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  1. I am confused [easily done for me]!! I thought

    I thought I already had 3G with AIS and pay monthly for an unlimited download and my icon on my mobile shows an "H" when it connects, which I must admit is only about 50% of the time.[in Pattaya]

    What is it I have [or they are selling] and what is the difference going to be?

    Operators were allowed to provide 3G under a "trial" mode using their already allocated band, 850MHz(dtac-true), 900MHz(AIS)

    I believe now they all can use the international (or universal) 2100Mhz band, which now all 3G phones should be able to work.

    TOT have been using 2100Mhz for a while, I guess they had the "political benefits" to use that band. LOL

    Correct me if im wrong.

    moving up to 2100Mhz is to a bandwidth less cluttered and therefore faster,

    I heard it is True that is currently the fastest as they route to satellite a different way............

    but who knows, a fast car on the shortest route or a slow car on the fastest route...........currently my AIS 3G turns on and off( goes fast then slow)................bah

  2. Maybe it's the media I take in, or my cracker face, but Pattaya still comes across as a more dangerous place for me to walk around at night.

    Then again, I've never had a Thai person so much as look at me crossly. All of this stuff gets filtered through local media before it reaches my ears. Interesting.

    Strange post. I cant work out if you live in Pattaya but have never had a person look crossly or you live elsewhere and read the papers. In either case the post is odd.

    I walk at night in Pattaya and at all hours there are honest people taking down or setting up shop, every corner has a motor cycle taxi waiting patiently for fares There is no room for violent crime. The reports of fights usually involve a drunk farange being stupid. But then again Pattaya is a large city so there will be a downtown somewhere where poverty and anger mix into an ugly brew. I like Pattaya and feel totally safe at all hours.

  3. At least no men gets infected by their wives (unlike the other way round). It also seems like premarital sex is safer than after marriage.

    We dont know how they do their stats. Do the authorities ask for data and check it out? If a married guy has HIV do they check his wife? Do they track the bug back up the line, I bet they dont in which case isource of infection data is down to propaganda.

    If we play the stats right then being a sex worker is safest but not for the man ????????????????

    does this mean tourists dont give sex workers HIV but are more likely to catch it. sadly that is what you would expect!!!!!!!!!!

  4. It always amazes me how people stick to their own reeccs and poopoo the others. A case in point

    1) lie down flat beside something bulky. the falling items will form a triangle of safety.

    2) Dont lie down beside something bulky. small items will fall onto you. Climb under a table.

    3) Dont climb under a table if it collapses it will flatten you.

    4) Door ways

    5) Avoid doorways

    How about climbing under a table and pulling something bulky in beside you. If really energetic get table and bulky thing into a doorway. There everybody happy.

  5. Can't find a list of the words/spellings anywhere, anyone have a link?

    Is the new spelling going to write the words how Thai people already say them (falling tone on the final syllable 99% of the time) or try to put the stress where an English speaker would put it?

    HMMM - ENGLISH or AMERICAN...???

    Millions more people speak American style 'English' than the English version. Before you say British English is the proper one - read your history. In America the language was frozen to make it easy for immigrants to learn. In England, it changed drastically.

    I havent heardsuch rubbish in ages. There is English and English just as there is American and American. saying the Americans froze the language is potty. The easiest to understand is the taught minimal accent referred to in Uk as 'received English' and doubtless US has its version, rather more Boston than Bronx.

    As for the poster who thinks rhyming slang, or Cockney, is meant to be English is deluded. It is a language within a language created to confuse non locals and stop eavedropping by the law or outsifers. Again I guess rap has a similar effect.

  6. Can't find a list of the words/spellings anywhere, anyone have a link?

    Is the new spelling going to write the words how Thai people already say them (falling tone on the final syllable 99% of the time) or try to put the stress where an English speaker would put it?

    falling tone when learned from written English as in ba-con. But 99% rising tone or at least high tone, as Singbureee...

  7. woah, the fire exits were deliberately locked... is this not the most serious charge???

    Where did you read that?

    its not uncommon for nightclubs to lock the doors. Its called a lockin which in reality means outsiders ( police etc) are locked out. They are locked out to enable after hours drinking etc.

    As for building inspectors. Its more a question of slow updating of the law. For example most roofes in Thailand are made from the universally banned asbestos tiles. The Thai government when urged to bann the use of this product agreed to discuss it. Taiwan in comparison has banned new use after 2020!!

    So is the so called inflammible foam really banned?

  8. Marc Faber Explains Why He Likes Living In Thailand

    Read more: http://articles.busi...d#ixzz280yzUnfR

    Marc Faber:

    Disclaimer: I think he's kidding.

    Surprise surprise Faber will never sell gold. Wonder If he bought gold in 1980 and spent 30 years underwater waiting for it to be worth what he paid for it....

    oooh wow, I wonder if he bought Enron or Marconi........... lets see if we can discredit him.

    if you are not surprised Marc Faber will keep his gold why do you wonder if he spent 30 years underwater.....perverse you are.

