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27 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

In a thai mathematics classroom ;

Yesterday I bought a pad thai for 35 baht ;

I gave a 50 baht note  and I said give me back  15 baht 

but he needed to use his calculator to check 

I had something similar at a local shop.  Bought a few things that totaled 80 baht.  I was impressed that the person added it up without a calculator.  I gave 100 baht, and then they had to get the calculator out to work out the change lol.

On 7/19/2019 at 1:13 PM, overherebc said:

Depends on what side of the pond you're from.

When it was said "no man is an island" they've obviously never walked down Beach Road.

Next time I have a condition I need assistance with (so far, broken bones, 'impossible' (lol) liver cirrhosis (now 100% good), a foot operation and other issues, I'm going to a Politician for advice, because the Doc's sure have no idea what they're talking about except in their modular specialization field.  I guess politics and armed forces are not holistic either.

My first thought was that these vehicles are easy to persuade to tip over. 

Off topic: 3 wheels are a great set up, but it's supposed to be 2 at the front and one at the back.

On 7/3/2019 at 12:00 AM, suz123 said:

Perhaps your wife is chinese-thai ? the only ones i am familiar with are from isaan..maybe it is different there.

I also thought only females would notice hands and feet but I have heard a surprising number of men comment on those details (remember Seinfeld manhands haha)

 

Anyway, this also might be something only a female would notice, but I do not like most of the female thai voices i hear. It is not a soft, lilting sound.....but kind of like a duck

 

LOL i am not being petty I swear..I actually think the thai female entire package is very appealing and I can see why men are mesmerized by it!

 

When I met my wife, one of many qualities that attracted me was her gentle voice.

I was duped!  One of her friends a few doors away has a voice that I just can't be around, and when they start a door to door conversation (invariably about food), she clones the neighbour and goes into full screech.  After that, because I can't concentrate even with headphones at full volume, I go to the balcony and say "you guys don't need phones, you could be heard on the other side of the village.  Why not just walk over there and talk together .... at normal decibels?".  She does, but the next time they do it again.  I thought you only needed 21 days to learn a new habit, but this has continued for years.

2 hours ago, hyku1147 said:

We were in a coffee shop chatting - in normal tones - about the propaganda methods that Lefties used to both create Trump Derangement Syndrome, and to make people believe that Trump colluded with Russia. All of a sudden, an American homosexual starts yelling "I don't want to listen to this hate - I'm leaving!" Soon afterwards, an American woman walks over to us. Then she says " You two are nasty, and unpleasant, people."

Response to them: "There's a mirror with your name on it".

13 minutes ago, marcusarelus said:

Because not everyone is a pedantic ........

But some are pediatricians, and angry mobs throw bricks through their windows (happened in UK when I used to live there ... edumacation system being what it is).

On 6/27/2019 at 7:22 AM, suz123 said:

i thought the main thing about thai girls that men liked, was that they were willing to date much older men....lol

 

one poster said their hair which is gorgeous...but hands and feet? i actually find thai womens hands and feet not attractive. the chinese and indians have dainty ones

 

other than that, thai women are very beautiful.  - female perspective

I had a friend here from UK (a Dyke as it happens) who had what I thought of as a straight GF, who pointed out to me that she thought they had horrible feet (I never got around to looking that far down, but then again she's a shoe designer).

Non issue though, since you don't look at the mantle piece when poking the fire.  I do wish we could communicate though.  It's not binary opposite, but something approximate to tangent of trinary.  But OMG I'm stunned every day when I see my wife, and she's not a 20 something either.  Just awesome and frustrating at the same time.

I laughed out loud when I read the headline.

Some of the pictures raise an eyebrow too:

"Now Nong Dougal, this is a pool ball, and this is a ping pong ball", "Yes Ted".

I'd say thank you but no.  How about buy some helmets for less well off families or something.  No 'amount' of money will make a jot of difference to the grieving family.

Is this the "put a tail on it and it's a weasel" thing?

I started going bald at 21.  It was extremely disturbing and I got picked on about it a lot.  Ruined what little confidence I might have had.  I thought "If I've lost 50% now, I'll be completely bald in a year".  What actually happened is I lost 50% of that, then 50% of what still remained, then 50% of that etc.  I still have 2 and a half hairs today at 50.  At that time skin head was associated with football hooligans and friends said "shave it off".  I said I can't, I have an office job and have to wear a suit and tie to work.

Today is a completely different story, and I see people with shaved heads and notice that they actually have a pretty good hair line and it's a choice rather than being cornered by mother nature.  About 4-5 years ago I was with my wife and we passed a FUE clinic and I said "do you want me to go and get some hair?".  She said "why? you 'own' (old) already".  Gee thanks for that.  It doesn't concern me barely at all these days.  Wish I could have told my younger self that, but then again that would have changed the course of future history and I'd have met a girl, got 2.3 kids, married in England and have a job I wasn't happy in, had a midlife crisis, divorced, paid half of any income to her, married again .... in short I'd never have had the correct challenges that led me to Thailand and eventually meet my wife.  I'm a lucky SOB and I thank "my grandfather on my mothers side".  I get to live a life they could only have read of in books, and they would believe that Yule was as real as most people thing Fox news is.

Would I rather have a full head of hair?  Sure.  Is it one of the more important things in life?  Not nearly.  I do think skull shape has its winners and less fortunate, but it's really just not on the Richter scale.  To borrow a phase that a friend uses in multple ways that ends in "...for girls" I'll say "hair is for girls".... and so are breasts and the appropriate genitalia and the colour pink.  For guys, a good set of broad shoulders, a gentle yet protective stance for friends and family, doing the right thing and sleeping with a clean conscience is more manly both in physical and behavioral context.  Provide security (hopefully both in financial and physical alike), be a good mediator/moderator, you're eventually going to move in life from Athlete, to Warrior, to Wisened elder and you have to deal with the role of Patriarch.  Take pleasure in all that you do.

