Grandpollo

Hard to beat this story about a Thai senator accidentally killing his ex-wife with an Uzi in a restaurant. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2188024/Thai-senator-accidentally-shoots-ex-wife-dead-Uzi-machine-gun-family-meal.html#axzz2KYqAYzSo

There is a range with various providers and cart or not, and it is included in Business or First service on various airlines, Cathay for sure, both arriving and departing. If you get the service with a premium fare (J or F) then the bags also arrive quite fast, usually within minutes of arriving at the luggage belts. If you pay for it then you have a point but to many not standing in a long queue behind people who cannot fill out a slip of paper is worth the expense.

If it is cargo it is not sent out onto the luggage carousel. So it must have belonged to someone. You see this a lot on Central American and Caribbean flights but at the busy times of the year the airlines embargo boxes even if within the allowances by size and weight. Far cheaper than FedEx and on the shipper's own flight which is why they are so popular. Cathay has a small presence at BKK so they use contractors vs. their own staff like at HKG. In HKG my priority luggage is on the belt ahead of all the luggage, e.g. before the general luggage even starts to come out, which I discovered while waiting for it and failing to notice it going around and around. At BKK last two trips my bag was out maybe among the first 30 or so. It's tagged priority, but you have to depend on how the plane was loaded in HKG, and how much the contract handlers give a shit in BKK. If you enjoyed the arrival fast track use the departure fast track. Super fast and pretty disinterested security and very polite.

Well not as bad, because there is a comma separating two independent ideas and you are no longer using fresh as an adjective for another adjective. The comma works either way, without it, it does not work any way. But using quality on its own doesn't work as it should say high quality, best quality etc. Quality could be bad, as it is just a characteristic of anything. So fresh, high quality or high quality, fresh would both work. Let's see how this all looks: "Old-fashioned recipe using fresh, high quality ingredients, cured to perfection in our special brine." or "Old-fashioned recipe using high quality, fresh ingredients, cured to perfection in our special brine." (or our special brine from our traditional/family/secret recipe)

This seems as likely as a 100 Baht gogo barfine.

You can take a taxi to Ekamai BTS and then take one of the Pattaya express buses from there. They run to 11 p.m. for 124 Baht. The 389 site, which seems to be Bell says the last airport to Pattaya bus, to North Pattaya is at 10 p.m. Fast arrival and customs might work. But for a taxi plus bus plus the more expensive Bagkook rooms it seems to be a lot of work and maybe more cost than door to door with Mr. T.

Your English grammar needs a bit of work. It is old-fashioned with "ed" and a hyphen not old fashion. And special traditional are in conflict. It's special or it's traditional. I would not use both adjectives this way if I were you. Go with our special brine (or special brine from our secret [or family] recipe which adds exclusivity). Finally fresh quality would have a comma, e.g. our fresh, quality ingredients. This is because fresh would not be normally used as an adjective for quality since fresh is already an adjective being used with ingredients. There was someone posting here offering English to Thai translation for a low price like $5 a page (which is cheap, believe me, as it can cost $1.50 a word). Try searching for that post. Notes: Old-fashioned is an adjective and should be written with the ending -ed. Old fashion is written separately, without a hyphen. Old fashion doesn't have the same meaning as old-fashioned. Treat it as any other adjective-noun combination. Long dresses were worn as part of the old fashion for looking ridiculous.

The employer has to apply and presumably they pay for it but for jobs where there are lots of Thais who can do the work, don't get your hopes up. There are many expat sites for Asia, Bangkok especially but I doubt the company will do anything and you will pay more than the $500-$800 monthly Pattaya prices for sure. There are some YouTube videos of an expat looking for apartments and they were informative, but for a little they were dumps and for 1/2 decent they were not cheap. And the salaries will be, I bet. You should do at least some of your own work on the budget and job front. Bangkok has a lot of expat including working expat sites that would inform you were you to look. Some of the salary, rent and budget items are "how long is a string?" types of question, e.g. YMMV, on what you'll take or pay.

They are ususally region 0 being rips so the region coding is not likely to matter but since they are for the Thai market they are PAL which is a different video standard than North America (NTSC). I have a DVD player that is multi-region and it converts PAL to NTSC as it plays, it so I am covered. If your TV is a flat screen it may (probably will) play PAL so you just need a region free PAL player and they are quite cheap at Tukcom. As for the original topic, the DVD music guy at the top of the escalator is a nice guy and you can quickly scan the DVDs and if they are not labelled right he gives you your cash or finds another one so it hardly a scam. He has 2000 titles, I doubt he personally made any of them and he certainly has not watched them all for you as you can imagine. Scam is hardly the word for a simple mistake. And yes I got one mislabeled including the silkscreen on the DVD and he replaced it. Just as bad is the generally shitty quality of a lot of DVDs that won't play properly even if they are labelled properly. Again the vendor near the music DVD guy (the one that offers 6 for 5) will let you have a look or swap them if defective. Just make sure it goes chapter chapter, chapter with the remote. The ones that are dodgy hang up pretty quick on the section that is written badly. And at the end of the day $3 is not going to kill anyone (nor turn merchants into "scammers").

