mahjongguy

My Thai friend speaks English well enough to have moved beyond the sort of Thai-based constructions mentioned above. But he just cannot pronounce the letter V. I've tried to convince him that there are simple methods to learn consonants that don't occur in Thai (e.g. put your upper teeth on your lower lip...) but as is often the case he just doesn't believe me. So I get wacation and wery and wisa. And Wolwo. Ten years ago I told him if he could say Volvo I'd buy him one. We're still driving the same old Honda.

And the peacocks! It was a lovely place to stay.

"Proof: case 2013 http://www.tripadvis...e-Thailand.html" If you read the comments posted on that TripAdvisor page you will see that the 90 per 180 rule was voided in Nov 2008. That person's request for a Tourist Visa was denied at the Singapore Embassy because the staff there have powers of discretion which they are well known to enjoy to the max.

>> "rule is "90 days stay per each 180 days". There is no such rule. Nothing even close to that. As z209 recommends, information on how to stay in Thailand for extended periods can be found on ThaiVisa.

Usually, depending on the tides, there's no longer enough beach in that area to play volleyball. So, there is a mostly-gay group that plays down at the end of Dong Tarn beach next to the rescue station in the late afternoon. At the same time, another group plays at the beach courts across from the Jomtien Night Market just before Beach Road soi 9.

Sure, you can adapt in a civilized country. Here you've got motorbikes coming at you on or over the yellow line. My friend drives over to Laos but he always brings along a passenger who can lean out and tell him when it's safe to pass.

There's a Corvette I see on Jomtien Beach Road. Be great to have one but how can you drive it on the left without killing someone?

"Bangkok has a population of roughly eight million people; about 25 percent of them are citizens from other countries, including the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Australia, and Japan. About a third of the total Western population of the city is American." I have to wonder where the author got numbers like that? Couldn't figure out how to use Google so she just hit random keys on her calculator?

My Thai friend watches a show with a title that seems to translate as "Gay or Man?". On each episode there is a cute young guy who is teased and sexually harassed by the hosts who then vote whether they think he's gay or not. It's very very odd.

"...the same plump lady that has collected the money for the last few years was there @ new year. " Really? I walk by every day, haven't seen her there for at least half a year, was told she was ill and then told she was "no more".

All Immigration offices are closed on Saturdays. Sundays, too. If your Permission To Stay expires on a weekend then there will be no penalty as long as you show up on Monday. At worst, the Immigration officer might suggest that you get yourself a calendar.

In a society where even Thai people with tan skin are treated poorly, this should be no surprise. Still, I have to wonder, is this an early signal of what's to come when Ebola comes to Thailand?

Two hours ago I had a root canal. Thank God I wasn't born in some other century.

Did I not seem to understand that?

If you want to reach EZTV itself rather than the alternatives mentioned , just go to https://eztv-proxy.net/

Here's your Russian language lesson for the day. некультурный nekul'turnyy uncultured-adjective Best you should only mumble that under your breath.

You are both very kind and very welcome. Let me say, though, that I don't use IE. Like most programmers (well, former programmers, in my case) I prefer Firefox. I really dislike IE and I'm not charmed by Chrome. Too bad for tourists that many Internet shops don't have Firebird installed.

In IE11, click on the gear icon in the upper right corner. Choose "Compatibility View settings". Enter "http://www.gaythailand.com" in the first field then click on the Add button.

Several California friends who were formerly loyal to United or EVA have now switched to Cathay Pacific. They fly SFO-HKG-BKK. Very good service, and two trips a year earns enough status to get lounge access.

My frequent-flying days are behind me but still I'm sorry to see United drop this route. When I first began flying transpac in the late '80s, I would fly from San Francisco to Narita and transfer to United's famous UA001 Round The World flight to Hong Kong and on to Bangkok. That flight continued on and included stops in Frankfurt, Dulles, Los Angeles (and back to Narita). Flight UA002, of course, flew that route in reverse. United began dismantling that RTW sometime around 2000 by deleting the HKG to BKK link.

I was just going by the list on the MFA website. The only country I could see with 30-day border entry since 2004 (without interruption) was Malaysia.

"...we have 30 days already, from Jan 1 2004." Meaning you are Malaysian?

If you live in Bangkok you can do your 90 day reporting by mail. Most other Immigration offices don't offer mail-in service but you don't need to do it in person. You can delegate that errand to your b/f or your chauffeur.

- Everyone makes typos, including myself. - A lot of posters seem to compose their messages just after coming home from a night of drinking. - Some posters speak English as a second language. All the above is easily overlooked. I only get out the red pencil and the sharp tongue when I read a post from someone who seems to think that their opinions should reign supreme yet they don't know "there" from "their" or "they're".

Three things in my life had a strong influence on me. In my 30's I had a gay partner with a similar income to mine. We bought a house together, had a big mortgage. This was long before any kind of domestic partnership was available, not that it would have helped much. So we paid good money for a set of matching wills and other documents to protect each other financially. That relationship ended after 18 years but it ended well. During that time I had a co-worker, a friend, who likewise had a long term partner. When my friend died of AIDS, his partner found out that my friend's faraway family didn't know my friend was gay. The partner ended up on the street and died three years later in a homeless shelter. I found this out much later and was deeply shocked. I still don't understand it. In Thailand, a decade ago, I settled down with a guy who seemed to have lost faith in life itself. The three people whom he'd cared most about had died much too young. His one good friend, his father, his sister. To this day he's distrustful of Fate but he's finally come to trust me when I explain how it's all going to work out for him. Still, it's hard to get him to spend money. He squirrels away in the bank his every baht. Won't let me buy him a new mobile or motorbike or anything else unnecessary. I wish he'd lighten up a bit more, and I guess he has to a degree. Anyway, I've done all I can do.