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  1. You are from the USA and you just heard the term "goat rope"? This political silly season in the USA is a complete goat rope. But if you are from the USA, it will take 27 minimum each way to get to Thailand. Expect a goat rope somewhere along the line coming or going. When a goat rope comes up, see it for what it is, don't freak out and roll with it. Mai Pen Rai.
  2. Ah reread the posts. It was myths, you said you fixed his post, so I thought you were stating a myth. Got it now.
  3. Think you are wrong about agriculture. If Thailand was to become a net importer of food vs a net exporter without a LARGE amount of other exports at least doubling, this would lead to pretty dire straits for many Thai's and would be very bad for the economy as a whole.
  4. Not to derail the topic, but why would you get a car you have to drive yourself? I have always found that I could get the same or better rates by hiring a car with a driver. By driving yourself, you open yourself up to a lot of risk which is offset by having a Thai driver with his own car.
  5. The law requires that you pay the taxes, duty, etc.... They are pretty steep, but not as steep as the penalties but considering if you deal with all of this sort of officialdom at the first and lowest level, a quick pay off gets you out real trouble. The worst is that you have to pay up at the full rate and deal with the hassle. I like to travel light so you won't see me lugging more than one bottle of whatever so that I don't have pay mini bar rates until I get out to stock the room. Never have been stopped in or out of Asia but seems like every other trip to South America I get stopped
  6. BTW Joe, since you seem to know everything, what are your views on the KSU vs KU bball game 1/4/12? Now betting college ball is where they cull the boys from the men. You only seem to come in and comment after the fact and only to fuck with people. How about we use Vegas odds, setup a 100,000 (baht, sterling, USD, what ever) per person game where you can bet what ever you want or nothing at all per game, run it up to the Super Bowl. All only for bragging rights, no real money. My guess is you will be a lot like Tebow, you may have a good run but we all know you aren't ready for the pr
  7. You read me completely wrong. I live in KC, I used to go games in the late 80's that you could have shot a shotgun across the field to the other side of the stands and probably not hit anything. Then the King Carl arrived with his 5 year Superbowl plan. KC has not won a post season game since for ever. This year, the whole AFC west blew big LadyBoy dick. Denver didn't lose their way in, but the backed into it is more apt. If the Steelers where in the division the would have maybe had a bi but at least a home game. The Hunts in KC should sell the team and go back to Texas. Elway should g
  8. the biggest crime is that the Steelers have to go on the road to play the donkey's. The AFC west should have had to forfeit their automatic home playoff game.
  9. Trivia via internet? Are you serious?
  10. nothing useful on any of the websites pointed out in this thread.
  11. Almost sounds as wholesome as Branson, MO USA. They can package it anyway they want it, but anybody just has to google images for Pattaya or YouTube Pattaya to see what's up. It may not be the monger that is targeted or spends the most money (not entirely sure what the truth is) but the mongering scene is a big part of Pattaya even if it only one more zoo for the straight tourists to gawk at.
  12. A few skydivers have survived chute failure, many more people die slipping and falling in the bathroom.
  13. good stuff as usaual. I forgot about your little section and just happened on it with the new layout. Have to go back and see how much I have missed.
  14. I would guess that most farangs that go over the rail of a balcony do so in a haze of booze and love for a working girl that isn't interested in a farang that has already spent all of his baht. But a small number of cases, at least as they are reported in English language media, seam to beg for a bit more investigation. Fact is that the Thai's just don't have resources so it is more of a case of buyer beware as there are Thai's that take advantage of farangs in Thailand and the police seem either not to be able to nor inclined to anything about it. Fortunately in the vast majority of Thai's
  15. EU citizens should be complaining. Bailing out EU banks is an EU problem. Bankers on both sides of the pond should be held at the very least criminally libel for negligence in the banking mess. A version of this happened in the late 1980's and it was allowed to happen again. The bonds that crashed where rated using a model that didn't even allow for possiblity that US home values can decline. Anybody who is running a bank and evaluating investments should know that ALL markets go down. As for the subsides to Airbus, see my reply to Tom, it is rather poor return on investment
  16. The Seattle Times was reporting on Boeing profit being down, it was not a positive puff piece. The Airbus profit was reported by UK source that cited figures released by Airbus. Face it, the only arguement is which sucks more. I say that Airbus sucks more by at least a factor of x 2. If you are going to continue this, why don't you calculate the return on investment. Hard to argue that either company has acceptable profit margins based on their sales. That is unless you have extremely low expectations and you discount inflation along with currency fluctuations.
  17. The Seattle Times reports numbers that both Boeing and Airbus have to report to public as required by law for public companies of their size. Take these self reported numbers and Boeing is at least twice as profitable but both provide horrible return on investment by any sane measure.
  18. OK Tom, now that you have had more then enough fun mocking BigD you need to be set straight. Here are some quotes from respected publications that one can only assume are reporting numbers supplied by both Airbus and Boeing in public filings. reported Jan 12, 2010 "According to the catalog list prices of the airplanes delivered, not allowing for discount pricing, Boeing's delivery total is $55.1 billion compared to Airbus' $51.6 billion" http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/busi...0_airbus13.html reported July 28, 2010 "Boeing reported earnings of $787 million during t
  19. That was a good photo, looks like it could be the 60/70's except for the mass produced plastic chairs, but the old barbers chair probably dates back per war and Pol-Pot.
  20. I do have one bitch about Misty's, haven't seen PSP post any party pics.
  21. Why would I want to bet? If you find what I said to untrue of you then show me a positive post you have started about a bar or any other venue for finding women for P4P. I didn't find any, but I have to say that I really can't be bothered go through your 7800 and counting posts. Interesting that you would reply. I never pointed my comments at you. I was just pointing out that there are some posters that jump on any bars that are popular but not cheap. Anybody who says anything positive in defense of said bar is accused of having some interest or being a shill. I can point out several
  22. The other thing about these guys that slag Misty's also tend to only slag bars. Haven't seen one of these guys ever offer a suggestion of good bars to go to. Perhaps they should state some bars they would suggest over Misty's.
  23. And I am sure the KKK has pics of Obama swinging from a tree. Altering images is as old as well, the first images ever carved in cave wall. BigD let the image go out there, he is just pissed about how was used, if he would have ignored it, it would be gone by now, he is the one that keeps bringing it up. You gotta admit this Tom vs Denny feud is just a few boardies having a go at it and they both do things get at each other and now Denny wants to call foul which is funny as hell as he has been caught out telling big fat porkies. Parodying and ridiculing liars is par for the course. I mean
  24. Another thing I don't understand about the net and technology or some of the people that use it. The photo has been put in the public domain so your bitch is with the person who put it there. Not with it being reposted here. Once it is put in the public domain (not copy righted and even then there would really be no remedy) it is out there for ever. Get used to it. It also looks like you allowed the photo to be taken so how does it defame you?
  25. Yes but what was the size of video camera 25 years ago. The simple fact that actual film is not needed has shrunk the devices. If you follow the natural progression of things, the glasses pictured would have been science fiction or James Bond 25 years ago, soon it will be contact lens. If the bar owners want to deal with this then maybe they should quit being thuggish about it and deal the reality of the situation. Just for the record I have never understood wasting time filming in a gogo as if you are actually there, why bother? I also have never understood MM's FLB web cam, twittering o
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