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Buying a flash car in thailand is a waste of money IMHO... if you want fun buy a couple of Rai and and few off road buggies

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I wish I could cut down on my air-conditioning costs, but I instantly burst into sweat every time I walk outside. This means I travel almost exclusively by taxi and I eat/shop only at expensive, air-conditioned places.

If you never expose yourself to the heat you will never aclimatise... you need to condition your body by exposure.

Turn your air con down gradually over a few months upping them temp 1 degree at a time and your body will adjust and you will feel it less.

Do the black ones glow under ultraviolet light?

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Lol

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i see there is a lot of expert pig farmers posting here, and i bet half of them have never seen a pig,

you can make money from pig farming,!

its all about getting the right contacts,

we buy our feed direct from a mill, saying on starter feed 200bht a bag down to finnishing feed we save 48bht a bag from the feed shop prices,

we buy our piglets in at 800 to 1200 bht a piglet depending on size,

it take us 4 months to grow them out to 100 kilo and at the moment its 55 bht a kilo farm gate price

its takes aprox 6 bags of feed per pig, so you can say 2700bht to rear,+ say 1200 per piglet= 3900

at 100 kilo we get 5500 per pig, sometimes more,

at the moment its at least 1600 bht profit,

and we sell between 20 and 40 pigs a month,

its 840 here and ive just finnished the cleaning and feeding,

we also have ducks for eggs and meat and chickens for the same,my wife sells eggs everyday, and we have just started selling a few fish as the pond behind the pig stys was just doing nothing, now every 3 month we put in and take out 1000 cat fish,

so please done comment unless you know what your talking about, thats the trouble with TV nowadays,

TO MANY EXPERTS WHO KNOW F££K ALL

Disagree. The girl & her family can make money from pig farming. Esp when the seed money is free. Yon clueless farang makes nothing. If they choose to give him anything beyond room, board, pocket money & a shared bed, consider it a gift. Beyond that, his ROI is zero.

disagree,

our farm is our home for us and our children,,i dont keep no family, my family is my wife and children, look at the pictures and posts i have posted in the past you will see our life,

i still work offshore, the pig farm is for when i retire,

yes im from farming stock in the uk my mum still has a farm, it was a natual thing for me to get into,

and as for a work permit as the cleaver poster stated,, its my wifes farm,,,

i really cant believe the attitude of some posters on here, they are allways ready to knock anyone who wants to try something,

there is good money in pigs,

just some of you cant get your ass out the bar to see what is on offer here in thailand, looking through your beer glasses you will never see thailand,

you will be sitting in the bar when your number gets called or when you run out of money,or the exchange rate get to bad you have to go home,

dont knock others for giving it a go,

some of us are very happy with our lifes here in thailand, just because we dont shout it from the roof tops,

Nice to see someone that it is working out ok for. I do think it helps having a farming background tho.

I've been toying with the idea of pigs and or fish, but I have zero background of business or farming so I'm sure it would just be an expensive hobby...

'One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter' - terrorists have an agenda or a cause and use terror as blackmail or leverage... what do they gain if they don't claim it?

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'Spoke in a foreign language, Not English' is meaningless really

Most people who learn English as a foreign language, but have never been to UK, learn from movies. In most movies English is with either an American accent or Cockney (london) accent.

A surprising number of people can't understand English if it is not spoken with American or London accent... I meet and work with a lot of people from different countries and they all have difficulty with my Manchester accent.

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Very US propaganda painted view of terroris...

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CNN said the bomber left on a motorcycle taxi, and while on the taxi spoke on his phone in a "foreign" language that was not English.

Well, Thailand, the English speaking hub of ASEAN. This taxi driver should know!

I can't speak French or German but I can distinguish between the two. Why do you think the taxi driver wouldn't be able to distinguish between English and another language he didn't recognise???

I recently took a motorcycle taxi at Siriaj and the driver spoke perfect English. He happened to have a degree in engineering and owned a company that was having issues so he's using his motorbike to make money, and he said he makes good money.

Let's not dismiss all the taxi drivers as stupid or uneducated because you never know.

On another thought...

I don't understand how the guy in the picture is supposed to be considered Asian? He doesn't look anything Asian to me, not even in they eyes.

Yes he could be a foreigner that is causing internal issues, it's been done before. Let's not forget that some countries out there have made it

business as usual to overthrow governments usually by starting some internal conflict. Stay open people, the closed and cynical usually miss the obvious.

Would it be unfair to suggest that you seem to categorize Asians as slant eyed, tanned skinned etc?

Let's suppose the man in this picture is an Israeli or Iranian. He is thus an Asian, but according to you, he doesn't "look"Asian.

bomber.jpg

Is there a particular design for an Asian that you have in mind?

lol, why would he be Iranian or Israeli?

CNN said the bomber left on a motorcycle taxi, and while on the taxi spoke on his phone in a "foreign" language that was not English.

Maybe he had a Geordie accent?

'Wai eye man, owwessit gannin'

Yeah, I had all that assurance from people here in saudi regarding my employment issue. And the law is clear and freely accessible. Not being able to speak Arabic meant that the reality of trying to exercise my rights was a lot different.

I've been told many things about how things are supposed to be done in Thailand, but then found that in reality things are often a little more fluid, they change or people don't really know and just do their own thing.

The only consistency is the lack of consistency.

If the small print doesn't get you then the language barrier will...

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And you have experience of that in reality?

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Slightly off topic but as a comparison. The Labor laws here in Saudi are very strict and very easy to put a complaint to the Labor Office for free and then if not resolved, to the Labor court, if you speak Arabic.

