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Indonesia best avoided just now though. BBC reports several volcanoes ready to pop.

When booking in and asked for a seating preference, I would reply as long as it's not next to a smoker I don't care.

"Sir it's a non smoking flight""

"Yes I know, I also know people that are ready to kill after 15 minutes without a cigarette"

I saw this today:

Come to think of it, in Thailand an electronic voting machine dispensing cash would save a lot of work for so-called campaigning.

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Maestro

I reckon that just about sums it up.

BTW wifey's constitution booklet is still in perfect condition. Never been opened, offers please.

I saw the news report, still no word if it was a Boeing or Airbus.

Sad to say, but the Thais are just not concerned about the plight of the Bumese if they are not working for them. Even when they are they are not much bothered what happens to them. There are many arounfd here where the bosses haven't got IC cards for them. If the police call, they just claim they are trespassing but wont leave. The original post does not surprise me at alll.

Maybe they could arrange it so that people who want to use their mobile phones, could sit on the wings with the smokers.

The page I looked at says equipment varies. Fed Travel gives the info as equipment 777-300 except on tuesday when it's a A330-300.

The Helios incident was on a Discovery Channel Äircrash I"nvestigations" episode. On the previous flight a fault had been reported. The aircraft was tested during which procedure a vital component was switched off. After the work was caried out the maintenance guy forgot to switch the equipment back on.

The oxygen masks in the passenger areas are only supposed to provide oxygen to allow the aircraft to decend to a safe altitude, not for sustained flight.

Depends what you want and where you willbe.

Down here not many Farangs, so I tend to do stuff off the bat. Wifey insists on the tree thing, she thinks it's compulsory. It's the only meal of the year where I cook a farang meal. Chicken or pork, we have a small party with our Thai friends, any excuse to have drinks and sing badly. Yes we have the Karaoke on the pc. The locals like to see the tree outside all lit up on a night.

Given my seafood allergy (Prawns,crab,lobster), and my wife loves it. I definitley know where I stand in the scheme of things.

And the smell from your under pants was.

A Firnd of ours had a domestic incident. To assert his authority he decked her, she decked him. He woke up 10 minutes later knowing just exactly who the boss is.

As to information of locality La-Un is about 15-20K NE of Muang Ranong. The snake was seen about 50 m from the local stream that runs behind our house.

Because I'm out in the sticks, and our cats regularly bring snakes home. Including King Cobra hatchlings. I bought a book.

A Photographic guide to Snakes and other reptiles of Thailand and South East Asia." An Asia book publication.

The locals around here tend to kill first and ask questions later. Although I have seen a fully grown KC at the back of our house. I did have a too close encounter with a 6 footer. I was scraping my meal remains into the dogs bowl', when a movement caught my eye. It was slithering away, with it's hood extended. It had found a hole under our house which we later filled in. We also had a fully grown monocled cobra in our kitchen, now my wife knows why I kept telling her to leave the doors closed.

A couple of years back one of our friends come running in shouting snake come quick. I went to look and it was a Blood Python. The book says it's the smallest and least common of the pythons in Thailand. As I walked away, they asked was I going to kill it? I replied leave it alone, it's not posonous. They only get to 2.75 m

Wow that's lucky finding a blood python I used to captive breed them in Canada, though my pythons were Sumatran Blood Pythons. They are harmless but do have a nasty temper if handled similar to reticulated pythons. What area do you live in? Have you seen any nice monitor lizards? If you see a blood python again please post a photo I would be interested to see the coloration compared to my Sumatran.

I'll try and scan the picture in the book I've got. It's more or less what I saw. The book does say the Sumatran is a sub species

Because I'm out in the sticks, and our cats regularly bring snakes home. Including King Cobra hatchlings. I bought a book.

A Photographic guide to Snakes and other reptiles of Thailand and South East Asia." An Asia book publication.

The locals around here tend to kill first and ask questions later. Although I have seen a fully grown KC at the back of our house. I did have a too close encounter with a 6 footer. I was scraping my meal remains into the dogs bowl', when a movement caught my eye. It was slithering away, with it's hood extended. It had found a hole under our house which we later filled in. We also had a fully grown monocled cobra in our kitchen, now my wife knows why I kept telling her to leave the doors closed.

A couple of years back one of our friends come running in shouting snake come quick. I went to look and it was a Blood Python. The book says it's the smallest and least common of the pythons in Thailand. As I walked away, they asked was I going to kill it? I replied leave it alone, it's not posonous. They only get to 2.75 m

We were down in Nakhon Sri Thammerat recently. My wife has family down there both in Muang NST and Pak Phanang. Between these 2 places is a stretch of road about 28K long with very few corners. On coming traffic regularly use these stretches for crazy overtaking manoeuvers. On our way back to Ranong, I was forced to a complete standstill with 2 wheels on the grass verge. The alternative would have been to be splattered on the on coming trucks windshield. I really hate that stretch, but it's the best route to highway 41.

OK Thanks, I've done a search for that, but no luck.

I've sorted it. The shop that was fixing my pc had the regional sttings wrong in the control panel.

....I would't bother with this thread ..,the uk gov hasn't a clue how many people live here!

I was going to say the UK govenment hasn't a clue how many immigrants are in the UK why should they know how many Brits are in Thailand, but ChiangMai almost intimated that.

Hey Steve I'm from Dewsbury.

OK Thanks, I've done a search for that, but no luck.

OK guys, if I can't fix this the food will start to taste funy. I am running Vista Home Premium, and I want to run the latest KaraOK version I have, Vol 9. It reads English text fine, but will not read Thai script. Any ideas please/solutions?

I imagine this is the state of play along all the border provinces. The Burmese down here in Ranong are having to wear large ID tags with photo around their necks.

There was a topic that gave yields, and profits etc. per rai of rubber. Does anyone have a link or info with similar information for Palm oil. Also I am told the trees are different in that they have male and female trees. Does anyone know the ratio? My wifes 1/2 cousin bought some for his land, but he has ended up with mosrtly male trees.

Switzland Co??

Sygnenta is from where? I know its European, and their variety SG75 is most popular for processing, I can assure you all the seed production is done in Thailand. Last I heard the sweet corn factories were paying 2.5-4bt/kg depending on where you are.

Syngenta are a Swiss company formed out of merging Astra Zeneca's agro chemicals side with Novartis's Agro chemical business. Based in Basle, they have what was ICI's site at Huddersfeld, England where I worked before I escaped.

I remember many years back in the UK. The taproom advice would be, if you witness an accident, keep driving. The hassle you get from the insurance companies/police ain't worth the trouble. Having said that these days in the UK the police only turn up in cases of injury.

About 3 months back while on our way back to Ranong from Nakhon Sri Thammerat, we came across the aftermath of an accident. The traffic was stopped as the accident was blocking the road. As I got out of the car, some Thais noticed me and started pointing at the mess "Farang, farang". So I went up, and some of the locals were trying to free him. The steering wheel was stuck on his thighs, and there was quite a bit of blood. Shortly after the police and an ambulance arrived, and he was soon out of the car. His leg was bent at a funny angle at the knee, and he was obviously in a lot of pain. As the sat him in the police pickup, I asked him if he spoke English. By his accent he was English, so I enquired if he needed to call anyone. He was obviously a bit shocked and hadn't thought of that but he then called his wife. He was quite away from home Kamphaeng Phet, and had been to Phuket. He must have been on his way home by way of calling on some friends in Chumphon. I wish I had had the chance to exchange some info with him just so I could see if he was ok. However he spoke good Thai, and he was in good hands so we decided to make our way home. So he just thanked me though all I'd done was to remind him to call his wife.