I have two Macbook laptops, one for daily use and one to travel with (13" and easier to carry vs. 17" which I cannot find a carry bag for) and two Mac Pro desktop computers. The newest laptops (Mac, anyway) are surprisingly powerful if you get maximum RAM and even faster with SSD vs. hard drives and for 99% of users the laptops portability and decent size keyboard meets most needs. Desktops add pure horesepower and massive amounts of storage. The Mac Pros I use have dual 4 core processors (8 cores) and the current ones have dual 6 core (12 cores) and should have up 16 to perhaps 24 cores in the new releases expected in 2013. These are massively powerful vs. laptops and for video encoding (mainly) they are very fast, in the order of 2-5-10X faster than an i7 quad core computer. They also support 4 internal hard drives (so up to 8 to 12 terabytes of storage) and freely accept external drives via eSATA. My main computer has a total of 14 hard drives, internal and external allowing for a lot of storage and backups. If you do not do a lot of video processing (e.g. transcoding from one format to another or authoring DVD material) and don't store multiple terabytes of data then a modern laptop with Intel i7 processors will meet most needs. External monitors are easy to add with the port on the side though adapters may be necessary, e.g. mini display port to a DVI adapter for use with a DVI flat panel screen. There are few new PCs with VGA ports and that's OK as there are few flat screen monitors with VGA anyway. Macbooks cost a lot and similarly configured computers should do OK from other makers, for much less money, though you are stuck then with Windows. A Mac will boot into Windows on a separate partition, or by using VMWare Fusion you can install and run Windows on a mac at the same time you are using it as a mac. Budget will dictate choices but get the fastest CPU and max out the RAM to 8 or better 16 GB and you will not be complaining.

For Windows and mac users both, Photoshop CS2 (four generations older than the current CS6) is available for free (in fact the whole Creative Suite is), legally from Adobe with serial numbers. They have disabled the authentication servers for CS2 so the serial numbers are of use to anyone. CS2 will have anything people would want in photo editing save for a few new features you can live without and the price is right. They are trying to claim it is not "free" and you are supposed to have a license, but clearly they offer it so people can experiment with no real risk to Adobe. Links are here: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html

You can tell when this happens by examining the prices on the hotels' own web sites and when they are the same and the same terms that's exactly what's happening. When they can't fill it the sites like Agoda, Asiahotels, Priceline etc., get wholesale prices to try to play the market.

I find they act like bearings and make the top and bottom of a sandwich or burger go in two different directions. Tomatoes have grown to be so bland if not from the field and ripened properly as well.

I use Asiatravel.com (same idea as Agoda but they have local offices where you can talk to English speaking people) for all Bangkok bookings and right now they have 84 hotels for a two week stay in Pattaya (Feb 1-15_ for under 2,850 Baht (so under $100) and 19 for less than 1,321 Baht or US$45, e.g. less than RG costs, and even one available from as little as 722 Baht. So other than this one hotel which they do not list it doesn't seem impossible to find a bed for under $300 a night. Or $50 for that matter.

Maybe post a link with the whole URL not that this is your audience at all and there is this Facebook thing out there.

Interesting how the Yensabai condo is not on Yensabai but Soi VC, maybe attracts more Vietnam vets with this name. For Steve Soi VC is pretty gay the whole street, basically, so don't get too shocked.

The URL is www.jobs4farangs.com not how posted. Few jobs post salary and many don't post location (other than hotel jobs at the Savoy in London UK). And you have to pay to get the info. Seems dodgy.

Java and javascript are two different things and unrelated other than the one has part of its name as the other. If you use noscript (which is an addin for Firefox) you disable javascript and frankly 99% of the functionality of most websites so you spend all your time allowing page exceptions for the session and ultimately you quit using it, being that it is overkill. Java (vs. javascript) is an OS dependent mini OS if you will that allows applications to run in a browser (and on cell phones) whether the browser is on Windows, mac, Linux, etc. There are not that many java dependent sites and you can disable the java in Firefox in the add-in manager (it's a plug in) and then if you encounter that rare site that uses java you can always enable it. The threats are java applets buried in web pages that run and do bad things if you run Java 7 Release 10 (think porn sites), but disabling java will probably not be noticed 99% of the time while disabling javascript (using noscript)will be noticed 100% of the time. Add adblock plus to your browser which disables a lot of bandwidth using crap that you don't want to see anyway.

He said, in a post with no signature.

And "RIP Pattaya Beer Garden" is an inappropriate title for the post which suggests it is going out of business. I can't complain about food or service there after dozens of meals and I would talk to the proprietor before writing it off and suggesting all and sundry ought to as well.

Now it is intra-section spamming, but not a troll, annoying for all the right reasons.

Why is he a troll? It is the market area, the advertisement is in English and Thai and $6-$10 for a page of text is cheap for a translator who will usually charge by the word to the tune of as much as 50 cents a word.

18 mashies and a niblick.

Good point. It can't take that many photos to cover 350 square feet for everything. The price is amazing. I stayed at the Hong Kong airport for one night for 50% more than this place costs for an entire month.

Consulates are always the place where passport and visa matters are dealt with unless there is only an embassy in a country in which case there will be a consular section inside the embassy. I am not sure every country has the 6 month rule. Use TIMATIC to see. I suspect he'd be able to fly to HK and do this. Jacko makes a lot of sense unless the 6 month requirement applies to retirement visa extensions to the Thai immigration department. A final option is to get a friend in the UK to do the renewal for him by sending the old passport and the application and a letter authorizing that and using only FedEx or DHL to send it. Less than flying anywhere. That would only make sense if the Thai immigration want a valid passport as part of the visa renewal. If they don't care then Jacko's advice works.