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Remember, when it reaches 22 degrees celcius here...out come the jackets!! Its more of a novelty/fashion statement I think. 

Hello all. I am getting pretty tired of the heat. I have lived here 14 years now....I KNOW its a hot country......but is it just me or did it get REAL hot again over the last month? Am I losing perspective? It seems we had a pretty mild May - Sept as far as temps go. Am I wrong? The last month has felt like hot season where I am in Pathumtani. They quote 32 degrees on the weather reports I check, but I think you can add at least 3 degrees to it.......

Excuse me sir....when will cool season arrive?

Thats a little ironic Hillary.......I wonder when she will actually just...go away????

Hello all,

I am a British citizen, married to a Thai national and we have a son together. I lived in Australia from the age of 12 - 26 untill I came to Thailand in 2001. I had perm residency status when I came then. The perm status visa expired but in 2009 we all applied for perm status for Aus, got it and we all went back for 3 years while I finished my studies......Fast forward to today and all of the perm res Aus visa's have expired and we want to go to Aus for a holiday during the Thai school break. 

Now, both my sons Thai/British passports have expired and so has mummies Thai passport. My British passport is ok. I am wondering what is the best course of action to take. For me getting the 'E' visa or whatever  its called seems pretty simple. I am wondering about my wife and son. If they both renew their Thai passports will it be much of an issue to get them tourist visas? Keep in mind that I would be going there as a British citizen...no advantage of perm residence. My wife is a teacher, she has a VERY stable job and its been this way for years. I assume she will need a letter from her employer. We will be staying at my parents house most of the time. I assume a supporting letter from them will help our cause. 

We have limited time to sort out passports. I may also be going alone ahead of my wife and son. I would prefer they both stick together and not have separate passports while going through all the immigration rigmarole at airport in Aus...May seem silly but I want my wife and son NOT to be separated at any point. 

The fact that we all HAD perm res status mean anything? Does it really expire? 

Any thoughts/advice would be greatly appreciated.

I can attest to the cold being a factor. Living in Bathurst NSW for a while, where it can get pretty cold at night, I would often be woken by pretty bad asthma attacks.....What a pain in the ass. Its not only kind of scary it also disrupts your sleep....

My parents want me to visit them next April. That's peak pollen/hayfever time. I am not overly enthusiastic, infact to be honest

I dont really want to go back there at all. 

There is definitely some link between sleep and drop in  temp/body temperature that set it off in me. I dont wish to return to that, ever.

I'd say Australia was much worse than England for my asthma and hayfever. Rates of asthma is Aus are some of the highest in the world. Its a strange place full of weird smelling plants that make me sneeze....dont think white men are supposed to be there.....

I had asthma quite severely  as a kid in England. Moved to Australia with my parents as a young teen.....had it quite severely still and was hospitalized once for it. Fast forward to 2001 when I came here.....symptoms drop to virtually nothing. The only time I seem to get it is with dodgy air conditioners. It has to be the dust/spores or whatever, not sure.

I am happy to live here because of that and many other reasons.....

By the way hay fever was also an issue in Aus and not here. 

8 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

Young guys looking for free, hot totty, old slappers looking for a handout and old, lonely guys looking for lub.

 

twas ever thus

I'd say that's 80% of it. However, I was able to meet a woman my age at the time (late thirties) that was childless, intelligent, spoke English well and wasnt a gold digger. I'd say that's the exception rather than the rule. 

A lot of single mothers on that site. I have met a few including one VERY nice  (no kids) woman that I still see to this day. Unfortunately the baggage of 2 -3 kids with an ex Thai partner puts most women on the blacklist.....as it should, if you value your wallet and sanity.

This is a topic that I think about a lot. We run 2 air conditioners at night, one in our room and one in our sons. The air is on most of the year. I have found that having it on a temp of 26/27 degrees WITH  a fan directly on my body is perfect. We set the temp the same in my sons room. Fans are cheap to run and having one directed on your body makes putting the air up to 26 or 27 degrees feel nice and cool. We also run 2 fridges. Our electricity bills rarely go over 1500 baht per month.....go figure! 

Ask a Thai person for directions. 

