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I was also looking at the Trek 3900 but ended up buying a Merida Matts 40 for THB 13.000 in Sukhumvit road around soi 66. This is much more value for money. Tektro Disc breakes, Fork lockout and Shimano Deore shifter just to mention the most important.

So what reason do they give for the men drinking?

Women!! What else?

Typical sldegehammer to crack a nut.

The issue was people dodging taxes on supercars using corruption in the customs department. Instead of solving that issue, they have caused another headache completely. I can't help feeling that this is down to the probably 10's if not 100's thousands of secondhand cars on the market after the flood. As though stopping a few imports will help to firm up the price of a water damaged Vios.

I have often wondered about the second hand market here, and why it doesn't follow the depreciation rates seen in the rest of the world, and I can't help thinking it is down to a manipulation from the finance companies to allow you o have enough value remaining in the car after 5 years to go off and finance another one. When 7, 8 or 9 year cars are still selling for 40% of their original sale price, there is something very odd with the market.

Is there a burgeoining market in export of second hand cars here that no one knows about? If so to where? Never heard about it, but how can it be that people believe that second hand cars are in short supply here when the sale of new ones keeps going up year after year? There must be an explanation somewhere as to why 2nd hand cars hold their value so well here, it isn't as though the maintenance is so good is it now.

I definitely agree that used cars are very extremely expensive in Thailand and that´s why I only buy new cars manufactured in Thailand.

When that is said, cars do actually last longer here. Thailand has no winter, no cold start up´s, no rust and the rain dries up faster than a blink of an eye. In Thailand a car often lasts 20 years, and in the Thai way of calculation, this means only a 5% depriciation per year.

Did anyone manage to source any Citalopram in Thailand?

Citalopram is not available in Thailand! You can buy Escitalopram (Lexapro) over the counter here, but it is extremely expensive. Escitalopram is a small development of citalopram, just in order for the factory to extend the patent rights. It works exactly the same way, and I bet that you won´t feel the difference.

If the 5.3 afterquake today is huge, what was the 8.7 quake last week??

According to the Richter Scale a 5.3 quake is 4000 times weaker than a 8.7 quake, so definitely no need for a Tsunami warning.

Thai expert...sounds like an oxymoron....anyway, pretty good guess. Quakes of that magnitude are often followed by many days or weeks of after shocks.

You don´t have to be an expert to know this.

Am I alone in finding the quality of KFC in Thailand far inferior to the UK & USA?

No, you are not alone. And lately the taste of the battering has become even worse.

I wonder who exactly is reading this KFC Fan page and why

In the large shop in the upper floor of Pantip Plaza, I have seen a rotable and hight adjustable Samsung F2380 monitor: http://www.samsung.com/th/consumer/pc-peripherals-printer/monitor/lcd-monitor/LS23NVTABW/XT

The price was around THB 8000 - 9000. I didn´t buy it because of an 8ms response time, but it will be absolutely perfect for documents and graphic design.

Men who touch female revellers inappropriately or molest them will be arrested.

What about women who touch men?

What about men or women touching ladyboys?

They´re just sick!

Firefighters found difficulty in extinguishing the blaze because the hotel is located in a narrow alley inaccessible to fire engines. They had to park the trucks in front of a shop nearby, drag the hoses to an adjacent roof deck and attempt to douse the flames from there.

-- The Nation 2012-04-09

Isn´t that just the normal situation i Bangkok. Even if the soi had been accessible to fire engines, it would just have been blocked by cars and small shops instead. To me it looks like everything is just being done and built without any approval of the fire department.

R.I.P.

Very worrying, I tend to think of Thailand asked malaria free. The geography is also a concern. How did this form of malaria transit from Cambodia to the east of Thailand and Burma in the West? Via what route? Does this mean the central belt of Thailand is now infected? Or did it not transit at all and all malarial strains are simply mutating into a resistant form which being resistant may spread across previously uninfected areas?

Mosquito´s do not travel far, so it must be infected people and animals who spread the disease.

Goodbye to the quiet flights

According to the OP´s profile, he is already more than 100 years old.

As you will have to try everything at least once in your life, one of the few thing he now has left to try, is to become a muslim. So just go for it OP!

Since 2008 I have been happily married to a Thai Muslim woman and living with her in Bangkok. She (and her family) is, like most Thai Muslims, not very strickt about her religion, and equally practice and respects Bhuddism as a true Thai. The only difference I feel in this marriage is, that she eats no pork, while I am still allowed to eat as much pork as I like. Kissing after me eating port is also not a problem. We did not have any sex on the first date, which I actually appreciated, but certainly catched up on the second date, which was a short holiday in a nice holiday resort. She drink´s no or very little alcohol, which I only find to be an advantage. She has never in her life worn a scarf and she knows, that if she should ever consider to change her mind and do so, I would immediately leave her.

I am an Atheist (born Christian) and would definitely not have married her, if she and her family had been very strict, and required that I would have to convert to Islam. Her father would for sure have been more happy, if I had converted before the marriage, but today he clearly see that it doesn´t really matter. If she was a Thai Muslim from the south of Thailand, things might have been very different.

If the OP would like to ask me any specific questions about marrying af Thai Muslim girl / woman, please feel free to PM me.

Why not just clean up the country, so it can match every tourists dream of a clean country?

Every <Snip!> place I go in this country, beaches and nature are drowning in waste. Just went back from Khanom, where beach and private land along the beach is drowning in waste. Bangkok, Phuket and most other places have the same waste problem, which makes me pick another destination next time.

Sad to see how many of the Thai´s in low paid jobs turn into criminals. Who can blame them for being jealous of all the people they see every day, having so much more money than themselves. And jealousy can easily turn into hate. A Security cuard and a cook is paid well below THB 10000/month, so no chance for them ever, to take their family on a holiday in a 3-star resort og just buy what they like to buy.

The Thai government are loaning and spending more money than ever, boosting the inflation, mainly to fill their own pockets as usual, but are doing absolutely nothing to help the poor people, who badly can feel the inflated value of their little money. I am afraid that this kind of news will hit the headlines more and more often, if politics are not being changed in this corrupt country. We can only hope for a Miracle to happen.

One positive thing is, that this murder was at least not categorised as a suicide.´

I don´t think that it´s fair to blame Jack Beach Resort for the incident, as this could easily have happened in any other resort in Thailand.

R.I.P.

What about all of the Chinese who own everything else and pretty much run the place? Or are they "foreigners" too?

And what about a foreigners from Montenegro, Uganda or Dubai owning land in Thailand?

If they want to help ease traffic matters they should reduce the number of taxis. There are an extimated 70,000 taxis in a city that only requires about half that number. Another thing would be for the taxi driver to accept all fares who flag them. I am fed up with the crap of taxi drivers telling me they do not or will not go where I want to go. Failure to accept a fare should result in hack licenxse revocation. Now, why won't this ever happen? The taxi mafia.

Let them go blow smoke up someone else's ass.

Make that more than 100.000 according to BK Magazine recently.

And these are only the registered cabs.

There may be 100.000 registred cabs in Thailand, but that is not a single one too many on a rainy day! Have you ever tried to stand in the rain, getting more and more wet, when there are not any cab´s to get?

So the PTP plan for flood prevention is to flood poor farmers to protect Bangkok... if the Democrats, or any other party would come up with this solution there would be a Red Mob with torches, pitchforks and RPGs laying siege to Parliament.

Not if the compensation is large enough

Sorry, but processed hemp is not good for smoking.

The mentioned spray also come in an odorless and cheaper version, which is not working with either mosquitos or cockroaches. But for ants it should be ok.