If you want to know what is important in life, ask "can money buy it?".  Some examples are health, happiness, respect, time, wisdom.  From that point of view, if money can buy hair, it's obviously not that important.

[Edit]:  Being bald doesn't get you out of the haircut/shampoo thing btw.  You still have to do the same as shaving, such as maintaining cleanliness and dragging a razor every day or few.  I take the lazy option and although shampoo ever shower time, I only use dubbers on a #2 every couple of weeks, but then I'm not in Hollywood in front of the cameras and nobody gives a flying **** so long as I maintain a good level of requisite hygiene. 

5 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Foreigners can be such bad people. They are responsible for so many crimes. The nation has such virtue, the people here possess such a level of purity, honesty, compassion, charity, benevolence, righteousness, and high minded thinking, that they should not, and cannot be exposed to these toxic foreigners. 

I was looking for the "Like" button, then realised there's more to life than just facebook Lol.  I should get out more.

17 hours ago, Mitkof Island said:

Udon Thani will be a ghost town soon as foreigners flee the girly bars and make a midnight run to Cambodia.

The run to Cambodia has been happening for a while.  I'm a remainer, though I know a few that just have had enough of jumping through hoops and wondered "for what?".
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3 hours ago, darksidedog said:

Hate to break it to you guys, but they have gone. Highly unlikely they left a copy of their ID behind for you to find, or coming back for an encore.

Given that pretty much every massage shop across the country offers "extras" not really sure what all the fuss is about, apart from "image" which is a waste of time. Everyone knows what such places are about, so pretending otherwise is somewhat futile, especially since publicising the video only exacerbates the matter.

It's like looking at someone with a straight face and saying "no I didn't accept the cum shot" as it dribbles off her chin.

Some people lie.  I presume it happens in this country too.  I'll let you know in another decade or more.

On 6/6/2019 at 11:39 PM, Tayaout said:

You are worth more alive than dead? 

Definately, I'm worthless dead.

5 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

I have actually never met a Brit in Thailand who did not complain about everything.

When I hear a Brit talking now, I get up and sit someplace else.

Not sure why all the negativity have always wondered if it is just part of their culture.

I'm a Brit, and complain as much as the rest... that said, I recently had a hospital invite and my wife was solid as a rock and did everything possible to help me and I have huge gratitude for that, she really went the extra mile, but, then I ask a simple yes/no question and am left out in the field.  I can't work it out.

Lay away a little in a decent crypto.  It'll pay in spades over time.  Just avoid watching it every 30 seconds as the pullbacks can be brutal, yet should be considered merely corrections.

4 hours ago, worgeordie said:

TAT will be sure to report Chinese tourists rocket in May,

What I would like to know,maybe they can correctly count

the number of tourists that enter Thailand, but how much

they spend ? how do they calculate that.

 

regards Worgeordie

That old joke:

"They say 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese, so I thought about my brothers ChingCho, SengChi, Inchabe, Sufabo and Colin.  I think it's Colin".

54 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Only if it is on a phone.

Just an hour ago I was doing something online regarding my wife's business (copying and pasting invoice images as proof of payment to a supplier) and she said "using computer very difficult, why not use phone?".  That's when I realised she's a millennial and I'm not.

MSDS uses "international" English (as do airlines, doctors etc), so for 'schooled' Thais maybe it's not so easy.

While we don't know what that event is yet, imagine a container of Lithium batteries, a couple more of volatile salts, metals and add water and .... uh oh.  Any number of combinations of things could cause a lot of issues.

3 hours ago, baansgr said:

Not exactly a looker is she....seen better in some of the restaurants in Jomtien

I often think that too.  All the glossy pages of so called beauty .... can find much better just walking down the street I think ... but then again I like natural and not too much concrete plastered on.  Others may disagree of course.  

"Look at my greatest achievements! I posed for a camera in an expensive dress".  .... yeah and when you're 50 then what?  Got to get some useful skills, how to be part of your friend&family team and do your share.

.... or you could just go and cry in a Porsche.

I don't use them, but a friend who does always goes to a certain gold shop locally that beats bank prices.  Not quite Forex midmarket, but close enough and convenient enough.

He sometimes is looking for someone who wants AUD while he wants THB, if a friend has the opposite requirement to him then that's his first choice, and bypass the middleman.

I think he'll be alright.  He can use the 'dependancy' card, "I was just helping out".  It's not like he needs a street stall if he has a business already, is taking care of his wife and child, and assisting her sick mother.

Very bad PR if they came down on him for that, and even if they did deport him then "I was leaving anyway, I'm only here to support family, what's your issue?".

A German won't give a stuff about losing face, he'll want straight talk and the truth!  Thailand has many positives, but it does need a brand polishing, and people who don't want to lose face should not create opportunities to do so, so very very often.

My guess is nothing will happen.

Approaching 90 days I got a visit from a couple of Immigration Police because they'd never seen the visa I have before.  All was okay, photos taken, fingers pointed, non alcoholic drinks accepted, but I wish they communicated with themselves before coming after us.  I'm 100% compliant with 'their' law.  If I was in BKK rather than Udon it wouldn't happen.

I still don't know if I have to buy a 2nd insurance for outpatient, or (preferably) put some cash on escrow, or another option.  Causes a lot of drama for the farangs/photocopier monitors and the rest of us so called low life payers.