joekicker

I bought a permanent marker for 18 baht that does labels on my CDs and DVDs just fine. I'm not selling them, just burning them for me, mine and an occasional friend. Lightscribe is actually quite expensive - the disks cost extra, you use a lot more time and the printers are like ink jets, great for the ink makers. If you NEED nice looking labels, fine. Otherwise, why bother? .

Well, so long as you take responsibility for that interpretation and don't credit me. "All Muslims" are not potential terrorists any more than all Irishmen or all Catholics. I made a very different point - that in an asychronous battle, the terrorist and guerrilla are indistinguishable from the non-terrorists and non-guerrillas. It is definitely untrue that all Muslims, Irishmen or Japanese women with dyed red hair are potential terrorists. It is definitely untrue that a significant number of Muslims, Irishmen or Japanese women with dyed red hair *_are_* terrorists. But some are, there's no doubt. Right today there are lots of terrorists who aren't Muslim. Almost all Muslims are not terrorists. What IS difficult is picking out the terrorist in any group of people until (s)he acts. .

No bomb at Thatcher's hotel, then? For example. .

But which one doesn't, especially of the Big Three? The Crusades were done entirely in the name of God and authorised by the Bible. The taking of a homeland was fully authorised by the Torah. Just for minor examples. Even humanists believe and preach just wars in the name of humanism. Even a lot of Buddhists find the justification with no problem. But in the Big Three, their big books fully authorise the glory of killing for the righteous cause, of course they do. It's not so much unfair to note that the Koran does this as you have to squint to ignore the glare from the other two (three). I just ran across this academic essay which I'm sure will make wood for you and a few other thread participants: Revealed: Why So Many Scots Have Ginger Hair (Blame It on the Weather) - Daily Mail .

God has 1,000 names. .

I agree with the tenor of your post, completely. But one thing here, the Koran is the word of God, none of it was done by Man, it was all completely and utterly handed down by Allah. This is a fundamental core belief of Islam, in a way that no other religion has. BUT that said, Muslim religious authorities argue and bicker about what it means as much as Christians and Jews and Buddhists and Hindus and Rastas and humanists. There are as many groups and sub-groups of Muslims as Christians, each of them certain they have a lock on The Truth. .

"Ice hockey"???!? Is that what you call it? heh, okay, kind of labels you though. But here's why I'm posting. Your post got cut off, and all the stuff you wrote disproving my post disappeared. Sorry to ask, but could you post it again, I'd truly like to see it. thanks .

I wrote very clearly why. You can argue with that, but not if you don't read it. The post was damned clear. There are an awful lot of people on those "35 tablets a day" regimens. It's possible but statistically unlikely you don't know ONE. If you know no one who has died of pneumonia, TB, something like that, in the past 25 years, it's unusual. I don't know what *you* know, only what's the "general" rule in Thailand. .

Another way to look at it: You missed my point or refuse to discuss it, same result. That's the way I look at it, for example. You don't know because you didn't read my two posts on it maybe? Because those were the places I explained it. You may not agree, but if you read my posts, you certainly do know. I'd just remind you that you were the one who brought up the point about extra costs and budgets and all. The OP didn't and hasn't mentioned such a thing, and I merely disagreed with your claims about it. So it "adds to a post" about the OP exactly the way you wanted it to, I guess. You don't agree with me. So stop the presses. .

I'm not screwing with your break, and richness has nothing to do with it. I'll stick with what I said: 150 baht is not something you SHOULD be worried about on a holiday, which taking a bike to an island is. If I were going to have to even give a second thought to 150 baht I simply wouldn't go in the first place. Frankly, on holiday, I EXPECT a lot of extra little niggling charges to come up. I budget for a whole bunch of them, it's part of the deal to me. I simply won't give even a first thought to 150 baht let alone a second one. In the event, it seems the OP was more concerned about two (or more??) prices being charged to bikes than about the 150 baht. And I agree with him, it deserved looking into. I don't know how he'll do that now, I think he should have done it then -- NOT because he was charged 250 baht but because others may not have been. As he said, and as seemed clear from the first post, he wasn't asking for a 150 baht break at all -- nor should he, or you, or me. Price rises and unexpected charges happen. So what? .

Not sure why you withheld the rather vital information that there were at least two separate charges being levied. jacko already has the best answer - you really should have asked. Transporting a bike isn't a place for dual charging, I don't think, that's my opinion. Unless they came up with a good one like a season pass or a resident's price as jacko suggests, you probably should have made a stink and forced them to one-price the deal. .

The assumptions, sir, are yours. I addressed Mr Sinbin, who seemed to feel that 150 baht was a crucial amount to the travel budget. You gave no such hint of thinking such a thing, and I didn't make any suggestion to you. .

You want to save some money? Sell the gahdemmed bike, stop polluting my ears, get thousands and THOUSANDS of baht of spending money. If 150 baht convenience fee for having the bloody bike is going to spoil your entire vacation and break your budget, the solution is pretty easy. Lose the bike, get a fistful of baht, and don't worry about skinflinting it for weeks and weeks afterward. Like like a human for a while, an actual human who doesn't worry about 150 baht being the difference between bare survival and outright starvation. .

Dave. Really. Seriously, if you believe hockey and speed skating have anything at all in common, you'd be better watching this silly argument than trying to participate. For starters: Hockey players don't skate fast, they skate quick. In team sports, players have roles - in hockey they do not all gather at the goal line and skate as fast as they can to the other goal line to determine the game's winner. Women hockey players HAVE IMPROVED faster than the men in recent years. That's all I said. And to be even clearer, I don't think that women in general will overtake men in general in ANY physical activity, ever, without massive changes in breeding. But to me, the idea of one or three women being the equal of men in the physical sport of hockey is entirely possible. Women are in the military infantry in many places today, for example. Women are police, women are firefighters. Some of THOSE women are more than equal to the men or elements they battle. Women play high school and some university sports - they kick field goals in football for example. Not every hockey player fights, you know. And not every one of them skates really, really fast, either. It's a tortoise-and-the-hare graph, and it's a sham. Women in general will not run the marathon faster than men in general. Many women will beat many men, of course, hell any marathon runner of any of the five genders can beat me. But parity in this type of sport won't happen. .

