mamborobert

And speaking of Nymphs, an increasingly highbrow post, and the exalted company I would but find myself in

Nympharumque leues cum Satyris chori

secernunt populo, si neque tibias

Euterpe cohibet nec Polyhymnia

Lesboum refugit tendere barbiton.

Quod si me lyricis uatibus inseres,

sublimi feriam sidera uertice.

Ask a silly question.........

Only assuming Piggy`s is closing by what Ulysses G. is saying.

So is it closing or not?

Its for sale as a going concern (i actually enquired when first became aware a few days ago). 6000 a month, 280 000 sale price, 4 years left on lease.

Trouble is it is small, parking non existent, on main road, to far from Tapae Gate area, fumes galore on one of the very limited tables, no back room/staff accomodation.....but yes the food is great, and is nicely done out, and good staff.

Great business but for me location could have been a lot better

I may have a few openings. I am starting up fish spas in Herat, Kabul, Mazar E Sharif and Kandahar.

Can you speak Pashtun or Hazaragi?

Familiarity with your standard AKM's or the Chinese 56 models also and advantage.

Working conditions are negotiable but we cannot offer good dental coverage. Must like goat.

Come on down, 5th mud hut on the left, Konduz.

I'll join the rant.

First of all can someone PLEASE explain to wifey that casually moving a fan brush about the floor moves the dust (sometimes into a neat pile if done correctly) but does not remove dust from the house. Removing the neat pile once made is apparently purely optional.

And the killer for me...we have fridge, it keeps things cold and fresh. Apparently that it what it is manufactured for.

Why oh why then does wifey insist that all left over food (including cooked fish, chicken, rice, and assorted thai specialties) get put in a glass cabinet where it can stay at room temperature for hours only to be devoured by visiting hordes of relatives, sometimes days later.

I use wrap for food and place in the fridge, wifey and family look at me like I just did a naughty with the family rooster.

One day they will also learn that if you put the top properly on the soft drink after you have poured a glass and place it in the fridge it will remain both fizzy and cold. Will wonders never cease.

The fridge is however vitally important to place phone and charger on top off, a photo of mum in law, and of course dust.

Sooks!

There are some great live places that will kill, gut, clean and cut for you to take home for Fish and Crabs.

There is often some small tucked away places in the Warorot Marekts for crabs and fish.

Best, fresh, and cheap for me has always been the wet market at San Kamphaeng. If I have worried about anything it is the temperature and time it takes to get back home.

Went out for a long jaunt today and could not believe how many of these places are about, soon their numbers will rival massage joints.

Saw two more places getting fitted out and look like opening soon. One opposite Mikes on Loi Kroh, next just south of Dukes on Changklan.

I appreciate the comments that they are catering for a demand, but surely enough is enough. Considering the fad nature of these things, the initial capital outlay, the sheer number now in existence, the lowish tourist numbers, and the length of the tourist season how long can all of these places last...let alone open new ones now of all times.

Already there is some serious undercutting of the "standard" price (see the place at Thapae Gate), the optional "health/cleaning" stuff will be lopped off soon.

By mid year you will be able to get some seriously cheap fish tanks

I'll pass on the redundant fish but can see some getting dumped in the moat or the Ping (will they live there, or cause damage at all?)

God nows what will happen to all the joints/rentals afterwards...any clues on the next fad to be mass produced in sunny Chiang Mai? Chess Clubs, Manicure shops, Kebab joints, or just more Maccas

I think JCVD lives in Hong Kong. It's entirely possible he has visited. Maybe he is thinking of going mano a-mano against Johnny Rambo. If Steven Segall would only visit then could have the ultimate 3 way showdown.

I must be the odd one out here....My ultimate 3 way showdown is a tad different, though coincidentally still shirtless.

While I have no doubts that there are some severely disadvantaged people out there its worthwhile remembering that most have a very supportive extended family

Two recent episodes may illustrate some concerns..

Firstly there is usually a group of four girls/ladies with babies either side of the road either side of the bridge on Loi Kroh near Le Meridian. They are there every night without fail, pushing everyone onto the road. Well every night except one. It seems beggars also take the King's birthday off as well.......perhaps a quick trip back to the mountains to visit that extended family.

