MickGC

we use one of these http://www.amway.com/at-home/eSpring

Expensive initial investment but the water is always sweet. Nobody up my way drinks directly from the tap.

 

 

You people are a sorrowful bunch.   Last night you stayed up hoping she wouldn't return so you can make your ugly comments.  Now she comes back and you start your insults.   Very disgusting group of people here. 

 

I'm with you on that Bob. I've listened to so much nastiness from so many people here, disparaging her character left right and centre. When she shows them to be significantly wrong about something, they just start off on another angle. It's disgusting in the extreme, and I'm embarrassed to be a farang in Thailand when I know some Thais will lump me in with these petty, mean-minded creeps.

 

TL

 

 

The Shin supporters / apologists have suddenly resorted to attacking anyone who dares comment against their beloved Shins and trying to suggest that doing so makes you a low life - and then add a barrage o rude insults.

 

What's disgusting is a PM can act illegally, lie, shirk responsibility, avoid doing the job she swore to do, cry to gain sympathy then be caught laughing when she thought the cameras off, and not bother to stop or investigate assaults and murders of those who oppose her family. 

 

You resort to nasty insults as you simply have no arguments for the truth. It's embarrassing that some Thais might think all farangs are Shin arse lickers.

 

"Pot calling the kettle black" comes to mind

For the Swiss it is free. No visa required. I think maybe the top government officials have a special arrangement with the Swiss banks. A Swiss friend of mine living near the border crosses regularly just for the duty free shopping.

They do need a visa, just do not have to pay. When I went into Laos last year the guy in the queue beside me was Swiss, had to pay 100 baht for something, possibly photocopy. Nice guy, paid mine at the same time and said his visa was free.

It is $35 USD for UK passports.

I think you will find they are visa exempt and get stamped in for 15 days. Similar to the ASEAN member states. My friend says he only pays 40 baht. Travels there quite often and does not loose a whole page of his passport each time (small status country, big visa syndrome), unlike me.

If this is true it sounds like something that a Tha ipolitician would suggest - the Line of Least Resistance.

So your all for doing things the most difficult way then ?

Never thought I would be supporting a loony ozzy but she does seem to be talking sense.

If there are already Thais who are pregnant as surrogate mothers then find out who they are, let the process continue and the babies go with the adoptive parents.

But don't let it happen again.

Consider if there are Thai girls who have been paid to carry surrogate babies or just promised (more) payment when the baby arrives, they find that suddenly there is no one to either pay them or take the babies when they are born, they don't want them nor can they afford to keep them, then what will happen to the child ?

What she is saying is; lets fix the existing problem in the best way possible for all concerned then make sure it doesn't happen again.

and what happens if a deadline or cutoff date is set, a rush to beat it ?

Set the cut-off date 9 months from now.

For the Swiss it is free. No visa required. I think maybe the top government officials have a special arrangement with the Swiss banks. A Swiss friend of mine living near the border crosses regularly just for the duty free shopping.

reading this article, it sounds like australia is ok with the child molesting father having the new baby girl?

Is it too hard to do a bit of online research yourself?  Would only take five minutes and then you would know Australia has some of the toughest child abuse laws in the world.  http://www.aifs.gov.au/cfca/pubs/factsheets/a145620/

A big yawn. So many similar stories on TV over the years. Bet I can guess where you met the lovely lass.

Looks like I have messed up a little as I have just booked a ticket to Nakhon Phanom....I'll have to contact AirAsia and see how I can pay extra for the van...thanks guys for reply

Edit: Just phoned AirAsia...cannot change ticket to include fly/ride service or cannot even pay extra for service. Basically if I want this I have to rebook new tickets and lose the money on the old ones. Also, cannot even pay at airport for this service with AA. Looks like it will have to be a separate taxi. Will know for future reference!

The Ploy hotel in Mukdahan used to offer a mini van service from Nakhon Phanom. Not sure if they still do due to the fly/ride service now offered by the airlines. Best to give them a ring and ask. The number I have is 042630562.

OP I know exactly the feeling.

 

Every time I'm going to a party I'm the only one sporting a beard.

Same here.  Missus has been pestering me to shave it off for 25 years already.  I see they are coming back into fashion so I won't bother now.

By the way, been the only falang at Thai parties on and off for 25 years and the same at Vietnamese parties for the 10 years prior to that.  Doesn't worry me at all.  

Does anybody have a link to the blasphemous picture?

I would post it here but don't want a fatwa declared against me by some fatwa..nker.

Bunch of pussies in Sweden or what? Don't even turn the fan on until 28/29C. Is a very comfortable temperature for the human species.

So many redneck mother f's on TV these days. About 90% in the political posts. A shame. TV was middle of the road 7/8 years ago. I'm about to get flamed !! Go for it rednecks.

will jomtein be hit?

I hope so

I don't know who Julie Bishop is, but he might have a point about the “rascals and outlaws”. 

I resemble that remark !!

took 7 guys to apprehend one guy.

They arrested the guy. Doubt it took seven people (they just want to be in the photo), so who cares?

Why do some people find the need to moan even in something like this.

I think you'll find Chooka works in the industry. Professionalism probably enters the equation here.

