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6 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

"Looks like a Suzuki Jeep to me."

Well then, you obviously know nothing about the Suzuki that is known in Thailand as the Caribian. The Jeep in the picture is a Jeep not a Suzuki.  I have owned one for 10 years and it is a very popular, reliable and capable vehicle on and off road.........when driven as it should be. I have never had an incident where the vehicle wanted to turn over, even when I dropped my hat.   It is not a sophisticated, fast or even particularly comfortable vehicle but they can go almost anywhere. They are hugely popular with the Thai off-road guys.

One look at the interior will prove that it is a typical open back rental type Jeep popular at seaside resort towns like Phuket and Pattaya etc..

Since you did not read the articles posted, they were actually trying to travel from Phuket to Bangkok and died  near the Phuket Island causeway connector. 

Your last 3 comments are the most accurate.

You're correct in your assumption that I know very little about Suzuki jeeps (which is what they always referred to them as where I lived). In fact the last time I drove one was about fifteen years ago when I hired one in Phuket.

They were a popular rental car on the Greek island where I lived, and 8 - 10 years or so ago, the older, boxy design Suzukis were forever falling over going round corners. A lot of people were killed or injured as a result. It was common knowledge among the locals that this model was inherently unstable., and the hire companies would warn against taking corners too fast in them.

27 minutes ago, IAMHERE said:

I am 76 years old, pretty good health, certainly not disabled or cripple; yet climbing the stairs to the skytrain is just too much for me. Will I be allowed on the elevators ?

You are right, of course. I was merely thinking in terms of limiting the use of elevators to those who actually need them, rather than fit young men too lazy to take the stairs. As you and another have pointed out, one doesn't necessarily have to be disabled to need to use the elevator.

Python "pedestrian" precipitates pick-up pile up

Has anybody else noticed that the ThaiVisa news team seem to have a particular fondness for alliteration?

I'm not being critical at all - I enjoy the humour of it - but it seems to occur here on a very regular basis! :)

2 minutes ago, elgordo38 said:

No it is not. Sometimes I think to reach our age we must have had a fairy grandmother or somebody watching over us. Things move so fast today decisions made on the fly. More idiots on the roads. Stay safe. 

I bow to your superior knowledge! :) It just looked narrower inside from the photo than the Wrangler (?) type jeep.

I don't think we had any fairy godmothers, we were just brought up in an age where we were expected to make mistakes and learn from them. These days, kids are so cocooned that when they get out in the big wide world, they just aren't equipped to deal with it.

Looks like a Suzuki Jeep to me. Those things fall over at the drop of a hat. Narrow track, high centre of gravity. Not a vehicle I'd choose for a drive from Bangkok to Phuket.

Poor kids. Probably their holiday of a lifetime. Life just isn't fair sometimes.

The OP's post is a little confusing. As I read it, he's coming in on a 30 day visa exempt, and within that 30 days, he will be going to Malaysia. He will then return to Thailand and be leaving after a period a few days more than his original 30 day visa exempt (i.e., his time from arrival to departure, including his trip to Malaysia will be a few days more than 30). If I've read it right, then he will get another 30 day visa exemption when he returns from Malaysia, meaning that he's covered for his stay and doesn't need to do anything. But I may have misunderstood his post. If he's staying more than 30 days after he returns from Malaysia, then he'll need an extension.

Only 160K a bottle? A snip. Do they sell cases?

Bangkok must be a nightmare for anyone confined to a wheelchair. Negotiating an escalator in one requires the assistance of at least two people (not to mention having to reverse the escalator if leaving a station), so that pretty much puts the BTS system off limits for them. They should have elevators that are only for the use of disabled, no-one else.

3 hours ago, morrobay said:

Like I said these folks in state of denial will dig up papers by cranks ( who will argue for or against any thing) to support their ridiculous state of denial. See category 2 above. 

