arunsakda

The lowest of the low Patriarchal scum and rubbish.

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Who built this rubbish? Who is responsible for civil engineering failure? This is not rocket science.

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Hard to find a decent bush these days outside Japan. I don't care for shaved chocha.

"Causing others trouble and annoyance". Is there really such an offense? What is the penalty?

This violation the of computer act, minimum.

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But tonight he is enthusiastically scarfing Jollibee in Los Angeles. Some respect lost..

The Lechón featured on Tony Bourdain's show looked good, if your into that kind if thing (or whatever).

Persimmon

Thank you gentleman, for your input. Gay? Nah, leave that one thanks. Loads of money when in Thailand? A fair bit. I suppose an older lady would be better. But ED saps all your confidence, the little blue pill even gives up the ghost on you! I suppose you can have intimacy still, but I feel I would be letting the lady down. No way round it really I suppose, so I best 'get over it'!

a true gentleman is only impotent if he suffers from paralysis of his tongue

Comical

"Death by misadventure", not a crime.

Miller

Is organ transplant out of the question or not available due to age and alcoholism?

75 is a pretty decent run but I have seen a few people make Major lifestyle changes succesfully when presented with a harsh diagnosis.

Interesting. Somebody influential down there must want the punters impaired and spending freely 24/7.

I know of one cashed up ex-colleague, retired early to trade his portfolio full time, stay in a fancy condo in PI with a young lady he married "this one's different". He was a known cheapskate however and made himself worth more dead than alive with ever more generous codicils and life assurance policies. Total control freak and I was shocked to hear what a pittance he gave her for spending money. Big mistake.

They found him stabbed to death in the boot of a stolen taxi, real ugly business.

I'll take the crocodile smiles and false politeness of Thailand anyday over the overt hostilility and menace of the PI, not to mention food a dog wouldn't eat.

you are just a guest here. the law of this country prohibits this kid of behavior. you can have two simple choices

1) obey the law

2) leave Thailand

as simple as that...

Drop this 'We are a guest in this country"

By no stretch of the imagination are we guests.

• Guests are invited
• Guests are welcomed
• Guests are not subjected to dual pricing
• Guests don't have to jump through hoops just to stay here
• Guests don't get coerced into paying bribes
• Guests are not subjected to rules made up to suit the authorities
• Guests would not be kicked out of the country on a whim
• Guests would not have to pay taxes and immigration fees etc.

Would you treat your guests in such a way?

I don't consider myself ever to have been a guest of Thailand as I was not invited. I am a visitor and though sometimes I err I try to be polite.

The Merc. driver is an idiot.

It's a holy croc alright. A crock of rubbish. Must have been transported there.

That is what I do in a way on Ho Chi Minh layovers. Forget to shave, stained t-shirt with old shorts with holes. No bag, no mobile, small wedge of Dong in front pocket and dirty pluggers.

Mostly ignored by the touts.

Makheua Phuang (the little flavourful pea sized things, Makheua Pro (the golf ball "eggplants") the fresh coriander leaf, so where is it ? Available at farmers market my friend!

I asked this to a Thai family running a small restaurant and takeout in one of the most expensive beach communities in Orange County, CA, inhabited mostly by rich white people. They laughed. "our customers don't need they just want chicken, pay another $4 for EXTRA chicken" ! (Their Gaeng Kiew Wan Gai is just a giant pile of sliced chicken breast lightly coated in green curry with a few sprigs of basil and red pepper slices). Clear they could put in more effort but it would increase the price and even though people in Corona del Mar can afford it the effort would be a waste.

I have been to some "upscale" Indian and Mexican restaurants in the SoCal area and they were always based on "scene", food being secondary to guys buying $16 dollar drinks at the bar chasing snatch. Problem with that is when a such place becomes passe' it is not sustainable. A famous restauranteur Danny Meyer opened "Tabla" (Indian) in NYC in the 1990's. Noted Indian musician Zakir Hussain personally told me personally it was dreck. Looks like it is closed now and there are many places called Tabla around the country now. Used to be an upscale Thai place at South Coast Plaza ten years ago, they certainly were not pulling $25-35 for entree plates. If that is what the author is talking about why so-called "Ethnic" food can't but French can, I'm not convinced the reason is completely based on Eurocentrism and bias. To get the profit premium you have to provide a scene, in location, and put value on the plate. Sushi does this with pricy imported fish shipped by air and the expensive Chinese with whole fish, and shellfish prepared to order and sold "market price".

Don't forget the solidified bird spit and sustainably farmed Japanese fish fins and abalone.

