chickenslegs

Pattaya beach is not the place unless you get a hotel on the beach. Centara grand or Rabbit resort or maybe Cabbage3 and condoms, all would be nice and have private beaches , i would do Cabbage and Condoms as they have a hotel and restaurant right on the beach

Flowers can be got at ISAAn flowers, they have several shops in town

Agree, Cabbages & Condoms is a nice place - and free condoms too.

If you imagine that Pattaya beach is anything like that photo, you could not be more wrong.

If you want to do the proposal on the beach I suggest you book a couple of nights in one of the more upscale resorts on Koh Samet.

Edit: or there is a nice stretch of beach at Na Jomtien, near Sunset Park resort. In the same area The View restaurant and The Glass House restaurant are both on the beach and might be nice places to make your proposal.

For your information, many of them are not poor, in fact quite rich.

I nominate this for the prize of most badly informed post of the year (so far, anyway!).

Yeah they do this only for fun

And when they park the 3-wheeler "kitchen" at the end of the working day they climb into their Benz's and drive home to their mansions.

Should've at least changed out of his teaching trousers before he went on a bender

There're guys locked up in mental hospitals who behave a lot better. But well, a real teacher, that's fine.

Her's another Pee Baa teacher at Immigration with his air drum set.....

And this one.......

Or a Brit who likes a beer bottle on his head........

And some people think that white men don't have rhythm.

I did a google search "Ganesh riding an elephant" and found this (among many others)

http://no-4919-xj.shopfactory.com/contents/en-us/p539_Ganesh_riding_three_headed_elephant_bronze_statue.html

Hope this helps.

Keister

Adjust your driving habits according to the prevailing road conditions (including mobile kitchens, brush sellers, minibuses, farm tractors, boy racers, jaywalkers, and red-light-runners) and you will be OK.

Just remember that if you were back home you would have to slow down for all the speed cameras, radar checks, zebra crossings, and other "traffic calming" obstacles.

Maybe the women here don't jump your ass about not being home by supper time.

If you ever find one... she's a keeper.

Not everyone works regular hours.

Most regular drunks don't work at all.

A lot of new, used, and refurbished Kindles on ebay. Most will post to Thailand and include import duties/taxes.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1311.R3.TR11.TRC1.A0.H1.Xkindle.TRS0&_nkw=kindle+paperwhite&_sacat=0

OP has been breaking the law for 19 years and 9 months.

In order to drive in Thailand the requirements are:

1. A national drivers licence issued in your home country, AND
2. An International Driving Permit in support of the national drivers licence. *NB – Some believe your home licence in English with a photo satisfies Thai law. In the end it is "up to you".
3. The maximum period that you can drive a car or bike legally on an IDP (national drivers license with photo) is 60 days on a Tourist Visa, 90 days on a Non-Immigrant O visa. For driving in excess of that a Thai Driver's Licence is required.

I don't think the OP said he has been living in Thailand for 20 years.

He said "In future I certainly will start renewing the IDP yearly. It wasn't the cost obviously just that never ever asked for it before in well over 2 decades"

So, maybe, he has just been visiting Thailand for 20 years and doesn't need/qualify for a Thai DL.

I knew something was wrong as soon as I realised the link to Chiang Mai Mail in the thread posted on TVF led to a website that had the French rape story, plus links to a bank account where you could donate.... I kid you not.....whereas going to the Chiang Mai Mail website not using the link but using Google as normal gave a website without the rape story, plus the fact that the original perpetrator of the fake story gave conflicting versions, first it was a woman called Marjorie, then a guy called Michael, I ended up rowing with other posters and mods about it, it was quite bizarre, really.

Well spotted and thanks for the warning.

It was all quite confusing until you suggested Googling the Chiang Mai Mail rather than using the link.

Great to see the Kings work not only helping the Thais but also helping the world. Australia also benefits from this very clever technology.

This technology especially is needed to ease the impacts of droughts, which why it was invented in the first place. Other countries have attempted it, but the Thai technology is clearly the world leader, which is why other countries are choosing to look to Thailand for help. The patent for it is held by the king himself.

With global warning worsening, this technology will be become more important every year.

Clever people these Thais. Long live the King!

I thought the Australians already had their own rainmaking technology...

We English always form an orderly queue...

If it was a good game of poker I would have joined but I guess thats out of the question in this country.

I am biting my tongue right now.

I am not a fan of cats and will never have one in my home, but the world is definitely a better place with people like Angela in it.

Good luck in placing those kittens.

And claiming a "misunderstanding".

What was the "misunderstanding" ?

He misunderstood that spitting at a person is a normal gesture in Russia?

Monkeys like this, and the nonchalant attitude by the RTP are going to bring the "quality tourists" flocking in.

What? You mean the drunk Russian monkey who spat at a Thai, don't you?

What do you mean by "nonchalant attitude" of the police? You do mean the attitude that resulted in the tout being charged with assault?

There are three sides to every story ... yours, mine, and the truth. (I don't know who said it first - Jayne Roberts?)

But, in the absence of any video evidence of "spitting" I will take the word of the Russian tourist over the excuses of the drug-dealing-sex-show-promoter.

"We keep asking ourselves, when are the police going to be ashamed enough to do the right thing?"

Sadly, probably never.

Or when something like this happens to one of their own.

The Red Bull kid killed one of their own.

Chalerm's son killed one of their own.

http://pattayarentacar.com/cars-and-rates/

http://pattayarentacar.com/toyota-commuter-minibus-for-rent/

Can rent with or without driver.

Asheron:

Seriously, can you answer your own question? (the question that is too tricky for a Thai).

Just answer it - no more prevarication.

So you are actually telling us that you can have a meaningful discussion with a random thai person about thai or world politics or why not the national/international economy? Or ask them stuff like what will happen if you drive over a pedestrian with a car that is going around 50 km/h. Or "tricky" stuff like how many days does it take for the sun to orbit the earth.

I think you should tell us how many days it takes for the sun to orbit the earth.

Maybe a more interesting thing to discuss would be your lack of understand what the "tricky" thing meant in the sentence?

So, what is the answer to your tricky question?

must have been brain failure

"Brain" in Thailand????

Apart from the obvious racism here, what on earth is that supposed to mean? Do you have a Thai girlfriend, is she brainless?

I have a Thai wife of 28 years, half Thai kids and many Thai relatives and friends - are you calling all them brainless? If so a rather ignorant remark.

So you are actually telling us that you can have a meaningful discussion with a random thai person about thai or world politics or why not the national/international economy? Or ask them stuff like what will happen if you drive over a pedestrian with a car that is going around 50 km/h. Or "tricky" stuff like how many days does it take for the sun to orbit the earth.

I think you should tell us how many days it takes for the sun to orbit the earth.

They have been told they must cut their lunch break from 3 hours to 2hours 50 minutes .

... and no wine with lunch.

A good education is available in Thailand, but only if you can afford it.

There are some great "free" (state) schools in the UK (if you are British and residing in the UK) and some of them are in Wales http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/real-schools-guide-top-state-9765387.

If they go on to university there are student loans available, which don't need to be repaid until they are earning decent salaries.

Well, of course, you know all this anyway.

If Mum doesn't like Europe you will have to persuade her to put up with it for a few years for the sake of her children's future.

It seems clothes are optional.

There are a few too many balls in that game.