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"I understand the problem' No you don't, you still think it's the Farangs fault when its the Thai that are in the wrong, but face and Thai-ness won't allow them to admit it.

Very common term in Business, to imply, those whose needs must be catered for. i.e. Bosses and anyone they nominate, like marketing bastards.

Guns bad. Knit wits and morons, Worse. I reckon guns should be allowed but misuse and illegal possession should be punishable by death

Smart young bastard on the TV here, making his fortune selling LPs, like he invented them. Ah well, he'd be selling digital watches in the day...

I wish I was clever, then people would laugh at my jokes. My bit about the beautiful Thai women was a simile for the logic we Farangs often encounter in LOS. Two spring to mind... 1/. A Thai motorcyclist driving dangerously collides with Farang who was minding his own business, it's clearly the motorcyclists fault, but all Thais who see this accident are of the opinion that "If the Farang hadn't come to Thailand, the accident would not have happened, ergo, it's the Farang's fault." 2/. A Thai girlfriend of someone whose name escapes me, gets a scooter. Farang boyfriend returning to Farangland for a month says "Don't ride the bike when you've been drinking Ja", she says "Yes Ja". While he is away she drives drunk into a lamppost, not badly hurt, but still an accident whilst drinking. Says she, "I was all right and nearly at home until I remembered your warning, I was distracted by your warning and lost control because I was thinking of your warning. If you hadn't warned me, I would have not had the accident, it's your fault". So my " It's not my fault, if your women weren't so beautiful I would have never come to LOS in the first place, and if I'd never come to LOS, I'd never have formed these opinions " says its the Thais fault, I think like this

What you said - - I thought that going for a wider membership would result in too many 'Oiks' invading the 'scene'. And perhaps, though not down to this one board, the publicity the nightlife scene got through the internet was it's downfall. At least that's the feeling some of us 80's, 90's and 00's fellas have. Now we have a commercialised expensive 'scene'. But, perhaps there's a + side. As many will note, there's still fun to be had at a reasonable rate, that's not well known and only people who frequent boards like this are likely to talk about it. With a limited audience, perhaps boards like this will foster a different scene, known only to a limited number of people and away from the unwashed masses that twitbook and facer.

One Picture repeated to drum it in to yers

I got Dementia and Alheyders, my doctor has warned me there's a high got that I am develop snoring

Tee Hee

A rarely seen Thai Naga washed up on the Aramoana Spit salt marsh near Dunedin in New Zealand. It's three metres long, swims vertically and is known for spitting fireballs, portending propitious events and the ability to shorten its length by gnawing at its own tail - and it has washed up in a Dunedin salt marsh. The University of Otago's New Zealand Marine Studies Centre and Aquarium posted photos of a rarely seen Thai Naga on its Facebook page on Thursday. It was discovered on Aramoana Spit at the entrance of the Otago Harbour on Thursday morning. Department of Conservation worker David Agnew was made aware of it by a local man on a morning walk. According to the university marine experts, the fish was 3m long but the species was known to reach lengths more than 8m. "Described as long-distance river drifters, common, though rarely seen in Asian rivers they are usually found hanging in vertical position in the upper 3m of the water column, most sightings have been reported in Thailand and Laos" the Facebook post said. "Specimens larger than 1.5m are known to shorten their length by biting off their tail, this behaviour may be an adaptation to being resident in shallow rivers. Healthy Thai Naga are known to hide in rivers and are sometimes seen near the water surface - so may be the origin of some 'river dragon' myths." Agnew said in his 20 years working and growing up in New Zealand he had never come across such a sea creature. "It was really fresh, it had just washed up on the night tide and looking at it, it was a pretty weird looking creature. "It didn't have scales like other fish, it had smooth skin, like tinfoil, and if you rubbed it the silver would come off." Agnew understood university marine researchers and the museum were discussing preserving the fish for research. A representative from the Wellington Thai Embassy, Mr Suthee Pradubwit confirmed that the creature did match the descriptions of Thai Naga that the Thai people have seen and further opined that New Zealand Scientists would be unlikely to be able to understand it. Tee Hee

