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The period of "Judicial Politics" started on September 19th, 2006. Much shit still to hit the fan...

I like the "nova" car name which in Spanish "no va" means "not going"... Not a good name for a car. "Not Going"!

I assumed this was a good story! I thought 75% of Thai's died from road accidents!

Sorry no experience with DCHL per se, but looking at there product lines is enough for me to run for the woods. I am involved in product packaging that covers these areas. These appear to be the cheapest of the cheap, we are talking cents no dollars to produce. It takes a week of creative writing to come up with the marketing programs, but the products are probably at best poison to ones skin. I believe you have a reasonable understanding on the how the business model works and where it is going(leading too). I don't think you and said gf will be driving BMW's in a years time by selling "ed pinaud"..... sound Filipino to me too. Maybe the companies origin.

What a boost for Thai tourism .. hahahahhahahahahhah 5555555555555555

For those following this topic, if you have a strong stomach take a look at this Singapore Ferrari accident a few days ago!!!

From the nephew of Headly Prosser who spent 4 years incarcerated along the railway, thank you dearly to Bill for his commitment to maintaining a memory of a time and people we must not forget. RIP digger.

I paid 52,000 baht for an OKI Phones 1130E in '92 at TAC, the predecessor of DTAC. You paid 5 baht a minute for outgoing and 3.5 baht a minute for incoming. Needless to say, did talk long!

Maybe its a good idea to do this at ones own wedding and make sure there are plenty of rich Thais there. Announce in advance the fact there is going to a ceremonial presentation naming all monetary gifts .... should bring in millions!!!

Thai, not English and that's coz my Thai was fluent 7 years ago when we met. Her English is fluent now but that is after 5 years of college, 6 month in the USA on schoolarship.

Why do Thai drivers just sit in the fast lane and refuse to move over ? My own partner, quite an intelligent person , is normally a very good careful driver, but she will insist in staying in the fast lane. There's a row every time she drives on a long run. I cannot get her to understand why she should move over. I am told, this Thailand not Australia ! grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Before we can pass judgment on why your partner chooses to hog the right lane, two questions need to be asked;

1) Is she hi-so Thai-Chinese? and

2) Is her car a Benz or a Beemer?

If the answer is No to any of the above, then she is simply just a bad driver.

Contrary to your comments, I find pickup, van drivers and common Toyota, Honda and all to be worse than Benz and Beemer drivers, The later are normally trying to find a way past like I am. In Thailand now you can offend find the far left hand lane on expressways and large inter province carriagways completely empty while the right hand lane is bumper to bumper..... one comment......... BUFFALOS

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Porsche F1 cycle at 18,000 RPM........ and that technology is applied to production cars, but not to the same extent. Where do you think ABS came from, a Honda Civic?

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Got to take u up on this one. Porsche F1?

For previous poster saying the car would explode at 7000rpm

http://en.wikipedia....3_4.0_(2012_997)

For yourself: http://www.formula1....005/7/3327.html

Porsche supplied the McClaren engine.... ( However, my comment was about rpm, and that F1 cars can go to 18,000; and a Porche 911 can go way above 7,000.... )

-mel

My own AE86 4age does a sweet 11,000rpm, so I know you are informing them correctly of there are many Porsche engines capable of exceeding 7,000rpm. But, I was questioning what Porsche engine you were referringing to, simply that, as Porsche have not had an engine in F1 since I started watching religiously in '98. There maybe, but I can not recall it...

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Porsche F1 cycle at 18,000 RPM........ and that technology is applied to production cars, but not to the same extent. Where do you think ABS came from, a Honda Civic?

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Got to take u up on this one. Porsche F1?

Well, they wern't racing each other. The Porsche at 280kmh was doing this alone, so the Fortuner driver shouldn't be blamed

apply local custom - the fast lane is a runnaway strip for airplanes. you must face the facts and adjust for local conditions - theres no point in pretending there are laws here is there?

I wasn't applying any laws, if I had it my way I would take all slow drivers off the road. I'ld get to work in 20 minutes not 35 minutes on the Bangna-Chonburi expressway, so I truely know local customs, and would happily sit on 160kmh in the right conditions. But then I did start driving at 4 yrs old! But I am not in favour of letting planes land there!

