Nongwahyay

I have a small pickle near the base of my penis, which I´m considering removing myself in a moment of madness. Would you gentlemen recommend doing it with the penis "relaxed".... or would it be more effective in a more rigid state??? I might, however, point out that I´ll sue anyone who gives me the wrong advice and I end up bleeding to death......

I would say, stop worrying about something you can´t influence, otherwise you´ll make yourself even more miserable!

Life is nothing but a never-ending series of ups and downs. Just ignore it - maybe it´ll go away...............

Hi

Me and my girlfriend are thinking of going into pig farming in Khorat.

We have the land and would be very interested in all help setting up buildings,food suppliers,where to buy the pigs to start etc..

So what makes u think a pig farm in Korat would be such a good idea? What do you know about pigs?

It never ceases to amaze me why people come to Thailand and start up some business enterprise in something they have absolutely zero experience of in their own countries. The plumber who opens a restaurant, the stockbroker who starts a fish farm. Amazing Thailand!

I think it´s just a matter of people wanting to do something completely different...... not a bad thing at all. I´m thinking of doing the same thing.... but can´t make up my mind whether to raise frogs, pigs or rabbits....

But Peng... aren´t you a bit out of line with your comment???? Didn´t you post recently on the frog breading thread, asking for advice on how to do it????? Your own critical comment could be applied to your good self!!!!

Speaking of the casual use of the f##k word in non-english speaking countries, I was amazed a good 20 years ago, watching an evening family show on a Saturday evening in Germany. They played the Smokie song "Living next door to Alice" to a huge audience and the presenter then got the whole audience - in front of millions of viewers - to sing the refrain "Alice, Alice... who the f##k is Alice"! The song and refrain are often played even today and I would think the vast majority of Germans would sing along to it ......

I will reduce my reading time on Thaivisa to 5 minutes per day!!!!

There are too many gloomy posts at the moment - resulting, of course, from recent tragic and troublesome events we are currently seeing and reading about........... so I thought I´d try to instigate a lighter-hearted topic...................

The older ones amongst you (well, the Brits at least....) may remember a radio programme, where listeners were invited to name 3 records, which they would want to take with them to a desert island. Which item or items would TV members take with them from Thailand to make their stay on the island more pleasant .......or whatever?????

For example, a parking attendant´s whistle, to catch the attention of passing ships....

Further suggestions?????????

I would include Hartlepool (where I originate), if you`re a Sunderland (football) supporter....

I bought a thai-engl/engl-thai dictionary about 10 years ago which has 20 pages in it, that are back to front, making it somewhat confusing, trying to find a word in that section. About 5 years ago I bought the two-tome "New Model Thai-English dictionary" compiled by So Sethaputra for 1.000 Baht. It´s actually very good - however it wasn´t until I was back home in Germany that I discovered that pages 475 - 514 were totally missing, !!!!! I wrote to the publisher, who informed me that another company had taken it over. Eventually they did actually send me the missing pages free of charge with a long apology for the inconvenience............ so all turned out well. However, I must admit that some of the examples in this dictionary make one really want to ask why on earth anyone would choose such hilarious examples to explain a word or expression.............. ""my overcoat is moth-eaten all over!.............or ""I am so hungry that my stomach is drawn in"....or "that man´s face is extremely ugly" or "he found his wife in the arms of another man" . However, I must stress that it is a very good dictionary, using many expressions relating to average thai and rural situations. I´m not really intending to knock it.......

I used to have poofy hair when I was a student........ 3 and 1 1/2 decades ago..... ...long and poofy, as was the trend....... but most of it has fallen out now....... the rest is now cut by my wife when it becomes "unmanageable"......

It's nice of you to share that with us, but shouldn't the quotes be around 'wife' ?

Or was it just a phase you were going through?

Ooooh... you are cheeky.... No... it just looks poofy when I look at old photos.... it was real manly at the time.... My "wife" is a gorgeous woman from Nongwahyay near Nongbualamphu (40 km from Udon Thani) ...... sorry to disappoint you....

I used to have poofy hair when I was a student........ 3 and 1 1/2 decades ago..... ...long and poofy, as was the trend....... but most of it has fallen out now....... the rest is now cut by my wife when it becomes "unmanageable"......

As of recent times................ "financial security".......

are you telling me that you, English native speakers, are Nincompoops yourselves?

well, i'm sure they use "proper" English in their real lives... don't you think so?

Language changes - yes, it happens in every languages .... but Thai doesn't use apostrophe - sorry i can not feel the pain.

I´m sure that we could all be called nincompoops at some stage in our lives...... but misuse of the english language - as a native speaker - is more of a result of ignorance of grammatical rules. Many people simply never learned them..... and spend the rest of their lives making the same grammatical mistakes................. and if that results in new expressions being borne, then so be it.............. but I would consider that a pretty pathetic and undesirable development. But maybe I am just a "dick" in this respect, as someone has already assumed........

May I ask why you would want such bread??? Isn´t gluten a mixture of plant proteins occurring naturally in cereal grains?? Why would one want to remove them???

I do alot of cooking and I prefer to cook with Non Iodized salt. But i have not been able to find any Kosher salt or Coarse Sea salt.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Never understood this. I thought "Kosher" was to do with the way animals are slaughtered, and not mixing meat and dairy. What has that got to do with salt? . . . . .

