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I found this to be pretty handy.

Seriously I like the idea of both a front and rear recording camera on a car or truck.

Thanks to the OP and contributors to the thread.

Check for the letters L I N D T stamped on the upside.

Good point! LOL

Btw, that's why I believe gold bars, ingots and coins should solely sold by banks, not by Chinese gangsters in Yaowarat Rd. Jewellers should only sell jewels!

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Great idea!.

Leave it to banks, the most corrupt business sector in existence.

I'm not a fan of gold but if I were I think i'd favor gold coins over ingots.

Speaks volumes for American english teachers.

Nonsense.

Any nationality teacher you want to bash is easily found on Thailand's police blotter. The roster is too lengthy in its entirety.

British teacher arrested for selling drugs to hookers

http://www.pattayamail.com/localnews/british-teacher-arrested-for-selling-drugs-to-hookers-12322

Manhunt ends as police arrest Canadian teacher

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2007/10/20/2003383920

Australian arrested in Thailand

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2010/s2908685.htm

Speaks volumes for American english teachers.

Nonsense.

Any nationality teacher you want to bash is easily found on Thailand's police blotter. The roster is too lengthy in its entirety.

British teacher arrested for selling drugs to hookers

http://www.pattayamail.com/localnews/british-teacher-arrested-for-selling-drugs-to-hookers-12322

Manhunt ends as police arrest Canadian teacher

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2007/10/20/2003383920

Australian arrested in Thailand

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2010/s2908685.htm

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I think facts will only serve to confuse the matter.

Another point scored in the vain attempt to ingratiate himself with the locals and at the same time inpress his empty headed friends who will think this is cool.

Neck tattoos might even become compulsory for long staying foreigners; a small barcode could easily be scanned at the airport and at immigration. Handy during clampdowns and purges too. Perhaps they could start off with having us wear an armband for easier identification while we are in country.

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Please don't give the powers that be any new ideas to implement.

Yeah let's get rid of all the non-paying people everywhere, especially the kids.

Let's make Thailand a place where you have to pay for everything.

Breathing is still free but bad quality, Chinese are selling oxygen fresh air in cans, lets all breath through those, and nevermind the poor who can't afford it!

Let's poison the food and just leave a fraction of it non poisoned for the rich who can afford it! Oh wait ! It's already happening !

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What?

Speaks volumes for American english teachers.

And those posters on the other thread who said it wouldn't be a yank but an aussie, what say now?

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What difference does the country of origin make in the first place?

Ahhh - I see where I went wrong. Sweden has a death rate of 10.21 deaths/1,000 population ... which equals 1021 per 100,000 and not 10,210. My decimal was off.

But again, seems the death rate in Thailand is not much different and would mean you'd expect about 112 deaths per year for 400,000 visitors staying an average of 10-days.

Now that the number is in line there is no real big need to make huge discounts for ill folks not traveling though some adjustment should be made but then again adjustments could be made for the percentage of retired folks living here and the fact people visiting a less developed nation (and one known for vices) tend to be risk takers and have more accidents.

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Good you see the error of your ways, opps I mean math.

I chuckled when I first read it as I was thinking with your calculations, it would likely be the case one could not travel a block in Sweden without seeing someone drop over dead on the sidewalk.

I wonder if the show will be aired in Thailand?

Should have taken his money, given him all your proof of ownership for transfer and sent him on his way to an agent to handle the rest, another reason I handled all my sales the same way.. A little reading here before your sale would have served you well. Sorry to hear about your misfortune..

Don't see your complaint about his not wanting to suck in your second hand smoke either, it's the least one can do, regardless of how much withdrawal you may have felt as the AIR in YOUR car or HIS lungs is not yours either....

All appreciated; good therapy to get my blood pressure down, LOL

Pt1: Though I have bought a modest amount of vehicles (2-4 wheeled) here, over the years, and have been presented with the scenario you recommend (independently transferring), I've often noted that people's 'official' ownership has far exceeded their 'actual' ownership. On that note I for one don't want to be the 'official' keeper of a vehicle that is involved in an accident/incident or any dubious activity; Life's tough enough out here (flowing with the bendy-laws), I try my utmost to be squeaky clean so's not having the need for worry.

Pt2: ...you're not a smoker, are you? Your point is valid, but it is MY car. NB (for anybody interested in a superb example/condition 3r-old Mazda 2) Though I do smoke in the car, windows are always open (at that time) and A/C is always 'off' until all traces are gone. Many non-smoker passengers have commented about the [stale] smoke-free odour of the car.

I never said anything about leaving the car in your name and counting on him to do the transfer, it could have all been handled at the local inspection shop and the money paid and they handled the rest by mail with the new owner for a reasonable fee. Far less then you spent traveling around showing him the countryside not to mention the time spent doing so.

