rugbyjacks

This happens ALL the time in Thai cinemas! We try to time our arrival into the theatre a little bit late, to miss most of the trailers. Even then, my 7 year old son knows to get ready to shut his eyes and cover his ears if any 'nasty' trailers come on...

Installing barriers to prevent pedestrian encroachment encourages faster speeds. If the drivers see barriers, they assume nobody will be in the road and go faster. If there are no barriers and pedestrians are seen to be able to encroach into the road at any point, drivers tend to slow down.

Well, that was the thinking behind removing a lot of barriers in London a few years ago...

Just grow coconut trees! Use your family savings to tide you over until they bear fruit in about 5 or 6 years!

Oh wait...

Urge foreigners to NEVER buy or eat so called "street food" in Bangkok. Its poison ! As well as encouraging more congestion on sidewalk,or,it appears on the actual road now!

I've been here for 8 years and eat street food all the time. I've never had a problem with it.

The only time I ever got food poisoning here was after a steak and kidney pie from Molly Malone's!

I think the street vendors are what make Bangkok the vibrant and exciting city that it is!

If they keep going the way they are, we'll end up like Singapore!

I'm looking to rent a house in the chatuchak area from August.

I don't want a condo.

I had a drive round the area today and I just can't tell if what I want can be found?!

I want a minimum 3 bed house, it must be in a secure estate and have access to a swimming pool. I can pay maximum 30,000 a month.

I will be working at St Stephens International School and would like to cycle to school. We also need to be able to access the highway every day for my partner's job.

Are there moo baans like this in that area?

Any help would be really appreciated!

My friend lives at Ari. (Spelling?)

Didnt hear anthing more about it so a bit weird...

My friend lives round there and she says there were loads of them marching along a bit earlier. She's really quite scared!

Do you reckon they're going to try and hijack the protest sites before the Anti-gov protesters start to set up their camps this weekend?

There was a Thai Visa text update of clashes at Phatum Thani and people hurt by guns and large fireworks...

Is that nearby (or not even in Bangkok)?

Is this the start of the opposing sides finally getting down to it with each other?

And chances of a coup? 50/ 50? More?

We wanted to convert our 5 year old Avanza to lpg.

We were going to get it done at Autobacs. They told us we could have an underslung donut but on the day we took it for fitting they changed their minds and told us that it was illegal and we could only have the big cylinder in the back which meant removing the back seats permanently. As we didn't want to lose our back seats, we said no thanks.

Now we have found a deal on Groupon and on contacting the garage, they said it's no problem to fit the donut underneath, they will also fit a crash bar and it's not illegal.

Does anybody have any idea who is right? Trying to get definitive answers on stuff like this in LOS is a nightmare!!

I just gave my old garmin buck to a friend and decided to get a GPS app on my iPhone instead. I checked out the available apps and decided to go with garmin again; I might have gone for Tomtom but you have to buy the whole of SE Asia map and it's over twice as much.

Anyway, I live in Bangkok and thought I would use it to get backwards and forwards to my new job. I have driven it before and I know the best way is to go on the highway but they all look the bloody same to me!

Unfortunately my new garmin seems to think that the best way to get across town in Bangkok is to avoid the expressways and use the surface streets!

It directed me to drive from Rama 9 down through Asok and on through to Narathiwas without going on the expressway. At 4pm! On a weekday!

It doesn't have anything stupid like avoidances set for highways, it just does not seem to see the expressway as the fastest route!

Has anyone else encountered this problem? And maybe a possible way around it?

It's exceptionally annoying!!

We've ordered a new Toyota on finance.

We've got a 35% deposit but have been told we need a Thai guarantor.

All the people we've asked so far were willing but unable to as they were already guarantors for other people.

I want to ask some other Thais but I don't know them quite as well and I'm unsure as to what being a guarantor entails? Can't seem to get a straight answer from the finance guy?....

I originally assumed that they woud be saying they knew me, yes I am who i say I am and yes I work where I say I work but my partner seems to think they would be liable for the payments if we defaulted?!

Surely no Thai who is earning between 20 and 30,000 THB a month is going to sign up to something saying they'll take on payments of 13,000 a month if the farang defaults or buggers off with the car??!!

I'm confused.

Can anyone shed any light on this? Or better yet, suggest a finance avenue that will take a 35% deposit with no guarantor?

Thanks

Jacks

I've just realized that my bike (Yamaha Fino, not quite the same as my old R6) tax disc ran out last November (Whoops then!).

