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I live north of Khon Kaen and had to go into the city today. When I am going alone and it's not raining, I always prefer to use the motorbike, so that's what I used today.
When riding the motorbike, I always try to think about what the most stupid thing that other road users would do and anticipate it.
The main road into Khon Kaen was very busy today and I was riding along a section with the motorbike lane on the left and 2 main carriageway lanes. I could see that there were 2 pick ups driving in the motorbike lane in the wrong direction ahead. Nothing unusual about this and I moved over into the main carriageway well in advance as there were a lot of vehicles in the 2 main lanes.
Unbelievably and unexpected as i really couldn't anticipate anybody being so stupid, the 2nd pick up that was travelling in the wrong direction pulled out to overtake into the 1st main carriageway.
I had limited choices, either hit this idiot head on or pull right into a lane that was chock full of cars. Lucky for me the driver on my right was on the ball and braked and moved over a bit and so I had a space to move over into ever so slightly wider than my motorbike.
You wouldn't believe the screeching of tyres as the following drivers managed to avoid hitting this moron.
When I told my Missus about this, she just said "Buddha take care of you" Maybe she is right, but probably just luck that i didn't die or get seriously injured today.

Used to be able to right click on a thumbnail and open in a new tab.
Now right or left click and it opens within/over the same page. Not only that, it can take forever to load, this despite me having a much faster connection nowadays.
Can you please consider the option to right click and view in a new tab/window when you do any future forum improvements. I'm sure that I am not the only one who would like to have this.

Hi, looked through recent posts and haven't seen anything about this.
I just find it annoying that when my cursor happens to pass over a member's name that a little window opens up with a partial profile. I really don't see the point of this and would much prefer to right click on a member's name as and when I want to see his'/her details.

Is it possible to disable this annoying feature or are we stuck with it?

Hi all,

From reading the posts here it seems that most just concentrate on Rice, Sugar cane, Cassava, Rubber etc.
Does nobody grow vegetables? If not why not?
I wonder if maybe people have tried but found it uneconomical due to theft etc. I realise that the mainstay crops are not so likely to be stolen as they all need processing to various degrees, but veg can be cut and straight to table or market. Maybe the prices available at the wholesale markets favour the middle man too much?

The Family want me to finance a little project. 8 rai of Cassava land for rent at 800BT/rai. Obviously there will be additional costs for ploughing, fertiliser etc, but I am thinking that it may be worth a go as it is not likely to cost me a fortune.
The soil is sandy, so not ideal for locking in nutrients. I know what a helpful lot you are, so if we go ahead with this I will probably be posting questions in the cassava thread.

I have no experience of farming, but I have maintained a small organic plot, mainly for growing veg for home consumption, although the missus has sold off some of the excess. A lot of the excess has been composted in order to improve the soil.
I am thinking that, if we rent this land, that I may experiment on a small section with some vegetables as a profit crop.
My worries are that it will probably take at least a couple of years to condition the soil in just a small section and it will always be in the back of my mind that if we do enjoy a reasonable amount of success, either the rent would increase or the owner will rent the land to someone else or take it back.

I would like to hear about your experiences of growing a vegetable crop and also if anyone has had problems with improving soil quality on rented land only to get kicked in the knaks by the owner.

1. Any complaint whatsover about immigration moving the goalposts for getting/extending a visa

2. Believing that you actually contribute anything to Thailand by simply spending your foreign sourced income here.

3. Believing that any behavior by Thais is a bit oddball and quirky and especially if you find it amusing.

4. Not enjoying songkhran

5 Comparing anything in Thailand to that in your own country

6 Teaching English

7 Not learning to speak Thai

8 Not fully embracing absolutely everything about Thai culture.

9 Referring to the currency as Bath

10 Not being able to count to eleven