Denim

Very quiet place good for relaxing and reading a book. A bit more expensive than Pattaya though. Nice beach.

2006 Mercedes Benz 280 ML

Bought it from Phuket Benz in September 2006, Baht 5.85 million.

Phew...nice if you've got the beans ! My gf paid 750,000 for her terraced house in Khon Kaen a couple of years back. So with 5.8 mil she could have bought the row of 8.!! Its odd how cars cost more than houses here ?

Just bought a Nissan NX100 sports coupe for 130,000 . So far so good. Will dress it up a bit if it proves reliable. I was thinking of re upholstering the two front seats though as the originals are a bit faded. Anyone know how much this might cost ?

Fewer tourist arrivals will mean better deals for those that do come, especially in places like Pattaya or Phuket where competition is already cut throat. Hotel rates will become ' negotiable ' and other services will also feel the pinch. The real bad news for Thailand is that many tourists who opt to go somewhere else this year might find that they have just as good a time elsewhere and be lost to Thailand for a couple of years. Investment in Thailand will also probably suffer and it seems very likely that Thailand will suffer a major recession next year regardless of who is running the show. Sadly, the damage to Thailand is already done and the healing process could take longer than people think.

Great...I just finished a 10 day bender and I'm still here. So now it looks like I'm o.k . to start another bender until they start smashing things together. Yeeee ha....any excuse will do......mind you...my wallet looked like a black hole last night ??

Hi all. I live just outside of BKK. I kinda of share the view of many of my neighbors (I am in a factory town full of people from issan as well as the south) and when anyone mentions the problems in Bangkok I say "Oh Mob mak mak" , swing some punches into the air, and then talk to them about more pressing issues,no one here seems to care . Most of these guys make about 4000k/month and I guess they somehow cannot connect to either side really. But they do like it when I say "Mob mak mak" and swing in the air, not as much though, as when they try to get the new guy in the factory to talk English.

Total time spent:

Protest related discussions: 35 seconds

Trying to get new guy to talk to me in English: 45 minutes

couldn't find the answer for that on the poll though

Yep...thats what I find too. Most Thais I speak to seem politically apathetic but oppose PADs actions as being bad for business. They don't have much choice though...Sondhi or Samak.....not exactly men you would want to actively be associated with if you bothered to check out their respective backgrounds. Not that I give a hoot much...let 'em get on with it....its not like we are going to get the vote anytime soon.

Dear gregb, you don't know me but please could you send me some of the stuff you've been smoking as I have been unable to find anything locally. It must be good gear to induce you to believe that the west has anything whatsoever to learn from Thai politics except how to play musical chairs around the trough.

News on US economy not at all good today. So maybe we will get a swing in the other direction.

Personally I would have thought the Euro was overvalued, but maybe Action man Sarkozy is keeping the ship afloat.

The trouble is I do remember the days of 75-80 Baht to the pound but I also remember the days of 45Bt to the pound. So maybe better to leave memory out of this.

I remember the days when it was 28 baht to the pound !!!! That was when the pound dropped to parity with the dollar. Forget what year it was but I was about to embark on my first trip to Asia and had to put it off for a year.

Its already ungovernable by the look of it.

I'm all ears ' honey ' , what did you want to talk about ? Oh and don't forget there are a few posters who have yet to disclose their sex so there might be more women posting than you think.

Thinking of buying a Nissan NX sports coupe. A friend had one in England and it was very reliable. Anyone own one here and had a problem with spares ?

Can't blame tourists for staying away...they want a holiday that does not include having to walk to and from the airport. People have a choice and can always go somewhere else.

What a perverted society. 6 years for drugs but a falang murderer gets 4. And I was reading on other threads that there are some people who have faith in the Thai courts ? Keep your noses clean is the message !

If we knew what was meant by ' cool ' guys it would be easier to answer in a helpful way. Do you mean people who smoke dope ? People who wear sunglasses in a nightclub. Guys with trendy haircuts ? Come on....help us to help you.......er dude

Libya, your posts are full of the joys of spring. Does anything good ever happen in Pattaya or is it just the farang equivelent of an elephants graveyard ?

Battle of Epping Forest ....Genesis. Goes well with the rioting.

