Goat Roper

I just caught the tail end of a couple of punches thrown in a government meeting of some kind today shown of TV channel 3, God I love it! It's about time the Thais get serious about their beliefs and are not afraid to back them up with action, on the spot and in front of TV cameras and for the whole nation and the world to see. I have been in this country for more years than most of you are old and I never thought I would ever see this kind of display in Thai society, yes indeed let the fisticuffs help us decide.

Like him or hate him, boys & girls, he's going to be the President of the United States for the next four years.

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Yep, I think you are 100% correct Boon, I am thankful we got GWB back, like one talk show host said, "GWB gets up in the morning, scratches his balls and says, "Let go kill some terrorists today" what's not to like about that attitude? This alick Kerry and his pu$$y butt kunt running mate John #*&%@!! would sell us all out in a heartbeat.

There is another quite famous farang here in Thailand(American), I understand he has been in Thailand about forty plus years, lectures in both Thai and English at Chula and originally formed the band named " Fong Nam" where he fused Thai and western music together to make a very nice sound, his name is Bruce Gaston. I have met the guy several times over my years in Thailand, he told me he came to Thailand in the Peace Core in 1963(?) and was never able to leave.

I did see quite a graphic film clip on CNN, but only saw it one time.

Don't know what genre of music you like but my vote is FM 98.5, not broadcast in English but the music is 98% Easy listening type and is in English.

I sure hope this "suffocation death" claim doesn't turn into a circus, I love this country and always try to defend what is done here in a small sort of way but I had to scowl a bit when I read this news.

BTW

Lucifers was apparently handed a 30 day closure last night at around 1130pm for not updating to the new licensing laws.

hey,

Lucifers was open again last night [sat] - do you know when the closure order comes into effect?

From 1st nov (so i heard).

Is Your place behaving?

lights on a 1am for us, we actually hav'nt lost any income in the 2 days that the 1am crap has started (compared to the month so far) , time will tell though

We would have definatley made alot more though with 2am (obviously)

Although I am no longer part of the "Bar Scene" I do wonder if the authorities will be lurking to find infractions of this new social order program and make an example of a "foreign" owned/operated bar. I do think tippy toeing is in order here if you are a bar owner, at least for the time being.

Hopefully not, i can't see how they can find a problem with us, all my farang employee's including myself have full work permits, we pay taxes, the new licensing requirements from BKK have been submitted and accepted (new license has been approved) we close at 1am.

but who knows???

All the best to ya Dave but keep alert.

eye used two eat a lot of beef in my country butt hear inn thailand da beef tastes like shoe leather sew eye eat only pork & chicken. eye think outback might bee very steep price hear butt have knot gone.

What a total A$$lick post, is this all you have to do?

BTW

Lucifers was apparently handed a 30 day closure last night at around 1130pm for not updating to the new licensing laws.

hey,

Lucifers was open again last night [sat] - do you know when the closure order comes into effect?

From 1st nov (so i heard).

Is Your place behaving?

lights on a 1am for us, we actually hav'nt lost any income in the 2 days that the 1am crap has started (compared to the month so far) , time will tell though

We would have definatley made alot more though with 2am (obviously)

Although I am no longer part of the "Bar Scene" I do wonder if the authorities will be lurking to find infractions of this new social order program and make an example of a "foreign" owned/operated bar. I do think tippy toeing is in order here if you are a bar owner, at least for the time being.

Lots of "stray" bullets where I have been and where I came here from, didn't worry about them then and don't worry about them now.

Goat Roper, I love your signature. Will Rogers was a good guy, smart too.

Yes indeed, Will Rogers did have a way with words to describe things where it was easy to understand what the subject was. He has many quotations but this one on my signature best describes me.

I was not aware until yesterday there was an Outback Steakhouse in Thailand. I walked past it yesterday at Discovery Center, second floor I think, looked inviting but didn't go in as we had already had Thai noodles. Anyone tried this place and if so how does it compare to the real ones in Oz?

http://www.tiecare.com/Reps.htm

Here is a site to look at for insurance, I know this company from other kinds of personal dealings.

Wasn't it reported that these God-awful shirts cost the Thai government Baht 10K each?

Kim Clijsters has split with her Australian fiance Lleyton Hewitt.

