joekicker

Never say "always". There's always an exception. It doesn't cost anything to take 15 seconds to check. It costs quite a lot if you don't check and just plug it in as the OP already did once. My question is "Why is this a thread?" .

Or the kerb. .

Look at your iPad. A sticker will say whether it can take power up to 220/240. Almost all iPads can take 220, but yours specifically says on it if this is true. So does your phone. .

Poo means crab. It's the prime minister's nickname. Big Brother Thaksin's nickname is Maew or Cat/Kitty. The nickname of the ex-prime minister born in England was Mark - repeat, that was his nickname, not his legal Thai name. When Thai kids are born, they are given nicknames, even before they are given names. The nicknames do two things. First, they sort of describe what the kid looks like: red, little, big, has western looks, short, fat, froggy ..... Second, these are mildly (repeat mildly) derogatory, because you don't want the spirits to come and take away your kid because (s)he is so attractive that you've even given a wonderful nickname like Gorgeous or Wealthy. Sometimes, parents give a kid a nickname for their own reason. Example: Mark because the kid was living in England. Example: They don't believe there's a ghost who kidnaps, so they call the kid Winner or Beauty. Sometimes, instead of a nickname in Thai, they give one in English, "Winner" again being a decent example of this, and Mark. Kids carry these nicknames for life - by family, friends and so on. Sometimes, just like westerners change their names or use different names for whatever reason, so do Thais. They want fresh luck, a new start. They assume a name for bar work, keep the old one for friends. These are examples, but it's for the same reasons, and no different from, the west. .

Thai names are often the European ones, not the North American ones. Try Ispaghula. I believe pharms have it. .

Good review, excellent recommendation. This is an old, and expanded Pattaya restaurant that serves Thai food -- not Thaiglish or Thai-western food or other bastardised slash tourist food. It also has (or had) not all that much Isan food (for example) but is very central Thai-centric. (The main effect of this, if you don't know Thai food well, is that it's not all that hot.) If you like Thai food, or if you want to delve into it, this is an excellent restaurant. If you don't know Thai food, it's best to go with Thais-plural -- the bigger the party, the better the food. .

They're having you on, having one of those "some of my best friends are" moments. IN GENERAL bars have these racist/racial policies for what they think are their own best business interests. The stereotype for "Indians" as they call them generically, hardly spend money, even sharing one beer -- but DO pester the girls to the point of torment (cf: India and "Eve-teasing"). The stereotype for Thai men, they figure will get drunk and get into fights with other customers over the girls. Many keep out Thai WOMEN because some of them will rat the place out, they are feminists. etc, etc, etc. And of course they all have anecdotes about why they "know" this and why they have barriers at the doors. There's the other way of looking at it, though. Some of those preferred farang customers in the go-gos are total prixks and models for axxhole posters. They see an "Indian" or an "Arab" and right away they want to fight him. They see a Thai (really!) they want to humiliate him. So again, the barowner can argue it is in HIS business interest to keep it segregated. I don't buy any of it, but then I don't own a Pattaya go-go either. Yeah, you run a business, once in a while a customer will not be a perfect model for you. .

This is not what the OP wants, which it how to tell someone he teaches the Latin language. It's how you tell someone to write it in "English" rather than Thai. The word for language is phasaa, as I said - your "alphabet" is the equivalent of "script" - Latin script, Thai script.... In regular spoken Thai, you'd never hear a regular person refer to it as "aksan latin" though - they'd say English or western or something like that to differentiate the alphabet from Thai. "aksan latin" isn't wrong, it's just not generally used. But it is NOT the Latin language. The word "Latin" in Thai *is* used pretty much as in English. Latin dancing, say. I must say I don't remember anyone ever referencing the Latin *language* ever, I had to get advice from my betters on that one. Turned out I guessed right but it was a guess. .

Negative. "Paasa" is the classifier that means "language". You speak "paasa angrit" or "paasa cheen" or "paasa yipoon"..... For this, I'd use "archan" (ah-jahn) for teacher. EDIT: Yeah, I've confirmed it's "la-tin" in Thai. I predict lots of people won't actually grasp it, it's not exactly the first elective in Thai primary schools, eh? If they go "huh?" just say "I'm an archan" and leave it at that. Being an archan is a good thing. .

Good one! Far as I know, the Thai for Latin languge is Latin (la-TIN, I'd guess), but I'm not actually sure. I don't think I've heard anyone refer to it. I'll ask around, try to make sure. They call a church "wat roman" but I think that's from the Roman Catholic, not the days/country/language of Rome. However. If "paasa la-tin" draws a "huh?" try "paasa ro-MAN". .

Now THAT is funny. No use mentioning my name in this thread, though. I won't be doing this on Pattaya Talk for sure. I'm grateful as heck for this forum and I'm ever so admiring of your ability to do a "month in my life" thread, but I won't ever be doing one. For my own reasons. I think everyone is interesting in his own way, though, and almost everyone who is in Thailand's a nominee in my books. Most (but not all) of the folks outside Thailand probably wouldn't interest all of us, but that would be my only line on who I'd like to see do it.. .

I can handle membership for you at a discount if you want. I can get a two-for-one membership for $1,500 Australian -- and good for life. Let me know if you're interested, I'll PM you details for you to deposit the fee. .

There's an okay roller coaster just north of Bangkok at Dream World. It's not a theme park, really, just an entertainment place. You can spend a day there, really. Time was when the Dream World roller coaster was top notch, but they've moved so far, so fast. You can google it obviously but this is a decent article. .

A world record FOUR posts before the warnings, doomsayers, etc. .

You don't suppose... I'm just idea-munching here, stream of thought sort of, you don't suppose it was, nah.. probably not. I was going to say suicide, but probably not. .

July 1997 and later was the worst of course - it went from 25 to 50 really, really fast, and then bounced around in the mid 40s for weeks, months really. It would change in minutes sometimes, "the rate" was what you got when you got to the front of the queue, probably different than when you were fourth in line. .

Never seen such a thing. If it happened, which I'm sure it has, it represents the different times you checked. Rates change all the time, every day during the week. A bank website like Siam Commercial will give you half a dozen or more rates every day. There's no way that a bank at the airport and a bank in Pattaya will be two baht different at the same time. Check out three or six Thai banks online for the rates, given by time. A bank that offered two or five baht difference within 80 kilometres of each other would go quickly broke. That's a HUGE profit for two people with phones. That's the equivalent of past-posting the gee-gees. .

No way it will ever be a "few baht difference" for changing one pound inside Thailand. A few SATANG definitely - that's why money changers are better than banks for example. But the difference between a bank here and a bank there and a money changer somewhere else is never as much as one baht per pound. .

Yes. Especially for someone visiting. It's called Tor, it's ever so easy, it works well. It *is* slow but not horrible, and there are no popups or other distractions. Just google "tor" and download the package and away you go. It can be installed as portable if you wish. .

Good advice. Someone like this will put you in touch with the right pros. A couple of nights at a driving range, a couple of days on the course - and you'll be cursing and throwing your clubs with the best of them. .

Yes, there are lots of sites where you can get exchange rates. Pattaya is not different from the rest of Thailand. MM's link is top notch but you can find your own very easily. Never. Ever. Change any money to baht in your home country. Ever. Unless your home country is Thailand of course. .

I don't understand the connection. As the noted philosopher Christiana Turner noted, What's Love Got to Do With It? .

Nope. Waited a while, to see -- definitely no notice, thank grok. .

For the record, I haven't seen one since MM's massive yet humble intervention.