I agree...sounds like a misapprehension of the concept. It never ceases to amaze me what different societies or people believe in and the ends to which they go to do things - supposedly - the "correct" way. Most of it is a load of drivel in my modest opinion......

Every now and then, someone comes here and try to force us to use the English properly.

Language changes.

And the English empire is the source of all evil around the world.

Check history.

Bummers,

Kind regards to all of ya!

Is it really the source of all evil around the world??????? I would tend to doubt that sweeping statement!!!!

Yes, language changes........... but it shouldn´t be as a result of bad usage by nincompoops......

Did or dind't I ever told you.

That it wasn't very cool, to begin with.

The new language is here, just get used to it.

Fight the power, because that's all that's left in me.....

Alex

Wot school did you went at?????

For those amongst us with a pedantic leaning, here is an interesting link with which to bash - or pity - those writers on TV, who haven´t a clue how to use the apostrophe.............. I personally cringe when I see such mistakes.....................

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jht...MC-exp_12112008

Troll or Dick, can't decide.

Why should I be a troll or a dick?????? I´ve submitted plenty of sensible postings over the last 12 months to have dispelled such assumptions - a bit insulting, don´t you think, to make such insinuations? There are plenty of people here, who are interested in the intricacies of the English language. I was simply pointing out what I consider to be an interesting newpaper article!!!

For those amongst us with a pedantic leaning, here is an interesting link with which to bash - or pity - those writers on TV, who haven´t a clue how to use the apostrophe.............. I personally cringe when I see such mistakes.....................

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jht...MC-exp_12112008

I gleaned this list of the top 50 typical British traits from the Telegraph.......

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jht...MC-exp_10112008

Being myself a Brit, I´m shattered by number 5 though............ how pathetic!!!!!!

TOP 50 'TYPICALLY BRITISH' TRAITS

1. Talking about the weather

2. Great at queueing

3. Sarcasm

4. Watching soaps

5. Getting drunk

6. A love of bargains

7. A love of curtain twitching

8. Stiff upper lip

9. Love of all television

10. Moaning

11. Obsession with class

12. Gossiping with neighbours over the garden fence

13. Obsession with the traffic

14. Enjoying other people's misfortune

15. Inability to complain

16. Love of cheap foreign holidays

17. Working long hours

18. A soothing cup of tea to ease worries

19. Eating meat and two veg

20. Looking uncomfortable on the dance floor

21. Feeling uncomfortable when people talk about their emotions

22. Clever sense of humour

23. Obsession with property values

24. Pandering to political correctness

25. Road rage

26. Being unhappy with our weight

27. Wanting a good tan

28. Being proud of where we live

29. Not saying what we mean

30. The ability to laugh at ourselves

31. Washing the car on a Sunday

32. Taking the mickey out of others

33. Asking people about their journey

34. Inability not to comment on how other people bring up their children

35. Jealousy of wealth and success

36. Being overly polite

37. Texting instead of calling

38. An inability to express our emotions

39. Obsession with the Royal Family

40. Fondness for mowing the lawn

41. Love of rambling through the countryside

42. A love of all things deep fried

43. Emulating celebrity lifestyles

44. Leaving things to the last minute

45. Irony

46. Keeping our homes neat and tidy

47. Take decisions and accept the consequences

48. Achieving against all odds

49. Wanting our sportsmen / teams to fail

50. DIY on a Bank Holiday

"To be perfectly honest".....

My outside temperature meter in my car indicated 20 degrees at 7:15 this morning.

Kept the windows up and put on the heater... The joys of a European import car

Big girls´ blouse....... You´ve been away from Europe/USA too long.........

I had it done 20 years ago or so - I´m now 55. Apart from feeling the need to sit down and stand up very carefully for the first 2 or 3 days (which was only in the mind...... ) there was no pain at all and I´ve also suffered no side-effects whatsoever since the op. It doesn´t affect "performance" in the slightest nor does it increase the chances of prostate cancer or any other ailments. Those saying anything to the contrary are talking absolute rubbish. Have it done and you´ll never regret it.

One might be bored.... but I still don´t see the attraction of threads like"Rain.....", "What delicious drink are you tossing down your throat"...or other such rubbish....... would rather pick my nose.....

If we were to try to establich a men´s forum, it would have to be subdivided into a real hunky men´s forum, a forum for men with a softer side to them and a forum for outright big girls´ blouses.....

Get over it. Have you never written a sentence in English with an implied, understood ending? Surely you have [written such a sentence]. He was discussing the weather, saying how enjoyable it was in Hua Hin at that time of year. He completes it with a single-word imperative sentence. Enjoy! Surely you can interpret context. Enjoy the weather there, enjoy your vacation at the beach.

You might direct your concern at the 7,000 trillion-dollar financial mess, or the Thai political crisis, or the suffering in Darfur. I think when the angels were celebrating, they merely yelled, "Rejoice!"

I can indeed interpret the context..... but I will simply never cease to maintain, that it´s wrong to use the word in this fashion!!!! It´s WRONG WRONG WRONG....... I agree that languages develop... maybe it will become an accepted expression in the future ... but it will come about because "hignoramuses" misuse the word repeatedly. Let others discuss the global, financial meltdown.... my voice will never be heard, if I say anything..... so I don´t bother commenting....