Damrongsak

5 hours ago, Screaming said:

A great way to bring in cheese to Thailand is to disguise the cheese on the person.

I was just going to post something like that, LOL.  If customs ask about the hat, just tell them you're from Emmental.

Some could use a reduced fat diet as well.

6 hours ago, Crossy said:

You might find something in the Ban-Mo area near the Old Siam Plaza, take a photo with you.

 

You will certainly find new ones in one of the Amorn outlets inside the plaza itself.

I used to like wandering around in that general area around Yaowarat/Pahurat.  45 years back we had a favorite little hole in the wall Indian restaurant in a back alley. Bought a couple things at Amorn Electronics (17 years ago LOL). 

On 1/31/2023 at 8:27 AM, kickstart said:

....

 ...I was on my own buying market stall food some bags of curry was so sweet it was like eating Ka-Nom's Thai sweets ,or others that salty, that week the dogs did well.

The problem will get worse, not better. 

Last fall my wife complained about the sweet curry, etc.  I will eat sweet deserts or candy occasionally, but like my regular food hot and sour.

10 hours ago, Sandboxer said:

Just pretend you're deaf mute (or retard) and start making snorty sounds while holding your hands up in the international "huh" gesture. Works every time I hear^^.

And if you want to get dramatic, also burp and fart a lot.

Interesting thread, though I can't help as we got married in Loei 44 years ago.  I don't even remember what she looked like unless I dig out the old photo album.

Do they still require a character reference/witness or some such?  I  had to drag my old, infirm landlord to the office in a samlor to tell them I was a nice guy.  We walked in and they started cow-towing and apologizing for disturbing the old guy. The rubber stamps were smoking.  (He had been the superintendent of education for the province of Loei.)  No doubt he was related to someone in there. 

14 hours ago, Callmeishmael said:

I wouldn't say that this is actually a boat, more of a floating house...  or rather a formerly floating house!

My first thought was some sort of a barge but it was unclear in the news photo.   Who would take that out in rough weather? TIT

On 1/29/2023 at 6:24 PM, hotchilli said:

Gouging... not inflation by retailers.

However I do sympathise with manufactures being controlled by the government.

Sounds to me like some retailers may have increased the price in anticipation of a factory increase.  Some of my wife's childhood friends are merchants.  They are very successful and would anticipate things like this.

2? Ridiculous.  Fill up the jails again.  How many does an average addict take per day?  What does a pill sell for these days?

How about a week in jail for every pill over some small limit? 

 WWWW party: We Want Wongsuwan to Win

On 12/18/2022 at 8:21 PM, ezzra said:

No such term in the Thai language... Mucking it up and playing it by ear terms is widely used among the decision makers...

Or shoot from the hip.  Some of these folks could get a job acting in old western shoot-em-up movies. 

3 hours ago, sotonowl said:

I've always struggled with this, 16th, 17th, 18th centuries and they all thought the earth was flat but old Zeus made Atlas walk round with the world on his back, how did the ancients know before our more recent ancestors?

Maybe Zeus and Atlas were on the same bowling team.

Flat earth (at the end). 

Get up, stand up. Stand up when you ride.

11 hours ago, Adumbration said:

I can't help but wonder...if they trained monkeys to drive all Thai vehicles would national road death statistics go up or down?

If they let the monkeys just drive motorbikes the stats would go way down.

13 hours ago, brianthainess said:

Doesn't sound like a 'Freak' accident, going to fast round a bend and losing control. My guess no M/C license or experience. 

I tried riding a Honda Zoomer-X scooter last fall.  I hadn't ridden in years and used to ride regular motorcycles both on and off-road.  That scooter with smaller wheels was just too twitchy for me.

An American in Bangkok traffic ...

9 hours ago, madisongy said:

Great info......I'm bringing 8 big boxes of Cheerios for my upcoming 12 week stay.   Big C is my backup.  

Now that I think about it, it was Kelloggs corn flakes. Cheerios popped into my head because I've been eating them lately.

Jeff Bezos did pretty well selling books on line.

On 1/23/2023 at 3:52 PM, spidermike007 said:

... How did your father die? He fell off his chair. 

Weird, but my Dad sorta died in my arms, so to speak.  Four of us kids from all over the U.S. went to his place for his 80th birthday. He had 2 incidences the day before where he had to go to the hospital, heart problems, got back late in the evening. 

Then just after midnight on his birthday he had another attack when he was on the crapper.  He fell off. I tried to give CPR while he laid on the floor but no luck.  I will always believe that Dad  gave up the ghost at that moment because of the situation.  In a few minutes, he looked years older. 

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread, but few know when the time will come, or the circumstance.

"...inhaling, touching or ingesting liquid nitrogen can be very harmful to body tissues..."

Why do they need it so cold?  But I guess vendors do anything and everything to get peoples attention and to hell with the consequences.  But liquid nitrogen isn't easy to handle, nor cheap AFIK.  ???

I'd like to get to know a couple of these people who make these kind of decisions/proclamations, just so I could judge how ditzy they are.  But it's all probably done by committee after many paid lunch meetings.  I'm sure there is an algorithm for calculating the stupidity ratio based on the number of members and such. 

To be fair, I should study my Thai language and culture for another 10 years and read all they write about this in Thai before I grouse about it.  But if I ask my Thai wife about it, she'd say "What the hell do you expect?" and look at me like I'm a moron.