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OK for me, on a not-so-fast Thai connection. Did you click on 'Map' with the same black-screen result. Check what Joekicker said above. Browser? If you are using IE7, try Mozilla Firefox, you will be glad for several reasons.

Thick skinned, intelligent and eloquent. You will be okay. Thailand is a free society, and that includes letting them make their own mind up about foreigners. It also allows them to behave accordingly without fear.Many laws protect the indigenous population. Thai people people look to family first, other Thais second and have lots of opinions down from there. Try to change those opinions. But they love money.... know that and use it. I have to go back to the UK soon (white and UK born), yet I feel more discriminated against there. As someone posted above, I can't even open a taxi company without being victimised and attacked in the UK. I get the impression you come from a privelidged section of society in the UK.

Limited to 30K, current interest rate 1%. Chances per £1, 1 in 36,000.If you are a UK taxpayer, http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/s...-interest#fixed

A Nokia N93 or N81 (for example) uses MPEG-4. FLV is used on FLB videos according to Frosty. Format Factory seems to cover this... http://www.pcfreetime.com/

Boy was I glad to get that off my laptop. Slowed everything down, was cumbersome to interface with and cost money to boot! AVG (Free) + SkyBot S&D have since served me well, for free.

Are you Indian or British?Anytime you might pop into the FLB, you would likely find BMs who would be quick to socialise. There are also quite a lot of Go-Go bars very popular with British of Indian descent. The few that discriminate are that, the few. Welcome to Pattaya!

Which is kinda what 'launch' means to me, rather than a light bulb going on somewhere in a Seattle office.

Full price for you Tom, can you handle the mystery amount +10%

Saudi couple, Ahmed and Layla, preparing for their wedding, meet with their Mullah for counselling. The Mullah asks if they have any last questions before they leave. Ahmed asks, "We realize it's tradition in Islam for men to dance with men, and women to dance with women. But, at our wedding reception, we'd like your permission to dance together." "Absolutely not," says the Mullah. "It's immoral. Men and women always dance separately." "So after the ceremony I can't even dance with my own wife?" "No," answered the Mullah, "It's forbidden in Islam." "Well, okay," says Ahmed, "What about sex? Can we finally have sex?" "Of course!" replies the Mullah, "Allah Akbar! (GOD is great) Sex is OK within marriage, to have children!" "What about different positions?" asks the man. "Allah Akbar! Mafi Mushkila (no problem)," says the Mullah. "Woman on top?" Ahmed asks. "Sure," says the Mullah. "Allah Akbar. Go for it!" "Doggy style?" "Sure! Allah Akbar!" "On the kitchen table?" "Yes, yes! Allah Akbar!" "Can I do it with all my four wives together on rubber sheets with a bottle of hot oil, a couple of vibrators, leather harnesses, a bucket of honey and a porno video?" "You may indeed. Allah Akbar!" "Can we do it standing up?" "No, absolutely not!" says the Mullah." "Why not?" asks the man. "Because that could lead to dancing''

I have had something similar here, booking via a UK website that might or might not, have been Orbitz. I was trying to book a biz class fare, and when I looked at the booking (prior to hitting the pay button fortunately), noticed the class. At first I thought the mistake was simply a wrong class field in the booking, and that I would get Biz.... but I wasn't prepared to take that risk. I guessed it to be a software glitch, either with Orbitz or the airline. This is not a mispriced product on a supermarket shelf where you can insist you pay the sticker price. Orbitz point at AA. they will point back to Orbitz. Go elswhere, at least they let you cancel without charge. The idea that an upgrade will be offered (perhaps, if available and nobody else wants it) is not First Class and you are correct to say it is dishonest. Don't risk a coronary.

Nice to hear sympathy for all of us who have lost 30% of the value of our income in baht terms, and 100% of our income from account interest.

That comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek MM, hitting the reset button or powering down was ''fix-it, step 1' in my old world too. It has worked a few times for me now. Other than getting a new IP address and refreshing the DNS I can't figure it. More essentially, why does it specifically affect your board, as I speedtest quite well to a server in the West Coast USA. My old fault-finding mentality says we are looking at a couple of problems coming together. Maxnet seem to be up to something!

Since you don't fly a flag, nor state anything, we all have to presume you are flying from the UK by the use of £. If also you originate in London, you can do better than Jet at that price. Eva fly direct and cheap!, Your July date probably bumps prices, A quick look here...http://www.westeasttravel.com/ Found...flying on Jet??? Bangkok £201 Economy 11 Apr 09 - 30 Jun 09 London Heathrow 09 May 09 Bangkok £225 Economy 01 Jul 09 - 15 Jul 09 London Heathrow 09 May 09 And Eva... Bangkok £335 10 Apr 09 - 10 Jul 09 28 Aug 09 - 09 Dec 09 London Heathrow 15 Jul 09 Bangkok £365 11 Jul 09 - 27 Aug 09

I'm not in the UK.....

I thought I suggested the ADSL router/modem reset in my first post! I just has the same problem again, so I tried a couple of speedtests... I got really great resuilts (from LOS to both UK and West Coast USA) and most other sites were really fast. Pattayatalk just left me waiting, A UK proxy server got me in but again I couldn't post, only read. So the modem/router got reset, and I am in.... Back to the shitty speeds though..... Edit Later... My speed has picked up again... Pretty good considering to UK at 9pm LOS!!

Fair point Tom, presented with slight Papillon tones.

So the original schedule incorporated about a years delay between current point and delivery with an 'IF'?????????

Emails are easily 'forged'....I often receive one or two, that appear to come from a friend, in reality they have just cloned his ID and are using his contacts list. The only option I can think of is to 'Show Full Headers'.......and if you can make any sense of the gobbledygook that appears..... clever man!

Tom, the ping and tracert just try to find the route .... you open a command prompt or dos environment and give it a try. I am not using a proxy myself and able to work with pattayatalk now. Don't go thinking of me as an expert, MM has a better idea by far!

Yeah ping doesn't seem to get past my modem/router as I tried to ping a few bangkok servers. I switched off my router/modem firewall and got a bit further with a ping... Reply from 209.58.96.109: TTL Expired in Transit..... That IP says it is in Bogota, Colombia which has really confused me, and scared me a bit. Firewall back on!

Thanks Tom would appreciate the feedback. Saw the Non-Imm O offered by a few visa outfits here in Pattaya. A change of rule as always were 'only from home country' in the past. I am wondering if they are just offered as a route to the retirement extension, for those who came in with a waiver or tourist visa?

ping timed out. tracet just get a load of 'request timed out' after mygateway. So no further than my front door? Perhaps my router/modem blocks such commands? (Surprising since I can now access Pataya Talk) TTTMaxnet in Pattaya looking suspicious.

Not old enough to get a retirement extension Mick?I see Non-Imm O is available from neighbouring countries now (Laos and Penang), have to be asking if multiple is available....... I hope to get 15 months out of my current one, but that would take me to Dec/Jan, no way I want to fly to UK in winter, so may look to get a Non-Imm O from one of the above.

Convenient for Soi Bhua Khao, but beter be home before X-Cyte starts to empty and the OK Corral show starts!

As I said the proxy got me in, but was slow, full of extra adverts and I couldn't post anything, even edit an old post. Reset on my router seems to have sorted it, but still slow. I think Joe mentioned that a new provider will be coming on-line soon, True or not!. I also notice TOT and TTT are making some good offers lately, perhaps trying to lock you into their crappy service for a year...... rather than have you change ISP. I noticed the ADSL modulation type changed on my service not long back, now ADSL_2+. I had high hopes of a better service but alas. Thanks for the feedback Tom!.