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I don't trust anyone, full stop.

Depends on the size but around 20k.

You guys are mispelling the word "Tire". You're all English for sure.

That explains the love for rusty fords, hatchbacks and the pretentious boloney.

You really are becoming a bit of a <deleted>. Is that what happens in a pee soaked Cruze.. ammonia build up affecting your good sense?

By the way tyres is not a misspelling but mispelling is:D

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And what is ''boloney'' Did l read somewhere TC is a teacher.

I married my wife for love - not money. I pity you if you think about marriage in terms of money - or even with a missed opportunity to marry an American girl half my age - which would make her 14 and reveals your insipid thoughts more then you probably realise - perhaps if you had more money you could be with a young American girl - what a sordid habitat you must mentally live in! I feel very sorry for people like you. You will probably never be happy.

Thai wife. ?

You mean calling a spade a spade ?

i have study 19 years of my life, i can tell the difference and see the oxymoron in a monolingual language teacher,

tried both mono & bilingual teachers already, and no merchandize will change my conclusion.

Not sure what you mean calling a spade a spade? Just would love to know who captured you - doesn't matter if it is painful to remember.

Why not do some research into the value(or rather lack of) of using English in a Thai language class.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q...L1 in classroom

A spade is not a shovel.

Good god, man! Do you realize what you're suggesting? Here?

May seem impractical to some but it's certainly not an issue of cost if you've already got full-time live-in help.

Problem is that many members' maids are probably so spoiled you'd have to pay them extra to make the trip.

My girl takes a bus down to Klong Toei and a tuk-tuk back, 450 baht or so gets more fruit and veg than she can carry. Do that every 3-4 days, supplemented with B50-70 from the market 'round the corner and that's how this household feeds itself, currently 11 people at the moment - though our upcountry guests ATN are chipping in a bit extra, buying khanom for the kids etc.

The only salt or MSG in the food is what we're putting in it ourselves. I eat food prepared outside maybe an average of 2-3 times a month.

11 folk in your castle , how come. ?

Re this ongoing argument about sources, I have pointed out already that the Guardian newspaper is in the pocket of the Unionist British Labour Party. They have a left wing, socialist Unionist agenda.

Again, for any foreign nationals reading this topic, the Guardian is as partisan on behalf of the Labour Party as Fox News is for the Republicans.

So please forgive me if I choose to ignore any partisan points made by the Guardian in the links, especially when the links undo themselves.

The link was sent to demonstrate that Scotland would not get access to the EU, the Youtube clip was a prime example of political sophistry. Van Rompuy DID NOT mention Scotland in the answer, and it was confirmed that Van Rompuy WILL NOT CAMPAIGN against Scottish Independence.

The Unionists cannot stand the bare and essential fact:

We have achieved our Holy Grail, we will have a Yes / No Referendum on Scottish Independence.

I call that an act of political genius, and that genius is Alex Salmond.

Can't agree with you on this one 'ol chum.

Think your main question she go to your daughter when she is 18. A kid brought up in faragland, with all her pals and farang life, hmmmmmmmmmm, l think a big culture shock.

To be honest, the heat depresses me. I'm an outdoors person, like to "work" our land, hike, bicycle, but usually find myself indoors after 10am. We don't have AC, don't need it. Large well designed house, high ceilings, rural setting. Close the windows after it starts to warm up, & stays cool inside. Just get pi$$ed off can't do more with my time during the day

Agree, cos l get up at 10am.

My partner is a Thai. the advise is that your proplem is your wife, as she has brought this problem to your house and without doubt she needs to remove the problem, if not then she loves the sister more than you.. understand!!

They will ALWAYS love a family member more than you until SHE steps back and looks at HER future prospects. It takes time to work out but unless she is totally brain dead then the correct solution will prevail.

Is there any store in CM where you can buy a face mask that filters out those PM10 particles? There was a Brit selling them a few years ago and not sure if anyone took over that task. I see all the rice chaff piled up ready to be burned so it might be a bad year.

I wanted one that filtered the PMT particulars.

Where are you based?

Where are the family from?

Isaan

Isaan

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Big place is Isaan.

Yes it is. Not following the pertinance of the question.

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Some here are trying to help you , WHERE IN ISAAN are you, we don't want your address, just an idea. .

Yep, same problem for me. Sooooooooooooooo, never eat Thai/Lao food, if out then eat Chinese stuff.

If you have the cash, tile it with non slip tiles. Do it and forget it.

Where are you based?

Where are the family from?

Isaan

Isaan

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Big place is Isaan.

All the official service intervals up to 100k. All the official prices. No speculation.

http://www.mitsubish...cal-Maintenance

Appears to be the same info as given on the sign at my local dealer, surprisingly enough.

I'm just bored and browsing, I don't have a Pajero Sport, but that's a great website from Mitsubishi. I like the way you can check everything online in that way. I've no idea when a timing belt change is required but I'm surprised none of the services up to 100,000km include one, that's pretty impressive. I guess they save that shock until later.

