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3 hours ago, evenstevens said:

in the past week, been past Simon,s Place, twice , at best 3 to 4   farungs there  each time,  and on other occassions, over last 6 months or so , lucky to reach that number

its clearly lagging behind  Steak Of  The  Day  and  Company  at Maerim Plaza  in all facets of  the restaruant trade,, , i beleive he lives, above the restaruant ,which would be the sole reason ,to keep his doors open, to this point of time,  just my view only  ,I  have a number of  nosebags  in Maerim  District, who offer a better deal all round then Simon.s Place

a lovely morning to all

 

 

So ES, pray tell where there is a better ex-pat oriented pub in Mae Rim.  Of course there are proper restaurants with a bit better food, although Simon's pizza is pretty good for pizza in Thailand,  and certainly one can easily find a longer menu elsewhere.  I listed two such places in my post, both of which I prefer to Steak of the Day, but that is just my humble opinion.  And I know of many Thai places that will serve me my Sang Som soda with some good Thai food.  But, as your post suggests, where are there some hidden and yet affordable ex-pat oriented pubs around Mae Rim that we should know about that offer a better deal than Simon's? Is there another pub with decent western food (the Thai restaurant next door to Simon's has very good Thai food at local prices and Simon does not mind if you order food from there) , a pool table, playing western music, and with a multi-lingual  proprietor as affable as Simon himself?  Bless us with your wisdom.

19 minutes ago, eldragon said:

Exactly. This echos the elitist liberal attitude of "I don't care what your rules and regulations are. They're stupid and I don't have to obey them."

 

No, this has to do with contract law and the legal ambiguity of forcibly deplaning someone who had already been boarded and seated. Your contract with the airline gives the airline the right to deny boarding but does not seem to address unilateral actions taken after you are boarded and taken possession of your seat. The airlines seem to acknowledge this by attempting to buy someone out of their seat and they seek the lowest bidder for a reschedule.  It is their responsibility to make an offer that will entice someone to accept an alternative flight.  The fact that most people are sheep and will do whatever an "authority figure" demands does not make the demand legal.  And I just don't see how one's response to this situation reflects political leanings.

53 minutes ago, Dipterocarp said:

Sticking to the wording contract of carriage "denial of boarding" is a point of information a lawyer might bring up at court. But it will fail. Because passengers are involuntary deplaned after actually boarding for many reasons, in actual operations.

That passengers are involuntarily deplaned is not a legal argument. 

 

The guy is will become a folk hero just like this guy:

 

 

23 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

As usual the media is going crazy on this one !!
Dr David Dao, originally from Vietnam, lived in Kentucky 20 years .
They then go on to drag up some dirt about the guys past .

Poor guy is gonna get some compensation but his whole life story is also gonna be pasted all over the press.

 

The man will become an instant folk hero if he plays this right, regardless of his past. As of today no airline in the US will ever forcibly remove a seated passenger for reasons other than security or health.  The airlines of course will continue to deny boarding to anyone for any reason they want.

1 hour ago, Dipterocarp said:

Wrong, passengers can be removed for any operational necessity.

 

Again, I have only seen wording noting the denial of boarding , and that without even to have any justification.  But although there maybe something in the fine print somewhere, I've yet to be shown anything about removing an already boarded and seated passenger apart from security or health.  This will head to the courts for final determination, perhaps to determine whether operational necessity goes beyond the necessity of the flight in question.  But the real question is whether the clear right to deny boarding can be retroactively applied to those already boarded and seated.  Whose to say that United didn't just go Thai to get some favored VIP somewhere for a party?

From what I have read the airlines have the right to deny boarding but have no right to remove a passenger once boarded and seated apart from a passenger presenting a security or health risk. The man had every right once boarded and seated to remain in the seat. It is little different than a store mistakenly selling a product for the wrong price and then demanding the product back after accepting the payment.  The police had no right to interfere on behalf of a corporation involved in what, in my mind, had become a contractual dispute once the passenger was boarded and seated.  I do hope this guy takes both United Airlines and whatever agency employed the security officer to court.

The Plaza as a whole is not prospering, other than Tuesday market night, with a better daily food market north of the town center.  Even the dentist shop relocated.

 

The breakfast place across from SOTD might have succeeded if it wasn't for the bad service. Simon's place attracts a wide variety of folks ranging from teachers at Prem, families, a few Thais in to play pool, and yes, a few regulars who may drink a tad too much at times, but it is by far the best ex-pat oriented neighborhood pub in the area.  Simon's has good and affordable food and drink.  It also fortunately repels the ilk of ES.  For dinner, both the Pansawan and the Chez Phillipe (off the 3009) offer some of the best deals for western food in Mae Rim in a restaurant setting.

For those of you who are too young to know much about WWII here is some Nazi ideology. Can you see the parallels with current Israeli thinking?

Plenty to criticize with Israeli policy, but no, as one who is old enough, I see neither parallels to Nazi ideology nor any evidence of ethnic cleansing, the claim that invalidates the UN report.

 
spread at Superrich HQ for the US$: 0.2 - 0.3%
spread at any Bank: 3% at least.
 
Assuming you change 1.000$, that would be 27-28$ you get more from Superrich

From what I find online the current difference between Bangkok Bank and Superrich is 40 sataang. If both were within walking distance I would walk to Superrich. But if the bank was within walking distance and Superrich was not I would not hesitate to exchange at the bank all other considerations being equal.


