Lee4Life

According to my understanding of Thai driving laws the horn is only to be used to avoid an accident in the case that the operator of another vehicle is unaware of your vehicle's presence. I do believe that is probably the single most adhered to driving rule in Thailand.

 Now the real question:   "does the fact that people are discouraged from confronting or correcting others contribute to a non-caring attitude?"

55 minutes ago, Vacuum said:

Human scum!!

Human?

I have eaten a lot of ants and not by mistake, when I pour a cup of coffee in the morning I am not always very alert (therefore the coffee!) and often times there are ants in my coffee cup, I am most certainly not going to waste an otherwise perfectly good cup of java just because there are ants in it, I am also tired of spending the time to fish the little buggers out...so if there are tons of them I just stick the cup of coffee in the microwave and nuke 'em a bit for good measure....then down they go!

 When I first read your post and you were taking about ant killer, I was worried you were thinking about sending it down after them, but be assured that your stomach acid is probably much more potent so there is no need for the ant killer.

On ‎6‎/‎20‎/‎2018 at 7:45 AM, ubonjoe said:

The bridge is open until 10 pm. The buses run until then. 

UJ is correct, however I was dropping some of the wives relatives off at the bridge one night at around 9pm and two foreigners asked me for a ride to downtown NongKhai, it seems they were trying to cross the bridge and the Thai authorities would not let them because the Visa on Arrival office on the Lao side was closed. I'm not sure what the Lao Visa on Arrival's normal office hours are, but you will certainly not have any problems at 5 or 6pm

My buddy got nicked by one of the red light cameras here, he was in the correct turning lane and had plenty of time but was cut in front of in the middle of his turn  by a bus and several other vehicles turning out of the incorrect lane and when the light changed he was still in the intersection 

4 hours ago, Darcula said:

 

Police are looking for a small medium at large.

and all because they arrested a warbling bespectacled encroacher (sorry)

52 minutes ago, TKDfella said:

I use to go to a Thai vocational college to help students with conversation English, that is the idea was just chat with a native English speaker. I walked around the class and noticed many had books which transliterated English into Thai. Of course, this just doesn't work because Thai must have a vowel to follow a consonant, สเต๊ก = sa-dtek, for example and there is no 'th' 'v' sounds in Thai. I told them to put those books away and we used much of the time just working on the pronunciation of syllables. A few were interested but most weren't. Strangely enough, Korean's have a similar problem with Thai. Thai often puts the wrong vowel in the transliteration because the Thai rules for vowels don't allow the correct vowel, 'Kwon' in Korean speech is 'Kwan' in Thai.

Also why the Thai name "Blessing" is transliterated Porn...the "r" in the Thai Language is silent yet when they write the name in English they leave it in and by doing so make English speakers mispronounce it (unless they understand). There are many, many more examples along the same lines.

5 hours ago, NetJunkie said:

 

Have you tried stringing together a coherent sentence without all that "unnecessary grammar" ?

While you have a valid point, my wife and I have taught English to more than a few village kids and the high school aged kids always seem to want to start off with grammar when they don't even have a vocabulary or basic pronunciation down. So how can you learn grammar without a vocabulary? Or an understanding of basic English rules? Where does their idea that learning perfect grammar is the most important thing come from? Is it from their teachers, and/or quite possibly from their "loss of face" fears?

On ‎6‎/‎14‎/‎2018 at 1:21 AM, Martyjustice said:

All kidding aside. If it was the “Immigration Police” they are just doing their job. If on a retirement/non-o with family extension (you did say 90 day check in’s) , there is a requirement to have pictures of you/home/family in your file.
If it’s any other “police” its a scam waiting to happen.


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Actually the OP said they were advised to go to the police station", if they were Immigration police they would have said come to the immigration office

My advice would be take your time and do back roads, I have done NongKhai to ChiangMai in one day on a Honda Wave 100 with two people, have also been from the furthest Southern point in Laos to the Furthest North. I moved up to a Honda Phantom 200 and rode that to ChiangMai from NongKhai last year, the 200 was too slow on the big straight highways for me, but the smaller roads and especially the mountain roads were fun.

