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1 minute ago, Jane Dough said:

Actually I am thinking they could make a nice cottage industry producing handy shoulder bags for sale to tourists. Cut the vinyl into squares and sew together with a strap. 

 

Win-Win even if the occasional one is snatched in Pattaya. 

 

Rooster

Good thinking. Have you got Pat. Pending on that idea?

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6 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

Is it only me, or what in the world is "a downtown in the number of visitors???

It must have be written by a Petula Clark fan.

[Immigration chief: Don't scare the tourists away by being too strict - we need them and their money]

5 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

 

From here https://www.espressoenglish.net/countable-and-uncountable-nouns-why-10-items-or-less-is-grammatically-incorrect/

Perhaps I should try forwarding the article to the Big C management - unless your you're on the case already?

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6 minutes ago, aripengu said:

20 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Which country will they both be coming from?

Why are you so negative? They could be coming from two different countries. ????

'cos I'm practising to be a wit. I'm halfway there.

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3 minutes ago, Crossy said:

7 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Perhaps he meant produce less vinyl posters, or smaller ones?

 

Shouldn't that be "fewer"?

 

I wonder what happens to all the posters after they've been used (just once, can they be printed on the back too?), some of our local shops / food outlets have recycled advertising posters as blinds, not seen an immigration/police one yet.

 

Solly, I learned my Engrish at Big C. 'Express checkout - 10 items or less'.

[Immigration chief: Don't scare the tourists away by being too strict - we need them and their money]

51 minutes ago, webfact said:

He told his minions not to be overzealous. 

Yes, he said, follow the government's directives and abide by the law and due process. 

But don't be too strict and scare away the tourists and other foreign visitors. 

I'm sure that means in plain Engrish:

We won't change the regulations and apply them consistently. We'll leave the regulations as they are, then when tourism picks up and have enough victims, we can start making money out of them again.

 

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36 minutes ago, webfact said:

"new group" of tourists - all revealed next month

Which country will they both be coming from?

[Looking for roommate in Klong Toey]

9 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

Nice spooky portrait there on the wall

Perhaps he's a white radical muslim man?

[Concered locals for cyclists]

This morning I cycled from home in Udon to Nong Khai (Friendship Bridge) and straight back to Udon.  59km each way (making it 118km door-to-door). Took me 5 hours. I left home at 7am when it was 11 degrees C.

 

The interesting thing was as I was coming back towards Udon, as I hit the 100km point, I felt pretty knackered. (I felt the same when I first did the same trip exactly two years ago on 5-12-2017).

So today I stopped at the side of the road and lay my bicycle on its side and lay down on the grass next to it.

Within ten minutes three Thais stopped to see if I was OK. It’s was very kind of them, but two of them seemed confused that I said I was just tired from cycling a long way and was just having a rest.

 

The first guy was in a pick-up. When I told him I was on my way back home to Udon, he offered to put my bicycle in the back of his pick-up and give me a lift into Udon. I politely refused and thanked him for stopping to check.

 

Next was a woman who seemed to think I’d had an accident and needed to go to hospital. I explained the situation to her too, even though she was still really keen to call an ambulance.

 

Third person was a guy on a motorbike. When I told him what I was doing, he understood. He told me he goes cycling around Udon with his boss, and asked me where I lived in Udon. He lives on the other side of town to me, and seemed happy when I decided to get up and carry on cycling.

So an interesting trip from a perspective of concerned Thais who mostly don’t seem understand the idea of having a rest when cycling, even though it was hard work cycling that distance for me.

 

[Worst Joke Ever 2024]

2 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

I thought you "picked" shamrocks.  Maybe your spell checker has a little Irish gremlin or leprechaun in it!

I picked mine off the shelf in B&Q.

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Just now, scottiejohn said:

It would have been made of Paper Mache then and just dissolved!

Brown sugar would have been better, 'cos demerara.

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1 minute ago, ballpoint said:

15 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Then Paddy added, "Anyway, I don't want shampoo, I want realpoo."

So Murphy threw a shamrock at him.

He was obviously bricking it.

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2 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

Paddy's in the bathroom and Murphy shouts to him 
"Did you find the shampoo?"
Paddy says, "yes but it's for dry hair and I've just wet mine.

Then Paddy added, "Anyway, I don't want shampoo, I want realpoo."

