stevenl

What is the definition of "decent"?

Among other things a woman who will not sell her body for financial gain

Many of those women are just looking for a better life with a decent husband. If you open your eyes you will see that many of them are very decent human beings and loving wives and mothers.

It's a combination: western wind higher waves than eastern wind, stronger wind higher waves than less wind. Also tide plays a role in this (wind different direction than tide tends to make the waves higher).

Windguru does also predict waveheight btw.

In Nai Harn the waves tend to be a bit higher.

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from THB 790

<img alt="Book now" border="0" title="Twitter" /> Book from 16 - 22 Apr 2012 Travel from 1 Jun - 10 Aug 2012

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Sorry, that's the second time i try to copy paste, but that's what it gives. So i can't really show the details. but believe me, i know how to read. the details are exactly as i stated in my first post.

What is says here, looking over the codes, is: from Bangkok to Nakhon Phanom, Chiang Mai, etc. etc., including Colombo, from 790 Baht.

And that is what they're offering as well.

Nowhere does it say: Colombo (singled out) for 790 Baht.

They could also say: from Bangkok to Nahon Phanom and Chiang Mai from 790 Baht, to Colombo from 1990 Baht, etc., but that would not look as nice to Air Asia. But that does not mean their promotion is not true and so a scam.

http://www.palmhouseprimaryschool.com/

I think linn3 means the nursery/kindergarten in Chalong, in the soi opposite Tesco. Started about 2? years ago as a Russian kindergarten, but has gone more international and seems to be expanding.

Don't know if Krabi is the final destination for the OP, but if heading to one of the beach destinations and having to spend one night in Phuket anyway he could also consider a ferry.

Why because the ladies tell you how handsome you are

Yes......but they're only speaking the truth.

When i first arrived here i new 2 ladies who had a beauty salon near

Bangla road where a lot of the bar girls went, they were quite open

in there discussions on how to rip of tourists, in 6 weeks i had learnt

all there schemes although i do not doubt there are new ones now and

i find there discussions boring

So what were you doing in that beauty salon Peter, having your nails done every day, meanwhile listening to Thai girls chatting in Thai, lots of Lao as well probably, and understanding it all?

If the dealer not have the blue book, then DON'T BUY! There is sometimes not only the car in the finance, there could be also a personal loan from the former owner "open", which the finance company not need to mention. i mean, you can pay of the dept of the car and maybe you still not get the blue book now, because there could be another dept (like personal loan) to pay. So in matter of fact you have to pay the outstanding balance ofthe car AND the personal loan as well, but the finance company sometime not mention this in advance. Buy only if you see the blue book and all the tranfer documents.

If the car is financed by a finance company, they have the blue book. Any other debts on the car really are of no importance to a prospective buyer, because as soon as the debt to the finance company is paid the blue book will be returned to the owner. What the owner does with the rest of the debt is up to him, but can not be on the car.

The response was made to how241's post where the key word was 'lately'.

To clarify for you, that doesn't mean today. The weather today has been marvellous - just like July, August and September which are my favourite months here.

Yes, and yesterday, so today when you wrote, was the day with 30 degrees centigrade and 94% humidity, so in your opinion "Danger - sunstroke, muscle cramps and / or heat exhaustion likely"

Very Hot and humid lately.

Hot, where are you?

With a temperature of 30 degrees, and humidity of 94%, that gives a heat index ('feels like') of 117. Guideline for this is; "Danger - sunstroke, muscle cramps and / or heat exhaustion likely".

Still think that's not hot?

No, does not feel hot at all.

Very Hot and humid lately.

Hot, where are you?

I prefer D-Max, a much nicer drive experience IMO. Vigo is (too) light at the back.

My feeling: Rawai is dry, dryer than e.g, Kata, which is again dryer than Patong.

Before I moved to Rawai I used to like in Ao Makham, and that was also very dry. On my way there was one spot, always the same, where the rain stopped, like a line on the road.

About 15,000 Baht.