  A lot depends on your temperament and what you like.

On 6/6/2018 at 2:36 PM, bkk6060 said:

Where you hear those complaints?  Some of the 1000 bars or massage shops in Pattaya?  "Slow, no customer"...

I am hearing/seeing just the opposite at many businesses.  Growth is at a five year high, people are coming here in droves, and the economy is doing well.

Most Thais have no education on economics and would have no clue what the "economy" is.  But, people love to wallow in negativity and sadness for themselves in some odd way it makes them feel empowered.

 

Must be just a local boom where you live, here in NongKhai and also in Udon it seems like I am seeing more and more shops closing up. Went to Landmark Mall in Udon the other day to find that three of the computer shops and many more cell phone dealers had closed up, the TOPS store is also gone. Went out to the Big C and Tesco stores on the ring road near the airport and found that the food courts hardly have any vendors left.

   When I asked people at the other shops what's happening they shrug their shoulders and say "nobody's buying anything".

6 hours ago, Happy enough said:

i once had sex on the beach. never again. won't go into details but think sand

I'm sorry but that was a detail

4 hours ago, smedly said:

ok so get the racing off from the traffic light bit but I am completely at a loss about the gun ?

 

and even more at a loss at the police inaction

 

with rampant violent crime (generally now unreported) in Pattaya and the police do absolutely nothing about this - a very obvious lunatic on the loose with a gun 

I get the feeling the video doesn't tell the whole story, it would be interesting to see what happened before the video began. Regardless, your right about the lunatic with a gun part.

5 minutes ago, mrmicbkktxl said:

Really?Try that in Germany.You will get a ticket for blocking the fast lane or a Porsche or Benz will blow you away while passing you with 300 Kmh.

Somebody said it's so nice to drive in USA,I think it's most terrible to drive there.I always in danger of falling asleep while driving.What's the point of having a speed limit of 65-75 Mph let's say from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.It's dangerous and annoying 

Might be dangerous and annoying but it happens....what are you going to do about it? Get all worked up and blow a tube? I don't like it any more than you, but it happens.

The same in any country, don't let it get your blood pressure up!

9 hours ago, worgeordie said:

"The operation is being assisted by a sniffer dog from the Nakhon Si Thammarat Border Patrol Police (BPP) command."

Why not brought in before ?,i would think any scent from the lady would be long gone,

did they ever find the other Russian woman,the diver ?

regards worgeordie

Some types of sniffer dogs search for cadavers

8 hours ago, impulse said:

 

Try climbing even a 3" lip at 80km/hr and you'll quickly discover that you don't need to make a hard right, because the road does that for you.

 

The 2nd best thing he could have done is to stay on the shoulder and slow down before even attempting to get back on the road.

 

Of course, the very best thing he could have done is to not get anywhere near the turd who forced him off the road. 

 

There was definitely some kind of lip or ledge there. If you look closely at the video it appears that his left front tire takes a dive just before he loses control, probably a ditch or culvert on the side of the driveway approach he was going across. It does look like he didn't have to be that far over though.

3 hours ago, Tim207 said:

Lays doesn't make crisps but they do make good potato chips. ?

But are they crisp?  ?

4 hours ago, taipan1949 said:

In the Philippines they would shut this sewer down until all resorts were charged and the area cleaned up. Look at cleanup being done at Boracay. Pattaya has been a sewer for the 30+ years I lived there and always will be.

The article says that it is from a municipal pipe, not the resorts.

Actually the problem you had is pretty common worldwide, you might be fortunate that it happened in Thailand, otherwise the "re-repair" could have cost much more. I have had excellent service here, but have also run into some stinkers, just the way the cookie crumbles.

Sounds like you are taking precautions, but be extra careful when using the insect sprays here, they are extremely potent. You spray in one area and bugs die three meters away! I don't know what kind of bugs they are, but I have used a spray that is made by Fumakilla, it's called "Vape One Push". It comes in a small pump type bottle and the instructions say to just give the pump one push and then leave the room.