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Chickens love them also, and by experience I can say the bite really hurts! A bee sting is nothing compared to this. They carry the poison also on their feet, so even if they walk on you it can hurt.

I had once one in our bed. After it bite me, and after switching on the lights it was under my pillow, it escaped under the mattress, So after removing removing the mattress (very careful because we had no idea where it exactly was) we brought it to centipede heaven.....

The other experience was while cutting grass, finally I went to hospital to get rid off the pain.... They injected something.

I can give also nasty infections.

I'm getting a bit worried now Arjen,

"I can give also nasty infections"

Maybe a shot of penicillin?

Crossy, maybe this needs to be moved to the STD Forum?

Scolopendra subspinipes

The one in your photo is just a baby. They lose the blue colour quickly and grow into one of the big ugly ones with darker brown body but still with orange/yellow legs.

Personally I find them the most hideous creatures I've ever seen. I was bitten once in Bangkok by a Pope's Pit Viper but I still find snakes much less repulsive than those awful things.

As already said, I'm told that you won't die from a bite but can be pretty painful.

As far as I know they do not bite they sting from their rear end.

Maybe pick it up by the head then and see what happens?

Jakep, horrible things. You can get an insecticide from most agricultural shops, usually 500ml dark brown bottle with clear foul smelling liquid (If you ask for a "general insecticide" as it kills anything that touches it (If I can find my old bottle I will send you a photo)

Dilute about 1 capful in 20 litres of water and then spray around the soil / concrete around your house. Once they touch it they will be lucky to make it to your front door, NOT SAFE WITH KIDS!!!!!

The Toktaws for some reason can digest these without a problem, we have a few around the house and I have seen a Toktaw gulp a 12" Jakep in one go.

The venom is injected via two pincers under the head, not the tail - beware they have a mouth just above the pincers that can give a nip that can draw blood. (I once caught a big old beast and pinned it down and clipped off its venom pincers - the wife ran away screaming when I pulled it out of my pocket and let it run around my head and chest - that got me some really strange "cred" - undeservedly)

Anyone think they are harmless is kidding themselves, family lost a pig that weighed about 150Kg from a bite from one of these - the pig keeled over and turned dark purple and died.

Kill them! Kill them all!!!!

A large district of Korat has been without any water for three days and residents have been told that there will be none until at least the 20th June.

The Thais are all talking about it on the local chat sites and are seriously taking the piss out of the promise of rain. Do these idiots really believe they can just run a country on 'hope'?

It is El Nino, there will not be much of a monsoon season this year and what rain we do get will just about bring up the ground water to its normal level before anyone can even think about reservoirs starting to fill back up again. We could well be getting launched into the next dry season with hardly any reserves.

Enough talk about diverting water from the Mekong and other stupid schemes that any half educated Joe can work out is pie in the sky.

Go down the temple and wai for three hours daily instead..... It would be much more effective.

I have heard some crazy assed ideas in my time from so called 'experts' who are supposedly running these things... We can make it rain anywhere.... we can truck in water from other areas... we can divert the Mekong... It will definitely rain next month... Sigh....... You knew El Nino was coming, you should not have let out all the water last year to get the dam levels down. Now you can do nothing about it.

May 2015 and El Nino is just starting.

If we get a strong El Nino, this year will be really bad, by the end of the year and going into next year it will be catastrophic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yr7mq94UMU

Very, very true.

I think a lot of Thais seem blissfully unaware just how serious things are going to get - Even if they get monsoon rains 24/7 for a month. Next year is when it is really going to hurt. Meanwhile it is just business as usual.

I think she just wants to get off to carry on the party at the Bangkok intersection with her boyfriend the drunken cop on the other Coconuts video.

Maybe he wants to be put in an inactive post? Salary and no work sounds like a good motivation to me for doing something so stupid as to allow it to be filmed.

Didn't you know? Getting pissed makes you do stupid things!

3pm on the previous day OK?

They do have a quality "Queue online" program *

Check the web

If you take a look at the "Queue Online" you will see that it is constantly full 100 days in advance, it is a nightmare to book a slot.

As far as a time to make sure, I have even heard of people going there at 3 AM!!!

Let's hope the move to the Promenada improves things somewhat.

When I first did my extension in CM, you could simply walk in any time of day and they did it there and then, unbelievable how things have changed.

I would say one thing about Red Horse, it is an "Angry" Alcohol if you understand what I mean, not a happy sleepy drink, you "Do not go gentle into that good night", you will always find that after a few bottles it becomes a fuel for antagonism.

Up here the wife is always whining about the rain, as an example the next village from us had a downpour we had not a drop. They seem offended when one village has some rain and theirs doesn't. "Why no rain here???"

So the usual response from me (which I have no scientific retort) is "Well Bhudda just hates you and your family" spot in a bit of Christianity about "Not buying your God etc." and it really works a treat.

You can then back it up with statements about how they kicked the dog, wasted some food, cut a tree, gave money to a corrupt monk (If they exist)

Amazing how a few beers can shut them up! They then tend to sulk for a couple of days so sex is off the menu, but now and again just the sport of riling them up is worth the celibacy!