Thanks for your reply. Seems a lot for a sort of semi skilled job. But these are the sort of figures i have been hearing. I guess they have a lot of responsibility though. I think your answer is quite accurate. Do you know this from a source or is this a guesstimate? Thanks

That is what the guys here in the area, Phuket, get paid.

Divesupply is the importer for Thailand. They have an outlet in Bangkok, so check with them.

Hopefully a Moderator is reading these posts by MRO/ORM and can assist him with his accounts, as like many of you I enjoy his input.

Cheers

Woodsie

Hear Hear, Mro/Orm is the closest thing to a local Moderator (I mean in this context someone with real knowledge and not a person who weeds and cuts) we have in this Subforum. Please Thaivisa do give him some consideration.

Thanks for the support.

Have mine too...

And mine as well.

Very common here, and it should be as easy as that.

As long as you get the blue book you're fine.

Welcome back MRO did you get banned and came back in disguise

Nothing quite so dramatic I'm afraid: http://www.thaivisa....s/#entry5229584

P.S. I'll fix this list tomorrow, quite a few changes I can see I've missed

P.P.S. Who knows, I could actually get myself banned yet though - forum rules state you're not allowed to have more than one account, but &lt;deleted&gt; are you meant to do when any decent email server bounces TV emails back into the ether?

I guess it's ORM now...welcome back...and maybe we start with the tire pressure(just kidding)

Looks like welcome back and goodbye.

Didn't want to start a new thread for something so unimportant, but for a couple of days I've had no members names at the bottom of my screen, is that the same for everyone or just me?

If who ever decides to slag my post off first could answer that while they are at it, I would be grateful.

Here the same, no names.

I don't think it's very clear at all. I have stated I would be prepared to take the risk on mowing my own lawn, but would not take the risk on mowing anyone else's lawn.

You daredevil.

Your interpretation of my posts leaves a lot to be desired.

About 15,000 Baht.

As already mentioned here these sort of 'problems' usually only occur when a report has been made to Immigration and the authorities are duty bound to follow up. These reports are usually made by business competition, disgruntled neighbors or staff, general disputes, and the like. If you look deeper into previous high profile cases you will see that's the case.

I agree. However, if I am Thai, and own a lawn mowing business here, if I make the telephone call to Immigration and dob in a farang who I see mowing a lawn here, what will happen? In a previous post, we only have an "opinion" or an "interpretation" of the law from an interview with an Officer of the Employment Department published in the PG. I don't think you can rely on that, at Thai law.

I have an elderly farang friend with a bad hip. I carry his shopping bags for him. The problem is, where does "friendship" end and working ilegally starts in Thailand?

He lives in a condo, but if he lived in a house and asked me to mow his lawn for him as well, I think I would have to decline. There would be a risk of me breaching the law here because it's his place, not mine, and it seems unclear if you can even mow your own lawns here with absolute certainty you will not be in breach.

I think it is all very clear.

Yes, you can mow your own lawn, no problem. Yes, you can mow your friend's lawn, but you do run a (small) risk.

The wine and cheese and the conferences and the pens and charts are given whether the drugs are prescribed or not. While I am no supporter of big corporations or their tactics in general , this is just advertising, and not inducement, as any doctors are free to suck up the goodies and then prescribe a competitor's (or a generic) drug.

I think you could be right about certain things you mention here, but this of course is BS. Anybody who thinks these enticements have no positive effect on the sales of the company/product should start wondering why they keep offering them.

Like with all products, also here there are many, many reasons to buy/recommend a certain product that have nothing to do with the product itself but with the company selling it, the packaging, the service, etc.

There is a farang guy where I live who regularly goes along the beach searching through the bins and filling his sack with plastic bottles, cans etc. This is highly embarassing if I take staff or clients for a meal in one of the beach restaurants and they see him. Do you think he could get done for working without a WP?

Why would that be embarrassing?

So, it's you?

No, it is not me. But again, why would that be embarrassing for you? Vicarious shame?

There is a farang guy where I live who regularly goes along the beach searching through the bins and filling his sack with plastic bottles, cans etc. This is highly embarassing if I take staff or clients for a meal in one of the beach restaurants and they see him. Do you think he could get done for working without a WP?

Why would that be embarrassing?