The worst person I ever met was called 'John Scramble' .He was a pick up truck driver from Argentina. His left eye got him in trouble. His right eye blamed everyone else for the Biafran baby situation that stole all our hearts in the 1970's. He couldn't spell 'tin opener' to save his life. It held him back in his later years as he tried to start a company that made...you guessed it. The paperwork became a nightmare, this is before the days of automatic spell checkers. I like playing checkers. 

Anyway. Why was he the worst fella I ever met? Well, before leaving his homeland of Argentina he artificially inseminated countless peasant women in their sleep. I am NOT talking about the pheasant pluckers son here either. This is an entirely different individual that, by the way smelt like blue vein cheese. The peasant women woke up one day (we are talking hundreds) to find that they were pregnant. It was a 'miracle' in many peoples eyes as most, if not all were virgins at the time of the insemination. Representative of the Catholic church were called in. Men in white robes inspected beavers for signs of 'immaculate conception' Most were found to be miracles. 

It was taken as a sign of the return of the 'holy ghost' That randy little fella that had his way all those years ago. Did it mean all the infants were to be given the same status as last time round? It was a real conundrum. The church wasnt sure whether to keep it all hush hush or to come clean with the story. In the end a devious plan was hatched, one so dastardly that it will be spoken of for years to come in whispers ,by kids raiding their mothers pantries. 

It was decided to 'remove' all infants from their mothers and to take them back to the Vatican city. Here they would be taken care of until such to as they could be released back into the world as 'the multiple sons and daughters of immaculate conception' They would carry on gods work in future with a divine lineage that reached right up to heaven. There would be no question of their authority. 

But what of the mothers you ask? 

Well, many were heartbroken. Some took their own lives. One works at the local Dairy Queen right up the road from me. It is a sad tale for sure. Is there any moral to the story? Please let me know. 

Please send your thoughts to the following address:

52 Fortesque Road 

Scunthorpe Hampton

Flakeport

2213

Palookaville.

A 'frang' is a 'farang' probably a non native speaker of English ,that doesnt know how to spell the word 'farang' properly. 

2 hours ago, ELVIS123456 said:

This is getting too much - nutella, dead cats, money machines, engineers and now escalators 

Yes, yes...back on topic. There are some bad farang and some bad Thai people...sometimes bad farang marry good Thais a treat em rough...sometimes it happens in reverse!...Does that cover it?

2 hours ago, billd766 said:

 

Can I borrow it for a few days, pretty please?

 

I promise that I will send it back after I have reverse engineered it. (including all the left over bits)

Reverse engineered!! Wow!! That's what the bloke that invented the escalator must have done when he realised he could make it go down as well as up!

15 minutes ago, trd said:

Well I'm right out of Nutella and my cat just gave me a funny look two four. You don't mind if I call you by your first name?

Nope

Just now, lemonjelly said:

At 200 baht a jar..... ?


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I found a money making machine inside the corpse of my grandmothers pet cat. 

I could also go on for ages about such generalisations but I wont. I am going to instead cover myself in Nutella leaving only holes for my eyes and mouth  and run down the street shouting " I'm the boogie woogie bugle boy from company B"

Problem is most villages in this country look like sh*t after  few years in spite of the 'maintenance' fee. They are just let go.....My village isnt that old and still ok but I can see its DEvolution in front of my eyes. 'Maintenance' .....mmmmm.

17 minutes ago, boomerangutang said:

              a bit off-topic, but when I went to buy rubber glue (called 'rubber cement' in US), the hardware guy said they sell out, because young boys buy the stuff.   It's doubtful the boys are doing so much repairing of shoes.  I should tell the Hardware store owner not to sell the stuff to kids, but he's Thai, and you know how Thais hate for farang to suggest they do things differently.

Yes....you're right, that is, pretty much totally off topic.....

I do know that in Borneo rubber farmers have replaced that crop with kratom as they get more for it. At the time of the doco I watched kratom was legal there. I am not sure about its status now, though it seems that a lot of the kratom that is sold, dried and powdered in the U.S is from Indonesia. IF Thailand legalised it someone...could make some pretty decent moola.....Surely they know this and that is why it is/ was being considered.

I havent heard anything. I think the whole thing died in the a*s....I wish they would decriminalise it though. Why do you ask? Heard some rumblings recently?