I know where to go to get the disc but I don't know what to do about the bike insurance.

I don't want anything more than the bog standard compulsory insurance. The bike's about 3 years old and is never parked on the street so I don't see the need.

Is there a govt insurance company? Or do you just pick a Thai one?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Jacks

What's going to happen first:

Thaksin comes back to Thailand through the wishes of the weak majority?

Another coup by the powerful minority?

This country is crazy! I love living here but you gotta admit the politics are crazy!

We just got a carryboy fitted yesterday and I'm now trying to find out if we can legally carry people in the truck bed.

I've tried searching on TV but nobody seems to know for sure. There are lots of "I think this..." and "it seems that...".

Does anybody know for certain or know where I can find out?

Thanks!

There is no leaded or unleaded anymore. I remember that from when my Dad used to fill up the old Dodge. It is all unleaded now. In Thailand, red means benzine, and green means ethanol. I would read your manual to see if you can use ethanol or not.

Unfortunately it didn't come with a manual and I've no idea where to get one?

I had just assumed that it was the same as in the UK Leaded and unleaded.

(Or used to be a while ago I admit).

But now I'm confused as I read another thread that talked about 91 and 95, ethanol, gashol and bentazene (Or something like that) and E10 and E20.

What!!???

I recently bought a Yamaha Fino (second hand) and the first time I went to the petrol station the pump attendant asked what petrol, I just shrugged and she put in the red stuff.

What should I be filling up with? I don't want to ruin the bike by using the wrong stuff!!

Thanks in advance for help!

I'm going to buy a bike for getting around Bangkok.

I have narrowed my choices down to a 1 year old Honda Sonic or a 3 year old Suzuki Step.

I have a full UK bike licence so gears are not a problem.

Does anybody have any info, positive or negative about these bikes?

Cheers

Jacks

good luck to the lady i hope she wins her battle. lets be supportive with this one please

Supportive for what? She has obviously got herself in this condition and certainly does not get any sympathy from me. In fact quite the opposite as her selfishness as now turned her into a liability to the public.

She could have a thyroid problem, hormone imbalance, diabetes, metabolic problems......?

She could have mental problems, be poorly educated and even not realised just how bad things could get, head in the sand "it can't get any worse" mentality......?

She has got tumours in her legs....

But because she's fat, you believe it's entirely self inflicted and therefore deserves no help or sympathy.

Some of the people who post on here.... I can't believe how callous people can be. Let's just hope nothing bad ever happens to you or your family where you might hope for help and support.....

Did the fact that she has two adopted kids pass you by? She obviously felt that other people deserve her help and support.

Pictures of the cub.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/08/photogalleries/100826-baby-drugged-live-tiger-cub-luggage-smuggling-bangkok-pictures/#/tiger-cub-found-luggage-airport-face_25089_600x450.jpg

Ok, it's cruel. But 4 years for letting an animal die. It's an animal, not a human.

Typical screwed-up Farang attitudes towards animals being as important as humans.

Pathetic!

What a strange response! Why is that a Farang attitude?

Buddhists value the lives of animals. Most Thais are Buddhists? Therefore Thais value the lives of animals. Not just Farang. Have you seen 7 Years in Tibet? They were rescuing worms in that.....

And it's not all about that one tiger cub. It's about all the other tiger cubs that people might just be put off trying to smuggle because they might end up in jail....

I'm not a veggie, just had a lovely bit of chicken for lunch. But this is not about a chicken bred especially to feed people, it's about an endangered species being shipped to another country and probably kept as a pet. As such, it would probably have its nails and teeth pulled out or ground down so that it can't hurt anybody.

I think she deserve the four years. She knew full well what she was doing. Drugging it and hiding it with soft toys!

I feel sorry for the poor guard.

He's just a guy trying to make a living.

It's often the innocent who get hurt in cowardly bomb attacks like this.

What harm has it done to KP? Minimal.

And it's in now way just a Thai thing either. We know terrorist bombings happen all over the world.

They're just cowards focused on their own agendas with no regard for other people's lives.

This is so sad.

I clicked on the link and had no idea that it would show pictures of the father trying to resuscitate his son.

My heart goes out to him. It must be so awful.

We're about to have a baby and I just can't begin to imagine how it must feel to lose a child like this.

RIP Michael.

x

Round the back of Central Rama III

The wind and the rain are going mental right now!!!