MM

I'll download and install IE 11 and see what's up.

I think you should thank Terry. If it weren't for his assault on Walters, Assaidi wouldn't have been brought in for Walters late in the game. There was your winning goal :

It should be okay now, aqua4.

Now that's a strange one. I'll fix it asap.

Tom, do you know if they are going to create a new satellite service for the World Cup here in Thailand? I've got 3 satellite receivers now just to follow the movement of these sports events...TRUE, Grammy, and now CTH. Wonder what the next one will be. USA in Group G looks like it's going to be a short schedule for my country's team. Ghana, Germany, Portugal...we are not worthy.

Agreed. She's taken some challenging roles and is a fine actress. I thought she was great in "The Interpreter"...an enigmatic character played convincingly. I've not read the book, but it sounds good...Amazon has the Kindle version for about $12 USD.

it does look like a winner.

It's all fixed now, thanks MM!! Was it fixed before doing the last thing I suggested or did you have to choose the theme?

I was really hoping nobody would choose that movie...but anyway Marlon Brando

Well, having Makha Bucha fall on Valentine's Day might save some people some money

Okay, back to the missing go to last post star issue... If you go to the bottom of your forum page, you will see (for the short term while we check this out), in the lower left, a phrase "Change Theme". Click on that and you will see a couple of themes come up. Choose the one that says "PTSkin.346 USE ME". Make sure that is selected by clicking on it. Your problems with missing images, if you have them, should go away.

It really couldn't be easier.

Is it still happening?

True, but if the same thing happened to you who would you blame more, the Thai hotelier or the Chinese tour operator? I think it did. I went to China with a singles group ten years ago. The price for a ten day tour that went to Beijing, Xian, and Shanghai was 1400 USD.This included airfare, nice hotels, ground transportation (a tour bus), breakfast and dinner each day. The thing was, we were taken to numerous places to buy goods, rugs, jewels, and assorted other crap we didn't want to spend time or money on. It was virtually a free trip if you didn't buy anything at these shops. Several of the tourists did tho, and they spent big money for some items. I can't call it a scam, because we never had to pay for stuff we didn't want. As for these Chinese tours, I'm not sure how they got scammed. I know they were double and triple charged for some stuff (Polo Agogo used to charge them 800 baht to enter and have 1 drink, half of which was returned to the Thai tour operator), but I can't imagine they come here with that much hard currency, so I'm guessing they paid that in the tour price. It'd be hard to get that kind of money out of all of them once they've come here..Just based on them being tight fisted mainland Chinese. I think the tour operators in Thailand were Thai, BTW. The money might have been shared with the Chinese originators of course. Anyway, I'm glad China put a stop to it. I think they should embargo the whole of Thailand for tourism!

I think these scams are done in concert with Thai tour operators.

Okay, based on CT's information in the image, I looked around last night (11 pm or so) for Chinese tourists...I think they must have all gone to bed by then, because I didn't see any. I'm going to look again and see if they are not up to their usual numbers. Walking Street was still crowded. Lots of hot looking Slavic girls, some in groups, some with guys. They act like they own the place. I think perhaps they do.

Your problem was you were using an old "skin". It should be okay now. Let me rephrase that... Our problems (the forum's) was that we allowed you to use an old "skin" or "theme", and didn't change you to one that worked when we did the upgrade. That should be fixed now.

Such a shame...I wonder how long you'll last.Update us after your trip.

Beer ranges from 50 baht in some of the outdoor bars to an average (IMO) of 140 baht in the gogos. So, with 12 beers, your cost could be from 600 baht to about 1700 baht, depending on where you drink. If you eat 3 Thai meals a day, you might spend 900 baht without shopping around. Depends on what you eat. Non-Thai meals are generally more expensive, but still you should get by without starving. I reiterate then. 2500 baht/day for just beer (even 12 bottles) plus food, is definitely doable.

That would be 2500+ baht...certainly enough for beer and food, unless you eat at a 5 star restaurant each day. How many beers would you drink in a day? It sort of depends on that too.

Thanks...I bookmarked it.

From the looks of Walking Street, it doesn't appear that this drop has yet happened to Chinese tourism. They are still clogging the street and following the flags in the usual numbers.

And we'd best leave the discussion at that. Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk

That would be the person whose post I removed. Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk