StreetCowboy

AND ANOTHER THING!

Has anyone else noticed that the IRB Scotland Sevens has been moved to Scotstoun (capacity 5,000) - OFFS!

Where are the spectators going to sit? That'll be scarcely enough for the teams' friends and family!

Its nice to have the Scotstoun Stadium, where they take rugby seriously, and its a great venue for the League internationals, and probably a good venue for Glasgow Warriors, if they can't stay at Firhill, but for the IRB World Series? 5,000 capacity? Or will they be putting up temporary stands, like Dubai?

I doubt there's anyone from the SRFU follows this thread, but you never know - even dinosaurs need a holiday from time to time...

SC

The sound of one hand fapping

I feel obliged to disagree on this one; thank you for the learning opportunity, but it appears that "to fap" is etymologically derived from "fap!" an onomatopaiec exclamation for the sound of solitary gentlemanly stimulation from English-language manga-style comics. Being fortuitously blessed with a monomanual-sized member, I can confirm that one or two hands, the sound is the same. I leave you with this quote from the Wiktionary page on the topic

"He really likes to fap; I hear him five times a day at least."

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fap

Unless your point is that with current market conditions, there should be no-one obliged to resort to twisting one off the wrist, but I am sure that elsewhere posters have identified one another as definite participants in the solitary arts

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SC, you used words there that even I had to look up.

Please resume your medication at the earliest available opportunity.

I'm self-medicating now... its downhill from here on, I'm afraid. Imagine how hard those words would have been to look up, with bonus typos...

do you need a work permit to buy and sell property for profit ? is it actually classed as work if i buy 3 condos,jazz them up a bit and then sell them next year on a higher price ?

I don't know. Does this all require any effort on your part? Do they spontaneously jazz up by themselves?

Yup, as I said . . . if you travel under an Oz pp then you are afforded protection . . . if you don't - well, your choice.

My brother has had several cases, he's also a dip - kind of a family tradition, where he's had to say 'sorry' because the guy wasn't on his Oz pp

My father had several of these cases as well - it's even worse when a death is involved

Simple - travel under an Oz pp and the Consulates and Embassies can and will help. Travel under a different pp and rely on that country's consular services.

Logic

But even if you enter your home country under your Australian passport (or in my case, British), I doubt our government would protect us from persecution by our home nation

SC

There's also the big question of where will we be if Wee Alec wins his referendum

Then we might as well take dual nationality. I might go to the Land of Nod in a short while, actually,...

The sound of one hand fapping

I feel obliged to disagree on this one; thank you for the learning opportunity, but it appears that "to fap" is etymologically derived from "fap!" an onomatopaiec exclamation for the sound of solitary gentlemanly stimulation from English-language manga-style comics. Being fortuitously blessed with a monomanual-sized member, I can confirm that one or two hands, the sound is the same. I leave you with this quote from the Wiktionary page on the topic

"He really likes to fap; I hear him five times a day at least."

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fap

Unless your point is that with current market conditions, there should be no-one obliged to resort to twisting one off the wrist, but I am sure that elsewhere posters have identified one another as definite participants in the solitary arts

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Yup, as I said . . . if you travel under an Oz pp then you are afforded protection . . . if you don't - well, your choice.

My brother has had several cases, he's also a dip - kind of a family tradition, where he's had to say 'sorry' because the guy wasn't on his Oz pp

My father had several of these cases as well - it's even worse when a death is involved

Simple - travel under an Oz pp and the Consulates and Embassies can and will help. Travel under a different pp and rely on that country's consular services.

Logic

But even if you enter your home country under your Australian passport (or in my case, British), I doubt our government would protect us from persecution by our home nation

SC

Perhaps you should go out with a set of handcuffs on and a gag?

kinky...

I actually had a bus trip that was totally unlike your ride. It was from Phrae to Chiang Mai and normally takes about 4 plus hours. The driver was alert and quick, but he didn't take chances. The ride was smooth and fast and I actually fell asleep for a couple of hours and woke up just before we got to Lampang. If I can I always pay attention to the drivers and how they manipulate through traffic. In this case I was in the front seat and right behind the driver.This guy was one of the best I've seen and I actually complimented him at the end of our journey. He was a bit surprised, but quite pleased.

Did you take his photo? Please tell me you took his photo.......I need to see this guy.