Toyota Diesel belt change is the same. In the handbook, BUT a Vigo has a dash light which will come on to tell the owner to change it.

here, when there are about 200-500 mostly male workers gathering for a party on FATHERS DAY OR MOTHERS DAY (here drinking happens on both those days since they are practically the only two days off the thai workers get when they can travel and visit)- the parties start in mid day, and carry on. mostly the employers also give alcohol in leiu of bonuses for the holidays, they also come by in teh beginning of the parties, to say hello, show some face to the pu yais of the thai workers (the 'big boys'), , the filipina girls show up for 'work' and 'fun', and by 23:00 people are passed out or there have been fights.

in ten years, i have run from five fight breakouts.l unfortunately, one was at a good friend/brother of hubby's; it was going away from israel party after 11!! years (half w/o visa), and the entire world was invited. there was the very low rate morlum band that is made up from thai workers that moonlight for this... i will never forget. at first, one guy started with me, so hubby got all hot headed. then, about an hour later, suddenly the whole world was running in one direction (this is all inside a packing house on a moshav near greenhouses) with guys yelling, then a guy with a bloody head, then suddenly the one employer showed up, and we hightailedit out of there cause the next step is always police and hot head moshav guys... and that was a quick end to our friend's going away party. that was the first time i ever got a real scare since hubby went running off to help (in any way he could) adni had visions of hospitals, head wounds, and police. i had otehr friends physically drag him back, and we zipped off in our car back to friend's own caravan. apparently the whole fight was along the lines of 'you lookin at me?', thai style. some guy from a different packinghouse touched or stepped on this guy by accident (500 guys sitting on floor in a packing house) bound to be someone who trips over someone especially after all the drinking.

real shame too cause up to that point the food was good and the music was passable -- the few farang attendees had long since left (folks here arent big on huge amounts of alcohol, preferring huge amounts of food and cake).since that party two years ago, i havent been to any. and for this reason have avoided helping the thai workers on our kibbutz do any tamboon or going away party that involves more then our guys and a few invitees who always bring their friends. even my new ;years party a few years ago we kept the alcohol very very minimal and then moved all the thais back to their own housing area, to continue as they wanted. in the center of the kibbutz i kept a very very tight lid on the drink, we had punch, some beers and hubby policed (we were also worried about yaa baa frankly, as that has started to be popular at parties as well).

i know about several stabbings personally here among the workers , during parties/mor lum sing song parties; thais themselves will shrug shoulders and say 'tamada' (par for the course). my kids when they were younger, would come to the parties, i would let them eat a bit, say hello and then send them back home; same reason we didnt have alcohol at our mornign wedding six years ago, because i had my 18 yr old daughter with me, big, blond and farang. the minute the drinking would start up, we would hustle her off to the farang style house we were borrowing from distant family relative, and that was that.

maybe with age ive gotten wimpier, but definately i prefer not to go to big mor lum type parties anymore. ive lost my fascination for them, adn i can see mor lum on you tube. also hubby seems to like them less, preferring to stay home rather then gong to all these vacation day sing song mor lum thing gatherings.

bina

And here's me thinking you Mods only mixed with Hi-So folk. ...........................

..ok i know its been said, but really, wth makes a gun girly. Its a <deleted> GUN~!!

Weeeeeeeeeell, unless you are really lucky a .22 won't stop anything but a rabbit even if she thinks Matrix. .

9 mm should be the minimum. The 'girly' calibers are less likely to stop an aggressor.... (well, feel free to Google the thousands of debates on the net regarding this issue). If she's anything like my wife, she'll want something 'cute' like a Beretta Bobcat. You might be able to steer her towards something more effective/practical but still relatively 'cute' in a Glock 26 or Ruger LC9.

Did l read somewhere that Thai ladies can only own a .22.

please dont take that too serious, im just joking around. i tell that to my students all the time just for a laugh, and tell it to my administrators (international school) every now when i feel their losing sight of the kids

Do please take more care with your punctuation and spelling, at least in those threads where you admit to being a teacher, you're not holding your end up here 8-)

i teach business, spelling and grammar are a problem for someone else...

Chinese eh.

So would YOU take care of someone else's kids ?.

Story of my life, two sets now for a total of 38 years and wouldn't change a thing even if I could.

Just started on the final batch and these are my own spawn, hope I can hold out until they can make it on their own. Turning out pretty good so far, practice makes perfect!

The first batch had their own spawn for some time now, so my grandkids are older than my current crop, then you get the girlfriends or whatever you want to call them, we're a pretty mixed lot I'll admit it.

My mum gave up on keeping track of birthdays a long time ago. . .

Your mum has sense.

Drat, thought it was another Burger King.

AH, common market has been mentioned, l am no economist, a numnut really regarding the subject but it seems to this numnut that the very small UK is ploughing ooooooooooooodles of cash to bolster or take care of others. So where is the payback for the UK tax payer when we don't even belong to the EU currency. ?

Responding to an earlier post about how alcoholics are a better class of drug user because they don't rob and steal : some alcoholics do steal and rob to get their fix, yes, even from their families. If you were to say that you've never heard of such a case then you are probably a liar.

Coming up with a special name for addiction or habitual use of a certain drug doesn't change the fact that it is drug use.

How much does a couple of beers or lou kou cost ? How much does a drug fix cost ?

100 Baht for a pill of yaba.

100 Baht for 2 large bottles of Leo.

10 Baht for a shot of lao-khaow.

What's your point?

I am asking a question as l have no knowledge of the dosh involved.

Actually taking care of their kids might be something you and your wife voluntarily choose to do, it's a very rewarding experience if you enjoy kids, and may satisfy her clucky urges without having to spawn your own.

Such arrangements are pretty normal here even though our cultures labels it as "irresponsible" the "it takes a village" approach often actually works out better than the isolated nuclear or even worse poor single mum scenario so prevalent back home.

But of course they should contribute to the financial support. . .

So would YOU take care of someone else's kids ?.