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I had a very interesting meeting with a son of a Kuomintang settler up by Mae Salong, taught me how to take tea the traditional Chinese way and spoke at length about the history of his Father's people coming to Thailand. One thing I felt slightly disturbing was he lamented that he was "not beautiful like his Father" because his Mother was from one of the hill tribes up there, couldn't help but wonder if this had been drilled into him by his Father or other non mixed Chinese. Most guys with any balls would staunchly defend their Mother looks whatever the reality.

I know at least half a dozen French Patricks who wouldn't even know where Ireland was (North or South) and would be quite upset to be called Irish. Patrick is a very common name in France.

They are only a few hundred miles from each other, less than 500. You must keep company with very stupid French people. Any French I have ever met, have heard of and know where Ireland is.

Being called Patrick doesn't make you a Mick

Emm ,and being Irish does not make you a Mick or Michael either .Being called Mick by Brits ,when i lived in London ,was one of my pet hates .

Paddy it is then ☺

Why is the OP even comparing a developed country to a developing one? It's like comparing the USA to Mexico. Or the UK to Cambodia. C'mon OP, admit that you just want to take some digs at Thailand. Come clean monkey boy!

How did these countries become developed, they didn't just wake up one morning to find the fairies had been in and developed their country. Why was it they could do it and the others couldn't.

Japan? MacArthur gave them a constitution. The USA gave Europe the Marshall plan. This did not happen in Thailand. If it had they would be a first world country now.

But Japan and most of Europe were already way more technollogically advanced than Thailand/Siam before WWII.

Why is the OP even comparing a developed country to a developing one? It's like comparing the USA to Mexico. Or the UK to Cambodia. C'mon OP, admit that you just want to take some digs at Thailand. Come clean monkey boy!

How did these countries become developed, they didn't just wake up one morning to find the fairies had been in and developed their country. Why was it they could do it and the others couldn't.

From what I've seen of certain types of Chinese movies his lover/wife to be won't be missing much.

The best defense against a flasher is pointing and laughing.

What my wife did.

Back in the 70's an archetypal flasher opened his raincoat on my dear departed Aunt, her friend screamed whilst my Aunt calmly spat at his john thomas, he responded by calling my Aunt a dirty cow and running away.

I think you're in the wrong country if you're worried about anti-social noise. It could be far worse, you could have gangs of Somchais racing screaming 2 strokes up and down continuously every night instead of the odd Harley passing through every weekend.

Soi Siam CC is one of the roads I most use when going for a ride, from where I am it's a good route to get to highways like the 331 or 36. I've been riding through it since there was hardly any housing down there, it's still a fairly nice road to ride and it's just too bad if developers build on a main through road and people decide to move there.

There was about 30 Harleys outside the GB Bar on Soi Siam Country Club when I rode by recently, I'd suggest you go in there and tell them what you think.

Thanks for the suggestion, is that the bar opposite the mums & toddlers play school?

Not sure about a school but it's opposite Route CC Bar

There was about 30 Harleys outside the GB Bar on Soi Siam Country Club when I rode by recently, I'd suggest you go in there and tell them what you think.

Why don't the Muslims get out and protest against thier fellow muslims who are carrying out these attacks. I am sure if they did it would go a long way to healing the divide b/w islam and the rest.

the anti-Islam protests in Germany were going on before the attacks happened, nothing to do with the attacks in Paris.

It's everything to do with the attacks in Paris, or the ones in London, Madrid, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Toulouse, Montauban, Brussels, Dijon, Nantes.

And they're just the ones in Western Europe.

And to think someone posted on here a couple of days ago that Christianity is the first religion that should be done away with.

British colonization could'nt be such a bad idea, albeit a hundred years too late.

Not sure if Thailand has forgiven Britain for "stealing" Shan State, that is currently part of Myanmar (albeit reluctantly, according to many of the locals up there) and the north-western portions of Malaysia, both of which were formerly under Siamese administration.

I always ponder to myself what Thailand could look like if it weren't for European colonization of it's neighbors? Would Thailand be almost twice as big as it currently is? Something to ponder about...

Thailand would look a lot better now had it been colonised by a European country instead of by the Chinese.

Right, Burma, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, they was all colonised by Britain and France. Are Thailand's neighbours better of than Thailand ??

Malaysia certainly is, GDP per capita almost twice Thailand's. Burma would probably be in advance too if the military dictatorship hadn't made such a mess of their country post independence/post democracy.

Missed a trick in not getting a photo of the lady he exposed himself to pointing at his undoubtedly tiny todger

British colonization could'nt be such a bad idea, albeit a hundred years too late.

Not sure if Thailand has forgiven Britain for "stealing" Shan State, that is currently part of Myanmar (albeit reluctantly, according to many of the locals up there) and the north-western portions of Malaysia, both of which were formerly under Siamese administration.

I always ponder to myself what Thailand could look like if it weren't for European colonization of it's neighbors? Would Thailand be almost twice as big as it currently is? Something to ponder about...

Maybe Siam/Thailand or large tracts of it would be Burmese now if Great Britain hadn't overcome and colonised Burma, the Thais usually came out 2nd best in their wars with their western neighbour. Maybe the Vietnamese would of swept through Cambodia and Laos and into Thailand without the French taking them over.

Pattaya has a helipad?

At least 2 that I can think of.

Those demonstrating peacefully in Germany get dismissed at bigots by people who should know better, meanwhile over the border in France the real bigots are slaughtering innocents.

He doesn't look like a very "luxorius" person to me. Probably rented.

You couldn't be much further from the truth.

Thanks for suggestions. I'm over on the darkside of Pattaya. House is my Mother and Father in laws so if they don't want spray that's entirely their perogative. I'm over for 2 - 3 months a year so not about to buy a house for such a visit.

Thought I'd get away for a couple of days, not because of the mozzies but the thought of a brief respite was appealing. Come to Chantaburi, had a walk round town, back to hotel and into garden to sit and have a cold drink and within 5 mins got bit about 5 times, that's after applying mozzy cream today. Must be something about my blood, it's like somtam to Thai mozzies.

The Mother in law is always walking around zapping them with the tennis racquet thing, I'm sure it just gets rid of the stupid ones leaving the cunning to thrive. They come in through the open doors, when I'm here alone with the Wife I keep the mosquito doors shut but the Mother and Father in law want them open all day. Not sure where they're breeding, Brother in law said water in the neighbours garden, no point trying to get him to do anything as he's an inconsiderate a-hole who the family have nothing to do with.

My Wife's family home seems plagued with the things, when it's just me and her here I spray the whole house once a day and it keeps them under control, but her Mum and Stepfather are here now and they dont want the spraying. The reason they give is because of food and cutlery getting exposed to the spray, their answer to it all is "mai pen rai" easy to say when it's not you getting eaten alive. For some reason I'm the only one that gets targeted, I have to cover all exposed skin in mosquito cream or will be bitten in minutes, only respite I get is in our bedroom which I spray.

So is there any way to get rid of the things out the house without spraying, they use them whirly things you burn in the garden but obviously not indoors.

Sounds like a good result all round. All that is needed now is to chop the hand off the thieving bastard so he cannot snatch any more necklaces.

Wow with so much hatred in general against Muslims I never would have thought someone would propose that we would replace the current laws with the sharia.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day