jdinasia

I love when it rains at the swimming pool. I'm the only one who gets in while everyone else goes home or sits under shelter waitng for the rain to stop (Farangs too)

Human beings aren't always the smartest animals on the planet, are they?

Like swimming in a lightning storm

Just reporting the news TTM.... don't kill the messenger.

Ta for the concern, suicide is not an option for me ever. So please take note of my words and if I end up on the pavement one day its indeed murder.

No mate, but a newcomer would think Pattaya is a jungle where people kill themselves all day around.

What you are posting are accidents, there are millions of other enjoyable moments in that place that don't get attention.

Had I not been well introduced in Thailand, and had a package holiday in Pattaya, I would have been scared to set my foot there.

If there was an unfair threatment of farangs, I would understand a report about that.

You know and many others know, it's a fun place. Safe and tollerant, to get into a trouble would take someone's own initiative.

Myself, being out of the nightlife, I can only say - the beach is not good but everything else is.

Share and enjoy.

Pattaya ... Hub of Extreme Base Jumpers <no parachute> in Asia

Mae Sot= 10 USD or 500 baht. (only 4 entry/stamps in Passport )

Cambodia = One and a half passport pages used for 4 entry/exit stamps + Cambo visa)

Gazza, thats interesting. Each time I have been to Cambodia recently, its been 1 1/2 pages every time. The Cambo Visa is a page, the Exit from Thailand, Entry / Exit Cambo and re-entry to Thailand. So 1 full page and 4 imprints for every visit. When you look at the replacement cost of a Passport, the full page Visa's becomes a "Hidden Cost"

Replacement of a passport? You just add pages (free at your embassy)

Thanks to the Kan members of TV that I met .... had a blast ... see you soon I am sure

hmm missed this post until I got back ... i don't have the BKK # but I think I may still have the HH # ... as you went this weekend I bet you got that sorted out

oi ... anti-religious bigots are as bad as the religious ones ....

I usually take this time for a quite holiday, far from most of the water activity. Two years ago it was Kanchanaburi, last year it was Ko Samet, gonna be Korat with gf family this year (so long for a quite holiday )

Just back from Kanchanaburi ...5 days of water throwing in town and throughout the province ... BUT avoiding it would be possible for the folks that just can't get wet for whatever medical reason ... (like a stick firmly planted up ...)

Truly Kan was awesome this weekend ... met a bunch of other ex-pats including a few TV posters

it wasn't bad before

I'm sure i could hook up with you for a few drinks if you like.

huh? a 7 year old article ..... WAY dated now

huh?

"She said the victims' home had been under construction and was particularly vulnerable because it was unprotected in an area of rice paddies.

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but Sensational? hadly ........ sensational would be with pics and blaming the PAD

what is a tyre?

Seriously ... with traffic in Pattaya over the weekend .... he had to be going to fast to stop when he hit a jam ....

If tipping is American, then how do you explain some checks from restaurants that itemize 10% service charge that essentially is a tip? You can find them all up and down Sukhumvit.

Up and down where? Sukhumvit. Where all the tourists are. In the other 75 provinces of Thailand, away from all the Farangs who've only just arrived and are shelling out money like smarties, tipping is never expected.

How funny!

again ... where I go ... Thais tip

The fast answer ... MAYBE

Ended at 6pm in Kanchanaburi too ... will be continuing through the 17th

The modern-style Songkran is as funny as rape a girl.

As more the frigid lass try to defend herself as more fun for the perpetrator. She just can't understand that the guy's only want have a little fun... why she didn't stay at home??

Fukc Songkran!

Wow ... went 12 posts with only OldHandLuke posting a whinge before Patex showed up!

Songkran was GREAT this year ... may go to Jomtien for 2 more days of it

the point is that in Thailand you do not get what you pay for, you just get ripped off and cant take the garbage back for a refund like you can in other countries

oh please ... when you spend 1/3rd the price it IS what you pay for.

