TheFiend

I have done the bar bit but a change in plans meant pulling out of the bar business....... I do plan to do it again, but it won't be in Pattaya. I'm not gong to leave the UK to live in Thailand whilst my parents are alive, but when I do I'll make my home up north but will make trips down to Pattaya every so often, I also plan to split my time in retirement between the UK and Thailand.

Here's one Siam Sam night enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1U1Ue_5kq8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xat1GVnl8-k&feature=related

Within days of entering service ithe Nightmareliner was already suffering problems http://www.planenati...lve-failure.htm Funny how the Boeing fanboys kept quiet about that one....

Denny, you forgot to add the smiley!!!

20 years is a long time to have passed... the chances are she left Pattaya a long time ago.

As a welcome back to Anti-Airbus BigD http://www.bbc.co.uk...siness-16452171 Nice start to the year for Airbus!

Queen Vic and Tropical Bert's are probably the best places to stay if you want to be on Soi 6 - but another good place to stay is Soi LK where there is also plenty of fun to be had.

And there was even a Pattaya GoGo bar was recently advertised on eBay....

Lenses, especially Canon and Nikon are very good at holding their value. I once bought a Nikon lens from Hong Kong and a year later sold it on Ebay for more than I paid for it.

I was recently watching a TV programme featuring a pro-photographer and he was using a Nikon D3 with an old Nikon AI lens...

I would also say it's a very reasonable deal, the 2 USM lenses and the Speedlite are probably worth what he is asking. Lenses keep their value much more than camera bodies, especially decent lenses.

I flew MAN to BKK on Etihad 777's earlier this year and on both sectors they were 3-4-3 config. The new deliveries have been built that way and the older ones have been retrofitted the higher density config.

Was Emirates until they changed the goalposts for the Frequent Flier Tiers, so have switched to Etihad... Sadly they in-flight experience for Etihad wasn't as good as Emirates the last time I flew.

My fave Pistols song!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=227m9lw5CcI&feature=related

It is you that keeps on arguing.... I made a comment that HDD prices would rise because of the flooding, and guess what... they have!!! In the UK prices have more than doubled, some have even tripled. Computer prices will go up because of the increase in cost of component parts. That is simple economics. OEMs won't subsidise the price of computers as most work on slim profit margins per unit as it is. The profit margin on some computers is less than the cost of what a HDD was prior to the flooding.

To start off the add looks good...... until he mentions "part owner".... So it is not for sale outright..... he is selling his "share".... Sounds just a little bit too dodgy....

Hmmmmmm..... definition of profiteering:- prof·it·eer n. One who makes excessive profits on goods in short supply. Perhaps you see it as my trying to change the English language. I don't, I was just using the term as it is intended to be used. Those goods could be rice, cars, HDDs, etcetera.....

The specifications of a base machine now and a base machine in a few months time will have changed, such is the ever-changing world of computers and components, but OEMs will not want to cut their profit margins to absorb the price increase of HDD's becuase of the global shortage. Like I said, you'd argue black is white!!!

When I was at school had a french pen-pal - she sent me this record..... About a month later it hit the charts in the UK, making it as high as #8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVDfmn_TMkI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMlpqOsc2BU&feature=related Another classic punk track!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5elUkRT1Fc B-side to "Jimmy Jimmy".... Still got the 7" Green Vinyl

And where did I say everything is profiteering? You'd argue black is white!!! If stock was bought at a certain price and, then all of a sudden, supply comes to a halt, putting up the retail price of your existing stock is profiteering..... OEM built computers will definitely rise in price as manufacturers pass on increased costs. Demand for SSD's will definitely increase as a result of the HDD shortage and as long as SSD manufacturers can supply the demand, then SSD prices should fall.

Just been checking Hard Drive prices as I am about build myself another system and the price of disks in the has more than doubled since last month with a lot showing out of stock...... Good job I bought a new HDD last month as the price of that one has tripled.... I'm lucky I don't need another for my build.. And you say it's not profiteering!!!