This article refers to "giks" as extramarital affairs. There is another common term used in Thailand that I am trying to recall. Can anyone help please?

On recent holiday in UT, lacking the confidence to eat in the street/markets, and looking for aircond. I headed for the Irish Clock. We ended up eating there often as the food was 1st rate, staff very friendly, and dunny clean. 5 stars

I've seen a lot of people jump into businesses that they have no formal training for, or experience in. IMHO if you are thinking of starting your own business increase your chances of success by being well prepared. Get some formal small business management training - the principles should be the sa...

HI Guys, this is the first forum that I have ever read, ever joined, and ever started a topic in. I thort that my topic was not that big a deal. I just had the impression that Udon Thani would be a place where ex-US servicemen might retire to in peace & quiet. I don't have any war stories to exchang...

I have used Paypal hundreds of times mostly ebay but also outside of ebay. I find it is a trustworthy way of transferring money overseas mostly to private people who wouldn't be able to accept a credit card. I am not happy with the skimming that paypal do firstly on the fee, and secondly on the exch...

A lot of Aussies may remember Brian Naylor reporter and news reader. He and his wife perished in the fire.

Why is it that poor countries tend to be run by corrupt governments? For example the Philippines is rich in natural resources and i believe that it could have been a wealthy country. Inadequate infrastructure, lack of financing, and government policies have limited productivity. Not to mention corru...

Who gets Rudds $950 bonus for taxpayers? see url
http://www.youngandgrumpy.com/2009/02/w ... ayers.html

jepp wrote:

izzix wrote: unimaginative .

oops meant "unimaginable"

....... because then martial law go in to affect and we get night time curfews .............. I experience martial law in the Phillipines, and then and there it was actually great. Crime seemed to be down, and I felt safe. The army was not trigger happy, and there were no safety fears in that regar...

Thermae now a nippon enclave Hopefully that means that the 'CLUBS' charging unimaginative membership fees are now suffering from the Nip recession. e.g. Caribbean Club membership fee options 20,000 50,000 or 100,000 baht p.a. :yikes: I Intend to do bar crawl soi 33 the week after next, hopefully th...

Character of WET SEASON Udon Thani? I haven't been Thailand/Udon Thani during WET SEASON. Does this consist of short heavy tropical storms (like say 4pm every day) or non-stop rain?? In other words can you still get around in between storms? Is flooding a problem in Udon Thani? Or is it just so hot ...

biscuitz wrote:anyone any ideas as to were i can hide the REAL world cup now, along with the crown jewels,

Maybe you can rent a safety deposit box at a bank or at one of the larger hotels such as Charoensri Grand Royal Hotel. Let us know how you get on, as this will be a relevant problem for me too.

A shame that such a funny post was taken personally and now the whole thing has imploded. :( Witty things that could be said in a group over a drink and laughed at, often sound different in the written form. E.G. According to Albert Mehrabian Professor Psychology, UCLA, three elements account differ...

:( I have made 2 attemts to Email Aussiepub but have not had a reply. Have others had this problem. :? Will be in town several times in 2008 and I am trying to find a good friendly place to stay. A guest friendly accomodation prefered :D :oops: Thanks Al. ME too, certainly a complacent way to ran a...

January 27th quoted for monthly stay:-
"Rate room for 1 month 10000 bath not include electricity,water.
Rate room for 2 month 7500 bath not include electricity,water."
Free clean your room once week.
Adding on electricity,water costs is something I'm not used to and would worry me!

Re; PED's (performance enhancing drugs). At the 2000 Olympics it was easily apparent to both Me and 'Blind Freddy' that Marion Jones was on something!! Shock Horror it all comes out years later!! Now have a look at a couple of the androgenic looking women in the finals!! If only 'Blind Freddy' was o...

747man wrote:post that YOU Dont want any Shirt Lifters to contact you as you are a NORMAL Straight Guy.

SHOOT!!.......In that case I'd better declare that I am 100% Aussie Grain Fed beef, and a no-go zone for katoeys and wooly woofters.

Emirates food for 'cattle class' good. 8/10

Funny to watch, but, in defence of the US, it was probably taken in 'Dueling Banjo country' :guitar: :guitar: and also if you take a bunch of Yokels off the street anywhere, shove a TV camera in their face and have a foreigner mumbling in a foreign accent, ( and I'M an Aussie!) they probably couldn'...