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Wow. I polled the 10 women in my moo baan here in Isaan, and only 2 drink. So, yup. Eighty percent of the women in the Northeast do NOT drink. Go figure.

All the women in my moo bann in chaing mai drink

i guess second hand car and bike prices aren't high enough already, so need to stomp on any possible competition

Top Gear did a piece a few months ago where the presenters bought top of the line 2nd hand cars for about 7000 pounds. Clarkson got a fantastic looking, fully loaded, high end merc that looked like new for about 7 grand so that's about 350000 baht. over here the same car would probably sell for 2-3 million.

i picked up the same merc in the uk for 6 grand,great car for a run about,just bought a nissan march here for the wife for 11 grand,the mercs nicer.

It's very simple : Thai drivers are ignorant , selfish, aggressive and for most downright moronic ..

If you randomly picked 10 Thai drivers , and got them to take a proper European style driving test, the failure rate would be 100 %.

They simply have no idea what to drive responsibly and safely means.

you have to get them to pass the Thai test first,they do that over and over until they pass it.ive done it 3 times,a 10 year old could do it,but in every class ive been in,most of the Thais have had to do it again.

Thais and alcohol , alcohol and Thais.....hmmmm makes for an interesting life altering combo.

you forgot to add car and motorbike,lol

I was just in my local tesco lotus,buying some last min things,and there were 4 kids in front of me buying spy coolers and not one was over 15,and no id was asked for,then all 4 got on a bike outside and rode off.What crackdown on alcohol? they never ask in the soi shops but tesco lotus???.

How about actually arresting drunk drivers and having them spend 24 hours in the slammer, minimum. Repeat offenders also get heavy fines, and have their vehicles impounded for 7 days.

Selling alcohol and drinking is not the (main) problem. It's the yahoos who drink AND drive.

Might also want to properly tax the Thai white spirits, Lao kao. If it wasn't so cheap, perhaps the related problems wouldn't be so bad either. It is also absolute rotgut.

They sell 10bt shots at the shop at the top of my street that also is on the chiang mai-chiang rai highway,i sit and have a beer there and its frightening watching these big trucks pull over,and the driver having a few shots,then off in his 10 ton truck.scary

I've been out driving around Chiang mai today to get my shopping in,so i don't have to leave the soi for 5 days,All i can say is the madness has started,it was like driving in death race 2000 today,its always bad here,but you can feel the danger level has gone up about 50% today,ive never been cut up so many times on the same highway i drive on everyday,just absolute idiots on the road,and it will get worse tomorrow.I live on highway 118 the main road to chaing rai,and there are any number of shops selling booze down here,to pick ups fully loaded with Thais,to keep them well fueled up,so they can kill each other.Ive seen 15 songkrans here and the novelty wore out years ago,i just stock up and stay close to home now.

Doing a "runner" seems to be the logical course of action for Thais when they are involved in motor vehicle accidents. Obviously the penalties for this must be a slap on the wrist. Leaving the scene of an accident is treated as a very serious offence in most western countries. Even the petrol pump attendant did a runner when he accidentally filled my brother's brand new Isuzu with gasoline instead of diesel, I guess he thought they would ask him to pay for a tank full of petrol, or the cost of draining the tank. Or both.

they do thats why he bolted

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News flash: Cambodia has Asian males as well.

Yes, you are correct but it also has much more flexible visa rules, property and business ownership and I can at least register my motorcycle in my name. Gambling is legal and the police are not arrogant cowboys. Males seem to be far more friendly and accepting of foreigners, especially if you have skills to teach them.

You can register a car or motorbike in your name in Thailand,i have both in my name.

I was out at my house in mae on this week in the mountains,and there was allot of fires up there,my wife says its some of the local people,they set the fires so that when the rains come the mushrooms come out,she also called them stupid for doing it,and shes one of the local people.Theres also allot of small fires along the sides of the roads, usually caused by cigarettes being thrown out of cars.But the local government here in chaing mai says its not Forrest fires but an ozone problem,I sometimes wonder what drugs these people are on who put theses reports out ,they must think the whole general public are completely stupid,all you have to do is drive 30 mins anyway out of the city and you will see something burning.Anyway the next report will be the usual shift the blame,and say the smokes coming from Burma,you bad burmese fire starters.

