joekicker

You don't look crazy if you RTFT before you hit Reply. I even QUOTED the post I was replying to. Just for you, here it is AGAIN: Really? That's hard to believe, so far as your post in this thread, anyhow. As for me, I didn't infer a bloody thing. The post I replied to was NOT about one individual now, was it? It didn't imply anything, it was quite clear. Of course. So does every country - unfortunately. Tell it to Montydog, okay? .

Yeah you see this a lot in Thailand, a few times a day at least. And it's only in Thailand, no western English mother ever killed her kid. Mind you, it's not as frequent as a poster taking the opportunity for a cheap shot at the whole country for one sick act. .

Not the story. I certainly don't know all the details, but the baby-killing and airport part in general is fairly recent and true. .

That is vegetarian tourism, not vegan at all. Don't bother, everyone, posting the piercing videos, thanks a lot. For a week every year, vegetarian is everywhere, and it's quite good - and it's cooked in the dishes that cooked the roast beef and the fried chicken last week, too. In fact, for carnivores, omnivores and all people who are NOT vegan or uptight vegetarians, I'd highly recommend the right hotel buffets during vegetarian days every year. All veggies and superb, too. It's a terrific change from breaded pork, and like all hotel buffets goes on and on. .

To the OP: Thais aren't into vegan. If you really, really detest searching for things on Google, then find a Hindu temple... or probably the tailors can steer you to something vegan. Some Indians are into vegan, more than Thais for sure. Vegan joints are VERY thin on the ground. Even total-vegetarian isn't easy; you'll generally have to take the word of the smiling cook or owner of a "we also have vegetarian dishes" that he never used that wok for cooking meat, and he'll usually be lying, although he probably washes all the woks quite well. .

I've always wanted to get in between a really pixxed off and unpredictable sponsor and a crying, violent BG who's desperately trying not to lose her one chance in her whole life at security. It's long been a fantasy of mine, I'd hate to die without achieving it. So I definitely would take her and boost my chances of living this fantasy from Not At All to Quite High. .

You can always get a hello back, if you just pretty much do what you already do meeting girls. Just like anywhere, you'll get lots of "no's" and a few yesses. Be nice, smile lots, ask for telephone numbers.... just flirt like you say you already do. There's no secret to doing it, there's no stay-away screens that are any different than you already know. You should have no problem MEETING tonnes of girls, but how much progress you make is entirely up to you. .

Also, if you book in the next couple of days, and book a couple of months out, you can get Bangkok to Clark for 629 baht on CebuPacificAir.com .

I did get a larf, partly because for a few seconds I thought he was talking about some sort of new satellite mapping service that was tracking Bernanke. I just couldn't figure out what "tining" was. .

Definitely have picked up. There's a bit of cause and effect though. A LOT of Iranian refugees after the revolution, particularly Ba'hai. They got really settled in, got into business (and crime) circles. It's been an upward spiral all along, really. I'm not convinced they're a strong tourist group YET but they're growing for sure. The jewellery store guy and the truck both have quite lengthy back stories. The whole Shiite thingmy in Thailand does. The court case on the alleged truck driver was a shambles from Day One, and the defence was basically that it wasn't him, it was his evil twin brother. I have NO idea if that was the guy; the Iranians totally corrupted the entire process, from his arrest at the Malaysian border right to the acquital. If the Russians were as smart as the Iranians, Viktor Bout would be sipping cold vodka in Moscow at his debriefings. I personally think there is no doubt where that truck was headed and why. HOWEVER by the time they discovered the ammonium nitrate, body and so on -- by then, there was no way that the main bomb would have gone up. So there is some question about the efficacy of the bomb-makers. Nevertheless, I don't know anyone who doubts that the actual attempt was serious - or that there are more than a couple of uniformed Iranians who have quite a lot of knowledge about it. Personally I don't think the destination of the truck is based the coincidence of where the motorcycle accident was. I think the destination was determined from actual info. The Saudi-Iran war has spilled over quite often into Bangkok. There's a reason the CIA and KGB and others had huge stations in Bangkok.

LD, you cheapo kee-niao, very VERY well done again. I looked at it and thought WTF, but I was through it before I realised it. Very nice, thanks. But treat the natives a little more generously in the morning next time ferpetesake! .

I guess the definition of "gentlemen" ALSO has changed, otherwise there wouldn't be enough of them to fill one club let alone the coming oversupply. .

I'm pretty sure there's no beheading plug-in for Photoshop. Go find a beheading photo and also a Bernanke photo. Resize and paste the latter onto the former. Don't show us the results, thanks. .

