NeoDinosaw

11 hours ago, Cadbury said:

The excuse of brake failure is probably correct. Wouldn't surprise if they throw the gears into neutral at the top of the hill thinking they will save a bit of fuel on then downhill run and then ride the brakes so hard until they completely fade. Bingo! Brake failure.

Brain failure would be a more apt description of the cause of the accident. 

I have lived through this scenario  - luckily there was an emergency escape lane of soft sand for the bus to rest in while the brakes cooled down. 

3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

All this could change almost straight away if the government required all passenger vans to have speed limiters installed within 3 months.

In Europe the maximum speed for minivans used to be 80 kph when I drove students in them many years ago. That seems a very sensible limit.  The vans did not have speed limiters, but all were fitted with tacometers.  Is it still the same ?

10 hours ago, Valentine said:

I have had dormant (not been used for a long time) accounts in the past but the bank always sends out notification that the account will be closed & even then still allows plenty of time to act.

I had 100 Baht in my SCB savings account in 1976.  I thought it would now have increased considerably with the accrued interest.  But when I presented my Savings book to a branch of SCB to get  it up-dated in 2009, the girl serving me just laughed and said the account was closed !   But I never closed it !!   Pure and simple robbery.

19 hours ago, wolfmuc said:

 

BTW, why doesn't Nigeria plant it's own rice?

Any idea?

Planting, growing and harvesting rice demands a lot of hard work.  Do you understand now ?

On 10/2/2017 at 12:04 PM, thaikahuna said:

I'm 65, married to my wife for 5 years and been together for 8 years. I am also a PTSD patient, so a good nights sleep is almost unheard of for me. My problem is getting up 2-3 times a night to go pee. Getting older is not easy and adapting to the rapidly changing environment we live in makes things that much harder. I think growing old, becoming less healthy and dying (possibly alone) in a foreign country is a concern for many. Evaluate your situation, rely on the advice and counsel of some trusted friends and do what is best for you.

Have you been checked for prostate cancer.  Getting up to pee often during the night is a symptom

The reason why things will never change is simple :  Thai people know that they are not responsible for their actions because all that happens in their lives is pre-determined. Driving carefully (to their mind) will not prevent any accident, because the accident is predetermined.

4 hours ago, canopus1969 said:

If I were that low down on the tables I would keep quiet and hide !

308 out of  27,770  seems pretty high rank to me.

Where are you from ?  what is the ranking of your local university ?

7 hours ago, JHolmesJr said:

"Floored by a left hook".....that landed on his left jaw?

 

Interesting.

Jaws come in upper and lower versions, not left and right

now you make me confused ....

The Natural History Museum (NHM) address is Cromwell Road. It occupies a large area at the corner of Cromwell Road and Exhibition Road. On the other side of Exhibition Road is the side of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). The photos are taken from the NHM side of Exhibition Road showing the accident to be beside the V&A.

18 minutes ago, SoulWater said:

I bet James Bond is quaking in his boots!

James Bond will be assigned to protect her.  Mrs May will welcome her with open arms in private.  We love the way she spends so much money......

Maybe the pound will recover now  

5 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

The typical usual, unanswered, unanswerable questions in these kinds of cases:

 

--If the housing development was located on protected forestry land, how did it get built in the first place without the forestry authorities stepping in to stop it?

 

--To do any kind of housing sale transaction, presumably the deeds and documents would have to have gone thru the local Land Department. Why would the land department approve housing project sales on protected forestry land?  They don't have maps that show them what areas are what?

 

They have very good maps. But I have yet to meet a Thai official who can read a map !

5 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

The typical usual, unanswered, unanswerable questions in these kinds of cases:

 

--If the housing development was located on protected forestry land, how did it get built in the first place without the forestry authorities stepping in to stop it?

 

--To do any kind of housing sale transaction, presumably the deeds and documents would have to have gone thru the local Land Department. Why would the land department approve housing project sales on protected forestry land?  They don't have maps that show them what areas are what?

 

maybe the authorities just sit in their air-conditioned offices all day and never visit the forest  ....

5 hours ago, Totster said:

A fool and his money are soon parted.

 

It is the buyers responsibility to carry out due diligence.

 

totster :)

Maybe they did carry out due diligence.  Maybe they got a Thai lawyer to check the paperwork as confirm that all was well .........

7 hours ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

I don't believe it's only 64 hours.

 

Maybe 640 hours

That is  more likely to be a monthly  or weekly figure

14 hours ago, inThailand said:

Once the details of Brexit are known and if the pound does not recover, won't a second referendum show all this was a big waste of time and money?

yes.  It will show that the British voters should never believe what the buffoon Boris tells us.

Should a 25 year old elephant not have ivory tusks  ?

2 hours ago, Artisi said:

Farang food, maybe ?

French cuisine

On 9/17/2017 at 9:00 AM, Rc2702 said:

Ok thanks for the correction, My point is cabbies regardless of black cab or even private hire. Working full time they  should be earning over the threshold requirement. The uk average wage is nearly 18k for a taxi driver. If he's in London it is far more than the average surely. Perhaps creative accounting has it's downside.

Sounds like our hero is a bit of a plonker. He should have got Del Boy to sort it. 

3 hours ago, Rc2702 said:

I don't get it. London cabbie does not meet minimum requirement of £18600?

Maybe London cabbies do not declare all their earnings to the authorities (i.e. tax man).  I knew one London cabbie who paid his daughters private school fees in cash !

On 9/14/2017 at 1:02 PM, observer90210 said:

Excellent!!....looking forward to visit and to read comments of the lucky one's feedbacks!!

Named “Naoh,” a spoonerism of Noah’s Ark, 

Pity the writer does not know what a spoonerism is   

12 hours ago, KamnanT said:

Key phrases from lesson #1:

 

"The envelope should be brown and contain 8% of the contract value in cash."

"My Panamanian bank account number is...."

"The tickets should be in first class and for my wife, my parents, her parents, our children and their families."

only 8%  ?   I thought the going rate was 10%, same same Nigeria

16 hours ago, Thailand said:

If it reaches the quality of the English subject line they will still have an uphill struggle.

You forget that many 'Thai' people are of recent Cchinese descent. Not so long ago they changed their names from Chinese to Thai, and in the 70s those who were civil servants refrained from reading Chinese language newspapers in the office to show how 'Thai' they were. Many of the rich entrepruners  have  Chinese ancestors 

43 minutes ago, phuketrichard said:

amazing that the word has to sit by and watch a group of people slaughtered and forced to leave their land, because the goverment claims its a "internal "problem

 

 

This situation is similar to what happened about 200 years ago.  The Burmese army fought the indigenous muslims who were rebelling after the conquest of their territory by the Burmese at the end of the 18th century..

Bangladesh was then a British colony called Bengal, and part of the Indian Empire.  Whilst it was perfectly allowable for a government to commit atrocities against its people (a right enshrined in the UN Charter I think), It was not permitted for the troops of one country to enter another country.  The Burmese army made the mistake of entering Bengal to go after the 'rebels',  and this was one of the reasons for the First Burma War and the ensuing loss of Arakan and Tenasserim in 1825.   

2 hours ago, alven said:

Saving endangered species is no issue when they can eat it, or make some money. Or both.

There is no indication that the holothurians are  endangered;  I think it more likely that the Vietamese boat was arrest because it was fishing in Thai waters

5 hours ago, BwindiBoy said:

She called him and he didn't pick up. Ergo, he wasn't on his phone.

Who is Ergo ? and why wasn't he on his phone ?