slipperylobster
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That is really what I call a hot chile.
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A menu is an implied contract.
It says bacon.
Gimme the bacon!
Would you like some extra bacon on that burger?
How about fries...would you like fries:?
How big do you want those fries?
Should I supersize the coke?
Which toy does you kid want with that happy meal?
Would you like that for here or to go?
How about an apple pie?
Is that gun loaded?
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Once again...the cat smiles....same like he just ate the canary.
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There will always be the tourist who shrugs off the high fare as part of the territory. Easy pickings. Big important man who comes to Bangkok, hits the bars for a week, and spends double that he would doing the same thing in Newcastle..or Perth
Wish they would do some homework... and nail down some kind of limit on what is good deal for those who live here.
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I wasn't aware that Tripadvisor had any credibility. Now, it's been confirmed that they have absolutely no standing whatsoever.
Feel free to upload a portfolio.
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I think the murders of 2 Brits on Koh Tao have been blown way out if proportion.
2 murders, 1 young girl's death from natural causes {possibly drugs}, and a French guy possibly suicide, in my mind does not make Koh Tao the "Death Island" the "Murder capitol of Thailand" or "the place one goes to if they have a death wish."
It is still a beautiful place to visit.
Name any place in the world and there will be crime stats that will show it to be dangerous.
People visiting Thailand need to be more concerned with wearing their helmets on motorcycles than with being murdered.
I think the number is in line with murders everywhere....but this is a small island....and there has yet to be any resolution..if ever.
The killer/rapist might still be in the area.
Unless we already convicted the two Burmese guys.
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If you like to share your Thailand trip with a Hoe....then this is the best.
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Give me that over your tiny condos with noisy city views and crowded streets any day. Not everyone needs to be living elbow to elbow in a hot, crowded city.
I live in a spacious, comfortable apartment in a very peaceful setting down a quiet soi in Bangkok. Don't judge city life based on the crowded bits you see as a tourist.
I might barely fit that "tourist" description....I have lived in Asia 20 years...and hardly a visit back to the States.
Plenty of us small village lovers....here, Enjoy it, if you want.... your choice...but definitely not something I would enjoy
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Home is home.....I think most people settle into the lifestyles they have always lived (for the guys that come looking for girls, that takes longer, lol). If you took morning runs before, you'll probably do the same here. We all have a life routine, and so according to our economics, I think we don't live that much differently. However, there are the exceptions, the farangs that hang around the bars all day, drinking, complaining, getting a cheap hooker and trying to make themselves manly. They don't have much of a life here, but they didn't have much of a life at home, either. The one Op says he has his house, car, etc., which is great for him, but my monthly budget will never extend that far. Like the other Op, I can afford to live comfortably here (i.e. studio apartment, scooter, occasional nice night out), but a little research shows I can live back in the US for close to the same, if I live with similar conditions. In other words, if I go back to the US, I'd be riding a scooter, not a 4x4.
What I usually notice in Thailand is that many guys come over here just after retiring, and then expound on how wonderful life is, because they have this new "freedom". But they lived only a brief time as a retiree in their own country, so of course it is a different lifestyle. When you don't have to wake up to be at work every day, you don't have a house to maintain, and you no long have that "keep up with the neighbors" mentality, those years of stress melt away. Beyond that, I personally would say about 80% of the guys I know that either have just come here, vacation here, or are thinking of coming here and one main goal....get laid as often as they can. That eventually wears off, and then they settle into their lifestyle, and that will often mimic what they did at home.
One thing on this forum I have noticed are guys saying you must stay in a village, live the simple life, get a wife, that's the only way to experience the "real" Thailand. That's a crock of BS...that's like saying in the UK you have to live in the slums to know the "real" life, so everyone living in cities must be living under "false" pretentions of the country. That's just a personal preference....you want to live in the village, that's ok with me. I don't, wouldn't want that lifestyle back home either. I don't think I understand more or less of Thailand regardless of where I live. Same as my home country. East coast is different than west coast, the cold states are different than the warm ones, the beach areas are different than desert. If you think living in one area makes you understand the country better, then I think you are rather shallow in your viewpoint. Life is what you make of it, wherever you are.
Good..except the cites normally are where the slums are....and the farang owned, small village home (usually new and spacious) are comfortable and relaxing.
Nothing beats nice a big garden or orchard, pond and large country home. Give me that over your tiny condos with noisy city views and crowded streets any day. Not everyone needs to be living elbow to elbow in a hot, crowded city.
Examples....Some parts of NYC (or London)...can be just as irritating and slummy as Bangkok or Pattaya. Whereas some villages nearby...are vastly superior for living (scenery, quiet, yard, friendlier).. That should be pretty self explanatory. I don't see any false pretentions about the country being a choice for "many of us" over a small apartment next to MacDonalds.... ugh
Thailand just is not that large. Plain and simple. Live quietly...and fly down to a beach/tourist infected area...when the feeling strikes you. A thousand baht.
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..."...grilled the body of a still-born baby..."....
How about his buddy?
The grave digging monk in Udon who walks around with two heads.
With all these grilled babies and dug up body parts, I cannot smell the rubber factories any more.
No wonder the soi dogs look fat.
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Some people sell everything to come here...and then buy everything here.
After a few years, they start thinking about selling everything here and going back.
Then, when they realize what they have come back to, they start missing things in Thailand.
