bloody tiger

Oh, and maybe i'd start a broom cart business too

I'd regularly post on TV enquiring what the poor people (you lot) are up to

reading between the lines i can see that your real dilemma is that you wish to go forth and purchace a set of twin beds thus eliminating your matrimonial obligations and giving you more time to spend posting on thai visa

BTW, this guy knows bar girls, even though he prefers men. But, my GF says that these girls are not to be trusted and especially the Thai guys they know. Who knows? This girl could have set up her friend

As most Thai visa members are acutely aware, Thai bargirls are not only a source of national pride but also play an important role for the tourism autority of thailand. To suggest otherwise is a most unwarranted attack on the honest hardworking hostesses that make many a weary traveller feel more than welcome.

As for the thieves themselves...gutless individuals who would probably run if counter attacked. I'm sure they all have major dental hygene issues also. my suggestion would be to kick the biggest one in the "Sally valve" and watch em all scurry

Lat year i bought 20,000 toothbrushes and handed them out free to out of work thai undergraduates. This year i may take a submarine tour of the Chiang Mai moat.

Approximately 4 years ago, whilst investigating an igloo manufacturing businness, i am almost certain I spotted a foriegner (of porridge variety british) on Thapae rd, he was wearing tailored shorts and knee length socks.................feel free to add him to your list

you are all familiar with the term BIG right?

Beer Is Good

I rest my case

The Bloodied Tiger

PS. Beer goes great with not only chips and pretzels, but also a fine accompaniment to lammingtons, iced vo-vo's and all cheese based dishes

why Wales should fear Australia next weekend in the RWC

geez Donny, I think Sterling is checking YOU out....it is sheep country in the ACT, so he's probably got a sniff

Can anyone explain why New Zealand and Australia have got 5 points for their wins but Argentina and England only got 4 points?

The winning team gets a bonus point for scoring more than four tries in the game, also, if the losing teams margin is seven points or less, they get one point.

actually, I think its any team that scores 4 tries in a game gets the bonus

u r correct....and your predictions right on the money so far (although i didn't see a pumas/Le Coq prediction).....early days, I'm hoping it'll be Oz cup number 3, but obviously have to get thru the AB's...also SA a bit unknown as they held back so many payers throughout the tri nations........go the wallabies

Slide on up to Chiang Mai where the top end condo's are around 40K/m....we also have a nice relaxed healthy lifestyle, ice cold beer and daily postal service. When you check in on your cheap nokair flight from BKK, be sure to use the secret password "sawasdee krub/ka" to recieve your free gift....a months free subsription to this forum

BTW. I had to delay writing this reply for 4 hours and a dozen beers as i felt obligated to after reading this post :

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=141124

BTW2. omitted by poster due to excessive beer consumption

chock dee na krub

The Bloodied Tger

Maybe this Thai men who stand outside in the poring rain have to quite smoking, then they can stand inside like the rest of us......

Well, that's all dbrenn could came up with to make the Thais appear like poor victims: "queuing up outside a western embassy in the peeing rain just to get a tourist visa", as if it's something unique to Thais dealing with Western embassies and never mind that, for example, the visa section's waiting area of the Italian Embassy in Bangkok is thrice the size of the visa section's waiting area of the Thai Embassy in Rome...

In that other thread I didn't want to sound like I was ranting and have my post deleted so I ignored dbrenn's "poetic license" but still... LOL!

BAF,

I think you make a lot of good points and agree with you.

TNX voa

BLAH BLAH BLAH....well they don't need a big waiting room at the Thai embassy in Rome because all the Italians can come here without having to get a visa.......now why would it be that there is a huge waiting room at the visa section of the Italian embassy in bangkok???? I'll have a punt and say because its SO BLOODY hard for thais to get tourist entry Italy.......have a nice day

I don't fully agree with you that the right comparison is like with like since the Thais are allowed in our homecountries everything which we are denied in theirs.

Do you mean like how any westerner can come to thailand and recieve a entry on arrival stamp without any background check, due process or fee?

Or do you mean like how if a Thai wishes to visit a western country they will have to apply for a visa, in a lot of cases be scrutinised and even humiliated by western embassy staff(although these are often Thai staff!). For most there will be a large fee up to thousands of baht, quite often nessecitating overnight or multiple night stays in BKK thus adding to costs. For many who have had long and solid marrages to a westener, even bearing their children who become western citizens also, they will still have to go through this whole visa process when visiting that western country. Is this waht you mean when you say that "Thais are allowed in our homecountries everything which we are denied in theirs"?

