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Where can I find adult Thai female sized (petite) bicycle shorts? Thanks.
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Do not forget, the armed forces is the second largest landowner in Thailand, owning approximately 9,000,000 rai of land....You have 10 power hungry, super rich generals running the whole show.
Source?
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<deleted> are these, some kind of OTOP promo?
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I was explaining the saying,
"If we had bacon, we could have bacon and eggs... if we had eggs." to a Thai I work with and she wanted to know where it came from. I said, I didn't know but I'd check. Google turns up about 5 pages of results including one from 1997 ( http://www.usnews.co...hive_005986.htm ) but no real source that I could see. I would have guessed it was from a TV show or movie, but not too recent, as it seems to go back a ways. Anyone know where it comes from?
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It'd been a while since I'd been to Patpong. In fact, the last time was during the Red Shirt protests and the place was surrounded by barbed wire and soldiers. This time, that side of lower Silom and the sois were packed out with western tourists and vendors selling the usual counterfeit and souvenir ware. From my latest, rather brief, survey I'm left with these four observations.
1. As I said, in mid evening the streets and sois were absolutely jammed with people and vendors, more so than Siam Square.
2. Apparently from this seemingly brisk business, there appears to be little incentive to upgrade or really even maintain the area. What I remember from last time either is still there looking even more shabby and decayed, or perhaps has had a name change in the form of a new sigh slapped over it and pretty much nothing else done.
3. There are now many fewer upstairs bars, less than half a dozen. This kind of business may be gone entirely in a few years.
4. What upstairs bars remain are even more a shadow of past times, to the point you wonder why they even bother. Certainly the crowds are staying outside.
After taking a disappointed peak inside all of them (no great task), I finally circled back to Super Pussy, at least by name, a mainstay upstairs bar of Patpong for some decades now. Because of that, I mistakenly, and I guess naively, thought it was still an honest bar, and let my guard down. I sat at the bar that surrounds the stage. The place had maybe a dozen other customers, making it vastly more popular than the others. No sooner had I been seated and ordered a Chang, two 'girls' (at least one was definitely a ladyboy) were sitting on either side of me. I made clear my disinterest and soon they were gone. Instead, a few moments later one of the staff appeared with a laminated A4 sized card stating that the first drink was 300 baht and telling me to pay up now or it'll cost more later. I refused and said I'd finish my beer first, which I did, though rather quickly, to her great protest. I then paid the 300 to the cashier, rather than have more trouble, and left, the card girl calling back to me that I still owed some, unspecified, additional amount. Just for comparison, two years ago I went to Queens Castle 1, which appears to be now gone, and was paying 85 or 90 baht a beer, and though, as you would expect, hustled for drinks by the girls, everything was on the up and up.
Oh, well. I guess I'll check things out again in another couple of years, at most.
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Did anyone archive the deleted posts (before they were deleted)? I find this topic particularly fascinating and I'd love to be able to read everything posted to it.
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My air conditioner is dripping water and would like any quick/easy fixes for it. I rent and have building maintenance do most repairs as it's both their job and I'm too busy. However, they're not available much after Saturday afternoon and all of Sunday unless for real emergencies, so any ideas would be appreciated. See attached photo for details. Thanks.
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Actually part of a quick breakfast before going to work.Ah... TUNA!!! The daily dining choice of the frugal ex-pat. 39 baht dinner can't be bad!
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As others have said, it's the 7 that matters. Only 1 is singular:
When Susy buys oranges, 0.5 % go bad.
When Susy buys oranges, 0.99 % go bad.
When Susy buys oranges, 1 % goes bad.
When Susy buys oranges, 1.01 % go bad.
When Susy buys oranges, 2 % go bad.
When Susy buys oranges, 7 % go bad.
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...to begin the new year!
Don't let the still gutted buildings closer to Sukhumvit shy you away. Directly across from the Amari Boulevard hotel is a new smallish sign welcoming you in. There are still a few empty shelves and most prices aren't yet posted, but It looks generally the same. The most noticeable difference is the Took La Dee lunch counter is now larger with an oval shaped counter with seating all around. Also all the aisles are pretty much in a different order, e.g. produce and booze are now on the right side (as you enter) rather than the left as before.
