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Have a look at http://huskymowersthailand.com/

I understand they can deliver all over Thailand.

http://www.thai-notes.com gives ที่ไม่เคารพ which is apparently synonymous with "impudent" or "insolent".

there is only one that has been recommended many times on tv. mrs.balbir i think its soi 8 off sukhumvit rd.

Soi 11/1

I'm getting text messages about a bridge collapse (200 year bridge) in Tha Ruea with an unspecified number of people dead/injured. However, searching the English language and Thai language news doesn't produce any results. Does anyone have any hard information?

Thanks.

Yields on Thai government bonds range from 2.76% for 1 year to 3.92% for 18 year. S&P rates Thailand's sovereign debt as BBB+.

From the description, isn't this more likely to be water hyacinth (a major problem across the globe), rather than water lily or lotus?

Well if it is water hyacinth, it would be easier to remove, since they just float .... and yes, usually breed like rabbits, except at my place where I can never get them to survive!

We need the OP to respond! ..... Although really his only option is to hand pull out which ever type of water plant it is!

Here is a picture of Water Hyacinth !

The expression "breed like rabbits" is profoundly offensive to us rabbit-lovers (though that's love in a purely platonic way). The politically correct expression is "breed like Queen Victoria".

From the description, isn't this more likely to be water hyacinth (a major problem across the globe), rather than water lily or lotus?

For the ending sound when ทัณฑฆาต removed, pronuciation will comply with consonant class and leading consonant rules. In this case, the leading consonant is ษ which is high tone while ณ is low. Therefore, ณ follow high tone rules then ลักษณ is read Lak(/)-sa(\)-na(\).

But according to the RID, there is no such word as ลักษณ! What you are describing is the word ลักษณะ. Confusingly, as the initial element of a compound word, ลักษณ is pronounced the same as the word ลักษณะ.

The final comment isn't strictly true. The final two syllables of the initial compound are unstressed, and in normal speech are toneless. In ลักษณะ the first of the final two syllables is similarly unstressed, but the second one is stressed, has a tone and is terminated by a glottal stop.

Yeah, it's pointless. It doesn't provide much cooling. To heat 1/10 of a litre of water from zero to body temperature requires 4 kcal. A big dog can produce that in a minute. To vaporize the same amount on the tongue takes 54 kcal out of the dog. Trust the physics, and don't risk a stomach ache. Just provide enough water.

It's not just a matter of the physics of cooling the body - it's a matter of how the dog feels. I think most of us would prefer a glass of something cold when we're hot - and that includes dogs.

The reason that few Brits. registered with Locate is that too many personal questions were asked, the answers to which could be passed to any British government agency.

Really,I thought it was just because they've shown on numerous occasions that they really couldn't give a toss for any British Nationals,nor any bad situations they might find themselves in whether self-inflicted or not!

Like after the Asian tsunami, they did virtually nothing, and certainly didn't attempt to contact me even though I was registered.

And now, they post a general message, rather than attempting to contact those who are actually registered.

As in seemingly everything they do, hopelessly pathetic.

Jolly good. I'm sure that the cost saving will be passed on, so they can now reduce the price of new passports.

It's a cute spelling of สิ

Not "cute" in the sense of the teen-speak and SMS-slang. It's actually a pretty orthodox spelling, though สิ is considered technically more correct. It is, for example, featured in the AUA course books of 1967.

'how about ..'

Can also be spoken in another tone as more-or-less a soft command or in the sense of 'of course'.

Not sure this is correct. Have a look at http://siamsmile.webs.com/thaiparticles/thaiparticles.html#SI which suggests that it's imperative or for emphasis, which was my understanding.

Probably on a par with Thai2English is the "Bulk Lookup" at http://thai-notes.com/tools/predictionary.shtml. It's faster than Thai2English and I prefer the way it works.

According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat) Burma isn't on the list of countries where they eat dog meat, so they probably didn't end up in a cur curry or puppy pasta.

Thanks for the tip. I found a really cheap ticket!

And what is meant by port of embarkation / disembarkation?

Place you arrived/departed.

Get hosting where your end users are based

Why?

If you don't speak Mongolian, it doesn't make much sense hosting your website in Mongolia where support is only available in Mongolian. Google Translate really isn't up to helping fix complex technical problems.

In the case of Thailand, international bandwidth is poor, but not to the extent (in my opinion) to mandate hosting for Thai consumers within the country. A fast server in Singapore could well provide a much better experience than a slow, overloaded server in Bangkok. And good website design could well compensate for many performance problems.