Incidentally the babies stay the same but sometimes the mothers change....maybe there is a roster or shift. I dunno.

Second is the enterprising man with a crutch you see hobbling round CEC every now and again. Had a bit of sympathy for him until Tuesday night when sitting in a bar near LaCoste on Chang Khlan and saw him peddle past at a good rate, crutch strapped to the bike. An early Christmas miracle, my faith restored.

Try church at "Sacred Heart Convent School" near the Empress Hotel

I go to Sacred Heart and will check out the midnight mass schedule this week.

Sacred Heart is Roman Catholic.

Not sure about the deal with other Christian based faiths but Sacred Heart has only one mass a week in English, all the others are in Thai. So even if you do find a service you may want to check that it is ok language wise with you.

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Can't a guy talk about another guy (Tom) in a purely non homo erotic sense without getting a request to close the thread?

Ggnite all...time for drinkie poos...As we say in the trade "bottoms up"...

Have been to the Red Lion four times now and have become increasingly disappointed each time.

It started to go downhill markedly on second visit.

The guy and the entrance remembered me from my visit two days earlier (where I did not make an arse of myself) and then callously told me that the gentleman that I had shared a sherbert with two days before was seated at the bar. "What nerve", I thought.

Progressed downhill further, the barman with ponytail remembered what I drank from my last visit. "Bastard", I thought.

Ordered a meal and this horrible trend continued. The meal came, it was quite obviously cooked fresh, unlike some other "pubs" I have been to. I am seeing a trend at this point, they obviously see me as some sort of mug. I mean the warm greeting, remembering my favoured tipple, and then a hot fresh meal.....I have seen the same similar backdoor methods of seduction before.

It was obvious to me that they are committed Scientologists.

The only reason I keep going back is that I promised my mother that I would get her an autograph from Tom Cruise if ever I saw him. I have no doubts he will turn up at The Red Lion some time soon.

Lets get a grip here people....Everyone can have a favoured pub, then there are lesser favoured but still liked pubs. If you "hate" a pub, or are obsessed with a pub then you have a real problem. How can you not like a pub, why would you care...news flash...its just a pub...surely you would focus on what pubs you like rather than have a littany about a place that you do not like...solution do not go there...end of issue...enjoy life...

Some comments here are no different than a dog returning to its own vomit.

Staff there have been great, the host I have had little to do with as have just seen him sit there having yack with a few people. But then I don't know him, and did'nt go there to see him. I went for Tom Cruise, a tipple and a feed. Got the tipple and feed, Tome still on back burner.

The only time The Red Lion makes me feel bad, is that they remember me, and I remember their faces, but for the life of me little more. Not an unusual situation in ones day to day dealings in a lot of pubs/shops but still genuine interest is so much better that the Macdonalds standard retort of "have a nice day".

One last thing..its a PUB...not a restaurant. Its not in the Michellin guide. If you really want to have a good al acarte meal go to a restaurant. I went to a pub to get a feed. I got a feed. It was good, but because it was a feed I never really thought about it as a "dining experience", and was never expecting same from a pub anyway...though cooked and fresh was as stated before a bonus.

Kevin...if you can do one thing for me....pass on my sincere regards to your staff, until I drop in again and can make a better effort myself. Pls pm me when you expect Tom to drop in.

God/Darwin gave me incisors to eat meat not carrots.

The air here now is great in the morning and night, nice fresh and crisp.

Walking around in the day is different though, a bit thicker, a bit odorous. Then again there are a lot more hippies in singlets, fisherman pants, and sandals walking round in the day time.

A physical exam for a male in their 50's or more should include at leat listening to their ticker and checking the prostate. Anything less is unacceptable for anything labeled a check-up, physical exam, or whatever...

"listening to their ticker" will be covered with the Electocardiogram and "checking the prostrate" is covered with the blood test for "prostate specific antigen". No need for the doctor to put his finger up you know where.

They have this test in Thailand now ...Yipee...does this mean that my system of picking a doctor not on english language proficiency, medical skills, or costs but rather on the size of his index finger is now a thing of the past in all cases?