If you don't speak Arabic then it's a different story. Presenting a case to the Labor Office can be expensive in translations alone and they have no real powers. They can rule in your favour but the company can say no...

then it goes to court which is gonna cost minimum 250,000 Baht. Even with a solid case and a ruling in your favour the company can say no...

Then it goes to the high court at another minimum 250,000 baht cost... again with a ruling in your favour the company can say no...

Then it goes to the court of appeals.... another 250,000...

Company get ordered to pay you 250,000 baht but probably not the costs, and the lawyer take 10% cut, so you won at a cost of 525,000 baht... but even then if the company don't pay... it will cost even more...

At home you could use publicity to put pressure on them to help force them to do the right thing. In Thailand it's the same as Saudi with regards deformation. Publicity can get you in jail fast.

on paper and in theory you may have the right to appeal but in reality that is probably not worth a lot

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Company say they will pay for shipping... but even if they don't..

the tv is worth about 20,000 baht in saudi, but would cost 40,000 + baht to replace in Thailand. The coffee machine is worth maybe 10,000 baht in Saudi, but I saw the same machine for sale in Bangkok for 90,000 baht!

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I'm more interested in how you would fight an appeal?

If you had huge medical bill that the insurance company don't pay. How would you pay extortionate prices of Lawers to fight? You won't get legal aid

My wife took my name and even tho she can't pronounce it, she's very proud.

We had no choice really tho because she would never have got a visa for Saudi if her name was different...

I sometimes think it would be better in Thailand if she kept her maiden name... there's no avoiding farangs prices now.

As an example I'm gonna ship stuff in when we move and I've been told to send her alone to clear customs, but even if I don't go, my name is an obvious 'Cher ching!' To anyone wanting a few extra baht...

If you think about it, they are a lot like shrimp or tiny lobster

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Here's one from July last year. I got up for a pee and before I put my feet on the floor at the end of the bed, I checked the floor with a torch and found this beastie sat waiting for me...

Wife had to rescue me

Not so much... a few small kitchen appliances, kitchen wares, couple of PlayStations, PC monitor and printer, some clothes and bedding. Small bag of tools... Biggest item is 60 inch TV.

Finding a company here who ship to thailand is not easy and the one who will fly the stuff don't do to the door there.

There's a big political issues between saudi and thailand so businesses don't trade between the two

First question - has anyone here ever shipped their stuff to Thailand from Saudi and if so who did you use?

Next question - 1 moving/shipping company here have told me they will fly my stuff to Swampy airport and I will need to arrange collection from there... has anyone done this before? Where does the shipment sit for collection and how long can it sit waiting for collection?

Last question - how strict will they be on this 12 month rule, where the returning thai must live outside thailand longer than 12 months to qualify for tax free allowance of used houshold items?

The missus will have been here 11 and a half months when we leave... we've been back to thailand twice during that time so it's not so easy to see from the stamps in her passport.

I'd be interested to see what damage one of those scorpions can do with its claws on a wooden pencil...

Somebody try it please!

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Can they still sting when they are dead?

I remember getting stung on my hand by a dead wasp when I was a kid

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I've spent a total of about 12 weeks in Ubon over the past 2 years and in that short time had 3 very close encounters with these beasties heading for my feet! Each time I spotted them when they were a couple of inches away! Tail moving up! Sure I would got stung if I didn't move my feet. They seem attracted to my ankles!

I know they probably won't kill me but I really don't like the idea of anything injecting bodily fluids into me!

I remember seeing them being handled on telly. If you pick them up by just bellow the stinger you can put them on your hand or arm no problem, because they don't tend to sting things underneath them... but be careful not to get any of your parts in front of them.

The time you discover that you suffer from anaphylaxic shock could be too late

In many western countries, we have very diverse societies with many different nationallities and people move around a lot so we get exposed to different accents and different pronunciation. This makes it easy to understand what someone is trying to say even when they are not saying it correctly.

But it's not the same for us in Thailand, I notice that thai people can be very pedantic with regards to pronunciation and tone. If you get it slightly wrong, they don't understand what you are trying to say.

In UK, if somebody is foreign and trying to speak English we understand that English is not their first language and if they say something that doesn't make sense we assume that they are having difficulty saying what they mean. We don't assume that they are stupid.

In Thailand if you say something that is slightly wrong, they assume that you mean what you say and are just stupid.

You can't learn to speak thai from books alone. Trying to can give you bad pronunciation that is difficult to correct after time.

You need feedback from a thai to help you get it right from the start.

If it bothers me (or any other TV member) is not at all relevant. It's your child.

The name is written in Thai พร which is basically PON, and pronounced as such since the vowel "o" is a short one (not like the โ which is a long "O" that sounds like O-O), you don't hear the R. In written Thai, some consonants change their sounding when they are the final consonant - R sounds like N, not RN. The name Siriporn (mentioned in one of the other comments) is pronounced SIRiPON (or Silipon if you insist on wrong pronunciation), but never SIRIPORN.

More over, while พร is a common ending to Thai names, it is usually a nickname and not an official name, thus not written in the ID card nor passport

How it is written in thai is irrelevant when a girl introduces herself verbally to a westerner who knows zero thai

Differing pronunciation is common in all societies

My wife's real given name is Yupaporn

She has a friend called Porn

Another called Kittyaporn (yes real name)

all from different parts of Isaan and all pronounce as porn not pon.

My lawyer Siriporn is a well educated middle class girl who speaks perfect English. She also pronounced it porn not pon.

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