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Thai authorities are very strict when it comes to drugs. One of the strictest in the world. They want to convey the message of a 0% tolerance to drugs in the kingdom.

You surely couldn't pay your way out of being caught with drugs, right?

Wrong!!

Don't worry all Viagra users. Thai plastic surgeons are already gearing up for penile implants. With this handy device, you can "pump" up your member for an all night marathon. You can now get this type of surgery done at all respectable hospitals as well as those shadier back Soi clinics. So enjoy!

"A penile implant includes a hollow elastomeric internal cylinder that is coaxial with an external cylinder both of which are rounded at the distal end and suitably secured to one another at this location. The space between the cylinders is designed to receive fluid through a laterally extending port for pressurizing the implant to achieve the erectile state. A root section is adapted to be fastened to the proximal end of the outer cylinder."

Far too technichal for me but i want one!!

I got mine this week, gave them a years bank statements taken fron the internet and they noticed they did not have my name on them, as i live in Sattahip i asked if i could bring them my ATM for that bank as proof the next day when i was due to pick up the letter and they said ok. Bear this in mind.

When i went to immigration to get my visa extention in never offered the statments and was never asked for them.

He did look Nigerian

He must have spent a lot the time on Greve de Lecq to look Nigerian!

or St Aubins bay maybe.

Didn't Neil Young ask the same question once upon a time?

Just what i was thinking.

Thanks for your assistance guys.

I will be in Pattaya this week end looking for a new cooker (Not the hob type) i would like one with Gas rings and an electric (fan preffered) oven. I have seen one in homepro any one seen them any where else?

I have an Electrolux fan oven from HomePro which sits in a cabinet I built in my little workshop. I use it to bake bread a couple of times a week and several cakes a day. It cost around 20k baht if I remember correctly, it's a few years old but works very well, holds the correct temperature and has nice even heating.

A lot of good info on bread making on these posts. I will be investing in a new cooker shortly. Think i will go for gas ring with electric oven. Then i will be giving the bread making malarky a go.

Where is Paradise Park ?

I suspect the OP hasn't been in any 'quiet' Thai village that these people are supposed to come from.

In the village it starts anything up to an hour before dawn with the roosters. This is before the village tannoy kicks in with either regal, martial or Thai "golden oldies" interspersed with local community announcements before the national anthem. Meanwhile, the motorbikes fill the early morning silence as people go to work but apart from the yakking of soi dogs and the occasional Kubota truck thrashing it's way through the village, you may be able to hear other people's cellphones ringing; the default Nokia one is still tops out here btw. The boonies are also blessed with the slow-moving advertising pickup blaring music and invitations to whatever all the noise is about. Generally after lunch, it can be quieter but the caretaker of the property behind ours toddles in on his tuk-tuk full of fighting chooks with the blown-out exhaust around 2pm. He opens all the doors and windows to let the place air and fires up a radio somewhere inside, tuned to some local FM crap and turns the volume all the way up while he washes his chooks in the back yard... and sings along with his favourites! There's maybe 3 or 4 ice cream peddlers during the afternoon along with pickups with tannoys selling brooms, or fruit, or haberdashery to mystery meat. By 4.30, the motorcycle rush kicks in again and then it's all the gabbing over dinner, with regular cellphone rings and the evening community announcements and music on the tannoy. The dogs manage to croon away the late evening through to midnight but a weekends they can't be heard over the local karaoke club or the twice monthly tambon-related piss-up with the big, BIG speakers, stage, lights, singers and dancers.

Rant over.

You paint a lovely picture. Out here in downtown Sattahip the silence is deafening. Except that is every year for a month prior to Son Cran the near by wat blasts us with a long medley (twice each time) for 20 mins at 6am sharp, 12 noon then again at six in the evening. Drive's me up the bloody wall for a month. Some days i prefer not to be woken at 6 in the morning! It's not even religious music. This year i am seriously thinking of installing a large PA system on my balcony at the back of the house then each time they crank it up i will blast them back with a doze of Deap Purple or somthing of that mode. Noise wars!!

Ah!! feel better already.

I have rented my house out for the last 7 years. Here is my advice. Get a good agent even if they cost a bit extra, you will sleep better here. Letting is normally a min 6 months otherwise setting up costs eat into your profit too much. You can specify if you will alow pets, smokers etc. Put a few bit's of furniture in then you can rent it out as furnished, that way you can claim 10% ware and tare against your profit for tax purposes. Remember every day the house is empty between lets you will be liable for council tax.

