ThePlant

I often get disoriented as a newt.....

Sorry but such is the intensity of my amusement that I'm

sitting here shaking like a paint mixer at your

ridiculous assumptions

Sounds like too many urine-warm Leos in the grind house to me....

Fear not! The Titties were back today. I think they were having a swipe at the PC prats who were rubbing their hands in glee at their 'victory' and today there were boobies all over!!!

Excellent gimpery of the lefties Mr Murdoch.....

Just waiting for Barcelona to spit the dummy to UEFA and Real to get in bother for 'tapping' a young player....

Drivers will often parp the horn when passing a shrine....

I'm sure someone would have said something to you directly if you were committing a faux Pas....

I understood that there were still wild tigers in the Cardamom Mountains and in Rattanakiri Province.

The big question is;

Does Cambodia have the manpower, lack of corruption in place to protect the tigers from powerful, well organised poachers, and more importantly their patrons in the corridors of power?

Given that the government 'ignore' the rife illegal logging which is destroying both areas, I'd say not; therefore this is clearly not a good idea until they can at least get that house in order before even thinking about an incredibly sensitive reintroduction programme. If logging carries on as it is now there won't even be an environment remaining to support a tiger population thus rendering any such scheme moot.....

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The classic was 3 big bottles of Chang for 100 baht. Chang demolished Singha with that marketing ploy.

I remember when Chang was first introduced in the mid 90's, it was 18 baht for a big bottle so we were getting 5 x bottles for 100 baht. This was an aggressive (and very successful) sales drive by the brewery.

It stayed at 18 baht for quite a long time, when I left Pattaya in 1999, the price had risen sharply to 22 baht for a big bottle.................

Edit: It was the only beer in Thailand that ever gave me a 'chemical' hangover. However, in their favour, it was not the reason why I gave up alcohol in 1999.

Dont remember them changs being that price,,, But that probaly explains why i was stumbling around pattaya,,falling asleep, wetting my pants and eyeing up lady boys in the 90s,,, than God i dont drink Chang any more

It used to be dirt cheap, hence the reason why many Thais look down on Chang a little these days and see Leo as the 'posh one'. The price sort of crept up over the years then levelled out around 27/30B for a good while until Thaksin began his campaign of gouging the public in any way he could think of....

Perhaps the entire taxi force will go on strike and the gov will have to resort to replacing them with packs of macaques.

Good idea Sir, maybe the macaques may know where they are actually going as well.....

After a quick whizz down the other week to an eerily quiet Patts at a time of year when, in the past you couldn't move or had to book a room 2 months in advance, I hope it picks up for the sake of the many people dependent on tourism for an income....

25B for a Sangsom and Coke isn't going to break anyone's bank. Seems like good common sense business to me. I bet they get a lot of punters in, taking those prices.

You can still get about 28 shots from a 70cl bottle which costs about 220B ( less trade wholesale)

28 x 25B = 700B gross per bottle - maybe 400B net per bottle - so thats a tidy profit in anyone's book if you can knock out 5 or 6 bottles in a night.

Makes one wonder just what these fools running these bars in BKK (especially in Lower Suk) charging 150B for a shot of cheap vodka/gin/rum with absolutely no one sat in them are thinking of...They say running a bar and making a success of it is tough but only if you are a totally greedy bell end with no idea about basic business doing so.

Sadly though booze has been the prime target taxwise for every tinpot government Thailand has had to suffer since the mid to early 1990s looking to drag as much into their coffers which they can skim from, to line their personal stashes during their short time in office.

I was just talking to Fat Dave about this the other night and the days when a big Chang could be had from 7-11 for 30-35B feel a heck of a long time ago....Even Smirnoff has jumped from 800 last year to 960 this year in 7 and Family.

On a plus note, i did find some Cadburys fingers in Big C today (made in the uk too). Not going to help with my cold though, unless i stick them up my nose

'Comfort foods' are good, Release plenty of endorphins....

Anyone can do it. Hundreds of millions of drones just

like you do it every day

Maybe, and good for them, but clearly it is something beyond your limited means and abilities...even at the measly 25K a month level

No wonder you're so furiously envious and bitter....

I don't see the problem for the OP.

I could understand some concern or consternation and he she had been a Thai hooker and making threats towards him for not paying enough, like maybe setting her moto taxi husband and his pals on him, but as she's an Aussie and also has no rights here either, tell her to sling her bloody hook pal and man up.......what a loser....is it Luke in disguise?

32.86 to 32.7 is a strengthening of the bath not weakening. Who writes this crap?

and what is happening to the poor euro ...

Yes, economically speaking, the US is the best house in a bad neighborhood, Japan is teetering on the brink of something unpleasant, China is still growing nicely, but slowing down nonetheless and Europe is a mess & the Eurozone collapsing ... but the Thai Visa bar stool economic experts seem to think the most important thing about the whole article is that some junior reporter for a mediocre publication can't differentiate between "appreciating" and "depreciating," words in his second language.

Thai bashing before all else. The old dears are in nitpicking heaven.

Wouldn't you think in an article about the strength or otherwise of a currency such terms are important?

Nitpicking indeed by the apologist supreme.....

Have a care. Can be very aggressive....

Well done to France.