Centara) in Hua Hin? I know they filmed a lot of the street shots in Bangkok but I understand that was in and around Makkasan and Samsen (the evacuation of the city was Samsen)

Yeah they'd get off the plane go straight to the Boston and OD. They'd been used to 10% H per gram but they were getting the real thing there.

Can't really comment on the movie but the Blue Fox was the classic dive bar. It's a 7-11 now.