Thighlander

Krungsri, actually pays interest monthly......A lot of the stuff listed is going to be problematic, when it comes time for a letter for immigration. It's good to see competition, though.

Did you look at Alibaba?

Find someone to repackage it for you in the States, and call it a gift. About 20 usd to ship. I just had an American Standard shower head sent over, and that was 10.85 usd.....You can open a free account with USPS online, fill out the label, with the customs form built in, call it a gift, calculate postage and get a PDF of the label to email to the sender. My 80 yo parents managed it fine.

No, HSBC doesn't have a branch in CM, nor an ATM in Thailand. I have an HSBC USA account, and I had to pay to use the ATM at HSBC Mexico. They used to have signs up all over CNX (airport), and I was surprised to find out the reality of the situation. They do have a presence here, but not in personal banking.

Your complaint would be a lot more convincing if you knew how to spell "Debit." Hotel room taxes and fees can run 10-20% in the US; just like here. People with excellent credit pay no foreign transaction fees.........6 out of 7 of my last round trips from the US to LOS have been free thanks to credit card companies......you either use them; or let them use you.............It's not rocket science.........

Based on my experiences; there is about as much truth to this as then end of beer promotions...........I tried to get it for ten twice today, and both times was countered with thirty........first time walked away...second time we settled on 20. Did take yellow all the way out to central HD, today, and they insisted on giving me 5 back for my 20......I wonder if they discount if you are forced to ride holding onto the ladder?

I'll bet bail is about 70-80K, while your waiting for trial.........

Beer from 800 baht a carton to 1000 baht a carton is 20 % is it not?

Anyway, to keep the topic on track they have slashed their original prices, time will tell if that saves them or not. Just hope the food portions aren't sacrificed because of it.

It is not. That would be 25%. Apparently, they didn't get the word at the place (that will remain unmentioned) I was last night. However, a couple of farangs walked out unhappy, because they were charging 210 THB for 4 bottles of Leo (630ml), or Singha (500 ml). They told me they had just been to 3 solid hours of all you can drink Tiger for 115 THB.

Unmentioned - lol There are probably no less than 200+ places that have pretty thai girls, decent thai food, and great beer promotions. There is no point in pretending you know some secret beer mecca because you have bothered venturing out past the moat.

If you want good thai food, cheap beer, pretty thai girls, and no AC then you could throw a dart at a map of chiang mai and find a place.

Some people feel uncomfortable with going to these types of Thai restaurants and so they choose to pay more for comfortable surroundings, AC, english menu, and a more familiar surroundings. Grow up.

It's so secret; there have been two threads on it in the last 10 days..........Places that have promotions with cold/fresh beer and a decent restroom are really not that common.

Just my two THB, but I was stopped by undercover cops getting off the bus from Pattaya, and that was in 1998. I was carrying a real nice Ektelon Gym bag, that my aunt had bought at some outlet store; it did look a little drug dealerish, though. There was a table and they went through my bag, and let me go. They were actually going through it real slowly, and I just picked up the thing and dumped the whole contents on the table, and shrugged. They went back to their cages.

As far as the wallet search, that is a very common place to store coke. Small amounts are often ground up and sold in bindles of folded up 3 inch square pieces of Penthouse Magazine. Even a full gram could only be ann 1/8 of an inch thick. Cigarette pack is another favorite hiding place....Don't know if the 20s crowd carries single edge blades in their wallet anymore; but they used to. The Mexican heroin dealers cruise around Tucson with 10 USD amounts in balloons in their mouths, ready to swallow if Johnny Law catches up with them. Thailand is the wrong place to be messing with coke/pot........low quality/super high costs/severe penalties and the Thais are some of the biggest snitches on the planet.

sat there for three hours and didn't leave a tip?

Had a pleasant morning / early afternoon at The Game watching AFL. Great big screen with good sound, attentive staff, food was good, and the manager was telling folks there all prices have been slashed as of last week.

