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Cheers.... lets move on from this.... off to the next joke !

Quote :-Any more of what, unadulterated cr@p? I'd expect a 5th-grader to post this type of stuff, since none of it is true. ( and a few other references to kids ).

I agree lets not get nasty, but backflip needs to understand a few things ( since he is so educated )

1. Not all people on this web site grew up in English speaking countries.

2. If my post was not correct - fine - always willing to learn new things. A polite reference to the correct source of such expressions would be appreciated. No need for comments derived from the the gutter.

3. I am familiar with people who try to humiliate others - trying to up themselves on the backs of others.

Since none of it is true, for the phrases posted, I would be interested to see what is "true" and what the references are to support this truth. Always willing to learn from such estemed and knowledgable persons.

Guess backflip after passing the 6th grade feels far superiour based on the raw sewerage coming out of his mouth.

Get a life.

i have 2 friends with MAC's which have no problem I have a wireless router at home (D-Link) , and I guess anything would work so long as its Wi-Fi compatible.

Smarter than the Tax man ?

Well, they are pretty smart too. I think the max. time they have to call you in to discuss errors is about 5 years, so you tax statments dont get looked at for the first 4. Then, they pounce using the fine over the last few years to try to secure a hefty kick back. I work for a big local company, and started getting annonymous calls from the "tax office", but they refused to leave contact details, just saying I should meet them, it was very shady, and you did not have to be a genius to figure out what was going on. I told my secretary never to transfer such shady cals to me. Just ignored them, until they started tring more tricks in the book. Refused to speak to them in person, and sent an authorized person ( with an accounting back ground ).

Make a long story short, they threatened to block my traveling, issues a formal letter asking me to clarify it, and then I got my company to sort it out. Conclusion was the company mis-printed the offical tax forms making it look like i received more income that year. They tried to fine me 600,000 baht , and through the back door it was said it could be made to dissapear for 200,000. Glad i refused to play the game.

End results

1. I was cleared, and a formal letter clearing me. No fine

2. ( as per this thread) - If you do intend to flout the law, my assessment is there will be someone there lurking in the dark waiting for enough water to go under the bridge before they make their move.

Believe me, you dont want that pressure, so keep it legal.

>Here are some facts about the 1500s:

>Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath

>in May

>and still smelled pretty good by June ( hence June bride). However, they were starting

>to

>smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body

>odour.

>Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the

>house

>had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons

>and men,

>then the women and finally the children-last of all the babies. By

>then the

>water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it-hence the

>saying,

>"Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."

>

>Houses had thatched roofs - thick straw - piled high, with no wood

>underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all

>the dogs,

>cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it

>rained

>it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off

>the

>roof - hence the saying -

>"It's raining cats and dogs."

>

>There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This

>posed a

>real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could

>really

>mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet

>hung

>over the top afforded some protection.

>That's how canopy beds came into existence.

>

>The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt,

>hence

>the saying "dirt poor."

>The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter

>when

>wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their

>footing.

>As the winter wore on, they kept adding more thresh until when you

>opened

>the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was

>placed in

>the entranceway - hence, a "thresh hold."

>

>In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that

>always

>hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to

>the

>pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They

>would eat

>the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold

>overnight and

>then start over the next day.

>Sometimes the stew had food in it that had been there for quite a

>while -

>hence the rhyme, "peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas

>porridge in

>the pot nine days old."

>

>Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite

>special. When

>visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off.

>It was a sign of wealth that a man "could bring home the bacon."

>They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit

>around

>and "chew the fat."

>

>Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with a high acid

>content

>caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead

>poisoning and

>death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400

>years or

>so, tomatoes were considered poisonous. Most people did not have

>pewter

>plates, but had trenchers, a piece of wood with the middle scooped

>out like

>a bowl.

>Often trenchers were made from stale bread, which was so old and

>hard that

>they could be used for quite some time. Trenchers were never washed

>and a

>lot of times worms and mold got into the wood and old bread.

>After eating off wormy, mouldy trenchers, one would get "trench

>mouth."

>Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom

>of the

>loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper

>crust."

>

>Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey.

>The combination would sometimes knock them out for a couple of days.

>Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare

>them

>for burial.

