StreetCowboy

Take some LSD. Problem solved.

Oh, the joys of pre-decimalisation!

Living in the past!

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Do any of the pubs in Bangkok show the Malaysian satellite channels? Astro carries some Heineken Cup games, and a couple of Guinness Premiership and French Top XIV games every week, as far as I can tell

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I happened to be in a pub in KL and saw the second half of the New Zealand v Samoa game; I'm not sure if the Four Nations games will be showing, though I fear not...

I checked as well for the Wales France game on the listings, without joy.

Do any of the pubs in Bangkok show the Malaysian satellite channels? Astro carries some Heineken Cup games, and a couple of Guinness Premiership and French Top XIV games every week, as far as I can tell (sorry - last bit was a bit OT - I'll copy to the rugby on the box thread)

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In some of the Indian night clubs that I used to frequent when I lived overseas, one could tip the dancing ladies; in some places, the serving staff would bring the lady an item of jewellery (bangles, or a crown, depending on the amount of the tip); in others, the serving staff would shower the lady with 'paper money', with an entertaining flicking motion, and then a mop-wallah would sweep it all off the stage floor. I don't know how much a wad of paper money was, but 5 bangles, which was the minimum tip, I think, was about 500 baht, if I recall correctly...

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I find this sort of thing demeaning to the girls, ping pong balls as well.

If you want to give your money away, walk around giving the notes to the girls in their hands. Do it with dignity rather than make a spectacle out of it.

One ought always behave with dignity and decorum when one frequents a go-go bar, lest the establishment's reputation suffer

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I reckon you fell off because of lack of balance....

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If you are in no shape to exercise, why don't you watch movies ? It will keep your mind busy. Chose movies you like, that put you in a positive mood.

Adopt a dog and take him for a walk, take longer walk, then start jogging little by little when you feel it. A bicycle is also a nice way to get away and to get in shape at the same time.

Start a project that takes days and give you a good reason to get out of bed and out of the booze. Depending of what is your interest, fix an old bike, built a new kitchen, grow flowers ....

Hope it can help.

If you're in no fit state to exercise then walk to the pub and drink a glass of coke - see which is the more difficult.

Walk by the newasagents to get a packet of fags, then by the supermarket to get a pint of milk - its not too dificult to walk up a couple of kilometres, a happy smile to the passersby will make it seem shorter than it could be, and you might see something interesting....

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First principle of a Sufficiency Economic Theory - don't get a pet dog when you cannot afford dog food.

Don't make babies when you cannot even support yourself.

If you can't support yourself, no-one else will do it but your children... seems quite prudent to me...

And now we know where those steret kids in the developing world are sired from...

If they're mine, I disown them - they seem quite lacking in both capability and ambition!

Precisely the thing appropriate for the ladies forum, don't you think???

I was a bit doubtful, but I thought it more discrete not to comment; I was sure that the SarCasm police would have him lifted within minutes. I'd be worried about backing him up, or they'll have you as well. We can all laugh, but we don't want to live at 999 Letsby Avenue....

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Normally, rather than embarass myself by throwing money in the air, I discretely flush it down the toilet while paralytic drunk

for all I know

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I have a degree in cultural anthropology. That is what the study of cultural anthropology is all about. The differences and the sameness of cultures.

In China and Tibet do they have group marriages and do the women act the same as Irishwomen?

How does a Irishwomen act ?

Like an Irishman ?

How does an Irishman act?

Does he act as well as well as William McGonnagall?

"The first man who ever threw peas at me was a publican..."

Oh, to be a great poet like the Rabbi Burns (JT will back me up on this - ooh err, steady on missus, you can't say that on a public forum!)

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Ha ha - degrees! I've got a degree of intoxication from the Shah Alam Guinness brewery You need Three Degrees to get people singing, and anything less is just the third degree...

I missed the feature you mentioned on that site because I was distracted by the racist, conspiracy theory-type bigotry of the post! <deleted> is that site about? That has to be the second biggest waste of my online time ever!

My feeling is that the site is SATIRE of how ridiculous right wing Christian American fundamentalists are. Chilean Mexicans, indeed. At least it reads that way. Bottom of the page -- the comments with the POST ONLY voting feature.

I like to think of it as a comparison between Carlsberg Green cans and McEwand Export Red cans. Aluminy versus irony - multimationalism versus imperialism, Export versus Export...

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Why do today, what can be done tommorrow?

There are people in this world worse off than me........ But they must be in a hel_l of a state.

In ten years time, the state im in now wont really matter.

measure once, cut twice (carpentery)

Old chinese proverb. " go to bed with itchy bum, wake up with smelly finger."

surely it should be measure twice and cut once:D

Measure once, fold once - you might still be growing...

