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DLT solves taxi issue with strict measures

Dave Lee Travis?

Must be a requirement under his conviction?

I suppose we can all pick out certain items from various places around the world to see which one is the cheapest. However, the lifestyle I live in Bangkok I could not replicate in London for the money it costs me here. Now if I was to choose one item for comparison, it would be my water bill. Water per cubic metre in England, for me, is 14 times more expensive than in Bangkok, (that is on a meter with no standing charge). The cost of my water bill in England pays for all of my utilities in Thailand, and makes a substantial contribution to my annual service charge.

Does anybody have any idea what the picture at the top of the article is all about?

I had a combined microwave/grill/convection oven by Electrolux, and to be honest, the oven was rubbish. It got amazingly hot on the outside, but took forever to cook anything. Now, as I have the space, I have separate units. It's a bit like the old adage: something that claims to do many things, does none of them particularly well.

Just put signs, in Thai of course, around your house saying that it is haunted by malicious spirits. That will keep the bad men away, and will be a lot cheaper.

The last time I visited The National Museum in Bangkok, the charge for foreigners was 200 baht, and 30 baht for Thais, and the tourists did not appear to be concerned by this price difference at all.

Just as an aside, I got in for the 30 baht fee, and to be quite frank, it was not even worth that.

Learning English is a political goal for the UK government, and assimilation, if by chance it happens, is never tested nor accurately appraised. Indeed, it could be argued that it is only the subsequent generations that are able and/or willing to integrate into society because they are already a part of that society.

Do not rely on this extension until you have discussed it with Immigration. I have a condo, (over 10 million baht), and when I asked at CW if I could get an Investment Extension, they replied "no", because I hadn't purchased it from a government agency, etc., but from an existing owner. When I had to go to CW a few months later, I decide to ask again, (just in case there had been some communication misunderstanding), but this time I took all the purchase paperwork with me. Once again I got the same answer, for the same reasons.

My principle reason in leaving England was the climate, which was having a detrimental effect on me both physically and mentally. The cost of living, for me, was of secondary importance, but for the way I live, it is considerably cheaper for me to live in Thailand than England. I suppose we all have to make that judgment based on our own particular life styles.

How degrading it would be to get your wife to do everything for you. Imagine having a wife back home that didn't speak a word of English and you had to do every single thing for her.. Same same no?

Like me, my wife is English, and she does everything for me, and I don't feel degraded in the least.

Does this really surprise anyone? The intelligence level of the average Thai bureaucrat is on par with that of rocks and water buffalo. I am sure this occurred after a 'Brainstorming' session with the ministry of tourism.

Remember its the Ministry of Tourism and Sports. The sport is to bait the tourist.

So the reason they loiter outside hotels, trying to rip off unsuspecting tourists, is to save fuel, because they can't afford to run their vehicles with all the low fares they are expected to take?

So, that's 11 reforms a week. Piece of cake!

Blimey, they'll be trying to charge us for shopping bags next!

Need to start taking licenses away from these crooks

You mean some of them have driving licences?

"Of the more than 1,000 complaints filed against taxi drivers every month on average, most of them involve refusing passengers, according to Department of Land Transport records. That leads to about 3,000 fines handed out each year to rogue cabbies......"

So, we have 12,000 complaints, and 3,000 fines. That means you have a one in four chance of being caught and financially punished, after you've been reported, which is probably only the tip of the iceburg. Might as well carry on then, chaps.

I have always believed that the giving of alms to beggars is up to the conscience of the giver.

"The Market by Platinum will have no shops selling brand-name products............"

Oh, yes they will; but only knock-offs.

Watched it on I player,yes here in Thailand,by the way they were right you can't buy an airline ticket here with a debit card only a credit card,why? As for the two fat birds ,God they were dumb,

Think you need to watch it again, you can buy an airline ticket here with both debit and credit cards.

Matt would have had a problem if using his girlfriends credit card to book his flight.

Believe it's an airline issue (stolen credit card) that you may need to show the credit card at check-in, not only in Thailand but other countries too.

Try buying a ticket online with Emirates or EVA with a debit card you can't I tried many times they will only accept a credit card

BA wouldn't take debit cards on their web site when my wife booked a ticket to the UK last week.

This girl's mother must have been aware when her daughter visited Koh Tao of the murders of Hannah and David. Unless her daughter already had a life threatening illness, she must be very naive to allow an autopsy to be carried out in Thailand. The girl was found dead on 21st January - 5 days ago so it surely wouldn't have been that difficult to have the body bought back to the UK in that time for an autopsy to be carried out. It doesn't take a genius to understand that 'No sign of attack' does not necessarily mean she died of natural causes or of a drug overdose. And 'No semen' doesn't rule out foul play. There's an interesting point raised on FB about the doors of the rooms in the In Touch where she was staying not being able to be opened from the outside with a key when they are locked from inside.

I think you'll find that the post mortem examination would be performed under Thai jurisdiction, and the parents would not be given the opportunity to veto it being carried out.

Anyone know where can I download this? BBC iplayer only works in UK...

You can find it on You Tube. I got through half of it on pure will alone, and then I couldn't take any more. I would like to see the production notes, just to get some idea what their objective was.To call it shallow would be a compliment.

I do not buy it at all

Lots of my friends and me currently have a cold that is sweeping through the place right now and I also have a chest infection, I have not taken anything for it and won't

Kids are to quick to race for antibiotics these days when there is probably no need and by the sounds of it she was ripped off where ever she bought them anyway, but not a killer

I myself went out last week and had a serious hangover next day and with the cold combined not pleasant so I can relate to that

I believe the mother is simply relaying what she has been told, natural causes..............................really

Tramadol - it is not a killer and she does not sound like a stupid girl that went mad on pills

The two men that had an argument over her in the bar - it doesn't indicate whether Thai or Falang (or maybe I missed it)

What was the so called natural cause of death ? asphyxiation ? no details given

Is there a predator on this Island preying on young female falang tourists

Sorry but my personal opinion is that I simply don't get any of this and treat it with extreme distrust

JMO

Just a bit of background reading:

http://www.drugs.com/dosage/tramadol.html#Precautions

It seems as though the BMTA are doing their bit for certain groups of passengers, including the disabled, by putting stickers by various seats on buses. These indicate which seats are available for monks, the elderly, pregnant women, and persons in wheelchairs, although how this last group get to, and then on the bus, is a moot point.

Here's a top tip: Just sloosh it around your mouth, like mouth-wash, and when you spit it back into the cup you will find that the lumps have disappeared. If you find you just can't bring yourself to do this, ask the wife to do it for you.