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1 hour ago, Guderian said:

I found this letter many years ago, in 2004 or thereabouts, and it agrees with what I've since been taught when learning how to read Thai. I'll include the whole thing as it's a good read:

 

Still trying to pronounce Pattaya

Dear Sir,

Whilst Mr. Blount’s letter (2 April) is generally helpful, he is not quite right about Pattaya. And whilst the letter (9 April) from PCB Mitchell (hereinafter referred to as ‘PCBM’ to avoid tiresome repetition of ‘he/she’ etc.) sheds further light on the matter, it also simultaneously manages to sow further confusion.

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Yours faithfully,
Neil Spensley

 

 

tl;dr ? Don't be lazy - read it. It's spot on and highly educational.

Isn't this story also running on this thread....

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/961084-russian-robbed-by-walking-street-companion/

Head North on Sukhumwit past the Na Klua T junction. Just past the next set of lights on the left (if memory serves correct) is a breakers yard on the side of the road that also sells copy new parts for common models. Had success there in the past finding bits for my D-Max.

The place for Honda spares is at the junction of Central Road and Sukhumwit. I know it's a minefield there at the moment due to the roadworks, but if you can imagine it when it was a simple T junction, there's a Honda shop coming out of Central road and taking the 45 degree shortcut going left to Sukhumwit. They'll fit them as well.

I've always used the same opticians here and when I went in one time to get some new ones I took an earlier set of frames that had separated at the bridge. Not only did he weld them back together seamlessly, it was free. 

Basically what I'm saying is take them into any opticians and ask. It won't be free, but they can probably be fixed at a low cost. There are some good technicians out there. My good technician is at Ho Waen (หอแว่น) inside Tesco Lotus on Sukhumwit Road, South Pattaya.

I have a house for rent just off Sukhumwit road opposite the Thepprasit road junction. It's a single storey 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom end of row townhouse with a granny flat built on the side. It's unfurnished, but I can make a deal.

Many years ago the only junction in Pattaya you weren't allowed to turn left at a red light was where Second road meets Central heading North. The only sign indicating this ban was only in Thai and right by the conveniently placed Police box. Traffic-wise there was no reason for the ban. There was always a load of bikes at the side of the road where the driver had to make their own way to Soi 8 to pay the fine and return to collect their bike. The pattern hasn't changed in 30 years.

Edit: I wasn't discussing moderation Mr Rimmer, I was simply asking where my avatar had gone since the site enhancement. I can't find where to reset it in the menus.

Riding southbound on Sukhumwit on Thursday morning a police checkpoint between South and Chaiyapreuk was stopping all motorbikes. Hiding under the trees to deal with us unruly foreigners were two of the volunteer <deleted>. When I explained that I had inadvertently left my licence at home as I was in a big rush, one made a tick on a piece of paper and said "Go pay fine". The policeman at the desk was very polite but wanted no evidence that I actually had a licence, just had to pay a 200B fine for not having one with me and allowed on my way.

That's not law enforcement - that's just blatant money collection. Just about every bike rider was being fined for something.

More quality editing from Pattaya One. What exactly does a fire engine in Soi 13/3 have to do with klong-encroachment in Naklua?

I've lived there quite happily for several years, it was well quiet at first, but it's getting more and more developed now. Handy to get to the beach, and using Jomtien 2nd road to get to downtown Pattaya. Plenty of facilities within easy reach such that I rarely even go to Pattaya for any shopping now. Only real problem is the traffic past the market (Sukhumwit side of the railway line) of an evening, and the traffic at the railway road / Chaiyapreuk junction at rush hours - that can be a real nuisance.

Don't know of any rentals personally, but there are several "villages" so it would only need you to do a recce to see if there are any 'for rent' signs.

2 Years ???? Are they only going to employ one man with a shovel and a concrete mixer?

The more I read about incidences in Pattaya the more it remains one of the last places I will ever visit in Thailand..... but then I am not drawn to these less salubrious areas in Thailand or any other country.

Why, then, are you reading the Pattaya News Forum?

I love that pointing thing!!!!!!

But ........ she's pointing to a motorbike!

Is it a case of "This is what mine would have looked like if it was here" or "Mine was parked on top of that one"?

