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Who would want to watch when the result is a foregone conclusion? Certainly not educated Aussie cricket followers, who would rather earn a honest day's living by going to work, instead of watching a meaningless batting display by your mob. Why didn't your side not declare sooner to make a go of it. Ponting would have. No guts no glory.

Japan and Korea are shit and expensive. Singapore is not what it used to be, compared to the old Bugis Street days and Penang has become a lot more expensive as well, with half the fun. The Philippines, like Thailand, has changed a lot less over the last 30 years and is still a mongers paradise. Try Cebu and countless other places instead of those shit holes Manila and AC. Bali has been my favourite destination and will remain so forever. India consists of hundreds of different regions. Some are hell and others are heaven. It helps to be a younger bloke to discover the more exciting places.

The Second test starts in Adelaide tomorrow. Do we have to give the cocky Poms more respect after their almost credible batting performance at the Gabba in the second innings, which allowed them to manage to draw the first test? I just hope the powers-that-be have it in their heart to give us a less flat wicket, than they did in Brisbane to give the bowlers a chance. Don't forget the Poms only managed to get 11 wickets in Brisbane and so did we. The high scores of Cook, Trott and Strauss count for nothing , if you look at that way. Another hopeless and flat wicket in Adelaide will probably e

My favourite version of that song.

If you are cashed up and and fair dinkum about making a quid for Christmas, I will arrange a meeting with my Pakistani bookie.

Next time you listen to me when I make a prediction and put some money on my tips. Your batsmen would have easily scored that second double century, if your side had not declared for the obligatory declaration late in the last innings. Any team would have scored a lot of runs on that flat wicket in Brisbane. Our hopeless bowlers and some of the fielders dropping sitters did not help either. Anyway, congratulations to England for being able to draw the first test of this Ashes series. Can we borrow some of your South African batsmen to give Australia a better chance for the forthcoming test in

I have not heard from him for a while. It has been a long time since he visited Pattaya. I think the ex-Vietnam vet is nowadays just content to watch his grand kids grow up, drink Emu Export Lager and punt on the horses. He lives just across from the Subiaco Oval in Perth, from where he watches his beloved footy team, Fremantle. The old Kelpie was the bane of most message board and in the end was banned from all of them. Only the Bahtbus would have him, where slagging other members and flaming was almost compulsory.

Point taken. I probably misunderstood your message. No more hard feelings then.

I might be of German descent, but I have been the proud holder of an Australian passport for the last 45 years. I have never been back to Europe in all of that time, you bitter old man. Don't blame me for the problems your country is facing right now. For your sake, I hope Strauss and Cook make a double century each in the second innings at the Gabba tomorrow, just to lift you out of your depression.

I agree with you. Australian DVD players are generally in region 4. it appears they phased out multi-region players a few years ago, to stop users to play cheap imported copies. Like you said the more expensive brands fall into that category. I went to a Harvey Norman store in Darwin and asked one of the young blokes how to overcome this problem. He pointed to a cheap Sony DVD player made in Malaysia and said it would play all DVDs from all regions. He was right. The cheap Sony DVD player cost me A$ 59.

Without the strong economy of Germany, the rest of Europe would bite the dust in the not so distant future, including England. I hope you will do better in the Ashes series to put a bit of joy into your miserable lives.

I missed that one. I remember when we had a fundraiser pool tournament in your bar in Soi 2. You duly won that tournament, after I just lost against the previous year's winner. You generously awarded all of the prize money to Father Giovanni Camillian's Centre. I had the pleasure to meet Johnny Walker, Brum Brian (RIP), Noel Thomas (RIP), Donkeykong and many of the other lads. They were all great lads. Are any of those blokes still around? You had some great ladies working in your bar as well. Cheers mate I used to post as Sigi on the Bahtbus. l

It was the first board I joined and where I posted frequently. The board was run by Nalak, an American on a disability pension, caused by injuries in the Nam. People nowadays complain how much better Pattaya was ten years ago. I can attest that the message boards in those days were superior to what we have now. There were fantastic posters in those days and who can forget the likes of Spiccoli, the Kelpie, Donkeykong, the Pale Rider, Axewound and countless others great posters. There was a dispute over donations to a charity, a couple of years after I joined and some of us created the infamous

You must be an old bastard. Poor Alma died from cancer in 1966 at the age of 34. John Lennon was one of her lovers. Alma was a better sort than Yoko Ono by a country mile.

I arrived in Pattaya 10 years ago after doing most of my mongering, when I had time off from work, in Indonesia and PI. I still remember the many whingers on the Thai message boards then, complaining how much better Pattaya was in the nineties and before. Yes, Pattaya has changed in the last ten years of my time here, but mostly for the better. Infrastructure has improved, the price of accommodation and food has hardly gone up, transport has to be some of the cheapest in the world and bar fines, ST, LT has only increased marginally over my time here. The quality of the girls is just as good a

The fourth hat-trick in the history of Ashes cricket and Siddle was lucky to get into the side in place of in-form Bollinger. Siddle has a heart as big as Phar Lap and the selectors must have taken that into consideration. The Poms game plan fell apart as soon as their South African captain was out for as duck. It was good to see Doherty get his first two wickets to clean up the Pommie tail. Now, all we want to see, is a good batting performance by our lads tomorrow.

You seldom see Aussies crying into their beer, unless there is a shortage of beer. We have lost most of our cricket events this year, but for for your mob to beat us on our home soil is highly unlikely. You have not done so for a quarter of a century and our new mob of replacements of the cricket greats like Warnie, Hayden, Mc Grath, et cetera will do your International team like a dinner. Bring it on.

Funky, where the fuck are you? Have you thrown in the towel before the start of one of the most important sporting events between our two great countries? Don't tell me you are paying more attention to that silly Royal couple and their wedding bullshit. Pom and Aussie Ashes test cricket forever!!!!

It sounds like you have lived an exciting and dangerous life so far and tackling the terrifying Pattaya Zebra and Pelican crossings in Pattaya was a huge part of it. You can never be too careful. Just imagine the dangers you might be exposed to, after a condom breaks during the heat of passion with your one and only.

Actually, it was on 14 February 1966 when Australia changed to the metric system. I let a copy and paste from Google answer your question. Metric vs. Imperial or Will the USA ever go metric? 70 rate or flag this pageTweet this By Gregorious Metric vs. Imperial Metric vs. Imperial Fact: The United States is the only industrialized country in the world that doesn't use the metric system as its predominant system of weights and measures. Today only the USA, Liberia and Myanmar still use the old English Imperial system. The rest of the world is metric. Here is a funny f

MM, I have always tried to keep this conversation at a lighthearted level. What I say is often tongue-in cheek. There is no need for you to get nasty or play the race card.

Australia changed from the imperial system to the metric system in 1964, which was a good thing. Do you think America could do the same in the distant future, when its economic and financial crisis has improved?

I am surprised there are so many search results on Google about a word, which is used mainly by Aussies and they spell it whingeing. Well, most of them do. So, stop your whingeing and whining. Have you ever heard about the Rechtschreibreform, which came into effect on 1. August 1998? It was then agreed by Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the German-speaking minorities of Belgium, Romania, Italy and Hungary to use the same written German. It was a huge undertaking by the best scholars from those countries and took many years to achieve. Do you think the English-speaking countr