I know an American Indian who told me his father gave him his name while scanning the horizon for ideas .. his name is - 2 dogs <deleted>

This joke is expanded upon rather well by the author Sir Terry Pratchett, see http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/index.php/One-Man-Bucket .. "I would have given my right arm to be called Two-Dogs-*Fighting*!"

One of my favourite authors. 2/3 of the way through the Discworld series. Only about 15 books to go. A very funny man. Sadly he is suffering from Alzheimer's now.

The General is open to personal requests. The OP should send him an email stating he is not happy that he has to finish partying and go home at 2am rather than his regular sunrise hour. I'm sure he'll change the laws of the land and inform all the police etc. to accommodate your good self being able to stay out a couple of extra hours getting pissed and dancing. Good luck with that. You do realise a military coup has recently taken place in Thailand ?

You can get a single entry non-o in Vientiane or Savannakhet. Savannakhet also does multiple entry visas.

You will just need your marriage certificate (plus a copy),signed and dated copies of you wife's house book and ID card. You will need no financial proof.

Your wife will not need to go with you.

Most of what you wrote about is for getting an extension of stay at immigration not visas.

Fly to Ubon Ratchathani or Nakhon Phanom. We use Ubon and reserve a ride with Ploy Palace Hotel in Mukdahan @ 350 baht. There are also other vans for hire at the airport. If you fly Nok Air to Mukdahan via Nakhon Phanom, the ticket includes a Ploy Palace Hotel van in the price.

The Mukdahan bus station has regular runs to Savannakhet, so some might prefer a van from Ubon bus station to Muk.

Air Asia flights to Nakhon Phanom also have a fly/ride service to Mukdahan now. Ask the driver to drop you off near the bridge. Arrives at Muk around 6pm in the evening.

So I see another bias article aimed at yingluck to smear her and her family!

Oh yes the yellows once again will go into overdrive with these headlines.

For a more balanced article please refer to the BP as it gives full disclosure of her and husbands assets during her time as the democratically elected prime minister.

On a side note also please refer to the article in the BP on what the media is trying to establish on what they can report on and what they can't.

Shouldn't worry the nation as it's just a stooge yellow paper with feel good headlines trying to persuade the world that everything is all good.

Pity that the world sees right through these empty articles as nothing but propaganda!

Oh and I see the good general has told sutep to shut up about how he and the general colluded since 2010 to bring this about!

Not my words just check out the BP.

If you are going to take a stand on something Parrot---- for Christ sake post a link, don't make lots of statements then end it...."Go Check it out"

I am not knocking the statements or the stand your taking..... just your laziness in presenting them.

Please refer to post #46

Vietnamese food is my favourite cuisine followed closely by food served at my daughter's Thai restaurant on the Gold Coast back home downunder.

If you don't mind a couple of questions farangy

How much was the VIP bus from Bangkok to Mukdahan and how much hassle is it getting from the bus stop in Mukdahan to the border and then to the consulate?

Would you recommend staying in the casino and is it close to the embassy?

Who did you fly with coming home? I'm not mad on getting the bus both ways as it means 3 nights away from family

Nok Air and now Air Asia have a fly/ride service from BKK to Mukdahan that you can book online. Fly to Nakhon Phanom where mini bus is waiting to drive you to Mukdahan. As you are arriving from the north, the driver will drop you at the bridge where you can buy a bus ticket across to Savannakhet. Much quicker than the Ubon route. If staying at the casino they offer a free mini bus service.

RT@Thai_Talk: NCPO revises curfew to midnight-4pm effective tonight, and bans all illegal gambling nationwide. #ThaiCoup

Hmmm... I thought illegal gambling was already banned. I thought all illegal activity was banned.

The BiB turn a blind eye at funerals.

What curfew? Around my neck of the woods everyone's in bed asleep already by 8:30pm.

Thai International allowed me to move my next Tuesdays BKK/BNE return flight 11 days ahead for free even though it was a cheap 14 day limited stay ticket. They said because of the coup they were allowing 1 free change of schedule on each ticket, those that normally incur a fee that is.

That's what civilised people do.....clean up after their mess.

Any chance of the reds taking any notice?

I think, generally speaking, that civilised people first and foremost do not go to other people's homes to make a mess at all. What you're extolling seems a little less than civilised - they come into my home, chase me out or restrict my movements, then justify it by saying they've cleaned it up. I'm not sure "civilised" is the word we're groping for in this second case.

Or are you saying they were invited into the park?

Well, the Reds certainly were not invited onto Utthayan Road. The only thing out here is the religious park and residences, which the UDDers are blasting their speeches into via loudspeakers. I can even hear them a little bit on the other side of my house, and I'm over 1 km away from the nearest loudspeaker--about 3 km away from the main stage. So, why have the Reds invaded a residential district where they most definitely are not wanted? This is not at all a Red area. Taweewattana and Salaya are about as far from Red as you can get. I'd say by your very definition that makes the Reds decisively uncivilized.

All I can say is you are a NIMBY sir. So it's ok by you that the clean, educated PDRC protesters have inconvenienced other parts of BKK for the past 6 months with their endless loud music, speeches, road closures etc. Would you be happy if it was them legally protesting in your back yard rather than the unwashed, uneducated rabble from the north.