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Wifey just read through this thread and is rolling around on the floor laughing. She is Thai through to her bone marrow and says anyone who thinks that Thailand will ever have a chance of staging the Olympics is totally mad.

Say no more.

Anyone fancy sitting in huge stadium built by Thai builders using crappy materials because some High So creamed off the largest part of the building budget? Not me pal; you can take over all my ticket allocation anytime, that is, if there are any left after all the 'important' Thai people have been allocated their thousands of freebee's.

Good wind up Blether; and BTW, Scotland didn't win any medals because they were part of TEAM GB. Perhaps when Scotland gets the independence it craves ,self funded of course, they will enter as a Nation in their own right.

Fascinating Post.......I'm just wondering what exactly you are doing with a pineapple in the bedroom that garners such outstanding results? I'm sure we all would like to know . Also, who gets the rough end?!!! 5555555!!!!

Pineapple is really good for halitosis, so I guess his breath stank before he introduced them. LoL.

Back in 1961 when my Father was about to start teaching me to drive his 1948 Austin 8; he first sat me down to explain to me that I needed to understand that I was going to become a young man in charge of a Guided Missile. I've never forgotten those words and have always had respect for the fact that I have the responsibility of guiding the said missile in a way that is least dangerous to myself and other road users. Whenever I read of yet another road death of a young person in Thailand I often pause to wonder what, if anything, their Father's said to them before they started driving. Not a lot I fear.

Any foreigner driving here has to be extremely careful - you cannot assume that the other drivers know what they are doing or are even properly trained in hadling their vehicle - whatever it may be.

Having said that, and despite many others having bad experiences with drivers having no respectfor others on the road, I can say that driving in Australia and other western countries, if the traffic volume was the same as here, you could NEVER cross heavily congested roads, as nobody would even consider slowing to let you turn or whatever, whereas in Bangkok, I regularly find that drivers will actually slow and stop to let you cross their path - try that on say Mona Vale Road in Sydney - you will be abused and have horns blasting at you for being a complete arsehol_e... so although yes, the roads here can be very dangerous, its not all completely bad.

The only piece of advice after driving here for about 15 years - assume everyone else is an idiot until proven otherwise - and ALWAYS make extra allowance for stopping distances in front AND behind your vehicle.

Please explain to us how we can make space behind us, when if we try and leave some there will always some crazy local who will dive into said space in a microsecond. As far as they are concerned they own all the space around you and the space you are actually in as well, because you are Farang and you shouldn't be in their space !

Happy Birthday Your Majesty. I hope one of your children has baked you a cake.

Logic !!! You have obviously forgotten which country you are in.

Does anyone think that arresting a couple of bent Coppers will change anything or stop their pals from upping their criminal activities even further? In the minds of large numbers of Thai's, the only thing these people did wrong was got caught. 'Money First' is the endemic disease that will never be eradicated.

Until there is a mandatory 5 year prison sentence for running away things will not change. Of course; no Government here is going to pass such a law as they or their High So family members may be involved in an accident and have to run for it, claiming the next day that it wasn't them, or it was the persons fault that got run over.

Just another photo' call for the Bimbo of Bangkok.

4 years rural and not a lot changes except a lot more Paddy's being filled in and new houses going where there used to be rice. Kinda sad but it will accelerate as the young Thai's don't want to be Farmers and will sell even more agricultural land.

Met a bloke on the Green Bus last year who bought some cartons of smokes, and when he opened a pack on the bus there was only two inside a 20 pack. Opened up a few more and the most in one pack I saw was five.

I was talking to a 30 something Thai that I have known for a couple of years and he has always seemed quite 'with it' having worked in Oz and made a few trips to Europe. He was showing me some land he had bought and I asked him if he intended to build a house there. No,too many Ghosts live here already, he said. 'How do you know' I asked, and he said....because I have seen some yesterday ! I didn't take it any further.

Running red light competition. First to run over a whinging old age pensioner from Britain gets the Gold !

They don't have any new idea's, and quite frankly as long as the killers are not operating on the Governments doorstep and rubbing out High So's families not much more will be done. Now if the baddies started a bombing campaign in the Capital with devastating effects, I believe things would change rapidly.

Synchronised Corruption Competition. High So's only to enter and try to outbid each other to 'buy' medals. The one who bribes the most officials gets the Gold biggy.

Get yourself down to the furniture warehouse's at Lamphun, there are several of them with a large choice of modern style gear at reasonable prices. You can do deals with them for cash on more than one item and they will deliver and assemble for free in the Chiang Mai area. They are on the main drag from Lamphun to Lampang, off to the left in the area called 'Baan Maa'. Good hunting.

Seems to me the survey has not a lot to do with lazyness and more to do with physical exercise.

Im still trying to work out if Thais dont eat dog then wheres all the dogs in my wifes village keep going?Ive asked what happened to their dog or next doors dog or even my wifes dads dogs? The answers are quite vague and I find it very suspicious Ive got my eye on the problem and they dont think Im watching (and dont tell em) but I am!

And if you find out they are eating them what exactly do you intend to do about it? Be careful mate; you could end up being next in the pot !

So the FDA conducted raids last year that resulted in them finding 20 cases of counterfeit drugs, that sounds like some pretty intensive searching to find that vast amount.

And they were only found because someone wasn't paying someone else enough for them to remain not found !

Like Brussels, BANGKOK is situated in the middle of ASEAN, hence will be the ASEAN capital.

Bangkok will never be the ASEAN capital (IBM tried to open its regional office in Bangkok in the early 2000's; they are now in SIngapore, most because of Thailand's absurd, ever-changing visa/work permit situation). Singapore has already established as the regional center for business, as all major multinational companies headquarter their SE Asian operations there. The most important SE Asian stock exchange is in Singapore, and many Western countries base their embassy operations out of Singapore (for example, if you're a Canadian national and you want to get a marriage visa for your Thai wife to accompany you to live in Canada, she will have to fly to Singapore for the final interview, etc, etc). Bangkok, is also not geographically positioned as the "center" of ASEAN. If you look at a map and consider the Philippines and Indonesia, it's clear that, as another poster noted, Brunei is more central than Bangkok. But nice try: standing up for poor, ol', corrupt Bangkok like that. Go Bangkok! You're number one (especially if you keep patting yourself on the back and repeating the word "hub").

Not to mention that Bangkok is slowly sinking and in 50 years they will be patting themselves on the back as they sink slowly into the sunset. That is; if they survive the rubble of a major earthquake that could happen at any time before then !

RIP Larry; a sad ending but you lived a full and interesting life. You will not be forgotton.

Did this happen in the bedroom?

They are very creative when it comes to finding ways of extorting money from Farang !