Reality is, for me, my income is pretty good for living a great life here..although a bit lonely.
My income is not enough, however, to live at the same level back home. (I have no back home..really)
I would have to pick a location out of one of the fifty states in the USA and show up with a backpack,
leaving a middle class life here. My wife would not be impressed.
However, in two years, I receive my social securtiy and then I can do either place, or both
(6 months on and 6 months off).
I am not overly attached to Thailand, but there is nothing remotely similar in the USA...
No credit there for two years....(have to rebuild credit from scratch). Wife would earn more there.
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One bar/restaurant place at Imperial Beach, San Diego, had broken the code on how to cook a steak
Every Monday, they would have thawed out sirloin steaks...each presented on butcher paper.
You simply go in, pay 7 usd, pickup your steak and toss it on a large BBQ. All the seasonings were handy, as well. People would order beer and chat with each other at the indoor BBQ. Cooking times and tips were put on the wall.
It was very nice, going there and grilling them up just as you like them. There was also a salad bar, roll and french fries included in the price. Nobody complained how the steaks turned out, as there was no chef to blame.
There was another place in Waikiki that did the same, but you had many choices of meats and seafood.
I wonder if anybody thought of opening a similar operation? I would enjoy having a place like that in CM.
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www.ilikehd.com is decent, and I like being able to buy 30 day blocks, and then I take a week off or leave town. 350 thb....for English +Sports. No more CNBC....For you folks from OZ, most episodes of Skippy are on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh3zdY4L-Gw
just show me where I can find some hot molten lead so I can burn my eyes out...
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Aussie TV is ok, I guess.
Just wish they would put english subtitles, so I could follow along.
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This man has experience in North Korea, think he doesn't need advise from a high school grade journalist..
Indeed, the OP has the insight of child....when it comes to international relationships.
Number 1....is thinking the Ambassador even has any power to pick sides at all.
So why mention that.
Number 2....The Ambassador is merely a spokesperson, not a policy maker....with additional duties of overseeing American Services for those Americans abroad.
A good smile and a firm handshake/proper wai.....will be the best advice.
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I know in the U.S. For some time now you ask for medium it comes medium rare.I guess I need to start asking medium well to
Get it medium. Use to be medium was pink. Now medium is red.
I can handle pink...nothing less cooked.
My problem with red is that the blood gets all over the plate and into the mashed potatoes.
Cannot handle blood on the plate.
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Cajun food????......in the entire planet how many people (I think) want to smell - let alone EAT that s**t.....and be stupid enough to want/demand it in Thailand....Can you speak Cajun??? If you can you might understand maybe 5,000-10,000 people on this planet that can....yet you want food 1/2 way around the world? Ever try to listen to two Cajuns speaking? Might as well be on Mars......Or further out...
awwwww...go to MacDonalds and get your happy meal. Let true gourmets be.
Actually, Cajun food is served in many fine restaurants, and Several Cajun Chefs are International quality...
Prudhomme....Emeril...among others.
and you are unwise and uncouth saying only stupid people would want Cajun Food.
New Orleans is full of good cooking and Cajun food..... It is an international city,
not quite the Bayou anymore.
Many 5 star restaurants will offer Cajun style....steaks and seafood.
get off your butt and go see the world
beautiful.................Bam !!!
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This topic is crap & gone down the pan.
On a serious note, wiping crap from your rear with your hand & cleaning with water from the spray or bowl is a much used practice.
Although have you smelled the people who do this?
They smell of crap & their hands stink of Shat. It's not pleasant.
Use toilet paper in all situations where the brown matter is concerned, don't get it on your hands, so double fold, the flush the used crap paper down the toilet. Wash hands with soap & water. Job done, no smell and your smell clean.
Now, on to Greece, their economic issues aren't the only thing they need to sort out (especially in that heat), nasty:
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Toilet paper does not get shat off...it just spreads it.
Heat and humidity add to the displeasure, rash, and possible fungus infection.
Everyone on the bus smells you.
toilet in the bin.....breeding ground for E-coli and hepatitis and cholera
Use the bum gun. Soap and water on hands is a no brainer.
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Farang poo poo.
Another in the news recently. Hope it doesn't raise the tone too much.
Long dresses are quite useful for emergencies such as this.
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Also got a new girlfriend who wants to get married now
That will not happen for a few years I think
Take a breather...two years sounds right.
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Why do they insist on saying these storms are being created by high pressure systems.
High pressure is stable air, low pressure is unstable air. Storms are the arrival of low pressure air.
Actually, I believe, it is the meeting of the two.....not just one or the other.
We are currently covered by a low pressure system and very hot temperatures.
Cooler air from a high pressure system is moving in from China.
When this pressure system meets with the current low pressure system....bam.
Here is a good link that explains it.
http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/danger-from-tropical-storms-warned
this is a week old...but same applies for this week....same idea....two air masses meet
After the storm passes..you will notice a temperature difference...but only for a while
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If the Chinese ever get organized....we would certainly be the ones with the empty rice bowl.
All tourists report to 7 Eleven for discounted jet ski ride coupons with every purchase...
US woman jailed for firing at McDonald's outlet over bacon-less burger
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My name is Squiddledickinski....and I was born in the USA.. Hey...look at Barrack Obama....how about the Big Lebowski?
Look up John Wayne's name... tons of foreign names. Heck...she could be the sister of Peter Torres from that band "The Monkees"