    Anyway I suggest he got it right because he is a financial guru and posts openly on twitter and is not writing carp posts under a pseudonym

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  9. The Baht has held up quite well against those just printing money to meet debt - thus in real terms Thailand has a far stronger currency.

    My advice to you is "maybe you should stop commenting on financial matters"!

    If the thai baht is printed it will lose value against other currencies.

    If Other countries print more money than Thailand then the baht will gain in strength

    If the Thai government thinks the baht is overvalued then the can use means to reduce its value.

    Marc faber says Thailand is less involved with the derivative markets and so is not needing to bail out its banks. What he is not quoted as saying is that the Thai Govt is printing money to pay for the cost of past govt borrowing and current flood reparations.

  10. Typical negative posts from the army of uninformed Thai visa plodders.

    Maybe a schedule showing who would be affected, who would gain and who would lose would help the comments get some structure.

    All the nation article says is that there will be a visa fee ( for everyone?) and the first country visited will get it.

    it seems to me that the millions of tourists are better off with thailand being out of the system as they ( 45 countries) can visit free.

    it will be the long stay people who need to do the sums but no costs are included in the article.

    I think if any comment is worth making it is that the Nation article fails to inform.

  11. But ministers in Laos say studies have already been done, and consultants they hired said there were no major negative impacts for the river.

    Gee Really? The consultants hired by the Lao Government said everything will be hunky dory. I would imagine an independent consulting Firm might have a different opinion. Actually I believe many experts have already chimed in and believe it could possibly be a eco disaster, as most dams are that block natural migration routs. Example: California and Oregon. massive decline in salmon populations, after dams were built. Many if not all of those have these fish ladders integrated in these projects.

    The consultants hired for this project were independent foreign experts.

    http://www.mrcmekong...tation-process/

    Are you sure the greasy pole doesn't extend to foreign experts. Its like saying the FDA supervises the licencing of drugs and works for the benefit of the consumer. Haha.

    Governments bring pressure to bear on all consultants. Say an American consulting group wants a contract in USA and the trade off is what?,yep a green light on a project in laos for which another US Company is tendering..... where does big business start and end.

    Now, say introduce Green peace or another whacky independant group which enjoys being contraversial and we will have a balanced view...............

    been there, I have the T-shirt.

  12. Thai lads on a beach. Its not their home, its not their jetski, not their rental money, part timers working for a pittance and what they can skim, temp workers, beach bums earning a crust. The money goes way up the slippery pole the kids dont care they can move on anytime.......

    maybe having owner occupiers on the beach...or

    licencing the lads to work on the beach the same way vendors are licenced.

    a bit of offialdom will work but first the big lazy bosses probably not even in pattaya need to be tamed and the way to do that is reduce the cash returns and increase the supervision; so another posters idea of booking-cabins on the beach sounds a good idea.

  13. To find a reference point I looked up the UK parallel. I think (and am not sure) that being a citizen is marked by holding a passport.

    "British nationals could be deprived of their citizenship if the Secretary of State is satisfied they are responsible for acts seriously prejudicial to the vital interests of the United Kingdom or an Overseas Territory.

    So if my line of thought is correct then assuming Thai law is similar to UK law Thaksin is probably entitled to his passport unless it can be proven that his activities are prejudicial to .......Thailand.

    The alternative would be that he is banished; a status hardly consistent with the Thai claims to get him back into Thailand and into jail.

  14. "so they can use all of their six senses"

    w00t.gif

    I am counting and can only find five...but maybe my brain is not grown.....

    Maybe someone can put this Dr. back in the time machine and send her back where she belongs 1800.

    er what about the sixth sense? Surely instinct has to be developed like any other. Sadly soon we will be thinking only 4 senses is enough. Im sure my son is down to zero he doesnt see, hear or notice anyone ( puts them on ignore). Not sure if he has overridden smell or taste yet....

  15. Aside from any of it, why does the science ministry have responsibility for a couple of canals?

    thats a really useful question ..not.

    who cares why. maybe its ministry land, or predates the other arrangements......so what.......... It is funny that it has become contentious and probably more than embarrassing... but I bet he doesnt surrender responsibility or give anything away.........

  16. I think journalists have a wicked sense of humour. They have it in their power to say anything, but for continuity or mischievousness they juxtapose news articles. So what do we have here?

    First article student gangs are out of control killing and maiming each other.,

    Second: Yingluck has concern for women and children.

    It's a pity Yingluk couldnt have had concern for all the people in Thailand including males and faranges. Maybe she does but the journalists make sure she looks as though she has got is wrong!!!

