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I cannot see what the problem is. Just study their Web site, fool around with it and all becomes clear. Second time it's easy, and l am bloody useless on a PC.

''Garners'' Pickled Onions.

Kinda' funny that some people are disappointed to see more McDonalds in CM. Perhaps some people come here to get away from stuff like McDonalds. Maybe they think McDonalds doesn't reflect traditional Thai culture, and probably diminishes it. And then others have turned the thread into some sort of fast food worship list. That might be a bit of a difference between people who came here because they wanted to experience another culture, and people who came here because it's cheap (and couldn't give a shit about the culture). I could live without any Western fast food chains, and haven't been to one yet, but I'm not against hitting one sooner or later.

However, how many is enough and how many is ridiculous? I don't want to see a McDonalds next to every temple. If there's one, that's probably enough. If you need to go to McDonalds more than once a week in Thailand, you might be overdoing it, especially if you didn't eat at McDonalds weekly in your own country.

Still planning on hitting up that Burger King for a whopper. Just haven't gotten around to it yet.

I too am outraged that an American business would set up shop in Thailand, and that Thais would dishonor their culture by patronizing the evil capitalists.

Excellent, the price of alcohol can't be high enough. It's one of the most dangerous drugs in the world, it causes death and mayhem in traffic, spousal abuse and all sorts of aggression. In another thread: "Drunken Swede kills tourist from New Zealand". I am convinced he would not have killed that guy if he were sober!

Bye bye Thailand, its been fun but over the last 2 years about the only that hasn't increased is my pay packet.....

Another expat, that are here for all the right reasons You will be sadly missed by your friends outside 7-eleven. Have a safe Aeroflot flight back home!

Looks like this tax increase sorts the wheat from the chaff... if so - well done Thailand !

<p>Over 40 thousand tem

To be honest the tyre looks perfect to me.

@JcCarlin.

You are an amazing green chap. Soooooo, suggest your use of the Internet is not very green eh . AND, chuck that mobile in the bin. Big money earner for the folk you don't like.

I wish you the best of luck finding that 'bagpiper'. That's a tough one.

Don't know where to get it here but the product is called "Ether".

Also - Try not to use it, it's terrible stuff for the engine, its highly volatile which is why it works so well. However you may have heard of engines getting addicted to it. That happens because the explosion takes place early (extremely advanced timing as it were) when the piston is still lower than normal and on the upward compression stroke. Combustion is so violent when compared with normal petrol / diesel fuel and timing that the resultant explosion can force the piston down with such force or even back down rocking the engine backwards, that the connecting rods can be bent ever so slightly each time it happens. Over time the con-rod gradually shortens, the piston no longer reaches as high up in the cylinder bore as before reducing the compression - this in turn adds to poor performance and poor starting issues - hence the addiction. - Source "My little head"

Fortunately for you, the hasp and staple is for a rabbit hutch and the mrs can kick this open in one.

Yeh, it's a Gas. Sorry didn't know what you referring to via the fluid thing.

Whats ''Starting Fluid'' ?

Never lived in a cold climate, that's where I was familiar with it? Also, when I would rebuild a carburetor or engine, helps to jump start the fuel system.

Starting fluid is sprayed into the engine intake near the air filter or into a spark plug hole of an engine to get added fuel to the combustion cylinder quickly. Using starting fluid to get the engine running faster avoids wear to starters and fatigue to your arm with pull start engines, especially on rarely used machines. Other uses include cold weather starting, vehicles that run out of fuel, and sometimes with flooded engines. Mechanics, especially amateur mechanics that lack diagnostic tools, sometimes use it to diagnose starting problems. If sprayed into the air intake on a car, it can be used to determine whether the spark and ignition system of the car is functioning and the fuel delivery system is not, since the engine will run until the starting fluid vapors in the intake system are exhausted. It is used more often with carbureted engines than with fuel injection systems. It is not recommended for starting some diesel engines that have preheat systems in the intake or glow-plugs installed as this may lead to damage to the engine.

Source - Wiki

Looks like another shot in the foot for those in control who can afford any rise.

Whats ''Starting Fluid'' ?

Not an AMC fan but l would like a Javelin in a lockup in LOS.

As for me, the dealership pumped it at 32/front 35/back, upon receipt. That makes for a taunt ride (feel every "big" bump), but I don't mind as it gives better gas efficiency.

Yep, beware of bugs.

British ex-pat suspected of selling class 1 drugs in Pattaya

PATTAYA:--Immigration Police arrested a 54 Year old Englishmanon Sunday Morning, accused of possession and sale of a class 1 drug.

Officer arrested Mr. Duncan James McGee, a well-known Pattaya ex-pat, at the conclusion of a covert operation on Pattaya Third Road opposite the now-demolished Xzyte Discotheque.

Police state that contact was made with the suspect and it was arranged to sell a quantity of Cocaine to an undercover officer posing as a drugs buyer. During questioning, Mr. McGee claimed he would purchase the drugs from a foreign agent based in the Nana Entertainment area of Bangkok for 2,000 Baht per packet and would re-sell for between 3,000 and 4,000 Baht. On this occasion he was in possession of 9 packets of a white powder which Police tested and found to be Cocaine.

Full story:http://www.pattayaon...-drugs-pattaya/

-- Pattaya One 2012-08-20

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Thought one could enter any country if you had a huge bank balance , don't matter how you got it. In UK folk are given Knighthoods and MBE's etc cos they have a huge bank balance but also a criminal record.

If you are just having the exhaust pipes straight out, whether bent up-straight or down, remember when the boat is left for periods of time the exhaust pipes must be on a downward angle so rain water will not accumulate and enter the manifold/valves etc.

This can possably be achieved with the angle of the engine on the gimble??.

It is a great project and am looking forward to seeing pix and actual in Dec.

I dont understand why farangs deal drugs here. There is no amount of money worth risking going to jail in this prison system.

Kinda' funny that some people are disappointed to see more McDonalds in CM. Perhaps some people come here to get away from stuff like McDonalds.

The reason that there are so many McDonald's is not for foreigners. It is because many Thais like to eat there. Thailand is not a theme park. People that can not put up with fast food restaurants on crowded city streets might try travel to the Antarctic. I don't think that they have any there.

Never said the fast food restaurants were for foreigners. Same with the 7/11s. I did say that foreigners might be a little disappointed to travel half way around the world (in some cases) to see an exotic land and culture, and then see McDonalds, Burger King, Subway… everywhere. Contrary to your statement that they can go to Antarctica, they can simply go to Laos, Cambodia, or Myanmar if they don't want to see too much of the biggest cliches of their own countries already established here. I mean, it's not difficult to understand why someone wouldn't want to go all the way to Thailand to see McDonalds. Interestingly, I never saw a McDonalds in Vietnam.

Honestly, suppose you decided to go see the pyramids. You wouldn't really want to go inside and find a Starbucks AND a McDonalds, would you? Why bother going someplace different if when you get there it's the same tired old shit that was boring you to death back home.

Kinda' like going to Vang Vieng and watching Friends on TV all day. Why the #%@$ bother? Oh, well, yeah, of course, some are here 'cause it's cheap and they can get cheap sex. That's true. But other people are more interested in seeing the world.

I too don't want to see too many McDonalds, mostly because it's boring. Otherwise I might as well just stay at home if I am just going to see American fast food chains and white people. That said, I do occasionally eat at said restaurants.

I saw them too.........

Any more buffalo jokes?

According to her, for make rice and for eating.

--a buffalo goes to the doctor and the doctor asks: "why the long face?"