Well, they wern't racing each other. The Porsche at 280kmh was doing this alone, so the Fortuner driver shouldn't be blamed

Songkran has escalated from a fun and relatively respectful event it used to be to the aggressive, no-fun hazard is has become in many parts of the country today. Before the usual crowd retorts that if I don't like it I can leave the country and go back to my own country, may I point out I've probably been here a lot longer (a quarter century) than the vast majority of those that bring up that lame argument. It is possible for a farang to have a legitimate appreciation for what this country's culture has to offer and at the same time to object to how one of it's traditions seems to have gone seriously off the rails. This gives no excuse for a bunch of tourists to tell them to leave. Besides, there are a lot of Thais who don't exactly enjoy being assaulted - you want to tell them to leave too?

I read a piece in the Thai airways inflight magazine. It totally contradicts your statement here. An elderly lady describes her relatives from DingDang attacking war-style their family home in Silom each year. Water fights, fun and lots of aggression ended in injury each year, but they loved it. I too have been here for as long as you. Songkran has not changed, I've celebrated from the north to south, east to west, and now go to Chiangmai every year. Justify your statement! I think it might be you've just got too old to enjoy it like the young do with such aplomb. Everybody to there own, but if you can't deal with it, I have not problem saying you should leave.

Sorry if my memory doesn't correspond exactly to yours or people who write for inflight magazines. I remember it being all water pistols and small pails of water, not the water cannons you see these days. I had a few buckets thrown at me while riding past on my motorbike, but I usually had fair warning of what was coming my way. As for me being too old to enjoy it, I still go to punk rock shows and make my way through seething mosh pits on a regular basis - it still seems less hazardous and more respectful than a Songkran celebration in certain areas of Bangkok these days!

The point has little or nothing to do with the inflight magazine. Personally after a quarter of a century of Songkran's I find them no different today than back then. What I find is people get older, less accepting and cynical. If you don't like it then stay away as you do. However, drawing a picture of equating it to a Harlem backstreet at 5am is stupid, that what forum ppl do here.

Thaksin is a big bad wolf.

Someone need to stop him, even at the expense of another coup or shutting the airports again.

The German could have stop Hitler, but they choose to do nothing.

You make me cry

Songkran has escalated from a fun and relatively respectful event it used to be to the aggressive, no-fun hazard is has become in many parts of the country today. Before the usual crowd retorts that if I don't like it I can leave the country and go back to my own country, may I point out I've probably been here a lot longer (a quarter century) than the vast majority of those that bring up that lame argument. It is possible for a farang to have a legitimate appreciation for what this country's culture has to offer and at the same time to object to how one of it's traditions seems to have gone seriously off the rails. This gives no excuse for a bunch of tourists to tell them to leave. Besides, there are a lot of Thais who don't exactly enjoy being assaulted - you want to tell them to leave too?

I read a piece in the Thai airways inflight magazine. It totally contradicts your statement here. An elderly lady describes her relatives from DingDang attacking war-style their family home in Silom each year. Water fights, fun and lots of aggression ended in injury each year, but they loved it. I too have been here for as long as you. Songkran has not changed, I've celebrated from the north to south, east to west, and now go to Chiangmai every year. Justify your statement! I think it might be you've just got too old to enjoy it like the young do with such aplomb. Everybody to there own, but if you can't deal with it, I have not problem saying you should leave.

This is a nothing news piece. You want to blame this on Songkran, get a life is my comment. This is daily life anywhere.

Aneliane,

Have you possibly done something - albeit inadvertently - which may have upset the locals?

I find the whole situation odder now as you live in On Nut which while not exactly a Westerner "hotbed", certainly isn't bereft of them.

I give you one example :

At a food counter in a food court:

The lady and older one, is going back and forth behind the counter.

I stand there ignored trying to make eye contact and smile

I try a "Sawadika"

No answer

After 5 minutes of being ignored the guy from the next counter, a friendly younger guy I just bought something a few minutes before, comes to my rescue and say : " I will serve you instead of her"

And he apologized about her behaviour, and take my order. she still did not look at me, it was as if I was transparent.

I said "maipenrai, I get it all the time" and thanked him profusely for his nice gesture.

I know she was being racist, I have never seen her before and nor did she.

The other friendly guy knew it too, that's why he was embarrassed about the situation, gesturing to me that her attitude was not right.

But that's the way it goes here.

I say the guy being extra nice balance out the horrible old lady, and makes it alright, but not always ... I mean sometimes there is no nicer person to come to my rescue ...

