Sateev

"Chinky" is pretty offensive to most people with legs longer than their arms...

Just sayin'..

Enough of this desperate search for legitimacy by projecting onto celebrities and important historical figures.

You're gay? Great, just be gay and get over it...

Jesus, Honest Abe, et al have as much right to be whatever they were as you do to be gay. OK?

Koh Lanta. Hard to get a Thai girl to go to a beach that has no food though.

Well, sounds like a personal problem, perhaps it is hard to get a Thai prosititute to such a place. Normal Thai's flock to the National Parks.

My wife and I routinely camp for weeks at a time, largely cooking by ourselves.

I guess it's the company you keep.

What an utterly rude and stupid comment...

I cannot get rid of the feeling that the Government are making an absolute cluster <deleted> out of this entire situation. ...

Wow! Ya think?

Dopey post of the day:

Quote:- The visit is at the initiative of the US Embassy in Bangkok, which contacted the temple before the US presidential election on November 6. The monk quoted US Ambassador Kristie Kenney as saying that Wat Pho is the most beautiful temple in the world. "The temple and Thailand would like to thank the ambassador for helping to choose the temple, which has certainly helped bolster Thailand's reputation." Unquote.

Ambassador Kenney has never been inside St, Pauls Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Sacre Coeur, Notre Dame or the Vatican then? If she is being literal in using the word 'temple' rather than meaning places of worship, then I guess India and Japan have a few that would set Wat Pho back a few pegs. I suggest that Ms Kenney goes easy with the BS ladle.

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did anyone check if maybe one of his stories could actually be true ? i am not talking about poisening items in supermarkets, but about claims...

does anyone here knows that coca cola contains Phosphoric acid which is used to clean toilets ???

They use it for the drink first, and then, I suppose, it could be called 'cleaning the toilet'...makes pretty quick work of a copper coin, too...not to mention tooth enamel...

We're in Thailand on the first entry of a double-entry tourist visa. We will be entering Cambodia on the 15th (by air), and returning sometime in December. If I can get any idea about how this affects us, I will report it.

Believe normal wait in Phnom Penh is 4 days for visa issue and no VOA is available at any crossing into Thailand so it would require a flight into Thailand to obtain a VOA.

http://www.mfa.go.th...on-Arrival.html

thanks a lot for your response

information on internet is all paradox

perhaps i should go to Taipei for Thailand's visa office to give it a try

when i go to HCM vietnam i'll give it another try to the embassy over there.

my period of stay in PP is 1 day and in SR is 3 days

the worst situation (perhaps not the worst) is that i hand out the application form in PP and go to SR,

and return to PP after 3 days to get the visa from the embassy in PP...

what a crap to be out of visa exemption

Using the Cambodian guard at the entrance to the Thai Embassy, the turnaround is two days (hand your passports/pics and the negotiated price to him in PM day one, and pickup PM day three). I even think one day is possible for an extra few $$. Remember to bring US dollars or get some before you go for the visa. His usual price was $40 (visa) + $20 (to him), earlier this year. He does all the paperwork, hands you back the visa in your passport.

This is news worthy? It's business as usual here in Isaan.

I presume you're just a troll. But if you're not then I suggest you report what you know to the local police. Or do you condone child prostitution? If you know this goes on and don't report it, then you deserve to be locked up.

Get back to us when you've been here a while, Davey-boy...hope the shock of your awakening doesn't do any permanent damage...

And, although the MFA website says you can apply for a one-year non-O as the spouse of an O-A long-stay (retirement) visa, Immigration may not grant one, as they seem to be petulantly disposed to a turf-war with MFA. They couldn't care less what the MFA says, or how it affects your family when they overrule it.

In your situation, I would suggest that you bring the money to Thailand, and apply for retirement extension for your husband, and a similar extension for you as his spouse. This is the tried and proven way.

Couple for sale on Craigslist, 8000 and 11000 baht...

No bikes allowed across the Friendship Bridge from Nong Khai to Vientiane. Closest crossing is Bueng Kan, way north, 120km. Coming back is OK, though. (Some have reported reopening of Friendship bridge TO Laos in 2011, but I have heard recently that Laos has closed it to bikes again).

