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I ordered a Christmas Turkey (in the UK), went to pick it up, the butcher said ''Sorry your Turkey had cancer''................................ ............................Hmmmmmmmm, must go to Tesco's now.

This is TRUE.

I think I'd be grateful to the butcher for so advising me.

Wonder how he was able to come to that conclusion?

and what facebook page should Jet Ski scams and mafia taxi operators be sent?

www.facebook.com/Thaitrashbin

online now

Was your address complete or is this one more accurate? www.facebook.com/Thaitrashbin/eat s.it

anyone care to upload a thai will template along with the english translation?

The attached 2 templates should be okWILL ENGLISH.jpg

That Will is a joke! It would never stand up in court. It is missing the most basic language used in Wills in every country of the world.

Would you please post a will Template in English and Thai that you think is an accepted one?

TIA

Show some respect. Use your head. You are dealing with Thai employees at the Embassy more than likely. I would never walk into a Canadian Embassy in shorts and sandals. This is Thailand not America.

Maybe so, but the citizens of the respective embassies cannot be refused service due to fashion whims. Do you understand that an elderly man can show up at the Canadian embassy wearing a lovely flower sun dress, and still be be served? The same applies for the UK, US etc. embassies. The Thai staff are employees of the embassy and they are there to provide service to the embassy nation's nationals as well as others. The Thai staff do not set the criteria.

Show some respect. Use your head. You are dealing with Thai employees at the Embassy more than likely. I would never walk into a Canadian Embassy in shorts and sandals. This is Thailand not America.

Maybe so, but the citizens of the respective embassies cannot be refused service due to fashion whims. Do you understand that an elderly man can show up at the Canadian embassy wearing a lovely flower sun dress, and still be be served? The same applies for the UK, US etc. embassies. The Thai staff are employees of the embassy and they are there to provide service to the embassy nation's nationals as well as others. The Thai staff do not set the criteria.

I prefer to wear long pants and a short sleeve shirt when I go out but that's just me. I'd hate to think I had to bow to a "dress code" and especially one established by a host country when I know the actual embassy is sovereign territory of my country.

Being clean from a hygiene standpoint is important to me and I prefer others practice some measure of cleanliness but I'm not in charge and I have to have respect for others even if they occasionally offend my senses.

Weighted projectile with wire attached?? Catapult involved contraption??

This is a possibility. Another is to use a child's' toy type bow and arrow. Just shoot a string across the needed space you want to cross with your cable. Either system implies you have two access points.

A final and occasionally used method is a trained monkey.

Good luck.

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Many

Words....

Wrong!

I posted this comment on a thread about noise in Jomtien but you could apply it to almost anything that happens in Thailand.

The police are a business not a service. As long as that situation remains, forget about any "justice".

"The police are a business not a service. As long as that situation remains, forget about any "justice"."

I believe you are 100% correct. There was a cash drawer robbery from a 5 star chicken food stall near us recently. I asked the Missus how much she though it would cost the vendor to report this to the local police. She said she was not sure and at the same time didn't find it unusual to think there would be a charge for reporting a crime to the police.

The issuance of residency letters is, apparently, an extra service of Thai immigration offices, but experience varies from office to office. Now, the Chiang Mai office is so overwhelmed it appears that this helpful extra service is no longer generally available. Or, possibly, the guy I watched actually completing these letters, might have been hospitalized with carpal tunnel syndrome.

There have been gratuitous complaints that 500 THB is an extortionate fee to pay without a receipt implying that some sort of major graft is being committed. What the hell would one do with such a receipt? Americans, I suppose, might deduct the cost on their annual income tax return if they itemize deductions. Inland Revenue is not quite so generous. And so on!

But is all this a pain in the butt? Yes, it is, but so are the rules regardless of country. I'm not apologizing for it, but deal with it !!!

Why does it bother or concern you if someone wants a receipt from a government employee for a service rendered by a government agency?

Just askin'

Its a requirement, it happens 4 times a year, so why worry about it !!

Because it's stupid. Once a year and/or notify them if there's a change of address is adequate.

Its their country their rules, stupid or not. and for 4 times a year it can hardly be considered a major chore.

Most offices accept reporting by mail so wheres the hardship?

We all have a choice......

Quite right, we absolutely do have a choice,,,,,,,,,we can choose to say whether it's stupid or not.