Actually, I bet you do. You'd be surprised - from the tone of the post - to learn how many death certificates in Thailand have TB or cancer or pneumonia or something similar as the cause of death -- truthful in a way, but only after a year or two of DEFICIENCY that made them susceptible to, and killed them from, something you or I would shrug off or beat easily. "Twenty years of openness" about it in Thailand has also been 20 years of agreeing not to talk about it too much. Of course, I think you'd have to be an idiot to buy into that "anyone is equally likely to get it" malarkey, as you write. That said, lots of people have got it and died or in many cases put on drugs. I bet you know a handful of them. I do. .

"Pee Wee" the first time was kind of amusing, but now that you insist that it's serious, it's just stupid. Top-grade women's hockey is to Pee Wee as Thai Airways is to walking from London. I assumed you were being silly first time for the sake of emphasis and literary licence and all. Now I assume something very different. It's 2010 now, kid, but stick around a bit, get some more experience by all means. You got an opinion, so do I. For the next 10, 15 years, that's all they will be. Except for the excruciatingly stupid "Pee Wee" part, that is. And the 35 years. A youngster! Sports are changing, the women are actually getting better faster than men, the PC mob is at work, hockey "violence" is being toned down.... events will conspire and come together, I'm very sure of it. But around 2025 or so, maybe you'll be right except for the Pee Wee part, and I could be wrong. Who can tell? I always prefer to let things happen chronologically and I strongly, frantically believe your predictions of the future are as worthless as mine. But you keep stamping your foot and insisting you're right. Maybe you are, even though you can't think up a reason. Lord knows you don't have to be knowledgeable to jump on a winning bandwagon. .

Let Canada have hockey. If they beat us in obesity, then I’ll start to worry. - Jimmy Kimmel, US comedian .

Well, someone got it, good on you Evil. A classic apples and oranges. A tiny number of Americans are at greater risk than ALL the people in some African countries. Well, yes. A few people in Africa are richer than Americans. A few Americans speak better Spanish than all Mexican labourers. Some men in Pattaya have sex more often than the average hooker in Las Vegas. .

That's because parts of the USA *are* Africa. And Greece and Germany and Lebanon and Thailand. And, as many will point out, Mexico. It's *still* a nation of immigrants and for that reason will sometimes reflect the statistics of that country. Thus relatively high child mortality and various diseases. Just how high depends on the unobjective views of the unemployed academic who got this week's grant and made up the figures and wrote the headline. .

Crazy man! The longer you stay, the closer to 100 you'll get. I've found some very fine tradesmen over the years, but gee zeus what a trial to find them and how nerve-wracking to actually confirm they're good. Some of the rejects made my leaking roof turn from drip to deluge, and there are places in the kitchen and bathroom I'm STILL cleaning up the slopped concrete. The rejected electricians I simply don't want to talk about. I don't believe I've ever even heard of a "handyman" in the sense they mean that in the West, a guy who can do all basic maintenance and rudimentary building. Everyone here's a specialist -- a tile-destroying roofer, and non-ground expert electrician, a "whoops, sorry, maybe we can get a darker colour" painter..... .

I got mine watching the actual women's Olympic final. I already said that. Where did you get yours? I will stipulate: If you think the Olympic final was Pee Wees, you never have watched top-grade women's hockey OR Pee Wee hockey either one. The alternative is that you just made up that stuff up ^^^ there to be argumentative because you can't make an actual, you know, point to back up your alleged belief. And that said, I *am* impressed (actually) that you know how to spell Pee Wee. .

Once they got the torch working, great Games. But what was with that artificial snow? I thought Canada had lots. And I did think it was a bit over the top to have weight divisions in the baby seal-bashing event. I mean, who else was going to get the nine golds there, eh? But the other 5 golds were well earned. Barbara Ann Scott is still about 4-foot-8. Good to see her, even off her skates. .

And THAT is how every final Olympic event should go! Great game, GREAT competition, last second goal to send it to overtime. Brilliant. I'll be watching this one a few more times in coming months. Canada gets the goal (and thus the gold) in its own arena, and congrats to both teams for a terrific game. .

Wow, the Canadians ALMOST blew the game to the Slovaks. Barely held on. So it's Canada v USA in the final, Monday morning 3:15 on the ESPN channel. .

Thank Ghawd that women and men are built differently. Every so often a woman comes along that can beat most men at a "neutral" sport like golf, tennis. There's no physiological reason a woman couldn't be world snooker champ, although none of them is. I can't imagine a woman playing tennis with the men, but I can imagine a golfer. A team sport is different again, where the coach/manager can fit the whole team to the situation. I imagine a woman hockey player would be in a limited role (and certainly not a "role player" haha). A woman baseball player would almost certainly be most dependable on defence. A woman non-goalie soccer pro would probably have one incredible skill, like a Beckham cross or something of that sort. But women are much more into physical development and women's sports now encourage girls to skills development. No woman will every outrun the fastest male runner (in our lifetimes) but there are things a woman CAN do to make sports unisex -- remains to be seen if they will. There's a huge mental barrier (sports' glass ceiling) waiting for them all. Just one other point, a lot of people who saw her said that Babe Zaharias could play several sports at the male level. She was well ahead of her time of course. .