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You can buy a NEW one for around that price (650 baht). There is a TV and electronics repair shop on Theprassit road about 1 klick from Tapriah Road on the left hand side as you go towards Sukhimvit.

Not sure abaout buying a new one as cheap as that. This one cost 4000B. Thanks for the tip on a shop though - I'll go and give them a try.

I have a portable DVD player that has developed a glitch. I took it to Amorn in the basement of Tuk Com, who charged me 650B for the privilege of not fixing it, with a one month guarantee. I took it back the next day, and they said it was the charger at fault and could I please bring that in. I did so, and went back to collect the player. It now had a nice sticker on it saying "OK". What a surprise to find it had exactly the same glitch as when I took it in. The "chang" in the workshop didn't even look at it the third time I took it back - just told the cashier to give me my money back. I'm now back to square one with a glitched DVD player, and only out of pocket a few baht of petrol for the trips to Tuk Com.

A question for all in the Pattaya area. Can anyone reccommend a decent place to get it looked at and possibly fixed? Anyone know a reliable electronic engineer that has done them a good service? There are loads of little back street workshops and I could spend a long time trying to find the right one.

Maybe a localised problem. I have BBB in the Huay Yai area and it's good. Not had an outage yet, and the 5 megabits claimed comes out at 4.95 on a speed test.

I realize what one problem was: my browser, Firefox/Mozilla, doesn't size the page to fit my computer monitor. Because of that, often the right side of a web page is cut off, unless I scroll to the right. Now that I know that, I get a clearer perspective, and can enter the Nation site.

There are a few other features of Firefox that were better in earlier versions than in later versions. Sounds like it's time for me to change to a better browser.

Glad that's cleared up.

Did you know if you click the scroll button on your mouse the cursor turns into a magnifying glass and the scroll wheel will then enlarge or decrease the size of the page. It does in my Firefox 3.6.6 anyway!

Not a candidate for the "Thai Sleeping Team" for the next Olympics then. If such a simple thing as his vehicle overturning can wake him up I don't reckon his chances of selection.

While I wouldn't normally be seen to be reading 'The Nation', out of interest and in trying to help OP in resolving his problem I had a go at the website. I didn't follow any links on here; in the spirit of scientific research I put the words 'Nation' and 'Thailand' in a search engine. The very first result took me to http://www.nationmultimedia.com/ so I went for that one. It has the "NATION" logo at the top left, a large advert for some condo crap front and centre, an 'update' for World Cup 2010 on the bottom right (Hello 'Nation' web designers - Spain won a week ago - anyone home???) and a link to "ENTER SITE" top right.

I weighed up all the options and went for the 'enter site'. It seemed the best bet, as I already knew who won the bloody footie, and I don't want a condo in the Big Mango. It took me to the site http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/index.php - which works. It gives you the news. Well, sort of. But it is up to date.

So, to OP - if that doesn't work for you, you've got major cookie (or other) problems. Sack all those and then make sure your version of Firefox or Opera is the latest.

IE? What do you mean?

26th July - Thaksin's birthday. Any connection here?

That food should be sentenced to a few years in prison.

Most airline food should be sentenced to a few years in prison. That would certainly give people an extra incentive not to go to prison.

I bought a new fridge, but it needs to be earthed, and my rented room has no earths on the electrical sockets. Can't use the water pipes ( plastic ), and has a nice tiled floor, concrete walls. Concrete road outside, so can't bang in a steel rod.

Any suggestions?

Any helpful suggestions appreciated, thanks.

Nothing electrical NEEDS to be earthed to work, it's merely a safety feature. Is your question more along the lines of "I've just bought a new fridge and it has a three pin plug on it, but all my sockets are two pin"? If this is the case - cut the plug off and put a two pin plug on it and your new fridge will work just like a new fridge.

PEBKAC.

My thought as well. Not sure OP will understand the acronym though!

Posession of a mobile phone and some condoms. A heinous crime indeed! Good to see the police are cracking down on the big crooks.

I knew there was a reason I don't read 'The Sun'. That article sums it up perfectly. Sensationalist garbage with no concern for having a bit of truth contained in it.

5 quid a go? In your dreams Mr. reporter.

Quote from the reporter. "His lust-fuelled holidays centred on a bar called Spicy Girls A Go-Go - which is no longer open - where girls paraded in lingerie waiting to be selected by a Western tourist and taken away" - That particular bar has been closed for at least two years, so can have had no possible effect on his recent actions. The description also covers most of the other go-go bars in town, so why name that one?

