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The repair place in the basement of Tukcom has a guy who specializes in Canon cameras. If it can be fixed, he'll do it. But it isn't that cheap. If I remember right, the minimum charge for repairing a Canon is 3,000 baht, but that may only apply to full-size digital cameras. However, if your S95 is still under warranty, you're better off getting it done before your trip in the country where you bought it. If it's out of warranty, it doesn't matter where you have it repaired. A local camera shop in your hometown may be able to do it without sending it in to Canon, especially if it's a minor problem. Evil

I've heard guys say she is Iranian, but I wonder if that's true. Uzbek or other i-stan hookers will often say they are Iranian, Turkish or Russian because that makes them more desirable in the eyes of some customers. The woman in the pic has been around for a long time, so she probably isn't part of one of the crews that are rotated in and out of Pattaya by the post-Soviet traffickers. Anybody know anything about her? My interest is purely academic. Evil

If this is true - the wife ran home and grabbed two knifes- then it's premeditated murder (first-degree murder, or murder one). In the U.S., that could get you strapped down to gurney and a lethal injection in the arm. Whatever version of the story you accept (other accounts maintain he grabbed the knife off a fruit-seller's cart or was already carrying it), it appears at no time the Swede was in imminent danger that justified the use of deadly force. It would be impossible for him to claim self-defense. Evil

I recall there was a British guy who was languishing in a Pattaya prison and was "rescued" by a British lady, but I don't remember the German guy getting the same help. I hope it happened. Evil

Very good pics. I enjoyed this thread a lot. Evil

I'm posting this from the CIP Lounge at Swampy. One of Mr Dream's drivers picked me up in Jomtien exactly at 1.30 a.m. and I stepped out of the car at the airport at 2.40 a.m. Very smooth ride, as have all the 20+ trips I've taken with Dream or one of his drivers. Evil

To ask one more time: does anyone know what happened to the guy in the picture? Evil

I don't know if it was a temporary problem for you, but View New Content is working fine for me now. Evil

MM - It was always: [media=] [/media] But you gave it a great try. Evil

I've been waiting six days for an answer to my two questions from you or one of the Gaborettes: Does your silence imply that you and the Gaborettes (Gabbits, Gaborons, Gaborings, choose your favorite) agree with me that you deserved the negative votes you got and there was no conspiracy to vote you down? I know you addressed your question to MM. In that respect, I hope you never play poker. You always show your hand, then try to bluff the guy holding the high cards. Let's take a look at those two posts. They aren't benign or harmless. In both, you play heavily on reporting Secrets to the Thai authorities if Secrets' management doesn't do what you demand: That's why you got negative votes - you threatened to snitch on Secrets. Does that really surprise you? If a BM threatened to snitch on Pattaya Talk to the Thai authorities, wouldn't you give him a negative vote? The situation has been explained to you a dozen times by MM and others. When you write T/Rs and reviews, you get positive votes. When you threaten, insult or write nonsense about conspiracies, you get negative votes. There is NO campaign to vote you down, only a number of individuals who express their disapproval of your over-the-top posts by giving you a negative vote. Evil

That's a characteristic of citrus fruit: they are are easy to hybridize. The U of California has an experimental farm devoted to developing new or improved citrus fruits. Evil

The lumpy-skinned fruits in your pic look like what are usually called kafir (sometimes kaffir or kefir) limes, the leaves and rind of which are widely used in Thai cooking. The juice is considered to be too sour and acidic to be used as an ingredient in food, but is often added to cleansers and shampoos for the citrus-scent effect you noted. This isn't my pic, found on the Net: Evil

I'll go tonight and try to get some more photos for you. Evil

One of my all-time favorite fantasy films as well. In my younger days, I closely identified myself with Swan. Evil

