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Sounds like a nice little earner for tourists to reclaim "their chairs" from the beach, at 1000 baht a pop lol

Holy s. mate, you definitely ask too much as you can see, don't overstrain 'em, lool ... got to be s-l-o-w and label cynism or sarkasm clearly as such - else you get ripped to pieces as above ... then again, who gives a flying t.

If the head line is to be taken literally then I wanna know how he got the power pole started and what kind of modifications did he have to make to get it road worthy.

No helmet - no chance. Happens everyday here.

Y'know, rather than these constant criticisms of Thai news reports occasional grammatical and spelling errors, I am always impressed they have learned English at all and are willing to translate these news articles for my benefit.

Can you tell me, is your Thai so good that you could write any of these articles fluently for a Thai to read?

Seriously, isn't your post even a violation of the forum rules on grammar police?

Totally agree with ClutchClark. A "dislike" button would come in handy to mark posts like that.

"plunged" !? I was on that flight: no turbulence during the whole flight. Didn't notice anything at all. Must have been a slow descent. Now I still have to fly back on the 21st of August. Wish me luck. Got a lot of Buddha amulets with me. That might help, I hope.

I cannot hurt an animal and I am in principle against the death penalty, but if I would be asked to be the executioner to get rid of this guy, I would gladly accept.

Regarding playing music extremely loud: when I was living at the Thai-Cambodian border 35 years ago I was giving an explanation for that. It was apparently a remnant from the days not everyone could afford a radio. Hence it was considered impolite, if you had a radio and your neighbor did not, to play it at a low volume. Cranking it up allowed your neighbor to also "enjoy" the music.

I don't think Ms A was an A student in her younger days. ?

Go for it, no problem. My children, now 29 and 26, live and have their own business in Phuket. They own property in their name. No need for a Thai visa or work permit. They travel on their Belgian passport, since that is so much easier: out on their Thai passport and showing their Belgian passport in lieu of any needed visa and leaving from abroad with Belgian passport, showing Thai passport upon re-entry in Thailand. Never had any problem.

Also made a solar powered pontoon boat (12 Volts) based on the same principle.

How's that pontoon boat working?

I have a 150watt solar panel and a few hulls (Kayak, inflatable, inflatable pontoon) that I'd like to try the solar route. If it works out, my plan (If I stay here long enough) is to take 2 kayaks and make a pontoon boat out of them, powered mostly by solar. I'd use the solar panel to charge the battery(s), not for power

Same principle for the golf cart, but higher voltage and watts (of course).

The pontoon approach is the right one: this adds stability when the solar panel(s) double as roof.

whereas it

IS a good idea - silly comments like the "amount of sun" we have show how little people know about solar power.....for a start it wroks best at temps below 30 degrees..

So true: my solar panels work better during the rainy season than during the hot season.

There is a lot more but the person who in in Charge of that area does not trust the Chiang Saen National Museum Officials or officials from the Department of Antiquities.

Fact or assumption?

I am surprised that Thailand has not become a big producer of cheese. Real mozzarella cheese from Italy is made from water buffalo milk. Why someone has not set up a cheese processing plant is beyond me.

I've been playing around with making cheese, just for fun. The main beneficiaries were me and my friends. Got a lot of offers to start making it professionally, especially from people around Korat who had farms over there. Preferred to keep it as a hobby though. Got some pics here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericvercauteren

BTW, I got my fresh milk by the kilo from a Coop in Ban Bueng, about 60 Km from Pattaya. The local farmers bring their milk over there, where it is tested for antibiotics, etc. Guaranteed safe and good quality... and excellent cheese (even I say so myself).

“If Brett Bean contacted his parents, the case is closed,” Lt Col Chana said after being contacted by the Gazette.

Weird... He has no passport and what about the 90 day reporting to Immigration during this period?

Maybe a creative solution for unlimited overstaying one's visa.

Exactly the same thing happened once before in BKK, also during the hot season. About 21 years ago a boy of 4 years old ended up being left in a school bus, parked in the blazing sun. Unfortunately he didn't survive it. It made me sick to the stomach (our son was also 4 at the time). It still makes me sick to the stomach now, knowing it happened again

1.30 m !? That's a baby. We have them in the canal, bordering our garden, up to 3 meters.

Amazing to see how many people don't realize that today is the 1st of April.

I wonder why it's called "tourist season" and we cannot shoot them... ;-)

My sincerest condolences to Eric John and his family. I cannot imagine the hurt such a tragedy must cause. Eric John and I used to work together end 80's early 90's for the Orderly Departure Program in Bangkok and Vietnam. This is very sad indeed.

You have to be 50 by WESTERN definition to get a retirement visa. That means your 50th birthday, NOT your 49th. While there may be some cases of people getting it at 49, it is VERY UNLIKELY. That's one of those "urban myths" that you qualify at 49. For everyone who got away with that, there are scores who were LAUGHED out of the office for trying.

An example of one rule for Thais and another for farangs.........

A Thai must be 21 to own property in his/her own name.

That means after the 20th birthday.

i.e. in the 21st year...............

Sorry, this is incorrect: we bought 2 properties in 2004 on the name of our son (who has dual citizenship) when he was 17 years old. Only restriction was that the properties could not be sold before he turned 21 years of age.

Collecting rent and interest works for me. You only have to "work" for about 30-40 minutes a day... and most of that is spent telling someone else to call your tenants or debtors for you.

Right on, Heng! That's exactly what I do, except that I don't even have to spend the 30-40 minutes a day: I let my wife do that. After being married for 28 years there is this element of trust. Besides that, we put the properties on the name of the kids, who are grown up and live their own lifes, so we don't even needed to set up a company. The only thing I did was write a computer program that can run in either Thai or English, and which calculates and tracks everything. With 100K plus per month in return from this setup, I'm a happy camper.