Jane Dough

2 hours ago, bluesofa said:

A triumvirate (Latin: triumvirātus) is a political regime ruled or dominated by three powerful individuals known as triumvirs (Latin: triumviri).The arrangement can be formal or informal. Though the three are notionally equal, this is rarely the case in reality. The term can also be used to describe a state with three different military leaders who all claim to be the sole leader.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumvirate 

'notionally equal' - apart from the knockers that is.

 

Or did you choose 'triumvirate' because it rhymes with 'copulate'?

Reminds me I haven't played DUUMVIR in a Scrabble game for many years.

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5 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Must be very little happening to bother making a vinyl board and a press conference for this story.

That's because the star of the show was not lowly Arthit but Biometrics. 

All hail!

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Good song - lots of "easy words" but some tricky, idiomatic usage. If it was a few decades ago I would try to sing a song like this to help with my tones!

In my early days in Thailand I learnt quite a lot of songs even though I am a terrible singer. In my teaching I used them too.

A great way to learn, I commend you for posting such things. 

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1 hour ago, toofarnorth said:

What is it with those boards , who looks at them then says ' Oh yes now I understand ' .

I love 'em.

I'd like to buy one for a spare white wall I have.

I wonder if Big Joke has any of his old ones to spare. 

They might even be collectors' items in a few years.

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21 hours ago, darksidedog said:

I feel very sorry for the students where this pompous, self adoring old git will be headed next. Treating students with such contempt by making them prostrate themselves shows exactly what is wrong with the Thai education system. Beating kids for minor infringements and generally treating students like dirt. No wonder so many young adults here have such an attitude problem. Caused by scum like this. The students should have been lining up with trash and rotten tomatoes to send this guy on his way, a send off he deserves.

Can't disagree with the essence of your post though it was heartening to see that in the large amount of comments I read in Thai on Thai social media he was roundly criticized for being a complete <deleted> tool.

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18 hours ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

Somehow I don't think Glastonbury needs to worry about the competition. That said he could headline with his catchy ditty.

 

 

Thanks for posting that link. I used it to keep out the interminable barking of the neighbor's dog last night. 

In the end I went with the dog, however,

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We are very excited at the impending opening of the extension - I live between the Sena and Ratchayothin stations, 500 meters walk to both. I have lived all over Bangkok but for me this is the best place - now with the regeneration that the train is bringing it is rapidly improving and property prices are increasing. I intend to make a concerted effort to keep the car and motorbikes in the parking lot and encourage visitors to do likewise. 

Just hoping that they finish the job with an improvement to the pavements. It would be nice if they buried the wires too, here's hoping. 

Kudos to all the construction workers and supervisors for a tremendous job done in double quick time. The traffic has been terrible for three years but it should all be worth the wait. 

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1 minute ago, ianezy0 said:

Unfortunately it wouldn’t sell very well.
Man takes early retirement, obtains a long stay visa and moves to Pattaya.
The End. ????

Oh I don't know.

Incidentally why did you choose Pattaya - there are many alternatives in Thailand and with your long experience of the kingdom you must have come up against some other ideas?

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I was wondering. The passengers were his wife and son. The meter was not on. So do the DLT still have the right to fine him?

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At least if it does happen and he goes in person, he will finally face the music.

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10 hours ago, ROGER DUNN said:

Tusk is Only Worried about the Extra Money the Other Poor Suckers will have to find for their Elaborate Lifestyle that the EU Loonies Enjoy (At the Moment) .

Don't forget to update your subscription to the Daily Mail. 

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2 hours ago, legend49 said:

The Russians - once scared off foreign travel including Thailand due to the collapse of the rouble - are now back in droves. 

 

Rouble has fallen further against the US dollar so this is total bull s%%t media piece. I have been in Russia for the last two years on assignments, first year exchange rate was 55 rouble to $1, last year it got worse to 59 rouble to $1. Currently today is peaking downhill at 64 rouble to $1. Pity the writers dont check their facts before making up stories.

The story doesn't say that they are back because the rouble improved, just that they stopped coming for a while when it went down.

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3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

No. Most farangs used to arrive for a week or two, find a GF for the duration and spend their evenings in the bars.

Pattaya deserves to have lost every farang though. They never did anything to provide a great experience for them, and now it's probably too late to attract them back.

The farangs came for the girls, pure and simple, and now the bar experience is <deleted>, so they ain't going there anymore.

Well done officialdom, you screwed it for everyone.

I always went to Pattaya with my children. I still would if it wasn't so noisy with tour buses and the sea wasn't so dirty.

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44 minutes ago, Denim said:

 

Title is a giveaway :

 

' Wife and child '

Hah. Some people are taking the "they didn't even read the story" a step further. 

They are not even reading the headline...just looking at the picture. 

I sometimes wonder why I bother....

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Many years ago I had been terribly drunk one night and woke up next morning wondering where exactly I had left my motorcycle - was it Khao San or Sukhumvit? It was going to take ages to find out I thought, until I passed it walking out of the condo parking lot on the way to getting a taxi.

These days the strongest drink I usually have is M-150.

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5 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

I will believe this when I see it. Currently, it is the most under utilized airport in the country. And they signed a deal with Air Asia two years ago, to start 36 flights a day. Thailand completely reneged on the deal. So, much has to be done, to demonstrate some good faith.

 

Deputy Transport Minister Athirat Rattanaset came to town. Really? Wanna know what the background of his boss at the transport ministry is?

 

Completed secondary school at Suan Kularb College and earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the National Institute of Development of Administration.

 

Political career

The former chairman of a working panel under interior minister Chaovarat Charnvirakul during the 2008 political crisis and a former executive of the Thai Rak Thai Party, he was banned from politics for five years after Thai Rak Thai was dissolved in 2007. He is currently secretary general of the Bhumjai Thai Party.

 

The son of politicians Chai and La-ong Chidchob and the younger brother of Newin, he is single.

 

What can one even say? We are talking about some of the least competent ministers currently in office, within the past 20 years or more. 

Rather than writing about Saksayam Chidchob you might have asked a more relevant question; why did he send his deputy and not go to Hua Hin himself?

In the light of the full steam ahead expansion of the Eastern Economic Corridor are the government taking Hua Hin and the "Thai Riviera" seriously or was this visit lip service designed to make them look good. Rhetorical question.

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2 hours ago, malibukid said:

typical Thai male behavior, i have little to do with them generally 

I have loads to do with them.

This is how I know this is anything but typical.

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I was asked how many days there are in a week.

There are seven.

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I think many in Thailand failed to heed the warning when that bar near the end of Sukhumvit Soi 11 (was it?) closed down. 

I say "was it" because I never went to "Cheap Charlies".

I couldn't afford their exorbitant rates for a beverage.  

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