A. BOOZER

Suggest you purchase or borrow "The Last Executioner" by Chavoret Jaruboon, with Nicola Pierce.

Maverick House Publishers

www.maverickhouse.com

Not fantastic writing, but certainly an insight into the Death House at Bang Kwang!

‘Farang’ robs Karon bank

KARON, PHUKET: Despite an intensive manhunt, police have yet to apprehend the Caucasian man who held up the Siam Commercial Bank branch on Patak Rd in Karon late yesterday afternoon, getting away with 420,000 baht in cash.

No doubt the police will be looking for a falang with a girlfriend called Bonnie!

ID plan for one-year-olds

BANGKOK: -- If the Interior Ministry has its way, children from age one will have to apply for and carry identification cards.

Failure to apply for the card carries a Bt500 fine while not producing the card to officials is punishable by a Bt200 fine.

--The Nation 2007-06-25

Sounds as if there is an opportunity here for an increase in the price of disposable nappies, after all the cost of producing these items with a pocket for ID cards wouldn't be 'dirt' cheap!

The downside of fame...cannot go on vacation without bringing bodyguards.

Just so that someone can say, "I wonder who that is, they must be famous!"

I also noted that the grenade did not go off..... or perhaps it never was.

You just beat me to it with that post!

I always see Chiang Mai as a fairly safe place to live, i imagine (hope) this kind of thing is rare here..or maybe i am naive.

I just think that in this day and age, no place can be regarded as safe, whether it be in Thailand or anywhere else in the world.

Condolences to family and friends.

(3rd attempt)

Well, not a bad party I suppose. At least I didn't end up in that jacuzzi or dancing on a table in my birthday suit !

And I got to meet some more of TV's finest, including begsaresponse, mamanoodles, Rdrokit, Chang paarp, bazmlb, helicopter and kerryk. Thanks to all for helping celebrate another year !

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WOT! NO PICTURES!

Never new that porn was available in Pantip (not that I want it), but have never been offered it in the many years that I have frequented the place.

Having had to stay in BPH on three separate occasions, found myself being invoiced different amounts for hospital accommodation each time, as well as unexplained charges then and on a subsequent outpatient visit also unexplained charges. For the last outpatient visit I had been quoted a price, when I came to pay, this figure had nearly doubled! When asked if a manager was available to explain this, was faced with a supervisor with a very poor understanding of English, who kept repeating "Not have manager here today".

Does anyone have any up to date information on the Queen Sirikit Hospital next to U Tapao ?

Hopefully a quick recovery and a speedy return to normality.

A. Boozer

Pensions are payable overseas but any cost of living granted after you become pensionable age will not be added to those who have chosen to live overseas.

Wow! This is a bigger can of worms than I thought. My understanding was that a U.K. citizen pension who moves abroad (permanently) was frozen at the rate payable in the year that he left the U.K. Have I got the wrong end of the stick?

Anyone have any thoughts on whether my Thai wife would continue to get my pension after I pop my clogs? Married here this year. Registered in Thailand but not yet in UK. I'm 54.

thanks

DIG

Provided you have contributed your 44 years contributions, your wife is permanant resident in UK and continues to live in UK after you have gone she will get what she is entitled to (which will be less than you get as a couple)

This question is also of interest to me, having recently made the move to Thailand. My Thai wife has a National Insurance Number back in the U.K. and it was my understanding that if I depart this world before her, she would still be entitled to a pension. I look forward to other members input on the subject, hopefully with some concrete information.

His Majesty's Full Birthday Speech

His Majesty the King delivered a speech on December 4, 2006 on the occassion of his 79th birthday on Tuesday. -- The Nation 2006-12-05

LONG LIVE THE KING !

Officers foil heroin smuggler in Sydney

Australian Federal Police agents charged the man with one count of importing a marketable quantity of a border-controlled drug under the Criminal Code Act 1995.

The maximum penalty for an offence of this kind is a fine of AUD$550,000 and/or 25 years imprisonment.

The man is due to appear before Sydney's Central Local Court on Tuesday.

--ninemsn AU 2006-12-05

Deserves everything that the law throws at him!

As someone with no formal educational qualifications, having left school in England at an early age, I am amazed at the standard of English used by some of the people professing to be teachers, who have posted on this subject.

