jaywalker

12 hours ago, WhizBang said:

Nothing like the imaginary loss of face to trigger a public temper tantrum that will guarantee a loss of face. 

 

You really couldn't make this stuff up if you tried.  Pure Monty Python, or maybe Mel Brooks.

Oh yeah! Let's regulate supply and demand! That worked out really well with Yingluck & her rice idea didn't it?

RIP to the deceased.....But "Duck Worker"???

Certainly a strange job title for a duck farmer.

Headline once again confusing. I thought this was about real estate in Pattaya or something.

3 minutes ago, bangrak said:

Let the Chonbury boys keep their flashy expensive guns, just replace the grenades with bottles of Chivas, and trust me, maybe they can't march, but hell they can dance, even straight out of a de-luxe terminals' hospital ward, as their capo capi Khamnan Po has shown! 

HAHA!

Probably the scariest place to be when Prayuth rolls out his tanks would be on the INSIDE when it misfires due to lack of maintenance.

1 minute ago, bangrak said:

Why couldn't he be bestowed with a highly coveted(?) new honorary title, with a fancy cordon especially created for, for as long as he might live: 'minister of songs and poetry', for instance, adding, to be convincing, all the money he'd imagined he could stash away from his Chinese benefactors in twenty years? 

Why not also offer him a super-de-luxe room, with padded walls and all, with left Plodprasop and right Surapong as neighbours. A country needs to take care of its heroes, the way they deserve.

But, please, find a way to stop him, the uniformed brass, and all the rotten politicos, harming this beautiful country, and its, true, original (well...) citizens! Don't get violent though, as his bunch has about all the guns there are.

Pfff!

The only difference between Prayuth's army & the Pattaya mafia is that his troops know how to march. Just as many guns & grenades though on both sides.

7 hours ago, soalbundy said:

still better than him singing though

I swear all he needs is a Mini-Me. He already has the Dr. Evil suits.

8 hours ago, Lupatria said:

Wait for the next stunts when he walks on water, turns it to wine, recorded with the Stones, converts the Pope to Buddhism, and predicts lottery numbers.

I'm waiting for him to stop speeding bullets & be able to leap a tall building with a single bound.

This guy is HILARIOUS!

A great start to getting them out to actually do their jobs would be to put them in light, loose fitting khaki uniforms.

I'd stay inside all day too if I had to wear a skin tight, dark brown solar panel for a uniform in the tropics.

On 7/6/2017 at 6:00 AM, lamyai3 said:

I'm waiting for him to announce that he's taken up playing the fiddle. 

If he gets a fiddle, he'll be rapping next. All that's missing is Mini-Me.

11 hours ago, rkidlad said:

Stay away from the big boys and concern yourself more with mushroom pickers and students on trains. 

 

Who do Thai people love more - Youtube and Facebook or the government? 

Which one "Brings more happiness to the People"?

FB & YT or the junta?

3 hours ago, spiderorchid said:

Charming. This is your solution. Better spray some more red paint on your neck.

I'll pick up some pink & yellow paint for you while I'm at it.

On 6/24/2017 at 10:23 PM, wgdanson said:

Force feed them bacon butties and pork sausages !

Next wrap them in a wet, fresh, bloody pigskin prior to shooting them & bury them in it.

Nero fancied himself a poet too.

3 hours ago, yellowboat said:

Lastly, if we could just stop dumping huge amounts of garbage into our oceans, that too would make the earth a better place. 

Gotta save those whales man! (Shoot the seals).

I suppose if there was a Krakatoa or Vesuvius nearby this might somewhat make sense, but...rapid climate change???

My wife started trying to explain a "Phop" to me once.

It's apparently some evil, zombie-looking critter, with his skin hanging off his face, that (of course) only comes out at night, finds pregnant ladies, and steals and eats their babies.

I had a great belly laugh & she said "NO! It's TRUE! My Dad was frog hunting one night and saw one!"