I agree that it has been a unsettling time, with regards to residency and visa issues, for those of us wish to make Thailand our home, but PLEASE do not always be so quick to assume that Thai's are always treated so much better in our reciprical countries. Just remember that any Thai, who has a passport and enough money for a plane ticket, can't just hop on a plane and on arrival will be greeted with a smile and a entry on arrival stamp in their passport.

I hope that the future will be brighter for long term "commited to Thailand" foriegners and I also hope that one day my wife can travel freely throughout the world alongside her husband and HER children.

Here is your answer: www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=129155

Now i see the following:

You make a blanket statement satating "Thais are allowed in our homecountries everything which we are denied in theirs"

I answer with a very reasonable FACT that even the most basic of entry rights for tourist is so absolutely far removed from your statement that "Thais are allowed in our homecountries everything which we are denied in theirs"

You reply with another thread which tries to give some legitimacy to why thai's have to go through this visa process without actually answering your blatantly STUPID remark that "Thais are allowed in our homecountries everything which we are denied in theirs"

When people such as yourself come to these ludicrous statements you build a stereo type of the Thai person that is far removed from the truth. I don't know if it because of a lack of education or knowledge on the subject matter, or because you have a holier than thous attitude which unfortunately some guests of Thailand and other non-western countries have.

You need to wake up and look at the facts...not make absurd statements which are wrong in so many ways.

I'll say it again...I hope that over the course of time that there will be a bright future for foriegners committed to Thailand and at the same time i hope that western countries become more liberal with entry on arrival stamps for Thai's.

I witnessed a lightning strike to my watertank about a month ago whilst i was in the yard....awesome sight BTW.....when building I installed good quality lightning rods, good thick heavily insulated cable and 8 foot earthing poles, one set each for my home and water tank.....I probably could of just installed one on the water tank as it is a few feet higher than the house and only about 15 metres away, but felt more secure with one on both. For those who may not know what a lightning rod does, it is effectively an electrical cct from above your roof line to the earth which means the lightning will bypass your house by travelling directly from the lightning rod to earth via the thick insulated cable.

Under the water tank I have an attatched outside kitchen and laundry area as well as water pumps....around 8 appliances were in use or plugged in at the time....no damage to any of them...so I feel the lightning rods have already payed for themselves.

From memory, I think the materials cost me about 13K baht and installation about 1.5K.

During thunderstorms I feel safe enough NOT to disconnect electrical appliances but I do disconnect the telephone connection to my PC as the telephone line is not protected by my lightning rods (ie. a lightning strike to a telephone line/box outside my home)

Incidentally, surge protectors, safety cuts, residual CB's etc are all great equipment to protect against power surges/shortcct's etc, but have no effect against the huge surge of a lightning strike. The only true way to protect is using a ligtning rod. Unplugging everthing is gr8 for yr appliances but you still run the risk of frying your electrical system.

Condo owners should check that the building has one (or more) installed.

Hope this was of some use,

Chok Dee na krub

I tell ya what I reckon is hilarious.............

The farang overhears a conversation and (with his immense understanding of the Thai people, Thai culture, Thai sense of humour and the Thai language) he picks up the word "farang" has been used.....immediately he assumes that they must of been talking about him and laughing about him.......arguments ensue.........even blind rage i have seen.....HILARIOUS.............insecurity at its highest level.......... ..........I bet many of you have witnessed this on a few occasions......even funnier when at the fresh food market the said "farang" is of the edibale variety....

.........I myself am MAKSEEDA

Oh my, have i just stepped onto a steamer?

I don't fully agree with you that the right comparison is like with like since the Thais are allowed in our homecountries everything which we are denied in theirs.

Do you mean like how any westerner can come to thailand and recieve a entry on arrival stamp without any background check, due process or fee?

Or do you mean like how if a Thai wishes to visit a western country they will have to apply for a visa, in a lot of cases be scrutinised and even humiliated by western embassy staff(although these are often Thai staff!). For most there will be a large fee up to thousands of baht, quite often nessecitating overnight or multiple night stays in BKK thus adding to costs. For many who have had long and solid marrages to a westener, even bearing their children who become western citizens also, they will still have to go through this whole visa process when visiting that western country. Is this waht you mean when you say that "Thais are allowed in our homecountries everything which we are denied in theirs"?

I agree that it has been a unsettling time, with regards to residency and visa issues, for those of us wish to make Thailand our home, but PLEASE do not always be so quick to assume that Thai's are always treated so much better in our reciprical countries. Just remember that any Thai, who has a passport and enough money for a plane ticket, can't just hop on a plane and on arrival will be greeted with a smile and a entry on arrival stamp in their passport.

