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I can only managed to recall the bilingual ones... 

On a visit to an in laws house in Isaan, they all went out to celebrate, once they arrived at the restaurant the son in law from Bangkok got out of the car as the father in law back the vigo into the car parking space... 'are we there yet?' the father in law asks... "บ่อ" yelled the son in law... repeats a few more time and after frenetic and repeated cry of บ่อๆๆๆ by the son in law, the family vigo is now in pond

Which teacher is the poorest in the school?

Mrs. วันเพ็ญ

How long does the typical inmates stay in Soi 9? I understand it's only a holding cells for the station right? couple of days? weeks? or are there many who couldn't post bail and has to stay there until proper sentencing to get sent to actual prison on the dark side? 

There's already a decent park up on the mountain

The section in front of Foodland and Harbor mall was dug up since Tuesday, some conduits were laid in and covered up with concrete and is all finished with no trace of it ever happened since this afternoon.

Looks like they'll pull the cable through later.

If they managed to keep going in small section like this, maybe it'd be finished on time with minimum disruptions

There's a rear entrance to areca lodge that is on the street behind the avenue shopping mall that's quite away from the 'red lights' 

I've seen fencing business that buys up whole aircraft to melt down and make aluminium fencing in their yard quite often

This has nothing to do with utility and telephone wires, the mess of cables on the side of the streets will remain for now, this dig is only for high powered transmission to the PEA facility only, if they were to properly put everything underground, there will be a lot more mess with god knows how many providers of cable TVs and internet these days hanging on the poles

I don't see any any significant environmental value left of the 'beach' underneath the illegal side of walking street

by all means raze them all down and build them up like a pier into the sea, like many pleasure pier in the UK  with casinos and all with proper sanitation and maybe sewer plant/pump underneath it all and bid them out to the highest bidders, maybe have the existing owners have first refusal to buy even. 

I believe the navy puts marker along the high water marks on the beach, does that means they technically own everything down there? 

Maybe it's an all inclusive thing with their tour package and the parent already 'paid' to go but didn't want to themselves so off she goes to get their money's worth

4 hours ago, Jip99 said:

 

I can never understand why people confuse accuracy with nit-picking.

 

It is not nit-picking to correct LO to LTO......... as the poster said, correction saves misunderstanding.

 I'm sure no one would turn up at the land office (where you go and transfer land and houses) to get a driving licence.

While in Thai the letters ฑ ฏ ฐ and such are no longer distinguished from the ด ท ถ I believe it used to sounds like arabic, with a nasal component or like for the d, pronounce it like you have a lisp

6 hours ago, MaxLee said:

My take on it is: Sleepless for 10 days plus due to operator contractor human rights abuse... it affects the entire human nervous system including your heart if you are forced to work 10 days plus without proper sleep for the sake of the corrupt transportation industry...

I've never seen any van operators on the Pattaya route that has service at night, even the Ekamai bus runs later and earlier than the vans. If Somchai driver decides to stay up drinking Lao Khao with his friends at night, that's his problem

online and mail order medicine is actually illegal in Thailand, but if you have been to their store and they're providing a service by 'refilling' a prescription to a known client that has been diagnosed is okay, just calling them up and asking for certain medicine to be sent over is illegal as far as the law is concerned.

How much of these law is policed? the penalty is on the pharmacy not you so if it's convenient and cheap, I don't see why not.

A better source of shops that would 'refill' your prescription by mail is opposite Siriraj hospital in Bangkok, there are rows of them selling wholesale price

I wonder what happened to the mermaids? that was on the bottom of Pattaya Klang on the beach promenade, it used to be such a symbol of the city that they built stage around it for the music festival and that got televised nationwide. Since the walkway re-do it's gone

12 hours ago, kwak250 said:

My car locks when I walk away but unlocks when I touch the door handle so I could be there for hours checking .

FYI in these new types of locks you can pull on the rear door if you have any to 'check' if the car has locked itself, there are usually no sensors to unlock the car in the rear doors

There used to be an old song that sings ทุ่งหญ้าบาร์เล่ย ทุง ยา บา เล https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaFnYwyrDlc which is supposed to be mock Burmese but turns into transliteration of 'fields of barley'

If you've taken a Thai to get their passport from any of the passport office, you'd see a well run service-oriented government bureau, that of course belongs to the ministry of foreign affairs. They don't even ask for endless tripliate photocopies of things like house books and ID cards, minimum of red tape and time, a properly well run by people that must have been abroad and seen how things are supposed to be run.

Immigration on the other hand is a department of the police... 

In my part of Pattaya normally in summer or draught where there's shortage and interuptions are the norm, the water truck guys gets more business than they can handle and would only deliver to regular customers only as they can't fit in any new customers. This year we haven't had any big interruption and only had to call the water truck a couple of times only. 

Makro south Pattaya has them in various styles 

At Bearing BTS station there's a park and ride facility for 80 baht a day, this is on Sukhumvit, if you come from Pattaya turn left into Sukhumvit instead of right into OnNut, make a U turn under the station and the car park lot is just under the station on the other side,

Further down the BTS line at Samrong there's even cheaper car park for 50 baht a day but is a bit further away from the station requiring a bit of a walk, and traffic there is almost as bad as driving into Bangkok proper

as of August 2017, I can confirm that there are still Aeon ATM in Big C Extra on Klang, and another, lesser known one in front of Maxvalue Supermarket(Owned by Aeon) in Harbor on Klang up the road next to Foodland

The ones in Tesco North and South are in the Aeon 'shop' isn't it?

Mega Bangna/Ikea has wised up to the fact that people are using their facility as a park and ride to commute into inner city Bangkok and now has instituted a parking charge, the first 8 hours is free, which is still quite generous and workable, if you 'overstayed' the 8 hours, the parking can be validated for free until 3AM with a purchase of 800.- Baht, otherwise it's 500 Baht charge for the day's parking, overnight stay (beyond 3AM cutoff) is 1,000 baht a day to stop people leaving their car there and going to the Airport i guess

If the trader hadn't encroach on the sidewalk with their wares, there's clearly plenty of room for people to walk around the hole

Wonder how most of the 'residences' hotels in Pattaya operate? do they have separate juristic person between the hotel part and the condo part? in case where there are separate building that is probably clear cut, but many operate within same building with shared facilities, the hotel operator would hold a decent chunk of the votes in the juristic person meetings