Every year my father would wax lyrically in the festive period

Roses are reddish

Violets are blueish

If it wasn't for Christmas

We'd all be Jewish

Just checked 7/11 and still no latkes in the food aisle either.....

Happy Hanukkah

 The reason one would bother is to find the truth. To give her a second chance, and to know for sure that she is not on the sites again. Its a means to an end.

That great Liverpool poet, Elvis, once lamented in one of his classic songs 'What's so funny about peace, love and understanding?'. That was written about 25 years ago, so internet forums weren't around then. Otherwise, the song would never have been aired. 

Uhhhh, what???

Generally, there is not much in the way of 'give her a second chance', as you suggested, on public forums. 

In that respect, I got it completely wrong - his song was about the lack of sympathy and tolerance so I suppose it is even more relevant these days.

off topic but seriously.....

Shame shame shame.....Elvis was born in London, lived in Twickers and went to the paddy senior school in Hounslow.

You've got the Beatles and Gerry Marsden....nice pedestrian stuff.

Our Declan is far to lyrical to be a scouse.

I think its important no to see this (domestic violence) as a Thai only issue. Naturally enough in Thailand you would expect more incidences of Thai on Thai domestic violence.

To accept this as a cultural norm is to accept genocide, rape in marriage, child marriage, female genital mutililation, foot or head binding, slavery etc as cultural norms. All are still practised in some cultures surely no one here tolerates all of these under the when in Rome principle.

I have only been in Thailand for eight months, operating a small business for six months that employs eight Thais. Two of the female employees have at least every two months come in to work with blackened eyes, each has had a period of hospitalisation, each has had stitches to face, each has had multiple bruising to wrists.

They are well aware of my zero tolerance on this and have witnessed me on several occasions address unruly patrons or persons who were generally making an arse of themselves to staff (in my restaurant). I would be a disgrace to the father who raised me if I did not act in some (almost all) cases.

On each occasion where these women have come in with their war wounds they have immediately begged me not to get involved and to let them stay and work in kitchen for a few shifts. I have had brief words with their husbands and suggested that they are not welcome in my restaurant and that they can wait outside if they are picking up or dropping off their wives. All other husbands/bfs are more than welcome to come in at the end of the night for drinks.

The husbands...French and a Swede......It appears that enlightened societies are not universally enilightened.

How anyone can have any sense of pride or achievement in striking a woman is a constant source of amazement to me. I would be embarrassed that my wife made me that angry. I would be mortified if anyone saw her with any contusions in public.

Hitting a wife is like striking a child or a dog or a cripple or a blind person....your not a man...you are pathetic. I do not even want to breathe the same air as you and I will not acknowledge you as a man.....you are so undeserving of the title...week as piss.

While the OP has raised the issue as a Thai one, for me the issue I (specifically) see more regularly is farang husband on thai wife and it sickens me, and yet they all want to have a drink afterwards as if nothing has happened. I simply can't do it any more. The only sure thing is that I will no doubt be visiting a female employee in hospital once the festive season comes into swing.

If you don't want to act in Thai on Thai then fine, but please if you see a Farang on Thai at the very least have a word with the guy.

Do what you would if it was your mother, sister, daughter or wife. Be a man.

I read this...and please pardon as my Thai is not that flash.

Nobody has been charged yet but a passport has been taken off a French National, called Richard Mare Frederick.

Some 33 year old Thai girl called Suchada was found dead with throat cut. She was found in a red mitsubishi sedan on this Richard guys property.

Neighbours reported hearing three gun shots.

Police originally stopped the Richard guy and some other guy called Marco in a jeep as they were driving to the border near Chiang Rai but both denied any knowledge of murder.Apparently Richard and Marco were shortly to be opening a European restaurant in Muang, Chiang Mai.

Police are currently going over crime scene and vehicle/s but have not found any weapon yet. When they have enough evidence to satisfy a court ordered warrant they will arrest one or both.

Sorry but thats about as much as I can work out.

Lots of countries are tightening up now where some of their citizens have two nationalities and are not permitted to. Malaysia and Indonesia are particularly tight. An ADV is an automatic red flag to Malaysian immigration. What you might get by with a few years ago is no longer a sure thing, and really never was for Malaysians. The other thing with ADV's is they are meant to be for emergencies. You might get away with getting one or two, but you will not be able to get away with having emergencies for 30 or 40 years.

