BigDUSA

If you want to check out a boring topic check out 'what a cunt' in the members forum. Now there's a boring thread. One of many the same guy starts.

Years ago a buddy bought a English BSA motorcycle and he never had to change the oil. Why? The bike leaked oil like a sieve and it looks like Rolls Royce continues the English motor companies tradition of being unable to build engines that don't leak.

UA flies from Washington, IAD to NRT non stop and yes, I almost always get upgraded to first class on the domestic portion of my trips to BKK and I get free entry into the UA Red Carpet Club. Edit in. I just checked UA website and it looks like they dropped the JFK-NRT non stop.

Boeing management is telling Wall Street that the two-dozen 787 Dreamliners already rolled out onto Paine Field are "in various stages of final assembly" and their delivery "will take longer than expected, particularly those with the Rolls-Royce engine," an analyst reported Tuesday. In a note to investors, Robert Stallard, aerospace analyst with RBC Capital Markets, relayed the news after briefings from Boeing senior management in Chicago, including CEO Jim McNerney. Stallard concluded that after the initial Dreamliner is given to All Nippon Airways in mid-February, the ramp-up of 787 deliveries will likely be "longer and shallower" than previously expected. He projected just two dozen Dreamliner deliveries in all of 2011. Previously, Wall Street analysts had been projecting around 80 deliveries next year. Although the jets rolled out so far are painted in the livery of the airlines that will eventually take them, much of the interior installation work is missing due to earlier supply-chain problems. The Rolls-Royce engine is a specific problem because Rolls is working to apply a fix to its engines after one blew up during a ground test in England in August. Of the 25 Dreamliners that have so far rolled out through the Everett assembly plant's doors to the flight line, 17 are to be fitted with Rolls-Royce engines. After those early airplanes are delivered, Stallard said, Boeing's leadership believes the supply-chain pipeline will flow more smoothly. "McNerney thinks that most of the risk in the ramp-up process will be retired after the first 40-50 deliveries," Stallard reported. Stallard offered better news on production of Boeing's other jets. While the 787 assembly line will stay sluggish at best, the other assembly lines will be pumping out jets faster than they have ever done. Stallard said McNerney indicated the production rate of the Everett-built 777 wide-body, at five aircraft per month but set to rise next summer to seven per month, could go even higher depending on the progress Airbus makes with its rival A350-1000. And the analyst said McNerney may push output of the Renton-built 737 single-aisle — now at 31.5 jets per month — even beyond the 38 per month scheduled for 2013. QUOTE

I fly United from BKK to NRT and if I remember correctly United flies non stop to JFK from NRT. Layover times are not bad.

Just because the advertised price is 1500+ tolls+50 Baht airport fee doesn't mean one can't negotiate the price lower.

Your words exactly as you wrote them and not taken out of context. Like I said sad and lame.

Just when you think tommie can't sink any lower. He writes the above. Sad and lame.

Earth to Mars, Earth to Mars. Calling all Martians. The hits keep on coming for Rolls Royce. New engines explode/ leak oil. Whose to blame? tommie wants to know?

Actually my team of MD would like to come to Pattaya with me. They do approve of my travels as long as I avoid threesomes and avoid drinking and eating to mut.

Once again tommie's whistling in the wind. The Martians are on time and within specs. It's the poor Italians and Brits who seem to be having so many 'troubles' with quality.

I wonder how many coffee houses in Pattaya store their coffee beans the way you describe? Like I said Pattaya Beer Garden serves a good cup of Joe.

NO I wasn't on board but I will breeze into Pattaya later this month and I will be announcing my BigDUSA room service pizza party and the opening of a very fine bottle of 18 y/o Scotch. Location will be at the Sky-Top Bar and the time and date will be announced at a future time. Come one and all. I'll be shouting a few rounds of beer and the Scotch will flow till it's gone.

I agree that good coffee has to be brewed and it has to be fresh. Not more then 30 minutes old. When I go into Starbucks, I always ask if they will brew a fresh pot. Never a problem and it does taste good. Pattaya Beer Garden brews their coffee one cup at a time. Always fresh and good.

Portland, Maine.