>They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the

>family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see

>if they would wake up -hence the custom of holding a "wake."

>England is old and small and the local folks started running

>out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and

>would take the bones to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave.

>

>When re-opening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to

>have

>scratch marks on the inside and they realised they had been burying

>people

>alive.

>So they thought they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse,

>lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a

>bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night

>(the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could

>be

>"saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer".

I would like this to be a place to post more if you have some too.

107 KG now ( kidding....). Can anyone lend a hand

A Peace Corps worker is in a very remote African village for a few years. After a while there, the daughter of the village head bears an albino child, and the head takes the peace corp worker to task about it. The village head acuses the peace corp worker of duffing up his daughter, and is ready to kill the worker. In desperation, the worker tries to explain to the head that kids with blond hair and white skin can be born to African tribes men, its a twist of nature.

Finally the worker take the village head to the flock of sheep attended by the villagers, and points in the distance and says " see, that sheep over there is black, the only black on in 1000 sheep, it can happen in nature" ..... hte village head answers witha worried look " You not tell, I no tell "

Ever since I moved to my apartment in Thonglor, I have not been able to swim cause the pool in my condo is about ... well, i could jump from one side to the other.

Net Result : gone from about 96 to 106kg........ ( 6ft 2 )

not happy....does any one know of a decent pool in thonglor area ( suk. 55 or even up or down 30 sois from here )

thanks

My Grandma used to go to the church in europe every Sunday..... after the 2nd world war, the priest would drop by an dictate to families that it was time to have another kid, and if you missed the sunday sermon even once, you were cut of from any support.

She had very bitter memories, and said " when the church gets the leverage over you, they will use it".

She prayed at home after that, and never attended after that.

CAT is being side lined slowly...... the future looks bright ( refer to NTC rulings of late). Possibly we might look forward to more stable connections and cheaper o/s calls once competition comes in

well.... seems the guy is "bad". Simple question some have already posted ..... we know its "tradition" to get a bun in hte oven with or without the approval of the baker..... kinda black mail to keep the baker around ? Not the first time I have seen in.

12 kb - its either an exaggeration or you need to contact some techie there. I am using 512k, and it works fine, except when of course our friendly CAT stuffs up..... but thats a story for another day

Agreed with Jujureno. I knew him vaguely and knew of him, and every one said he was generally a nice guy. Yes. he made a horrendous mistake, if you are not happy for what ever reason - divorce is the way out, even if it cost money - murder is the incredibly dumb way out. But lets face the facts, we all at one time in our lives have been on the verge of spitting the dummy for what ever reason, fortunately for most of us our brain over rides our emotions / anger. For Stewart, it was obvioulsy not the case.

I feel for both of them, she suffered a terrible fate no one deserves, and Stewart has traded his life as he knew it for a virtual hel_l. Lets face it, Thai prisons are probably almost as bad as hel_l itself.

For those who just came out of the gutter to and spurt verbal dioreaha about their age difference, or what ever...... maybe its time to get a life.

Remember, Stewart was a regular guy like any of us..... who knows what you are capable, especially if your from the gutter.

Well, depends how high up the ladder you go. Generally the have nots who want to present them selves as haves, exaggerate as much as they can - like a christmas tree ............... the haves generally wear very little in terms of yellow gold, and at times, very little jewelry. Titanium and Platinum seem to be the mode.

Question:-

Can any one direct me to some info as to what rights are bestowed on a PR "awardee".

Of course, not having to go for a visa is great, there does not seem to be much more. Some of the things I have seen are:

- You can buy a condo with out importing cash ( well, you can do that anyway, see my other post)

- You can be a Director of a company ( well you can be one anyway, dont need a PR for that ).

- Can have house register (tabien baan ) ( got that now ).

I have scanned the net, and could not find much more than that.

For the Record............ you dont need to import money to buy a condo here. Its a myth, that even some of the burocracy believes. If you can demonstrate that you have legally earned the money in Thailand, and also paid the taxes due, you can buy it from your cash here.

Warning though, you will be up against all kinds of nit wits local and foreign who will tell u other wise.

For the record, I am a happy owner of a condo in Thonglor for a year now ( from local earnings ) .... the proof is in the pudding.

Going for my PR now as well........