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Quite coincidentally this post as it was sort of the subject my Priest this morning was talking about, I had missed 10.30 mass so had to go to 12:00 which is in Latin, so I sat listening taking about half of it in as my Latin is poor so when Father Joseph (FJ) began to tell as story in English it sank in slightly more, it was about an observation he had made through the week of how he had been waiting behind a mother and child (child was about 4) at the cashiers counter, they had just paid for the groceries and as the cashier gave them back their change but handed it to the child, the mother in turn told the child to say Thank you. FJ for this moment took it for it's entirety, even though they were being given back their own money the mother was telling the child to say thankyou and I take it is the way most of us are brought up and just forget or choose to. Have to say though most of the Thais I have met have no problem saying this and I mean that on the positive flip.

Thankyou for starting this post

Thanks; Latin - seriously - still, in this day and age... how quaint.

I've always viewed it as a quirk of Thailand living, yes annoying but not really anything we can control. This is afterall not Europe or US/OZ where we complain to a manager or company & something gets done. Been to a bunch of places all over the world with their own variation of the theme, yes can be annoying but usually best to go with the flow. Should have started singing along really loudly & badly & he might have thought it better to carry on with out the music

"...where we complain to a manger and something gets done..."

That's one way of addressing the problem. There may be other ways that we dont know about...

If it was me, I'd offer him Bht500 to play Tom Jones all night - that way, everyone wins (except the other passengers...)

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I have got on well everywhere I work. The children don't anger me. I like to use slang, when talking with people who can understand it, I don't think that says much about me. I have worked with two principles so far and we still get on fine. I don't really mind what you think about me but I'm not and angry person.

It is clear from your posts that you are self centered and bitter about your youth.

Principles ?

One of those would be that education is not dead ?

It's not dead; its resting. Norweigian Blues / Principles tire easiy. Its resting"

Whenever I wai a waitress, I always try to do it in such a way (sic) as to confirm the relative social positions,

i suppose one could put their foot on the waitress's head.

You've never employed a consultant, have you?

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Why do you ask? Is it common practice over here to put one's foot on a consultant's head?

When one employs a consultant, it is ... pragmatic ... to treat them in a way such that they can maintain their belief that they are cleverer and know more than you do, while ensuring that they give the answers, results that you want, while making clear who is the patron in the relationship. To put one's foot on the head of one;s consultant would be less cost-effecitve than to light up one's treasury....

I have got on well everywhere I work. The children don't anger me. I like to use slang, when talking with people who can understand it, I don't think that says much about me. I have worked with two principles so far and we still get on fine. I don't really mind what you think about me but I'm not and angry person.

It is clear from your posts that you are self centered and bitter about your youth.

I reckon you need to ditinguish your principals from your principles.

If you can compromise your principals, you might maintain your principles, and vice versa.

I don't think he's bitter about his youth - many of us, if not bitter, are at least a bit sharp - tangy, I like to call it - Zesty! refreshing! about our lack of youth. Actually, zesty and refreshing are too much effort, and I'm quite happy with tangy....

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As a man with scarcely an original thought, and an education better than I deserve, my life is sadly a series of quotes and analogies:

Sadly, as a man of poor memory, but better rememberence, some of these quotes may be either misquoted or not prequoted...

Of the most useful (or at least, most quoted):

"Always look on the bright side" - two crucifixees, in Life of Brian

"Walk away from trouble, if you can" Kenny Rogers, Coward of the County

""I'll tell you this..." Rab C Nesbitt, every week

"Is it?" - Our Safety Manager

"Never Surrender, Never Give In, Never Let the Enemy Win" - Blitz (I think, from the cover art, they were an '80s skinhead band).

We can all learn a lot (obviously, except for those of us that know it all) from many sources; sadly, we don;t always learn wisely or the truth....

My life has been .... tainted - enhanced - exagerrated - blighted - whatever - by Davros, father of the daleks, when imagining holding some doomsday weapon, saying "Yes, yes, I would do it!", whether it be hitch-hiking to Sacramento, waching the Calcutta Cup in Manila.

I've got another rant on sport, as well, but I;ll save that for later...

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We rarely admit we were wrong, and when someone else presents a bicker-ending argument,its easier to move on to the next battle than to admit defeat - especially if the defeat is more a lack of victory (i.e. it is clear that the other has prejudices you will never overcome) - (I'll use that as my excuse in the future!).