Pattaya Beer Garden serves a good cup of Joe.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – If you believe the ads from drugmakers such as Solvay Pharmaceuticals, you might well think that getting a testosterone prescription is the key to save a faltering sex life in middle age. But a new study adds to evidence that men's levels of the hormone can vary quite a bit without causing sexual problems like impotence and decreased libido. "Testosterone replacement therapy has become a very common thing," said Dr. Michael Marberger, who heads the urology department at the University of Vienna Medical School in Austria, and led the new study. "It is like putting more gas in the car to make it go faster," he told Reuters Health. There is no doubt that very low testosterone levels affect the body and dampen sex drive. But where to set the threshold is still an open question, whose resolution is not made easier by natural variation in the male sex hormone. Its level dwindles with age, for instance, and fluctuates between countries, races and individuals -- even from one hour to the next. In the new study, funded by GlaxoSmithKline, researchers used data from an earlier study of more than 8,000 middle-aged and older men at risk for developing prostate cancer. The men filled out questionnaires about their sexual function - whether they could keep an erection, whether they lacked sex drive -- and had blood drawn. Various other measures were taken, too. One in five had testosterone levels below 300 nanograms per deciliter of blood, the threshold for what Solvay and others call "Low T." And about two in five men had at least "a small problem" in one or more areas related to their sex life. Of the measures taken -- age, urinary symptoms, body mass index (BMI) and diabetes -- testosterone showed the weakest link to the men's sexual function. "We need a lot less testosterone for sexual function than people used to think," said Marberger, whose findings appear in the British Journal of Urology International. "Obesity impacts sexual function much more." For instance, earlier research has shown that erectile dysfunction can disappear by itself over time, especially in men who aren't obese. Marberger, a paid consultant for GlaxoSmithKline, which makes diabetes and weight loss drugs, added that doctors are often too quick to give patients testosterone, when high blood pressure or obesity might be the real culprit. Every year, millions of testosterone prescriptions are written to U.S. men, and some products aren't cheap. Solvay's AndroGel, for example, costs about $280 per month. It can cause swelling around the joints and in the breasts, but Marberger said most side effects aren't serious. Dr. Frederick Wu, a hormone expert at the University of Manchester, was critical of the some of the study's methods, but agreed with the overall message. "Most people with erectile problems do not have hormone problems," he told Reuters Health, but often have blockages in the arteries in their penis. He stressed, however, that a lot of research has found that once testosterone dips below a certain threshold, it does impact sexual function. But the exact level is controversial, and the picture gets extra murky because many of the symptoms that accompany very low testosterone -- fatigue, depression, loss of muscle strength and bone density -- are commonly found in seniors. "Low testosterone and sexual problems quite often coexist," said Wu, "but the causal relationship isn't clear." SOURCE: http://link.reuters.com/gyk92q British Journal of Urology International, online October 18, 2010. QUOTE

Vietnam To Buy 8 New Jet Liners From Boeing 18 hours ago (RTTNews) - Vietnam has signed an agreement with Boeing Corporation (BA) to buy eight Boeing 787-9 jet liners for the Vietnam Airlines. The first of the Dreamliners will be delivered in 2015. Vietnam's national flag carrier and the U.S. aircraft maker are in talks on a deal for another batch of eight aircraft, according to Vietnam Airlines President & Chief Executive Pham Ngoc Minh. It was one of the three deals Vietnam signed with the U.S. government or companies on Saturday at a ceremony witnessed by visiting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem in Hanoi. QUOTE Not to shabby. Eight firm orders and eight possible orders.

Sky-Top has relocated into the old police station. The bars in the complex have stared to close at 2AM. Since you stayed there the owner has replaced all the old mattresses.

I find that most prostitutes are fascinated by the size and depth of my wallet. They could give a shit less what you look like.

You can always tell when tommie's arguments are weak. He starts with the personal attacks.

Tim42 was able to recognize that Sky-Top offered good value for your Baht. :thumb up

Like I said once again your misquoting what I wrote. Lame.

No it's called you once again misquoting one of my posts. Lame.

Personally I like February-March. Many two week millionaires have gone home. Weather is more then decent. Good time to be in Pattaya.