See? There are some good drivers in Thailand. And the best of it was, he was doing it all blindfold, taking instructions from a clairvoyant

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EDIT: That's just speculation on my part - I don't want a whole bunch of people piling in here saying how its ridiculous that so many bus drivers rive blindfold, and that the blindfold drivers are the worst...

I remember getting a bus on the hill road over to the south side of HK island with a driver who was either a bit sleepy or a reeeally slow blinker...

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No live Rugby League commentary last night?

Apologies if I interrupted the flow.

Please resume normal service.

I'd decided to get up in the middle of the night to listen to the Wigan - Warrington game; I figured I'd be as well to get a bit of sleep in advance of the ordeal, and tried to get my head down, but kept tossing and turning; eventually the boss said "Go home, Cowboy..."

It sounded like a cracking game, though, from the match report. I did catch a bit of the Rabbitohs - Broncos game on AstroSupersports 2, but I was nodding off, due to a late night the previous night, and a couple of beers, so I had an early night.

I followed the HK Sevens on the internet latest scores while in the office this morning (I work alternate Saturdays), as I mentioned here

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/454681-7777777777777777777/page__view__findpost__p__5161197

There's no games on the wireless tonight, and the St Helens Leeds game is late on Sunday evening (1835 kick-off); I might take a listen to the Widnes - London game, though Radio Merseyside are not the most reliable of programmers. I'll struggle to build up any motivation for the 3rd Round Challenge Cup games - Workington Town v Batley, or York City v Hull Dockers, are the broadcast selection

I wonder if I could find Crusaders v Toulouse in French - "c'est un hyoomiliayasion!"

Again, though, its a late kick-off; tant pis.

Better go, before the language police call round, kenwhitameenanatjimmy?

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on a sidenote... most participants in this thread have no idea what corruption is. reason: the ridiculous 100 or 200 Baht a traffic cop might ask are chewed ad nauseam over and over again. i wish the anti corruption warriors have the opportunity to spend a few years in "black" Africa as a CEO or project manager and learn first hand what real corruption looks and feels like.

on a sidenote... most participants in this thread have no idea what corruption is. reason: the ridiculous 100 or 200 Baht a traffic cop might ask are chewed ad nauseam over and over again. i wish the anti corruption warriors have the opportunity to spend a few years in "black" Africa as a CEO or project manager and learn first hand what real corruption looks and feels like.

That's a really rather silly post merely reiterating my point that most of the posters on this thread and on this forum in particular, only experience of corruption in Thailand, not black Africa (ye gods), are petty motoring offences.

Let's here from some of the buggers who've bribed police/prosecutors/land/immigration officials to let them, in some cases, literally get away with grand larceny (very prevalent on Phuket for instance), drug dealing/smuggling or being allowed to throw up architectural aberrations such as the Godawful 'Conrad' on Samui.

No? Thought not. And I know some of you read this forum ...

If I threw up an architectural aberation I would be tempted to seriously consider changing my diet or my drinking

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beating a dead horse at this point.

You want the "sport and hobbies" forum.

This is futile bickering in General

SC

Well as I've said often enough, my wallet and my liver voted against going to HK this year, and I didn't want to go without them, so I'm following the scores on the IRB web site - finals are on Star or ESPN tomorrow afternoon (I forget which channel...)

There have been some cracking group games, thanks to the unusual structure of this year's competition

China scraping a win over Uruguay early this morning, Portugal coming back from 22-0 down at half time to beat Japan, Zimbabwe holding off Canada to win 24-21, and in their next game scoring a minute after the final whistle to beat the Philippines 21-17, and Scotland scoring in the ninth minute to beat France 14-12. Unfortunately, that won't be enough to see us through to the Cup Quarterfinals, thanks to big losses to Fiji and Australia.

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I have a cunning plan.

Sadly we hear that all too often, and too rarely in jest.

We rarely hear "I have a plan so flawed in its conception that its execution will be indistinguishable from anarchic, aimless and ignorant panic",

except, of course, when me and Smokie are planning a night out for some poor unsuspecting newbie who had the naive temerity to ask for recommendations in the pub forum

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What's the ownership structure for the walkups you see everywhere?

I am guessing that they are flatted (i.e. separate owners but no common ownership body - a recipe for difficulties when you have dry rot or foundation or roof problems; though normally the roof is the responsibility of the owner of the top unit.

