DirkGently

I'll have to check with WEHO before I dine there. Thai Visa has one resident foodie (WEHO), is there enough room for two?

Pattaya should have a Statue of Liberty style sign. I can see it now.

Give me your drunk, your idiotic, your perveted masses yearning to screw on the cheap.

The failed refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the overweight, tempest tossers to me, I lift my skirt behind the curtained door.

The guy the OP saw was no doubt a loser in his own society so feels at home in Pattaya.

I have always liked Compaq. That was until i fancied a tech treat so I went out and bought a Mac after using a friends.

Its great.

Whilst I agree that cracking down on on-line fraud etc can only be a good thing, it needs a police force that has some knowledge of computers

The way I understand it, and please correct me if I'm wrong, people that have internet provided by the condo operators (in other words, people that DO NOT HAVE A PRIVATE LINE) share Ip addresses with other residents. So how can anybody be pinpointed?

My only concern is can I still use Limewire with impunity!

What a city? What a police force? What a dreadful population?

The second, and proberbly last, time I descended into Pattaya I was perusing a stall selling torches and suchlike close to the main mall on the front. I was stunned when the guy flipped back a peice of card to reveal a pile of dvds of young girls. What a disgrace?

The 'new' 7 wonders of the world seems to have pricked many people's interest. On the whole I agree with the 7 choices. However, I would have thought Stonehenge was more important than Christ in Rio.

What about the 7 white elephants of the world. The more pointless, wasteful and self indulgent the better.

I'd like to nominate The Millenium Dome in London. 1.2 BILLION POUNDS of public money spent on a project to get Tony Blair's in lights.

Central World has to be in the running. A huge, almost empty, monolith to over spending.

10 dollars? Did the price double? It's been a while since I did that run on a Air Asia deal. Very pleasent all round.

Don't miss out on the bakery opposite the bus station. Great food and some of the profits go to schools (or some such charity).

Take a break from DVD shopping and take a tour on one of three wheel tuk tuks. A couple of temples and a an impressive stupa. Nice.

I like to complain too. In a quiet and condecending fashion. I like asking the manager if it's "too difficult for them".

As for your mushroom debacle, I have had a similar thing. I don't have a sweet tooth so when I order lemon soda I ask for no sugar. Just soda and lemon juice. The amount of times I am simply not beleived and they load it up with sugar and I have to hand it back to them and tell them to knock it off my bill as it is not what I ordered.

I was even asked by one person "how can I do?" I took her hand and said "just at the point you going to pour sugar into my drink. Stop"

It's ok if you can live with dirt roads. I think it's a place for the people who post on barladies.com.

Cinemas, malls and health care at the standard we enjoy is a few years off.

WEHO! Do you ever cook at home? I like to cook as the food is always just the way I like it. There is no salt and the oil is always the one I like and in the amount I like.

I'd like to get down to that much.

My wife was surprised to see no white faces at passport control, but that's London for you.

We arrived on differnt flights, so she was alone in the queue, but I was standing off to one side when the passport guy asked her who she was with. So no problems.

Good luck.

Whilst I have not had a taxi stop and throw me out at the airport, I have been given the chance to aloow them to scam me. I was asked for 500 last time.

Since that incident I have always walked up to arrivals, ignored the security telling me I can't take a taxci and jumped in. Never had the run around as they are happy to have a fare on the way back to.

Strongview's incident seems entirly belivable.

I was asked for 500 once to go from Bayokke tower to central worlds (or whatever is was called). I said NO! My date said No! and he got nasty so we waited for him to hit traffic and hopped out. Leaving his door open of course.

He actually managed to u-turn in traffic and tried to chase us. We ran into a 7-11 and pretended to call the police. He was mighty pissed off.

There is also a bar near Soi Diana in Patters that has a sign out front that states "liqour in the front and poker in the rear"

Does that count?

That must have been a real eye waterer.

Thanks EEK! I think you have answered my question. I only intend to plug it in and save files (photos, valuable songs and important videos).

As for overheating. I don't own one yet. The threat of overheating was mentioned to me by people who have differnt models.

The 2.5hdd you own. Is that the size of the disk? Are there different pros and cons for differnt sizes?

Thanks for your timly response.

Where are ou from EEK and maybe people can taylor their responses?

Those that try and hide the truth behind cat calls of "racist!" make me smile. I wish I could delude myself so well.

I have been pondering the pros and cons of an exteranl hardrive, but I don't know which way to jump.

The price and ease of hardrives in slim metal cases that I have seen in Pantip plaza make them seem to fit the bill, but I have been told they over heat.

I don't really know what the larger boxes with fans do. I only really want it to store photos for long periods of time. I know that cds should be viewed as a tempory storage media.

What do you suggest?

Now go easy on me. No techno-jargon as much of it will pass me by.

Thanks for any effort you make.

Indians smell from a combination of food and a waryness of soap. Africans smell as if soap were kryptonite.

Nonsense! Thais would pray to a milk carton twisted in to the image of something lucky.

I'm surprised they don't all own horses. Afterall, horses do have luckyness nailed to each hoof.

How does anybody know if the woman hadn't antagonized her attacker.

Maybe the man on the floor was just an innocent victim.

Things are not always as clear cut as they may at first appear.

Just curious, but would people feel the urge to dive in if the victim was a man and the attacker was a far larger more powerful man?

On the subject, what if it was a man on the ground and some burly women putting the boot in?

Almost 6 full pages. Let's hope WeHo doesn't let it go to his head.

Blue Star guesthouse ( a great place) in Kanchanaburi used to offer 'toast and assorted jews' for breakfast.

I ordered it and half expected to meet a Mr Goldstein and a Mr Swartz.

This sounds like a stupid enough stunt to be pulled by a Thai.

It happened to me in the UK. I was cycling along not cutting anybody up or anything else to have deserved it. I was in full kit (crash hat, gloves, karrimor jacket on a 2k bike) when some family from the lower orders pulled up along side me beeped and reved their engine while a couple of snot nosed kids yelled out of the back window. I can only presume they thought it would be a real hoot to make me fall and go under a car.

So I chased the forkers through traffic and got them at lights. After banging and yelling and totally scaring them I left them with a nice dent and scratch in their doors from the cleats on the bottom of my shoes.

So he is going to change the outlook and views of the entire society is he. You can't stamp out what everybody does or would do if they got a chance.