Brigante7

I'm Scottish and I know every word to Flower of Scotland.

My wife ruturned to Thailand for a 4 week holiday in February after living in the UK for 18 months and attempted to enter Thailand on her Thai passport, which is current, and was sent away and told to fill out an immigration card before she could enter Thailand, thought it was wrong but I didn't want to argue incase they refused entry to me and our son.

All Thai passport holders need to fill in an arrivals card, as lop says.

Usually, you fill in the arrivals card which was stapled into your passport when you departed, but if she had lost that one, or had a new Thai passport issued in London, then she would have had to have filled in a new arrivals card.

Thanks for clearing that up, thank god I didn't make a scene.

QUOTE (Brigante7 @ 2008-06-06 07:47:38)

As somebody who's family has been making and selling ice cream in "Sunny Scotland" for the last 90 years, I can confirm that HD, B&J and all the other big named ice creams are poorly made, full of crap and not fit to be called ice cream.

When people buy HD or B&J all they are paying for is the name and fancy packaging.

I agree,

Now, where can we buy your family ice cream in Thailand?

hee hee !! exactly the point . I wonder if Brigante's 'sunny scotland' cornflour ice cream ( ?? ) makes as much profit as HD and B&J , BR , Swensons etc etc

400% profit margin, can't complain.

Bureaucrats warned on Euro 2008 gambling; public buys football postcards

BANGKOK: -- As the Euro 2008 football spectacular kicks off Saturday in Switzerland, Thai government officials are being warned not to bet on the football tournament -- football being a national passion -- while members of the public queued to buy from post offices nationwide intending to win prizes.

Phichit governor Preecha Ruangchan, in Thailand's north, said both legal and disciplinary action would be taken against government officials who place bets or otherwise get involved in Euro 2008.

Mr. Preecha said police in the province would regularly inspect hostels and rented houses with an aim to suppress betting among youths.

In the southern district of Hat Yai, near the border with Malaysia, a special police task force has been set up with an objective to wipe out Euro 2008 bookmakers and betters, especially at malls, entertainment venues and internet stores.

Many Phichit residents were seen early Saturday lined up at the post office to buy post cards to join a kind of lottery to predict which of the 16 participating teams in the 23-day football tournament would win the prestigious cup, so that they too could also win prizes.

Phichit postal authorities anticipate sales of some 100,000 post cards, while while the Chiang Rai post ofice predicts that it will sell 1.8 million post cards.

--TNA 2008-06-07

How are police going to regulary inspect rented houses?

As somebody who's family has been making and selling ice cream in "Sunny Scotland" for the last 90 years, I can confirm that HD, B&J and all the other big named ice creams are poorly made, full of crap and not fit to be called ice cream.

When people buy HD or B&J all they are paying for is the name and fancy packaging.

I agree,

Now, where can we buy your family ice cream in Thailand?

As much as I would love to set up in Thailand, I doubt it would taste the same, different milk, butter and everything else, also we only make vanilla not any flavours.

Cornflour?

hmmmm... I always thought Ice cream is more or less iced cream, sugar with added flavors...

Prices of HD, Starf_cks and the like are obscene if not insane!

There shouldn't be any cream in ice cream. Correct about the flavours, the secret is to get a good vanilla flavour.

What a boring and sheltered life I've led.

My wife ruturned to Thailand for a 4 week holiday in February after living in the UK for 18 months and attempted to enter Thailand on her Thai passport, which is current, and was sent away and told to fill out an immigration card before she could enter Thailand, thought it was wrong but I didn't want to argue incase they refused entry to me and our son.

If Ive got a few hours spare I like to rent a bargirl give her one and see if she swallows. I play golf as well

LMFAO, most wont but it's always worth a try

As somebody who's family has been making and selling ice cream in "Sunny Scotland" for the last 90 years, I can confirm that HD, B&J and all the other big named ice creams are poorly made, full of crap and not fit to be called ice cream.

Ice cream should be made of fresh milk, butter, sugar, cornflour, and a couple of other things (Their in lies the secret to good ice cream) and should be made in a certain way.

If any ice cream manufacturer wants to be judged on their ice cream then taste their vanilla, anybody can make flavoured ice cream.

When people buy HD or B&J all they are paying for is the name and fancy packaging.

