damian

30 minutes ago, worrab said:

So, so wrong! Nothing to do with the sleepers. It is the metal rails that expand in the heat and buckle. Used to get this in UK during exceptionally hot summers.

Correct. Happens in Aus often during very hot summers along with broken rails when they contract during winter. 

37 minutes ago, ricklev said:

I use my motorcycle horn every single time I feel it will make me safer.  And that is often in Bangkok.  Usually just a short beep beep to make sure that the other driver (who I assume is a moron that I suspect is about to endanger me) knows I am there.  If they continue in their lunacy they get several long beeps and if that doesn't work I lay on the horn til they stop.  

 

To heck with politeness Thai style when it's my body in danger.   

 

Never had a problem with anyone confronting me in 20 years of driving in Thailand. 

 

 

Correct. It's all in the 'tone' you use like whispering, talking forcefully, then yelling!

HRDSHT Beer!

3 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Heat wave, what heat. 

 

Esky full of beer and a couple of lady friends. 

 

Afternoon shade, it's nice and cool. 

 

 

Love that outdoor tub. I'd like to have one. Did you make the tub yourself or get it frome somewhere? About 1m x 3m? I think I would add a bench in mine. 

Gordons Gin and Tonic for me - handle pint glass, fresh lemon and lime (squeezed) slices and a million ice cubes.  

3 hours ago, gargamon said:

He didn't happen to be named Eugene, did he?

 

Clue:you need to be a Pink Floyd fan to get it....

Ummagumma.

3 hours ago, Aussie999 said:

It's the Thai norm... build it, then forget it, then come up with multiple excuses why it is deteriorating.

Then ask for a substantial budget to rebuild it.

22 hours ago, giddyup said:

Do they have Cherry Ripe's?

Now your'e asking for too much. 

They do have minties but no snakes. 

Mmmmm, cherry ripe alright. 

I'm still curious to know the content of the Hong Kong discussions bewteen T & T.

If MFP are dissolved they will simply reincarnate as the 'X Forward Party' for the next election so what exactly have the 'rulers' achieved? It will be difficult (but not impossible) to ignore the people a second time.

I thought the discussion could have been around accepting their fate and then joining forces with PT after reincarnation for the next election but the 'rulers' want MFP and their ilk gone forever so PT need to be careful. Either way the 'rulers' have the LM charge on Thaksin to prevent him from straying from the agenda.

Who knows? It's murky isn't it!

20 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

I think they shaved it and left it out in the sun to turn pink

My bet is they sprayed it off white. 

10 hours ago, mfd101 said:

It's not obvious to me who's pulling the strings on all the many puppets in all of this.

 

People talk about the Army calling the shots but, if the 2 generals beginning with P who ostensibly ran the country for several years are anything to go by, the Army lacks basic nous to be able to do anything much. Designing the kind of complex laws that make progress impossible takes a certain kind of perverted genius to achieve. Working your way thru the thickets of political & financial corruption takes another kind of genius. So who are the highly-skilled planners who pull it all together and have the authority to impose it on the whole jerry-built system of interacting and conflicting interests?

Its a collective of chosen shadowy figures who meet in the protected inner sanctum of guilded halls under the veil of darkness. They  have signed in blood to uphold their one mission and one mission only; to protect the source of their wealth and power at all costs.

Sounds like somehting from Star Wars but its not!

In my time here I have experienced varying degrees of competence and capability amongst the locals mostly leaning to the mid to lower end of the spectrum with some exceptions.

However, when it comes money or power and even loss of face, their ability to pull off the impossible through shameless scheming, collusion and cunning knows no bounds. 

To answer your question though, simply put, they are the Dark Force! 

Villa has all the Aussie snacks you need and they deliver anywhere if you shop online. Smith's chips, bbq shapes, vegemite, arnotts biscuits, villis and four and twenty pies etc. etc. 

I have found vegemite in some tops and even big c at Ekamai. 

The first and last time I went there I got the feeling it was her daughters running the show exploiting their mother 'sister mole' for all she's got.  

Not sure what they will do when she dies. 

19 hours ago, soalbundy said:

Woke seems to be very resilient despite the normal majority rejecting it, whose behind this $hit, it would seem anybody in power, be it politics, media or police have lost their backbones. I remember some years ago at a German car firm an engineer seeing two new black technicians when he walked into the office asked, "Has there been a fire in the office", everybody, including the two black guys laughed but a woke secretary reported him to HO and he was sacked immediately, she was mobbed afterwards and didn't last long.

What would he have said if they were two new white technicians I wonder. 

Cheers to the secretary.

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

I can see the basis for the friendship. Both are morally bankrupt. Both are money grubbers. Both would do anything to acquire more of a fortune. Both are highly compromised, and both are despised by many. And both are very bizarre looking men. Like something out of a comic book, but not the least but funny. 

 

 

 

 

 

I was thinking the same. 

Tony's head looks like its been photshopped onto someone elses body in the original photo. I know he has a big head but it really looks odd compared to his best mates. 

Dead man walking.

From the article:

The official said that the SRT can either amend the joint investment contract with Asia Era One, by deleting the requirement for Notice to Proceed (NTP), or revoke the contract and call a new bid.

AE1 is probably hoping for the latter. They must be Haemorrhaging money waiting for this EEC to ripen. Its not the railway that's delaying the project. 

They would be better off asking for an amendment and only do the Don Muang - Suvarnabhumi link. 

It's far from over.

I would still like to know what was discussed in Hong Kong between him and Thanathorn. 

If it's the same international cooperation they sought for that tepid little man-child boss, then I don't fancy their chances.