joekicker

The question wasn't whether someone could rob the bank or many of its accounts, since the obvious question is obviously "yes, obviously". The question was whether accounts are safe/insured in Thai banks, and the answer is that when a bank goes broke, you get your money. There has NEVER been a case of accounts collapsing when Thai banks collapsed, unlike in many western countries such as Britain and the US -- where thousands HAVE lost their savings in bank collapses until very recent (in history) government-backed insurance schemes. If someone uses your ATM card or online info or does a good cheque forgery or otherwise manages to get into your account to drain that account, tough bananas, yes, same as anywhere. .

No one has lost their money in a Thai bank since... well, Creation. .

Welcome to the board. My favourite was always WTTGF. .

Every so often this forum software or MM's ISP or .... or who knows? drops a message from a very different forum in here. .

A tangent to this line. Scientists have proved that Roberto Carlos' 115-footer against France in 1997 was no fluke. By firing plastic balls into a tank of water, the boffins showed that if a football's spin speed remains constant, "its trajectory follows an exponential spiral", with the bend "surprisingly" increasing as drag slows the ball down. .

There are no new posts for you because you aren't (yet) authorised to get into the forums, where the new posts are. As said in your other thread, send a personal message to MM, he's the HMICC, head man in complete charge. After he sees your request to participate, and he's happy about it, you'll see lots of posts. Welcome to the board, but it may take a day or so to actually get into it. .

Nah. Still waiting for you to quote me saying it's flat impossible to get universal voltage in the US. .

I think we've switched the discussion to a different kind of DVD player. You don't buy those for 700 baht in Big C. And I can actually grok that kind. We started talking about the ones you plug into TV sets and don't have a screen. .

Oh good, finally. I've been waiting for someone to explain why you've bought one of those to carry it to Thailand for one week in a Pattaya hotel room. I can't think of a reason why, and the OP seems to have taken all the info given to him and absconded. So why would you? I mean EVEN if it has 220V unlike most US players and EVEN if it connects to PAL TVs in Thailand unlike many US players - why did you (or why would you) take it for one week in Pattaya? .

Oh, speaking of clueless. In addition to most US players being 110-120V only, most of them will only play NTSC DVDs, or show them on NTSC TVs. This is not as big a problem as the 120V limit, but if you shop carefully you can get 120-200V, and you also can get PAL-capable. Although why you'd want to carry one from the US is ALMOST as vexing a question as why you'd just HAVE to have one in your Pattaya room for a week. .

Al Gore born March 31, 1948 Hillary Clinton born October 26, 1947 John Kerry born December 11, 1943 Bill Clinton born August 19, 1946 etc, etc. Yeah, I know, but it's not much of a joke if it's not even true.

Joe Louis is dead. So to speak. This week we will have to say goodbye to Joe Louis Theatre (Natayasala) in Suan Lum Night Bazaar. Incidentally, the bazaar itself has become dead, after losing a long-standing court battle with its landlord. Good piece with background on the Bangkok end of the Joe Louis Theatre in this morning's Bangkok Post.

You might want to check how many Thais are eager to get in line to buy lamb. There is a reason why there's no sheep farmed in Thailand for meat, and why it's all imported. There's not a chance you could make money raising and selling lamb because there's not a chance you could scale the business big enough to sell below the price of the imported stuff. Even if you got a ban on imported lamb, you'd still not make anything with such a minuscule market. It'd be about like selling parkas. .

The word you are still struggling so mightily to find to make the poster's post "better" would be parkeerplaats? Other than that, there's no chance you could make that post better, since it was so clear. In my opinion, using a foreign word would make that original post much WORSE not better but that's me. .

I don't get why your running down A-Rod and the Yankees and a BM makes you credible. Why does it? .

Seriously? Actually Thai pig farms, many in Chon Buri province up the road and east of Pattaya, mostly in Phanat Nikhom district, are amazingly clean - spotless. I haven't seen one that one person could handle, though. They are profitable. Last I looked, some years ago, Phanat Nikhom had the highest per-capita earnings in Thailand -- i.e. the richest district per-resident in the country, almost entirely because of the pork. Of course there are pigs everywhere, but the other major pig-rearing area is east of Bangkok, Nakhon Pathom province. .

Definitely the right answer. Nah. Give it away to someone who appreciates it - your girl, the room maid. Come on! It's 700 baht fergahdsake. But the whole idea of a DVD player for a one-week vacation is so utterly vapid... If you need blue movies in Pattaya for a week, you are doing EVERYTHING wrong. .

I believe you're right and I'm wrong. I read right past that. Let's see how it works in practice, because the purpose of this rule is for families to take their families TO the airport and go back home which is goofy, but anyway that's the idea. So you are right. Let's see how it actually works when you flash that "return" portion at the gate. You can change trains at Makkasan, (with the obligatory walk). But you pay for that. If you take the Express to Makkasan and go outside you are nowhere at all, and within realistic walking distance of nothing. I think without baggage as you say, that this train will possibly be helpful. I doubt it will be AS helpful as painted but on your own, without bags -- that segment you described, it might help depending where they're going. I'm admittedly biased because the train is near NOTHING that helps me personally. .

We'll see. I'm thinking of it much like the Skytrain, which is totally useless to me 99.5 per cent of the time. But it does whisk me down Sukhumvit the twice a year I'm there AND there's a traffic problem AND I want to get where the ST goes. I have a feeling the Link could be better for out-of-towners, just like the Skytrain. .

teelack, 100 baht gets you one way to a place called Makkasan. It's in Bangkok all right, but it's a rail yard. You'll need to take the local train (which can actually be less than 100 baht one way) or the 100-baht train and a taxi, or the train and a Skytrain, or the train and one hell of a walk to get to anywhere worth being. But it's only one way. Here is some current info from today's Bangkok Post. .

Yes, that wasn't very eloquent, was it? I meant, of course, the so-called soccer fans bragging about their lack of brain power to appreciate more than one sport, total, and flaunting it with incisive comments like "rounders sucks" and "armoured gridiron sissies" and the like. Can't for the life of me wrap my head around the idea that running down one sport is some sort of advertisement for the one you like. .

It's taking off. GIYF but think "telephoto lens" and there's the reason that people aren't running. It is 145 metres from fence to runway, according to people who do this stuff. .

Saved me keystrokes. True Yankees-haters are like soccer people. They sure aren't baseball fans. Many years ago, I mean many, there was a great article in Harper's or (I think) Atlantic about how people could make a lot of money from baseball, and it used the Padres as the example of positively using mediocre players, knowing the fans would come anyhow. That was before Billy Bean showed how to be cheap AND win in Oakland of course, but that article on the parsimonious, immoral really, San Diegan owners always stuck in my mind. .

Definitely. And don't ever plan to use Ladbrokes or Billyhill without such help. These are probably the Top Three on the must-block list. .

You're going to get a lot of pin-exercise for the alleged convenience of this Airport Link. And Suvarnabhumi is already very hiking-friendly just to and from the blasted gates. I advise you check the Bangkok city map very carefully before you commit to this airport train. MOST people are going to be taking a taxi at the end of the train-riding anyhow. Virtually all others will be taking at least two trains -- the airport one plus either a BTS or subway. It will be rare to get on at the airport and get off anywhere near your hotel. It will be rare to save as much as 100 baht on the taxi fare direct from the airport to hotel. Check how well placed your hotel is to the trains before you start the long walk to the train, dragging your bags behind you. .