I just pull them off!

ever seen a thai reacting to another strange thai in a strange land, germany for instance? They say hello and in no time there is a bond between them beyond any western understanding.

There are all kinds of reasons to think why it is like that, but the most important part is that there is something for us "falangs" to learn here (or maybe I should say to "relearn").

I live in Scotland with my Thai wife and she very rarely talks to other Thai ladies first, usualy I say hello to them first then they start talking to my wife, I asked her why and she said that she is shy, fair enough I said and left it.

It's not always about bad manners.

But when I'm visiting the wifes family and we are in town (Not that big) I always say hello to people who make eye contact with me, I find the Thais appreciate it more when I try out my Thai and make an arse of myself, such is life.

I prefer honest ones.

hi every one, i've been reading up on everybodys dowry comments, and it seems to me that its a bit of a sore wound and its making me paranoid because i get wed in a few months. the lady i met is ace, known her for 2 and a half years. i go to LOS regularly and spend a load of time with her, her family is quite industrious owning 2 businesses, (chemical fertilizer for rice paddys) and they seem on the ball. i agreed to pay 500,000 baht for sin sod but i will get back 400,000. she is only 22 years old and has college education and i'm 28 and have a very good job. all i ask is that people give me a bit feedback about if this is a realistic figure for sin sod. i know that most people don't like paying sin sod but i think that if i am going to settle in thailand i need to respect tradition and thai culture, so please sensible answers people

many thanks

Ali

My wifes father refused a dowry, even for show, said he didn't worry what other people thought just as long as I looked after his daughter and the fact that I flew him and his wife to Scotland for the wedding probably helped with the image issue more. When we went back to Thailand for a holiday and to take our son back for the first time, I took the whole family (All 25 ) out for a meal and a night of karaoke, did the trick.

The common link here is the gearbox (Automatic), get a manual and see the difference.

Congratulations and all the best

Don't go to MBK to get your phone unlocked, do it before you come to Thailand.

Why before? Convenience? I have had phones unlocked both before leaving my home country, and have had it done in Thailand as well. Didn't make any difference where I unlocked the phones.

Twice I've had a phone unlocked at MBK and both times the phone hasn't worked after, each time I went to different location in MBK.

Yeah, that's the best way to go, as swain said, if you have an old mobile from home, bring it, and you can get it unlocked at MBK (300bt). Failing that, buy one in MBK for about 1000 bt on your arrival, and sell it back to them just before you leave (if you have no further use for it). Couldn't be easier.

Don't go to MBK to get your phone unlocked, do it before you come to Thailand.

I have an old police truncheon beside my bed. The secret is to not turn the light on, that lets them know that you have heard them, then batter the grandmother out of the thieving shites

So does this mean more bhurka-dodging in lower Sukhumvit when trying to get from Soi 3 up to 11? Some of these women are as wide as the pavement (or what little is left of it after the hawkers have invaded it)! Not being racist here, but I try to avoid brushing against them when passing them in the overcrowded area (since I believe you're supposed to avoid touching a muslim woman even by accident)...

Are you a muslim Thaigene2? If not then why worry about bumping into a muslim woman, if they are so worried then they will do everything to avoid bumping into you, until we stop pandering to them they will keep on pushing and pushing.

Never ever tried to avoid contact with a "Ninja" and before anybody accuses me of being racist, that is what muslim men call woman who dress like that and if they can say it then I suare as hel_l can also

Rant over.

Kudos to the young man for attempting such a long ride, a mother's love is irreplaceable

And a fathers, especially for a boy.

you always see the middle aged farang leering at these girls on the subway. they dont even try to use the reflection on the mirror or to glance away and disguise it. they just stand there, poorly dressed and drooling.

speak for yourself !

Less of the poorly dressed thank you.

You haven't met my wife I take it?

Instead of doing the life in the uk test, my wife is about to start an ESOL course and once she reaches level 3 she doesnt need to do the life in the UK test in order to get ILR.

I think he means that she'll get a fiancée visa then after she gets to the UK she has 6 months to marry but they still have to go to some register office and do the paperwork etc. I would doubt she has to say where and when they will get married for the visa, only that they intend to do so within 6 months of her arriving in the UK.

In order to get a fiancee visa her b/f will have to get a letter from the minister who is marrying them and when and a receipt to show he has booked and paid a deposit for the reception