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My first ride. Bought as a non runner for 25 quid. New set of plugs and it was the ideal thing for young romance but sadly l was banned from driving (motorcycle) again and sold it and built similar to this in my spare time..................

My own poor mans Broadspeed Mini Cooper. Roof lowered 4 inches, one in the pic looks like a 3 inch chop, fitted with an Austin 1100 engine and trans pulled from a reck, fitted Cooper cam, twin choke Weber and a mini 3.75 diff. Went like a rocket.

My first car was a 1947 Hillman Minx Convertible (or Drop Head Coupe as they called it) . It was around 15 years old when I got it, and looked nothing like the attatched photo. It was bought for 20 pounds.

At the time I had never heard of Thailand but I must have getting into the Thai spirit even then as I remember driving it with no tax, insurance or driving license.

That is a nice ride, today it would be an eye catcher with the right paint.

Someone told me that Lance is ill and TC Kitchen may be closing?

ํำ้Yes he does have a problem but heard nothing about closing down. Not that sort of problem.

Think the booklet points out how a military guy should behave in any country.

Get out a blank piece of paper and estimate how many people you have known in your life.

Now write down the names of those you would trust implicity.

Work out the percentage..........then factor in that some you trust let you down.

I trust my parents and sisters implicity as they have shoen over the years that they will always back me up.

I don't trust my kids........go figure.

This may look abrupt.......but there are so msny breach of trust stories you wonder why people are in such a rush to hand out such a precious and fragile commodity.

I have exactly the same thoughts and the reason is, past experiences.

I think if she has big knockers she can park where she wants.

Lets vote.

Standart dinner situation, nothing to write about

Why the hell carrie a shit gun like a Uzi around? It's as effective as a knife, you can't hit shit with, it unless you stand 2meters from the target, because of the short barrel and high rate of fire...well or of cause, if you fire it, while having dinner with people, you can hit them

have you ever fired a UZI?

up to 25 meters that thing is quite accurate

with little recoil.

Seems it was an UZI semi auto pistol.

But one metre away anything will do the job. If the thing wasn't licensed to be owned or loaded outside a range then he should face the courts. Wife or not, she has lost the rest of her life for nothing.

I have bumped into a number of pricing scams (Always in a tourist trap area). I now ALWAYS confirm the price of anything before I purchase it...even a piece of ginger at the talat sod. Or the 10 baht charge to check the air in your motorbike tyre...

On the other hand, I have experienced a number of kind and generous acts from workaday thai people.

For example:

The other day when I visited the local steel shop, to have some book shelves made up, my girl mentioned to the welder that we then had to go and buy a hammer drill to drill the required holes in my office wall. He said dont be stupid (in Thai), and lent me his Hilti drill and a couple of masonry bits. This bloke didn't know me from a bar of soap...it was the first time I had been in his shop. The drill was a cracker (back home they cost upward of $500) and made short work of drilling in my brick wall. And to top things off, the Thai bloke only charged my 400 THB to fabricate (supply the steel, cut, weld and drill to my specs) the wall brackets. He even painted them...

Or the islamic boat builders in a dirt poor village north of Tukua Pa, who collectively mavelled at my old longboard...and, upon spying a couple of dings, wouldn't let me leave until they had repaired those holes...and then adamantly refused to take any money off me for the job.

The list goes on....

I have a few negative stories but lots and lots of positives. As I have stated in other posts, my main strategy for a maintaining a happy life in Phuket it to never visit Patong

In the UK l have been stitched up by ''friends'', my ex wife and a so called business ''friend''. You may say l am gullible, perhaps, but l trust ''friends'' to be just that. In LOS l can read a scam from 2 miles away. Easy.

OP. I don't trust anyone. Next....

Absolutely 100% the way to go.

As a society it has been shown that we are unable to govern ourselves and thus a law is applied whereby the we are all governed according the the lowest common denominator and scientific studies.

“Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.” Douglas Bader

Who do you mean 'WE'

Think Bader was referring to text book combat flight formation which killed many.

Many thanks for the congratulations... Actually, I specifically demanded black. It so happened that a 2WD happened to be available... One week after ordering a 4WD.

Would not have accepted another color. It always looks classy and can go anywhere with glamour, if I may say so.

It can ?

Glamour is Pink.

In Si Muang Mai it is normal for 20 kids to sit on the roof of a school bus . I was behind one and my thought at the time was if the bus had to brake hard the kids would go into orbit.

This is how the school bus system works there, to carry as many kids as possible and is obviously accepted by the school, sadly.

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1/10

I know Thai girls find me attractive.

...but you can't find one....

Another guy seeing fat guys with hot thai wives.

I see fat guys with not so-hi so chineses wives. I see less than attractive women on these fat guys arms.........i bet these women are saying what have i done to deserve a fat english guy with a pension 30 years my senoir..................lol

Think you would be wrong.