You are still nowhere, except now all your allies have deserted you. It's clear from the context of my post what I meant, but to spell it out even more explicitly: Can you or Idefix or anyone else give an example of a very old Gabor post that has received a negative vote or votes that it didn't deserve? I never suggested ALL your posts deserve negative votes. I don't believe that, nor have I ever written it. What I have stated is that the positive votes on posts from 2003 (and some from later years) weren't deserved. They were given to you in an obvious attempt to artificially inflate your reputation level, which is blatant abuse of the rep system. I've also stated that there is no conspiracy to deprive you of rep points and that 99% of your negative votes were clearly deserved (the remaining 1% were probably fat-finger errors). But you or any of your supporters (seems to be an endangered species, if not already extinct) are free to prove me wrong. Just give an example of a very old post of yours which has unfairly received a negative vote. So to all Gaborings, Gabbits, Gaborettes and Gaborons, out of the closet and into the thread to aid your idol in his hour of need! Street warriors, come out and pla-ay! Street warriors, come out and PLA-ay! Street warriors, come out and PLA-AY! Evil

Another good suggestion. And the object of their worship, the Gabbit equivalent of the Secretologists' Xenu, would be Gabollum. Evil

I didn't see Obsession's post until I had already pushed the button on my previous post. Gaborettes!!! Brilliant! That made me me spit my morning coffee! Perfect name! It immediately took me to associations with the drum majorettes of my school days. I can just picture a couple of Gaborettes, caps on head, batons in hand, leading a band of Cheap Charlies down Walking Street. Evil

How about Gaborites, or even Gaborings? Evil

Can you give an example of a very old post of Gabor's that didn't deserve to be given a minus vote? If it was being done on a big scale, it shouldn't be hard to find such an example. Separately, I was wondering about this post in light of recent confessions: If Gabor's rep rises by 150 points in a matter of days when he hasn't been posting, does that also prove a conspiracy, especially when two BM's have admitted they had engaged in vote padding? I'll answer that myself: no, it doesn't. Like the negative votes, the positive ones simply reflect that individuals with no connection to each other have reacted to his posts in a manner they deemed appropriate. I doubt there are many board members who hate Gabor. No one has ever suggested that Gabor doesn't have the right to his own opinion or that he shouldn't express it. It's the MANNER in which he does it that's come in for criticism and negative votes. Every time Gabor is hard pressed, he resorts to name-calling and insults to divert attention from his inability to defend his position. He also harps incessantly on the whole LDOP spiel, which sets the stage for negative reactions. Properly given, advice is about new or missed opportunities, not lambasting people for choices they made in the past. Give advice politely and it will be taken politely. Criticize and condemn people for the choices they make and many BM's will register their disapproval through negative votes. It's not more complicated than that. The "don't-pay-the-girls-too-much" posts are often condemnation, not advice. It's one thing to write, "You don't have to spend more than 1,000 baht to get pretty girls, especially if you throw in a bowl of duck soup," and another to write, "It's mental cripple lame dupe losers like you who are spoiling the girls, driving up prices and ruining the scene for everyone by paying more than I do." The first is advice, the second is condemnation and dictating. Pattaya Talk needs more of the first and none of the second. Evil

If you are referring to Baht (Cennn3), I don't think he was personally close to Gabor at all. It was more a case of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." In other cases, it's probably a combination of dislike for Gabor's opponents coupled with showing support for Gabor's notion of paying the girls as little as possible. Gabor's supporters will most certainly have voted for his trip reports/go go reviews, which is entirely legitimate. But they want to show solidarity with him by giving him even more votes and there simply aren't enough TR/reviews on which to spend 10 or 20 plus votes a day. So they turn to ancient posts and/or nonsense threads with a lot of short posts by Gabor that they can click through quickly to use up their votes. A few may even be protesting what they (incorrectly) feel is the unfairness of the rep system by vote padding. They hope all the silly games will cause MM so much trouble he'll be forced shut down the rep system, but that's not going to happen. If the vote padders can't take a hint, MM could always start "disenfranchising" them. But I have to compliment jjprodigy on his honesty. So far he's the only "vote padder" who's come clean. As I said before, the others lack the courage of their convictions. Evil