Ah, the old "anyone who disagrees with me is a crank and a denier" justification for spouting unsubstantiated garbage. Yes, people who rely on propaganda soundbites as the basis for their beliefs usually trot that one out.

Ah, DIY car repairs. When I first started driving (late 60s), DIY was the norm. I'm not a mechanic, but I did everything myself. Engine transplants (from the breaker's yard), bodywork, whatever. Of course in those days cars were much simpler. A Haynes manual, and anything was possible. These days, modern cars are a nightmare. Plug them into a computer and then pay big bucks for a (maybe) expert to fix the problem. And of course, these days, the problem is usually electronic. The mechanics are much better than when I was young. No mandatory oil leaks now. Just 'blue screen of death' issues, generally 

If I could buy a car with 2016 mechanicals, but without all the computer control units, electric windows, sensors and all the other gumph they bolt on, I'd buy it in a flash. Something where you can lift the bonnet and actually know what it is you're looking at, and if it's not working properly, fix it.

12 hours ago, rott said:

Yes, illustrates the strange method of English (translated by Thai) spelling of Thai pronunciation. Long ago I was buying Anticil from a pharmacy, "not have" was the response. I pointed to a display of them behind her and was told "You want Anticin why you not speak Anticin??"

It's something I find strange, too. My wife speaks good English, and can touch type in English at great speed with mostly correct spelling and grammar, but still when we go to Central, as SB says above, it's 'Cen tan'.

The one I find most difficult to get my head round is one of her friends has the nickname which she writes as 'Ple', but pronounces as 'Poon'. What?

When I say that the spelling should be pronounced 'Play', she says no, Ple is pronounced 'Poon'.

I don't get it at all.

Just what are they protesting about?

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that Trump has only just been sworn in, so hasn't yet enacted any legislation to protest about.

Or are they protesting in advance about things they think that perhaps he might do that will maybe disadvantage women?

I have to say that Mrs Trump doesn't look particularly downtrodden.

It all seems a bit silly to me. Something whipped up by the feminist loving media because they don't like the fact that Trump won.

I don't have a horse in this race, not being American, but I think it shows very poor form condemning the guy before he's had a chance to show what he can do. It smacks of bigotry, prejudice and hypocrisy.

Dunno you'll find it in Bangkok, but you can pick up a bottle in Hong Kong for about €750. When you add the Thai wine duties on though, it starts to get a tad expensive. Still, you can't put a price on quality, eh?

21 hours ago, 01322521959 said:

For me. I just don't want to breathe smoke. The human body was never designed to. You go and stand by a bonfire, nice lot of smoke for you.

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On the contrary, ever since mankind discovered how to make fire, he has been sitting over smokey fires for cooking and warmth. The human lung has evolved to cope with copious amounts of smoke in the immediate atmosphere. The period of time that we have no longer been sitting over fires is a blink of an eyelid in terms of evolutionary history. Our lungs have mechanisms to deal with quite high concentrations of smoke in the air we breathe. Of course, when those limits are exceeded, there will be damage caused, but being in a room with someone who is smoking a cigarette won't come anywhere near those limits. And as for being close to someone outside who is smoking, the idea that any danger is presented is such risible nonsense that it isn't worthy of discussion.

OSHA statement on toxicity of SHS

Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence: Third Edition

These limits generally are based on assessments of health risk and calculations of concentrations that are associated with what the regulators believe to be negligibly small risks. The calculations are made after first identifying the total dose of a chemical that is safe (poses a negligible risk) and then determining the concentration of that chemical in the medium of concern that should not be exceeded if exposed individuals (typically those at the high end of media contact) are not to incur a dose greater than the safe one.

So OSHA standards are the guidelines for what are acceptable ''SAFE LEVELS''

OSHA SAFE LEVELS

All this is in a small sealed room 9x20 and must occur in ONE HOUR.

For Benzo[a]pyrene, 222,000 cigarettes.

"For Acetone, 118,000 cigarettes.