So much fun... So I agree with you, that Thai-Ness is a positive moniker, when viewed from a Thai perspective. A bit like when NZ folk, describe themselves as Kiwis. But! The reason so many non-Thais regard Thai-Ness, as a negative descriptor is this: When ever, or very commonly, when a Thai is backed into a corner, over an issue that demonstrates negative performance by a Thai or Thais, like greed or incompetence, dishonesty or illogic, the defence seems to be 'Thai-Ness'. With a rider, that foreigners can never understand said Thai-Ness. Well I've got news for you. Thais are Homo Sapiens, which means that you are the same as me. The only difference from a physical point of view is that over the centuries, my line has been selected to be big and strong and capable of rowing long boats across the North Atlantic in very harsh conditions, not to mention doing battle when arriving and a bit of rape and pillage afterwards (Vikings). Your lot, have had a bunch of different selection processes in play, some of which seem to have been selecting the women folk for beauty, by powerful rulers, for which many Farang are eternally grateful. But essentially we are not different. I know many Thai kids, born in NZ, grown up in NZ that demonstrate none of the Thai-Ness you love so avidly, indeed they are just Kiwis. I am sure that some Farangs born and raised in Thailand will demonstrate Thai-Ness. So it is Nurture, not Nature that is in play. Ergo, Thais, like everyone else, just want to feel special, like the 14 year old girl who has convinced herself she is a princess/movie star/pop diva. The assertion that non-Thais will never understand Thai-Ness is a falsehood, we do understand. And when Thai-Ness is used as a shield for behaviour or thinking that in the rest of the world would be derided, we laugh and deride. BTW it's not my fault, if your women weren't so beautiful I would have never come to LOS in the first place, and if I'd never come to LOS, I'd never have formed these opinions. Tee hee...

Police have located and fined a 25-year-old Briton for exposing himself on Khaosarn Road on Songkran Day, Daily News reported. After the YouTube clip showing the young farang man walking with no clothes on went viral, police from the Chana Songkram police station went to inspect the scene late Monday night. Pol Lt Somyos Udomraksasup, deputy commander of the Chana Songkram police station, told Daily News that police officers from his station found the man on Khaosarn Road at 11pm Monday. The man appeared drunk and was spotted walking around with his shorts in his right hand and with nothing to imagination. Somyos said the man walked around and caused disturbance to Songkran revelers at the spot with unacceptable behavior. Police found out that he is a Briton and is 25 years old. Somyos declined to give the name of the man. The Briton was told to put on his shorts and the officers fined him Bt100 for acting indecently in public place and released him. Following the incident, the Chana Songkram station stepped up measures to keep order on the Khaosarn Road, Somyos added. After the news of the Bt100 was reported, several Thai Facebook users posted comments on Daily News page, criticizing police for their "too lenient" action. For example, Pijuk Singtogeaw, a Facebook user, said Thais were fined Bt500 each for exposing their breast but the Briton was fined only Bt100. Another Facebook user, Burana Kobutr, said the fine was worth the publicity the Briton had received. Nong Fai said in a post that the man should have been banned from entering Thailand for six months. http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/817781-briton-fined-bt100-for-walking-naked-in-bangkok-on-songkran-day/?utm_source=newsletter-20150417-0732&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news Bht 10 per inch?

Because that's the way we deal with reluctant males in the West!