Riders DNA, 5th floor MBK has a couple of brands of flip-up helmets with the inner sun visor. The drawback is that they are heavy compared to plain full-face helmets.

all jokes aside ,the ABBA stand looks great though

if they were the same price + availability in thailand i would get one

There's a brand new one for sale here:

http://www.bahtsold....ike-lift-115186

5000 baht - now THAT'S something to get angry over...

Of course, it all depends on where the OP wants to stay. In the non-tourist areas, he might just be able to find something livable in that price range. Near Sukhumvit, forget it.

Open the new account, at whatever bank you wish, then go to an ATM and transfer the money from the old account to the new. Easy-peasy.

Worachak/Klong Thom. Walk around. Lots of Chinese Dremel-type sets and bits.

Positive things, IMO: MUCH cheaper rents, better variety of places to rent, different food, quite delicious, proximity to mountains and rivers, lots of good day trips, less traffic than Bangkok, especially away from city center, etc.

But for me, really, the air pollution is an absolute show-stopper.

Air quality in the hot season, before the rains, is the biggest problem for the North, with Chiang Mai among the worst because of its geography (surrounded by mountains). Burning of rice fields is the main cause.

Compare with other parts of Thailand here: http://ourchiangmai.com/air-pollution-in-chiang-mai-thailand/

Terrible shame, it has only gotten worse over the years...

If you look at the picture, the smoke is coming out of the tuk tuk in the front of the picture obscured by the bikes.

Tuk-tuks and motosais don't make black smoke. They make bluish smoke, from the oil, either mixed in the fuel (old bikes/tuk-tuks), or from worn rings.

Buses make black smoke, as a result of burning diesel oil. Black smoke is mostly carbon particles (particulates), and is particularly bad for lungs. Buses are, by far, the greatest polluters in Bangkok.

Why go to all the trouble of looking for an agent? Just go to the consular office before 12:00, turn in your passport, pics, and copies, etc., and pick it up the next day. Pay 20 baht to one of the many 'assistants' in front of the consular office gate to check over everything, if you're not sure. If you're missing something, they can supply it.

Doubt you'll make it the same day, however, if you land at 10:45. Don't bother going there in the early AM the next day, with all the crowds. Go later, and fly right through...

Good, robbing bastards.

I and I am sure many other expat residents would have gone regularly if it wasn't for the extortionate pricing for foreigners.

Can't understand why one calls himself or his friends "expats". Maybe I am totally wrong - sorry for that. But for me "expat" means something about living in a country where you were not born. And seeing it that way I ask myself: How can one live in any country without knowing at least a few basic rules about not getting ripped off?

What I try to say here is: I have got my Thai driving licenses (car and motorcycle) to show at any place where you have to pay a kind of entrance fee - and if you can show that you are living here - you will be charged the Thai price! Easy as that. Stop complaining about things YOU can change. It's not our contry - we have to follow Thai rules.

Wish that was true. In national parks, they make up the rules according to how they feel that day. I've been told everything from, "You speak Thai well, so I'll give you the Thai price", to "Driver license cannot - need work permit", to "Thai only."

The rest of your advice is typical whipped-dog nonsense. If there actually were any well-defined rules, and if they were administered fairly, then you might have something. The reality is that you will be taken advantage of at every possibility. If you don't push back, then you will be hosed. Simple as that.

I visited the stadium several times in the late 80's and early 90's with my Thai father in law, all to watch the Muay Thai boxing. I don't remember there being a different price for entry at that time. Must be a later thing. And we did indeed see the real Thai boxing, it was not nice and friendly. Afterwards my father in law would go chat with some of the trainers, pick up his winnings and arrange to meet them at some late night chicken fighting spot run by a local cop.

I always liked its slightly decayed charm. It seems to me that the aura of casual neglect is required part of any of these martial arts. It just doesn't seem right in a gleaming chrome and plastic setting.

You're correct. The first time I remember there being dual pricing was in approx. 1996. It was about 2x then. Over the years, it has graduated to the big-time ripoff at 10x. Same progression as many other attractions, like the Grand Palace/Wat Phrakeaw, national parks, etc.

I won't even comment on davejones post, except to say that it's clueless.