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So sad ,enjoying there holiday to taken in this way , condolences to their families.

We where near one in Jung Ceylon and a elderly chap was using a fish spa one of his his feet was bleeding when he got it out.!.The little buggers attack a blister on his foot,I will never use them

Phuket Tuk tuk drivers are the scum of the earth they should have replaced them with buses and metered taxis along time ago. Every time the govt wants to do something for the good of the people that doesn't put money in a tuk tuk drivers pocket they gotta bitch and do stupid crap like this.

We went to Bali for the first time and they have metered taxi's .The same distance you pay 200 baht in patong would cost you 30 baht.and they dont complain.its about time the goverment steped in but i dont' think much would change

Would agree with kata and definitely Nai Ham is very nice ,not sure on accom,should be private residents you could rent

...I've been here 8 years too and driven on many highways through many provinces and seen plenty of radar traps, speed cameras, alcohol check-points..depends if you're there when they're there!!

Radar traps in LOS?! Yikes! THought LOS was a walk in the park for high speed touring. Where do they provide this 'public service', motorways, highways or city roads, and are they in cars/trucks or just standing by the road holding a radar gun? Need to keep a look-out... not advocating unsafe driving, but the posted limits can be daft.

Hi bbradsby,

I was stopped after going through a radar trap, on route 2 by-passing Korat. Cost me I think 300 or 400bt and got a reciept for it, so was official. Ok though just get in the queue pay the fine, no mark on your licence.

There was another time which was classic. Going to Udon, again on route 2. I was stopped by a cop waiting by the side of the road on a motor bike. He took 100bt from me. Told my girl friend that I should drive slow for the next 1/2 kilometer. Sure enough on the 1/2kil mark, there they were with speed trap??

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same as what happened to us going to kanchanaburi a small payment to the police officer that looked like a chap off chips movie from america,money his pocket , the drink limit shoud be 0.08 for all and a fine for repeat affenders should loose there licence for 6months

We have been to a few 7-11's on our last trip to bangkok and the people behind the counter new some english or got one of the other workers that spoke english.

To me this is a step in the right direction.Any help is better than none,

I just hope he gets back to where he was , playing his best.And now being single enjoys without the crap he caused himself.

So as a member of your family is getting OLD and cannot help the house hold much, send them out with a bag of boom boom ,easy money- but a sad thought.

This could lead to some creative thinking from some cash strapped family members with little value on life.

Can someone please explain the reason behind paying for people that want to cause harm,ok the family has lost a family member put that person was going out of his way to kill others ?

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Don't worry about the bomb maker. He's armless.

sorry shouldn't laugh.

I'd recommend Sweet Restaurant in Patong. Run by an Aussie and his Thai wife. Average price only 80 Baht and you get big helpings.

It's located in the pedestrian walkway leading to Patong Tower off the beach road.

We ate there last time in Patong, was good as you said the servings are quite big for the price,

I am hoping that after an incident like this the goverment can clamp down on the purchace of explosive material that can be readly bought..

And if they know about these training camps,Shut them down before all hel_l breaks loose in Thailand.

Best wishes to Her Majesty for a rapid recovery,

"Ooh, goody. I can't wait."

Damm did she eat one of the Franchise stores already:cheesy:

The downstairs section of Jungceylon. Right to the end is a guy with a shoe and hat stall. I found 44's there. He may have 46's.

Give it a ty anyway.

Will give it a try next time, Even in bangkok its hard to find the larger sizes that actually fit. They say size 13 but in which countries measurement..

I see no need to tip a girl who simply hands you a beer, often still chatting with friends and not even looking at you.

Kenny

I agree , also i like to tip more if the staff male or female treat you like your part of the family .They show pride in what there doing and great service ,

We found a few that where working to help themselves through upper schooling.

A Green bus once suddenly slammed on its breaks in the second lane to let some passengers out. I was on my motorcycle behind them, I had a choice between the two pedestrians or the back of the bus.

For some stupid reason I selected to hit the back of the bus. I hit the bus, fell to the ground, and the bus driver came out, looked at the back of his bus, decided the damage was not too bad, and drove off, leaving me on the ground in a cloud of black smoke.

Every man for himself!

To be honest if you can't pull up safely behind someone who stops in front of you then you are following too close. Consider yourself lucky he didn't ask for money for damage to his bus.

To True, you need to be more alert driving or riding in this crowded enviroment, i cannot believe how close to vehicle people get giving no chance to stop in time.

Ms Aurasa thinks the damage to the buoy suggests that a large vessel tied up to it, causing the cable to snap under the increased force. The buoy itself was not badly damaged, she said.

The mishap reduces to zero the number of functioning tsunami direct detection units off the Thai coast.

There should be a piority on establishing these bouys as soon as possible. Doesnt take much effort to repair these bouys if they really wanted too.