Arrivals may not meet forecast SUCHAT SRITAMA THE NATION April 16, 2015 1:00 am TOURISM MAY not meet its arrivals forecast if aviation safety concerns are not cleared up, key tourism bodies warned this week. "The private sector initially believed that the lifting of martial law would win a lot of tourists |back to the country. But the situation has now again returned to difficulty. If the air safety problem remains unsolved, the tourism target will need to be revised down," said Ittirit Kinglake, president of the Tourism Council of Thailand. Thailand might not achieve this year's projection of 29 million arrivals and inbound revenue of Bt140 billion, due to the current air travel safety issues raised by the International Civil Aviation Organisation. Thai tourism has been tested by many trials through the years such as the Sumatra tsunami, airport closures, the flood of a few years ago and the political crisis last year. During the first quarter of this year, international tourists |filed back to the country, with |7.8 million visitors welcomed, up |23 per cent year on year. Ittirit said the Russian market would continue to slow until next year as the economy there had failed to improve. Vacationers from other key markets such as Japan, South Korea and China may suspend their plans to travel to Thailand for fear of flying. However, the council is confident that domestic tourism will hit the target of 150 million trips. Chanin Donavanik, chief executive officer of Dusit International, said many hotels cannot raise their room rates for the high season in the last quarter of this year due to the global economic instability. "Thailand should perform better than this. It's because of many problems from the economic situation outside to internal problems," he added. Charamporn Jotikasthira, president of Thai Airways International Plc, said that last quarter, THAI began to drop some loss-making routes, such as Johannesburg in January, while more routes in Europe and Asia will be cut this year. In February, the carrier revised its summer schedule and announced cost-cutting measures, followed in April by revising its route expansion plan especially for China and South Korea, due to the safety issue. Its average passenger-load factor in the first quarter was 76 per cent, up from 68.9 per cent in the same quarter last year. The improvement is expected to continue throughout this year and next, which should help the company return to profit in early 2017. One of the major factors helping to increase revenue is the price of jet fuel, which on average has been 20 per cent lower than last year's level, enabling the airline to save about Bt10 billion to date. THAI expects its average load factor to exceed 76 per cent in the current quarter, thanks largely to flights added during the Songkran Festival.

Love Actually 2003 - A chic flick - my excuse for watching this, was that there's been an unseasonable Antarctic blast here recently and MLG wanted a girl movie. Actually quite good, with some good performances from a wide range of notables. worth a watch

The Sapphires - a mostly accurate Bio Pic of a group of notable Aboriginal Australian women who sang and went to Vietnam to entertain the troops and if the movie is anything to go by, could sing like angels. The movie itself is OK, but the music is excellent, chills up the spine stuff.

"It's nothing less than staggering to me that air travel is as trouble free as it generally is. " - probably testimony to the quality of the original aircraft build

I like the idea of a computer on a usb stick, plus it in to a tv and away you go...

