Tropicalevo

Totally agree.

For news about Thais misbehaving, you need to watch Thai TV or read Thai newspapers/online sites. Not many foreigners are reported there.

What Thai captain?

Breaking news:- If it looks like a duck Quacks like a duck and waddles like a duck then one can be pretty sure that it is a duck.

Feel free to offer to pay to have that done. I am sure that the abbot will appreciate it.

The real animals were the ones driving the trucks.

Depends on your definition of banned. Here they use DDT. Banned all over the world. All I know is that I buy the veggies/fruit etc in supermarkets (wet markets try to rip me off). I take it home and eat them. Only wash if visibly dirty. I grew up eating stuff straight off the plant. I eat the food that I drop on the floor. Used to eat dirt as a kid and never washed my hands before a meal. But I do after using the bathroom. Outside germs good for the gut. My germs not. 73 and still kicking (just). No allergies.

Come on you folk up there in the north. Do not be selfish. Please send some of it down here to us southerners. Especially Koh Samui.

And that is the sad 'kick in the teeth' here. Instead of the school distancing themselves from the corrupt official, they try and sweep the crime under a rug.

Eh?

Why are the two guys plus the photographer, taking his photograph? How is that is going to help him?

And your next post is - 'If Rick Brown really cared about these children he would encourage them not to cross the road or walk near water in case they fall in. And as for climbing trees.....' The majority of Thais have no choice if they want to be mobile. Cars are for the rich ones and in most of Thailand, there is no public transport. Bikes are the only economical solution.

The police will fine passengers who are not wearing a helmet. When it suits them. My Thai business partner was on the back of my bike when we were stopped. I was wearing a helmet. She wasn't. She was fined. In reality, a family of four is more likely to get a warning. The police will realise that they cannot probably afford three fines.

Or as when I bought helmets for all of my staff - within a week they had all been sold at the local market.

LOS - land of scams.

Absolute rubbish, balderdash and poppycock. My wife and I relocated here 24 years ago. Very happy with that decision. Sadly, wifey is dead but I am still very happy here. I would not want to be anywhere else. Also sadly, my son is dead and there is no way that I want to be living near my daughter and her tribe. 7,000 miles apart is just enough.

And that is why the 'military' will never give up their power in Thailand.

Breaking news :- there are water shortages all over the country at the moment.

Hmm. The tinfoil hat wearers are up early today.

I would say that is a yes. They are doing it. Excavators working on both sides of the Bandon road clearing the land. To get to the airport from the Bandon road, you have to go back into Chaweng (past the temple school) and out towards Choengmon and then turn back down at Cocoon

The poor wee bairn.

Quick update - I rode by there again this morning - the road works are more extensive but the road is still clear coming from Bandon to the temple/Chaweng. You just cannot get to the airport via the road with the Chinese graves. Definitely extending that road to probably come out by the roundabout near Tops.

That does not help homeless people. How do they receive the advice? No phone, no internet, nothing. They are not going to receive the vote buying 10,000 baht yet they are still people and they are probably the ones who need it most.

Oh you poor wee thing. That is what happens when you live in a box. You are still ahead of us here living on a private development where the price per unit for electricity is just below 10 baht. I pay for the electricity for some of my neighbours who live overseas. The bills range from 3,000 to 25,000 baht last month. This month will be higher. 3,200 baht is not 'whopping'.

As the old saying goes (with a slight twist)...... Expert at everything, master of nothing.