joekicker

Any tittie augmentation clinic should be able to shoot you up. It's kind of like having your whole face shot up by the dentist, so it seems anyhow. It looks like crap. Your crow's feet go away but everything else is ugly. I hope I'm never that vain.

Definitely. There are all kinds of investment visas.

Well, fair enough, frosty. But if you don't have a reason to stay here that falls in the many categories of people Thailand WANTS to stay here, then, well, you aren't welcome to stay here. Kind of like any other country, really. There are all kinds of O visa categories, and I have no idea what might fit you, if any. Immigration has the lists, they're on the web in lots of different places.

AND they don't have to. It's kind of like, well, the US Embassy's visa section. You get a clerk who's having a bad day, YOU have a bad day. Here's the deal. Thailand has real, actual non-immigrant visas for people who want to stay here. There are a whole bunch of categories. Thai authorities figure that if you actually want to stay in Thailand, you should actually have a "real" visa and not pretend you're a tourist over and over again. This is a trend and it won't reverse. Eventually, almost everyone will have three choices: Get a real visa or take a hike or be Robin Hood.

You got there after they jacked the prices up?

Ish indeed. I was only speaking of commercial shirt sales. The yellows can get very muxed ip, too, because dark yellow is also Buddhist, red is Tao, various greens are Islam and so on. The FLAGS are official and the colours on those standards are official. But that doesn't mean commercially sold shirts are official. The best you can say is they show respect. The main purpose of the coloured shirts is to make money. The king by the way MUST be a Buddhist, and thus his (flag/standard) yellow, a different shade from his Monday yellow.

Yes, supposedly purple is gay among the under-30 set in Thailand. Hell, when I was in school, if you wore yellow on Wednesday it meant you were "a homo". I guess every generation has something. I know the kids make fun of each other when they wear purple, but I don't think they take it seriously. Anyway, I suppose in Pattaya people might think you're serious. Pattaya is a pretty intensely gay place, so a lot of girls might think you're actually giving them a message. I guess. Now that you mention it, I don't much like purple so I've never actually tested this.

Well, I'd put it WAY different. There is no such thing as an "official" shirt or colour. Tom has helpfully listed the traditional/superstitious colours. Right now, the main colours of yellow and red have been hijacked by the two extremist political groups, and in Bangkok and many other places, idiots now automatically assume that if you wear one of these colours you are on that group's side. Since both sides are extremist it doesn't matter which is which, you'll get snubbed or even berated or mocked anyhow for yellow or red. In addition Light Blue (for Friday) has also become a political and controversial colour. You will get That Look for blue in many places. If you don't know what "that look" is, ask any married man. The other colours are okay, but nobody gives much of a thought to why you're wearing them because they are very minor colours, i.e. we are back at the "no official colour" again. Cross-cultural side-note of the day: Red is the colour Tiger Woods always wears when he plays on Sundays, as his mother ordered.

Up to you, but I'd put the date and time in the heading for this topic. Anyone arriving around that time will click to read it.

Good for you! I am outraged that anyone would put pictures of cute girls on a forum for... um... oh. Sorry.

You only need a one-week extension, one time, right? You cannot get more than that. In 37 days you have to be gone or be illegal.

Yes but not all of them. But then they're not all American. It's a perfectly decent place, the Lighthouse. I wouldn't rate it a "must" but it's definitely not a "miss". Pleasant, clean and pretty dependable.

What do these two statements have to do with each other? Or do you think closing a thread is like that flashing light in Men in Black and we all will forget this thread the moment it's closed? Anyway, MM doesn't close threads like that, not up to now anyhow. Take your medicine. All you've done here is pile more poop on your own head, and I suspect this new tack will show up in other threads against you as well.

