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7 minutes ago, SanookTeufel said:

I'm skeptical... How did they get data from North Korea??

Also, I've seen previous studies that say the average is the same worldwide... I'm not a dick expert but I find it hard to believe that asians are really smaller than everyone else 

I believe they are. I bought some local made boxer shorts and they were way too snug in the crotch. Had to give them to the gf.

One clinic is giving free Anaconda t-shirts with each treatment.

52 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

My wife's brother is a police colonel. I asked her what he actually does and she had no idea.

She didn't want to lie to you and say "nothing".

21 hours ago, Don Chance said:

Why don't they just ban Tuk Tuk's?  They polluted, are noisy and their owners are annoying.

How would you know where the Soapy Massage places are?

26 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

As i stated in my post 5 years ago when I was last there the Tuk Tuks asked 200 baht for less than a 5 minute trip, while the Song taew charged 25 baht.

Soi 67 to approx Soi 72

The songtaew ripped you off too. That's a 10 baht trip.

18 minutes ago, DUNROAMIN said:

Law enforcement, what's that ?????????

The police have no time left in the day for booking people with no helmets, and come to think of it, pretty well nothing much else neither.

Lets look at one day of an officer.

8 am.   Start work 

8-9      Briefing and photo op 

9-10     School lollie pop man.

10-12    Sit at police hut and check cell phone messages facebook, or bank security.

12-1      Lunch

1-3       Conduct licence/ registration check for motor bike and car.

3-4      School lollie pop man.

4-5      Debrief for day and photo op.

5 pm   Go home.

 

 

 

You have to incentivize them. Give them a cut out of the summonses they write (or increase the cut they already get). Of course, in reality, they're not going to enforce anything, but we can dream.

40 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Worms are really good for the soil and you really want as many as you can get.

  I was actually finding  it hard to picture how the corruption would come into it when everyone was growing it I ended up concluding that it would have the opposite effect.Interested to hear other people's take on this. 

I don't think it's going to have a drastic effect either way. If you're a local and you want to grow it you probably already are. The only way you're going to get caught out in the sticks is if somebody has a grudge against you and snitches. My friend back home planted a small plot with sunflowers that grew to about 10 feet tall. Mixed in with them was his real crop. 

And the worms ate into his brain.

10 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Talking to a young farang couple the other day, twice in one day the got fined for not wearing a helmet I mean how stupid is that?

Red meat to the police.

The saddest part of the article is in the picture caption...most of the deaths are students and youths. I am dumbfounded when I see somebody riding and they're wearing a helmet, but their kid(s) are not. I asked a young mother I know, who rides around wearing a helmet, with her 1 year old with no helmet, what about if you get in an accident. Her reply...oh, I would cover my baby's head with my hands before we hit the ground. Really?

7 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Looks like you're going to have to gather them around and smoke a few peace pipes and when you're finished mull up again and smoke a few more and that should do it.

I'll have to throw in about a dozen bottles of Lao Khao.

I showed her picture to the gf and asked if she knew who this was. She said this girl was the object of a big scandal here involving two big Thai superstars. Apparently all Thais know about her.

Do you need a doctor's prescription to grow your own?

So, the educator made rational observations and recommendations and the bureaucrats talked nonsense. Deja vu all over again.

Of course he's relaxed and carefree. What does he have to worry about? Criticism? Just shrug it off.

5 hours ago, hotchilli said:

I was staying at a guest house in Hua Hin, the tuk tuk ambush was always at the end of the Soi waiting to pounce. I was on my way home & wanted to get dropped off at the nearby mini-van pick-up point

about 5 minutes up the main road.

200 baht say's the guy, okay no thanks says I, I'll give it a miss, a song taew then passed, I waved it down and jumped in the back... price 25 baht !

Songtaews in Hua Hin are only 10 Baht.

"Unruly"? That's what the teacher used to call us....when I was 7.

44 minutes ago, KMartinHandyman said:

Do the green lights make the ฿100 printing look like ฿20 as well?

Nope, but if it's late at night and you've had a few drinks, you might just mistakenly grab a green note without looking. It happened to me one time (my bad). After realizing what happened that time I now check the numbers.

10 minutes ago, toast1 said:

Have taken Bangkok taxis for 30 years, rarely if ever had a problem.
 

I look at the driver, if he is friendly, the taxi is clean, if the vibe is good.
Like to tip helpful drivers who are honest, even a small tip brings a smile.

 

Recently left my 40,000 Bt phone in a taxi, he came after me and returned it. 
 

But then, I had been very respectful to him, thanking him as I got in, thanking him for finding my stop, bowing as he gave me change, wishing him a good day.

 

 

 

In my younger days I did not understand how important this is, and how many doors it opens. 

 

Had I known this, many problems would never have happened.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the thing is, how much effort does it take to have this attitude.

Here is a tuk tuk tip: be wary of those tuk tuks that have the glaring green lights in the passenger area at night. When you open your wallet to pay they make a 100 Baht note look like a 20 Baht note. This I think is intentional, and so does my girlfriend.