ManilaLover

This is sad really. Mental health care is almost non existent in this country. This the first time I heard that there was a Ministry of Mental health. This kind of pop psychology is something you might see in a magazine.

Agree.

I suggest before they launch such 'mental health tests' let them start with some serious IQ tests for those who call themselves 'psychologists' to avoid this kind of infantile solutions that make a big laugh of this country !

My gosh what a level...

What was the entrance fee for whiteskin man ? I heard Thais pay 50b while whiteskin have to pay 400b. For me reason enough not to go, I avoid any racistic scam places because I hate quarrels with those dumb peps, though it seems you can get in for free via the backside.

I like Doi Nonghoi a lot, road of the road Maerim - Samung, can't get enough of that trip, best by motorbike, also great is Doi Suthep per 4x4 and down via the backside ending up at Hui Tong Teaw lake.

Maybe your noticing a disturbing trend about me, but I was a Makro the other day buying supplies to stock my family's restaurant business.

We needed about 50kg of potato which is usually never stocked to that level in the produce section. However there are boxes of potatoes packaged into 10kg boxes stacked up 6 high in 8 sets off to the side.

We usually like to hand pick our potatoes as we are looking for a specific size. etc etc etc

Your wife sounds like pretty arrogant 'towards the lower class' and clearly wearing the pants.

If in the Macro they sell potatoes per 10kg box with a bandage around it it's not normal indeed to open this and choose the ones you like...

How totally arrogant and selfish !

(and giving them a lot of extra work)

You are wrong... ice or no ice, the amount of coke is measured... They just press the button and coke fills your glass according the usual automatic calculated measure set (i used to work at Mc Donalds when I was student)...

However... usually nice guys would have filled to the top with the manual button (like 95% of the guys are doing).

Things must have been changed since you where a student, I always ask for coke with a little bit ice, they just fill it up until it's full no big deal.

Few times I joked and took a big sip and asked them to fill it up again, no problem

...Four year od ? abused ? are we sure the parents not stting up the teacher for a pay-out? All done b4.lets follow up and wait what comes next.

Right, and why the woman waited 5 months with informing the police, the guy made some mistake but they had some financial agreement until the guy got broke so actually thy care more about money then about their kid ?

The guy just helped the boy with peeing, like parents sometimes do, and someone saw it ?

If you ask me the guy does not look very innocent and neither he looks like a teacher, but there's a strange smell on this story.

1 BHT of gold.....

Joking aside my little girl has just turned ten and she was over the moon with a digital camera or as many other people have posted a bike is another great gift.

Gold for a nine year old ?

Dumb rule but not worth losing face over. I would have asked how much to fill it to the top and paid that amount or done nothing at all.

They are allowed to institute any policy they want with regard to selling their beverages. If they wanted to fill every cup 20% full if it had ice or not, they could do that. People could then decide whether or not to purchase their beverages.

Only sheep accept crappy service and scammy policies, and I'm not interested nor disturbed by the 'loosing face hoax'

A: If I order coke I pay for coke not for ice

B: If the fries box is not full they can top it up

C: If fries are cold I want new ones, not fried up ones

Simple

Don't come with American Barbie or Kitty crap nor with ipods, phones or other electronic garbage, a bicycle is the coolest give af all, but learn her (how) to maintain it, keep it clean, store it inside, grease the chain etc. If it does not have a ringer get one !

Most kids here don't understand the value of a bicycle and it rots away within months (not the kid but the bike)

Anything with Hello Kitty stamped on it.

Oh no . . . wait. That's for 30 year olds.

Agree

What eats the bamboo is a PANDA!! Sorry, couldn't resist.....

Seriously...what does in most bamboo is a small borer beatle that usually comes with the bamboo and will multiply once it is cut. It inhabits the sweet hollow of growing bamboo and matures as the bamboo matures. hard to treat it because it inhabits the insides.

Panda's are indeed a problem here but I have pest control who come spray every two weeks.

Harry Pottery ?

you needa hold those peeps on a short line for sure.

Usually it happens in Mc. Donalds where they give you just a half filled box of fries, not hot enough, fried up for the 2nd time and a coke that's 70% just icecubes.

I've never had any problem with the fries and the Cokes are huge and cheap. Who cares if they use a lot of ice?

When you pay for a coke you can call it stealing when it's 70% ice and only 30% coke, that's fooling sheep and I don't wish to support that mentality. Beside that 'plastic bag with sirup' coke from McDonalds is way cheaper to produce then bottles and cans so it's double stealing.

Same with toilet tissue, ever mentioned that they invent bigger airbubbles all the time ? (now even MORE SOFT for your sore a$$ !!!) rolls getting shorter but not cheaper. Cadbury chocolat bars getting more expensive but smaller every few months, packages of many products getting smaller but the price never goes down.

Naieve people in a culture where complaining is not done are very easy to fool by the industrial mafia and I'm not gonna support that !

More respect for the fried chicken cart opposite AUA at sundaymarketstreet where they sell pretty large chunks of fried chickenbreast for only 5 bath.

Out of curiosity, which fine portrait of the king of pop did you settle for?

Perhaps this one

or this one

or...

or perhaps this one ?

?

Agree I would do the same, you needa hold those peeps on a short line for sure.