I would also be reluctant to host certain sites in Thailand given Thailand's poor legal protection for freedom of speech, and given the ability for "persons of influence" to do, basically, whatever they want.

I could be wrong, but wasn't this site hosted in Singapore for a number of years, rather than Thailand (where, I presume, the majority of viewers view)? I'm sure there were some good reasons for this.

Why would you want to host your website in Thailand? You can do it much more cheaply elsewhere. For example, http://www.webhostinghub.com charges US$4.95/month for unlimited space and bandwidth and includes a choice of 3 free shopping carts. .com domain registration is free for the first year.

As for how long to set up, that will depend on the size of your shop and how skilled you are with the software. The technical bit of setting up the domain and skeleton website is virtually instant - it's all automated.

.th domains are difficult to get if you don't have a registered company with a matching name.

If you have atm card...just take it out as you need it....take some cash for emergency, but that is all I do

Not ATM card, I think. Credit card or debit card with VISA or Mastercard logo.

Why would a fur trim make a difference for an animal that can't sweat, and regulate the body temperature over the skin anyway? That's folklore, not physics. We have two mini poodles who get fancy trims every month, and they like it. Not because of the heat, but they like to show off.

Nothing to do with sweating. By removing the layer of insulation the body can radiate heat more efficiently. Physics not folklore.

(Of course, when the ambient temperature is above body temperature this is a hindrance.)

เหนื่อยไปหมด ทั้งกาย ทั้งใจ แย่แล้วหัวใจหมดแรง :'(:'(

I'm completely exhausted - my whole body, whole mind are bad - my heart beats feebly.

สู้ๆเดียวทุกอย่างก็มีทางออกนะจร้าน้องตุ๊ก

Fight! Fight! every possible moment and you will find a way out [softening particle] [จร้า ??? - possibly funny spelling of จ๊ะ] young Tuk

ขอบคุณคะ คงยากแย่มากๆ

Thank you [female speaking], It must be difficult, very bad.

กินหลายบ่

Eat various [บ่ - end of word is missing]

เด๋วมันก้อผ่านไป

[เด๋ว I don't know - possibly a name] it will pass.

ถ้ามันเหนื่อยมากก็พักก่อนแล้วค่อยสู้ต่อ สู้สู้

If it is very tiring, take a break first, then gradually start to carry on fighting again. Fight! Fight!

Thanks for the translation.

Since I am a Farang then I must be the Buffalo in my Animal Kingdom.

I gather I had slipped to being a dog now.

ปากหมาสิ้นคิด

Some more translation help please.

Not a dog. ปากหมา does literally mean "mouth of a dog", but it is used metaphorically to refer to vulgar or crude language.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think it means either "when you use foul language I stop thinking about what you're saying" or "when you use foul language I despair".

II remember seeing the look of shock on the face of a Japanese waitress in a sushi restaurant in New York City once as I doused my sushi with enough wasabi to kill a horse. She said, "No, do it like this" and made a fresh batch of soy sauce mixed with wasabi a la Japonaise. "But I'm not Japanese," I said as I ladled more wasabi into it.

Off topic, but there's something wrong with this story. Japanese people never mix wasabi with soy sauce for dipping sushi - it's just plain wrong. That mix is only ever used for dipping sashimi.

Is it better to be a donkey than a buffalo in the animal kingdom?

In the Thai mind, the donkey is stubborn, the buffalo stupid. Take your pick.

"If it were bread the yeast would have consumed all of the sugar and it would not taste as sweet as it does."

80% of factory-made bread in the UK is made by the Chorleywood process. It doesn't depend upon yeast to produce the bubbles, but beats the dough at high speed to aerate it. This cuts down on processing time dramatically (the beating typically takes only 3 minutes) and allows the manufacturer to use cheaper, lower quality (lower protein) flour, so make more profit. I strongly suspect that all the major bread manufacturers here use the Chorleywood process, so what yeast there is in the bread has no time to consume the sugar. And given that the bread is typically around 10% sugar, it would take yeast a long time to chomp its way through that much sweetness.

Very informative.

Yes but there is no sugar added to a UK bread recipe, where does the sugar content come from?. Edit Sorry you could be right as flour contains sugar and it increases with fermentation taking it up to 2.5 % sugar. What did we do before google?

Sorry if I was unclear. Traditional UK bread recipes sometimes contain a small amount of sugar for the yeast to feed upon so it can produce carbon dioxide which makes the bubbles in bread. However, after the yeast has done its work, there's really not enough left to taste sweet.

Thai bread has a large amount of sugar added to it simply because Thai people like it that way.