Blue Muton

Thanks for the link to a paywall.

Someone doesn’t understand the meaning of the word quarry or the word natural, perhaps neither of the two. Not that bad a thing I guess, unless you’re a journalist.

Clearly this is simply another ‘misunderstanding’.

It’s a sign of the times.

No, due to their complete disregard for laws and regulations of the road - or any other kind for that matter.

Lots of nonsense in this article as many have already observed. starting with the dangerously misleading statement that Thais are welcoming and friendly. Should have said ‘many’, or even ‘most’. Then goes on to scams ‘Bangkok's most famous scam is when a local lies to a tourist....’ doesn’t sound too friendly? Then the bit about ‘jai yen’ which was given the literal translation of ‘cool heart’, which is quite different from it’s real meaning in the context which was to keep a cool head. He then really ought to have warned of the potential consequences of getting loud and angry. Lots more missing and nonsensical as previous replies state.

“Once is bad enough but that’s the turd time this week” said Win the mocy taxi driver.

“The incident occurred in the middle of the night yesterday, April 7th, on Soi Marine Yen Sabai near Pattaya Walking Street.” I guess it wasn’t all that ‘yen’ or ‘sabai’ after all.

I have some very hard working and prudent in-laws. On the other hand I have some that this sums up, a S-i-l who started a shop but spent the the money that she got from sales rather than just the profit. This inevitably led to her ending up with nothing to sell. Her daughter and the daughter’s ‘tom’ then took on the shop and did exactly the same thing. A B-i-L is a farmer, whenever he sells a crop they go on a spending spree followed by not having money for things like seed, fertilizer or diesel for the tractors.

I have, I thought that it was ok but that the (Booker Prize winning) book was much more enjoyable.

Seems a complete waste of time all round if they’re just going into storage.

I thought he was dead.

About 40 years ago I was 20 and riding around on a Suzuki GT750 like a lunatic, wherever did you get the idea everyone was on a bicycle? I guess I was lucky I wasn’t born that ten years earlier!

Neither have I. Perhaps because I live in Suphanburi, drive or ride wherever I go and have never used them.

From the arrival it’s clear that she’s a 28 year old professional, not sure how you twist that into ‘These young dumdums....’

We brought all of our stuff over from England, no tax because I’m married to a Thai. That was about eight years ago and we’ve not had a single problem from anything resulting from moving it here so I don’t agree that you’d necessarily have any issues. The only thing I’ve done is changed plugs on everything, started with adapters but gradually changed them as we settled in.

I’ve followed it quite closely and although it’s a minor inconvenience to me (I now have to go downstairs to watchTrue rather than watch PSI in bed!), it’s clear that encryption is the one and only reason that it’s been removed from those platforms that are either unable or unwilling to encrypt to the standard required in the contract with FIFA. i hope everyone gets to enjoy it one way or another.

Not if you’re in denial.

Not really, it’s all about encryption and the ability of some broadcasters to prevent their signals from being accessible in other countries.

I was a product manager for Wolseley for many years. I remember when these pp systems first arrived in the UK, the first time I saw it there was a guy from a German outfit called Polymelt. The guy spent several minutes trying but failing to give us a presentation on how to make joints, it was completely embarrassing. We eventually conducted a trial with it but they lacked the resources to make it happen and we returned it. MLCP is the way to go, bu I’ve not seen it here.

You can’t glue polypropylene pipes - the green ones.

Not sure where you got your PhD in comparing apples and oranges, but congratulations.

If the British (and other) embassy here cared at all about the well-being of their citizens they would be calling the Thai government to account for this, with the message that tourists expect traffic to stop at marked crossings and that they must either be enforced or removed.

Anyone seen the new incarnation of Criminal Minds yet? First episode was a couple of days ago.

Ha! There’s a cop car near me that hasn’t had any plate at all for longer than that.