joekicker

Welcome to 1972. .

Don't flatter him. .

Oh jacko stuff a phuocking sock in it. At the start, I was discussing TQ in my mind, not really following the OP. .

That's why I put three dots. Look. Arguing that "they are tough" as the MERIT of a sport is... whoops, almost launched a personal attack there. But isn't that the point of sports? If they're not tough, what's their value? On a serious note, they certainly are. So are gridiron football players. So are hockey players. So are FIELD hockey players. I wouldn't argue that rugby isn't tough -- of course not. But I'd point out that like all sports, there are very, very special safety rules, and in rugby they include about how you can (and cannot) tackle, for example. That's why more people are injured playing top-notch US football than in rugby because of those different rules. But one isn't tougher than the other, it can't even be measured. No uncommitted player can compete in top-notch sports of any kind. As for diving, well, I suppose water polo players don't, hahahaha. But in professional versions of so-called "manly sports" they dive all the time. Including in rugby. Why not just ENJOY the sports you enjoy competing in or watching? Why does yours have to be bigger than mine? How does it boost your ego that your sport is "tougher" than mine? So what? It's like saying Thai food is BETTER than French -- when it totally depends on how much YOU enjoy it, and me. .

You can always try something like this of course, and even stream it to your TV. I've never liked these sites because they come and go, and because you have to download their software, who knows what's in it? .

In my misspent experience, they're all cum beds. .

Apart from the slow Thai service and other issues, the problem is that this is one sport, for a few months. A sports channel offers a lot more. ASN had hockey and Nascar for example. If you start getting stuff sport-by-sport the costs really start to mount pretty quickly. For the moment, I'm going back to my old solution, which is staying away from live scores, and getting games by Torrent or download. I watch a day, maybe two later.

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Yes, definitely it was TQ at the beginning. I don't know... just segueing, I guess. .

Sorry to hear that, but it does explain a few other sort-of weird posts of the past. .

I'll pass this on to boxers, wrestlers, lacrosse players, UFC camps, muay thai trainers ... .

I'm sure in my mind it was the first. That's no guarantee of course, heh. I think the next one was BJ's place (Super Star???) up soi BJ from his open-air bar on Walking Street, as it's now called. But after TQ, there were, oh, four or five that opened around town within a year. .

Yes, I never carry a wallet, and my money and a couple or four ID cards just go into whatever pockets are available. I honestly don't recall any problem, other than the usual one of finding myself without money at some point. .

That's a black day for me. Because I well remember when it opened! Today's reminder of my age, yucko. I wasn't there the first night by any means, but I was there the next weekend. The whole idea of Patpong bars in Pattaya was a shock, a game-changer. Much talk of banning it, or at least not allowing any more to open. I admit that at the time I found it a little distasteful to have everything that in-your-face in Pattaya. But evolution is exactly like xhit and it happens. .

A-for-American, as in North American sports network. Real hockey, baseball, gridiron football and so on. Men's games, pretty much, neither chickified nor mob-ruled -- yet. .

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Yeah, via Internet is even harder than in-person. The Bank of Thailand resides in about 1937 - loads of paperwork, carbons and so on. I think some of their junior clerks have heard of the Internet. Seriously, Bank of Thailand is very conservative and likes to keep track of baht-to-foreign transfers in some detail. It's not that you can't do it, but it can be very ponderous. A lot of people agree that the best Internet banking is Kasikorn (Thai Farmers). I don't have much info on their Thailand-to-abroad, though. I THINK you'd have to make arrangements with the bank (in person) to be able to do Internet transfers outbound, and even then they might be limited. Sorry I don't have more info, but I always let the bank do the paperwork on outbound stuff and they wire it for me. .

Nope. You can walk in and send it off, no problems. I do it often. HOWEVER. You have to live in Thailand - generally speaking. There are lots of exceptions. Your best bet, if you only are visiting, is Western Union or something of that sort. Banks are tedious, take lots of paper and so on. That's because it's not actually the bank that's doing it, but the Bank of Thailand (central bank) and you are technically (behind the scenes) changing money. All Thai banks go through the same rigamarole. However, every bank branch is different, and in Thailand everything is negotiable. One bank might send money for you, another will grumble, the third will refuse, etc, etc. .

Then he is not a vegan. Not too smart, either, if he thinks pesticides and fertilisers disappear in the COOKING part. Dear Mr Faux-Vegan: They disappear in the washing, or they don't disappear. Eating only vegetables so often seems to dull the brain and make you fantasise about health. Remember poor Linda Eastman and how vegetarians didn't get cancer? The natural toxins in veggies that will kill you deader than a hammer will disappear in the cooking, not the fertiliser. Ever notice how many people died this year of bean sprouts and cantaloupe as compared with, say, burgers? They didn't die from the pesticides. As you just wrote right in this post, it is almost impossible, exactly because of "a splash of fish sauce". You're a vegan or you're not. A vegan who is not too strict is a vegetarian, not a vegan. Or maybe an omnivore like normal people if he doesn't mind a splash of beef juice on his tofu. And ultimately, with all their stories about pesticides and special solutions, they are some of the most boring and annoying people on the face of the Earth. Better you than me having lunch with this boring person, Evil. Yucko. .

Yep. It's on! Phuket is booked out. Get braced for the pierced people pictures. Yeah, you always can get dishes with veggies, there's no problem -- unless you are a PICKY vegetarian, as in "you can't use a wok or a bowl that ever had meat in it" and so on. That's tough. And picky-vegan is very, VERY tough. But if you just really like veggie dishes all the time, and if you like tofu, Thai cooking is very, very good at that. And this week it's terrific. .

No. nid's version (which is correct I believe) is that she met her boyfriend who flew from LHR. Not her - him. Whoops, sorry MM, your's didn't show when I saved mine. .

Foreign cigarettes bought duty-free or otherwise legally in Thailand don't generally come from the original country. Mostly, they are from Malaysia (Virginia) and Philippines (US). They are, indeed, for those used to the originals, xrap. That's why the black market does so well. .

Um. Let me see... Oh, right, I remember, it was because the poster I was properly ridiculing had a proud English flag, that's why. If he'd had a Slobbovian one, I would have said Slobbovia, PRECISELY because this sad spit happens worldwide. And PRECISELY because I was the poster who confirmed the event of the OP happened in Thailand. .

And the story about a Pattaya BG says something to you about all the uneducated Pattaya bar girls. That's what I asked. .

Pretty hard for bleeding heart agencies to compete with drug stores selling them for 20 baht. So far as teaching, there are several very, very excellent bleeding heart agencies doing just that - which is why birth control is OTC, no bleeding heart agencies necessary at that stage. I have no idea what "the uneducated BGs in Pattaya" have to do with one woman killing her baby. Or do you agree with Montydog that this is a huge national problem? .