We spent around 3 hours there had a big breakfast and a some light snacks, a coffee, 2 orange juices and my mum had about 7 cups of tea. All came too around 630 baht. Not too bad at all.

The place seemed to have a good flow of punters as well.

630 (no tip) for breakfast for two without drinks........a real success story. I can't wait for Mrs. Lincoln's review of the play at Ford's Theater.

About 20 THB for 10 at Chiang Mai Gate Market.....except on Valentines day. I'll buy a single for 10 THB occasionally and put it in an empty beer bottle for my bar hostess; seems to go over pretty well. Definitely try to avoid dealing with child labor, there are many legitimate flower businesses.

When I fist became a sidewalk bar fan about 10 years ago; I was a regular in the Suk 11 area....One of the guys told me he had a permit to operate from Midnight to 6am. One time some Africans walked by and he went to his pick-up and bent down, I could see him jamming a cartridge in his pistol. He knew I saw the gun, and he said "brack guy, no good." But, he also had a permit for the gun on that specific block. One year I came back, about this time of year, and he was gone. I inquired to one of the freelancers (not that I would ever pay for it, lol), and she told me he closes down for a month or two during the low season.

So perhaps they are just laying low until the high season resumes. Maybe a good litmus test will be the Thermae, the quintessential late night bar on Sukhumvit. Ownership was or is tied to the police. Of course, most would say the place isn't what it was, and I would agree, but it seems to stay open very late through thick and thin. Some of those places have prices higher than inside places. I was drinking 60 thb Tigers on Sukhumvit 22, two years ago, and the place by the Asoke MRT was charging 120 for Large Leos, got back to my neighborhood place in Rachada and they were 60 THB, and had incredibly good grilled pork tenderloin.

Some of the street places have better sanitation knowledge than the restaurants. The refrigerator can be very dangerous. Street places buy every day. I hate the rats, that's for sure. I also avoid places that double as infant care facilities. Places that are "busy" will be a lot more likely to get my vote.

I really liked this lady from the North.

There's always the Tecate Girls......

Here is a red flag that I have noticed: they refuse to answer your fairly simple, straightforward questions with email. They are basically making sure you have nothing in writing that you could hold them to. Also, taking a job, where you are the second, third, or fourth teacher for that exact position, in that particular school year. You gotta ask, why could those people not honor their contracts.

http://arts.uottawa.ca/writingcentre/en/hypergrammar

Country Road is doing 69 THB hamburgers on Friday.

Probably frozen patty

Not fresh ground 180grm 100% beef

like the burgers at The Game

Cheap doesn't mean its good

and as many have realized, after visiting your establishment; neither does expensive.

Country Road is doing 69 THB hamburgers on Friday.

Have AFL live though? lol

082-389-3984 givem a call.........

Country Road is doing 69 THB hamburgers on Friday.

The dog problems hurt property values, but that seems to be the goal of many renters, anyhow.

Men's Night? Maybe I should post at Hillside 4.

W.H.O. says Thailand is "High Risk" for rabies...

As mentioned, the worst offenders are people, who feed packs of soi dogs, but let them roam at night, and deny ownership if anything happens.

The Canadian company that made PEX was involved in huge builder lawsuits in the US. Almost as big as the Chinese drywall fiasco. Might be a good time to retrofit. However, if you get desperate for it; Ebay will have it.

http://failures.wikispaces.com/PEX+Plumbing+Failures

Maybe people are fed up with be treated like second class citizens and are moving to countries that want their economic input. Or its becoming to expensive and regulated , and of course all the visa crackdowns and nominee company crackdowns may be forcing people out, Thailand is still a great place but its losing its advantages one step at a time.

I think this is at least part of the reason.

Yet again I find myself the odd one out with this thinking, I'm very OK with the way I'm treated here, 90 day reports are a minor hassle (transferred to a visa agent for 1k a year), visa renewal, once a year, I can handle that, that's about it really.

agreed....some can't seem to realize that we are still "visitors."