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I'm bicurious, do they do euthanasia in asia? lol.. Seriously though, i feel like I've heard something about them not doing that here.

Also, I found OP's contradiction strange.

I sympathise and as much as I like dogs I couldn't eat a whole one.

So, sew socks and sow seed.

So what?

Seems that LOS attracts lots of falangs that can't make it in their home countries

America was built by people who couldn't make it in their home countries.

You seem to have left out that these misfits pulled together and created the most powerful, free and economically prosperous nation in the history of the world!

And you left out war mongering, not that it matters a jot I think you'll find most econonomically prosperous nation goes to Japan.

that comment could oh so easily be reversed Andrew Hicks. could just as easily be the farang wives watching the thai wives too.

So La Ti Do

Nope, they're still lo-so. nothing's changed

Your wife may still be lo-so but mines got a washing machine

I thought you were married to a Thai, not a farang.

So far So good.

I haven't worn a watch since I retired.

All this talk about watches reminds me of an incident at primary school, a friend of mine was running around the playground with his left sleeve rolled up showing off a new watch, knowing that it wasn't his birthday we asked how he came by such a gift. This was in the fifties very few kids wore watches. He swore us to secrecy and told us he stumbled in on his parents late at night while they were making love. His father told him he was to say nothing and bought him the watch. Jim a friend of mine thought he'd do the same, sure enough late one night he heard his parents lovemaking and walked into the room, "what do you want his father bellowed" "I wanna watch said Jim." His father replied "Ok but be quiet"

Do you think he didn't want the wife working for a homo?

thai's arn;t that shallow ,seams to me he was jelous she was probably earning more than him.

If her old man was Bi then it was jealousy

I have spent the last 2 New Year's Eve's at The Riverside Restaurant.

Probably the BEST New Year's Eve's I have ever had, and the fireworks at midnight are spectacular.

They won't take bookings, but if you wanna sit by the river you need to get there about 4pm, a bit early but certainly worth it.

Sit in a restaurant on new years eve for eight hours!

Sad I know but thw wife was on the phone to her mum the other day and her mum mentioned to her there was now a Tesco Lotus in Det Udon amphur, Ubon Ratchatarni, anyone know if this is true?

What's sad about people being given work? and more will have work because they move in than will lose. Since Tesco has moved to Thailand hundreds of Thai's have started their own business supplying tesco, further more tesco import millions of pounds of thai goods, snear all you want but they would be sorely missed. I personally don't use tesco but this fashion to knock the successfull i.e. Bill gates etc, is just jealousy pure and simple.

Well done MM although a honorary old phart for years, today MM makes it official, free bus pass and cocoa vouchers are on there way. How many on visa will admit to membership? Alas this spring chicken is not.

Having a constitution ensuring freedom and flow of information is so wonderful!

We need more reality checks !

Cheers

May I respectfully suggest you edit the 'We' to I.

I looking around form my son to find any good honest women around 28-33 years old with no children up till now he was always fooled by those he encountered, so what to do?

gdk

And my girls looking forward to winning the lottery, mathematically I think she has the edge, good luck to you both.

Last Sunday around mid-night a fifteen year old youth walks into 7/11 in our service station. He is accosted & verbally abused by a drunk twenty year old sitting outside with his mates.

The youth walks into 7/11, buys some ciggarettes, walks back out to his bike. More verbal abuse followed him. He calmly opens the seat cover, retrieves a small handgun.

Meanwhile the twenty year old had walked into 7/11 for something. The youth calmly walks into 7/11 holding the gun, walks up to the twenty year old & shoots him in the chest.

Not bothering to run away, he walks back outside, sits down, lit a ciggarette & waited for the police to arrive.

The twenty year old died two hours later in hospital.

This story didn't even feature in the daily news papers.

Unbelievable!

How can a teenager get their hands on a gun? Why would you shoot someone over a war of words?

Soundman.