As that famous bald chap said many years ago "etcetera, etcetera, etcetera"

Read the newspaper clipping folks - it's hilarious!

RIP too, but looking at the pictures I don't see a mangled bike. I see a bike that has fallen over for some reason, and given the cause of death of the deceased as 'major head trauma', I think it's pretty much an open and shut case.

and what about the sellers inside tuk com ? dont they count?

They're selling illegal sex cd's inside TukCom?? I didn't know that!

The Pattaya police chief responds to a common burglary? Something doesn't smell right here.

Slightly off-topic, and not what OP was asking, but I have just been told by two friends that they've just (last week) got Thai driving licences in Roi-Et based on having a letter from the Amphur saying they lived there with their wives, and a letter from the police saying they had a foreign licence. They were both in Thailand on a 'visa waiver on arrival' stamp. One rule for some ....... etc

I read it all, just for the sheer hel_l of it. I get the impression that Gman (in red) is a native English speaker, but his spelling and grammar fall somewhere short of atrocious. His point falls between 'I haven't a clue what he's on about' and '<deleted>'. I think I'll give all future missives a miss.

I'm confused now - does OP want to buy a BBQ, or the fuel to put in it?

NO! is the simple answer to your question. Why would you think that Thailand can dissolve a marriage made in another country? It has to be done in the country it was originally registered in.

Floods in Tennessee May 6-7, Rhode Island April 2, Massachusets April 2, North Dakota and Minnesota March 22. Northwest England in late November last year - the worst floods in memory. Poland right now - flood levels unseen since 1884.

I guess none of these places have been hit by the "we're gonna stop it raining planes"?

And PLEASE goodgirl give me a link to wherever you've got the information from that there are temperatures of 100F at 30,000 feet. Someone seems to have rewritten physics.

Yeah, but - yeah, but. If you think this is a serious subject and don't want the mickey taken, WhyTF did you bring astrology (whether esoteric or otherwise) into it? You appear to be claiming that governments are poisoning us, with the help of Saturn and the age of aquarius. Loony-tunes!

moderator please help me here

why did this thread get put into Jokes - puzzles and riddles - make my day!

thread I submitted in the general form?

really makes me wonder?

i am not joking either

You are lucky, it shouldn't even be in this section, but just be deleted, what a load of <deleted> coming from an obviously very deluded person, and I am being nice here.

You seek to attack, analyze and deny this user her thoughts and expression because you think it's "<deleted>".

Why would you even come back to the thread, then ?

Trolling is why.

I'm with Carib on this one. This thread is hilarious - it belongs in the 'jokes' section. This is my first visit to this thread - so you (tigerwan, I'm not going to assign a gender to you as you seem to do to others) can't accuse me of trolling. Have you actually read post number 8? Let's just isolate some of the <deleted>;

According to the esoteric wisdom teachings, this is the "dark side" of the Aquarian Age. It's all English words - but I have no idea what it means. Please enlighten me.

However, there is a hidden shadow side of this Aquarian Age as well, ruled by the planet Saturn. Saturn is about 840 million miles away from us at the moment. It doesn't rule anything here, certainly not what people are doing in aeroplanes. At one and a quarter light hours away - it can't even see what we're doing.

My words can be verified by esoteric astrology and they need to be understood so we have a balanced and educated perspective of the dark and the light that is expressing on the planet at this time. <deleted> does 'esoteric astrology' (whatever that is), have to do with the subject at hand? And how can such an intangible concept verify anything?

I searched "New Zealand Chemtrails" and found they are getting slaughtered there as well. I've checked the news diligently, and there doesn't seem to be many reports of New Zealanders getting 'slaughtered' at the moment. I'm sure John Key would be shouting about it if there were.

I could go on for a while, but I'm sure people have got my drift by now

Therefore, <deleted>. Hilarious <deleted>, but still <deleted>.

Bring back the jokes into the jokes forum. Altum Angel - where are you??

Interesting thread. I've got to the end of it and all I've found is Mod's comments about the posts they've deleted. With reasons. I have no idea what any of this is all about.

I think on a highway like the one pattaya-chonburi speedlimit is 110 km/h.

I don't think there is anywhere in Thailand that has a 110 speed limit. It's either 90 or 120 on dual carriageways. They just don't make it obvious which one it is!

RIP as well, but the question remains - did he have a work permit? A 22 year old Burmese man on a labouring job? NO? I thought not; what a surprise. Will there be any repercussions - No. Am I surprised? - No.