How many farang live a basic Thai lifestyle in Bangkok? Who here lives on, say, 15-25k baht a month? Average Thai incomes are 6-10k maybe, so it's perfectly possible to live on even less.

This is kinda a ridiculous number, and not accurate for Bangkok. Lowest end, entry level jobs may earn 6-10k, but...that's lowest end entry level. I believe a true average for Bangkok is somewhere in the mid 20k range.

Taxi drivers make more than this, motorcycle taxi guys make more than this, all those shop owners you see everywhere make more than this...

Think about it...a motorcycle taxi, getting lets say an average of 3 trips an hour at 30 baht, 90 baht an hour. He works 10 hours a day....900 baht a day. He works 24 days a month, 21,000 baht a month.

Sorry to disagree. I know a taxi driver very well and he assures me that after he has paid his taxi rental and petrol he adverages about 15,000. He reckons there are just too many taxis around. He has good days when he makes a 1000 but if his taxi breaks down, he gets nothing. I have also talked to lots of Thais in service jobs....all get less than 10,000.....er except the horizontal service ones. People selling street food can sometimes do really well. I know one guy who sells Khao Man Guy can top 2000 a day.....but that not all profit. Less the chickens ans stuff about 30,000 but he has a number 1 pitch which he pays no rent for.

The way the pound is diving and airfares are rising there will be a lot fewer brits around next year.

As far as I know, if the place you are selling is your sole residence / property you don't have to pay capital gains tax. It is assumed that if you are selling up you will be buying another place to live. If people had to pay CGT every time they moved it would kill the property market. If , on the other hand , you have more than one property, tax will be due. This is what I was told by my soliciter when I did the same thing.

Black holes exist on earth at this moment. My (current) g/f is living proof of that.

Money keeps going in and is never seen again. She's insatiable. No matter how much you put in, there's always room for more.

If not stopped, she could (easily) consume the entire world's money supply (followed by the world's gold reserves, and all the som tam the planet can produce).

This could be an ELE (Extinction Level Event) ! Once she has consumed all the money, gold and som tam, who knows what could be next ? Not just mankind, but the entire planet could be at risk !

All this from a 38kg bundle of love and smiles !

Fortunately for all of you, I have discovered a way of temporarily slowing her ravenous hunger. 4-5 shots of Tequila administered over a short time period seems to do the trick (for now).

If you value your lives, please petition the UN to place the entire nation of Mexico under special protection, and have the whole country produce nothing but Tequila. It seems to be the only way of guaranteeing the survival of the planet.

This situation is easily fixed. According to Steven Hawkins secure spondoons theory if said wallet remains outside the event horizon no mass will flow towards said blackhole.

Now, what shall I do ? Go on a ten day bender or spend 5 days in a massage parlour then another 5 in church hedging my bets ?

How did I end up here ?

My name is Michael Caine........Madness

Yesterday my wife got conned into owning 732 bottles of real honey. She paid a little under 200Bt per/bottle and it retails for about 400. Even though she has a minimart it would take years to sell them one at a time. Does anyone have any good ideas on unloading this.

Dan

Try selling it on E Bay there are a lot of Honey Freaks out there that would relish some Thai Authentic Honey as I know people that import Yemenese Honey supposedly the best in the Middle East. I like Heather Honey from Scotland.

I will come and buy a few jars good Xmas presents will get Stu to tell me where you are. Met you at Kieths BBQ

Cheers

Neill

Good suggestion. My sister sells the ugliest home made dolls you could imagine on ebay, mostly to Americans at 26 dollars each !! I feel for you , really . Don't be too mad with your wife, just make sure she consults you in future.

As a small suggestion, you might try to google health food shops in Thailand and try to get them to buy some. Might be worth contacting the buyer for a big store like the Mall to try and offload a few on them. They sell lots of exotic food.

Only been here a few weeks and the country seems to be flushing itself down the toilet ? Is there anywhere peaceful in Thailand where ' politics ' is not messing everything up. Can't even get a train up country now unless I take a bus. Is it always like this ?

I don't know what these protesters are trying to achieve but its not good for the islands tourist business ?? Are they local people ?