Fifteen years old! I thought you had to be eighteen to buy cigarettes 7/11 should be prosecuted, what is the country comming to, bet he didn't have a licence for the bike either:coffee1:

Went to Giorgio restaurant in the city yesterday and was charged a 10% “service charge” When asking what it was for there was no reason but since about a month already in place and “because everybody is doing is” Used to eat for about 700 to 800 baht for two, now the bill was 1,118 baht for the same deal. Wonder if this is the new norm in Chiang Mai and is something because they can get away with? After all, why not as they’re full every night. In hotels yes, but in restaurants? Anybody has had any experiences like this?

I stopped eating in Giorgio's over a year ago sloppy service. On principle I never pay service charge. It's the same as + tax most other companies survive on one price does the restaurateur pay service charge for a hair cut or petrol it's a scam, truth be told the food isn't worth the price let alone the service. Like the previous post said vote with your feet.

How can we fix this quickly?

Sell your SUV and ride a bike!

Seriously, this topic was run into the ground in March/April this year. The smoke/haze/particulate matter was very elevated, due to a few confluences of events (weather patterns, forest fires, etc.). We can do all we possibly can to convince our Thai neighbors to not burn rubbish, etc. It sounds good. But it is a drop in the bucket compared to the wind-borne particulate matter blowing down from China, and the often massive forest fires (I'm not talking about ag burning) that rage in Burma and Laos. We had fires raging in both countries last spring; there is little infrastructure to combat these events in either country.

I am not dismissing your argument; I pretty much agree with everything you have to say. But we have all seen the same graphs, charts, bleak pronouncements on tourism, etc. until our eyes started to glaze over, last spring.

I plan on leaving CM March/April next year. probably go down to Krabi, do some diving, maybe zip over to Bali.

I guess your answer is: We can't fix this quickly.

McG

I hate to say it but I agree, visited a moobann in Mae jo tonight a lady swept leaves off her drive and set them alight, 4 or 5 people in the soi and no one said anything. I mentioned pollution and got a smile in return

I play a pretty mean Kazoo, and can even stretch to a comb and paper if alcohol is involved

I hear you can play the fiddle too MM

Just tried the new Topps, recently opened on the old Rimping site. On first visit, I'd say not even local 7eleven has anything to fear.

Hi Citizen

You could well be right. I never thought about the mozzies, its already difficult to sit outside at night with a cold beer without been eaten alive so a pool could make matters worse. The pool I was thinking about would have been small but still relatively close to the house. However, if it compounds the mosquito problem further then I might have to re-think the whole thing or keep buying my fish from bigC and Tesco.

Fish love mosquito's, it's puddles and uncovered water butts that mozzies breed successfully in.

It is official.

Australia is better than Thailand.

USA and UK are worse than both.

Something we Australian have long known.

"We Austrailian" Say no more.

Check out this post in the rich Thai girl blog "Oh! See what the Cat drags in!" This so-called "journalist" (she seems to write for BK Magazine, but can't even get the name of her own blog right) has a terrible encounter with the country's lower classes and survies to tell about it.

What's really interesting is that this girl is the direct descendant of Thailand's cruelest and most infamous military dictator (and that's saying something) -- Thanom Kittikachorn.

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Out in Emporium buying expensive shoes for her mommy, she has a self-described "bitch moment" when confronted with a farang and a prostitute... who have the audacity to be shopping in the same store as her! She goes on to describe prostitutes as "toilets" and can't understand why anybody would want to be seen with such awful creatures.

When she gets a scolding in the comments the best she can come up with is a cruel "me no speaky English" bar-girl style mockery. Totally unable to address the issue.

Great from an anthropological perspective: we get to see how the country's elite, a child of the most vile, murdering rapist of the land, really thinks of the lower castes.

Kittikachorn but I don't care, Kittikachorn But I don't care

I know thailand is full of contradictions but i'm still confused about taking the trouble to perform the calming dance for the victim,& then chop him up for the crows bit.

