orpheus454

How many lives did her yaba sales ruin ? How many teenagers did she sell to who then stole from their parents, gave up educational opportunities and made other's live's miserable hells. ?

Yes...it is quite fair for drug sellers. For Users maybe harsh...but for dealers...throw the book at them.

She hasn't ruined any lives except her own. Every single user is solely responsible for their own life choices, unless they're human slaves being forced to use the product, in which case the slave masters are the criminals, not the sales people.

How do you know that someone has had there lives ruined because the woman SOLD drugs to a young person who then committed a crime under the influence of the drug . Don't you think that that has ruined the person and his/her mum and dad lives as well

By this logic, when someone hits a pedestrian while driving drunk we should lock up the bar owner.

Is that a good idea?

Riding to school today I saw probably 15 kids sitting on the roof of a school bus that was motoring along.

I can actually go one better than this:

Coming home from work a few years ago, I found myself driving behind one of those older type song thaws with wooden framed back and a flat roof, and on that roof were 2 boys having a fight.

If I had used the alternative shipping method (EMS) which would have cost an extra $11, it may have got through. But equally it may still have attracted the same VAT on the (larger) CIF cost, worth the risk for a < $2 saving?

I think Customs allows the major couriers to assess the duty owed according to " the book" and acting as agents on behalf of Thai Customs and they therefore will charge the maximum amount they believe applicable to avoid coming up short. When things come through the post office and, presumably, customs officers do the processing, they have the authority to make the call, which means some things pass without being charged or they might attract a nominal amount.

I used to order shirts from Lands' End in the US. Then recently they got the idea to use some global shipping service that pre-charged the customs duty upfront at the time of the order. The last order I made (and then cancelled) they calculated customs at something ridiculous like 80% of the price of the merchandise. Obviously they were doing the assessment of customs duty on their own. It wasn't a Thai Customs Officer.

I have since put in essentially the same order (two different times) via Lands' End in UK. They charged a small amount for shipping and sent the items via the post office. Both of those orders arrived in my condo office without any customs notice. For some reason that I never understood, the lady in the condo office who handles parcels said there was a 7 baht (yes seven baht) charge due on each of those shipments. The condo never charges for handling parcels so it had to have been something to do with the post office or customs.

In the first case I would have had to prepay something like $100/Baht 3600 to cover customs duty but the amount due was determined by a shipping service in the US. not Thai Customs... and in the second two cases I paid next to nothing as determined by Thai Customs.

According to my friend in the customs department it's post office workers who do the duty estimation, not customs officers. He says the department has asked that they be less severe.

And yes, the 7 baht for some packages is official, but I am still to figure out the criteria on which it is levied.

The only way to get a work permit is by forming a company with a registered capital of 2 million baht. Then you would need 4 Thai employees.

...or, as I understand it, a sole proprietor type business with spouse as owner and 2 Thai employees.

3BB

my local Toyota dealer

Thai Post

Makro

Tesco Lotus

my mechanic mate in our village

the maternity ward where my children were born

I'm sure?

Can I have next weeks lottery numbers Mr I'm sure?

She left cos she's crazy.

Her new bf is skint and going home.

I'm well rid.

6 times she's dobbed me in.

Being youngish and single here is great.

Ive been here 14 years and if theres one thing id wished id done is stay single.

Money and freedom.

Why'd you stay with her after she dobbed you in the first times?

Juxtaposition. That's a big word; it's bigger than marmalade.

Yeah, but not as big as "corrugated iron"...

Foreigners will understand the situation in Thailand eventually, he said.

Rest easy, General. We understand it all too well.

Judging by the shallow, childish gibberish in this forum I'm not sure that's really the case...

What's with the badly translated Bob Marley lyrics?

Aad's Thai translation is beautiful.

Carabao really are a Thai institution - a band who have stood for Thai citizens rights, democracy and anti-corruption. Some of the older following didn't like it when they got "commercial".

Aed is the only member to have remained in the band throughout their career.

ขุนโจรสลัดมันปล้นเรา

kŭn john sà-làt man bplôn rao

Pirates rob us

แล้วยัดเรามาเรือสินค้า

láew yát rao maa reua sĭn káa

and devour us coming with merchant ships

<snip>

เพลงแห่งการปลดแอก

playng hàeng gaan bplòt àek

This song of removing the yoke

เพลงเพื่อการปลดแอก

playng hàeng gaan bplòt àek

This song of removing the yoke

What's with the silly English translation?