Saudi tourists were well established in Bangkok and in Pattaya by the early 1980s. Then there was quite a kerfuffle over some Saudi diplomats and businessmen getting dead in Bangkok, plus a little jewellery theft from the palace of a prince (now the king) in Riyadh by a Thai servant - and the jewels, er, "disappeared" into some hi-so places, never to be recovered. Saudi fired 40,000 Thai workers and banned their citizens, scores of thousands a year, from coming to Thailand. It took many years for even a small Arab presence to reappear. The Iranians were just starting to be a major group coming here in the late 1970s but after the revolution they tapered off and I don't think they ever became any kind of tourist force again - although Iranian refugees became quite active in business and crime, and the TWO Iranian embassies in Bangkok were and are very active in often-nefarious political movements as well as trade. The luckily abortive attempt to blow up the Israeli embassy with a massive truck bomb in 1994. I was rather pleased that the plot failed because I lived next door to the Israeli embassy at the time. The driver had a minor traffic accident with a motorcycle about a block away, and fled on foot, leaving the truck bomb behind. .

I don't want to start a new thread, but I larfed at this, and thought this might be a tension breaker at least: Life Imitates South Park In a class presentation, Cartman delivers something that could be considered a hate speech, arguing that "Gingers" - people with red hair, freckles, and pale skin - are disgusting, inhuman, unable to survive in sunlight, and have no souls; all because of a condition called "Gingervitis". When Kyle points out that he too has red hair, Cartman says that there is a second class of redheads, the "daywalkers", who have red hair but not pale skin and freckles, and concludes that "If you think that the Ginger problem is not a serious one, think again!" while he clicks through a clip, and stops on a picture of Carrot Top. - Wikipedia summary for "Ginger Kids", aired 9 Nov 2005 Sperm Bank Turns Down Redheads - Daily Telegraph, 16 Sept .

Why? What effect does it have on the queues? Seems to me it makes queues shorter by removing a few people to the VIP line. .

GIYF. First four returns kind of get the spirit. .

Oh, c'mon, it's 2011 in Thailand, too. London's gentlemen's clubs have relinquished the name. .

You will be required to say "thank you" to the girl. Very gentlemanly stuff. .

wacmedia, what do you think? ManU got ANOTHER bad call from the refs, like they always get, on that first goal on Sunday? Just ignoring offside like that? .

There are no wild crocs in Thailand. If you see one, it's escaped its owners, and it will be picked up, dead or alive. .

I saw the replay only, so I kind of knew what was coming. What does the referee say before the bout? "Protect yourself at all times." They'll be talking about it for a long time but there's nothing illegal about it. .

Yes, I'm not sure in the REAL world it's any less secure than a safe. Very close to 100 per cent, although not exactly 100 per cent of thefts from hotel rooms are "impulse shopping" and taking what's available. Almost no such thievery, although not exactly zero room thefts involve substantial planning or tampering, lock-breaking or carrying away the safe/briefcase/suitcase/whatever. It's almost always snatch-and-grab, taking what is left out. Usually, as the Roman fellow says, what is ON the computer is more valuable to the owner than the computer. Backups, common sense, putting this briefcase in an inconspicuous place.... I'd feel as confident with this case as with a room safe. Both have their drawbacks, neither is perfect, but I can't see that a safe is better than this, particularly if you stow it. .

Really! I was thinking of regional flavours, though, when I wrote that. You can actually get extremely edible English food in many Bangkok places, brekkie definitely included - more edible for all four meals in some cases than I found in England at least. Most of Western Europe is quite well represented in Bangkok and Pattaya. German in its flavours is another one you can get regional. Spanish is tough but not impossible. I must say I've never had what I'd consider a cous-cous that was above "barely edible" though. Best one of those I ever had, mind, was in the good old days in Phnom Penh of all places - marvellous it was. And yes, they really were the good old days, poor Cambodians. If you can get a good one in Bangkok, I've not heard of it. .

Totally agree. Weirdly, Italian is the easiest - although there's also horrible, ketchup-based Italian. French is pretty easy, too. Japanese is very, very good, and Chinese of course - and there are some top-quality Korean places apart from the usually okay bulgogi joints. There are excellent restaurants of quite a lot of cuisines in Pattaya. In Bangkok it's pigout heaven. You could HATE Thai food (somehow; don't know how) and eat top-class food always from 20 countries. Regional French, Italian, American is very easy to find if you absolutely must have western. .