Javabear

I keep seeing all these comments about the Japanese trying to surrender. Yes they were trying to surrender but they wanted to dictate terms. That's not how we did things back then. They made war on us and the only solution was total and unconditional surrender. Now our leaders are such pussies that they won't allow the military to fight and actually win a war.

American women are all like that. I have to beat them off with my own cane.

If you're beating them off, they're not women.

This is hilarious! A Russian article in a Thai forum being commented on mostly by non-Americans. Surely the problems of the world will be solved here in the next few minutes.

I assume he was trying to save some money by doing it himself. Next time call in the professionals, it may just save your life, that is my advice.

H&H

"professionals" (electricians) in Thailand,.. when you find their number can you please post it here as I've been searching for them for years but never found!

Had a Thai man out to my house to re-do the old electrics and he did a great job. I'm a licensed electrician in the US so I watched how he did things and I was very pleased.

Some interesting background from The Associated Press on Sam Bacile, the films maker, a 56 year old California real estate developer who identifies himself as an Israeli Jew, said, 'This is not a religious film, it is a political film'. He also says he believes the movie will help his native land by exposing Islams flaws. He obviously knew what the likely result would be after putting this film out, as do his 100 like minded financial backers, they clearly have an agenda. Meanwhile the headlines in The FT right now,"US and Israel in open feud over Iran". But i'm sure that's just a coincidence.

100 financial backers? What did they give, 25 cents each? The clip I saw on YouTube was the lowest quality I've ever seen. Really, we made 8mm films when I was a kid back in the 70s that was of a higher quality than that piece of garbage. My acting was also better if I do say so myself.

The west had better start getting used to this kind of thing, it's what happens when we get into bed with these fanatics, arming them, financing them, using them as our soldiers on the ground while our Air Forces bombed Libya on a daily basis for weeks on end, pretty much destroying the infrastructure of what was, by the standards of the region, an advanced and stable country. Now our new allies are in charge, looting, stringing up dark skinned Libyans from lamp posts, driving out Christians who had always been free to practice there, including smashing up the graves of allied servicemen from WW2, all the while firing their weapons in the air and shouting Allah Akbar. Meanwhile poor old Hilary Clinton says, "How could this happen in a country we helped liberate"? ! Does she really believe this c--p? Is that how she really believes these people see us? Talk about naive and totally inept. Meanwhile the usual suspects on this forum,(although the cat seems to have got their tongue on this topic), were acting as cheerleaders for these so called "rebels" during the assault on Libya with post after post insisting they were defenceless civilians, never mind that they were 'defenceless civilians' with kalashnikovs, rocket launchers and God knows what else. And now, on any post about Syria they are doing the same thing, acting as cheerleaders to overthrow another regime which was stable and secular, and replace it with the same lunatics who are now running amok in Libya. I fully expect to see similar stories to this one emanating from Syria on a regular basis next year. But i suppose when it comes to the geopolitical interests of The USA and their allies, i.e The big prize, Iran, if they fail to install a compliant regime no longer allied with them, the next best thing is the country in chaos so that they are in no position to act as an ally. Unfortunately one of the side effects of this cynical type of policy, when so called civilised nations choose to abandon their morals and scruples by allying themselves with sworn enemies in pursuit of their own perceived naked self interests, is that events such as the ones today in Libya and Egypt will start happening on an increasingly regular basis. Sadly, decent people like Ambassador Chris Stevens, will always be the ones paying the ultimate price. Also sadly, there will probably be some decision makers in the upper echelons of power who will cynically shrug their shoulders, and declare it 'a price worth paying'. The ends justify the means.The world is on a slippery slope.

Since they will never leave us alone even if all Western nations pulled out of the Middle East completely, I guess the only alternative for peace is the nuclear option.

I think you have got it the wrong way round. The West are the ones invading, bombing and attacking their countries, not the other way round. But of course, it's their fault, they have abundant natural resources and have the temerity to want to keep it for themselves. Just a pity they don't have cabbages in the ground instead of oil, we wouldn't have bothered them then!

History shows us that when the "people" in the middle east figured out that we wanted their oil they welcomed us with open arms to show them how to get it out of the ground. I would think it would be incredibly difficult to drill for oil with nothing but a camel, a wife or 3, and a flock of young boys whose only skill is how to pull a vaccuum. After we showed them how to get the oil and paid them for it, they then nationalized the oil industries and essentially stole all the equipment. After that they started charging much more for the oil that we showed them how to get.

Some interesting background from The Associated Press on Sam Bacile, the films maker, a 56 year old California real estate developer who identifies himself as an Israeli Jew, said, 'This is not a religious film, it is a political film'. He also says he believes the movie will help his native land by exposing Islams flaws. He obviously knew what the likely result would be after putting this film out, as do his 100 like minded financial backers, they clearly have an agenda. Meanwhile the headlines in The FT right now,"US and Israel in open feud over Iran". But i'm sure that's just a coincidence.