Rubbish.. If anything this lady was pretrified of trying to communicate in English.. I am starting to think you are judging people and as such being the racist one. An I live in the same neighbourhood as you. Never, never do I experience racisim. You my friend are perpertuating your own interpretation of it, and making it far far worst. I bet you I could pick you out of the croud at BigC Onnut or Lotus Soi 50. I bet you are making no effort to communicate with the locals on their level, but at the same time you think there shyness is racism. Again, take a look at yourself. Tell me this, why in h3ll would you live in Thailand without speaking a considerable amount of Thai. Do you seriously think a Thai living in your country is going to be able to judge locals behaviour without speaking the language of your country. So stop spilling so much hatred onto our hosts until you speak the local language with some fluency........

Denial is a powerful thing

Your biggest gripe is "institutional racism". The little there is, well deal with it, it's a pooftenth of most countries you will get to live in. Over pricing is not racism, it is made on economic pretentions that people from certain regions can pay more, double pricing is not racist. As for small vendors charging more for one than another, again , none racist, up to the intelligence of the idiotic negotiator, speak Thai, know what everyone gets, don't speak Thai, don't complain,,,, you just plain stupid not to understand that....... 10 to JJJJ --- 0 to aneliane.. You don't speak Thai, so don't complain or go home.

Aneliane,

Have you possibly done something - albeit inadvertently - which may have upset the locals?

I find the whole situation odder now as you live in On Nut which while not exactly a Westerner "hotbed", certainly isn't bereft of them.

I give you one example :

At a food counter in a food court:

The lady and older one, is going back and forth behind the counter.

I stand there ignored trying to make eye contact and smile

I try a "Sawadika"

No answer

After 5 minutes of being ignored the guy from the next counter, a friendly younger guy I just bought something a few minutes before, comes to my rescue and say : " I will serve you instead of her"

And he apologized about her behaviour, and take my order. she still did not look at me, it was as if I was transparent.

I said "maipenrai, I get it all the time" and thanked him profusely for his nice gesture.

I know she was being racist, I have never seen her before and nor did she.

The other friendly guy knew it too, that's why he was embarrassed about the situation, gesturing to me that her attitude was not right.

But that's the way it goes here.

I say the guy being extra nice balance out the horrible old lady, and makes it alright, but not always ... I mean sometimes there is no nicer person to come to my rescue ...

Rubbish.. If anything this lady was pretrified of trying to communicate in English.. I am starting to think you are judging people and as such being the racist one. An I live in the same neighbourhood as you. Never, never do I experience racisim. You my friend are perpertuating your own interpretation of it, and making it far far worst. I bet you I could pick you out of the croud at BigC Onnut or Lotus Soi 50. I bet you are making no effort to communicate with the locals on their level, but at the same time you think there shyness is racism. Again, take a look at yourself. Tell me this, why in h3ll would you live in Thailand without speaking a considerable amount of Thai. Do you seriously think a Thai living in your country is going to be able to judge locals behaviour without speaking the language of your country. So stop spilling so much hatred onto our hosts until you speak the local language with some fluency........

No I wash only once a year to save water lol

Well, there's your answer . . .

Seriously, it's hard to give you insights because it's not an experience I've come up against.

OK let's take another example, one of my student is english-thai, he's 16 and has to do military service for 3 years every weekend during hols.

He gets and I quote here "treated like shit because I'm farang". They call him all sort of names, his superiors make him sit in the sun for 2 hours, and all sort of craps like this, he gets it twice harder as a regular Thai.

There is an institutional racism in Thailand : from early school were your are taught Thai are a superior race and the other race therefore "inferior" to all governmental institutions: army, hospitals, public transports resent foreigners like any other country does.

If you are protected enough either by only going private (taxi/private hospitals ...) or if you have a gf dealing with institutional for you, you don't have to deal with it

If not, tough shit basically

"There is an institutional racism in Thailand : from early school were your are taught Thai are a superior race"

What absolute rubbish!

I don't believe you now. After reading this you are obviously a bitter bitter person with no friends who projects an unwelcome unhappy attitude towards those you meet. Your going to be hated in most places you go. Until you change yourself your never going to fit in anywhere... Simple

Well I came to Thailand thinking Thai people were very kind and smiled a lot.

I just report what I hear from other people and my own experience, sorry to break your bubble

You ain't broken no bubble of mine. I've been hear longer than you ten fold and that number will only increase because you need to leave. I would say if you can not get on with Thai's your in need of serious medication. Go back to your Utopia western country wherever it may be and get the attetion your head needs..