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I once visited a friend in Pattaya many moons ago. His apartment was on a really high floor, 20+ or something like that. I'm not exaggerating when I say the balcony rail was knee high. Crazy, just crazy. How does something like that get past the drawing board (rhet).

TG is a joke. Comparing the airline to SQ is also comical, just look at the size of each country in comparison to their fleet size and reputation. SQ or CX are my first choices. Last resorts are TG and BA. Centara hotels are run down and mismanaged (well, family business don't you know, send the useless brother/cousin/moron to a hotel management post where he won't be any trouble). I'll only use Centaras if there are no Marriots (or any western brand) available.

I met the guy once a couple of decades ago (don't ask). IIRC he had a scar from ear to ear, I always wondered how he survived whatever gave him that scar. It always has me scratching my head when people get involved with the Bangkok nightlife 'back office' and then wonder why they're not meeting fine upstanding citizens.

A long time ago, in another life, I used to live in the darkest corners of the Mun River valley in Surin. We're talking over 20 years ago but I still remember some things like they were yesterday. Clearly I was a younger man, I used to go wondering around the forests by myself with only a slingshot and my thoughts. One of my most profound memories is walking into a clearing and coming face to face with an adult bull elephant. He looks at me, I looked at him, he just got on with whatever he was doing, I went on my way. Good to see this elephant close to being back where he belongs.

Would that be the Irish PM? (what with Biden being about as Irish as a Chinaman)

Lesson learned then. . . :thumbs-up: :hat-tip: :nod-wink:

The evidence is clear to me, his mummy made the mistake of getting into a car with a drunk driver who drove the vehicle so recklessly that he killed her and the other occupants.... Harry will be locked in his stupid little bubble, bleating on it was someone else's fault, forever. He's not a man. He a lost little boy, lashing out at the press, even his own family, and his vacuous wife is puppet master playing the worn out race card. It's pretty sad, and he even now gets the indignity of being mocked on HIGNFY. I miss Philip though. He was a good laugh.

[[[ don't want to argue and frankly I'm tired of my posts being deleted by one particular mod. Probably my last post]]]

Reading back, actually it was you that started calling people hateful and ignorant. I have not seen anything of the sort in this topic. I personally don't care if some guy puts a skirt on a calls himself Florence. You appear to be trashing those of us that identify as being male or female, were born in that way, and believe this cannot be changed. I don't think you have any basis to make such accusations, moral or scientific. We all have our own set of morals, I can accept that.

Sorry I can't help it. I was born this way,

If I cut a hole into my elbow and claimed to be from the planet Zog, would you accept it as fact because it makes me happy?

I should think they do with all that hacking! . . . IIRC Michael Jackson's nose kept falling off until he got a clip-on rubber one.

I cannot and will not accept that a man who has been hacked up to appear as though he as a woman and pumped full of hormones, to be a woman. I simply will not nor will I ever accept it. They're simply men with a hole cut into them. I do not apologise for stating this fact, nor should anyone else.

The problem here is we only have your "friend's" version of events, and I find it hard to believe every inch of Sukhumvit is not covered by both police and private cameras. I suspect the car driver had a dashcam and was able to prove his assertion.

Around 15 years ago I knew a guy that was sent to Thailand by a major multinational. He was a very senior figure, buying factories for a major pharma/personal care company wanting facilities in Thailand. You see their products everywhere. For someone so businesslike and of his age he was spectacularly immature. He got involved with some massage whore that told him she had cancer and needed money, lots of it. He got all blubbery on the phone with me, asking for advice, and gave her huge sums of money, his wife and kids in the USA found out, and it got all very serious. I exited at that point, didn't want to get involved. However, he's the sort of guy that would have been fleeced anywhere by anyone. He was an idiot. Idiots are idiots everywhere. Thai whores have ready access to idiots, and vice versa. So, people like you get to shout in your echo chamber and feel all smug and lonely (you will retort below that you are not lonely). . . Myself, I was the poor man coming into the family. I met my wife at work (hotel industry). I consider this to be 'normal' life with 'normal' people doing 'normal' jobs with 'normal' marriages. I get really tired of people like you, and most others on this sad forum imposing your narrow, utterly unpleasant views of the Thai people onto everyone else. MODS please close this topic. It's is not and never was 'on topic'.

I said it many times but I always get shot down for it. I have a lot of dealings with the Thai police and occasionally the military (please don't ask, just accept). The majority of them are good people and want to do the right thing, but they are failed by the system. The only reason this is in the Thai news now is because of the Al Jazeera documentary being aired this week.

You can lead a horse to water...

Swimming pools are a special case and it's a very big topic to tackle. You absolutely SHOULD be grounding the pool, but it's not that straightforward. The entire pool structure and it's surrounds (including metallic window frames, grab rails, absolutely everything) should be bonded together in one large equipotential zone. This includes the rebar of the pool structure itself. As for pool lighting this should all be on the other side of an isolation transformer. . . Bare wet feet, bare wet hands, the risks are vastly amplified around pools. Skip any of this at your peril. It may work fine for 20 years, but then one day. . . EDIT: I also just remembered, there is also the problem of galvanic rebar corrosion. Bonding the rebars helps prevent that by arresting small incidental currents flowing in the soil. As I said, this is a really, really big topic to cover.

Hardly seems worth the trouble with so little time left.

With respect, I think this is the modus operandi of the Thai armed forces. Aircraft carrier without any aircraft or air defense systems, for example (snigger). . .

If he has power of administration there is pretty much nothing you can do. BUT, there is nothing stopping you paying her education bills if that's what you choose to do. The university doesn't care where the money comes from. What is it beyond that you're trying to achieve? Parents are legally obliged to be 'reasonable' in the application of their parental rights. It's murky as to whether it is 'reasonable' they deny their child attendance to superior tertiary education.

LOL

I bet if you were behind him in the checkout queue while the manager was called and the refund processed, you would be 'behind' his :expletive-ridden: principle

I think you're a really sad, petty little man, so sad and petty you took the time to write out a forum post about the whole sorry little affair.

These silly articles are of course just link bait and often written by folk that never set foot in these countries. One of the enduring memories of being in Hanoi was some Australian family walking past a restaurant I was eating in. They saw the place, and the guy said "hey look, this place must be good, it's in Lonely planet!" (this was back when people still carried guide books made of paper. Remember those?). It was pretty sad. Personally I really like Vietnam. I'd choose HCMC over Hanoi though. I never visited the coast, maybe in the future.