The author makes valid points here but may be a victim of Orientalism and own subtle bias. For example appearing to state that mediocre Japanese food in middle America is bad because it is cooked by Chinese. It is mediocre because it contains cheap ingredients prepared with little care. I agree that Japanese food followed a different trajectory in the US. The first restaurant with a sushi bar in NYC (Nippon) opened in 1963 on upper east side steps from Counsul General of Japan. Don't think it was intended for mass consumption, nor did anyone imagine that decades later "sushi" would be available at every Supermarket. Many of the uber-cool diners at Nobu in LA pay because of hype, it is "the place to be" and they don't have the experience to know what they are eating anyway. There are plenty of excellent places where food just as good is prepared by Japanese cooks in SoCal at reasonable prices, perhaps even more exclusive because they are smaller, may not take reservations, and you wait for a table standing outside in a strip-mall parking lot. I can tell everybody from experience once you get to the downstairs dining room at Nobu's "Matsuhisa Aspen" the food is no better than average Japanese food one can get anywhere, just more expensive. It is produced by recent culinary school grads all with piercings and some with Chefs Knife tattoos on their arms and served by Kids who are more interested in snowboarding and hustling for "tips" and know nothing of Japanese culture. Unfortunately for cooks, like my good friend, their labour is fungible. There are always jobs but here is no great money in the restaurant business unless one is a celebrity chef or has ownership rights making "profits", not wages.

So Americans will pay for the far flung "Branded" establisments of celebrity chefs in Vegas, etc, even though quality control suffers hugely and it is poor value. They will pay for very simple italian food (served in a bowl) because the "Trattoria" is trendy and located in a vineyard in Napa Valley. They will pay vast sums to eat pricy cuts of beef at so-called "Steakhouses", and order $500 wines on the company expense account. I'm not saying working the grill at Charlie Palmers is easy, but it is a basic skill and what does it come with fries and creamed spinach? Cafeteria food. Will Silicon Valley execs plan a business dinner at one of the expensive Chinese restaurants in the area? Perhaps in a private dining room, not on the main floor for sure, noisy and brightly lit with screaming brats running around, with no surgically enhanced tarted-up waitresses to flirt with.

Location, Scene, cuisine, in that order. Meanwhile the gluttons in middle America must fill their gullets several times a day and they want it cheap.[/quote. Javier's did you like it ?

Nothing wrong with the food at Javier's.

At the bar this girl I tried talking to me asked "What do you drive?", literally one of the first things out of her mouth. I told her I did not believe in the personal ownership of internal combustion engines. (Another girl in LA asked me that one other time, but sure she was joking). Totally shallow and materialistic airheads plus gold diggers that make Isaarn whoors look amateurish.

Check Rimping (sure they have ) and Topps.

I was over there until I was three but just a wannabe.

Parents American and "British subject without citizenship", didn't qualify.

I have only seen suspenders on television.

In Zulu time

11:00h to 14:00h

17:00h to 24:00h (midnight)

(no sale after midnight)

Officially.

Right side: 24h sale prohibited on certain Buddhist holidays.

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That is what most of us Yanks know as "Military Time", which is actually the international standard for transmitting time data most common around the world.

Legal Alcohol sales in Thailand in Zulu time (UTC) would be

04:00-07:00

10:00-17:00

The one that threw me for a loop is the convention in where after midnight is presented as 25:00 (01:00AM) I often see in Japan.

These are the opening Hours for the Rooftop Bar at Andaz in Roppongi Hills for example.

Opening Hour

1. 17:00 - 24:00
2. Fri & Sat17:00 - 25:00
3. (Last Orders for food, 22:45)
6. * For terrace seats, a seating charge of JPY 2,000 will be applied.
7. (No seating charge applies from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. & between December to end of February)

This is true and contemporary Japanese governments should probably just stop apologising as the Asian victims will never accept it anyway. The Imperial Japanese were brutal, had no concern for laws of war, and guilty of atrocities but this was not the fault of the civilian population.

Obama is visiting Hiroshima and will not apologize. The remaining Hibakusha and especially the Abe administration are not asking for an apology.

There are history books quoting original sources but nobody has the time or reason to read them, the victors only need historical revisionism to make them feel superior. Study Einstein, study Leo Szilard and Oppenheimer. The idea of 500,000 allied casualties has no basis in fact and comes from a 1947 Harpers magazine article quoting Henry Stimson that is complete bs, still one has 99% right-wingers quoting this to this day. Dropping the bomb was not needed and even if you argue it was, the second bomb was a gratuitous coup de grace unmactched in modern brutality.

The most important FACT to remember is that MOST of Trumans' own Admirals and Generals advised against using the atomic bomb. Including LeMay and Halsey, who openly considered the Japanese as subhuman.

The decision was completely Political, to threaten Stalin, racist, and of NO practical military necessity.

The Japanese had been suing for peace for a year only demanding the Emperor remain untouched. They were neutralized and on their knees.

In the end they got what they wanted. MacArthur rehabilitated Emperor Showa as some kind of victim (to be a figurehead in opposition to Communism), although the Emperor was just as complicit as Tojo and should have faced justice.

Most likely the end of a rope. Sorry but there is so much proof to this it cannot be ignored.

There have been many books written about this. Dropping of Atom bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a terrible unneeded tragedy and never to happen again is the sincere desire of the Hibakusha and most of the worlds decent people.

But now the actual Mainland peasants are taking trips to HK. Alighting from escalators in groups of 6 and suddenly stopping to chat, causing logjams. I saw this scene at IFC where three such bumpkins squatting on their haunches had decided to have a convenience store lunch DIRECTLY blocking the door of one of the shops. A security guard was moving them.

Literally 2 metres left or right they probably would not have been noticed.

Kind of admire the attitude of these hayseeds as they have no concern whatsoever for sweet FA, seems a stressfree way of life.

Alien