The 21-year-old Belgian former world number one announced the split on her website but refused to go into details about the break-up of her long-term relationship with the 23-year-old former world number one and one-time Wimbledon champion.

The statement on the French section of the www.kimclijsters.be website read: “Kim Clijsters and Lleyton Hewitt have mutually decided to end their relationship for private reasons.

“Obviously marriage is no longer in question.”

The statement continued: “Kim and Lleyton want to underline that they do not wish to speak about the matter with the media as it is a purely private affair as it is with all couples that split up.

“Both wish also to stay clear of any controversy that could be provoked in such a situation.”

http://www.breakingnews.ie/2004/10/22/story172344.html#

I don't blame her for dumping this ahole Hewitt, (and I'm sure she was the one who did the dumping). Hewitt has got to be one of the biggest pussies that has ever played proffessional tennis

Hewit was a former World No1, how could he be a pussie??

Would never have lasted, he is a good looking guy she a little tubby thing.

I used a bad choice of words to describe Hewitt, I just don't like the guy's attitude from what I have witnessed, he is more of a brat that John McEnroe ever was albeit he is not as noisy, and that's one man's opinion.

As from 2nite my bands stop at 130 am, it will happen in less than a week i think.

Hey Dave, can't you just turn the lights and volume down and let the good times roll until dawn? Just kidding Dave, I know there is more to it than my BS but I'm with you all that are in the hospitality business. All the best to ya Dave.

A load of bullsiht though is'nt it.

Indeed it is Dave and I am still having a problem to get my head around all this "holier than thou" crap. I think that in the end all this will hurt this wonderful country. The Thai people are great folks and are my adopted family and many I know are of the same opinion as I have. I do believe that in the very near future( 12 months) that all this crappola will be reversed.

As from 2nite my bands stop at 130 am, it will happen in less than a week i think.

Hey Dave, can't you just turn the lights and volume down and let the good times roll until dawn? Just kidding Dave, I know there is more to it than my BS but I'm with you all that are in the hospitality business. All the best to ya Dave.

Kim Clijsters has split with her Australian fiance Lleyton Hewitt.

The 21-year-old Belgian former world number one announced the split on her website but refused to go into details about the break-up of her long-term relationship with the 23-year-old former world number one and one-time Wimbledon champion.

The statement on the French section of the www.kimclijsters.be website read: “Kim Clijsters and Lleyton Hewitt have mutually decided to end their relationship for private reasons.

“Obviously marriage is no longer in question.”

The statement continued: “Kim and Lleyton want to underline that they do not wish to speak about the matter with the media as it is a purely private affair as it is with all couples that split up.

“Both wish also to stay clear of any controversy that could be provoked in such a situation.”

http://www.breakingnews.ie/2004/10/22/story172344.html#

I don't blame her for dumping this ahole Hewitt, (and I'm sure she was the one who did the dumping). Hewitt has got to be one of the biggest pussies that has ever played proffessional tennis

Pilots on EVA make their PR walkabouts about two times between Taipei and the US 

now you've got me scared.

They stay inside the plane on these PR runs (I think) so should be no problem.

My ballot in on it's return trip to the US via DHL

Yes indeed, IMHO is that they are as good as others say, I flew Deluxe or Business class(depended on who was paying) two times each year for twelve years, Bangkok to the West coast USA. I never flew coach but I understand it is not all bad on EVA. Hostesses are great, food and wine is good. Pilots on EVA make their PR walkabouts about two times between Taipei and the US and me thinks the friendliest pilots around are EVA pilots.

I don't understand this discussion.  American, Thai, Mexican whatever are nationalities not birth defects.  To me, when someone says they are Mexican/American, Thai/American whatever I assume they have dual citizenship. 

My children were born in Mexico to a Mexican mother and an American Father.  They are Mexican/American becasue they have dual citizenship.. If I tell some of my Latino friends in Texas that my children are Mexican they can't understand how I can say that (and they ge3t a little upset at the insinuation)...even though these guys have never been to Mexico and call themselves Mexicans.

I doubt very seriously that Tiger denies his ancestral roots, however, with his mother still very much in his life.

Coffee!!!

Obviously, you are using the word "Mexican" to mean "Mexican nationality", while your friends use it to mean "Mexican ethnicity". Two very different things, of course.