I hope that the future will be brighter for long term "commited to Thailand" foriegners and I also hope that one day my wife can travel freely throughout the world alongside her husband and HER children.

Thanks cyber, but unfortunately there is no municipal garbage collectors where i'm at (they say next year maybe!) and thus I'm trying to find out where THOSE municipal garbo collectors, of which you speak, dump their collected trash, ie. the rubbish dump.

Agree 100 % about the foragers, it is the same all over thailand and indeed throughout asia and many other parts of the world. Unfortunately none of them seem to keen on trying to onsell our rugrats soiled daipers

......for virtually everything else we are able to recycle or throw onto the compost, but i'm left with a full sized plastic bag full of daipers about once a fortnight. Other than dumping it in someone else's gutter, I hoping someone knows where a rubish tip is............

I know the topic of rubbish has been discussed in various forums but I have been unable to find the answer to this question so I am turning to you, the enlightened brethren of Thai Visa, to help me solve this Thai eqation.

I live in Doi Saket but closer to the city than to the amphur. I have asked a lot of people where i can go to "legally" dump rubbish. These people include nieghbours, poo yai barn, dtumbon obador(sunpooloei), cops, businesses and so on......the most common answers are

"there is no rubbish service here"(drrrrrr)

"we will be getting a rubbish service next year"(yep, that helps, just hold onto my rubbish for a year or more)

"dig a hole" (done that a few times already)

"no have" (common response)

One police officer suggested "take it into the city to the rear entrance of a big hotel and leave it with their rubbish" !!!

and the classic answer was "4 bottles of Acha beer for 100" (didn't help me much but i bought the 4 bottles)

There's plenty of other areas that have a rubbish removal service, so there must be rubbish tips somewhere. So if anyone knows of a rubbish tip in doi saket, meuang, sansai, sunkumpang or ANYWHERE in chiang mai, please let me know

watch out 4 da drop bears,

The bloodied tiger AKA acha convert

The BART was always going to weaken with the premiere of "The Simpsons Movie"

Generally, as populations become more educated, they reproduce less.

Besides my dazzling velor shirts and my "how about a banana smoothie?" cordoroys, I find that the chicks are almost always swept away once introduced to my 47 volume encyclopedia of the western plains bogon moth and its reproductive capabilities.....on a more sombre note, I'm sure the dwindling offspring is more to do with the trappings of capitalism....back when maekhong was 28 baht a tall bottle the feathers in our caps were irrelevant.

play the game, don't let it play you

Besides my huge pot belly, my balding head, my broken twisted nose, my pock marked face, my hairy back and ears and my rancid smelly feet, I know that women find me absolutely irresistable....why is this so.....after long and careful deliberation, I can only put it down to my uncanny sense of dress when out on the pull....green cordoroy flared pants and a lovely red velor collared shirt...this drives em crazy

G'day spot,

Just had another child born last week in chiang mai (Thepanya hospital....incidentally, around 40K baht for c-section and 4 nights in private aircon room). All i did at the hospital was fill in the parents form. They shouldn't have to have an endorsed copy of your passport, mine wasn't even sighted! Went to the Amphur office on thursday, with my wife, to do the birth certificate, brought the following along:

1. Hospital paperwork

2. Copy of wifes ID

3. Copy of my passport

4. Copy of Tabian Baan

5. Copy of Marriage certificate and Tabian Marriage

Also brought along the origonals for them to sight, about 20 minutes and 14 baht later we had the birth certificate. In about 2 weeks we'll go to the amphur office to have the child put onto the tabian baan.

Good Luck,

The Bloodied Tiger

PS. It's a good idea to keep copies of all the above mentioned docs on your PC as they seem to be required on a very regular basis, particularly the wifes ID

thx for the replies, some way off and some right on the nail, some sound advice I feel. I sought of wrote this not just for myself but for a few others who may be in the same boat. Anyways, thank you

Ive never drunk just dont like the taste but the big pressure to avoid is "peer pressure", guess i can just think for myself.

All things in moderation if you enjoy it why stop as long as its not excessive.

Sounds like you drink toooooooooooooo much to me though?

You are right, I drink too much, I know this. But does this mean I need to quit? Maybe yes.

My kids love me and I absolutely love and adore each and every one of them.

My wife loves me and I love her with all my heart (made some mistakes when we were starting out though).

Really i don't think I'm an alcho...because at times i go for weeks without a drink

But maybe I am because when I start i generally finish the job??? Don't know.

Its not peer pressure though..this is a fallacy, it 1s only ourselves who put this pressure on.

You are lucky sukanya, u have no desire to drink, u never had to experience this so you can't possible KOWJAI

but txs