jacko

Oh, must be right then.....

Yes, you must be a 'bread was a penny a loaf' man too. Beats being 'I am too young to know jack shit but still know more than you' type! As I walked down the beach rd last night seeing the hoards of tarts and katoeys I thought this didn't used to be here. Some would have had a noodle stall in the past as they have well passed their sell-by.... but are re-inventing themselves. Then I nearly fell over a prone beggar lying legless in the middle of the walkway, cup extended. Then there is the guy with the eye-patch and various bandages hunting cash not sympathy..... showing little healing as the weeks pass. Those damed touts walking backwards into you, trying to get you to look at some silly card detailing a table tennis tournament.

Sure wasn't getting up off it to get some money out. I dislike blatant scrounging........

I'm the wringer out for a one armed window cleaner.

Well I suppose I used to...... before blowing up complete strangers because you couldn't get your own way became common.

Airplane 2

Back to the police crackdown...... pattaya-city-to-bid-for-24-hour-entertainment-licence That will lose the cops money.....

It is the way of the world.... yes, it was far superior umpteen years ago. Darn before aids became popular it was all unprotected and much more fun! Was sat at an MP having a coffee recently and the one pretty young thing who had just arrived mid afternoon straight from sleep asked me to give her 20 baht for food. I told her I had to work for my money and suggested she did the same! Scrounging tart. I often sit in a fast food place and watch the goings on at a nearby gold shop, I still get a kick out of the farangs being led in there like a puppy dog. Then I was at the motorcycle place waiting for a new battery to be fitted (10 minutes means 30 here), darn they were being led into there too, they must be on the TGF stage. It's a mad mad mad place, but if yer head is screwed on... it's FUN!

I shall go with something I know, although I suspect a Coburn film for your quiz..... The Night They Raided Minskys

Interesting, but I would have said Thailand prior to reading your post. 3000 Expats who all have affiliations with HSBC is a specific demographic. But Bahrain second???????

So is ketchup and most farang types seem to like to load their plates with that. Also onion releases a lot of sweetness and probably adds to the flavour of liver and onions.

Once Upon a Time in the West.

Robert Ryan

Well the next curse is well on the way, that of outsourcing.....When the engines are being made in China, where of course cheap labour is also the norm, they will be dropping out of the sky. So many great old names now sport 'made in China'... like my Sony Ericsson phone that I thought was made in Japan or Sweden that packed in recently..... made in China.

Me too....Janet Leigh

High season coming up... it gets busy for fruit cakes.

A mate said let's go to Bangkok, it is supposed to be the sex capital of the world. And at that age it sounded like a good idea.

Anthony Perkins...

So do we pick up from Apocalypse Now ????, or Wall St.... It doesn't matter.... Martin Sheen

Agreed, but with the early onset of the cooler nights, now is quite good too!

That's a thought, have the guys who herd the Chinese tourists across beach road started to use them? I have always taken exception to these self appointed traffic police waving me to stop.

You don't come across as too smart yourself.Nothing to add other than personal insults...... ? Your post above is grammatically incorrect.

I have a good friend who has a beautiful big house located just the East side of Third Rd. I wouldn't live there for a gold pig. There is a Karaoke nearby, which hardly gets any customers, but drunken howlings persist until 4-5am many nights. Even an enjoyable evening with the beers on his upper floor terrace was spoiled for me by this background howling. I live out in the sticks but frequent disturbances are common, dogs, funerals, Buddah days (the Wat and town council has a speaker system wired all over the place). Don't expect a peaceful life retired in Thailand unless you are deaf or can afford double glazing!

New Plaza... where is that? I don't think I have ever been, so it exhibits how much of what is on the board you absorb. I mentioned Mike Tyson because I wished I was as tough as him, as you wished you were as smart as me. Flattering by the way.... even if you forgot you wrote it so quickly. As Joe says you seem to take things too seriously, perhaps too much red meat in your diet...... Regarding this rainy season thing, ready to admit you dug yourself into a hole, or that I tore you a new one?

That is the tourist's fault.... you never start to move until the light has been green for several seconds! Same as other junctions.