billd766

My understanding........ in business, people generally accept it takes the individual circa 3 months to settle into a change of role.......excepting those who seek opportunity to raise instant criticism of course........or those who prefer to 'imagine' the future in order to raise criticism in advance....

When you talk about CEO, CFO and the like they are expected to function from the day before yesterday. With lesser positions and especially junior positions the pressure (or stress) is much less. For top politicians (cough-cough) there is a similar expectation level as for top business positions.

Interesting you say 'change of role', where in regards to the OP and Ms. Yingluck it's not a game or play, but a change of position from business woman / president of her family owned company to Thailand's first female PM. In her new position she's expected to function from day 1 which was about late July the 3rd, 2011

Margaret Thatcher was up and running the day after the election and did very well for many years, but then again she was an experienced politician with a good cabinet behind her.

Several bars have closed down and the big massage place has gone as well. It must be like a ghost town around there now.

On the other hand if this is to help poor people and farmers as well it will kick the bottom away from sugar and tapioca farming as they planted a lot due to the high prices paid to convert the end product into gasohol.

Give with one hand and take back with the other.

It also seems that the "temporary" suspension will cost the government around 6 billion baht in lost revenue per month.

The withholding of US aid probably makes little difference in the situation. It might encourage them to start of approach the problem of statehood in a positive and adult manner.

The Palestinian Arabs should sign a peace treaty for a start.

Well again none of it is the business of the US & using tactics such as these it is

in as much saying to sign a treaty that they have no say in making.

Form the original article...

Israeli authorities have also rejected the Palestinian solution based on the 1967 borders as that measure would leave a large population of Israelis in Judea and Samaria outside Israel's borders.

So why not? It is not like the Palistinians are asking for anything unreasonable.

It is not like they are asking for a return to the UN Partition Plan of 1947. (See attached Map)

Comments are often bandied about citing one group wanting to push the other into the sea.

But the facts tend to suggest otherwise. Motive for problems at hand?

Sticking with the original post...It is not the USA's place to pressure things that do not concern them.

Lead by example not by meddling & making threats that others should vote this way or that.

That would never be tolerated in the USA why does the government think it will be tolerated elsewhere?

Thank you for posting the map as I had not realised the difference in land areas over the years and the population shifts.

Just the thing for you already in Repsol colours and a bit bigger with a green book.

http://www.thaivisa....92#entry4650592

No disrespect to Billd.. but OP buy a new or near new bike.. old bikes are a drain on funds and a pain in the arse.

I agree but that one looks very nice for the money.

Still think the Repsol CBR 150 would be ideal though.

If i was the OP buying now. then i would get either a 2nd hand 2011 Cbr150i or a 2011 Cbr250i. Sure he MAY want a bigger bike in the future but nice solid bikes to learn on.

I just happened to see the ad a few lines further down the page.

I bought a 1994 Yamaha Virago for 50k with a green book and so far it hasn't cost me too much and my arse has less pain at the end of the ride than my Honda Phantom.

The Phantom is a good reliable slogging workhorse and mine only died on me once in 2 years with a faulty spark plug in 30,000 km. Just runs on forever and can be fixed almost anywhere but down a bit on warp factor speeds.

Of course he was paid to stir up sentiments .....

I am sure that you have irrefutable proof of this and will present it as evidence to the police.

Of course the person concerned absolutely denies that he was paid and of course he was there so he ought to know.

Just the thing for you already in Repsol colours and a bit bigger with a green book.

Mine is my wife's youngest brothers second cousin's nieces 3rd best friends buffalo's nickname.

fred1234

A few years ago when I lived in the UK (I used to ride a Honda CX 500) you needed to pass your test on something like a 150 after which you could ride anything.

A young man did that, passed his test in the morning and bought a litre bike after lunch.

Unfortunately in trying to prove how good he was he never made it home, only to the morgue. It took him less than an hour to do it.

I am not saying this will happen to you, but anybody taking his first bike as a litre or more bike has a much higher chance of killing himself than if he were on a 150 or 250.

Start smaller and grow bigger.

I had a 200 cc Honda Phantom for the last 2 years in Thailand and went to a 535 Yamaha Virago in May.

I have nothing to prove to anyone how good or bad a rider I am.

Last month I went up to Chiang Mai and on a nice twisty bit of road in first gear on a hairpin I opened the throttle a bit too much and got dumped of the bike at about 15 kph.

Fortunately only my pride was damaged and nobody was behind me to run me over but it is a lesson I learned once again.

There are old bikers and bold bikers but very few old, bold bikers.

Be sure, be safe, be careful and you too can be an old biker.

Safe biking.

If it were me and I didn't want to do that I would just order 650,000 baht's worth in one shop and go on to the next etc until I got what I wanted.

I can not understand farangs who live her make no real effort to learn Thai. If they did so they would never have any problems in this country

Some of us older people have tried.

