Rants and rages

guess it's just a matter of time before we read this idiots obituary. fine example of farang arrogance on a motorbike.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwsonBNntgE

No big loss, but I fail to understand how anyone would ride like that with a loved one on the back

git wrote:The sad part first you pump it in then you pump out. It's been about three years since First homes had enough presure to fill an above ground tank. Lots of below ground tanks in the area, I think they just take the water supply. So above ground you got to use you pump. It's only went our completly a few times in four years. You can tell water trucks are happy. Especially they run across one of us Blue Eyed Devils

Ya I know but yuo can't tell when the float valve sticks on one of those babies and you end with 1000's of baht on your water bill.

Boy I think I'm really getting into the swing of things here

This ranting stuff is kind of fun

I live in First Home and have just a pump but no tank (illegal, I know, but that's the landlady's problem). We have pretty good water pressure, but I have been warned that the water is likely to go off occasionally.

Aardvark wrote:No big loss, but I fail to understand how anyone would ride like that with a loved one on the back

WHUFC1969 on YouTube wrote:A quick blast along a beach in Rayong Thailand on a CRM250. Taking it a bit easy as my girl is on the back complaining but get up to about 80mph. sound quality not too good at speed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfqmsHVTG4E

I bet she's complaining on the back with that muppet.

My Wife went to book a Ticket home and the Airline refused because she had less than six months left on her Passport. No worries, get on the net and get details about Thai Embassy in Canberra. Wife has a query and phones Embassy, Lady at other end says no can do, you have to go to Bangkok ! Wife says can't do Airline won't give me Ticket because less than six months on Passport, Lady says your problem I go onto Embassy Website and copy instructions for Passport extension, do all paper work and get money order from post office and send registered mail to Embassy. Week later wife gets phone call from Embassy " I thought I told you to go to Bkk " wife says my Husband told me your job and send off, Lady screams and shouts about how much work they have to do and finishes with " never again " Week later have Passport with extension in it....... Who the Fcuk do they think they are

Like my country,im sure you have a lot of bs redtape and stupid civil servants.

I think that just about everyone knows it is impossible to fly from your home country to a foreign country with a passport with less than six months life. But to refuse a ticket because of this when you want to fly back to your home country is stupid.
Mind you I have seen other postings on here about airlines from Australia seeming to have very strange concepts & interpretations of international laws.....
The Embassy just sounds like a type "jobsworth" that places like that abound with. Me, I would complain to the Ambassador - wouldn't get anywhere but might stop it happening to the next applicant.

Thanks Bob, both Thai and Tiger said no, I'm not game to try Quantas, I don't need a second Mortgauge

Do Tiger fly direct to BKK?? If they do not then I can sort of understand their reluctance.
Thai must fly direct & I cannot understand them at all....
Flew Quantas once - the LHR/BKK flight is BA/Quantas - expensive & not particularly comfortable or modern equipment. But I was working then, so could afford it I usually stop off somewhere in the middle east now!!!!

Recently a Thai friend (Thai Passport) who a few days earlier had flown in from Taiwan was not allowed use her passport to go to duty free at the bridge, because she had less than 6 Mo. remaining. She was taken by surprise but my wife had this experience about a year ago and advised her to renew her passport before returning to Taiwan. I understand the reluctance of the Airlines as they become responsible (financially) for the folks they bring into a country without proper documentation, but when returning to ones home country it don't make sense. Somehow it don't seem right to have a document with an expiration date that becomes null and void 6 Mo. prior to that date.

I suppose I’ve surprised myself at not contributing to this topic before, but yesterday’s event was as it were the ‘straw which broke the camel’s back’. Like many posters, I probably just need to get it off my chest. Fortunately, it wasn’t a car on my chest!

Driving approximately 80 Km/hour along the road connecting Phen with main Udon- Nong Khai highway. At this point, it’s a straight section of road, flat, clear views of everything. I can see pickup coming down a small lane on the right, which adjoins ‘my’ priority road at about angle of 30 degrees i.e he’s going in same direction as myself. Does he stop? Does he even look? Like ****. Possibly he slows a little, but straight out onto my side of the road. I had no choice but to brake hard, horn blaring at him. Rates as one of the worst examples of pathetic driving since I’ve been here. It’s ridiculous that some will believe that this guy’s (well, I’m guessing) possession of a licence implies his ability to drive sensibly. Of course, we know that isn’t the case here. In subsequently overtaking, I gave a finger and verbal abuse, which I’m not proud of, but too often one meets the sheepish smile, not wanting to lose face. Hope of easing your own frustration and making a point( at least in some expectation the guy will remember the error and not repeat it) seems blown away in the wind. TW said he subsequently sounded his horn twice, not sure if this was to acknowledge his error, or not. We all make mistakes driving from time to time, hopefully not too serious, but this was blatant and serious incompetence. If he even looked and saw me travelling at speed, was his expectation somehow that I would give way? It’s a habit of Thai to pull out from minor to major roads without looking, not waiting for a gap and seemingly having no awareness/concern of the effect on oncoming traffic. Amazing Thailand? At that moment, my choice of word was different! As TW said of her own accord, if I hadn’t been alert, had been going faster, or totally assumed he was going to stop, there would have been a major accident.

I think the lesson from this, as if I didn’t already know after several years here, drive with extreme caution and suppose absolutely nothing concerning the actions of other drivers.

Ggggrrrrrr.

Hi There, I took my wife for driving lessons in udon while on holliday last year, she passed with flying colours, I took her on the road yesterday nearly had a heart attack, have now booked for 10 lessons localy, I will be much more vigalant now when driving in thailand, also when getting medical attention
in the land of smiles,

I've often wondered if Thai's know anything about consequences. I'm not talking about karma, but simple physics. I've seen Thais who are completely surprised when they merge onto a road and find another car there. It's like it magically appeared. The fact that they never looked never enters the equation. A motorcycle taxi driver, running a red light, is shocked, yes, shocked, that there is traffic crossing in his way! Or my personal favorite, turning a motorcycle at 40 kph while sitting straight up results in said motorcycle flinging driver across the road...

Perhaps some of Newtons laws might be taught in school. But I don't think it would make an impression.