"Quite right, we absolutely do have a choice,,,,,,,,,we can choose to say whether it's stupid or not."

Absolutely impossible to shop for specifically western prepared foods at the same cost as Thai food, would be at least 5x the budget and even then most here would consider it cheap-charlie territory.

However the way I do it - basic fruit and veg (lots and lots of filling veggies yum!), little bit of chicken, pork fish, lots of eggs for protein for the kids, all from the cheapest wholesale market in town at 5am (BKK that's Khlong Toei)

Then you can prepare it however you like, lots of western-flavoured mostly-veg dishes go well with rice.

But ingredients like bread/spaghetti/potatoes are completely out of the budget, rice and rice-based noodles are the starch foundation. Never mind luxuries like cheese!

But then few are shooting for THB 500 to feed seven people for four days. . .

that's a pretty low budget.

"But then few are shooting for THB 500 to feed seven people for four days. . ."

Rent a place and then don't pay your rent.

For at least a year!

I thought it was 14 months.

Could be worse. They could be picking their nose while staring at you.

Agreed. That would be worst.

There are some very nice wooden houses on posts, and you can take them with you if you move.

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On my Honda Wave-you sure

If the space shuttle can be moved, it must be possible to move such a house. Only thing is can it be done in Thailand?

Rent a place and then don't pay your rent.

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Obviously knew that would come up eh? http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/633404-ways-to-cut-down-the-cost-of-living-in-thailand/?p=6310359

ya gotta admit it is apropos. 555

Watch Thai Tv (no True subs)

Eat Thai food (forget The Dukes)

Don't drink in foreigner bars.

Avoid women (if you are a man)

Drive a scooter.

Rent in a Thai area at Thai prices.

Don't use air-con

OK, And why did you say you like living in Thailand?

The article doesn't say his wife returned home at 5 AM. She found him at 5 AM.

Yes it does______ When she returned home at 5am she found him dead on the bed------- OK?

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Are facts more important than conjecture?

Lots of good post here...

But one question, if someone can answer....

What happens to Thai gold shops that has millions of bahts worth of gold....

Now they have to sell at a very lower price...

Do they take a beating out of this??

They lose nothing until they decide to sell for less than they paid.

Gold is oversold, it's price is too high.

It's time for a readjustment to reality for Gold prices.

The "Gold Freaks" who have been preaching the "Buy Gold now" religion never did answer my sarcastic question which always was this:

"If everything falls apart, and there is no one with any money to buy your Gold, can you eat it"?

"How many calories are there in a bar of Gold"?

But don't worry, it's a readjustment of overpricd Gold, not the end of the world.

I don't own gold, and would never buy it. But the answer to your question is that it would still have value. People might not have money in your scenario, but you could still trade your gold for food, and other things. If everything falls apart, gold will be one of the few things that people will really value.

Yes, back to the cave and start all over again !

Yeah, I was wondering how thin and many shavings it takes to buy a loaf of bread.

Full explanation here:

Gold Bubble Pop.

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Regardless of the circumstances, i don't want an autopsy.


I hope the man dies as he choose to die.

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the suit you posted would not bother me at all.

I suppose you experienced the modesty we hear about in LOS, notwithstanding the shows available in some of the more popular venues.

I'd lood for another pool location.

fruit of the second harvest?

My local imm dept charged me ฿500. for the address certification. I believe it's supposed to be a free certificate and if that's the case, if they only recorded the charge as should be done anyway, the office should easily be able to provide this service for the other government agencies that demand the letter.

mad mary, any chance you could troll somewhere else, pls ? We 'narks' are venting our spleens, sure, but how many of us would have allowed ourselves to get in this deep over 12 freaking months ?

(I believe the terms is actually 'narcs', as in narcotics, as in DEA, but I guess you have your own interpretation)

Actually, in the US, narc or narcs, refers to someone who rats someone else out to the police or other authorities.

Wouldn't snitch be more commonly used to describe "someone who rats someone else out to the police or other authorities?"

Sort the bloody bus drivers companies out!!! Send an experienced driver out with the learning driver so that they get to know thier new routes and the road dangers. They just seem to throw random guys into these buses as a driver and then hope they come back in one piece. One reason why I refuse to use buses to go anywhere in this country and stick to the nice slow trains that usually have not so many deaths!!

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That'd be a good alternative if there were more train routes instead of the very limited ones we currently have.