I recall going back 10+ years when restaurant owners in Australia were shifting from foot to foot wondering if their restaurant should be the first to go 'non smoking' on the back on non smoking flights, which incidentally, were forced by Australian pilots and the world followed.

It was popular opinion that the first would go broke, but the owners of Nyonya (Malaysian cuisine) in Carlton took a gamble and declared their restaurant non smoking. It was booked solid for over a year and they made buckets of money until the others in the strip saw the error of their way and went down that path. Nyonya is still heavily booked, but so are the others, and us non smokers can now go there without the discomfort of selfish smokers second hand smoke.

The same was said of pubs when state governments legislated to ban smoking, but they've taken it in their stride, same if not greater patronage, and the smokers go outside or to a dedicated smoking area for a fag. It's not the big deal they thought it was. Incidentally, a couple of Australian states are preparing legislation to make smoking in any public place, even the street, an offence, and the only place a smoker will be able to light up is at home. Now that will be a great advance.

If, as you say, people lose their jobs, and I doubt it because that hasn't been the experience in Australia, then I'm sure somebody has done the economic exercise of having them on unemployment benefits versus on health benefits and enormous medical bills carried by the government, because of the effects of passive smoking, principally heart disease and cancer.

I must ask why people go to bars??? Is it to drink alcohol??? Probably, because they're called bars, traditionally places where alcohol is consumed, and not called 'smoking places'. What do those people do if they can't have a fag there??? Not go??? I doubt that.

Statistically, those who smoke, and more particularly smoke heavily, are at the lower end of the socio economic ladder, those least able to afford it, or afford the medical costs associated with smoking. If a few quit as a consequence, a ban will have been worth it.

Just had to be an australian, didn't you.

Pls explain how a sillyzen of the World's most polluting nation per head can get on his high sheep about a little smoke?

Put your own house in order first before you even have a small % of a right to bitch about others.

Biggoted, hyphocrit, and you know it.

You'll be going on about human rights next, like the right to your own country and government next, but forgetting about your mobs past and current treatment of Aborigines.

Like them you have no right to any opinion or are we expected to respect people who come from a murderously, stolen country?

Apart from all the crap you believe about Australians the Aborigines well 80 plus % are doing fine.Knowing quite a few like the Nyoongar,Pindjarup and others i have worked with up north.

dont put all australians in the same catorgory as others.

You only see the what you are shown ,the small picture . The big picture is quite different.

So it is that easy to get TNT or other explosive devices,By now with issues going on all over the world some sort of control on buying or supplying these products would be in place.

Feel sorry for the people that where effected buy this action.

The 60-day mission will allow Thai troops to learn and work with other nationalities taking part in the Gulf of Aden operation

Wonder whether the pirates will be participating in the exercises or whether they'll just wait out the 60 days until the troops have to go home and then it'll be "back to business" for all those in the piracy trade.

To true ,We must remember the Pirates don't have Satalite TV or

computor access to knowing this is happening.

I don't understand,he couldn't drink and drive in his own country why think it is ok to do it somewhere else. To me that is showing no respect to the law,

And to the people the past away and are injured,

I have used this dentist ( promjaidental ) Have had two crowns and fillings.Good service and havent had any hasle with the work done.

Quiet now I was hoping less tourists would come as a result of this since most have nothing to add to Thailand except their money. The less tourists the less I am stopped everyday by some one looking for directions or some foolish thing that a normal person would have investigated before coming here. Do I look like a tour guide.? Must be my posting name.

Well sorry to maybe upset you but we are still coming over in a couple of weeks,its ok we now how to get around .

Doesn't matter where you go there is trouble,maybe not bombs but other issues. Hope we just find a ATm or money changer they like.

I have been here awhile. In the past, I would go to places like The Mall Bangkapi and there would be a few farang faces here and there but not very common at all. Now, its almost comical. You could pick any restaurant in the place, walk in and you will see a dozen farang faces (usually with the same sort of Thais). You would think you were in Central Chitlom or MBK. You will even see farang families with little farang kids in fairly far out places where you would not normally see farang frequently. For example, Central Bangna - Its a crappy shopping mall in an Industrial area on the side of a freeway and you go there right now and I promise you will see half a dozen farang children running around - How in the world did their parents end up in Bangna?

Also, I hate to say this, perhaps its a product of the World's bad economic state, but there seem to be an unusual number of penny pinchers. I am noticing more and more farang hanging out the windows of public buses in Bangkok. It used to be really funny when you'd see that, now you see it everyday. Anyone else observing this?

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More farang everywhere, in every nook and cranny.

I'm not sure what country you where brought up in , but I started my life in the UK where the nationalities that came to this country where there to enjoy a better life with there family . not sure how the visa or the citizenship works now but how many different FARANGS foreigners live there now.

Same for Australia this country covers all nationalities so seeing a asian family shopping in the markets in Wanneroo , doesn't mean they are in the wrong place they may enjoy honest shopping.