100 financial backers? What did they give, 25 cents each? The clip I saw on YouTube was the lowest quality I've ever seen. Really, we made 8mm films when I was a kid back in the 70s that was of a higher quality than that piece of garbage. My acting was also better if I do say so myself.

The west had better start getting used to this kind of thing, it's what happens when we get into bed with these fanatics, arming them, financing them, using them as our soldiers on the ground while our Air Forces bombed Libya on a daily basis for weeks on end, pretty much destroying the infrastructure of what was, by the standards of the region, an advanced and stable country. Now our new allies are in charge, looting, stringing up dark skinned Libyans from lamp posts, driving out Christians who had always been free to practice there, including smashing up the graves of allied servicemen from WW2, all the while firing their weapons in the air and shouting Allah Akbar. Meanwhile poor old Hilary Clinton says, "How could this happen in a country we helped liberate"? ! Does she really believe this c--p? Is that how she really believes these people see us? Talk about naive and totally inept. Meanwhile the usual suspects on this forum,(although the cat seems to have got their tongue on this topic), were acting as cheerleaders for these so called "rebels" during the assault on Libya with post after post insisting they were defenceless civilians, never mind that they were 'defenceless civilians' with kalashnikovs, rocket launchers and God knows what else. And now, on any post about Syria they are doing the same thing, acting as cheerleaders to overthrow another regime which was stable and secular, and replace it with the same lunatics who are now running amok in Libya. I fully expect to see similar stories to this one emanating from Syria on a regular basis next year. But i suppose when it comes to the geopolitical interests of The USA and their allies, i.e The big prize, Iran, if they fail to install a compliant regime no longer allied with them, the next best thing is the country in chaos so that they are in no position to act as an ally. Unfortunately one of the side effects of this cynical type of policy, when so called civilised nations choose to abandon their morals and scruples by allying themselves with sworn enemies in pursuit of their own perceived naked self interests, is that events such as the ones today in Libya and Egypt will start happening on an increasingly regular basis. Sadly, decent people like Ambassador Chris Stevens, will always be the ones paying the ultimate price. Also sadly, there will probably be some decision makers in the upper echelons of power who will cynically shrug their shoulders, and declare it 'a price worth paying'. The ends justify the means.The world is on a slippery slope.

Since they will never leave us alone even if all Western nations pulled out of the Middle East completely, I guess the only alternative for peace is the nuclear option.

We already know how to drill through glass!

The people in power are doing their best to try and kill what is left of the economy.

I live in Rayong and have had no problems anywhere from Bangkok to Cambodia.

I've had the Platinum package for a few years as well and I get the 17 HD channels for free.

The price is zero for now but when they start to charge for it the price will be 5 baht per unit more than the price of gasoline per liter.

I live about 10 minutes from there.

The casino option is very easy / convenient and good value in my opinion, but I have to say the wifi connection when I was there a few months ago was truly terrible, quite possibly the worst I've ever experienced. To call it slow would be a vast understatement. Basically it didn't work, couldn't even check my email. Considering I'm not a gambler I was kind of relying on it for my stay and was very disappointed.

+1

There is a shop directly across the street from the consulate that will fill out the forms, make copies, and take passport photos for you. I think they charged me around 250 THB for everything last January. As far as transportation from the airport goes, you should be able to arrange it with your hotel.

Was the long term health problem in question living in Pattaya?

3 people today already, this place has to be more dangerous than Baghdad.

Baghdad was over 100 just for yesterday.

The wife and I have eaten there many times and the food has always been good. The decor is very New York steakhouse and they are now using iPads for menus. Bring your wallet. I have spent upwards of THB 15000 for dinner and wine for 2 people.

Yes by all means let's change Thailand into a conglomeration of all the countries we left to come here. That's a nightmare that should keep us all awake at night.

I had to buy mine in the US and bring it with me.

I believe you are referring to Bedrock Burgers and Guesthouse. From what I was able to gather, the Thai owners of the property refused to renew his lease so they could build a larger hotel there. The property has gone steadily downhill ever since.

There's a place in Jomtien on the beach road near the police box that is open all night. I had dinner there once and it was tolerable but not great. If memory serves it was opposite the beach and not more than 300 meters from the corner.

chalk up another success for the NRA

RIP - no-one should go this way

What does the NRA have to do with this? There is no NRA here in Thailand yet there seem to be plenty of guns around.

Its directly opposite charlies bar

You are correct. If someone does not know where Charlies Bar is (as I didn't) it is directly behind the 7-11.

Idiot was probably using an automatic.

I rode around last night and a more accurate description of the location might be directly behind Christies. It looks like Christies has expanded back a little and now has a pool table.

I'll take a ride around and take a look to see what I can find. On re-reading the OP it says the new place is across from Charlies Bar so I'll be looking for that.

A friend of mine bought the 2nd type in the Big C extra on Pattaya Klang a while back.