Wow! Thanks for all the great info and opinions. Much appreciated! I've been staying a couple of nights at a time in Bangkok regularly in the last 3 months on the way to football games, and I think I've found a bit of a bargain with the Smart Suites at the end of Soi 11. Small new place so its nice...

I've got a friend who has recently found his Thai girlfriend was cheating on him and he's been blubbing his heart out online in that stupid pigeon Thai/English. I used to think he was normal, now I'm not so sure :D Link!? :popcorn: Lol no fucking way, he's still significantly bigger than me covered...

This lingo was very obviously generated by a primitive computer, nowhere near as sophisticated as HAL in the movie 2001 ... "Now she say family buffalo real sick - need medicine many hundred dollars - she cry all time - You no love me, family buffalo die soon ..." Those who enjoy reading ...

I've been staying a couple of nights at a time in Bangkok regularly in the last 3 months on the way to football games, and I think I've found a bit of a bargain with the Smart Suites at the end of Soi 11. Small new place so its nice and clean, modern style, flat screen, comfy bed which is the main t...

For me watching the various news footage highlights the distinct lack of real characters around sport today. The media grooming by their management companies of modern day "stars" to say the right things to keep the sponsorship deals sweet offer little insight into the individual's real pe...

No regret that I don't have a Masters, I was only ever any good numerically at school so made up my mind fairly quickly I wanted to go into the Finance side of business and get the study out of the way as quick as possible so I could enjoy life. Got a very relevant BA when I was 20 which exempted me...

As I said in the " Is Thailand Safe " thread it's the boring old road and maritime basics that make Thailand a more dangerous place to be a tourist than most. It's not the isolated random headline grabbing isolated murder, rape or street attack that you need to worry about, all modes of tr...

Mexicans are probably the only people who find America a safer place to live.

When I saw he title I didn't think it was news to anyone other than Americans, we've all known it for years.

^ Off topic but I see The Mekong Messengers are playing at Sharkey's today. What a great band, I saw them play a gig at The Chinese House on one trip and it was a fantastic night. I'd describe them as a combination of Les Negresses Verte and The Pogues with the brass section of Dexy's thrown in for ...

If you happen to stumble across a used DeLorean and can work some magic on it then give me a shout, there's a Bangkok nightlife period I'd liked to have experienced.