While I one day may achieve Thai citizenship, I'd never be silly enough to call myself a Thai-American. I'd be a native-born American holding both US and Thai nationality.

The Thais also difference between "sanchart" (nationality) and "chuachart" (ethnicity). Naturalized citizens still maintain their original ethnicity (i.e., "Chinese", "Indian", etc.). Their subsequent generations (once they are born here), achieve Thai ethnicity in addition to nationality.

You "dickheads" are living too close to the edge with all this ethinic crap, get a life! Who gives a sh1t about all this, I for one sure as he11 get bored to read all this grade-school BS, crap about who is what and where they were born and what the % of who they are, and by the way, I don't give a sh1t who anyone guarded. If this is all you have to discuss please stand down as far as this member is concerned.

... this is part and parcel of riding a motorcyle anywhere on the planet, Thailand is no different than anywhere in the west....

In England, I don't see many bikes being driven on the wrong side of the road because the rider is too f***ing lazy to cross the road. Or with no lights on after dark. Or with 5 people on board. Or coming at you at any angle. Or with no helmet on the driver and passenger. Etc, etc.

Point taken RDN,

A few years back I worked with a Thai Engineer(who's father I think was Mike Tyson), one day the two of us were walking out of a restaurant and a motorcycle nearly ran us down on the sidewalk, he quickly grabbed the back of the motorcyle, brought it to a stop and confronted his countryman, as best I can remember the bike rider told him never mind and that he was only using the sidewalk for about fifty meters , So,there it is the attitude one finds about these kinds of things here in LOS. KhunAmorn (iron Mike) let the biker go and Mr. Amorn never said two words to me about that incident and I didn't ask but he should have beat the living sh1t out of the guy and burned his motorcycle..

Every day on the roads of Phuket I have a close shave, despite being alert, indicating at every and any oppertunity and keeping between 40 & 60 KMH.

I can't see how anyone who uses these runarounds on a daily basis will still be alive or unscathed a year from now and I dread the day it happens.

I taught myself to drive in Samui, three years ago and have yet to come off a bike, though in all fairness I've spent most of my Thai time in Bangkok where I wouldn't (Honda) dream of driving a car, let alone a bike.

Twice I've had rear tyres go on me which is very frightening, and the scariest of all, yet most funny to anyone watching, was the outcome of putting a folded map in the basket at the front of the bike, which the wind caught when I was half way through overtaking a cement truck.

My first day in Phuket I hit a brick and almost came off but miraculously stayed on like a skilled rodeo rider.

I'm always on the lookout for sand, potholes, opening doors, approaching veichles, oncoming veichles - the Thai's can't be trusted to look in their mirrors or indicate - what else, water, oil, bumps, insects - they can really hurt, a dragonfly doing 50 when you hit it doing 70 could puncture an eyeball - dogs, there's a killer - dogs - you have to be on the lookout for them constantly, wind also, and on top of all that you never know when you're tyre will go, you can only hope it won't be the front one.

I like my Honda Wave and I like the freedom but I feel that now matter how careful I am, I feel I am straddling my nemesis and that the price of living in Paradise is the ultimate one.

Can anybody add anything to make me feel a little better?

Hey Gent, all of these things you mention are not unusual at all for a biker, in fact if one named all of the dangerous stuff while riding a motorcycle it would take a very long post which would be a boring read, one must stay alert and expect the unexpected when riding, this is part and parcel of riding a motorcyle anywhere on the planet, Thailand is no different than anywhere in the west. Just a couple of last and very important tips, don't mess with alchohol when riding a motorcycle and wear a full face DOT-Snell approved helmet, skin will grow back(most of the time), bones will heal but the head is a different deal. Stay safe

How about updating a "Real" copy of XP on line from MS? Will they know it is a "Real" copy?  

No sweat. Just finished downloading and installing service pack #2, and I've done the updates many times in the past with no problems.

I don't think I've ever seen a real one for sale in Thailand...

Thanks Ajarn, I assume the same applies with updating a "Real" copy on MS Office on line?

A real copy? Oh, I just realized I do have a legit copy on my notebook. I've updated it a couple of times online, with no problems either...

The service pack #2 is 75 megs, so I hope your internet is faster than mine...

Thanks again Ajarn,

I was just wondering how to conduct my online updating from MS should I decide to buy some "real" stuff in the future.