Have to disagree with the reasoning here. I think you should think this from a different direction, and then reject or accept it. The main purpose of arriving 2 or 3 hours before the flight is to ensure you get on that flight. Never mind that I haven't booked a seat at the aiport for... hmmm, 10 years because of agent/online ease in doing that. The truth is that all seats depart and arrive at the same time. In the worst case, you'll get a "lousy seat" and still arrive at the same time as the people in the wonderful seats anyhow. Even shoehorned into a middle seat, you'll still get to the far-end immigration before the guy in the window seat, eh? I wouldn't arrive at the airport one MINUTE early to choose a seat. But I'd arrive an hour early to make sure I get on the flight I've spent money and time planning to last the next 24 hours of my life leading to a new place I want to go. I don't PLAN to arrive at the airport 15 minutes before check-in cutoff. But if I get a flat tyre or there is a lane-blocking accident between me and the airport, I should have time to arrive by then, in a pinch, and make the flight I have spent a fair amount of gelt plus planning time on. In fact, that hour-early airport arrival *IS* part of my planning. Compared with a drive followed by a 16-hour or 24-hour flight time (or more) and a wait for luggage and immigration followed by another wait and a drive at the OTHER end, an hour or even (horrors!) two hours sitting in the airport reading or browsing the duty-free money trees is close to nothing. My flights often involve three, four, five hours sitting at an airport in transit anyhow. If time is REALLY money, then the only way to make money is not to fly on long international flights at all. Come on. How much money do you make during the flight? If an hour of your time is REALLY important money, then save the REAL hour - the one you spent booking and planning the flight. Don't do it. Use that hour to make money, plus the day going to and the day returning. Like I say, I think you're using the wrong logic. In the end, it's entirely Up To You. But I'm the one bitxhing about the hot weather and my late-night hangover in Thailand today and you're not, so at least have a think about the revised logic.

128 is WAY slow. You will not watch streaming Internet video well with that setup. You should be able to get one MB service for not a huge amount more, and you should have one megabyte if you intend to watch video. A 10-year-old computer is perfectly capable of letting you watch Internet video. What is REALLY involved at the sharp end of this spear: 1. The Internet connection. A 512kbps is borderline and will work a good amount of the time, sort of. A 1mbps connection should be just fine. 2. The Internet connection. 3. The Internet connection. 4. The Internet connection. 5. Your computer graphic card. It should be fine on a 2-year-old machine. 6. Computer memory. 512MB should work fine, 1 gigabyte WILL always work, so long as you have a decent Internet connection. 7. A good (or excellent) CRT colour monitor or any LCD monitor. Oh, almost forgot. Your Internet connection, that's important. If you have all the above and it doesn't work really well, 98 per cent of the time or better, you may need some minor tweaking but it should be no sweat.

All of the above. What you REALLY need is a better Internet connection, your's is not very good if it won't do one video. You can also download the videos and watch them from your hard drive in many cases. YouTube is really easy to download, for example. There are eleventeen trazillion free programs to do it for you easily. In general, pausing will help. It depends on the individual service and how they stream.

Heyzeus! Don't be so anal. Again, more clearly: I have no idea what YOUR league is marcortez. But in the sense of general-you, having one airline with the lowest price makes it simple shopping for you if your league is price-only. General-you, geddit now?

Is this just another personal pot shot or do you actually not know the meaning of "you"? A pointed question might have got you what you were looking for. I don't believe I could frame your question MORE sweepingly general than it was.

Because price is only a part of choosing a flight, of course. For example, you might not want to stop over in Hong Kong, you might not want to leave at midnight, or you might think one airline's seats are better than another's. If you only choose your flight by price, then they make it easy for you - three of the four are right out of your league and you don't have to sweat a thing.

What's the use of drinking if you're just going to sop it all up with a huge plate of food?

So you don't use any protection. But you're kind of pixxed at Secrets. That's a lot of pr0n sites!

Wherever you park you want to be certain you are friends and copasetic with the folks around. If they think you've screwed with them they can... um, complicate your life. I always make sure two, three people at the site are HAPPY I'm parking there and even better if they plan to be there for quite some hours to explain what a great guy I am, and kindly to everyone. Hotel guards are good about that.

Yes, driving from Second Road towards WS. There are, what? four, five sois you can drive towards WS. I have been lucky over the years. For a while, they had a "lot" that would hold half a dozen cars max right across from Nang Nuan. Example.

Funny, I ALMOST always get one in the lots or sois off WS. I don't mind paying, mind you. If I can't get one, oh, opposite Nang Nual say, I head down to the Bayview end. If not there, well... I usually pick another place to enjoy the evening, sometimes even up top along Jomtien. If I MUST do WS and a 20-minute drive-around yields nothing, I just backtrack up to the RG and park in the garage there, or talk to the guard in a first-class hotel and get a baht bus.

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