I have to admit, Chang did the same when it was 6.4%, but since it has reduced the alcohol, it just makes me sleepy!

You might as well start a thread titled "Bat Urine vs. Wolf Urine".

Well there is a reason why one is named Horse and the other Chang (=Elephant).

Other brands Tiger, Leo, Singha (is also some Lion or so cat?).

Only for some reason they call it beer and not urine.

So many references to urine when it comes to Thai beer.... Not sure where you are from but if you ever had to suffer the filth they served up in some of the bars in the UK, you truly would know what urine tastes like - Mc Ewans Lager, Stones "Best" Bitter, Dryboro's Scotch, Carling Black Label, Fosters, Carlsberg....the list goes on! (and I bet it is about 3 quid a pint these days)

Go for 'lao kao' good and cheap and good kick...

Have to agree there it certainly is cheap (20 Baht here gets you about 350ml), however, sadly my pancreas disagrees and it ends up with 4 days in hospital with a tube up my nose sucking crap out of my stomach and a 30K Baht bill! So it is a bit of an expense really.

It all totally depends on what you want to do with the bike.Haven't drive the cb300 but I've driven both the 250 and the 500. Super easy reliable and fuelefficient bikes. The 500 i rented for a roadtrip. The 250 I borrowed from a friend who was out of town for a while. And while I had that parked at my house, after 2, 3 days I switched back to use my 110cc wave for driving around town. Cant beat the agility and I am actually faster on it than on the bigger yet still small CBR250, let alone on a 500. Besides that I never think twice about where I park my old wave, if its save, if it will get scratched etc etc. I would with a bigger more expensive bike. I once did the math on buying one, knowing I would only use it on 4 maybe 5 roadtrips, for a total of not more that 20 days a year. Add in the occasional daytrip out of town and I might use it 30 days a year. I could easily argue that it isn't worth buying it for me. I'm better of renting one whenever I feel like it. It gives me less risk and resposibility and more freedom to switch. I saw the new R3 last week in the malll and it looks damn sexy, definately gonna rent that for the next roadtrip. Makes me feel glad I didn't buy anything before.

Besides all that, if the 300 drives like a 250 with slightly more power, it will be a super easy and reliable, but indeed not super exciting bike to drive.

The Hondas are ultra reliable and I certainly wouldn't say the CBR250 was boring. It isn't the most interesting but it can do a lot for the money. The bikes are really cheap to maintain, spares and service is extremely cheap even at the main dealers. The one thing I would say about the CBR250 (Not sure how much extra power you will get with the 300 - but it is actually only 287cc so it is only 38 cc bigger than the 250) is that on a fast highway you will tend to look for a 7th or 8th gear unless you can put up with the high revving at 140KMH.

Nice bikes, cheap to run but if I had my choice again I think I would be looking at a 500 or 650.

For running around town and back roads try the MSX, it is an extremely agile little bike but comes with a horrible seat that will make anything more than 30 minutes uncomfortable. But for popping to the shops or a bit of light off road dirt it is a fun little bike - again very cheap to run and repair.

Looks like Red Horse beer must be getting more popular now that Chang have dropped the alcohol content from 6.4% to 5.8% and increased their prices. I stopped buying the so called (Not so) "Classic" beer a few weeks ago and started buying Red Horse - 6% ABV, 640ml instead of 630ml for Chang. 75 bottles later and Tesco have now upped the price from 47Baht to 50 Baht!

Anyone else changed over to this beer? It isn't bad even at 50 Baht.

I would advise you to ride the bike as if you "Don't Exist" - Seriously, as far as most Thais see it, you are not there! They will pull out on you ignore you, tailgate you.... you have to drive defensively.

One thing I would say about a larger bike here is that the locals do not expect the speed you are doing. They look at a bike like a scooter, plopping along at 30KM/H, they are totally unprepared for dealing with a machine on two wheels doing 120.

Me, I drive to suit the road, sometimes it is wiser to keep far left, other times it is better to block them and drive like a small truck, there is no hard and fast rules, you have to adapt or die.

As I said, what's the benefits!

A western licence also does all the above

Next?

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If you are here for more than 3 months then your "foreign" license is no longer valid, unless you have an international driving license. As has been stated on other posts, you will be driving illegally, your insurance will be void and if you have an accident you will be taken to the cleaners!

Can anyone spot something terribly wrong in this sentence? or is it just me.

"A Florida man claims he and his husband ...."

The damn world has gone quite mad.

They also seem to have stopped stocking their own TESCO Brand of Frozen Green Peas.

These were imported from New Zealand and packaged under the TESCO Brand. They were EXCELLENT and we used to buy quite a lot.

Couple of weeks ago, I couldn't find any at the Hangdong Road store near the Airport. I asked one of the staff, even pointed at the Sticker over where the product used to live. She reluctantly went off to find out if there were any in reserve.

Came back smiling and shrugging. By this stage my wife had arrived, she went through the whole performance again in THAI, the girl went away and came back with her boss but we were still unable to find out when or if New Supplies might arrive. HOPELESS!!!