Usually it happens in Mc. Donalds where they give you just a half filled box of fries, not hot enough, fried up for the 2nd time and a coke that's 70% just icecubes.

Most easy to tell them in advance you want HOT fries, and naam keng nidnoi.

When you ask for salt AND mayonaise stick up one finger for both, or they remember just salt. Many are so pre-occupied with themselves and their hard job and never learned to use their ears.

The good ones though I treat very polite and respectful like years ago I did to every Thai.

Visit the live music bar opposite 'Heaven Beach' talk with the rasta's & other alternativos playing there every nite.

Moonmuang Road @ Tapae gate > go along with the traffic 200m > left into the Rawiti Road > before the traffic lights the last soi on the right side.

Opposite the trainstation is a very interesting shop with professional stationery/office/art supplies.

Go into the street where's the entrance of the trainstation, go on for a 80 meters or so after the trainstation building, there it is on the right side. It looks a bit messy from the outside.

The girl might also appreciate ML Lego or MJ Playmobil, eventually you can buy her a 'Build Your Own MJ Set' with different spareparts like eyes, noses (one for every day) etc. very realistic !

I think it would be dishonest not to point out an obvious error like the one mentioned above. Taking something without properly paying for it is a form of stealing. I don't think it is anything worth bragging about. On the contrary, it's shameful.

What planet you come from ???

Sounds very 'black stockings & hat' / 'cart pulled by a horse'

Inside the CatLuang/warorot marked in the 4 story building/ basement there is a shop with a huuuuge collection of posters in all sizes.

How to explain, from 7Eleven corner take the first entrance into the building, when inside the building take 2nd or 3rd lane on the left, there is the poster shop. They sell only posters so easy to find.

Today I paid 400b for a 4 gigabyte Kingmax USB stick but remembered the pricetag showed 390b.

It took 20 minutes (<deleted> I'm waiting so long for 10 baht refund) but then I got my 400b back following their 'wrong pricing= product free policy'.

Not the first time but 'best buy' so far ! It's really worth double checking the prices when checkout

Tomorrow I'm gonna buy a couple of motorbikes

(when accidentally correct priced I just return them)

Some 80 year olds are still 'with it' - although more have lost the plot.

If he's still 'with it', he needs to change his PIN and find a girlfriend to look after him, whilst NEVER disclosing his PIN. If he gives her a good monthly income she'll look after him and make sure nobody rips him off, in the hope she'll eventually inherit.

If he's seriously forgetful, paranoid etc. he needs to go home.

Would be even better to have/get an extra local bank account to automatically lock small amounts for daily life to that one, when he really depends on someone to ATM for him at least he can give only that card and not the one receiving the main income !!!

Inform the bank of possible suspicious transactions, they will immediately block the atm card.

Apply for a new atm card at the same time and find a safe new place for him without roommates with Thai girlfriends, after all if they never help him they are useless right !

He should have some mature people around him he can rely on when he need help, a good guesthouse for example. And make appointments with few people to keep an eye on him and help him with shopping.

Where is this btw ? Perhaps useful if you tell what city it is because locals have more ideas. Does that guy have any good contacts/ friends ? If not, it might be good to 'resocialize him', take him on a trips etc. Create a weekly meetingday for old expats.

I still have the idea to start and manage an elderly expats care home somewhere in the mid-south but out of funds right now.

Are you sure ?

I like to lick toes but never mentiones this

What do the reds have to offer in compromise? That they will stop hurling toxic body fluids if they get their way?

Compromise? They have offered zero, zil, nada for a compromise.

They did ask that the government to stop slandering them, of course, not even a compromise for their own malicious speeches which PM Abhishit is suing them for.

Nothing but a bunch of clowns.

This goes must further then just clownesk behaviour, messing around with human blood even by monks... they suddenly start showing very evil sides of themselves... scary.

It's so pervert what they doing and way beyond 'normal' hooliganism. Though most are just little red sheep who follow the masters orders, so they better find something more drastic then 'peace agreements', when His Honourable Mr. T eventually would accept a 'peace agreement' and stops his sick terror the current gov will suffer total moral faillure and guess even looses it's last legitimacy to stay in 'power'. As long as gov let reds play freely and disturb the countries peace just on behalf of T, T will win attention, strategy and momentum.

When all effort keeps going to surviving and staying in power and not even time for efficient reigning a country what future to expect ?

Without reds and yellows power struggle already so much to improve ! Funny or better sad sad to know how things function the same on whatever level.

If I would be president I would form two football teams, the reds and the yellows, build a beautiful stadium for them called The Peace And Progress Stadium and suddenly they would remember they both are Thais and have so much fun together and laugh about the insane times when they hated eachother.

Or this might continue for years, if not actively then slumbering.

Forget it, it's lost time, effort and emotions. Do you really believe they are waiting for your comments and suggestions and will pay any attention to it ? 'why farang want makmak... hungry let's go eat'

Wanna change a system that cannot be changed even by the managars from whatever level ?

Accept it now or one day, to enjoy Thailand without too much hard time we have to, but it can give mixed feelings sometimes I know.

They disconnected me several times because forgot to pay in time, I do the same as Thais do: carefully stick the cable back into the meter by yourself and go pay the bill.

Spend time on the good things !