Kin 'ell..is this dribble still going on...?

My wife is Mother Theresa but Thai/Chinese/Martian with massive tits and a huge knob.....

Ooooooh, perhaps we are related.

Me around 54kg, with my regular run of the mill Fino, can overtake big bikes on downhill twisties.

So drop your weight, and find yourself some hills.

The downside is you look like a total numpty when going up them....at around 20kph ..with all the big bikes laughing right back at you...

Oui miss, me worrying about your foot and theres you out there racing Rossi.

Stay away from these ''tours'' , do it yourself, get a friend to help out, pay the diesel etc, but stay away from these untrained, no nothing idiots.

Are all the regular Farang meals available, it's just that at lunch I prefer something that really packs a punch.

You can have a cheese sandwich and l can provide the punch.

. God, some of you guys are kinky.

The picture is excellent, begging a caption competition.

"Don't worry, happens everyday. Look, we got you a nice interpreter."

Must get my glasses fixed, thought the cop was playing a guitar.

Most of the old guys you see are probably with girls they meet bars, go go etc in places like pattaya, offer stupid money to go and live with them and "buy" them out the bars. Why anybody would want ex hooker as a partner is beyond me but in Thailand is common. So you said not interested in that area well sign up to a decent web site like Thai Love link and you will get educated girls contacting you buy the dozen per day. Added bonus they dont expect to paid retainer fees, paid for bedroom duties and you can actually have a conversation is English with them as they progressed through th uuh uuh level of responding.. Finanacially independant and with own houses, cars etc.

Works for me and i am near Pattaya, plenty of ladies who also dislike the bar scene.

, did you check out her Uni. . Christ stuff amazes me at times.

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Yeh, l have been accosted by JW's too.

Johnny Walker's Red or Black?

Noooooooooooooo,

Here is another tip.

Avoid religious freaks like the plague,

they'll be preachin & chanting until you sleep,

so no shag that day, either

Yeh, l have been accosted by JW's too.

Car no, motorbike yes. That's the truth of it anyway. I feel if I crash the bike drunk it's me that's going to get hurt and it's my choice. I don't know where all you lot live but in Pattaya I don't know anyone who doesn't ride their bike home after beers. Not saying it's right but that's how it is.

So, YOU have worked it out that cos your bike is ''small'' only you will get hurt if you crash whilst pissed ?

Thought l was thick but you are amazingly th.....................................

Scotland will be holding a parade for our Olympic medallists on Sep 14th. 7 GOLDS, 4 SILVERS,2 BRONZES.............not bad for a wee country of 5 million.

Apparently we are part of the UK and a part of Team GB.........not part of England as previously indicated by another member.

Wow, who would have thought?

Most of Scots live in England. Sorry. Sorry,

They say it's cos a special paint run at factory.

It's not "age discrimination" it's abuse. The man is old enough to be her grandfather. An equitable relationship is impossible. The intelectual boundaries insurmountable. Her father was probably young enough to be his son. We scoff when a rich westerner marries a young model but 17 is a child. In bed with grandpa is no place to be. It is sick and it is disgusting.

First of all it IS age discrimination. The age means nothing, as long as it is within the law and consented.

Your assertion that an 'equitable' (fair or reasonable) relationship is impossible is nothing more than your own opinion and has absolutely nothing to justify itself. Insurmountable intellectual boundaries? Oh now come on, your deciding that a girl of 16 cannot be intellectually equal with an adult of 20, 40 or even 80 is a shocking insult towards human development and capability. You have nothing to support these outrageous remarks other than your charged disrespect of this mans relationship.

It is disgusting when you try to reduce this to an innocent young lady who fell victim to an evil old grandpa who just wants to take advantage of her.

She was with him through her own consent.

Imagine this analogy. I go and take a gun and murder someone. Do I blame the gun maker, the store owner or even the gun itself?

No, I can attribute the severity of my crime, at least somewhat to the availability and ease of access that I have to firearms, but in the end it was me who chose to take it and let loose.

The girl has an old man but has infinite free choice of whether or not to get on the bike , or even be with the old man in the first place. Unless she was held against her will and forced on to the bike, she has a natural amount of blame on her shoulders.

Also, if I may be as brave as to reassert a point of an above poster, sixTEEN or sevenTEEN are teen aged young adults, approaching the western definition of what an 'adult' is, pertaining to age.

You've got no idea. This is child exploitation, sexual abuse and mental torture. She was a child. The law relating to legal age was expecting teens and young adults to interact with each other, not to be raped by dirty old scoundrels old enough to be their grandfathers.

My ex UK wife was sixteen and l was 32 when we met. We were together for 25 years, married for 20. What do you think to that. ? There was a similar age difference with Charles and Diana. What do you think of that ?.