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On 3/8/2017 at 6:33 PM, yogavnture said:

I never use the atm anymore.   but the question is how much money would I save on 1000 dollars exchanged. if I get 1 baht more per dollar...hey that's 1000 baht!

I have found that the differences between any of the money exchanges and banks tends to be measured in sataang and not in baat. Thus, for me, convenience outweighs exchange rates for amounts in the $1,000 range.  But I go to Superrich, or its local competitor, before my local bank because I can get in and out in a few minutes whereas my local bank it can easily take up to 30 minutes. Now if I was exchanging serious amounts of money then I would shop around for the best rate.

In my neck of the woods in the US it is not the insurance companies behind the traffic cams but the municipalities and the great funder of the companies that run these camera operations, Goldman Sachs. It only cost about $10,000 to install a camera and, to simplify matters, let's say the fine is $100.  The municipality splits the money with the operator. So the operator received $50 per incident and pays for the install after only 200 tickets. At only one ticket per day the operator pays for the original investment of hardware after only six months.  Where I am at,the average camera tickets 10 incidents per day and the fine is $125. Goldman-Sachs knows a goldmine when they see one.

 

Insurance companies here are only marginally impacted here as they are usually not able to raise rates as it is not registered as a "moving violation". 

 

But here in the US most tickets are issued to very good law abiding drivers for trivial offenses such as going 25mph in a 20mph school zone when no children are present or not coming to a complete stop, AKA California stop, at a red light; trivial in the sense that there are trivial numbers of accidents resulting from such "offenses". In Thailand there are far greater numbers of drivers who are just bad drivers combined with a police force that is loath to stop cars so perhaps using these cameras is a good thing.

18 months for murder?  How is justice being served?  What signal does this send to others in the same position?

It is akin to judging a policeman for murder for making a bad decision. We arm police and we arm soldiers and then send them into situations that we ourselves avoid. We attempt to train them but often the outcomes are not what was desired. The system failed as much as the individual. Justice is not served by placing the entire onus on the individual. As for the signal, the signal remains clear that there will be consequences unless you think 18 months in prison is inconsequential. I imagine the threat of 30 days in jail is enough to modify most actions of posters here.

I suggested you ride a CRF as my map shows an unpaved section north of the 4059, north of Wang Kaew. Double check over at the GT-Rider website and get the GT-Rider map of the area. I have never heard of anyone heading north at Wang Nua on the 120 to get anywhere, but new paved roads are always being built, so maybe there is now such an option.

You read one poll and you get one lot of "statistics" then you get another and another "alternative" lot of statistics.  So just choose which one you want to believe and off you go! Rant away!!

Yes, quite the imposition to require some critical thinking when reading something linked online such as who are the authors, what is the source, and actually reading the "about us" page on a website. Because we all know that there is so little difference between say the BBC and Breitbart for those unwilling to be critical in their thinking.


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What a wonderful distraction to deflect attention away from the looting of the nation by the ruling oligarchy, including Trump. Wait until he lowers taxes on corporations such as he himself owns under the lie that this will expand the economy. And after this immigration brouhaha subsides it will be guns, or abortions, or where transgendered can piss. Anything other subject other than a focus on the class war against labor and the rest of the middle class.


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How do you folks expect to grow a fruit that has a soft skin, grows at ground level, and is attractive to just about any pest imaginable? Unless a strawberry is certified organic one can assume it contains toxic chemicals. Fortunately most of us don't really eat that many strawberries and, living near Samoeng where strawberry fields seem to go on forever,, most of the Thai strawberries are just too easy to decline.


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So if the term for progressives is snowflakes, then what should term should be used for the others? 

Proud to be called a snowflake by these cornflakes.



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Schultz, the traitor who sold the Sonics, deserves an ignominious end. Who he hires is irrelevant. Several times a year I enjoy pissing on the wall of his Madison Park estate. Locally in the Seattle area we call his establishments "Charbucks".


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From 76th place to 101st place!?!

Chaiyo....Chaiyo....Chaiyo!!!


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I doubt Putin will give him a hard time so early. Set him up.

Personalities like Trump are the bread and butter of intelligence professionals like Putin. Putin was handling Trumps when he was still a low ranking KGB agent.


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Right on Trump.Make the liberals pay for their stupidity. Can you imagine what would happen here if Pattaya declared itself a "Sanctuary City" ?

Pattaya is already a sanctuary city for the losers, criminals, and assorted other scumbags fleeing their lives in the west.


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There seem to be two leading correlations with deforestation. One is the presence of a Royal project , often near a Mong village, with an increase in intensification of vegetable farming. The other is the intensification of corn growing monoculture. The Royal projects trend towards agricultural diversity and now often include organic farming practices. But to put into perspective, Thailand is not doing anything different than western countries such as the US and Europe in replacing forests with crop production.


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who is to blame for the widespread corruption here then? Some might say the the entire officialdom exists only because of a corrupt and illegal take over. 

Well we have an invasive minority that set up Thailand as entrepreneurial colony focused upon extraction of natural resources and capital. They then intermarried with the pre existing elite that kept the majority of people under a feudal type of slavery. And you wonder why their spawn are so uninhibited by theft and corruption and the veneration of venality?


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Looks like they still, after eight years, have no replacement plan.

But say hey, why spend money on healthcare when you can spend it a symbolic wall.


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Just trying to make sure whether an android TV box purchased and programmed here in Thailand will work in the USA. Are there any technical issues I should be aware of?

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