"Toluene would require 50,000 packs of simultaneously smoldering cigarettes.

Acetaldehyde or Hydrazine, more than 14,000 smokers would need to light up.

"For Hydroquinone, "only" 1250 cigarettes.

For arsenic 2 million 500,000 smokers at one time.

The same number of cigarettes required for the other so called chemicals in shs/ets will have the same outcomes.

So, OSHA finally makes a statement on shs/ets :

Field studies of environmental tobacco smoke indicate that under normal conditions, the components in tobacco smoke are diluted below existing Permissible Exposure Levels (PELS.) as referenced in the Air Contaminant Standard (29 CFR 1910.1000)...It would be very rare to find a workplace with so much smoking that any individual PEL would be exceeded."

Letter From Greg Watchman, Acting Sec'y, OSHA.

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HOUSE COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT SUBCOMMITTEE STATEMENT OF HON. THOMAS J. BLILEY
1993

“Mr. Chairman, I am testifying today in order to report to the Subcommittee the results of my extensive investigation of the EPA’s handling of the controversy surrounding environmental tobacco smoke or ‘ETS’.

AS you know. in the past the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of this Committee has conducted hearings on EPA’s abuses of government contracting requirements.

So pervasive is the level of abuse that Chairman Dincell has characterized EPA’s pattern of contract mismanagement as a ‘cesspool’. EPA’s Inspector General recently has confirmed that such abuses also have taken place in connection with a number of EPA contracts involving ETS, and the 0 and I Subcommittee’s own investigation is continuing.”

“EPA’s willingness to distort the science in order to justify it’s classification of ETS as a “Group A” or “known human” carcinogen seems to stem from the Agency’s determination early on to advocate smoking bans and restrictions as a socially desirable goal. EPA began promoting such policies in the mid-to late 1980′s, ostensibly as part of its efforts to provide information to the public on indoor air quality issues.”

“The risk assessment thus was never intended to be a neutral review and analysis of the ETS science. Rather, it was intended from the start to function as a prop for the Agency’s predetermind policy.

Not surprisingly, therefore, the process at every turn has been characterised by both scientific and procedural irregularities. In addition to the contracting violations mentioned at the outset, those irregularities include conflicts of interest by both Agency staff involved in preparation of the risk assessment and the members of the Science Advisory Board panel selected to provide a supposedly independant evaluation of the document.”

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/action/document/page;jsessionid=8BBAAF910BC5023749AD2368ADE155DE.tobacco03?tid=qpe42d00

3 hours ago, SoiBiker said:

 

I think the Thai writing system has some advantages over ours. Whereas ours is so vague that the same combination of symbols can be pronounced a number of different ways, a word in Thai script rather elegantly contains all the information required to know exactly how it should be said, including the tones. 

 

Obviously, you need to take the trouble to learn it to appreciate this, whereas simply dismissing it takes little effort whatsoever. 

I realise that the tonal system complicates the written language, but are 44 letters necessary for that? The Greek alphabet is not so different to the Roman alphabet, but only has 24 letters instead of our 26, yet when you understand the rules of written Greek, it is completely phonetic. As well, Greek not only includes all the sounds that English does, but also sounds that English doesn't use. Plus in Greek where the stress falls on a word can alter its meaning, and this is also included in the written word. So regardless of whether or not you have come across a word before, if you can read it, you can speak it, and be understood by any Greek, which is not something you can say about English, or indeed most European languages. And this, as I say, with 24 letters.

I had this a few years ago flying back from BKK. Had a connection in Doha, where I bought a bottle of spirits in duty free, stupidly not thinking about the fact I was transferring to a domestic flight in Athens, so no tamper proof bag or anything, just the normal plastic carrier bag. It dawned on me only when I got to Athens that I was going to have a problem, my 1 litre being somewhat over the 100ml allowed. I went to the Aegean desk in the terminal and chatted to the girl there about it, and they actually called and asked the pilot, who said if the crew took charge of it and kept it until we landed, it would be ok! Ha! I was sure I was going to lose it, but at the end of the day, it arrived home with me. I think I was lucky, though. I'm sure it's not normal practice.

