jaywalker

23 hours ago, skydiver77 said:

So there really is a sucker born every minute.

Some are ladyboys. 

16 minutes ago, hargri said:

All that is happening to date is a case of dealing, not very efficiently, with symptoms of the underlying problems. Until they effectively resolve waste and sewage disposal issues any cleanup will be merely cosmetic and temporary.

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That would mean any money that's supposed to fix the problem would not find its way into the correct pockets.

Not likely to happen anytime soon.

1 hour ago, ksamuiguy said:

PEA Samui inaction to potential hazard and safety concerns.

For months a tree has been against the High Voltage cables to one of the villas we care for. The tree is over the public Soi. I have personally talked to PEA at their office here, provided photos of the problem as well as the location. The issue is that it is a hazard not only to PEA lines but causes loss of  power, blown fuses and phase loss to the house.

Single phasing the load, low voltage and power loss problems in the house.

 

The complaint was made in person to Engineering counter at PEA office 3 months ago and again last month so far nothing has been done to remove the tree limbs touching the H.V. Cables.

 

How do I get this obvious safety hazard resolved?

 

When the fuse/fuses do blow it takes PEA well over an hour to respond and replace the fuses. The last time the response was 12 hours.

 

 

Probably have the wife find the guy that would actually do the work & pay him 500 baht (for doing his job).

I Once had to pay 300 baht to get my internet connected. Otherwise it was going to take 3 weeks...maybe. This was AIS!

Hopeless with the powers that be.

20 minutes ago, webfact said:

The three meter wide rupture - not secured with strengthening metal strips - gave way around 5pm.

Metal in our wall? Reinforced concrete? No need. Mai pen rai.

You no understand Thai cement.

1 hour ago, dfdgfdfdgs said:

 

I have nightmares about that place.

I have mixed dreams about it.

Have not been there in years.

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A couple Limey buddy's were in town & we went out. One started complaining about jet-lag...said he was was going back to his hotel.

Fair enough. The other guy and I started a bar trawl, when I came up with the bright idea of stopping into a Katoey bar. Hell, I was just curious, figured it was good for a beer.

We went in, & there was our "jet-lagged" buddy with two katoeya on his lap!

Neither of us cared, but the look on his face when he saw us was beyond hilarious!!!

We were "On the piss" but he was getting down & dirty with them!

1 hour ago, jenifer d said:

all over the world, prostitutes cheat people and steal things, and the same in Pattaya, wherever there are poor people who are essentially forced into sex work by dint of lack of education or other gainful employment

there will be thefts and such; this is compounded for trans as in many places they are not allowed to have 'normal' employment- and many men DO love to indulge their bisexual side by having romp w/katoey...

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to tar ALL the members of ANY group due to the bad actions of a few is unfair and specious...

there are 10's of thousands of katoey throughout Thailand, and the vast majority are NOT thieves; one is more likely to be cheated by the bar they're drinking in and/or the bargirl they're hiring for sex (or marrying while thinking that they love the foreigner for anything but their money)

They sure do make the headlines though.

We have Rachel Maddow on this commenting thread I think?

1 minute ago, dfdgfdfdgs said:

The ID card was the only way in some cases to be 100% sure if the girl you were seeing/talking to on an app/about to sleep with, was definitely a girl.

 

If that changes and they've already had surgery, then you've only the voice to rely on, and some new guys to south east asia might not be clued up on that.

 

I've met a girl who was an actual girl who had a voice a bit like a ladyboy.  I'm yet to meet a ladyboy who has a voice like a girl.

Son, you need me to take you for a trip around Nana Plaza to show you the ropes.

I could care less how somebody else lives their life.

Now please tell them to stop harassing/groping and stealing? If they want to be treated normally then act like a human should act.

Sorry they have a bad rap, but it's been self inflicted over the years.

30 minutes ago, thinkingman said:

Is the robot garage still open? Are there other alternatives for secure parking for an overnight trip on Sunday for Koh Larn?

Yes. Leave your car at home, risk life and limb on a moto-taxi to get to the broken down pier.