However when you are partially deaf and tone deaf as well Thai IS a hard language to learn.

When I speak in my version of Thai to family and friends they can sort of understand what I am on about but in general Thai's who don't know me cannot always understand.

What I think I said and what they thought they heard may be different.

Never mind you will be old and deaf one day.

How come Wales,that big Sheeps Toilet has so many, and it never stops raining there..?.Someone had to ask.

It is the heat and humidity combined with the rain.......

There is not a lot of heat in Wales and it quite often rains horizontally due to the strong winds.

I bought my Phantom a couple of years ago and the previous owner said use 95. I have used both 91 and 95 and there isn't that much difference in performance but 95 is a few baht cheaper and over 30,000 km there is a fair saving.

Only speaking as a petroleum chemist, but putting higher octane fuel into low powered small engines is a waste of money. Not mentioning the benzine and gasohol differences, as I guess your comparing 91 Benzine to 95 Gasohol. Only a small percentage of engines on the road will have a measurable - not subjective - improvement to operating performance.

Opinions on fuels are often based on years of very successful marketing campaigns, not measurable quantitative results.

If your Phantom is new enough to have the Gasohol recommend sticker on, use it and it may even run smoother; that is unless you object to the evil, worldwide scheme that is alcohol fuels.

Never leave it with Gasohol in the tank for long periods; heck if alcohol and water didn't mix what would we drink for fun?

I was saving actual cash of some 6 baht per litre as gasohol 95 was and still is cheaper than 91 regular. If they were the same price or 95 was more expensive then i would probably agree with you given that you have a skill (petroleum chemist)and knowledge that I don't possess.

"I remember those days when a 4 pound leg of beef would be roast on Sunday, cold on Monday and mince on Tuesday."

I don't think I've ever heard of a leg of beef before, only joints and roasts.

As a post on the first page said, potatoes go really well in a masaman curry. I like to keep a few of the boiled potatoes over to the next morning and then slice and fry them with my bacon.

Listen you young whippersnapper, I started out with pounds weight and pork and changed part of it.

It was Sunday afternoon and I hadn't had my afternoon nap.

At my age I allowed to make a mistake or two.

Anymore comments like that and I will crank up my turbocharged zimmer frame and run you over.

I bought my Phantom a couple of years ago and the previous owner said use 95. I have used both 91 and 95 and there isn't that much difference in performance but 95 is a few baht cheaper and over 30,000 km there is a fair saving.

Never chicken because that was so expensive we could only afford it at Crimbly.

I'm torn between calling you a pikey or gyppo mate.

You can call me me what you want. Try growing up in the fifties when a joint of beef or lamb was as cheap as chips and chicken was something special that was only eaten once a year.

I remember those days when a 4 pound leg of beef would be roast on Sunday, cold on Monday and mince on Tuesday. The same thing with pork and lamb.

The first time I ever ate turkey was in 1960 as a boy in the RAF.

I used to buy cod and chips down in Poole where I lived on a Friday night on the way back home from the Boy Scouts meeting for around 1/6d plus a bags full of batter scraps for free back in the late 1950's.

Proper salt from a big pot on the counter and lashings of real vinegar.

Yummy I could eat that now.

The way to make a small fortune in Thailand is to start with a large one!

Best post I have ever read

Preferably someone else's

That could be handy for me in 2014.

Not sure how to pay for it as I won't have a UK bank account by then but I have 100% faith that they have that sorted by then.

I'm not crazy about kids but my wife is. I would put up with them because it would make my wife happy. She has enough love for a whole passel of them. She has checked into it and found that I am too old. She is 43 and I am 66.

That lets me out then.

My wife is 46 and I am 67.

What about bubble and squeak?

I have sort of fixed the problem with my son's white school shirts.

My friend next door has offered to do the shirts for me and the 2 she has done so far are better than I can do them.

i believe you and i just saw the cow jump over the moon.do you believe me that i saw that

Red Shirts would if you were Thaksin.

And they would have seen the doctored-video evidence to prove it too !

Only if it was a blue moon AND 100 pigs were flying in a perfect formation.

If you think it is bad now imagine what it will be like when there are high-speed trains doing +/- 150 kph and people will STILL try to beat the trains.

Before they will have hi-speed trains we will be all passed away...

no problem so...

:jap:

I think that they will have to raise all the trackbeds by at least a metre to get over the flooding every year.

If you think it is bad now imagine what it will be like when there are high-speed trains doing +/- 150 kph and people will STILL try to beat the trains.

The biggest problem with 3G or any G for that matter is the monopoly called CAT.

This government should completely break up the CAT just like the UK broke the stranglehold of British Telecom.

I read somewhere recently that CAT has more than 4 times the staff of AIS and DTAC combined and around 5% of the combined customer base.