  17. There won't be widescale flooding this year. There will always be some local flooding somewhere in Thailand. For the pedantic among you, Yinluck was referring to widescale flooding, and she is correct in what she said.

    ermm.. and how the <deleted> would u know?

    do those asterisks make up the words: Fon Tok the thai for 'rain'. Whether ( weather) or not I cant understand why idiots are trying to link weather patterns with government statements. Its all nonsence.

    At the moment the skies look pretty clear, if there is a deluge on the scale of last year the government plans to avoid another disaster seem lacking. Yingluck's saying that the country is ready for the monsoons is not born out by the Governor of Bangkok. Dykes and flood barriers, klongs and dredging so far are projected to be finished next year not this year.

    I hope the monsoons are light enough to be sufficient for irrigation but not so much as to test the Flood Relief program. Yingluck is in cloud cuckoo land with her idiotic platitudes.

  18. I reckon most people are totally missing the point here. the smoke and mirrors has dragged most off in the wrong direction.

    the reality is the deputy lied. He said he lied and he said it was important to lie sometimes. err what does this mean? That the new figures are the truth? That the drop in GDP is now accurately stated?

    Noooooooooo, he tells lies for the comfort of the people, the truth lies not in GDP being down a bit but is that the Thai economy is in a dreadful state and its a financial hole he doesnt know how to climb out of. The GDP figures are a diversion from the real truth which is that the Abhisit government borrowed heavily, Yinglucks government needed to borrow heavily as a consequence and that was before the flood totally knackered the job, add a growing global recession and exports going down the pan and the future is bleak...but I digress; the deputy pm has come clean and is talking about honesty not about the economic crisis. Well done objective achieved.

    All in my opinion of course!

  19. EQ fallen from 186 to 169....

    Not knowing how to score this I looked it up and see around 100 is average and 150 makes for a really nice well adjusted person. So who are these Thais kidding? I googled and came up with this article which starts off at 186 falling to 169 and goes on to say something very different:

    June 27, 2012 4:11 pm

    Thai children's emotional quotient (EQ) scores have been falling, dropping from 186.42 in 2002 and 179.58 in 2007 to 169.72, according to the 2011 surveys by the Public Health Ministry's Mental Health Department.

    EQ is a measure of the ability to identify, assess, and control the emotions of oneself, of others, and of groups.

    "They are less happy. They are seeing more competition," Rajanukul Institute director Panpimol Wipulakorn said. The latest survey covered 5,325 children aged between six and 11 years old in Bangkok, Pathum Thani, Rayong, Samut Sakhon, Uttaradit, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Ratchasima, Roi Et, Krabi and Pattani.

    According to Panpimol, raw scores from the 2011 survey revealed that Thai children's EQ scores were lower than the normal range.

    The normal ranges require the scores to fluctuate between 50 and 100. However, Thai children's average EQ scores stood at just 45.12 according to the 2011 survey.

    On adjustment to problems, the average scores stood at 46.65. On emotional control, the average scores were 46.50. On moral sense self satisfaction, the average scores were 45.65. On consideration for and understanding of other people's feelings, the children scored 45.65 on average. On emotional adjustment, they earned 45.23.

    Panpimol said if categorised by region, children in the South had the highest EQ scores (45.95). In the North, children's average EQ scores stood at 45.84. In Bangkok, children's average EQ scores were 45.62. In the Central region, the average scores were 44.38. In the Northeast, children scored just 44.04 on emotional quotient.

    Asked why the northeastern children scored the lowest in the EQ area, Panpimol said research had not yet been conducted to examine relevant factors.

    "But I believe it has something to do with the fact that many of the children in the Northeast are growing up far away from their parents who have become migrant workers in big cities. They may live with their grandparents but some elderly people have economic and health problems, which can affect their upbringing," she said.

    Rajanagarindra Child and Adolescent Mental Health Institute director Dr Taweesilp Visanuyothin said it was bad news that Thai children's EQ scores have been falling.

    "But EQ can improve. If children get proper care from families, schools, and the society, their EQ can be better," he said

  20. why do you think its only the thai woman who does that?

    20 replies and i shall start the ball rolling first

    its a Buddhist thing

    I see your point but I think you need to qualify it a little bit. It's a Thai-Buddhism thing.

    Thai Theravada Buddhism is by no means pure Buddhism. It has a lot of superstition and ancient cultural additions that are nothing to do with Buddhism itself.

    That's all I have to say on the matter.

    The Bhuddhist thing is totally separate. People in the villages are brought up to go to the temple. Its a meeting place, a place to get some luck and earn merit. people go to the temple to calm down, to recharge their batteries, to straighten out any misdemeanour's.

    The way the people behave is based on needs and personal experience. We not like it but knocking Buddhism isnt the answer. The Temple culture is holding the country together let it continue; why should we replace cohesion with the modern gods: football, drunkeness, deceit, competitiveness, materiality, the culture of I am better than you and I know my rights!!!

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