CheshireTom

You can certainly rent them.

Don't worry about it. Getting back to the tinned beans question - in my other life, a small can (200g) of baked beans was the perfect accompaniment to a Scotch mince pie or Scotch egg. However, if you were a bit strapped for cash, a couple of slices of thick toast, lashings of salted butter and a tin of Heinz beans would guarantee you access at 3 a.m. on a Sunday morning to any pussy north of Peterborough. A sophisticated man's alternative to chicken noodle soup. South of Peterborough, from what I can remember, you didn't have to bother with the wining and dining phase.

They were, along with the deep-fried pizza, a well-kept state secret prior to 1995. Then some whistle blower got in on the act.

washed down with a can of Irn Bru ...

According to the map in the link you posted, it's on 3rd Rd between Klang and Nua.

Booking direct on the Emirates website, it's easy to do an open-jaw booking, i.e. fly into Clark and back from Bangkok (or v.v.) for 620-odd quid. Seems to be a good option for some guys.

Yes, but to be fair, they provide some sort of balance. They hate everyone else - fellow Brits, ghastly, ungrateful Europeans, arrogant Yanks, Africans, Asians it doesn't matter. Oriental and South American hookers are the obvious exceptions, and even those anomalies are under threat these days.

Can't you post a map showing the location of the place? It would make life a lot easier.

Which branch of Tony Roma's are you thinking about? Neither one is very good at all.

They're struggling at the bottom of the league having just got rid of a load of crap players and replaced them with a bunch of equally crap players.

Starts on 1 Oct. Pretty self-explanatory.

Quite correct and when you, or anyone else, post their reviews of Pattaya bars and gogos, I very rarely comment. When I do, it is usually quite complimentary - even the five times I've actually participated in threads that you've started. I don't understand why you continually suggest otherwise. They talk about footie and motorbikes on Thai Visa. How daft is that? These are the five posts in question over a period of 20 months - what exactly are your issues with them?

I make a point of not commenting on the price of drinks, where the best girls are in Pattaya, or which are currently the best bars or gogos. There are plenty of BMs who have a better idea about those items than I do. Likewise, I don't comment on where the best place to park a motorbike in Pattaya is, but I will comment on driving/buying/registering a motorcycle in Thailand. As for the pics of your girls, I fully concur that 1k Baht is probably about the correct payment. However, when you comment on issues that perhaps extend beyond the 20150 postcode, then you are talking as someone who has absolutely zero field experience blah, blah, blah .... You should be limiting your comments to that small corner of Chonburi province where you have any experience. Get the idea? It's not as if the obvious flaw in your daft claims hasn't been pointed out before. Simply repeating them ad-nauseam doesn't make them any more credible.

C'mon, Sam. Gabor's post was quoted by Mick, so you can read it perfectly well. I only mentioned that getting the daft tattoos that nobody can read, wearing a bit of manky string around your wrist, stocking up on a dozen bottles of Singha during your weekly shop at Wing Yip and supporting Man United from afar doesn't quite equate to immersing yourself in Thai culture. Well, not for most normal folk. Now, stop threadfucking TheFiend's welcome thread. Oh, and good luck Mr Fiend ...

Why have you got one of those disenfranchised status thingies? And only 34 posts?

Possibly, but it only freaks out certain farangs.

CTH will be providing content by both cable (to its cable operators) and satellite. Allegedly.

It would be great except that Thai has a history of changing things depending on which direction the wind is blowing.

Buy something that is built locally. Ford has a pretty good Thai website for a starting point ...

So, which university are the Jutanugarn sisters attending? Ramkhamhaeng? She'll just have to make do with the British Open and The Evian. Child's play!

Well, that puts "Plumpy", as you call her, a fair few notches above anything you've ever achieved.

I didn't mention college life and prominent universities ... they're not often associated with childhood (which I did mention) where I come from. A sore shoulder isn't a "high price", IMHO.

It's already back in my account. I'll just carry it forward to the British Open at St Andrews - I think both sisters are entered.

Better than passing on having a (relatively normal) childhood. There will always be other opportunities to win golf tournaments.

They said exactly the same about Michelle Wie.