You are right on the visa side, once you are a citizen no more visas, except ADV's when there is an emergency.

Most Malaysians will stay forever on RRV's in Australia and for travel to Malaysia because they really do have too much to lose as far as residency and property rights if they are found out. If a Malaysian national applies for passports in Australia, and more recently in Malaysia and they have been away and passports stamps indicate a long time in Australia it is not unusual for the Malaysian authorities (and Indonesian, and German, and Norwegian) to ask tthe person applying for a new passport to provide a Visa or Certificate of Residency from Australian Immigration before they will process any new passport application.

You are usually safe till 18 and then really must chose which way you are going, or just before 18 apply for the longest duration passport you can get.

There is no guaranteed way for Malaysians in particular to evade being found out. If they fill out the passport application with false information on dual nationality status and they are found out or suspected through stamps in passport and then asked to provide evidence of residence in Australia, the penalties can be quite severe.

There is too much to lose for any Malaysian to gamble with obtaining or maintaining dual nationality.

So I guess everyone here is a tosser,goose, peanut, or idiot then and you are God's gift to creation and always right

It's meant to be a board with some disagreements but above all civility and a level of mutual respect. The comments and abuse you hurl are singularly undeserved.

Don't bother with the insults

I feel sorry for you.....

I'll keep an eye out for you at Tuskers and O'Malleys and I will introduce myself in person and we can see if your bite is like your bark....but from what I have seen of you in the past its not very likely

This is all nice isn't it.

I'm tried to recount and recall a beautiful scene in Wales.

The thread ends up about faggots and buggery.....

Now all I can think and recall is of my last two years of religious education with Father Morrison of the Christian Brothers

At least in the founding British Navy you got rum as well as the sodomy and the lash

Anyhow ...off to the pub now .....bottoms up to all

I read the associated posts.

Others do take these things tongue in cheek, your reaction however, even in other posts, has always proved vitriolic (look it up) and you do so yet again.

Quite a few have commented on this already, in a number of posts, we can't all be wrong.

Your contributions of late have included calling board members peanut, goose, tosser, and idiot.

Grow up

Informed enough for you? or should we all wait for the next piece of bile.

the poms fluked it with the ashes. anyhow.

Yeh it was a fluke....no Gilchrist Warne and McGrath.......but lets stop the whinning and do what we have done in other bad times like when Lillee, Thompson, Marsh and Chappell retired and Australian cricket was arguably at its lowest, and the only thing they mastered was batting collapses.....

come on...all together now ...."Bring back Dougie"

we have glasses, if you get a mug ask for a glass or if you get a glass and want a mug please change.

Are we talking coffee mugs here or proper beer mugs? If the former, surely beer in glass is default unless Buddha day. Never known anyone to request their ale in a coffee mug, even those unfortunates from Llandysiliogogo.

Anyway, all the best, I'll be sure to give it a go

Bugger me.....Llandysilogogo, there is a name I have not seen in a while.

Spent quite some time there many many moons ago...at the time it had one of the highest percentages of Welsh speakers in the country. Woe to anyone that spoke English on Saint David's day. For a place so close to the sea it had absolute rank fish and chips anyway but still enjoyed many sessions with semi decent chippies outside the Cliff Hotel which had a spectacular view which would, even in the poorest weather, compensate for sub standard chippies.

Wales is not England....

Cymru am Byth

Talk about dishing it out and not being able to take it. You start a topic as "Who's Gonna Watch The Aussies Thrash The Poms?, The 20twenty's and ODI's" and then complain about some really light hearted ribbing following the test results.

Theres something wrong with your thinking. You start out sledging about the likely test outcome and then your side loses. You whinge about that. Then you start a post guarranteed to get a response from those who think an Aussie win is equally unlikely in the one dayers. I mean come on fella, accept that your asking to be kicked...and then you wonder why you are kicked. This post (and the "thrashing comment) so quickly after your comments on the tests was never going to be light hearted banter for you as much as it is for others.

Get a thicker skin or stop starting posts that set out to cause friction when you can't take the heat.

Sure your not a pom with all that whingeing?