kennalder

Alpine is raking in with on average 300 players a day. This over the last 3 months. I know a member who cannot get on the course.

Highlands, Mae Jo, Green Valley and even Inthanon are very very busy. Tourists might be down but golfers are up for sure.

Really?, I have friend who has a caddie / girlfriend. Her and her fellow caddies are complaining about how slow it is. Last year getting two trips a day in November, this year, getting days off even in December and January.

This is at MaeJo, where I also play, and it seems quiet to me.

It's not how you drive,

It's how you arrive!

Putting 70,000 more traffic police and volunteers to handle traffic will absolutely ensure traffic disaster.

I can hear the whistles blowing from Chiang Mai

Great! Can I turn my air-con back on now, please?

Go right ahead.

Too kind.

You mean as if it was ever off?

Problem here is what about the left building, I'd say it's stuffed also.

Knock em both down.

No need to knock em both down. Just speed up the tilt of the second building, making sure it goes toward the first. Pretty soon they will support each other. They will look like a pair of drunks helping each other home. Perhaps a fitting monument to the contractor and the building inspector.

Ever notice when you get change from the supermarket or make an ATM withdrawal a large % of the notes are crisp brand new ones?

I have visions of many iphone5 users on tv taking the phone out the shorts pocket and placing it at a distance

Like this boy - iPhone explodes in 17 year old boys pocket

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4DDaooCmrY

Pretty fortunate to have a camera rolling with good lighting and to have the explosion in the middle of the frame. I'm sure it was just dumb luck.

Is it just me or does this toilet look all shewed and unlevel.

See the crack around the left side of the foundation? That's the air vent. It was added after final construction.

I can just imagine the ultimate outcome. Every expensive country in he world does the same thing, all paying above average for the workers involved. Pretty soon Thailand is no longer cheap. No thanks, keep 'em where they are.

Yes, Ma Ma noodles as such takes 3-4 times to digest as natural, homemade noodles.(This is due to the preservatives, and all the other chemicals put into the noodles ...and that doesn't include the high salt content) When I see Thais eat this all the time, I just cringe; for, they would be better off to buy something off a vendor. (yes, I am also jerking my health around by eating processed foods with transfats-another "evil doer" in the food industry.)

I think maybe you put the quotes in the wrong place. try this....transfats-another evil doer in the "food" industry.

This article is rather timely as there was another thread recently about pickling in plastic.There was the usual chorus from the sheeple defending the use of plastics because the plastic industry labeled these bags as "food grade". The same industry that cites a few of their own studies showing BPA's to be harmless, while ignoring hundreds if not thousands of peer reviewed scientific research papers showing the opposite.

Put it this way, if I use glass instead of plastics whenever possible and I'm wrong about the dangers, no harm done.

If you use plastics and you are wrong, no harm done - to me.

(The you here is not referring to the poster to which I am replying.)

Gamblers are 'quality' travellers in a Buddhist country?

Yes, you just need to look at it the right way, that being;

They have more money in their pockets upon arrival and less upon departure than all the "low quality tourists".

For those in Chiang Mai. Several months ago someone started a probiotics group. It went well for a few weeks then the founder left the country and it fell apart. One of the things discussed in those early meetings was the use of glass, metals and plastics. I don't know how accurate the opinions were, but they were universally for the use of glass only unless contact was for a brief period of time for example using a metal sieve. The general rule seemed to be the more acidic the food, the higher the need to stick to glass. Yogurt was thought to be okay in plastic, but kefir was not. BTW, I would like to restart the meetings and I will be holding a meeting at my house in Sansai this coming Saturday, Feb. 9th. If anyone is interested let me know and I will send you the coordinates and some landmarks to look for. I will have some raw milk kefir and yogurt to sample along with some coconut water kefir. And yes it is raw milk. I watch it come out of the cows, through the plastic tubes into the milk pails, weighed and into a plastic bag for transport home. 30 minutes from udder to my fridge.

I don't even like to drink water from plastic bottles, especially the thin clear ones that you get at the store. Chemicals like BPA leach from them especially as the temperature goes up. Add vinegar and acidic foods and no telling what might happen. I'd suggest sticking to glass. That's all I use for the kefir and yogurt I make. Same for a friend of mine that makes sauerkraut.

Remember that a stronger Baht should mean imported items such as petrol should become cheaper but only if the market is not corrupted by profiteering extreme right wing capitalists who are wrecking out world. Gone are the long lost days of decent fair capitalism, where we all got a fairer share of the cake, I am sorry to say. 99% of us just get poorer whilst the rich cream in more and more and we let it happen !!!!!!! Personally would rather live under extreme Socialism in this sic world and I hate that extreme too. We really truly all need decent fair capitalism and socialism working together with proper centre based Governments of the people who are not slaves to any paymaster lobbyists.

Time I think to sell any excess Baht you have while it is strong and buy them back when the Baht moves back to its proper value soon, I hope. Doesn't bother me as I have only regular pension income and very little cash capital thankfully. I do not want the risk of holding cash either at home or in the bank thank you very much, sure you can make money trading in it but you can and often do also lose money too. Just remember for every winner there has to be a loser and no matter how careful you are that could be you.

