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Spencer Tracy

Hmmm, if they get to him you are correct.

Well they moved the main Bangkok airport late 2006...you didn't know that? What a crock, some-times of day it would take you 40 minutes to get from Walking street to Sukhumvit! And look up the word Klang if you are unsure where central Pattaya is. From Sukhumvit to swampy airport...0 traffic lights, three lane motorway and a bypass. Two hours would be a slow journey. U-Tapao you have to go through Jomtiem, Na Jomtiem and Sattahip, 40 minutes, if you find the place, would not be much less. The guy specifically asked not to go via Manila so I am unsure why you are picking an argument with me.

The Iron Petticoat

And all the news report will vanish.........

The new airport is on the Pattaya side of Bangkok and you can get there in under 2 hours. U-Tapao isn't much less. So Cebu straight to Clark looks good. Although arrivel time at 4am isn't great.

Good point...

My Favourite Spy

He got banned, reborn, sent to purgatory and off to China he went too. My how time flies.

Once I open a pack of roasted beans I keep them in an airtight container with one of those spring loaded tops that really holds the aroma in. I only put into the grinder hopper what I need just before making my morning double...... Yes I have one of those Saeco machines that does it all automatically, sadly it has spoiled me for having coffee elsewhere! I often have one of the massage girls make me a cup of cheap instant, made with tepid water from one of those pump dispenders with little lumps of 'creamer' powder floating around like life jackets in a whirlpool... it reminds me how bad it can get! Then I go get a massage to take the memory away!

I am beginning to think that there is no longer any such thing as cheap seafood in the tourist areas..... It has come a long way since I had a large lobster, beers and other plates for $20 in Phukhet.(circa 1982). Even the little place I frequent on Sukhumvit, popular with the Thais heading home to Bangkok, has silly prices..... never used to see plates of food for 150-400 baht, per plate. I once had bbq shrimp on the beach in Prachup Khiri Khan along with mussels and rice, and I am beginning to think that was the last cheap meal. I know, I know, it would be a lot more at 'The Harbor' restaurant on the water in San Francisco, but we are talking Pattaya.

Samson and Delilah

A bit of a contradiction economically looking for draft beer and then hoping for imported stuff.

Coffee shops everywhere, damned place is looking more like NYC every day. They'll be cleaning your window with a dirty rag soon instead of trying to sell you a garland!

Applicable to my locale.....The King and I

Correct..I bought a DVD player here in LOS and was horrified to find out it was locked to region 3. I did a bit of research on the internet and there is some sequence you can do, plug it in while holding the power button whilst wearing a witches hat and standing on one leg...and presto, it is now multi region. (I have brought over quite a few DVDs from the UK which are region 2 locked). The DVDs you buy in LOS are a mix, mostly no region lock (well the cheap ones) but now and again I find one that is. My problem then is that I cannot play it on my computer... the DVD drive is region locked and rather cleverly in the firmware in a way you cannot bypass with say DVD43. It really is ridiculous that something designed to be portable and taken to other countries, like a laptop, is blocked to prevent you using some features overseas! Assholes!

Yes, they would be cheaper here and your antibiotics would be less here than on prescription in the UK. Particularly if you got them from Fascinos.

Actually called Soi Siam Country Club... the Thai name on the plate is Soi Pornpraphamit (spelling). If you come out of Pattaya on Klang, turn left onto Sukhumvit, it is the right turn at the first set of lights.

Likely only hepatitis and dysentery!

Well, I am British, so I suppose I couldn't call them foreign....

I have a feeling that if you are at the airport a few hours prior to departure the scheduled carriers will think you are desperate and gouge you.The budget carriers may offer bargains to fill 'em up!

Sex and the Single Girl.

Haha, coincidentally just what my mate has in the shower box when I go visit him up north. I had the same problem and told him to go get some Cussons Imperial Leather the sadistic twat!

Agreed.... I was discussing this with a friend only the other day...Effectively, the UK government will base their tax on your final destination irrespective of aircraft changes at points between. They are applying UK taxation to other country's flights! It is obscene.... Similar to one attempting to claim non-residency for tax purposes, they want you to confirm in writing from the country where you actually reside that you meet that country's taxation liabilities....effectively the UK government becomes the tax gestapo for other countries!!!!! When you over tax, and waste the money, reducing your tax base, you become desperate. It is early days yet but I look to some airlines to figure a way around this. So far, it looks as if I need my onward leg to be on a seperate booking!!!

A regular ADSL wireless router/modem only has an input from a telephone line... and 3/4 ethernet outputs and of course the wireless 'outputs'.I believe you would have to configure the router as a repeater. This would require you to reconfigure it with a new IP address and switch off it's DHCP server and DNS and firewall.