Why not just give Bob Marley's lyrics which Aad translated into Thai?

Yep, I got one just the other day. It fed our family plus the neighbours for two days. Delicious!

Also known as dugongs. Here's a sobering article about manatees, though it's from 6 yrs ago.

How to get Asians to view manatees for what they are (fascinating, peaceful, vegetarian sea mammals instead of a source of money, talismans, meat and voodoo cures - mostly for Chinese.

Are there any manatee sanctuaries in Thailand? If not, I'd be willing to do what I can to help start one - though I'm based in northernmost Thailand.

On a side note: I visited Sri Lanka recently. I only traveled a small portion of their coast, but noticed quite a few sea turtle hatcheries, about one every 50 miles. The hatcheries also attract some tourist money. The one I visited, focused on 4 main types of sea turtles. The manager said that he offers to buy eggs for a bit more than harvesters can sell the eggs to local markets - but it's a constant challenge.

All non-galvanized steel needs to be costed in oxide paint, otherwise it will corrode. In some of your photos you can see patches where it has not yet been fully covered. These need to be finished properly.

This is just rubbish.

Oxide paint will protect beachside steel for about 15 minutes.

Minimum hot dip galvanised.

OP, you have some seriously sub-standard work there, requiring major re-building.

Actually when you're as close to the equator as we are the tilt becomes a bit more complex

One of the many calculators on the net http://solarelectricityhandbook.com/solar-angle-calculator.html

Or don't tilt at all, and use the budget for angling brackets for extra panels.

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2015/2/5/solar-energy/10-dumb-myths-solar-installers?utm_source=exact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=1124703&utm_campaign=cs_daily&modapt=

The photo caption is actually wrong. The guy on the left is the mayor.

I have 2 Panasonic wall fans, and both vibrate perceptibly. Not enough for me to replace the blades, but it's quite noticeable, unlike a couple of cheapo standing fans.

I used to be someone who bought Panasonic everything, not so sure now.

Sounds pretty good to me.

OK - i'm not an authority on the convenience stores but I'm sure I've seen people buying alcohol from the Big C on Klang in the afternoons.

Don't know the exact words of the law, but I think only retail sell is forbidden in these afternoon hours.

It is still possible to buy alcohol (even in 7/11 or BigC) if in quantity enough (in bulk).

Thanks - that was the blogger's assumption too and as he indicated he was very surprised that the bar owner was nailed for something which anyone walking down Suk Soi 4 (the main focus of his lens over the last two decades) in the afternoon would assume doesnt apply to bars and restaurants. I didnt know about the bulk ruling in supermarkets, but for me its not something I'm willing to lug back from Big C. If I do become that keen on alcohol I'll just move to Cambo and be done with it

If ever you decide to go to Cambodia, can you leave your avatar here, please?

She's the best thing on this forum...

My take on this would be that you probably need to get a life...

For example, there are something like 32 different words, with very different meanings, that could all be romanized as 'sai'.

32? Really. I could only think of 19 (ซ้าย, ไซ, ไซ้, ไซซ์, ไซด์,ไซต์, ไซท์, ไซน์, ไซร้, ทราย, ไทร, สาย, ส่าย, ใส, ใส่, ไส, ไส้, ไสย, ไสร้). Which ones am I missing?

ศรัย (ใส) น. ที่พักพิง (พจนานุกรม ฉบับเฉลิมพระเกียรติ พ.ศ. 2530)

I took your challenge and opened that dic for probably the first time in 10 years.

Why didn't the major boyfriend intervene?

Having a laugh at the abduction of a 13 year old girl?

Class act...

I have found little that I would call special or spectacular while here in Thailand. True, some of the islands and beaches in the south are very nice as long as you don't go too far inland.

I agree.

The inland islands and beaches in the south aren't that much chop at all...

if the good old U S of A is that good whay are so many here, ? and then moan that the think there not being tret as they think they should be

no one going to kiss there a## just because there american

They aren't in Thailand, Jake. There are four times as many Americans in the world as there are Brits and Aussies combined. Are there four times as many American expats in Thailand as there are Aussies and Brits? Of course not.

That's because most of them don't know where it is...

Mostly based around broad brushed stereotypes.

On these forums...?

Well, knock me over with a feather...

A bunch of little nobodies trying to show they are big, powerful somebodies.

Yes, but what about the Thais mentioned...?