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it looks like an 80,000 THB Second hand car, with probably no service sinse new !, i think the header should be Newly Purchased 15 Year Old Second Hand Car Bursts into flames

Here are the figures for a typical month on the forums, Octobers news figures are over 2.4 million page views though.

surprised CM forum was so busy !!! .. i always thought genral was the busiest

so

what has the CM forum got to offer i wonder

i heard , with the amount of money they charge per trip, that the will be upgrading the taxi fleet in Samui ,

Great...when is Waitrose moving in?.....time to dust off the credit cards.....

In all seriousness though I don't believe it.

Samui could do with an Asda, they have some good deals on at the moment...

Anyway, is it Tesco opening a shopping Centre, or will it be like a Central? .. would make sense to turn into a central Plaza type place, they have the space

the bags will be kept, but not to sure about the sand

Have you just got off the aeroplane or have you had only 1 thai gf?

i find all thai women cry, and they cry alot...

ladyboys on the other hand......

I don't wish to offend anybody on here and of course everybody is entitled to their opinion, but at the end of the day I don't see why anybody has to justify themselves to anonymous users of this forum. For all those that want to know what happened and what the situation is with the insurance, why don't you just phone Julie or go and meet with her and see the documents and pictures for yourself.

In the mean time here is the latest update on Ryan from the Facebook page

Ryans surgeon has informed us that we can start to arrange repatriation, to get him home, so we need you all out there to continue all you good work supporting Ryan, donating and funding to make this happen sooner rather than later, the quicker we get that amount up the quicker he comes home to the UK.

www.supportryanmarven.piczo.com please keep donations coming.. We need your help more than ever.. the final bill could reach £150.000, we have along way to go... xxxxx

SUPPORTRYANMARVE

thanks for the link

interesting part to the page

He was using a minibus company and on the way back from the Malaysian border, the driver lost control going to fast round a bend.

so no mention of a truck hitting the van, but a simple case of a in experiance driver going to fast and losing control

i hope Ryan gets well soon

I remember reading an article within the past year..it was an interview with this professor from one of the BKK universities..and his estimates that BKK will be totally submerged within the next 10-20 years....I can see it happening with all the climate changes coupled with the over development mess......The "2012 catastrophe" that many people believe in outlined a map of what they believe will be the "new world"..and if you look at Thailand...everything south of (appprox) Korat will be completely gone

i cant find them, but i did post in the bangkok forum this month a wikileaks cable released from the US embassey , which stated bangkok would be underwater by 2025 ish, and they should be making measures,

i will try to find this cable again

China offers much cheaper rates and grades when it comes to prostitution.

maybe out in the stigs of china, but defo not the capitals, also , get caught in china and its alot worst then getting caught in thailand , which i believe has never happened

golfing holiday ? ... certainly got his hole in one

More like being penalized for an extra club in the bag.

and a set of dodgy balls

• Fellow DJ Dave Lee Travis pays tribute to Savile, 'a powerful presence'
• 'No suspicious circumstances surrounding death' say police
  

Sir Jimmy Savile has died at his home aged 84.

The former presenter, most famous for his show Jim'll Fix It, passed away at his home in Roundhay, Leeds.

Savile was just two days away from his 85th birthday.

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2055045/Jimmy-Savile-dead-Jimll-Fix-It-presenter-dies-home-aged-84.html#ixzz1cBOTJa5a

beleive me, Thai's can tell them apart !

Star Movies? ..... also get the Thai Fox Channel, some good series on there, plus discovery channel...

In operation from where to where? Dongsak - Samui should be OK barring extreme weather conditions.

from their web site will terminate ferry service

http://www.rajaferryport.com/

i think only from samui - KPG , but i didnt even realise they did this service

Name and shame!

i thought the actual writing of the story was brilliant !

wonder was his wife , kids and works mates will make of this !

Well....do you reckon his wife knew he was in Pattaya?

golfing holiday ? ... certainly got his hole in one

With nothing to hide I can post in my name, correct? Julie

Is there any good news? Gossip makes bad news, didn't get that back home, think not. We need facts. As an ex special constable I have witnessed many misfortunes back home but have to determine liability - proof - truth - fact.

This was her opinion back then. Well?

i was thinking the same thing, now the shoe is on the other foot, she has gone shhhh...

so julie, as you mentioned before , can we please have

proof - truth - fact

as

Gossip makes bad news

I know a company that offers full insuurence and i am off with them for my next run.

British airways . whoooosh

Hope that you are not on one of their codeshare flights with Qantas - They have been grounded!

so should visa run companies and all mini buses that dont have insurance , drivers that have had no training to drive a bus and buses/public transport with warn tyres/dodgy brakes ect ............

Name and shame!

i thought the actual writing of the story was brilliant !

wonder was his wife , kids and works mates will make of this !

Just over the border, fulfill there sexual needs and going back.

You mean the majority of Thailand's tourism comes from Malaysia a Muslim country for sex in Thailand? I find that hard to believe. TAT never mentions why Malaysian tourists come to Thailand.

Wiki says Malaysia is a clear leader in Thai tourism. They can't all be coming for sex. I thought all the sex tourism stuff was for old Western blokes. You mean to tell me that Malaysia is the sex tourism leader in Thailand!

There must be another reason. We are talking millions of people per year. If they are all going down South for sex then the flooding will be of no consequence to Malaysian tourism. Is that correct?

Yep thats right, they just pop over the border for a quick shag. Don't buy into the stereotypes, there are far more brothels in Thai only areas than any where else.

i think there a 3 segments here

1) the tour operators, you see a few malaya tour buses in phuket and samui, but they are made up of mainly saga holidays

2) the sex tourists which there are thousands in the south

3) Traders and shoppers, if you spend 15 mins at a malaya border crossing , there are thousands crossing into thailand to the markets ect , just for a few hours shopping then they go back, so they are probably counting all these people in there figures as well

4) traders / workers / lory drivers

you cant really count malaya as full tourists really,

The problem is that many tourists arrive in Thailand, rent out these motorbikes and have little or no experience of driving motorbikes and Thailand`s road systems.

Some years ago I witnessed a Spanish tourist in Chiang Mai, drive out of his guesthouse and straight into a pickup on a main road. He suffered multible injuries, broken bones and cuts.

It soon became obvious that this was his first time he had ever used a motorbike.

i have seen this many times over , and sometimes it is also the thais !.. drunk

but how do you solve the problem?

It depends which area you are in, there are several framing shops around the island.If you can be more specific please.

there is an excellent place in lamai, but as roo said, let the posters know your location, and can point you in the right direction

Beer is going low.

Friend of mine bought 13 cases of big Chang for his bar and 3 cases of Arscha beer.

I managed to get hold of 7 cases of small tiger and 3 cases of small Chang at Saver Mart.

Tesco, Makro and BigC only had big Chang and Archa beer.

Tops have some Sinhga cans and Leo cans, going now.

how did the other supplies look?

haha, he is probably on holiday, i have seen a few BKK taxi's before in Samui .... he could do some freelance work while here .. he wold make a fortune !

A British man embarrassed to find the woman he hired for sex was really a man received a stiletto to the head when he refused to pay the transvestite prostitute’s full rate.

John Barnes, 46, suffered a deep cut to the scalp around 4 a.m. Oct. 14 at the corner of Beach and Central roads. Sawang Boriboon medics stitched him up as police did likewise his confessed attacker, Cambodian illegal alien Ranee Pheb, 30.

http://www.pattayamail.com/localnews/brit-who-thought-he-hired-girl-gets-boy-with-sharp-stiletto-7187

Mhatin should get a job at FROC, they are just about as upto date with each other