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by jimk
Sat Feb 15, 2020 1:34 pm
Forum: The Beach Bar
Topic: RIP Joyce Naulls
Replies: 3
Views: 864

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.
by jimk
Sun Mar 03, 2019 11:44 am
Forum: Legal, Visa, Finances & Employment
Topic: The disgraceful attitude of Airport Immigration
Replies: 57
Views: 3946

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.
by jimk
Sat Feb 23, 2019 9:01 pm
Forum: Feeding Time
Topic: "All In Hua Hin" Problems
Replies: 6
Views: 1274

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.
by jimk
Sun Jan 13, 2019 4:49 pm
Forum: Property & Real Estate
Topic: Thailand has a whopping $40 billion in unsold homes
Replies: 25
Views: 2222

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.
by jimk
Fri Dec 07, 2018 11:42 am
Forum: Health Issues
Topic: Ear Wax Removal
Replies: 88
Views: 26260

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...
by jimk
Thu Apr 26, 2018 9:15 pm
Forum: Life In Thailand, Opinion & Relationships
Topic: Police protection racket?
Replies: 11
Views: 2330

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.
by jimk
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: 3614

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...
by jimk
Sat Dec 17, 2016 9:33 am
Forum: Speaking Thai
Topic: Why do many expats not bother to learn to read?
Replies: 174
Views: 35074

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...
by jimk
Sun Nov 06, 2016 12:34 am
Forum: Foo
Topic: TREASON!
Replies: 23
Views: 7657

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...
by jimk
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: 15087

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.
by jimk
Sun Jan 24, 2016 12:37 pm
Forum: Feeding Time
Topic: Sofitel HH afternoon tea ?
Replies: 33
Views: 3644

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.
by jimk
Sun Jan 24, 2016 9:21 am
Forum: Feeding Time
Topic: Sofitel HH afternoon tea ?
Replies: 33
Views: 3644

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...
by jimk
Wed Jan 13, 2016 11:01 am
Forum: After Dark
Topic: Oldest bar in hua hin
Replies: 21
Views: 12055

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...
by jimk
Wed Aug 19, 2015 5:01 am
Forum: News
Topic: Foreigners arrested for alleged drug offences in Hua Hin
Replies: 43
Views: 11157

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.
by jimk
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: 1877

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 ...