In the same vein, it was a big loss of face to ask for help - but at least there was a hopefully positive outcome out of it; then why remind others of the loss of face by bumping the question back to the top with a thank you, when (as far as you (we? I? one?) was concerned, the matter had been resolved...I'm not saying its right, but can understand why they (you? I? we? one?) might do it

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Whenever I wai a waitress, I always try to do it in such a way (sic) as to confirm the relative social positions,

i suppose one could put their foot on the waitress's head.

You've never employed a consultant, have you?

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A special note to chunky. This is not England. I know you realize Thailand is a different culture and in a different place but in spite of your beliefs Thai women are not the same as English women. They don't look the same. They don't eat the same food. They don't have the same morals. They don't have the same aspirations and dreams. Thai women are the same as English women only in your head.

Actually most women are the same , regardless of Thai or Western.

Humans all have the same certain emotions and some cultural differences, but we are all pretty much programmed the same way.

You demonstrate the fact you have not lived in many different countries nor had relationships with many different women of different cultures. How many examples do you want? I have a degree in cultural anthropology. That is what the study of cultural anthropology is all about. The differences and the sameness of cultures.

Not only are you wrong, you are very wrong. Like I said I can give you one example or a thousand. But I think you would get bored. Have you ever made love to a Japanese woman? Have you ever made love to an African woman? Do they make the same sounds? Do they do the same things? Have you lived in a society where men have more than one wife legally? Do the women act different? In Swaziland how many husbands to women have? In China and Tibet do they have group marriages and do the women act the same as Irishwomen? What age do women commonly get married? Everywhere? How does that effect them? Are the marriages arranged or does the girl get to pick? Do all cultures like skinny women? How does that effect them? Do women live in a home with three generations or only with the husband and children? How does that work out? How is the wealth transferred? The oldest male? The oldest child? Who traditionally controls the money in the family? I'm just getting started. Do you really want me to go on?

Oh, I feel really bad about stepping into this quagmire....

Taking consideration of the time to achieve meaningful change in characteristics through evolution:

In my view, human society (meaning after the neolithic age, when cultures began to get established) is not old enough (long enough) to have affected evolution. Therefore, people are the same, regardless of culture. However, the neolithic age and prior were sufficient to achieve some substantial divergence in characteristics - skin colour being the most obvious, though superficial one.

So: In my view, we are all pretty much the same, though people of different race might have differences other than skin colour - for example, I believe oriental children, and by extrapolation, adults, have a higher resting pulse rate than caucasians; I believe lactose intolerance is more prevalent in orientals. But these differences are probably as trivial as the colour of our skin; so in my view we are all pretty much the same. However, in the last hundred or two of generations, we have established quite divergent cultures. Regardless of the hardware, we are NOT programmed the same. That is the one thing that the user can easily tinker with, and we are not programmed the same. As Billy Connolly said ^*2- in the pre-software days - "what can be done by a man with a tap of a hammer or a twist of a screw, can be undone by man with a tap of a hammer or a twist of a screw...and I've no intention of flying through the air, with my trousers round my ankles."^*1

If you don't take an awareness of the programming, even simple machines that you thought you understood could leave you - metaphorically - sailing over the skies of Glasgow in a state of embarassing undress

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FOOTNOTES

*1 The last clause was irrelevant, but without it, the humour would have been - too indirect, or remote - by at least one step.

*2 The jobbie wheecher (your spelling may differ)

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Well, sadly, it looks like we're not going to get a Field Report on this one...

We're left with nothing but our own speculation - and we're not even certain of the dates!

Unless it was Sunday evening last week, I'm fairly sure I wasn't there...

All I can guess is that they stayed in Carrefour longer than planned, had a few too many cheap jugs, prevailed on the beer-tender for a lock-in, and went off in a cold storage lorry to chiang mai in the small hours of the morning, and their fingers are still too cold to type...

Does anyone else have any more credible _(SarCasm) or imaginative speculations?

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typo corrected

First principle of a Sufficiency Economic Theory - don't get a pet dog when you cannot afford dog food.

Don't make babies when you cannot even support yourself.

If you can't support yourself, no-one else will do it but your children... seems quite prudent to me...

You've obviously never had a hobby

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why are u sedating a goat????????????? and why are his hooves in yoiur wellies?

Who says it's a he? .... could be one of those new stealth goats, or even worse a smart-goat, the ones that can lock on to your wellies by themselves....... be afraid.

Oh, yuuk!

I've got nothing against going native, if you're living in Afghanistan or some other dreadful goat-ridden place - Northern California maybe, but homosexuality is a bizarre presumption to be imposing on Thadeus...

...I've realised that some members (even that sounds threatening now) might take offence, and I can just hope to get away with a kick up the arse....

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