Activated 3G data drains my phone's battery in less than 2h, so I prefer using a stick, which also has more options regarding network selection etc.

but the phone gets charged while tethered to your laptop

they'd pronounce AIS as 'air eye et', there's no capital 'A' sound in thai, james becomes jairm, wayne rooney -> wairn loonee. and yeah they call 12-call

some english words make it into thai usage (sex, taxi, beer etc.) in that 7/11 spot they'd know '3g', 'top up', 'online', 'slip' etc. that and making a phone sign with your hand to your ear can easily get the job done

if you ask for 'online' you have to punch your phone number into their machine, if you ask 'slip' you get a slip with the code to call, which is slower

Tethering your phone charges the battery, kind of convenient.

finally someone stands up against the thai police mafia..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBUj-wT7CkE

And this is what it will lead to:

It might end with a jump from a balcony as well.

That will kill the battery quickly though and my phone gets rather hot as well.

No-one takes the dongle to 7-11. you just buy credit there and take the receipt home to enter the code in the AIS software on your computer.

if your phone didnt need a different sim, you could pop that sim into your phone to add credit, subscribe to a data plan by texting the code for the appropriate plan then swap the sim to your stick and it will work.

but...easiest just to go to an AIS shop, if this is all new to you.

i still cant get my head around ur name

u must be at least 40

So the air is fine in Chiang Mai every month but March? It took four years of living in BKK for the air to start to bother me. Now I wish I wore a mask every time I was on foot. It's basically impossible to breathe in clean air anywhere in the city...even from 15 floors up you can still smell the buses/burning trash. It's hard to escape. The air might smell okay indoors, but is it?

Still love it though..and am planning to return shortly...it would just be so much better if you knew the air wasn't doing long-term lung damage. If you've ever been to the bathroom anywhere in SEA/China and heard the chorus of old dudes spitting in the urinals...that is the frightening sound of long-term lung damage.

I'm arriving in thailand in a week with a fellow grinder, we're going to phuket to rent a house for a couple of months. We've aiming at 2 bedrooms, private pool, wifi etc and hoping to find something around 40k thb / month or less. Is this possible, and how does all these things work? Who should we contact when looking for a house? And what internet is best for phuket? Where to phuket is recommended to live?

would be a real shame...

(i think I can link this here, if not mods please delete)

trading my baht for stars $

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17.../#post45355468

gotta love the daily headlines in this country

hookers, pedos, corrupt police, martial law, expat deaths, tourism propaganda

amazing thailand kha

if they're going after small, discreet, happy ending massage shops it won't be long until they're going after the gogos.

i don't think the food and shopping will be enough of incentive for me to visit bangkok...

that's why they are doing this, to keep you away

the way things are going i might not bother with bangkok after my next trip apart from an occasional 1 or 2 night stopover.

the gogos are the only thing differentiating thailand from other countries in the region in terms of nightlife.

idgi guys so i've been in bangkok for 2 days and i've managed to get 3 girls to come to my room and **** me for free, why pay?

yeah i can grind thaicupid too.

lol never heard of thaicupid, thanks

must be hansum man

i guess so

most here have a gf, a regular gik, couple irregular giks, few random hookups here and there, and then still use prostitutes. gotta go after all equity