Speedhump

The common area maintenance charge, plus my water and electricity at my housing resort is around 10,000. Wouldn't leave much except for somtam and rice, and pray not to get sick.

I'm confused. Police station or chocolate teapot?

You made the point in reverse. In many jurisdictions it's not underage. As an aside, she sounds like a piece of filth: "“She was like the head b—h. She’d have like nine or 10 girls she used to bring to him [Epstein]. She never looked like she was being held captive,” Philip Guderyon, a former boyfriend of Giuffre’s, was quoted as saying in the court document. Crystal Figueroa, whose brother also dated Giuffre, said the accuser asked her for help finding victims for Epstein, according to the court filing. “She [Giuffre] would say to me, ‘Do you know any girls who are kind of slutty?,’” lawyers alleged Figueroa said."

24 hours later. Elton John says Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting ????????

Although the 'underage' remark is garbage.

Surely the difference is in the position of the tongue, roof of mouth versus back of teeth. I suppose the difference isn't important to farang, who sometimes mispronounced words like 'suay' (wrong inflection) and totally mangle its meaning. ????

I love Thai law experts!

Too subtle for the knuckledraggers commenting to understand. They'd have just decked him and been carted off to the BIB Hilton.

Any excuse to put a pretty face on the page, eh? ????

You think he should have Gas Mark 6'd her then? ????????

Someone here recently put me onto a great alternative to translate language in images. When you have "Tap To Translate Screen" open, it leaves a small movable icon on your desktop which will translate any screen without needing to screenshot it. You just make its settings to stay open on top of other apps and it's there while you're browsing websites, etc.

If you don't know, you can't afford it.

She doesn't even want him to meet them! Why would you go against that? Surely only to find out if she's some sort of black sheep/bunny boiler/whatever. If you wanted to do it, you'd take a good Thai speaking friend with you to pick up the family vibes. ????

Transferring USD from HSBC in another country to my Thai bank I now always leave the currency as USD and let the Thai bank convert into Baht. It's always worked out a better rate than the HSBC online app offers me

You started talking about me personally. In any case Asian tourist will be used to far lower standards of road behaviour than westerners. Excepting Singaporeans who I'm sure are horrified at the antics here, but perhaps aware of them if they have visited other ASEAN countries. So, no comparison is possible and your insults towards western tourists (or towards me) are totally misplaced.

You couldn't see that I was clearly was talking about tourists' expectations? You live down to my expectations of forum pondlife...

The article made precisely that point, it was pointless just to repeat it. What part of that do you not understand?

Yes it's a real concern. You're encouraging them to cross. I don't know what the answer is. Using hazard lights while stopping may help a little, but the general selfishness and careless attitude towards the lives of others probably outweighs it.

It's a Thai forum. Anyway in Vietnam you cross between the hordes of motorcycles, they treat you as an obstacle to avoid, it's almost a game.

The crossing light on very busy Soi 3 by the turning leading to Bumrungrad Hospital stays green for pedestrians for about 11 seconds. Step out in front of still moving cars at your peril, but if you wait until there's definitely no chance of at least two motorcyclists screaming through between the stopped cars, you'll never reach the other side before it's red again. I've been caught by both options. A deathtrap, and sick people are using it.... Pure savagery on Thai roads.

Foreigners? You mean tourists, who come expecting some decency and respect from road users, not knowing the savagery that takes place here. ????

Why are you just repeating what the article says?

No, I won't agree with baseless fanboy blather, and I already explained what their business model is! Anyway, thanks for the chat.

Top class branding targeting gullible trend-sensitive fashionistas (which most certainly encompasses media/publishing people with money to burn). ????

Linus = typo, you appalling pedant. So you can use Darwin like a Windows command shell, to SIMPLY perform many powerful tasks without bothering the GUI? Linux opened in MacOS is that simple? I have no wish to expand the knowledge of Linux I garnered many years ago when it couldn't even install a printer without giving me a near coronary. I'll remain ignorant, thanks. I like most others replying to you, are not biased against Mac so much as seeing that its days are over except for those that are in too deep to get out.