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THANKS!  LOOKS LIKE TRANSFERWISE IS A GOOD DEAL...

Could someone please explain the difference between buying and selling rates, as in:

You guys are such spoilsports!  The elephants all had big smiles on their faces!

5 hours ago, mikebell said:

Meanwhile Bang Saray's Seafood restaurants continue to serve locally caught/dredged produce.

Specializing in squid--"plaa muk" (ink-fish)?

Why is nobody wondering about hanging himself with his arms handcuffed behind his back? Isn't that suspicious? 

How about recycling? Return them to Rimping, Tesco, etc like in the States. Nothing easier to recycle if you have the opportunity.

Just checked, and sad to say there were over 40,000 traffic fatalities reported in the US last year. But that was full reporting, not done with smoke and mirrors. So twice as many traffic fatalities as Thailand, but with 4-5 times the population. Maybe because police actually get out on the road and enforce laws. And in high density states like New Jersey, U-turns all done at cloverleaf intersections with traffic lights. The U-turn you have to take to get out of my tambon in San Phiseux is absolutely deadly--from a fast lane to fast lane on a blind turn, often blocked further with cars and SUVs sporting tinted windows...and the damned motorbikes that pull up next to me on both sides, seemingly wanting to die...  A quick fix--every U-turn should be at a red light or controlled intersection...

5 hours ago, uffe123 said:

Problem is what goes up comes down, and maybe on someones head. Dangerous practice

Was a big problem in LA twenty years ago on New Years Eve. People were getting killed and hurt until a billboard campaign--what comes up must come down--started waking people up!  A band mate of mine got hit by a ricochet just sitting in a coffee shop. Luckily he was wearing a leather jacket...

On 10/15/2017 at 1:53 PM, Ossy said:

Uh?

As in they will be flood-proof...

4 hours ago, ksamuiguy said:

Looking for husbands!

 

Shortage of men in China, one child policy was a disaster.

 

 

actually a shortage of women because many girls were placed in orphanages and adopted overseas, which a good friend of mine did twice. raised two great daughters in north carolina. belongs to an association of other adopting parents.

2 hours ago, crazykopite said:

BEWARE there will be a lot of vehicles up for sale in the Bangkok area with owners claiming “ free from any water damage “ . Instead of spending billions on old submarines from China they need to be sorting out the flood issue in BKK otherwise in 50+ years the City will be underwater

maybe the submarines are part of the solution--for top leadership?

7 hours ago, coconuthead said:

it's a good move keeping guns out of the hands of foreigners after what we saw with the old rabid aussie yesterday

so we need to ban farangs from owning machetes as well? what about portable power drills? great for opening coconuts if you don't have a machete, but still dangerous if they get into the wrong hands.

9 hours ago, TomJoad said:

TRUMP : America's great, isn't it?  It's Yuge.  And how about where you come from?  I hear it's only about the size of Texas.  But you've got some great golf courses over there, don't you?  That's what people are saying.  People are always saying that.  Maybe you'd like to see ours while you're here?  They're bigger.  Trust me.  They're huge.  Believe me.  And that Tiger Woods.  I hear he's half Thai, isn't he?  Maybe you'd like to meet him?  I have him on twitter.  He's a follower of mine. I'm pretty sure he voted for me, too.  That's what people are saying.  You should also have a look at our Constitution while you're here. It was rigged it a long time ago so that you don't even need to get the most votes to win.  Yeah, it's true.  It's great. No more worrying about those red shirts in the north.  And it's all legal over here too. Believe me. 

Brilliant! Did Alec Baldwin write this?

8 hours ago, Lingba said:

only 6th?

But obviously shooting for the Top! Around Thailand--where do you find a trash can on the streets? New York City has them everywhere...

6 hours ago, ThaidDown said:

Would expect to see a large number of bars transferring shares and/or involvement to police  wives and mia nois in the coming couple of weeks.

 

(Maybe even to maids or drivers as well)

 

(but not to van drivers)

Time to bring elephants out of retirement?

12 hours ago, darksidedog said:

I wonder if their defence will be that the toxic waste in the water dissolved their clothing?

I can recall the same thing happening at 2:00 am on Samui twenty years ago.  

Sorry to all of you who want him drawn and quartered. He could not have done more than a spot or two on that wall. Clearly (to someone like myself who has lived in NYC and LA), many styles here, indicating many graffiti artists at work.  Alas, in LA it can be an art form. This is crap. Chiang Mai can do better!

18 hours ago, greenchair said:

That is wonderful news. 

However, I hope it is a speaking test and not a written test. 

It amazes me that the bar girls in pattaya all speak excellent English to emulate their job.

But a highly educated government worker can't put 2 words together. 

Transform thailand to be English speak, the economic rewards will be had by all ?????

So maybe retired bar girls can be offered jobs teaching English?

20 hours ago, Lammbock said:

Nice to see our national carrier being on the upside again. I like to fly with THAI.

showing my age--recall flying a thai air domestic  DC-3 (is that possible?) from chiang mai to knon kaen thirty years ago and getting beverage service before we left the gate.  like first class on a US airline...

18 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

They are used to protect the voters in the "next" election. 

Dreamed of living in Thailand for forty years.  Now a Johnny Cash song keeps playing in my head: "I keep my eyes wide open all the time..."

8 hours ago, colinneil said:

Police refused to believe that no illegal activities took place.

Should have read, because no brown envelopes changed hands it is illegal to operate a massage shop.

Isn't that a LARGE brown envelope the gentleman on the left is holding?

5 hours ago, EnlightenedAtheist said:

I never liked 1984. Don't like is okay, now. 

The year or the book?

I spent a month at a Thai forest monastery--Wat Pah Nanachat--thirty years ago researching a book.  An unexpected positive outcome for me personally was a loss of craving for alcohol.  I'd had at least a drink a day, usually more, every day of my life since I went off to college.  Living in an environment where everyone--monks and laypeople alike--refrains from intoxicants made it easy to abstain the month I was there.  But, thankfully, I never had the old craving again.  Unlike working a 12-step program, I have been able to enjoy a social glass of wine once a week or so, but with no desire for more.  I won't claim this will work for everyone.  Good antidepressants have come along in the past 30 years as well, which also helps reduce the craving (and makes taking a second drink rather unpleasant--too much of a quick buzz!)  But a close family member, ten years younger, stayed with booze, started mixing in street drugs, lost a good job and was pretty well washed up in his fifties...