5 hours ago, The Dancer said:

No, you didn't. You thought you did. But you are wrong. Because you are not the least bit lovable. Oh, don't be offended, I mean nothing personal. I am sure  you are a bang-up kind of guy and the bar doesn't come alive until you are parked on your stool.

 

What I mean is that you bring nothing to the table for a Thai woman to love. You look different,  don't speak her language, know nothing about the movies, music, religion, stories, celebrities, and on and on that she grew up with, your nose is too big and as the day wears on you begin to emit a distinctly farangy odor.

 

What was that you said? We look like Brad Pitt do we? Do me a favor and go watch a couple of lakorns on Channel 7. Do any of the guys look Mr. Pitt? No, because he is too big (buffalo-like), too muscled (reeking of labor class, rather than the lounge set) and too darned ugly (yep, it's relative, where Nadech's the epitome of good looks Brad Pitt is about as hot as Bill O'Reilly).

 

You spent 7 years learning Thai and now read, write and speak? Sorry but all your fluency in Thai does is make you a slightly odd Thai-wannabe farang who just might have other quirks, rather than an honest to goodness off-the-boat farang. In fact your knowing Thai gets you exactly to the point where Thais can see what you don't have a clue of, particularly, Thai culture, values, etc., etc. I am not knocking learning Thai. It's very useful. But it doesn't make you lovable.

 

But you found a well-educated English speaking hiso Thai lass who loves you for your Western self? BS. The guy she really was lusting after before you came into the picture was that kid from the XYZpong family studying to be a doctor, the skinny one, with the mildly feminine features, with a shade of a mustache and a hairy mole under his left cheek. And she almost had him until that total bitch from Korat, who dresses like a slut and was known once to have put out to a motosai guy after getting drunk, stole him. At that point you became the consolation prize.

 

You know what it is about consolation prizes right? Athletes train for years, end up third from last, make a nice speech about how just participating made it all worth it, and gracefully accept a consolation prize. Then when they get home they shut the door, fly into a rage, hurl the prize across the room, and stamp on it till it's a thousand pieces. Yep, that's you and little Miss Hiso.

 

Ah, you are rich? Now, we are talking. Not about true love but a true arrangement. You support her and mom and dad and the lazy brother, and buy a car and build a house and in return she cooks, cleans, and grits her teeth once a week through boom-boom.

 

True love? Just around the corner.

 

 

 

Very cynical, but more than a grain of truth in that post. At the end of the day we all need to be realists.

8 minutes ago, dunroaming said:

 

Not just Thai men who are attracted to 15 year old girls, happens all over the world.  The problem here is that although the age difference and her age makes the whole deal unacceptable the outcome will cause even more strife.  She will be left with a child at 17 and the husband  will be banged up.  They have been together for more than two years and she is working at a department store, not in a bar.  Give him a grilling and pressure him to look after his young family and let them get on with their lives.  It could be so much worse.

A rare outbreak of common sense on TV.

Yes, I agree entirely. The girl now no longer has a husband to look after her, and the child no longer has a father. Good work from the moral(istic) majority.

Yes, at this rate zebras are going to end up an endangered species. Maybe we should get PETA on the case.

BOGOF

I can't tell you how many 'free' bottles of mouthwash, dishwasher rinse aid, multi-purpose cleaner etc we have in the cupboard. Probably enough to see us through until 2025.

It seems highly unlikely to me, purely from the point of view of the time it would take. Also, as has been already pointed out, how on earth are they going to know that she's carrying a laptop, short of inspecting the luggage of every Thai returning to Thailand? It's because they haven't got the manpower to do this that they have red and green channels. They just look for the ones with a nervous twitch who are sweating profusely.