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Saw it on a display table the other day (with some Christopher Moore books) outside the door of Asia Books on Sukhumvit near Robinsons.
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Jing, I've had to deal with a variety of similar encounters and this is how I handle them:
For me any stranger that approaches me like this is an immediate red flag.I was in the middle of making a purchase with cash when a man approached me, very friendly and talkative...
It's just one of my rules not to share personal information with strangers like this.Then we naturally got talking about what country he is from, what country I am from.
I try never to leave my wallet out when making a purchase. And I certainly never leave it open.The whole time my wallet was open
Don't they always? I used to get the Indians on lower Sukhumvit come up to me with the "You are a VERY lucky man." line. It took no more than a simple 'fuc_k off' for them to no longer bother me.He had some story...[Note, I've apparently run into some kind of retarded limit on quoting so now switching to bold-italics]
so naturally I asked him...
I really make an effort to respond as minimally as possible without being completely rude.
THREE times during the talk he moved his hand quickly towards my wallet...
I usually try to widen my stance and spread my elbows some to try to increase my personal space. Most often I've had to do this with Arabs standing in line behind me, some of whom practically want to rub up against me.
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I like 7-Eleven. I don't have any complaints.
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To satisfy those who read the topic title wrong:
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Animated GIF made up of satellite images of the region from January to November:
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The flood situation at the Bang Chan Industrial Estate has stabilized... a line of sandbag flood wall has been laid behind the complex for protection against the rising Saen Saeb Canal. At the same time, water pumps are running around the clock to drain seeping floodwater into the canal.
http://www.thaivisa....ost__p__4831946
So the canal that borders 'inner' Bangkok is now rising and more floodwater is being added to it in order to protect the Bang Chan Industrial Estate. Apparently protecting this IE (and potentially contributing to the flooding of the remainder of Bangkok) is now being made a major test of the government being able to show the foreign factory owners they have some ability to manage the flood.
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So is all that water just supposed to flow AROUND 'inner' Bangkok?
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It now seems to be flooded by a meter of water.
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Here's a map and satellite view from Oct. 19 together. Altogether there looks to be a mass of water about the size of Taiwan heading towards Bangkok.
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In the US and the UK, and probably all truly democratic nations, the way it works is that the government chooses the top guy -- the chief of staff of the armed forces -- and controls him in general terms. However, matters of promotion and job placement, as well as day-to-day operational decisions, are totally under the control of the armed forces themselves.
For U.S. brigadier (one-star) generals and above:
For promotion to the permanent grade of brigadier general, eligible officers are screened by a promotion board consisting of general officers from their branch of service. This promotion board then generates a list of officers it recommends for promotion to general rank. This list is then sent to the service secretary and the joint chiefs for review before it can be sent to the President, through the defense secretary, for consideration. The President nominates officers to be promoted from this list with the advice of the Secretary of Defense, the service secretary, and if applicable, the service's chief of staff or commandant. The President may nominate any eligible officer who is not on the recommended list if it serves in the interest of the nation, but this is uncommon. The Senate must then confirm the nominee by a majority vote before the officer can be promoted. Once the nominee is confirmed, they are promoted to that rank...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigadier_general_%28United_States%29
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171 Chulalongkorn University Thailand6,000 - 8,000 4,000 - 6,000 10,000 - 12,000 10,000 - 12,000 50.7
Hmmm, they don't seem to rank on this one: http://www.shanghair...m/ARWU2011.html
http://www.shanghair...rn%20University
Though I don't know which ranking org is considered more reputable.
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teaching at the highest possible levels
What would these be in terms of salary, etc.?
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It would be interesting to know just how many people are fluent in English, either first or second language speakers...
According to
http://en.wikipedia....king_population
there are 948,676,514 English speakers in the world or 17.65% of the world population.
And the world total number who speak English as their first language is 335,164,058 with the following breakdown:
Country______Number________% of World Total
U.S.___________215,423,557_____64.3______________
U.K.___________58,100,000______17.3______________
Canada_________17,694,830_______5.3______________
Australia______15,013,965_______4.5______________
Other__________28,931,706_______8.6______________
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