Or an indian curry. Guaranteed to make them run.

If either didn't work on their own, and Indian Lamb curry would sure to make them run a mile. Do they have Indian restuarants up in the sticks?

Well my wife loves lamb, and simply adores Indian food! Cheese is something that she turns her nose up at, unless it is on a pizza. She does thoroughly enjoy a full English breakfast, with black pudding and sauteed spuds - when she cooks a breakfast, I am good for nothing for the rest of the day, apart from snoring!

I eat Thai food, and will eat most dishes that she serves up, but if she has cooked something that I don't enjoy, I tell her and she will always happily, produce something else.

It has always been clearly understood that I have no more objection to her family visiting, than my own, and I don't want anyone else living with us on a permanent basis.

can you name a country that is NOT true about?

CHINA

US cuts off millions in military aid to Thailand

As ever the America appears to be a "Fair Weather Friend"! I cannot help wondering what G.W.'s reaction would be if Thailand were to cancel it's agreement allowing U.S. bases here in Thailand. The current "Big Brother" attitude of it's incumbant president, certainly worries me. What do other forum members think?

I think that in this instance Thailand has done a great job! Maybe some of the organisers of this project could be employed in the U.K. to sort out our larger airports.

Aging Mildred was a 93 year-old woman who was particularly despondent over

the recent death of her husband Earl. She decided that she would just kill

herself and join him in death. Thinking that it would be best to get it over

with quickly, she took out Earl's old Army pistol and made the decision to

shoot herself in the heart since it was so badly broken in the first place.

Not wanting to miss the vital organ and become a vegetable and a burden to

someone, she called her doctor's office to inquire as to just exactly where

the heart would be. "On a woman," the doctor said, "your heart would be just

below your left breast."

Later that night, Mildred was admitted to the hospital with a gunshot wound

to her knee.

In Pharmacology, all drugs have two names, a trade name and generic name. For example, the trade name of Tylenol also has a generic name of Acetaminophen. Aleve is also called Naproxen. Amoxil is also call Amoxicillin and Advil is also called Ibuprofen.

The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viagra. After careful consideration by a team of government experts, it recently announced that it has settled on the generic name of Mycoxafloppin. Also considered were Mycoxafailin, Mydixadrupin, Mydixarizin, Dixafix, and of course, Ibepokin.

Pfizer Corp. announced today that Viagra will soon be available in liquid form, and will be marketed by Pepsi Cola as a power beverage suitable for use as a mixer. It will now be possible for a man to literally pour himself a stiff one. Obviously we can no longer call this a soft drink, and it gives new meaning to the names of "cocktails", "highballs" and just a good old-fashioned "stiff drink". Pepsi will market the new concoction by the name of: MOUNT & DO.

Thought for the day:

There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them

Tony Blair started jogging near Chequers. Every day, he'd jog past a hooker standing on the same corner. He learned to brace himself as he approached her for what was almost certain to follow. "Fifty pounds!" she'd shout from the curb. "No! Five pounds!" Tony would fire back. This ritual between Tony and the hooker became a daily occurrence. He'd run by and she'd yell, "Fifty pounds!" He'd yell back, "Fiver!" One day, Cherie decided that she wanted to accompany her husband on his jog. As the jogging couple neared the working woman's street corner, Tony realised she'd bark her £50 offer and Cherie would wonder what he'd really been doing on all his past outings. He knew he'd better have a ###### good explanation for the 'Boss'. As they jogged into the turn that would take them past the corner, Tony became even more apprehensive than usual. Sure enough, there was the tart. Tony tried to avoid her eyes as she watched the pair jog past. Then, from the pavement, the tart yelled, "See what you get for a fiver!!"

The only thing I am aware of that garlic helps is in metabolism and vampires.

Maybe it stops all blood sucking creatures...

It certainly never stopped my first wife!

Guess I can buy a small safe locally like the ones they sell in hardware stores over here in the UK???

No point in buying a safe if you are not going to be able to rawbolt or cement it in place!

We will shortly be re-locating to Thailand from the U.K. Does anyone got experience on shipping/removal companies, any recomendations or sensible advice would be much appreciated.

Probably looking at about 12 cubic meters plus.