Had some studio pictures taken a couple of years ago at a place on Central Road. Excellent work, decent price. I'm trying like mad to remember the name of the place! Baan Rak, or something like that. Same side as Foodland about 100m or so towards the beach (don't quote me on the distance, I'm crap at trying to gauge them from memory!). There's a set of shophouses set back a bit from the road beach-side from the SS Hotel. It's about the 2nd from the beach end of those.

Whilst I did not come to Thailand to die, I have instead learned how to live.

Well said Sir, I tip my hat to your outlook on life.

This is neither a puzzle nor a riddle. While I will agree that Americas gun laws are a joke, they are not of the 'funny, ha-ha' sort that should be in this forum.

And Euros is a plural; there is no apostrophe between the o and the s.

Apparently these Euro's aren't plural - the original article states that "The Euro's was returned to him", which was then exchanged for "the Thai Baht". Obviously singular.

On a different note - I'm not surprised a large queue was forming; an exchange booth that gives you too many Baht for your money and requires no ID in the process - who wouldn't be queuing?

Doesn't quite pass the smell test, I'm afraid.

Would this be the same amphur in Banglamung that refused to marry me to my girlfriend back in 1991 because (and I quote) "We don't marry Farangs to Thais"? Wow - times have changed.

Anyway to all you TV Naysayers, Doomsday merchants, racists, bigots and general f'wits who have shown their true colours in some of the previous posts in this thread, I shall be taking my wife out for our 25th anniversary in a few months.

I had to look at this post because there were 100 views and no replies and I hadn't a clue what the post title meant - which to be honest was probably what the previous 100 people thought.

Sorry, can't help you but thanks for teaching me a new word.

English is a complex language, and, when used properly, avoids all ambiguity. For instance "I rode" and "I was being driven" are two completely different concepts.

"I rode" past an accident gives the impression that one was in charge of the vehicle and could have helped, which is what OP posted, and was the way I interpreted it.

But come on folks - if you saw a person lying in the road with a motorbike on top of them, wouldn't you at least try and help?????? No hoverboards or capes needed.

Amorn used to be good - they had just about every spare for everything. Gone downhill in recent years though but it's still the first place I would try for such a thing. Other than that, it's a foot-slogging job asking at every electrical shop at the Jomtien end of Thepprasit Road.

Edit: On second thoughts Naklua is the place to be looking. Loads of shops there with hard-to-find items. Enlist the help of a knowlegable local.

Let me see if I've got this straight. Last night you "rode past" an accident, where assorted farangs were laying on the ground not moving and/or sititng up and screaming with a motorbike on top of them, and NOW you want to know if they're alright?

Exactly which planet do you come from?

Who here believes the krap about 400 for a barfine? Thats for the bar only...as some of us already know. I stopped that slutty behavior years ago, but as i recall, there was more to it than that. Shame that a girl of sixteen needs to do that....and hope they jail the manager and the client both.

Wasn't the 'client' an undercover police operative?

I hope something is done. I live nearby and I've complained several times to the Pattaya noise line about the Makasan Club. It doesn't even open until 11 pm and and 3am it is really jumping. Hard to sleep at that hour hearing that racket.

. What i don't understand is that people complain about sound being to loud or what ever complaints they have about bars why didnt you buy a condo or house or whatever in the countryside if you buy a house in most parts of pattaya you know there is going to be loud noice 24/7

I used to live in a small soi behind Suriya music (which wasn't there then, and has never given me a problem), on the Thepprasit/Sukhumwit T-junction. When i bought the house it WAS in the countryside. Thepprasit was a small road just about wide enough for two vehicles to meet and pass without one of them going onto the grass verge. South Pattaya road was jungle both sides most of the way down to Wat Chai. Pattaya grew and came to meet me - together with its noise, so I moved. I went to the countryside again, buying a plot of land 10km further south in the middle of nowhere in Huay Yai.

Guess what, Champ?? I don't live in the countryside anymore. The urban sprawl that is Greater-Pattaya has come to meet me again, and again I have to put up with people that think having boom-boom boxes going at stupid o'clock is not just a good idea, it's compulsory

Got any more bright ideas?

I get my bottles re-filled at the LPG station on the East side of Sukhumwit road a bit north of Bangkok Pattaya Hospital. There's two adjacent (ish - I think) filling stations and it's the southern one. There's an office window in the South East corner of the station where you pay up front and then go through a gate just to the East where they fill it.