Do not consider letting out via the council or "social security let's". You agent will vet your potential tenants and should ask them for ref's maybe contact their empolyer etc. Good luck.

Six months have past; does anyone have an update regarding the availability of HP Brown Sauce in plastic bottles ,for sale in Pattaya?

Currently I have upgraded to the 850g bottle (I think this is the biggest) by DHL delivery.

Thanks.

Syd, I was going to say "you really should get out more" but won't as i like your "name" by the way whitch one's pink?

Next time you guys talk to Bangkok Airways ask them what a Boutique Airline is

Unfortunately I have to agree with you. I am also a Premier holder and just last week needed help with a seating position only to be ignored and told to go to the airport (bit late then !)

BKK Air will soon lose me as a loyal customer unless they start to offer the service they once did.

Unfortunately I have to agree with you. I am also a Premier holder and just last week needed help with a seating position only to be ignored and told to go to the airport (bit late then !)

BKK Air will soon lose me as a loyal customer unless they start to offer the service they once did.

Facey,

Why don't you look for somewhere outside of Pattaya, then you still have it when you need it.

I suggest Ban Chan or Sattahip. Good environment, sea air, not too much traffic, good beaches, plenty of small quiet roads for your cycling, cheaper rents. Ban Chan has the "Strip" (expat bars and restaurants). Whats not to like.

Come over and have a look (free.)

Firstly what is a "Boutique Hotel" as opposed to a Hotel?

I'm no navy man but with the Gulf of Thailand max depth 200ft i would think a sub would be an easy target.

Maybe they want them to be a museum the same as the aircraft carrier they have in Sattahip with kids climbing all over it. What a waste of money that was.

Welcome to the real world Thailand. You'll just have to learn to compete internationally. That means creating an effective education system so that people have appropriate marketable skills. And the chances of that happening are? I have told my Thai family that the greatest gift that I can give them is to educate the kids. I am not at all sure that they, like successive Thai Governments, have taken that onboard.

I couldn't agree more. If Thailand ever wants to be a member of the global economy as more than a tourist spot, they have to accept that they need to do more than just rely on tourism and protectionist ideals. This project will expose Thai businesses to the international environment, and what the rest of the world is doing. Instead of just bringing in other people's money, now they actually will have foreign producers instead of Thai owned factories that export and a real opportunity if they handle it correctly. I see no problem with this. They don't have to take the cheap Chinese products if they don't want them, but since they already come in through other various channels, that argument seems absurd. Plus, are Thai products expensive and great quality? Nope, those are the products that are imported!!!

I have said the same to my Thai family as well, and I'm luckily my gf understands as she has seen the benefits of education, but the rest of her family could care less. When you're never shown that education really does open doors, it's not valued. I guess some of the locals could put aside the fear mongering and corruption and move into the 21st century and show the Thai population that can't afford an international education that it's still worth while to better yourself. But then they would lose what small power they have, and we can't have that can we??

Makes one understand why one high ranking deputy "doesn't respect foreigners".

The Thai's will not re-export the Chinese goods the Chinese will be doing it from here! It will all come in on the new Chinese funded railway coming from China via Laos.

"Say Mr Thailand how would you like us to build a new railway from China to Thailand and we will pay for it" yes please. No such thing as a free lunch -- Brilliant just brilliant.

Aye Super Cooper, how fiti used to be played.

Do you have a budget ????

By that , I mean are you looking for the med - high end or Budget pricing ??

I like the Duxton & Hilton Personally , but my clients are usually footing the bill.

Approx 150US$ budget wise.

I suggest you go to Booking .com & we just used them again & they got me a Discounted price at a 4 star up the Coast in WA.

I checked & they can get rooms at the Perth Parmelia Hilton for around $130.00 a night ..Very Cheap.

Good Luck

Thanks to all replies, will try Booking.com

Do you have a budget ????

By that , I mean are you looking for the med - high end or Budget pricing ??

I like the Duxton & Hilton Personally , but my clients are usually footing the bill.

Approx 150US$ budget wise.

Off to Perth WA next month on business for a week. Any suggestions for a central hotel?

They're looking to sell all their stores in Thailand and in the region, asking between USD 800 mill and USD 1 bill., industry watchers reckon that Tesco may buy them but not at that price.

Big C have bought all their Thai stores. Carrefour also had all their outlets in Malaysia + two in Singapore up for sale but have now taken them off the market.

Hey Cardholder how do you get a discount code?