Next, risk life and limb, and pray that the ferry doesn't sink/catch fire. THEN risk life and limb on Koh Larn to get from the pier to the beach on another moto taxi.

Repeat the same going home.

Moto-dops are normally great folks & good drivers though.

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I recall parking somewhere for free, near Mike shopping mall, spending 10 (well 20) baht to get to the old wooden pier w/ my wife. 2002, prior to the Chinese and Russian invasion.

We caught a ferry one day that could have seated 150 people safely.

It was me, my wife and a monk for passengers.

The Chinese have already invaded Pattaya.

Not sure what they are waiting for to take over the whole country.

On 7/27/2017 at 8:25 AM, JSixpack said:

 

Yeah, for today's bash let's pretend there are no out-of-court settlements in every country. Saves taxpayer money and avoids more docket crowding. Win win. 

Great point. The kid <deleted> up. Daddy paid. Hope Pappy makes him go get a job and pay him him back. 

That's what I would do.

17 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

why can't he get a job in a better University? This is like the tailor of the year award that used to appear in sabaidee flight magazine.

Yeah, I figured the award would go to the doctor that found a cure for ebola a while back. 

13 hours ago, robertthesculptor said:

Dear Thailand, get ready for a bloodbath, just like Amerika...police should not be trained or armed like military. They forget which they are.

There's still a few in the USA that serve and protect, though not many.

One just helped my 84 year old Aunt up after she fell down. She dialed 911 & there he was.

37 minutes ago, JAG said:

Change one consonant, and you might think he hails from the North East?

Dr. Ruffalo should be in charge of the Buffalo Bank.

Maybe then they'd quit losing livestock.

31 minutes ago, JAG said:

Change one consonant, and you might think he hails from the North East?

Ruffaloakornikanjunporn.

7 minutes ago, webfact said:

Dr. David Ruffolo

A very Thai name.

1 hour ago, tropo said:

Easy to say sitting here on a keyboard. It would be the pinnacle of multitasking and perhaps the driver did blow his horn. Does anyone have information on this?

All the moto drivers must have been on their phones when he honked his horn, so didn't hear him.

If a (real) man grabs a lady by her nether regions, hugs and gropes a female, WRONG!!!!!!!

Yet katoeys get away with it every day.

Man gives "it" a hard shove & tells it to get the bleep away, then it's stilettos heeled shoes to the head.

12 hours ago, observer90210 said:

Funny...the SIG SAUER is a SwissMade firearms Co.....why did Thailand purchase it from the US entity of SIG?....surely for a good reason?

Pretty sure that Sig has a US factory/distributor.

A separate company was founded in the US in 1985 with the name Sigarms (until October 2007) to import and distribute SIG Sauer firearms into the United States. Since 2000 SIG Sauer Inc. has been organizationally separate from manufacturer SIG Sauer GmbH

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIG_Sauer

1 hour ago, tropo said:

I've been in emergency braking situations before and sounding my horn was the last thing I was thinking of. 

Guess you shouldn't be driving then.

I accidentally (my fault/not paying attention/looking at a cop roadside shakedown or something in my mirrors), and ran the light on Sukhumvit at Najomtien Road. NO WAY I could have stopped in time. I managed to stop halfway thru the intersection, but my horn prevented a few drivers from getting hit.

7 hours ago, Belzybob said:

Not only was the driver most likely incompetent, but it seems he couldn't even find the horn button to warn others.

The horn failed.

8 minutes ago, George FmplesdaCosteedback said:

Three others who were drinking on an adjoining table were let go as there was no evidence they were gambling.

 

A trip to the opticians needed?

 

A trip back thru this thread to see that the article was edited after it was quoted for you.

4 minutes ago, observer90210 said:

In a car, dash cams all around the car unfortunately seem to be a solution....one could always send the footage higher up perhaps?

Agreed. However, this happened prior to the age of dash cameras....which was not that long ago. 5 years or so?

She called me in BKK crying her eyes out, saying she needed 10,000 baht.