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There is all sorts of work to be found online. Try odesk.com and other similar sites, it can be slow to get started but 200k/year should be achievable.

How does that work? I don't understand the premise.

Designing and managing websites etc. Long hours for you guessed it....peanuts!

Interesting travel report from OP.

It's always best to get the bus to Pattaya if you can; however sometimes if the times are messed up you can end up waiting two hours which is sometimes difficult to do after a long haul flight.

It might be a good idea to use Mr T Taxi service (Soi Diana, Pattaya) if you arrive out of bus hours. They will wait for you with an idiot board with your name on it.

Sometimes, if I know I'm arriving late at night and I know I'm going to miss the buses and I haven't pre-ordered a taxi, I walk up and down the plane an hour before landing, asking if any one wants to share a taxi to Pattaya. I've done it three times and each time had a good result.

It does take a bit of self-confidence to do it, but it does work.

Cracking advice. But I never viewed them as idiot boards more like 'Smart enough to have booked ahead' boards. Shame I never seem organised enough!

Cambodia is a kewl place and people are really lovely!!

Yep I feel the same way.

i like the way of your story telling you are great story teller

I agree Iceman, my Friend..

What you two on about? isn't it obvious I'm just pasting in the words of the lord?

cool

Cosmic.

No he ain't. I just killed him and gave him a shave.

Funny but no more Guantanamo Bay training pics please!

Be happy with your lot but there's no point telling women such nonsense.

I wish I had darker skin myself as its near impossible for me to have a decent swim between 11am and 3pm without getting burnt.

Try your card in the morning at an ATM where the bank is open. If it doesn't work at least then you will have the chance to get your card returned when the machine is emptied. Bring your passport as well of course. Good luck.

Cambodia although I wouldn't describe it as particularly stable. Good investment opportunities especially if the international airport ever gets built in Sihanoukville.

The country should take off Thai style over the next decade I just hope Phnom Penh is not ruined along the way.

i am english what does Irony mean

it means to smooth with an instrument of iron.

I guess you must also have suffered an English education. So reassuring.

i am english what does Irony mean

Well you had me and probably most of the forum fooled!

If you feel a post is banal or boring then just ignore it. What's wrong with wanting a decent breakfast or finding some soup?

In fact if you check you will find this type of thread has been done to death too OP.

4 beerbrats

Forgive my ignorance please but what is this?

IMHO, the Thai 'brain drain' phenomenon is all connected to Thai Culture.

Not so much culture as a poor general level of education imo.

the ones that shock me the most are the doctors. They really dont seem to know what they are doing half the time. The amount of revisits I have done and friends have told me they have done is amazing. I really think they give it no thought and just write a prescription and hope it works. No screening, nothing. I tell ya there is no way Id have an operation here, I just woudlnt trust the cleanliness either, I can imagine the cleaners mai ben laiing alot of stuff.

I concur with you.

I have only come across one Thai doctor who I think IS a real doctor. All the others are just idiots.

I suffer from a serious & chronic condition. It's chronic because I've put up with it for over 2 years whilst in Thailand.

Why have I put up with it? It's very simple...my condition mainly exists in non-asian people. Finding a Thai doctor who is able to PROPERLY deal with my condition (an operation) is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. The Thai doctors I have seen simply want to 'hack away' & care not for the future implications. They have no idea nor are they interested.

It's interesting that you mention 'doctors', since they are supposed to be well educated folk. Considering this, there is only one reason why they prescribe antibiotics for everything...to make money, albeit at Thailand's (or the world's) demise in the long term.

No doubt that they are intelligent...it's just that they choose to be idiots (in our eyes).

I had personal experience of the same thing in India but luckily was pointed in the right direction eventually. Seen quite a few people come back to the UK with injuries sustained in Europe and further afield who have been treated abysmally.

Its not confined to Thailand unfortunately as healthcare seems to be a lottery worldwide unless you are rich of course.

Open a bank account on the day you arrive in your own name. All you need is your passport and an address. Takes less than half an hour. As soon as you have this you can call your bank and have the money sent through in 2-3 days. Same process in reverse after the ceremony.

Well if you are lucky...!

It's hard to get a bottle of wine here for under 300 baht. A reasonable bottle will set you back about 600+ baht.

A fairly unreasonable bottle for 600 Baht in Samui. Paying double that for anything half decent usually but occasionally finding a cheap and good wine so when I go back to buy a few more bottles they are all gone!...Happens every time too!!

Ok I'm predicting us to lose the next three heavily and get relegated.

Oh hang on that's not us....

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She was hit from the side, in her ribs. Did you not read that bit? Even with all the 'knowledge' in your post, you haven't the sense to understand what you read about the incident. Or you didn't read it. If you had you wouldn't have posted what you did.

I'll stand where you want and you fire into the air. If you hit me in the ribs, from the side, with a bullet which has lost almost all of it's kinetic energy, you win! Very best of luck to yer!

And to you posters calling all the tourists 'idiots' etc. Maybe, just maybe, they don't all subscribe to TV (or aren't watching any media)and had no idea of what was going to happen as they are on holiday. These sort of events ARE watched by tourists that naturally have a facination with these 'out of the norm' events. I was in France with some friends, completely unaware of why the streets had filled with people and lots of shouting. 1st natural thought was what was going on? so we went to look. Exited swiftly when it became serious. Were we 'stupid' to go and look at this strange occurence? No, because we didn't know something 'serious' was going on. Any one of us could have been hurt. Not through stupidity, just by enjoying a holiday and watching strange events without any early signs of any danger. Not all protests/gatherings end in violence. Very bad luck if you do get caught in the crossfire of a protest gone bad, particularly if you're enjoying your holiday.

I was caught up in similar situation in London during May Day riots. Walked out of Oxford Circus tube right into the middle of it and was 'detained' by the police for 2 hours while the protesters fought a constant battle with them. A frightening experience to become an unwilling protester in the eyes of the supposed authorities. The police did nothing that day to help any of us (maybe 90%) who had nothing to do with the protest.

a great result for pfc. now the filth will be tired against us on weds night, so we can finish em off quicker

Believe what you will however the real business starts here. You're right to comment on the extra time but it wasn't a tiring game for us more frustrating than anything else and we will want to take it out on you on Wednesday....bring it on!

Well the OP has not repied once to this URGENT request and is clearly a Troll.

Posted on the 11th, give it a chance.

Sure I just hope the next post comes from Australia.

Well the OP has not repied once to this URGENT request and is clearly a Troll.

the biggest vehicle pays!

Crap, you try arguing with a cement truck driver.

This is in fact true on Samui. Unless you are a tourist of course...then its time to play the lottery.

What about when you pick the ball out of the net?

Let's wait and see what happens at Old Trafford.

The only time we bend over in the Tottenham thread is to tie our bootlaces.

But please carry on with your unholy pact gentlemen.

To use the words of the Coward that is Kevin Keegan, " I'd love it, i'd love it if ......."

No one will be happier than us if Portsmouth bottle it today Singhy. Not that it will matter either way as we will win no matter how they play.