Talk about a cure for a splitting head ache. Ahh the good old bad old days

hi to all ,

this is a true story ( i,m not just bored ) i live in PHON PHISAI 45km from nong khai ,

monday evening my wife and i were walking our dog about 18.00 same time every day along the meekong river , we see a few thai men drinking whiskey pritty drunk , we carry on walking about 30mts away we hear splash two of them want to see whose the best swimmer ,

yes you,ve guessed it only 1 of them came back up ....... to be fair the other did go back in to look for his friend ... soon people gathered the police came few others got boats out but could not find the body any where, this time of year the river flows very fast with how much rain we,ve had , we watch for an hour or so , the police say they,ll call the next town down the river to try to find the man,

last night (tuesday ) we walk again same time they still hav,ent found the body so monks from the temple pray in the place he went in the river , then they put a small boat with a candle in it in the river off it goes into the fast flowing river but after about 30 mts the light goes out they mark the spot with flowt and weight this morning when light they look where light went out and sure enough the body was there .....

has any one else heard of monks doing this before ....i promise you i saw this myself and is 100% true ..

Reminds me of an incident in UK, two boys fell into a river people searched in vain. Then a guy in the village swore he saw the two boys walking along the river bank with an old man. Next day the bodies were pulled out of the river, the guy in the village was villified. Months later while on holiday he visited a monestary, there were several portriates of monks, one he recognised as the old man with the boys, he asked who the monk was and got the reply Adjutor patron saint of drowning men. There are more things in heaven and earth etc.

i know i am supposed to be thrilled that prices in Thailand are low and the Thai people are mostly poor, and all of the advantages this provides middle aged Western men living in Thailand but I just can't do it. Does anyone else find it kind of sickening how much farang in Thailand talk about how cheap everything is and what they can get? You see a young girl walking with an old man and it just destroys you. If she was born in another country her life would be so much better. Also I get the feeling that the majority of westerners in Thailand failed in their home countries.

I made enough in my country (England) to retire at 49 I cannot spend what my investments pay me, but I know if I took your attitude and left, a lot of (poor) Thai's would be worse off. Would that make you happy? Who said life was fair? In the lottery of life I won first prize born Male, white, and English. I'm proud to say I've never cheated anyone out of a penny and treat every one I meet with respect I've dined with royalty and fed beggers in Bangkok. I also know that the money I spend here brings more satisfaction to the people than the money I could spend in UK. Your not supposed to be thrilled prices are low, just accept with all it's warts. Thailand is a good place to be. As for old men with young girls have you never walked around Mayfair, Times square, Rodeo drive, money is an aphrodisiac, if I can date a woman half my age in Rome why should Bangkok be any different. I take it you are still young? If not in life then certainly in the ways of the world. In a perfect world we would not be having this discussion, smell the coffee. I guess the answer to your question is... No

From the NY Times commenting on the crash:

"Orient Thai airlines, the international arm of One-Two-GO, was warned about its safety procedures last year.

South Korea’s Ministry of Construction and Transportation issued a warning in March 2006 to Orient Thai and two other budget carriers for “frequent delays and substandard safety measures,” according to the Korea Times newspaper.

The ministry said that Orient Thai, which operated flights from Inchon, South Korea to Bangkok and Phuket, did not update its safety and operational regulation manuals and that fire extinguishers and oxygen tanks were not in working condition."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/world/as...amp;oref=slogin

It will be many months before we know the real reason behined tonights tragedy. But a few years ago my partners brother, who works for Thai air told her under no circumstances was she to fly budget in Thailand, he refused to elaborate. It was nothing to do with competition, he said he feared for her safety. Its alright being wise after the event but, to be cheaper you have to cut corners. Was tonight a corner to far? Words cannot express how I feel or bring any comfort to the bereaved, what a sad world we live in. R.I.P

Beacuse Chang is awful and who knows what is actually in it !

A few years back, a doctor from Norway took back a bottle of Thai whiskey and had it analysed. It contained chemicals banned in most parts of the world, maybe some of those are in Chang cheers.