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Says something about the current state of the UK music industry when this drivel makes it to number 1,that said its not that difficult now any way you only need to sell a few copies.

Anything that interupts the 'verse, chorus, verse, chorus ... bloke does a rap' we currently have everywhere in mainstream music.

Also, who cares about the charts anymore, couldn't tell you who was number 1 from one week to the next

Not a huge fan of Carlsberg in the west anyway so will stick with Singha and/or Leo

Is there something that stops them linking this up to Banglamphuu area or even Phra Arthit or Lan Luang area even?

Go live in a small village in Isaan, I fight them off ( as long as my wife is around) constantly. Of course, they are thinking about money but this is one area where they think long term.

You may have to leave the village after a month or two (irate husbands returning from work or Mia noi somewhere).

You may want to buy a gun.

* heads off to small village *

Of course I will use it if I have a flight from there ... not much choice on that bit

I am not sure they'd doing a season 4, they did a movie though

Another equal favorite…….’Zombie’ by The Cranberries!

Do Thai like zombies….or Cranberries?

Jeez, how much do they love Zombie? Everywhere and they have no idea of the words.

Hotel California is simple lyrics and it's not just Thailand, all over Asia they seem to like it

So he says, I'd like to hear it from Kylie.

Doesn't Mr Van Damme have a history of being a bit lecherous and free with his hands and behaviour around women? i.e. really thinks highly of his prowess

Oh really, when did they change that (and why?)

Yeah, I am in no way moaning about flying out from DM rather than Swampy. I could not care less it's just purely a case of getting there early hours. I have no problem with 'ol DM

Haha, that's true about the airport link. No need to mention that. It IS DM, I will probably be in Samsen, hadn't decided at the time as it's not even a night. Meant the railway being closed rather than airport link.

Bah, bus would be good but I know how I am, time I have a few beers in the afternoon and early evening there's no way I'll get a bus so I will get a cab but thanks for the effort

I am not familiar with any of the previous gripes of the OP, this seems a common occurence judging from some responses?

Maybe this 'I am a lickle girl in the big bad world' thing is projecting something outwards to people or maybe you take certain situations the wrong way because of this mentality (not neccessarily this thing but I mean in general)

Maybe it was the woman thing, maybe it was the dog thing but the OP mentions both being present in the Soi with other people. It does seem odd. Perhaps they feel like they want a little section of an area for themselves but being stopped going into shops is a bit harsh, with or without dog.

I live in Dubai and talk of not walking dogs, etc is utter rubbish. They sell dogs in pet shops here and people do walk their dogs with none of the debate I have seen in this thread. Muslims tend to not keep dogs but they don't stop other people doing it or walking their dogs.

Maybe you got some extremists in that soi but never had any anti-western feeling. Maybe it is just one guy but then you got told you couldn't go into shops too so that's odd.

It's Don Muang and not Swampy I am going to

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Over used by Thai hookers is when they see one farang do one particular thing ... you can see the brain ticking over .. they turn to you and say 'why do farang do this' as if it's something all farang suddenly do.

But to be honest there's enough threads on here that start off with "Why do Thais......" and then go on to list either a solitary example or something that I've never noticed as in " Why do Thais get angry when you correct their English?"

Might as well put "Why do Thais explode when you expose them to sunlight?"

Haha you're probably right. I should have put the flip side of that in there too.

Should also probably add westerners judging everything they know about Thai people and Thailand by experiences with hookers

Nah, I will be in BKK from afternoon until my flight at 6am. I have a place to stay in BKK just wondering if there's an obvious way out to DM about 3am but sounds like there isn't and just easier to jump in a cab.

Cheers anyway

Can anyone explain to me why groups of university students wear their uniforms to the malls, even though the school is closed for the holiday. In the US the first thing a female getting home from school is dump the uniform. Someone suggested it was some kind of a status symbol to wear your school uniform when not attending classes. Any truth to this?

I always used to think that it was cause traffic and travel was so bad that it wasn't worth going all the way back home, changing and then going out again as we'd do 'back home' after school.

Also, I think once you are out from school you can sometimes stay out with hassle from parents but once you're home, that's it. No more out so maybe it's in their interest to go to the mall right from school and not go home first. Parents calling 'yeah, with my friends, be home at x'o clock' rather than going home and saying you're going here or there

However, I am sure I see Uni kids out at weekends in their uniform!

Got an early, early flight from DM and obviously airport link closed at that time I assume.

Is there any other way there aside from a cab? The trains from Hualumphong also not running that time (2am/3am)?

Not really looking for a series of 5 different buses from Samsen Road or Sukhumvit area but is there an obvious

air con bus that runs late that I am over looking?

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You will find the evidence leading to the cause of death in the hotel mattresses. The chemical tocin that caused the deaths dissipates when exposed to the environment inside the body. This results in there being little or no trace of the chemical in the bodies.

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Is this for real? Westerners carrying bedbugs here? From where exactly?

Jeez, where is that (and when?)

Nok air has a combined flight-catamaran ferry in cooperation with lompraya.

You can book direct to Samui or Koh Phangan, no need to take coach to Surat.

I have the direct booking to Koh Pha-Ngan as I have done before.

Previously this involved taking the flight to/from Surat and then coach from airport to ferry and off you go but this time I booked we are not flying to Surat but to Nakorn Sri Thammarat instead, which I found odd and then from there to Surat ferry and off we go.

Just wondered if there was a reason for this

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Coming from Sukhumvit, past Plernchit and right past that Central World near canal and before hitting Phetchburi, always mental there in rush hour

Quick question. Is anything going on with Surat Thani airport atm?

I have a Nok Air flight that goes to Nakorn Sri Thammarat and then coach to Surat and ferry.

I have flown using Nok Air before to Koh Pha Ngan and used Surat Thani airport. When I was

booking I tried a few days either side and it seems all their flights were to Nakorn Sri Thammarat.

Anything stopping them using Surat right now or just Nok Air chucking the Samui, Pha Ngan and

Nakorn Sri Thammarat routes all in together.

I actually don't mind as leaving the island is now on the mid day ferry and then coach and flight

up to BKK whereas previously from Surat Thani for a 4pm flight I'd need to be on that early morning

ferry for some reason. Always annoyed me that :/

I can drive a car but no bike expert. I only ride on the smaller islands and would never do it in places like Pattaya with 'proper' traffic but why would you go get a bike with gears and stuff? I'll stick with those click and go ones, what's the hurry?