jobsworth

why not build canals to bypass the rapids? that way wildlife habitat is maintained and large barges can pass.

the police tell me that it often happens that a thief will take a shit at the scene of a robbery. it happened to me in london. it must be the excitement and the contempt for the victim of the robbery. it is not peculiar to thailand.

it is for the benefit of the staff that showers are offered so that foreign customers will not smell so bad.

7 minutes ago, HerbalEd said:

How do you know they have lots of money? Because they walked out to the road to catch a cab and avoid the extra change for a taxi inside the airport?

firstly because NGO's have unlimited funds and secondly because they knew how to do this trick and thirdly because family groups from the west do not travel like that with many male and female members. NGO's are personally poor and so can easily be identified by their scruffy appearance.  But then how did they afford the air fare? They are after all recruited from the homeless shelters of australia and europe.  not their fault but something to be aware of.

when the wind blows from the north, pattaya receives the exhaust from the oil refinery at lam chabang which is only 30 kms away. otherwise the air is good with a nice sea breeze.

they don't look much like tourists to me, more like NGO's and they have lots of money.

it is really important that those who pack the parachute exercise due care.

when i went there the entry price was $20 and the tuktuk was $6 for the day. the tuktuk drivers now want the same as the entry price so if the entry price rises to $37 expect the tuktuk price to rise to $37 for the day. isn't this rather like the tourist visa price which is always on the rise. consider also the many khmer vendors, who get in for free and come from as far away as phnom penh, to sell soft drinks and souvenirs. the tourist and not the temples is the attraction.

4 hours ago, IAMHERE said:

And still Europeans immigrate to the US and hardly any US people immigrate to Europe, go figure.

do you not mean that Europeans emigrate to the US and hardly any US people emigrate to Europe or do you really mean that Europeans immigrate from the US and hardly any US people immigrate from Europe. Still figuring.

2 minutes ago, mcfish said:

A good friend and a well known expat bought coke off Nigerians took 2 hookers to the Nana hotel and he and one hooker were dead within 30 mins and he was in his thirties and married to a farang
Never buy from these people you don't know what you will get

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sounds like battery acid and yes it can kill.

9 minutes ago, patrick1968 said:

if that was a girl ,,,wood you still have problems with it ,,,

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood

11 hours ago, fred110 said:

Last month I saw the tracks being laid through the center of Poipet. They removed my favorite little outdoor cafe in front of the Poipet Casino Hotel. It will be nice if it connects to Siem reap and Phnom Penh.

if we are talking about the same cafe?

the one photographed above.

that too was my favorite cafe.

hard to understand that the tracks could run thru the site of the cafe.

the passage is narrow and carries the road and the entrance to the casino.

it is surrounded by buildings or have they been demolished also?

and then there is the roundabout and all of the cambodian immigration buildings

leading on to the main road.

have all the immigration facilities been demolished also.

there seems to be a motto in cambodia that if a building is useful

or old or beautiful we will demolish it - progress.

don't be fooled. my beloved pantip plaza is under new management and not the fun place it was.

all the little shops have been squeezed out.

watch your back with the security guards. they are officious.

i am amazed that none of you seem to be aware of the vast operation being conducted by ICE against white people in the thailand. have you never noticed the many little groups of middle aged australian ladies pretending to be tourists and clutching their mobile telephones while they take photos of the suspicious white people. they are on the beach, in the restaurants, in the bars and outside the hotels. often they will be accompanied by a child or two from an orphanage or a thai lady ex bar girl. the lurkers on this forum will certainly know what i am talking about.

this story reminds me of an big fat ngo lady at the russian market in phnom penh.

after taking my photograph with her mobile telephone she pulled up her dress and unrolled some flab around her tummy and placed the telephone inside her flab.

then let her dress down and looked at me with a self satisfied smile as if to say now try and get my telephone.

as if anybody would want to. i was just looking at the event in amazement.

sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. depends on which payment gateway you use. one time i had 2 fraudulent payments to vodaphone. my credit card company refunded the fraud. a khmer told me that they do like this as an act of protest against the government, another time i had to make several telephone calls before they delivered. it is worth using this service to save a page in your passport. go for it. it is well worth the risk. always say that you are crossing into cambodia next week. the crossing can be any time 3 months after that. otherwise your application will go to the bottom of the pile. good luck.

6 hours ago, acid thunder said:

 

What a horrendous thought.  How much did that cost?

 

 

a long time ago i flew air lanka from bangkok to london with a stopover in colombo.

i think that air lanka pay a large commission to the travel agency otherwise who would fly with them.

they played some irritating music about how beautiful was sri lanka

which,  having stayed there before,  is true

the landing was a hell of a bump just short of a crash landing.

when i made a comment to the flight attendant on exiting from the plane

he took it personally and became abusive while i was trying to make a joke out of it.

oh yes and they lost my luggage. so i was at heathrow minus any warm clothing

and minus my front door key. my luggage was sent on from colombo

and delivered by some aggressive man who may have been a customs man.

i guess that they were looking for drugs since many cruise ships

used to stopover in colombo and many passengers went shopping.

yes that is a funny sort of place. it is a private house but used as a hotel with tour groups staying there, i sneaked in there once with my girlfriend and the permission of the group leader. it is beautiful and well built. german i think. it should be allowed to remain.  on reading this article i was much more worried that somebody had encroached onto the area next to it which is popular with fisherman and includes rock pools with stranded fish in them. the one i rescued was a puffer fish i think. it is this pool and some rocks next to it that stops you from walking all the way along the beach from jomtien to pattaya. it reminds me of how brighton marina used to look before the construction of ugly houses.

perhaps they could make these road restrictions permanent.

ever tried crossing any of these roads in pattaya recently?

are you homeless? do you look a bit rough? do you have tattoos? then you could join world vision and gang stalk all those bad white people. all expenses paid and a good salary or so i am told.

while this vandalism is terrible this is no worse that the destruction of ancient sites by the christians in my country (uk).

that same sticker appears on many different appliances and refers to the number of years you have to pay for the item. it has nothing to do with the power rating. or so thai people tell me.

does anybody know where is "lee diners" on second road or does this place have another name?

17 hours ago, webfact said:

Meghan Markle, an American mixed-race actress three years his senior

it is not that that i object to. it is her association with world vision.

3 hours ago, bannork said:

They're irritating with their wasp like sounds and u turns but they can be very useful in an emergency. When I severed a tendon due to a neon light imploding in my hand the blood was flowing freely and I really didn't fancy sitting on a motorbike taxi trying to stem the flow. A tuk tuk beat all the stationary cars by whizzing up the road the wrong way , jumping lights, etc  and got me to the hospital in record time.

Upcountry the skylabs are much more enjoyable. A pleasant baritone sound to the engine, it's a more relaxed ride with the two seats facing each other as the driver cruises along at a sedate pace.

all very true but watch out for that low metal bar across the back.

a falung foot can exactly fit under it as he gets out.

this leaves the falung bent forward double with his head touching the road

while the leg is bent backwards and nearly broken.

when it happened to me the driver just picked me up and i struggled out.

he had seen it before and just laughed.