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Yeah, you're spot on! Microsoft, Apple, Big Pharma, Berkshire Hathaway, they are all tracking what kind of rice you eat in a cheapo food court in Pattaya as that kind of information is priceless to them! Obviously you had to register the card with your name, DOB, passport, address, blood type, sexual preference and medical history, right? And you signed a waiver for them to share whether you had a kao pat or a pad thai? Or perhaps it is just a card with money on it so the small retailers don't handle cash and therefore can't cheat Central out of revenue. You are supposed to cash them back in after you've eaten and give the card back. But I agree, 30 days is silly, as is your entire post.

Yes indeed. Luckily I didn't consider it, just walked straight out and literally across the road to the Subaru dealer.

Off topic, but many years ago I wanted to buy a Subaru Impreza WRX or a Mitsubishi EVO VII. The Subaru I could buy officially but no STi version through official channels. A well known importer on Petchaburi offered the full bore EVO VII from Japan for a similar price, but disassembled into parts and reassembled. They only offered a one week warranty. So even if their rebuild was sloppy you were screwed. I bought the Subaru.

The OP hasn't posted since the first page. Was it just a troll post? Or is he embarrassed after reading the replies? Or maybe he's busy shouting at clouds...

I just bit the bullet, bent over, pulled down my pants, and booked Bangkok Airways. As it's only a four day visit I decided it was worth it to get the extra beach time. But I did look in to all the suggestions, so thanks, I would definitely do the AirAsia thing in future if I have more time, and definitely definitely if I am flying with the family as it would make a big difference. Cheers.

Welcome to Asean Now where the stinginess, entitlement, and utter misery of members never ceases to amaze.

They could at least have shown a picture of the new thing rather than a photo of the existing terminal building (concourse C).

Yeah, unfortunately this has come up at short notice. Nok Air do a flight -> bus -> Lomprayah catamaran return for 2,600 baht. Tempting. But I don't want to regret it if the journey drags on and just wished I'd paid the extra to fly direct. Anyone tried the Nok air thing?

Were you there? No, you weren't. You are giving him the benefit of the doubt, I am giving the same to the staff. Remember you are dealing with a person who thinks it is appropriate to try to take some cheap bin bags back the following day to exchange for snacks. He also used the word "insisted" when it looked like it wasn't going his way. If I am to believe him that all Hell let loose with people swearing and shouting at him in Thai then I simply don't believe that happened without him shouting and escalating it first. There is no way in a million years that 7-Eleven staff would shout and swear like otherwise. You can believe what you like, neither of us were there, I think my scenario is far more likely based on my experience of living here for nearly 30 years.

Yeah, no idea why anyone would think that. Everyone should be able to return tiny items when they later decide they don't want them. Bin bags, crisps, a bottle of water, ice cubes, just go back the next day and shout at them in English until they relent - perfectly normal and not cheap at all.

Bangkok Airways wanting nearly 11k THB for a quick trip later this month. I feel a bit sick paying that, so what are the current alternatives? I don't mind a slightly longer journey but definitely won't consider a bus or train from Bangkok. Any good all inclusive Surat Thani + ferry options?

Nice, looks good, and clever two stage cooking idea! Also nicely round, unlike mine.

Yeah, and they are big permanent things - the small one is 40kg! The beauty of the Ooni is it is only 10kg so easy to put away and bring out as and when you need it. Haven't found anything similar here yet. Yeah, they look shonky.

It just shows how many posters here post simply based on headlines rather than reading / looking at the information in the post or article. Kind of embarrassed for some of the replies.

I didn't include that bit because it sounded like nonsense. Which newscasters? You watch Thai news, speak fluent Thai and they preface the news by saying that? More nonsense. Unfortunately I do have to endure Thai TV news sometimes, I do speak Thai, I have never heard them say that, Surely it can't be hard to find a link to support that claim if even newscasters are saying it randomly? Must be lots of evidence to support it.

