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I was not aware of that. Seems to me it could be a real wait for popcorn on a busy day.

Seems since the remodel that things are a little less customer friendly.

Only one place to see the list of shows with the theater and times on it and that is way of to the side.

I can hardly wait for Paragon to open they were going to have a Major Cinaplex there also. Should pretty well be able to see all the popular English ones then.

Where is Paragon opening?

And on a different note: who in the world is crazy enough to buy the drinks and popcorn sold at cinema concession prices?

Paragon, Paradox, Precipitation, Paracetamol, P-P-P-P-P-Promenada?

HD got the first letter right

Just joking HD

The only chance you have of acquiring absolute peace and solitude in Thailand, is to buy a 10 rai plot of walled off land and build a home smack in the centre of it.

Good luck with your quest.

Apache gunship or SAM battery

Don't worry, the paramotor a$$holes will fly over at sunrise & sunset

You should check the 'slingshot' topic, could give you some ideas.

Something more like this would be OK

Sanpatong market or maybe Chatuchak in Bangkok?

The only chance you have of acquiring absolute peace and solitude in Thailand, is to buy a 10 rai plot of walled off land and build a home smack in the centre of it.

Good luck with your quest.

Don't worry, the paramotor a$$holes will fly over at sunrise & sunset

I always book an aisle seat, & drink copious amounts of beer. Constantly up & down the aisles, nipping for a pee. I thought this condition was well advertised on board. I also keep exercising my feet, ankles & legs as much as possible in the confines of an economy seat.

I'm hoping that someone is going to tell us where the shop is that stocks all those cheap plastic parts that always fail first, rendering what would be an easily fixable consumer item obsolete.

We live outside of the nearest village & used to have no garbage collection. Wife convinced the Aw-Baw-Thaw to include the nearest villages in their collection routes, & include our house too. Before that, after recycling most, we were left with about 1 supermarket bag of trash a week, which every month we took to in-laws village where there was collection.

One supermarket bag of household rubbish per week (after recycling) is very frugal. Congrats on your very small environmental footstep.

That was for a family of 4. Nearly everything can be recycled or composted. Try it

I'd rather bump into Hare Krishnas than bible freaks

And what is your definition of a bible freak?

Someone attempting to push their christian religion upon others, sometimes in return for aid. examples are jehovah witnesses, missionaries. Are you one?

Hope you're not planning on marking your trails in a national park with yellow plastic. Why not use cotton ribbon, biodegradable .

Can't even begin to imagine the pain of his family, and so many other families that are faced with similar tragedy. So many of these deaths are unnecessary.

Which part of the fact the fact that the victim was female did you you not grasp?.... Delphine is a ladies name.

Am not too fussed with 'pronouns' so long as the msg is clear.

Delphine is a proper noun, and not a pronoun.

-mel.

his as quoted is a pronoun

I'd rather bump into Hare Krishnas than bible freaks

Well, I lived in a house in the government block (neighbors were all civil servants and offices like the Police station, the post office and the district office). Guess what? Right beside freshly laundered washing, the neighbor lit an unnecessary fire at night.

And kept doing it, despite loud cursing and "mai dai" shouts. The bedroom would reek all night long...

Composting works. Those leaves will turn into good fertilizer in less than a year. Just pile them high and let nature do the rest!

Likewise, maybe in 2025, Thailand will add a few booths to its borders in Aranyprethet and Nong Khai etc. Or are they all used to letting folks queue for an hour?

Welcome to Thailand: look, we are a 3rd World country - if in doubt, observe how the handle pollution and bottlenecks.

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Oh, there was trash service and the opportunity to dump into government offices' trash bins as well. But then, even the gardeners working at the post office would light a fire 7 feet besides the empty trash bins. Words fail me to describe the disappointment when on a fresh nice morning the air was filled with acrit smoke.

You must be lucky enough to have sufficient space to pile a year's worth of leaves up. Few of the houses where I live have any space around them to do that, and anyway, no space for a garden to use it.

Sound a great place to live. And anyway, if their gardens are so "non-existant" where are all the leaves coming from? Another Thai apologist & excuse maker!! Good luck in your smoke filled paradise.

You can get kid's EPL kits at Mae Sai, so probably here too. Last time I asked in Mae Sai they didn't have England kits.

Remember to look both ways when crossing the road

Expats who should know better, copying the mistakes of the uneducated locals. Unbelievable Lead by example, don't "ape" them

Go to a bar that shows the games live

We live outside of the nearest village & used to have no garbage collection. Wife convinced the Aw-Baw-Thaw to include the nearest villages in their collection routes, & include our house too. Before that, after recycling most, we were left with about 1 supermarket bag of trash a week, which every month we took to in-laws village where there was collection.

8. Last week, I was on the rooftop of the sunshine vista, in a swimming pool, with bar stools drinking Leo beer. Now I am typing on a forum with hailstone blasting at my windows in Preston drinking crap French Red Wine.

Hailstones in northern Thailand this last weekend. Cr@p red wine definitely available. Preferable to Leo

Thailand produces "GREAT" coffee ??

I take it you buy imported coffee

Wake up & smell the local stuff

Avoid near anywhere with horn speakers on poles. Avoid near schools. Check out the area early morning, late afternoon & night time for excessive noise. And return again at any other time in between for more excessive noise

you could take a bus to Thaton & then take the boat down the river to Chiang Rai. Then bus to Mae Sai & back to Chiang Mai, overnighting in Chiang Rai?

I didn't know you could get anything genuine at the night bazaar. Mind you, not been for at least 10 years. My fake adidas shirts out lasted the real deal from UK, both colour & stitching

i buy it at the milk co op on highway 11 just next to serapi -from 121 to 11 then u turn -you're there

or same thing across from the zoo where you can also buy cheese

as i said before 5 kg @ 115bt but i am not 100% sure it's raw -doesn't matter anyway

Thanks for that. Pass that place every day.