NO! Definitely NOT a smoker and highly offended by those who expect the rest of us to suffer their bad and unhealthy habits as though it's their right to pollute my air space without consideration whether in their car or anywhere else for that matter...

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You do have the right not to ride in a car owned and driven by a smoker.

Thanks all. So the secret noodles still do exist.

No point in ordering a child meal as the food is crap,filth.

In your honest expert opinion................. Anything else you want to condemn whilst you are at it?

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Everybody has different likes and dislikes and taste choices. No problem with that for me. i've flown EVA a bunch and sincerely think their meals are quite good. Now JAL is is a different matter altogether unless floating fish parts in a clear gelatin as a main course is one's preference. The Japanese lady sitting next to me finished off mine as well as hers.

_{I have flown twice in the last year with Sri Lankan airlines business class to London and the Maldives via Columbo and the price to London was a little bit more than British Airways economy and Maldives was the same as Bangkok Airways economy. I don't know if they fly to Copenhagen though and the tickets were bought online at their website. I can highly recommend them.}

Postings are not charged by font size. You can enlarge font for free.

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I've had this issue in the past and have asked others about it happening to them. It's not the case that the poster chooses to have a small font. Some gremlin in the software appears to cause it from time to time.

WE just need to get out the reading or magnifying glasses.

Another idiot self-appointing himself as the Protector of the Realm for Shell Oil and Exxon Mobil. We had another one a few months back acting as Protector of the Realm for Tesco, I believe. He got a knife in his stomach for his loyalty, I believe.

Such dedication!

I read some time back about a fast food chain in the USA that would immediately fire an employee who took it upon himself to accost a perpetrator.

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Now if only the hotels would only charge less than a king's ransom

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Bangkok Hospital Pattaya did me just fine. I'd go there again for quality health care treatment.

Expensive.... Yes. Good. Yes!

My first thought was that there are not enough facts about this story for me to be able to form a sound opinion on the matter. And then it occurred to me that the Brunei officials do not seem to care about anything other than the fact that they are on overstay. There is a mention of "reasonable causes" but there is no description.

It seems to me that I cannot say this is barbaric or not giving credence to what those reasonable causes may be, and whether or not the foreigners were aware of the ramifications of doing something that they may have then thought was not an offense that would bring this on.

I did look up on the Internet and found this description of the caning process in detail (here) and the list which has the offenses that compel a caning (here).

If it is true that these foreigners were on overstay for more than 90 days, then I cannot say I have too much sympathy for their lack of due diligence whilst being in a host country. 90 day is more than enough time to have a little sense of urgency and to demonstrate the ability to inquire; hence showing your host country you are trying to be responsible and respectful to their laws.

Message to the foreigners: "You aren't in Kansas anymore, Dorothy."

Edit: I just wanted to add that the cane is applied to the buttocks. Perhaps if more Thai children were given the appropriate pressure to their buttocks when they got out of line, then stories like this would not be so prevalent as they are in Thailand.

Presumably, based on your last paragraph you advocate a return to corporal punishment in schools the world over. Why would you single Thai children out? Do you believe the children in Europe, US and Aussie are all well behaved studious and cause no trouble?

You are wrong on all accounts simply because you presume. Your distinctions also do not make sense, since this OP is about adults, who were once the children you now champion, and who now - as adults - misbehaved... and got an adult spanking.

Personally I would rather be the one who spares my son from the cane (or worse yet) by delivering a similar experience to his bum with a form of strict loving-kindness that can only come from a loyal and loving father.

If people like you and UNICEF were all that, then I would be apologizing to you. But that is not the case, is it? Pain is a fact of life which can be used both for good and for bad. I believe that loving-kindness goes a long way in sorting out the difference, and preserving a life of well-being and the ability to restrain one's self when the fools press in - this, in the event that loving-kindness is administered accordingly and in direct proportion to the people and circumstances involved without regard to their age.

You seem to want to associate corporal punishment to one standard; and that being extreme abuse. That is another oversight in your thinking and dilutes your implication that handling young adults with padded gloves is the cure-all. Black and white (either way) covers very little in remedying human character defects and poor behavioral traits. I believe a little of both covers much much more.

I guarantee that those foreigners will never have another overstay in Dubai, were they allowed to remain or return. Body intact, mind altered, lesson learned; yet it would have been much better had their father brought them up in a manner that would have prevented this unfortunate adult tutorial in behaving. Long overdue, yet duly administered.

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I didn't read it Cup but I agree with what you say...

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I think Brunei fears Thailand.

I don't want Facebook to become the accepted source for information.

Do it at you're peril.

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i liked you better as a complete non contributor lurker as you've been for a long, long time.

Go find a real estate lawyer.. Yeah you have to pay him/her a fee. Sorry about that.

Hurts. Right?

I agree with the sentiment of what you guys have written about above (though I don't about the negative gearing aspect if that just relates to housing) however ...