So come on, let's have some pizza posts. Today was a pizza day for six people. First up was the dough. Warm water mixed with yeast (370ml-ish water, 1 and a bit teaspoons of instant yeast), 600-620g of 0.0 flour, salt, a glug of olive oil, then good old fashioned hand kneading for ten minutes or so. Place in a bowl, light coating of olive oil to prevent sticking, cover and leave for a couple of hours. (Although measuring out the initial flour you inevitably find yourself adding more if it feels too sticky.) Tomato sauce: over a low heat, add olive oil, a few cloves of smashed garlic and fresh basil, and cook for a few minutes. Then add tinned tomatoes (two tins today) and slowly over a very low heat let it cook down over an hour or so, adding salt and pepper. It should end up as a nice slightly thick mush. It then goes in the blender with some more fresh basil leaves for a few pulses. Fire up the Ooni, get the wood pellets burning until you have a good 450 C heat (about 15 minutes), then off you go. Get your pizza on the peel and throw it in. You need to turn it every 15 seconds or it will burn, and after about a minute or so you're done. After all pizzas are done, leave the Ooni to burn out, empty a little tray of ash and put it away until next time. Once you get going it is a bit frantic as you need to get one in the oven, a minute later it is done, get the next one in, so a bit of a production line. As such I only took a picture of the last one - spicy chorizo, green capsicum, onion, buffalo mozarella, yellow cayenne chili pepper. Delicious but poor presentation (but didn't matter as I was eating it). I haven't mastered the art of getting them nice and round as I don't use a rolling pin but try and shape by hand. Needs more work and more practice. Over to you guys for pizza recipes, tips etc.

How about the way he treated them? You just assume they randomly treated him badly and that he was a saint and didn't raise his voice or make a scene? Why would you assume that?

There's absolutely nothing in that article that says they don't count deaths after leaving the sceme. It's nonsense.

I bought a Mars bar yesterday but i didn’t eat it. I’m going to go and take it back now and demand they exchange it for some M&Ms. There’ll be Hell to pay if I shout at them in English to do it and they don’t understand what the hell I am on about. I might even come on here and complain about Thai hospitality!!

No one is denying that people die in hospitals after road accidents. Jeez. Please share your evidence that only deaths at the scene are counted in the statistics. As someone else said this is an oft repeated myth that NOBODY has ever provided a single link for, nor shared a shred of evidence. It can’t be hard, surely?

Even for AN this is a particularly petty and ridiculous thread. - Man goes in to 7-Eleven. Man buys bin bags (for what, 100 baht?). - Next day man decides he doesn't need bin bags but instead of keeping them for when he does, man goes back to 7- Eleven to try to exchange them for something else because his 100 baht is important. Seriously, who does this? - Man expects Thai staff to understand his unusual English request. Man insists (in English). Then we are to believe that people started shouting and swearing at him for no reason. I don't buy that at all. - Rather than feeling stupid for causing trouble, man then goes home and posts an angry rant on AN blaming "Thai hospitality". Man is weird. Man is entitled. Man needs to look in the mirror. But no, man is innocent and this is all the Thais fault. Honestly, read the thread again and tell me it is not ridiculous. I would be embarrassed to even write a post like that. I would be embarrassed to admit I even tried to take some bin bags back to 7-Eleven for an exchange in the first place! Wow, just wow.

7/11 return policy in America. There I fixed it for you as you copied from the US site. It has absolutely nothing to do with Thailand.

Wow, Donald Trump has an AN account!!

The man is dead and that's all you have to say?

Sigh. Why do diesel lovers always use childish terms like "sewing machines"? It just shows you have no interest in debating at all, your mind is made up and zipped closed. Mine was also made up until I spent time with a (fast) EV. Have an open mind and you can be surprised. I didn't know that. I have driven a top line Everest and it had a terrible sound system so I assumed the Raptor would be the same. The other facts about it being plasticky, slow, noisy and smelly still stand even if it does have a decent sound system.