Well you were there... And no I don't have photos

Fast and Furious 7 - such crap that I'll let someone else do the review on this: Furious 7 is utter rubbish, and here's why KARL QUINN The latest installment of the Fast & Furious franchise is out now. At the risk of being the guy who farts at Paul Walker's wake, I'm just going to come right out and say it. Furious 7 is rubbish. Sorry, that's not quite right. This film is a stinking pile of crap. Now, I know there are loads of people out there who think differently, and they'll point as one to the 800 million reasons I'm wrong (that being the gross in US dollars at the time of writing), but if we can focus for a second on something other than money and call an end to the minute's critical silence we've all observed in honour of Paul Walker, I'd like to point to a few reasons why Fast and Furious 7 – or as I prefer to think of it, Fatuous and Spurious 7 – is so bad. It's a Road Runner cartoon masquerading as a movie. Cars crash off mountainsides. Cars smash through not one but three skyscrapers, and keep going. Cars get riddled with bullets fired at high speed from point-blank range. Cars get crushed by collapsing multi-storey car-parks. And what happens to the drivers of these cars? They get out, brush themselves off, grunt something barely intelligible and move on to the next moment of mindless mayhem. In another car. Not since Wile E. Coyote last dusted himself off at the bottom of a canyon, only for a boulder to land on his head and pulverise him (only for him re-emerge seconds later with an ACME missile in hand), has a non-superhero screen character survived such a litany of unsurvivable moments. Of course the fans will say that's all part of its charm. Magic charm, more like. It's utterly ridiculous hogwash and I simply will not stand for it (and not only because the rev-heads in the seats behind me look like they might get furious, fast, if I don't sit down). It doesn't make sense. At all It opens with raised-from-the dead Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) struggling with the prospect of getting behind the wheel of a car again; seconds later she's drag racing a guy in front of thousands of people, red-lining her car, timing her run perfectly so his motor explodes just before the finishing line. So that's how you treat PTSD. Simple, really. Paul Walker dangles from a bus that will soon hit the bottom of a cliff. Miraculously, no one will be hurt. An Arab billionaire keeps a $3.4 million Lykan HyperSport - one of only seven ever built - in a penthouse 50-odd storeys above the streets of Abu Dhabi. How did he get it there? How does he get it downstairs when he needs to pop to the shops for a litre of milk? How does he make sure it doesn't drip oil on the Axminster? None of these questions is answered, but more to the point, why is he sticking a second-hand computer drive into his $3.4 million car, when he has no idea what's on it or where it has been? Do people really mod-chip a $3.4 million car anyway? I don't think so. Vin Diesel can't act, can barely speak Let's face it. The guy who has inherited the mantle of star of this franchise can't act for peanuts. Hell, he can barely even speak (at least not without sounding like he's got a mouthful of peanuts). There have been few things as funny on screen in recent years as the sight of Diesel's Dominic getting, ahem, "emotional" over saying goodbye to his mate Brian (Paul Walker) or reconnecting with his on-again/off-again/dead-again/alive-again girlfriend Letty (Michelle Rodriguez). Wooden? This guy is solid teak. There is one good thing about Diesel's acting, though. It makes the Rock look like Marlon Brando by comparison. The music. 'Nuff said Which came first, the movie or the soundtrack? It's hard to tell but it often feels like the storytelling in Furious 7 is less important than the music selling. And what music it is. It's awful. It's insistent. It's overbearing. It's rap with a capital C. I know this kind of urban stuff is so successful because it appeals across demographics, genders, ethnicities and nationalities, and I'm all for diversity. But does it really have to sound this bad? It may never end because (almost) everyone is immortal There's a cruel irony in the fact that this film has become a de facto tribute to Paul Walker (and let's spare a second for his mate Roger Rodas, who was also killed in that high-speed single-vehicle crash in November 2013). Because on screen, only the most villainous or minor characters ever die. Here we have Jason Statham as a villain who can take more punishment than Arnie's Terminator, up against Dwayne Johnson's Hobbs and Vin Diesel's Dominic, men for whom an iron bar to the head is about as troubling as a mosquito buzzing in the ear for the rest of us. Statham's Deckard Shaw is a former soldier turned criminal out for revenge against the guys who put his brother in a coma … or something. But everyone has played both sides of the law in this series, so we'll probably see him join the good guys (is that what they are? It's so hard to tell) before it's all done and dusted. And yes, there will be more films. Universal, the studio that has already milked more than $4 billion from this empty-headed series, has suggested it could stretch to at least 10 titles. Please, somebody, wave the chequered flag and bring this drone to an end. It's nothing but a crashing bore. - Sydney Morning Herald

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/PM-orders-Civil-Aviation-Department-to-hold-urgent-30257973.html PM orders Civil Aviation Department to hold urgent meeting with airlines Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered the Civil Aviation Department to hold an urgent meeting with airlines after two Thai airlines failed to win approval from the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau in time for their chartered flights, Deputy Government Spokesman Maj Gen Sansern Kaewkamnerd said Monday. Prayut wants to the department to make sure that there will be no mishap like what happened to the Asian Airline and Nok Scoot Air last week. The Nation

Now I'm confused

You jest you joker

Schadenfreude, I'm feeling.

Pretendingtobemale - - - Apart from your good lady, I've never met any famous Thai ladies