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They would seem to be "unusually" rich. 

Watch whatever sport, from all over the world, to your hearts content.  Unless Thailand blocks this site for some oddball reason it should work.  Works here in the states.  Quality depends on who is streaming so you may get the occasional choppy video or freeze up.  Just refresh or choose a different stream if one is available.

http://livetv.sx/enx/

Everyone knows that all is on the up and up in Thailand. Now where did I put the case for my rose-colored glasses?

I have a "J" model, stateside version, but should be the same. On Contacts click on the contact, click on edit in top right, opens the contact details. There is a camera just to the left of the contact name. Click on the camera. It opens a window that has "Contact photo - Image, or Take Picture. If you already have a photo in your gallery click on the picture and then you can crop the picture is needed or just click done. And now you have an image for the contact. Or can take a new picture and do the same steps.

Don't know about the bending over the backside as he is a she. Sharon Johnson Coleman is a judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on February 24, 2010, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 12, 2010

I almost peed my pants when I watched that video. Such scariness.

A few years back at the OnNut Tesco I was short-changed 700+ baht which I discovered just as she, the cashier, closed the till. I made mention of her mistake and this issue proceeded to take the next 15 minutes to resolve. The cash office manager had to come out and count/balance the till and then when she saw that I was indeed shorted she gave me the money. Needless to say the next day I was in there and the cashier was no more a cashier. She was cleaning shelves. A few weeks later she wasn't even working there anymore. I felt sorry for her. So just leave well enough alone, enjoy the water, as she will probably be out of cashiering job at that supermarket if you go back and point out the error.

"Clean water will be used so that it would not be harmful to the people’s health and other living things." Umm. Well, if they're using the water to clean the air of the haze, the water itself will attach to the haze particles (which must be what they are attempting) and fall to the ground in a state most certainly not pure. So much for that not harmful deal.

And I see in the above picture, the driver will take his, or her, half out of the middle.

Never a dull moment.

Yes, pretty much what you said. The monsoon rains (southwest monsoons) will be moving south so most of the country will be dry as the northeast monsoon (dry season) begins, though could be the rogue storm pop up at some point in that 3 week period.

Please be kind to me, I'm very sensitive to criticism.

Without pictures of the perpetrators sitting at a table and pointing at the confiscated drugs whilst the BIB (at least 6 of them) stand behind them happily smiling, I shan't believe it happened.

What, no finger pointing at the nefarious picture taker?

This "news" sounds smells fishy to me.

Per Bassman: "TMD is a bunch of child geniuses from families of the enlightened at best".

I spent 2 1/2 years in Thailand from 2010 to 2013. Visited TMD once a week pretty much every week. Had and still have many friends there even though I'm back in the states. My best friend there is from Roi Et. Many of the mets there are not from Bangkok. Many are from the north and northeast, but they are from all over Thailand. Went to university and studied and worked hard and still work hard. (Other than the office workers they work 24 hour shifts.) And I'd say that 100% of the ones I knew were not child geniuses from families of the enlightened few. Not to say that a few may have come from better off families, but the lump sum statement is annoying.

Now to the "tropical storm" part of this story. It didn't do me any good trying to tell them that these are not tropical storms in the true sense of the meaning. Sometimes there are failures to communicate meanings between English and Thai. Yes, there will thunderstorms in the tropics, but that doesn't make them "tropical storms". Anyway enjoy your tropical storms in a few days.

I thought the Chinese were coming to the rescue per another article today. On one hand...on the other....

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/786521-chinese-tourists-to-bring-smiles-back-to-thailand/?utm_source=newsletter-20141224-0745&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news

Official temperature readings are taken at 2 meters (6 1/2 feet) above ground level. So the 3C (37F) was at the 2 meter level.

And at an inch it was 0.5C (31F). As one can see there is a 2.5C (6F) difference in just that small a height change. That is on what is called macro-scale. Cold enough to snow but they had to settle for frost, which for Thailand is close enough. Oh, the wonders of weather.

Well I'll be a monkeys uncle. I didn't know that.

"The escalation of flood problems in a country deemed as natural disaster-free, such as Thailand". Natural disaster-free?

I would beg to differ. Flooding, like clockwork, occurs every year somewhere in Thailand. Earthquakes up north, while rare, do happen and as was seen this year can be significant in magnitude. The tsunami 10 years ago. Enough said.

Worked at a credit union for 3 years putting money into ATM's and also for Brinks after me military days. The amount of Baht taken sounds about right when converted from USD. All depends on the location and the amount of usage how much money is put into the ATM. As for the masked men breaking into the ATM, it must not have had an alarm on it. And the human alarm was a little slow on the trigger.

"Last, the Commerce Ministry sells the rice". Me thinks selling the rice first might work better.

I'm not in Thailand now, but the same garbage dump caught fire maybe 1 1/2 years ago. Same thing happened. Could see if from my condo on Suk 77. You just hope the wind is blowing the other way.