Dickie_Doo

And all this happened 9 years ago, yet you remember it so vividly (what an uneventful life you must have!)

Hey.....

Wonder what she's doing now?

They even went so far as to put someone at the barricades to hit people who tried to get past, with a stick!

Sounds more like a Thaivisa pissup.

Peel out the Cambodian Visas a few months after they're used.

Gives you a new empty page.

He's afraid by moving back to thailand he'll be too lonely.

He's correct.

Even if they are there, they are likely to be zonked out of their minds by years of cheap booze and cerebral debility.

I have met some Vietnam vets in Thailand who have kept themselves dapper and not gotten blitzed. Those are invariably ex-Special Forces.

There's numerous ex-servicemen in expat communities, online and elsewhere. Some are a-ok. Others have residual self-esteem issues.

Plus if you get a free Thai Airways ticket, its a ticket that qualifies for air miles.

Not wishing to un-sensationalize the original story, but the 'Oscars' film night is the Bangkok Film Festival, which takes place in February, has been a regular event for years, and is nothing to do with tsunami commemorations. It is just a normally scheduled event

I'm starting a clique where clique members shower together and sit nud_e in a hot tub.

Ian McKellen is currently playing Widow Twanky in pantomime at the Old Vic, a company run by Oscar-winning, soi disant heterosexualist Kevin Spacey.

"Magneto" not "Metallo" actually.

Is it necessary to boil the rice first or is that optional? Can it be fried straight from the bag.

It's a pecking order

X-Men II [one of the great subversive gay movies]

What? No. Come on.

Though now you come to mention it. I see what you mean.

Who comprises what cliques?

There's the "Kayo-Bambina-Ice Maiden" clique

The "Lampard-Thomas Merton" Clique

The "Gentleman Sucmp and.......um....nobody else" clique.

ngong nit noi

Mods often 'ngong' with Bambina.

So Bambina must 'ao jai' them. Then they not 'ngong' anymore.

This boring old fart 'John Arnone from Yasothon' regularly writes drivel to the letters pages of the Bangkok Post.

I daresay that the clause I have put in bold in the last paragraph is quite possibly some frisson of unresolved homoerotic angst. A therapist would have a field day with the Freudian repression evident in this letter.

A spade's a spade, and correctness be damned

I have a few questions for Matthew Hunt (Postbag, Dec 14), regarding his views on homophobia. Matthew, why should newspapers "draw the line at printing homophobic ranting"? And why should we all "disregard Xavier's letter (Postbag, Dec 12) because he is a homophobic"?

Is the answer because it is politically incorrect to do so?

I remember watching the movie American Beauty Rose, which was obviously written by a homosexual, and marvelling that absolutely no one noticed that the only "stable" couple in the movie was the homosexual couple living next door to the married couple that was the central focus of the movie.

Homosexuals would surreptitiously or blatantly have us believe this, despite what we see happening in the Catholic church, despite what we read about paedophiles (the overwhelming majority of whom are homosexuals), and despite the ladyboys we see congregating on the streets either attempting to rob or harass people.

Although it is certainly wrong to suggest that it is acceptable to harass or attack homosexuals simply because they are homosexual, I see nothing wrong with feeling the need to avoid them.

No matter how the "politically correct" of the world may try to make me feel otherwise, the hairs on my neck still stand up when I see two men kissing, and I will always feel that it is deviant behaviour. I guess if that labels me as a "homophobic" and "politically incorrect", then so be it.

JOHN ARNONE

what ... did I say... I was probably too drunk on organic carrot juice to recall

Something saucy, perhaps nicer if you just pm him directly, ... 'kiss and make up' so to speak.

As you point out, organic carrots can be a potent brew !

Ayakiawe should be on the list if only by virtue of the trippy comment he made to fellow Thai visa member Trevor's girlfriend.

Thomas says he has left Thaivisa for good so he receives the award posthumously.

We luv Thomas Merton

How can you possibly include Brit Mavaric in a list of 'alternative thinkers', and leave out Butterfly and Gentleman Scump?

A precautionary alarm - to say there has been an event that may lead to a tsunami

"Yoinks Pornpitoparn. Did I hear the alarm?"

"No, fear not Father, for that was the preliminary precautionary alarm, I can tell by the higher pitch and intermittent bleeping. Resume your dinner and await the marginally lower tones of the Danger alar....YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

Cue extremely large wave hitting.

A suitable Thai solution would be to let the alarm run continuously 24-7, then if a tsunami does come, folk can't complain they weren't warned.

Next breach of the fault is likely to be north of the previous ones, in line with the pattern this year.

If it nails the Nicobar and Andaman island area - any wave would be on the mainland so fast that coast dwellers would all be screwed anyway.

Why not everyone chip in a couple of hundred baht? ((edit to remove reference to illegal activity

Oh Zzzzzz, another armchair Don Corleone, sipping his Singha and pretending to be a hard nut.

- who would probably wet his pantaloons if a soi dog barked too loud.

a “careless” American technician

No Thais to blame then. Phew!

"Dek liang kae" incidentally is the Thai idiom for 'Cry wolf'

urinating against goverment buildings....

What a neanderthal.

Embassy Salaries:

A non Executive level admin job was advertised in the Post 2 years ago. They were looking for a farang. It emerged that wages were about THB 25,000 - THB 30,000 per month.

Don't know what the Thais are paid there.

Kat : what does your quote about Japanese war crimes have to do with holes in a Bangkok shopping mall floor?