Luckily we haven't got to the point of running out of Tesco Peas at the Hang Dong branch, give it time though.

You are indeed correct, the New Zealand peas they sell are second to none here, and it would be a tradgedy if they were to slip into the ether too!

I buy a few bags at a time just to make sure I have some in. I once had to resort to a tin of those NFC or UFC Thai brand..... my God, you would have been better off painting marbles green, disgusting!

Try and use their 'contact us' at their head office in Bangkok. I have tried several times but the form I am required to fill in on their site never goes through, it just sits there telling me to wait. The complaint I wish to make is regarding the lazy a-hole who puts up to five of the Tesco advertisements in my letter box or gate at a time and also all the neighbours gates as well. I want to know if Tesco are happy to pay for four of them to immediately go in the bin.

You are correct, Paul. My complaint wouldn't go through last week. Complaint was involving scanner accuracy, multiple employees sitting on their asses doing nothing, and health/safety issues with the packaging/care of pork/chicken (always leaking the added solution all over the place). Oh, and if it is on sale; it's old. I am carless, so my choices are a bit limited, but I am not a fan of Tesco, at all. Their "Fresh and Queasy...er I mean Fresh and Easy stores were laughed out of the US. They had to give people 5 us off of 15 us purchase to get people in the stores to buy the one or two items they were selling at a loss to also get people into the stores. Very sloppy with the chemical additives, too, like in the frozen seafood. I wish I had a Makro close by.

Agree with you about the "Contact Us" - my complaints went through, just don't expect a response.

As for the lazy assed shop workers, please drive another 15KM down the road to Big C Hang Dong, this is an absolute goldmine for the study of sloth like behavior. It is almost a micro climate of lazy useless B@ST@RDS!

Thailand is almost like Yugoslavia 35 years ago when it comes to customer service - only at least here they smile!

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Is there a pig shortage? A vegetable shortage? A cow shortage?

What is going on with the local Chiang Mai / Hang Dong Tesco Online shopping?

I have been trying since Wednesday to simply order a few of my usual items which I have been doing for months with no problems until this week.

Wednesday it started, there were no longer any onions available!!! ? I held off ordering as I generally use a lot of onions, maybe 3Kg or 4Kg a week - without decent onions you cannot cook anything and Tesco supply the nice fresh white / yellow ones (not those stupid little "pickling onions" you get in the local stores.

Thursday I tried again - This time No onions, and now no celery and no minced pork meat, and also it has escalated to no chicken breasts with the skin on!! again - I have been ordering this stuff for months. All now unavailable.

Friday and today tried another go and this time all of the above are not available, but now I cannot get the Chokrai Fresh milk - it is now unavailable too.

In a last ditch attempt I actually got off my arse and drove to the local Tesco Express to see if I could at least get a bag of onions and maybe a carrot. Well that was a waste of time, the local Tesco Express has completely cleared out all of the fresh fruit and vegetables and replaced the shelves with boxes of beer!

If I cannot get basics like fresh meat and basic veggies like a simple onion, Tesco can go and . I even sadly looked at the Big C (shitshop online) and it seems to sell nothing in the way of fresh meat or veggies, let alone have an online delivery service in Chiang Mai.

Shame really, as Tesco were really good before and we were happy to spend 3-4K Baht every week or so getting the food delivered (saves me a 40 KM round trip in the pick up for the cost of 60 Baht delivery fee ) And another gripe, they often give you a coupon code with your online order receipt that the driver hands over - something like 200 or 250 Baht discount when you spend 2K or so - usually it never works.

The Tesco Express seems to have a policy of setting up shop next door to 7/11, and initially selling quite a bit of variation. Then within about 6 months all of the variety has gone and they end up selling virtually identical produce to the 7/11 - Any variety of canned sardines and Tuna you want, the usual noodles and junk food.

I doubt you could actually pick out a simple recipe and then manage to get all of the 10 or so ingredients from under one roof. Useless!

Anyone know how this will effect taking a Thai registered vehicle across the border into the Killing Fields?

Just take the car there and buy the insurance from them.

The inspection used to consist of testing the brakes on a roller, writing down the chassis number, exhaust emission and maybe, only maybe walking under the car in a pit and banging the prop. shaft with a rubber mallet.

This year I took my old Toyota in and there was a brake test and nothing else.

The windscreen is cracked, the reversing lights were not working and I had a back brake light off, it really doesn't seem to matter.

I used a GoPro camera on standard HD settings, everything set to automatic, no clever fiddling with exposure or any of that malarkey.

Managed to pull a nice still from the video I shot, check out the 6 intersecting arcs to the right of the actual halo - they were as clear as aircraft jet trails, they made perfect ellipses for miles across the sky.

Amazing site. (apparently my son reckons these are pretty common here????)

Nice catch with the photos. That is a solar halo and believe that specific type is a 22° Circular Halo.

Earthsky

Atoptics

Cheers! I had no idea what it was and had never seen anything like it before.

Solar Halo, well you learn something new everyday.

Thanks for that.

I managed to get a few shots before it disappeared

Never seen anything like it!

Anyone around CM, go take a look at the sun!

There are some amazing views up there.