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I hope someone is keeping tabs on all these things that they say they are "going to do". Some kind of "end of term report" perhaps or, perish the thought, follow up articles by a non-obsequious press maybe?

Well, I look forward to your monitored reports

Is it any wonder that people, especially in rural areas, prefer the underground lottery? Bet on two digits every day, the odds are way better than the official fortnightly lottery, and the local agents always pay - they have protection, the profits are passed up.

Prachuap Khiri Khan? Another great headline. It doesn't even have an outlet to the Andaman Sea

Run rabbit, run rabbit - run away just as fast as you can.

Surely, a bedspring would need to be screwed out.

So, in the last 3 years we have road deaths at 322/321/320.

Anyone else find that to be a bit of a coincidence

and 3225 injuries this year. Has to be a lottery number in there...555

2000 is not a lot to lose if she defaulted. Should have lent it at an extortionate rate of interest. Extortionate in our eyes (10% per month) is quite reasonable in theirs. By making it a business transaction, you have made it clear that you are not willing to write it off as a gift.

Offering a job for payment is ok, as long as the job is not demeaning. OP's garden work was probably too low class for her so he should have either offered a different job or asked her if she has a nephew to do the garden for her.

The brother of a friend of my SO needed 2000 bht. I needed to get somewhere (nearly 2 hours drive). He drove me there and back, I gave him 2000....both parties happy.

Yes 10% interest per month payable, even more if they don't have a cha nort land title or something similar as security. My wife does that a lot. Never mind the capital, the interest very soon exceeds it and the debt continues. That's standard village usury in Thailand, but still cheaper than the Chinese or Indian money lenders who always end up owning the land too.

Those hooligans weren't hurt and today they're strutting around cock-a-hoop because they were the centre of so much attention. Loosen up guys.

Totally divine, love it, but don't eat too much, and don't drink much alcohol with it. It'll heat up your body.

Try a bay leaves and a few cloves in with the rice - best wrap the cloves in muslin or cheesecloth, though (easier to remove). Or, as suggested above, just put the rice out in the sun before you cook it and they will fly away. The weevils are already in the grain. They are not "getting into it".

To my surprise Russia jets are much more better then American , in terms of maintance, aerodynamic,speed etc , we only get information that F-22 are the best, if there are a dog fight between two I not sure what we think were right.

There wouldn't be a dog fight, dog fights are almost history. The Russians planes would be blown out of the sky from a hundred miles away. If there was a dogfight, I seriously doubt that the Russian pilots are trained and equipped to go head to head with the Americans.

What was his name Yuri G?? no opposition, and the dog he had all the space he needed no canine in sight.

What does this have to do with the thread?

Nonsense. It's a previously budgeted payment. No excuse. Why hasn't my daughter-in-law received her rebate yet? A year past the promised date. That's why she emptied her savings and has paid all installments at great difficulty, but yet to receive the promised rebate. Doubt she'll ever get it.

What a moron. Send him to prison. Not a taser, which shoots fletchets, but a handheld stun gun, which is even worse because it must be pressed against the skin for the two diodes to deliver a shock. that makes it deliberate. Accident, my arse.

Good laugh, the right approach. I spent 5 years jumping through hoops to get PR. It was sure worth it.

An M16 can be chambered for the larger NATO 7.62 round

Like it or not, the Thai people voted for the current shower.

Hitler was democratically elected and immensely popular. Is getting 51% of the vote really a blank slate for corruption?

No, Hitler wasn't democratically elected.

Hitler headed a minority government and his brownshirt thugs intimidated other parties into accepting the infamous Enabling Act.

Sometimes the "ashes", which include a lot of bones and bits, are laid out on the ground in the form of a person and then "dressed" with favoured clothes, with money in the pockets, incense on all corners. Monks chant over them and then the deceased's friends take the clothes and the money and gold fillings or whatever they can find. It's far more macabre than that though and lasts a long time. The bones are later taken home and the spirit is chased on its way by fire crackers and hoisting of a totem image on a long pole so the wind helps its departure.. so the spirit doesn't stay around the home and haunt the family. Buddhism mixed with ancient animism.

I suppose there are few reverse cycle air cons sold in Thailand. just like I discovered that my new car had no heater. I'd never heard of that one until I looked for the de-mister heater. HA!

My Ford Ranger has a heater and demister. Never used it though, except once when the wife fiddled around with it. Couldn't understand why the cab was so hot in April 555

This site has thai language ebooks in apple, android and windows format. Not sure about Kindle though.

http://www.ookbee.com/Shop/FeatureBook

20 years is the max you can serve in Thailand.

Been adding some alcohol to homemade ice cream for years. Lowers the freezing level and stops ice crystals forming on top of the yummy stuff when it's in the freezer.

I've been here a long time and had several Thai massages in the first few years, from supposedly qualified people. They all left me feeling very nauseous shortly afterwards and way too sore for comfort. Haven't tried it again since. An oily is far better, even without "relief".

Pick the stuff you really want to keep, put it in a suitcase. Walk out on the rest, it has no value to anyone else except scrap scavengers.

I speak reasonable Thai, not fluent but adequate. I have often gone to a store or a market with my wife, or met a friend of hers I haven't met before and will exchange pleasantries with them or the vendor in Thai for some time, including about what we may buy and the price or whatever, and then they invariably turn to my wife and say, "does he speak Thai, where does he come from?" I have tried, literally in fun, jumping up and down and saying, "hey I'm here too you know, and we've already been talking". Doesn't seem to register. When I'm alone, without my wife. I have few problems and people do understand even my worst gaffes.