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- Sat Feb 15, 2020 1:34 pm
- Forum: The Beach Bar
- Topic: RIP Joyce Naulls
- Replies: 3
- Views: 923
Re: RIP Joyce Naulls
Rest in peace, big-hearted Joyce. Mags is spot-on about the happy memories. In my case from darts (and dominos) nights at Osmo's Bamboo Grove, Dick's Office and Robin's Rest.
- Sun Mar 03, 2019 11:44 am
- Forum: Legal, Visa, Finances & Employment
- Topic: The disgraceful attitude of Airport Immigration
- Replies: 57
- Views: 4321
Re: The disgraceful attitude of Airport Immigration
My wife tells me that Thai TV news reports quoted Big Joke as saying that fines for overstaying would be waived for anyone affected by the flight cancellations -- so the incident with Terry's mum was indeed an attempt at extortion.
- Sat Feb 23, 2019 9:01 pm
- Forum: Feeding Time
- Topic: "All In Hua Hin" Problems
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1292
Re: "All In Hua Hin" Problems
We shopped there all the time for deli items like ham and cheese -- until one time, about 12 years ago, when the woman in charge was rude to my wife. A mistake that has cost them hundreds of thousands of baht in business.
- Sun Jan 13, 2019 4:49 pm
- Forum: Property & Real Estate
- Topic: Thailand has a whopping $40 billion in unsold homes
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2384
Re: Thailand has a whopping $40 billion in unsold homes
A clue that this story is gibberish can be found in its assertion that the number of residential units built by private developers last year -- 454,814 -- exactly equals the number of units still unsold.
- Fri Dec 07, 2018 11:42 am
- Forum: Health Issues
- Topic: Ear Wax Removal
- Replies: 88
- Views: 32418
Re: Ear Wax Removal
My wife and I both had our ears vacuumed yesterday at the ENT clinic on Petchkasem opposite Soi 51 (Dr Piyanuch, I think the name was, a young woman). The cost was 880 baht -- 200 baht an ear, plus 80 baht for drops to treat my wife's ear infection. No free coffee, I'm afraid, but top-end health car...
- Thu Apr 26, 2018 9:15 pm
- Forum: Life In Thailand, Opinion & Relationships
- Topic: Police protection racket?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2577
Re: Police protection racket?
We had the same thing back in the early 70s in Bangkok, except then it was 20 baht a month. At the time my understanding was that we were paying them not to burgle us.
- Mon Jan 29, 2018 6:23 pm
- Forum: Health Issues
- Topic: Bangkok Hospital: hope you have health insurance or plenty of cash
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4137
Re: Bangkok Hospital: hope you have health insurance or plenty of cash
I've had two operations in Thailand -- the first one a prostatectomy 12 years ago in a private hospital in Petchaburi, which cost me around 60,000 baht, and the second two years ago in the Hua Hin Hospital, where my bill came to 25,000 baht, most of which was the cost of a private room for a week. A...
- Sat Dec 17, 2016 9:33 am
- Forum: Speaking Thai
- Topic: Why do many expats not bother to learn to read?
- Replies: 174
- Views: 39322
Re: Why do many expats not bother to learn to read?
I must admit it has never occurred to me to learn to read and write Thai, and no, Sidthetroll, I don't feel the least bit humiliated. Just as I didn't feel humiliated at not learning to read and write in Arabic script when I lived in Iran, or in Chinese hieroglyphics when I lived in Hong Kong. But h...
Re: TREASON!
Halloween is no more an American festival than Loy Kratong is. When I was a lad in 1940s Glasgow, all the kids would dress up as pirates, cowboys, Indians, ghosts and the like and go round the neighbourhood houses 'guising', frequently being invited in to sing a song or recite a poem, or maybe 'dook...
- Wed Apr 27, 2016 9:03 am
- Forum: Life In Thailand, Opinion & Relationships
- Topic: Where did you meet your girlfriend or wife?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 16389
Re: Where did you meet your girlfriend or wife?
Your 'professor' girlfriend is having you on, mate. There is no such place as Hua Hin University.
- Sun Jan 24, 2016 12:37 pm
- Forum: Feeding Time
- Topic: Sofitel HH afternoon tea ?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3734
Re: Sofitel HH afternoon tea ?
Well, one should never say 'never'. But it would be a rare sight. And he'd be risking a MIB caution for being inappropriately dressed.
- Sun Jan 24, 2016 9:21 am
- Forum: Feeding Time
- Topic: Sofitel HH afternoon tea ?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3734
Re: Sofitel HH afternoon tea ?
Big Boy, your friend was refused breakfast because he was wearing a vest. It was at one time an offence in Thailand (probably one of Pibulsonggram's decrees) for men to appear in public in vest and pants, which had become a common sight in Bangkok's Chinatown. Pibul was also the prime minister who d...
- Wed Jan 13, 2016 11:01 am
- Forum: After Dark
- Topic: Oldest bar in hua hin
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12484
Re: Oldest bar in hua hin
My vote goes to the bar in the old Railway Hotel (now the Grand Centara, or something like that). I was down from Bangkok one weekend with a pal in the early 70s, and the Railway bartender decided to close the bar at 9pm (we were the only customers). So we staggered out into the night in search of s...
- Wed Aug 19, 2015 5:01 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Foreigners arrested for alleged drug offences in Hua Hin
- Replies: 43
- Views: 11254
Re: Arrested for Alleged Drug Offences
Yes, it's Noi. He's also been a regular in the darts league for many years. Plays for one of the Cat Bar teams.
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 9:33 pm
- Forum: Flights, Airlines & Airports
- Topic: the price of air fares to Bangkok in the 60s, 70s, 80s,90s,
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1898
Re: the price of air fares to Bangkok in the 60s, 70s, 80s,9
We didn't fly to Thailand in the 60s; we travelled overland. Only the wealthiest could afford long-haul flights in those days. and most of the tourists were elderly Americans with blue-haired wives. As I recall mass ''tourism'' started in the 1970s when Neckerman started flying planeloads of German ...