Its just something that will never happen in this country,ive driven here for 16 years and it gets worse by the year,as more idiot untrained drivers take to the roads,and cause mayhem,and the amount of accidents just pile up all the time.I talk to my neighbors here who are all Thai and they complain about how dangerous the roads are here in chaing mai,at the same time one of them who works for a large car insurance company is teaching his 16 year old daughter to drive,the guy is a terrible driver ive been out with him,i also asked him was he worried in case his daughter had an accident,as she is not old enough to have a car licence,so will not be covered by his insurance,he never answerd that question and wont because that is the real world and most Thais just dont live in it.Im not Thai bashing,thats just the way things are,same as driving here,most Thais drive in planet Thailand,and most do know when they are driving badly,its just the old deny everything attitude,its somebody elses fault.That kills people here everyday.mai pen rai.

Do you really think a lie detector will serve any purpose other than to appease the press and as a tool for the advancement of those in the big chairs?

An entire nation that is driven ON EVERY LEVEL by an unshakable culture of lying, depict and, most importantly a refusal to admit to, or apologise for personal error. A lie detector in a jail might as well be made of cheese. It will never be used in the cause of good or for it's true purpose, it will be a tool for framing the innocent and scoring points within the system.

A few weeks ago I walked in on my thai father in law. He was looking at an old photo album full of pictures of beach scenes and pictures of a young woman and her two teenage kids . He was alone and sobbing. When he saw me he quickly closed the album (not before I had a chance to see some of the photos), got up and left the room. The photos were blatantly of his second wife and their children together who I know exist (my wife told me). My wife later asked me if she though her father was acting strangely. Then, and only then did I volunteer what I had witnessed a few hours before. She told her mum and the two of them then got really mad with me and called me a liar. For the remaining two weeks of our stay with them neither the father nor the mother talked to me. To this day my wife still refuses to talk about it. The mother knows I told the truth, yet refuses to accept it. Bitch.

QED, these people are fa*king fools, living in denial seems to suit them perfectly. I lie detector will only serve to annoy them with the facts.

When dealing with the Thais I have turned into one.

After a lot of tedious experiences I now only ever ask three questions

- Have you eaten?

- Are you "Sabai"?

- Are you drunk yet?

Any other question results in an answer I don really care to hear and is probably not the truth anyway.

Keep it superficial and mind your own business; its the way to a pleasant life!

To true mate,ive lived here 18 years and thats about the only question i ever ask Thais,and the same you never will get a straight answer ,i dont think ive ever had one in 18 years,lol

If there will be an attempt to boost Pattaya's image than it is about time that they start arresting local politicians, police and other upstanding members of society too, I suppose. Only fugitives with hormonal problems and not so smart ones would opt for Pattaya. Staying out of Americans hands must not be too hard if you opt for another country than Thailand, closer at home there must be some countries around with a similar climate as Thailand but who are not as close diplomatically.

Venezuela is a good one

I'm just surprised it doesn't happen more often.

It probably happens much more often than we realise. Only a small fraction of traffic accidents in Thailand end up in the news.

This is true,there were 4 people killed last weekend here where i live on the118 from chaing mai to doi saket,theres accidents every day down here on the u turns on the highway,as they build more moo banns,along here,that are maybe half a kilo from the u turns,the locals just drive down the highway against the traffic to the u turn,and they get all angry when you hit the horn as they are driving towards you on the wrong side of the road flashing there lights at you,all i can say is brain dead idiots.

Seriously, I think the Thai Gov needs to rethink their position and look carefully at their own exports. Forces are in motion to halt, disrupt, seize up to 54% of it for violations of Trade agreements. Denying yet another foreign business owner will add more neg. to the Thai lopsided Trade. PM should simply have signs at the aitport telling foreigners to drop their wallets and ATM cards "with PIN" in the box and get back on the plane.

That would be the perfect solution for Thais,just leave your money and get back on the plane.lol

interesting to think of all drugs being legalized throughout the world ( or at least in America!)..

Assuming numerous Thai people eat Yaba, it helps explain their actions behind the wheel of a car or on motorbikes.. jai ron mak.

That would mean every Thai driver here, because there all shocking drivers

Well my wife called me in Norway and told me all about this dam bursting and,there was going to be earthquakes in chiang mai were we live,she was worried about me flying home into chaos new years day, that's the Thai media for you,I told her there would be an earthquke if there was no cold beer in the fridge.lol

Cant really say anymore than has been said,ive driven cars and bikes here for 17 years and it don't get any better and it never will,it just gets worse year by year,with more cars and bikes on the road,with completely untrained and incompetent drivers,who are just dangerous,but im still going to carry on living here,so think i will trade the pick up in for a second hand tank.lol

Just out of curocity, is there any game hunting in Thailand, birds etc...?