There was a positive case to be made in relation to the Baby Bonus also.

My partner and I are hoping for a child in the near future. That's not possible to be born in Australia as my partner doesn't have any status there and I can't afford the cost of childbirth in a Private Hospital in Australia.

So the baby bonus was part of our plan to settle in Australia and to use that money as intended ... to defray the costs of setting up all those things that you need to start family life.

But our situation is but one of a thousand different stories.

Can anyone see the positive side of the (current version) Baby Bonus?

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I thought Australia had one of the world's best health care systems. My Aussie friends have told me often about its low cost.

I think I pay a lot more for things than they do.

"My partner and I are hoping for a child in the near future. That's not possible to be born in Australia as my partner doesn't have any status there and I can't afford the cost of childbirth in a Private Hospital in Australia."

I feel that many overseas powers are getting in a lather over Myanmar more than a little prematurely, most having been carried away by the chance for a nice photo opportunity with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Myanmar's internal struggles are just starting up. The Rohingya problem is the mere tip of the iceberg. Things could get far worse as the country democratises and the well-armed minority militias all join in the struggle for a slice of the pie.

Additionally the infrastructure, especially in terms of transport and education, outside of the main population centres is abysmal although they are working on this like rabbits on this one.

I could go on and on listing potential negatives, but won't.

There is a genuine feeling of hope among the people one meets in Myanmar these days - hugely noticeable from just a few years ago - that things are changing for the better. Cautious optimism has replaced cynical resignation in many sectors; tourism and lower level business investment in particular.

The truth for the immediate future (the next 5-10 years) is that Myanmar will 'rise' insofar as they will allow China and Japan (possibly India too) first dibs at their considerable natural and human resources which may paint a picture of economic well being...but the real challenges which will face Myanmar don't lie in that direction.

While Myanmar is essentially a blank canvas with vast investor potential at some time in the future, there is still a long way to go. A very long way.

How did you come to this conclusion?

"The truth for the immediate future (the next 5-10 years) is that Myanmar will 'rise' insofar as they will allow China and Japan (possibly India too) first dibs at their considerable natural and human resources which may paint a picture of economic well being...but the real challenges which will face Myanmar don't lie in that direction."

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There's nothing like an MLS here in Thailand. Real estate transactions seems to be generally done by word of mouth. Talk with the security guard about new places for sale and etc.

I'm from a country where there's a lot of information available about what is usually the single biggest investment a person ever makes and have to accept there's little to no information available here.

In the future I'd bet more information will be available for buyers of real estate in Thailand. But for now????

good luck.

If you have his guarantee in writing take it to a Thai law firm. Should be pretty cheap to get everything sorted, bottom line I would push for him to take the bike back and refund all your money. Guarantees in Thailand that are in writing are considered to be essentially written in blood and are virtually iron clad, you wouldn't have to work very hard or pay the lawyer very much money to sort this one out.

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The OP says he had a verbal guarantee.

How much is that worth?

Even if it was in writing, I'm curious as to the cost to rectify this with a Thai lawyer. Can you give a ball park figure, please?

Good for you, my friend. Don't mind the naysayers, they are no doubt drowning in a glass of cheap whisky. You are to be congratulated. Make the most of the steps, it's one thing to be sober, it's another to actively pursue recovery.

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Just a couple of thoughts. I disagree with you Alfalfa 19 in saying there were naysayers prior to your post. Rather I would say there are those who noted their lack of appreciation for some who play the "holier than thou" role. I'm not saying the OP did such a thing. Personally if it was a personal goal of the OP I'd congratulate him as I would a person who stopped smoking by choice or someone who lost weight through their own effort. (loss by disease doesn't count)

For myself, once I decided to stop smoking years ago, I made the decision I'd never run down the block to berate someone who I saw smoking in a no smoking area or who lights up in my presence. Hell, I say "light um if ya got um".

The OP did well and achieved what he sought to achieve. I wish him well in the future and hope he stays free of alcohol if that's what he wants.

It's good to get to the heart of the real issues in Pattaya, isnt it ? If not the heart, then at least the liver

Personally, 10 baht is a pittance, but I guess if we all adopt that attitude it will be 20 baht in a heartbeat : not long before you are paying Sydney/London prices.

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Are small chicken parts sold on a bar-b-que stick in Sydney and London? 555

Actually I understand the point the OP is making in terms of a drastic percentage increase. On the other hand, the only places where I'm familiar with satang price increments is supermarkets and the such. I'm not aware of the Missus buying any stall food and paying 8 or 16 satang. Its always been on 5 baht increments as far as I can remember it.

The beaches in tbr NPs here are lovely and kept clean. Farther offshore the better.

I never reveal my guesthouses

But I never ever reveal my favorite beaches

60km offshore or dont bother

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What about favorite books your've read and etc?