You have to remember that theoretically if a currency becomes stronger then that leads to falling inflation and maybe even deflation in an honest non corrupt society. If it does not do that then somebody is cheating at all of our expense of course, which is very likely it seems.

Time I think to sell any excess Baht you have while it is strong and buy them back when the Baht moves back to its proper value soon

...sure you can make money trading in it but you can and often do also lose money too

So which is it? Sell baht because you think it is too high, or be wise and not trade currencies.

You are wrong in thinking that gas will go down in price. Just the opposite. In the world market, oil is sold at US dollar prices, meaning that oil costs will go up for Thailand, and raise gas prices accordingly.

Stoli, please don't include me in something unless I actually made a comment on it. I made no reference to the price of oil or gas. If I had made a comment on the price of gas at the pump in Thailand it would be along these lines. As the US$ depreciates the Thai baht will buy more US$, so at first glance you would expect the price at the pump to go down, but as the US$ depreciates the market drives up the price of oil to compensate, so the net effect is probably next to zero.

Remember that a stronger Baht should mean imported items such as petrol should become cheaper but only if the market is not corrupted by profiteering extreme right wing capitalists who are wrecking out world. Gone are the long lost days of decent fair capitalism, where we all got a fairer share of the cake, I am sorry to say. 99% of us just get poorer whilst the rich cream in more and more and we let it happen !!!!!!! Personally would rather live under extreme Socialism in this sic world and I hate that extreme too. We really truly all need decent fair capitalism and socialism working together with proper centre based Governments of the people who are not slaves to any paymaster lobbyists.

Time I think to sell any excess Baht you have while it is strong and buy them back when the Baht moves back to its proper value soon, I hope. Doesn't bother me as I have only regular pension income and very little cash capital thankfully. I do not want the risk of holding cash either at home or in the bank thank you very much, sure you can make money trading in it but you can and often do also lose money too. Just remember for every winner there has to be a loser and no matter how careful you are that could be you.

You have to remember that theoretically if a currency becomes stronger then that leads to falling inflation and maybe even deflation in an honest non corrupt society. If it does not do that then somebody is cheating at all of our expense of course, which is very likely it seems.

Time I think to sell any excess Baht you have while it is strong and buy them back when the Baht moves back to its proper value soon

...sure you can make money trading in it but you can and often do also lose money too

So which is it? Sell baht because you think it is too high, or be wise and not trade currencies.

I remember when I was buying my first computers in the 80's in the US. My dealer was openly including Microsoft and other software in the deal. As he said; "Software inclusion is the only thing that allows us to be profitable". Part of the problem is the owners of intellectual property. They want to get western market type profits from 3rd world type markets. This forces vendors and consumers to become "creative". Then since fakes/copies are so readily available, those that might normally pay full price for the real thing, decide to go down the counterfeit path. It is just too easy and it saves too much money. Everyone has a price that will make them do something illegal.

I fully concur with dogpoo and Rsquared. Caddies are the biggest detriment to the enjoyment of expensive golf in Thailand. Last year I stopped playing for 8 full months partly as a protest for the escalating fees and the useless caddies. Eventually my love for the game overcame my displeasure. If I wasn't such an avid golfer I would just quit.

re.

That says it starts 4am on the 23rd, which by my calculations is Sunday, not tomorrow.

bugger your right ... sorry people my bad : (

at least it gives certain people on here ( they know who they are )

more time to sign up for it : )

dave2

I wondered why I was the only runner

Did you win?

Do the highway police do ANYTHING else beside provide escorts?

So they are good for something! I knew it wasn't golf.

Where are all these "dolls"? Seems like the quality has gone down a lot around the Chiang Mai courses the last 3 years.

I killed a chicken a few years ago because it was keeping me awake through the night.

Choke it per chance?

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer

German philosopher (1788 - 1860) Some here have a long road ahead. I'm not saying that every "conspiracy theory" is grounded in truth. But you would have to agree the US has a pretty poor record of doing anything for anybody without there being something in it for them. As for this project, since the US has officially walked away from it, if they do not re-activate it I will agree it could probably be taken at face value. If they re-open it I will be more inclined to think they were bluffing or buying time to gain access. Virtually every government on the planet has a poor history of telling us the truth, so to accept anything without some critical discussion is fools game. Lest anyone considers me a "left wing paranoid nut job" I will be happy to meet in person and will quickly convince you I am nothing of the sort. I can discuss a wide variety of subjects in a sane, logical manner and typically do not criticize an idea unless I have done some research.

Plodprasob said he had talked to Nasa about reactivating the project once Thailand was ready and the weather conditions over Thailand matched the research requirements.

The project is purely scientific and has nothing to do with petroleum resources in the Gulf of Thailand as alleged by the opposition, he said.

However, giant gas company Chevron is involved in the project, as Nasa needs to use one of its sea platforms as a research facility, he said.

So Chevron just happens to have an extra platform standing around doing nothing? How many others around the world do they have laying idle?

Or is NASA just going to use part of the space on a platform? Since when did they start building platforms with extra space that is not needed, just in case the US government wants to do weather research, or carry on some other project?

Something is not right with this.

But then Mr. Plod has checked it out so must be ok.

Intellectually challenged and gullible. Sure, that would be my choice for a science minister.