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It's not quite true that they're all the same. They use different delivery systems and emit their goodness at different places in the gut. I know that Pentasa is available to order from a small pharmacy in Chiang Mai but is not available to order from Boots in the same town. It appears in the small pharmacy MIMS but not in the Boots MIMS!

For anyone who uses Googlesync - Google have said they're not updating it to be compatible with FF3

The printing press.

Yes it should work.

Yes, unless you can demonstrate that it's more than six months (IIRC, check with UK customs) old you will have to pay VAT and duty.

Probably cheaper in the UK anyway.

Delicate item, I would not trust it to the baggage mangling system.

Just got back from the UK today and, although you can't buy exactly the same models here in Thailand, a comparable LCD TV by manufacturer is cheaper in Thailand than it is in the UK.

I suspect that the cost of shipping may negate any advantage in price.

No, I suspect he mixes up the 'accepting' west where you'll still likely to have the crap beaten out of you (Mathhew Shepherd anyone?) with 'tolerating' Thailand where you're left alone to live your life.

The Battle of Thermopylae. It allowed the Greeks time to regroup for Salamis and Platea - thus forcing the Persians back into Asia and allowing Greece to develop the concept of democracy.

England winning WW2 - everybody else came in for the glory while we stood alone for the Battle of Britain

Two world war's and one world cup doo da

Wrong, my British friend. Yes you won the Battle of Britain but you would have gone down in flames if it had not been for RADAR which was provided, of course, by America.

Radar was invented (and granted a British patent in 1935) by the Scottish physicist Sir Robert Watson-Watt. Randall & Boot at Birmingham (UK) University developed the cavity magnetron which enabled airborne radar sets to be developed. When it (the magnetron) was shipped to the US the US goverment advisor James Phinney Baxter III said it was 'the most valuable cargo ever brought to our shores'.

Thai friends of mine in the UK use http://www.thaitv.tv all the time and seem quite happy with it.

I always thought that sunrise was above the horizon?

I understand that one can get quite nice accommodation as a passenger on a cargo vessel. I wouldn't mind doing this, initially to Brisbane or an Australian eastern seaboard port.

Cheers

Xangsamhua

Quite correct. There are limited berths on a lot of cargo lines, you only have to write to them for details. I would suggest P&O as your first try.

The P&O that you remember no longer exists. The only ships they run nowadays are ferries. All the others are gone. They started to go downhill shortly after I started working for them in 1980

Is the Yanhee Hospital under a bridge?

More details here.

Might be worth waiting for this

Probably about the same proportion as there are Thai subscribers to Sky here in the UK. The main difference is that the Thais that I know here in the UK don't moan about the fact that there's no Thai commentary on Sky. They accept the fact that they're in an English speaking nation and expect English to be used on the TV.

ah, see your argument for True to Sky doesn't work, as if you were a Thai living in England and did subscribe to Sky, you'd do so in the knowledge that there are very few ( if any ? ) Thai channels available to them.

For those of us who LIVE here in Thailand and have paid for the premium True sat. package available, we did so in the knowledge that there are considerably more English channels available than Thai and as such, the package is pretty much slanted towards farangs.

At a guess I'd say there are around 35 plus English channels compared to around 15 Thai at the moment

Added to that, when I initially did my purchase and contract with UBC / True , all the football was in English.

There's no logic the other way for round Thai people here who are interested in the Premiership , now shown exclusively via UBC / True , as the build up / preview shows etc. are all in Thai, though once the match starts the live commentary is in English !?

So it's an overall observation and comment as to the way UBC / True run their business - though if the actual ratio of farang subscribers / viewers is ' healthy ' then there is a cause to "moan" me thinks.

Again, those of us who live here will know you won't get any joy out of any suggestions / complaints or ' moans ' direct to UBC / True.

Though it does seem a pretty easy and cheap fix for all subscribers to be happy, to simply provide commentary in both Thai and English for events such as these.

Anyway, just an observation / thought / comment my side.

Enjoy Eastenders yours ........

True is a Thai company with primarily Thai speaking customers. Soccer is a very popular sport in Thailand. True have a choice when transmitting Euro 2008 games. They can either run a commentary in Thai which the majority of their customers will understand or they can transmit a commentary in English which will be understood by far fewer people. Why would any commercial company choose to antagonise the majority of their customers for the benefit of a few?

BTW cheap shots about my currrent country of residence are just that - cheap shots.

You can't connect a bare LCD straight to a VGA plug. You need all the driver & voltage generation circuitry that's on your blown-up motherboard to drive it.

Probably about the same proportion as there are Thai subscribers to Sky here in the UK. The main difference is that the Thais that I know here in the UK don't moan about the fact that there's no Thai commentary on Sky. They accept the fact that they're in an English speaking nation and expect English to be used on the TV.

Confined to the O2 network in the UK with a £30 a month contract as a minimum. Full UK pricing details here.

27 youths in one room all of them on yabba and 16 to 23 in age anyone know what will happen to them?

A Tweeker's nightmare. I bet it was big eyeballs, major chewing gum and paranoia all round

It's being released on 11th JULY not on Wednesday and according to The Register no-one will pay more than the quivalent of $199 for the 8GB version.

Speaking Parties I think end of Oct or early Nov might be a good time for a TV pissup.

Late November in Chiang Mai would be good

Who doesn't want a big bright temple?

A true Buddhist doesn't want anything!

My Ajahn tells me that there's no such thing as a 'true Buddhist'. He say that some are further along the path than others.

Would you like to ask your Ajahn if Buddha was a true Buddist? Or is he just a little further along the path?

Presumably he (the Buddha) has found the end of the path and thus needs to travel no further.

Do you have a Thai restaurant local to you? Get to know the chef - I'm sure they'd be happy to supply you with authentic provisions.

You could start by buying (and reading on a regular basis) a book called 'Stop Thinking, Start Living' by Richard Carlson. It has a whiff of "The Pairs" from the Dhammapada but is easy for western folks to understand:

Mind is the forerunner of (all evil) states. Mind is chief; mind-made are they. If one speaks or acts with wicked mind, suffering follows one, even as the wheel follows the hoof of the draught-ox.

Mind is the forerunner of (all good) states. Mind is chief; mind-made are they. If one speaks or acts with pure mind, AFFECTION follows one, even as one's shadow that never leaves.

Who doesn't want a big bright temple?

A true Buddhist doesn't want anything!

My Ajahn tells me that there's no such thing as a 'true Buddhist'. He say that some are further along the path than others.