Had a problem with my DVD player ... was repaired in 3 days .... had a problem with my sony TV ... was replaced ... Broke a chair ... put it out front for the garbage pickers and got a new one the next day and bought a decent one! the next time

Always manage to get a few people irate!

I said: CANNOT get to BKK/CNX every time something breaks....Of course you CAN buy a decent chair in LOS...the points are

I don't EXPECT anything. I am not that upset.. of course it was ONLY a few baht, but as I said can buy a perfectly long lived chair in France for a few Euros!

I will probably sit in a 250B pink plastic chair for a while...though I have bent a few legs of those. Actually as of now sitting on a v. nice wooden box with upholstered seat

I criticise things in France and the UK, where we also live, regularly.

Why is it every time one makes a possibly 'negative' comment about LOS a whole bunch of people start saying 'You are not One of Us' 'Go Home' 'What do you expect?' I don't suppose many of you are Thai...and if you are you will surely have aspirations for LOS?!

We pay large sums in taxes here. We want, for our kids, if no-one else. LOS to be a successful and pleasant country. Not sure about the TSM/I only visit/I would like to live here/ Coming back for a few weeks element on this forum?!

Bet thyat makes for even more irate posts!

Don't misunderstand me; plenty of people on their own and with families like us trying to make a better life for themselves and contributing to the country of the choice of residence.

If we simply acquiesce in third rate goods and service, we are doing no-one any favor.

As a poster had it the other day:

Why is there no FAMILY Forum??

LOS has the capability of being a rich and important country. Lots of countries have had to move from 'basic' production to 'quality' production...otherwise the 'cheap ' labor' factor is undermined. Currently fashionable to say China labor cheaper than elsewhee in Asia, so Thai goods dependent on cheap labor, never mind the quality, are in trouble. After China where? maybe African countries, or more likely Central Asia. and the Arab World, also underdeveloped South/Central America .?

My wife tells me that one of the great lessons she learned in Europe was that you could purchase quality goods rather than rubbish, at not that much less money. She used to wander around BKK buying clothes at 199B a shot, most now in rags; she walked round Lyon and Guildford 5 years ago and bought clothes for under a tenner which she still has and wears. Same true of childrens clothes. We buy throw away clothes for the kids here. All their decent clothes come from Europe, though interestingly made4 in Thailand/Indonesia/Indonesia by companies who have Quality Controlsystems for both cloth and manufacture, at not that much more cost

Almost the only exception is shoes. These are loopily expensive for kids in Europe...but of course the ones we buy here are still apt to collapse in the rains of the UK!

Go and get wet

Geeze if you can't get to BKK to replace the crap you buy ... then why buy crap in the first place? Buy something decent and quit your bitchin'

Quote from the Nation. 16-04-06

RECKLESS BEHAVIOUR

Curbs on revellers

Unruly frolickers blamed for mayhem and carnage on the roads, blinding motorists with thoughtless water attacks

To prevent road accidents during the Songkran holidays next year, water-splashing will be allowed only on designated roads, the Interior Minister said yesterday.

Though many road accidents this year took place on secondary roads, many people were splashing water on main roads, making them prone to accidents, said Chidchai Vanasathidya, who has assumed the duties of caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

A meeting of the Cultural Ministry, Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department and local administrative organisations will be held after the holidays to designate roads for water-splashing throughout the country, Chidchai said. Alcohol and weapons will be banned on all roads designated for Songkran festivities, he said. Drunk driving was reported to be the major cause of accidents over the holiday, he added.

For full article http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2006/04/16...es_30001778.php

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At last a voice echoing much needed advice said many times before. ( las few years )

I,d go one further and allocate fields /areas where people can do as they wish in a safe manner without effecting everyone who doesn,t want to get involved to much.

Something like the " Gladstonbury festiville in the U.K. " let them go crazy in a controlled enviroment and enjoyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Consideration and Common sense is what most posters are saying is the requirment NOT banning it. I agree with them all.............................................................................

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And we are not killjoys or old farts ect. ect. so cut the crap you selfish ***** and remember the down side of your actions.......but then again you haven,t got the brain for this have you !!!!!

marshbags

For the record i celebrated in the traditional way and it was a really pleasant experience again.....