My guess is that her dad saw the local soidog.

3 minutes ago, klikster said:

Agree 100%

 

To me, common logic =  you don't shut off aircon when stopping the engine, the compressor will engage when you next start the engine.

 

Not good idea IMHO.

Just wearing out the OFF/ON switch.

Back to the cute Isaan stories....

I LOVE Surin....for a visit. I was out one night with the wife in Prasat a couple miles from Mom & Dad's house and the air was crystal clear.

There was no moon and a bazillion stars out/visible. It was GORGEOUS!

I just stopped off a side road, got out and marveled at the sky for 5 or 10 minutes. My wife thought I'd lost my mind.

A few days later she told me Dad said that was a VERY BAD place to stop at night, as there were many ghosts in that area!

Oh yeah.....cannot put the head of the bed against the wall either & do not put it against a west wall.

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Ask anybody in Thailand for directions..."Turn right on HWY 22"....Would that be east or west? as I'm coming from the south/north"

Just turn right. AAAARRRGH!

35 minutes ago, klikster said:

I do the same, always have.  Neither do I turn on my aircon until after I start the engine. Does that make me Thai?

 

And yep, I live in Isaan.

I believe the theory (as I've heard it) is that shutting it off before you start the car (same as shutting it off when you stop the car), is that "it's bad for the compressor", as the oil drains out of it.

Yes compressors need oil, but they work on a pressurized system, where the oil mixes with the freon.

Been driving 35 years & never had that problem.

25 minutes ago, klikster said:

Those may linger from earlier times when hard-wired phones and raised outdoor aluminum TV antenna could "fry" electric devices to.

I was about 10 or 12, in Florida (born 1967), and lightening hit a dead tree about 150 feet from Dad's house.

We had a 1970's TV (not sure if that makes any difference to today's TV's??).

It was a giant console TV, sitting on the floor & it all but exploded. BOOM! POW! POOF! Sparks flew out the back.

We had lightening rods on the roof with 1/4' copper wires connected to long rods 6 feet long driven into the ground also, so the house was securely grounded.

Giant slabs of the dead tree almost hit the house is how we knew it hit the tree.

I'm no electrician. just saying what happened.

20 hours ago, SpeakeasyThai said:

What shall we moan about next... Bus stations?

 

The restrooms at the Mo Chit bus station are 3 TIMES the size of those at the airport.

On 5/17/2017 at 0:32 PM, BertBert said:

I know an Issan lady who does the same.
When I asked her why she did so, she said: Because it is good.

Does anyone know the reason for this practice?

My Toyota Tiger (turbo diesel) has a setting so that you can "switch it off", lock it up and walk away, and it will shut down 10 minutes later by itself.

It's to allow the turbo to cool down, but really only necessary if you've had under a heavy load & the engine is overheated a bit....I never use it & no problems in 11 years.

17 hours ago, Cadbury said:

So the Ministry of Tourism Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul says they will be focusing on "niche" markets. I think we have heard all this before. The highly imaginative Dream Team at TAT are forever thinking up visionary "niche" ideas for pulling in the tourists along with their money.

Just to refresh your memory and brighten your weekend here is a list of some of their better known "niche" market ideas.

       ·        Durian Kit Kat tourists

·        Pokemon Go tourists

·        Rusting naval base tourists

·        Jetski tourists hub

·        Sports tourists hub

·        Medical tourists hub

·        Jewellery tourists hub

·        Pattaya, good clean family fun tourists.

·        Target wealthy Chinese tourists who normally go to Japan

·        Target wealthy Japanese tourists who normally go to Taiwan

·        Promote 400B National Parks for tourists

·        Promote off-season tourism

·        Attract Chinese couples for marriage in Thailand

·        Hub of world film locations

·        Rainy season tourist programme

 Pattaya certainly has a niche market.

Just wait for it....

There'll be another announcement from TAT about headcount soon.