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1 minute ago, scottiejohn said:

My uncle has  just said that he has left me a stately home in his will. I've no idea where Sod Hall is but I'm thrilled.

(for non Brits Sod all means nothing!)

He must have been a turf accountant.

[Diary of a farang in Isaan]

10 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

I just visited a local Wat here in Ayutthaya with the gf.

They were smelting a new Buddha statue and the faithful were throwing in some gifts to ensure their continued health, wealth and happiness , my gf chucked in a silver bracelet.

 

All in all it was a good event ( not too long and chairs were available ???? ).

What was slightly unnerving was the reverence in which the faithful give to the monks as they passed, some wai-ed and got on their knees but I saw a couple of elderly old ladies literally throwing themselves to the ground !

I looked around as I thought <snip> had entered !!

It's an easy mistake to make - they obviously mistook you for<snip>

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9 minutes ago, fusion58 said:

 

Amazing how Thais view everything through the lens of social hierarchy and caste - even a religion in whose highest precepts no such distinctions exist.

This is not just buddhism, it's Thai buddhism - not a lot to do with religion.

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2 minutes ago, faraday said:

It's a fly, according to Mrs F, & lives off Buffaloes.

 

It has composite eyes, so deffo not a yoong.

Whoa! How many buffaloes can it eat in one sitting?

 

I thought it was a Bee - the dreaded Hepatitis Bee.

 

[30 visa waiver entering via land border]

I hadn't realised the 15 day visa waiver that replaced the old 30 day has now changed back again to 30 days at land borders?

How long ago did it change back to 30 days?

Still two land border visa waiver entries per year I assume?

 

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13 minutes ago, gaucan said:

 

show them how to run it insted of complaining 

I think Colin's still waiting for a work permit to become prime minister.

[Diary of a farang in Isaan]

5 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I'm trying to reduce my electronic media not increase it. Call me old fashioned but I like reading books. 

I wish I had the will power to get rid of every digital thing I own, but the thing I learned very long ago is that they are addictive. They certainly don't make us happier.

 

BTW, how can you possibly read 3,000 books?

 

Can you get Danny and the Rattlesnakes on your machine? I've been trying to find that book for years

with no luck. The internet is no help on it either.

I can only find a hard-cover version, no ebook:

https://www.amazon.com/Danny-Rattlesnakes-Yarns-Scouts-Cubs/dp/B00A4CBCUG

Published in 1930 - you're not regressing are you - ha ha?

 

[Diary of a farang in Isaan]

Thanks for your ongoing posting.

I'm not quite sure if your comment above "Health and safety is always considered" was tongue in cheek?

 

[Diary of a farang in Isaan]

14 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

Owl Log 20-11-2019

 

Took a pic of the bin that a couple of you lads were inquiring about. 

 

 

Most of the dogs try to get into the bins at night. This was the first time for ages that ours had been attacked. The green open one is used for leaves and twigs, so is not of interest to the dogs. There is a group of a dozen dogs in our short road. They have not formed into a pack; yet!

{snipped}

IIRC, aren't those bins in your photo above, tyres that have been forced inside-out?

Or was I hallucinating on your home-made dodgy Lao Cao?

[Diary of a farang in Isaan]

1 minute ago, sirineou said:

I think he said Isaan tool suck ,and monkeys  steal his food, i think they use his ladders to do it.

They use his ladders? Does that make this another tall story?

[Diary of a farang in Isaan]

4 minutes ago, bannork said:

Owl, don't you have one of those blue rubbish bins with lids outside your house?  They usually keep the dogs out but they're not very big.

The bins we have just outside Udon city are those water barrels about a metre tall. They're supplied by the tessaban and have a hinged lid on top, instead of the lid in the pic below.

[Diary of a farang in Isaan]

25 minutes ago, SniperSpider said:

Thank you.  I hope now the thread can return to the topics presented by the OP.

I wasn't defending what you said, I couldn't see where it was intended as humour?

So back to what you're trying get away from:

 

1 hour ago, SniperSpider said:

No I am not touchy, just correct?  Highways with odd numbers go north and south, even numbers go east and west, the same as in many countries.  It is ok to correct someone if you are indeed correct.

This is not correct is it. Highway 1 goes north. Highway 2 goes north-east.

Highway 211 starts about 10km south of Nong Khai, goes west, then turns north.