Never heard about any hunters butwhat do I know?

Poaching is a national sport.

Jo Dennis, Thais hunt and kill EVERYTHING what is not on the tree when they counted to three.... Check out the Isaan for example, no more birds (except chickens) no snakes (except these one in cages of the ppl sale anti snake poison) and no other animals bigger as a Gekko.....even the Tokeys they hunt down and eat them....and in Sokunakhorn even dogs.... so they do hunt here .... pretty EVERYTHING except Ants and Cockroaches.... but wait, I see cockroaches yesterday on a market...deep fried

True up here in my wifes village outside of chaing mai they have hunted everything to extinction,i upset one of my neighbors,the guy just walked into my garden with his rifle and was trying to shoot a squirrel,i told him to get off my land ,as its private,that is why i have a big fence around the garden,id made the mistake of leaving the front gate unlocked,he wasn't happy,that id stopped him bagging his dinner.

Yes a 5000bt note would be to large,they look at me like im mad in my local mom and pop store if i give them a 1000 note,imagine giving them 5000 for a few beers and a packet of chips.lol

Whatever happened to the plastic 50 B notes.

I was hoping they would extend it to the other denominations.

Very handy during Songkran !

Time for a 5000 B note ?

Problems with the currency now.

1=anyone with sight or even slight sight faults--the 20 green and the 50 blue can get a bit mixed up--as the green isn't green enough and the blue isn't blue enough.

2=the 100 bht and the 1000 bht notes again can easily ( if mixed together) are not altogether dissimilar

3=GET RID of the stupid and senseless SATANG, 100 for 1 bht.they are a waste of good metal. thus saving a bomb in minting the useless <deleted>.

My own thought would be, 1-2-5-10-20 bht coins bronze silver and or dual colour.

Notes. Bold blue 50 bht---------crimson 100 bht-------------orange 500 bht-------emerald green for 1000 bht.

The 5000 bht note would be too large, and would be open to fraud and copying. so a 2000 bht note in red blue and white-Thai colours. I just woke up from a dream-----but my idea, comments on that posters---------non political please

Very exclusive first class ones,but only in Thailand,lol

Montenegro revokes Mr T's passport because he harms Montenegro?

Yes, the homeland of international outlaws with big pockets tries to be accepted by the EU.

If this is the case, then the passport for Mr T follows UN laws: Everyone has the human right to have a nationality (passport).

Nope, sorry not everyone, a passport is a privilege not a right, and it has nothing to do with asserting your nationality.

Added to which, what possible use could a criminal convicted to two years in jail have for using one? Do prisons organise overseas trips for inmates or something?

Ive seen the blankets that they give out to the people in the village my wife comes from outside of mae on in chaing mai they are so thin,they must be about 50bt each.a mil baht can buy some blankets,and im sure the ones handling the cash arnt using them

Time to trot out the age old question.

What happened to the blankets and warm clothing that were distributed last year?

It seems I read about this issue every year, so I have to agree with you.... what happened to all the donated clothes and blankets years past?

Surely they don't just throw them away when the cold season passes. If so, I have to question if they should get more aid or not. Darwin has a funny way of taking care of those who don't take care of themselves.

That said, perhaps all the "blanket money" from years past never actually made it to buy blankets. Would be tragic if that is the reason.

Also, every year they know it's going to get cold. Why don't they prepare before hand?

It seems Thailand is one "disaster" after another. Always due to being ill prepared.

I was in vientiene last year renewing a visa in the Thai embassy ,there were loads of ladymen queuing up for visas,got talking to a few of them said they all worked in pattaya or phuket.

LOL - good one

btw, are Laotians permitted to work in Thailand and if so what says the work permit? Street manager ? :lol: :jap:

I heard stories like this, and they always happened to "a friend of a friend". I always thought these were urban legends.

no it happens,15 years ago i used to live across the road from a katoey hotel in patong beach,i used to sit with friends and watch them taking the unsuspecting guys home,then you would see these guys bolt down the road with naked lady men chasing them throwing shoes and bottles after them,some great nights sat at patricks bar watching this.lol

Ha ha laughing my balls off,this scam has been going on for donkeys years, didn't think it happened any more,well somebody forgot to tell the Thais about it,lol.