josephbloggs

Not bad ride choices at all. They were both great value when I bought them. One gets the wife and kids to school and back every day, reliably, and in safety and comfort. The other one has lots more luxury toys and a great sound system in it, it does 0-100 in 6.5 seconds or so and it gets me wherever I need to go, and best of all it doesn't rattle. Neither of them make good noises though because they are four cylinder petrol engines: I can freely admit that. Whenever I am ready to upgrade or replace one of them I will make another good choice: it will be Chinese and it will be electric. Funny you criticising others' car choices when you have a Celeriac and a bottom of the range diesel in your family.....

I am not an "EV-er" whatever one of those is. I own a whiny 1.8l four pot Honda with a nasty CVT. I also own a slightly better sounding 2.0 four cylinder turbo. But still nothing pleasant about the noise except for the odd turbo blow off sound that makes its way into the cabin. The only good sounding four cylinder engine was the old Subaru boxer with unequal length headers. All others are just "noise". There is no such thing as a good sounding three cylinder engine. There is CERTAINLY no good sounding diesel engine on this planet. And ALL diesel engines are noisy - outside and inside - no matter how good the sound deadening is. Yet you seem to be bragging about the diesel noise as if we should appreciate it. How very strange you are. I've been in plenty of diesel BMWs including 7 series and you can hear it and it's not pleasant. And please pass my condolences to your lad for buying an overpriced rattly heap of junk. Hopefully as he gets older and gains wisdom he will make better financial choices, although I am sure he likes telling people he drives a beemer (probably doesn't say it's the bottom of the range nasty rattly one).

Sorry I thought you said it doesn't have a noisy engine. Last time I checked the engine wasn't in the cabin - did they move it on the latest version?

Condemning a deliberate police murder of a subdued man doesn't equate to being on a high horse. Well maybe the racists on the forum think it does - that's fine with me, I would rather be on the horse than down in that pit of filth.

No, course it isn't. Puny little three cylinder engines are known for their silence, especially under strain (which it is - all the time). Luckily on the very rare occasion when you can actually hear it is purrs like a cat.

Got it. So when I point out that a white person got exactly the same sentence as a brown muslim sounding person you shift the goalposts and say it's because she's a woman. Righty ho. So brown people and women get preferential treatment. So instead of crying for the poor little oppressed white people I'll change it to poor little oppressed white men. Better? You are a 2-tier justice dreamer as it fits your completely ridiculous "white people are oppressed" narrative.

He wasn't convicted for arresting a violent career criminal though was he? He was convicted for unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. That's because the knelt on his neck for nine and a half minutes until he was dead - when he was already handcuffed and subdued - and prevented medical assistance from being rendered until it was too late. He continued to apply force to his neck even after he became aware he was unconscious and had stopped breathing (he admitted this). But yeah, woke media etc etc. Chauvin also admitted to assaulting a 14 year old child by smashing him in the head several times with a flashlight and kneeling on his neck for several minutes even though the child was face down, handcuffed and not resisting. Luckily he didn't die. But yeah, free him, he's a hero. He is scum and deserves to rot in prison. Pathetic. The level of racism on this forum is pretty disgusting, but no one brave enough to own it.

Nothing to do with with him kneeling on an unconscious man's neck for several minutes until he was dead?? Ah, just political. Yeah, damn politically motivated reporting of people kneeling on necks! Damn! I would have so much more respect for racists if they just said "I'm racist, I hate black and foreign people". But they try and come up with nonsense like you just did instead. Too ashamed? Just say it and own it.

Cool, going to check this out, thanks. Looking forward to the part where it says keep your knee pressed on the neck when handcuffed and unconscious for nine and a half minutes until they're dead. No doubt it also mentions you should prevent medical assistance being rendered.

A white person who had over 100kg of cannabis in five suitcases and admitted smuggling it deliberately!!! Try harder. How about the white person in the OP who was caught with a similar 40kg of cannabis in Manchester and received a similar suspended sentence to the brown guy. Any thoughts? Your imagined prejudice against the white people is hilarious........and pretty sad.

I remember reading you have to become a member which is 40 baht for a year and then everything is free including tuition (but assume the tuition would only be in Thai). Not sure how accurate or up to date that is though. If I remember on my next visit I'll ask.

He died.

Thank you. I was in despair, but nice to see there is at least one other non racist poster here. So much disgusting nonsense in here, I almost pity them.

I wouldn't get on a Raja ferry if you paid me - no matter what it is carrying.

Wow, that's amazing. But BEVs are a fad and people don't want them of course.

Yes the water sports centre is still there and active - you see people kayaking, sailing and windsurfing. It's a lovely place. The nearest metro is Suan Luang Rama IX MRT station which is on the Yellow Line MRT. You would probably need a motorbike from the station as I think the only access to the park is from the furthest side from the station but not 100% sure as I always drive there.

Yawn. Any thread with any name that doesn't sound white like John Smith and we get idiotic comments like yours. Are you really that racist that you can't acknowledge Britain is a nation of immigrants? Second, third, fourth generation immigrants (or much further back if you want to go there). Only Johns Smiths are "good old stock" British names? What is your surname bobthegimp? Where do your family come from?

Probably 18 months suspended, 200 hours of service work and 10 days in rehab, if the circumstances were the same. You guys need to get over yourselves - poor little oppressed white people.

Maybe you missed the quote button so it is obvious who you are replying to.

Maybe you missed the bit where I said, "I'm not worrying about it - I figure they just changed something and that's it."

Here's one I did a month or so ago (which is exactly like all my previous ones) vs one done a week or so ago. I have done these many times so I filled out the online notification in exactly the same way as I have always done. I'm not worrying about it - I figure they just changed something and that's it.

There is absolutely no way I would queue up at CW for a re-entry - there is just no need. Get it at the airport whenever you next fly out. I just did it a couple of weeks ago at Suvarnabhumi, multiple re-entry. It honestly took less than five minutes from walking up to the desk to receiving my passport back, and that includes them doing all the form filling and taking a photo. 4,000 baht (3,800 for the multi re-entry and 200 baht for them doing all the work). You don't need to prepare anything at all. If it is busy it might take 15-20 minutes maximum, I can't imagine it would ever take longer than that. The previous time I did it a family of five got there just in front of me and there were a few already waiting, but I was still done in less than 10 minutes. For me, just do your extension at CW then get out of that hell hole as fast as you can. (I understand some people may be worried about the airport being busy or it taking so long they miss their flight but that is never the case, it's quick and easy).

Do they? Every time you use the toll they run out of the office to your passenger side to catch you for not having a license? Really?? I have been driving here for close to 30 years and I have been taken aside at a toll booth once and that was because I was speeding prior to the toll and they had radioed ahead. You must be mega unlucky to have them running at you every time you use the tollway. Poor you - the only guy in Thailand that this happens to.

Sympathy, humanity, compassion, respect for women (alive or dead) - none of them are his things.

Where is that?