Enjoy without selfishness.

Thanks for every observation in support of this.

It's amazing ... there is a place for water throwing through Songkran ..... it is called Thailand.

Had a few good days in Kanchanaburi already ... it may be time to go to Pattaya tmw!

Don't let the old fart killjoys get you down ... have fun and be nice!

strangely we are in THAILAND not other countries

Almost to Spain?

I believe it now ! the whole global warming thing ..... I saw tons of ice melting in Kanchanaburi ..... (the ice in my beer ... the ice in the water being thrown etc!

What a GREAT Songkran in Kanchanaburi .... met a few TV guys ... threw some water ... drank some beer and relaxed ALOT!

incredible weekend! (4 days whatever!) And cheaper than staying at home in BKK would have been!

Total number of road accidents seen ------ ZERO ...

Total number of people hurt on Motorcycles witnessed ------- Zero

Total number of people that had fun! -------- tens of thousands!

So, would you say "The Nation" is pro-Thaksin or anti-Thaksin?

Editorial policy seems to be pretty Anti-Thaksin ... but hel_l that could be because of all of Thaksin's lawsuits and quashing freedom of the press ... not to mention control of the rest of the media.

Democrats offer to help

SUPAWADEE INTHAWONG

The Democrat party has offered to provide legal and financial assistance to three candidates from a little-known party who are facing legal action from the Election Commission (EC) after confessing they were hired to run in the April 2 general election in a southern province. Democrat secretary-general Suthep Thaugsuban said the party would pay the expenses for candidates Nipha Chanpor, Ratchanu Trangsri and Suvit Ob-oun, who represented the Progressive Democratic party, to fight the case in court.

The Democrats' offer follows a decision by the EC to dissolve the Progressive Democratic party and seek the prosecution of the three candidates.

The candidates earlier told the EC they were paid to run in Trang province.

Mr Suthep denied claims his party employed the three candidates to expose election fraud involving a major party. The Democrats wanted to help the three people unconditionally. The party would help anyone with evidence of poll fraud.

Mr Suthep lashed out at the EC's claim no evidence existed which could implicate a major party in the hiring of candidates to create a competition.

All election commissioners should resign if they are unable to bring the wrongdoers to justice, Mr Suthep said.

''If you think you can do nothing, just quit. You should not have challenged people to lodge a complaint if the commission was wrong. In my view, [EC chief] Pol Gen Wassana should be the first to resign.'' He submitted a letter to the EC chief and other commissioners asking them to look into the fact that many candidates from small parties who ran in the election were allowed to enter by-elections in other constituencies when the results of the April 2 polls were still not official.

Mr Suthep said the EC had created confusion in several southern constituencies. Some candidates who were disqualified by local election panels from running in Songkhla, Chumphon and Pattani were later found to have registered their candidacies for by-elections in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Surat Thani, Phatthalung and Phuket.

The confusion followed the EC's decision to allow unsuccessful April 2 candidates to run in new constituencies. The EC's act had violated the constitution and the election law, said Mr Suthep.

The Thai Ground, Pattana Chartthai and Progressive Democratic parties _which allegedly falsified documents to help their candidates in the previous round _ had candidates in the by-elections.

Some parties which did not contest the April 2 polls now had candidates in the by-elections _ People Power, Palang Dharma, Puen Kasetthai, Thai Chuay Thai, Green Party of Thailand, Siam and Better Life, Mr Suthep said.

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This is almost too funny to comment on. Demos report a group to the EC for falsifying documents and when the EC finds in the Demos favor and dissolve the party and charge the candidates the Demos offer to pay their legal bills and give them "financial assistance" and demand the resignation of the EC once again. ROTFLMAO. These guys deserve to be the Ex-Opposition or they are trying to cover something up so the charged candidates don't get to court and turn in the Demos as the masterminds.

Gotta love rampant speculation from .......

If there was in fact reasonable evidence that a MAJOR party had been involved in this fraud ... the party would be dissolved also .... would NOT be a good thing.