I don't think that the term 'apartment' is specific to the ownership structure of a single building owner and tenants; I think it is generic, and refers to an individual dwelling of many in the building, whereas condominium indicates specific ownership structure - I believe that condominia can comprise houses as well as apartments.

Perhaps someone who actually knows something about the ownership of buildings might care to post, for the benefit and education of us armchair conveyencers

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ive just been told by a thai that an building with 5 floors or less is an "apartment "

once 5 floors is exceeded ,it becoms a codominium building

seems strange logic but im not thai

Before you asked the question, you should have found out if he knew the answer. If he did not know the answer, then it is quite likely that whatever answer he gave may not be entirely correct.

I'm not sure about the Thai language, but in the English language, a condominium is a building which is jointly owned by a juristic person on behalf of all the unit owners, who each have title to their own units.

I don't know how Thais refer to flats, where each unit is owned by a different owner, but there is no juristic person owning the common elements of the building.

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I'm always getting told to go home........apparently I blether too much

And usually by bar staff - not just in Thailand. Yes?

It happens every night at quitting time...

"Drink up ladies and gentlemen. The bar is closing in 30 minutes."

Now if you are a Scot or an Irishman that is time to order 2 more rounds.

Exactly. You'll not often see an Englishman buying a round...

I live in somebody else's house. Not sure where that puts me on your socio-economic ladder, but I like it.

Do they know?

Do they live there too?

That must be quite challenging...

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I've been in some "conditions" in my time, even so bad as to have to take the occasional "sickie" yet I never been so bad as to require 5 days in hospital; indeed by 4 PM the following day I'm usually back to mid-season form as it were.

Surely if this were just drunkenness, this chap would have woken in the morning and either paid up or pegged it?

I don't think Soi41 has been told the full tale here...

Perhaps it was liver failure.

Or bleeding stomach haemorage.

I doubt it was the consequence of casual drinking of a Saturday night, taking one for the road and finding it a longer road than first thought...

There's some people suffer much worse from drink than you or I

SC

EDIT: You might get more constructive help on this sub-forum

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/forum/98-i-drink-too-much-forum/

though the problem seems more of a hospital bill problem than a drink problem, and the mention of the drink only causes people to lose sympathy and display prejudice.

Schroedinger's cat

At a practical level that concept doesn't work here.

Schroedinger's Thai cat

Einstein: So, Herr Schrodinger, how was your experiment

Schroedinger: Its fookin gone. Not dead, not alive, its gone!, lock, stock and giblets!

Belches offstage...

Schroedinger's cat

Its been good but I think this thread is done.

Wrong. Keep your contributions rolling in please everyone.....

You're quite right - I hear that all the time, mostly from the original poster when the thread takes a wrong turn, or people start having a go at him and telling him to grow a pear (or maybe Grow Up, Eh? - I could have mis-heard)

Back on topic -

Yourself think, above the clamour in a shopping centre on a Saturday

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I work on the border of Thailand in Aran/poi-pet for the last year and a half. And the immigration here are all mostly stereotypes when working unlike military personal and local law enforcement.

They cannot and will not take bribes, there job is mind numbing they take insults from unhappy travelers and While I cross in and out on a dally bases they hardly acknowledge me.

But as the border closes I see them in the casino or having a drink at a local pub in aran and they are really nice people. Hold nothing personal against foreigners.

Nice post. I think if I had to deal with all the idiots who come to Thailand and don't follow the most simple of rules and then act arrogant about it when dealing with authorities, then I might get a little "testy" towards all foreigners. My experiences have been mostly pleasant even though I can see certain flaws in the system.

Why we can't just have our visa stamped in the Thai city of residence instead of taking a long bus ride to the nearest border and spending our money in another country is beyond my comprehension. I'm sure SOMEBODY must have a reason, but I can't think of one.

I think that the visas where you have to go on visa runs are non-resident visas, so you should be grateful you don't have to go back to your city of residence (I'm not sure about that, I've not examined the small print of the visas, and I can't read Thai anyway...

My experience, with residents' visas based on educational or work permit, is that one does not need to do visa runs.

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This enjoyable thread is now going 'off the rails'..

I'm sure I have heard that...

SC

Edit: To be honest, I thought you all did a good job not getting bogged down in the details of NZ rugby league