I'm a good teacher, as I'm sure you'll agree. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by bkkmadness
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I'm a good teacher, as I'm sure you'll agree. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by bkkmadness
learn to enjoy the silence, and cut back on the allowance
tell her your using it to fill the gaps created by her sulks
Aye, but the origins come from the bidet, which was invented by the French.Quote:
Originally Posted by Looper
Here's one to solve your stalemate HB.
Thai Chess:)
Check and mate, Mrs HB
^What is that, Connect Four?
Umm, redundant?Quote:
Originally Posted by bkkandrew
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Rules of Thai Chess, also known as Makrook Thai
It's great cos the kids can learn to play a game that's quite a lot like chess, but they can't compete with any other countries because no-one else plays it.:confused:
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Originally Posted by Loy ToyNot sure "informal" is the right word, as it is apparently governed by law ("Patent Act B.E. 2535").Quote:
Originally Posted by tsicar
If you are into patents and the like, this article looked interesting:
http://www.thailawforum.com/articles/jakpat1.html
As for the King, this snipped from wiki (Bhumibol Adulyadej - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia):
Bhumibol is the only Thai monarch —and possibly the only monarch in the world, to hold a patent;[74][75] obtaining one in 1993 for a waste water aerator named "Chai Pattana" and several patents on rainmaking since 1955: the "sandwich" rainmaking patent in 1999 and lately the "supersandwich" patent in 2003.[76][77][78]
The European Patent Office has granted the patent to King Bhumibol Adulyadej for 'weather modification by royal rainmaking technology', having been satisfied, up to a point, of the technology's plausibility.
"The granting of the patent does not say whether it is a good patent or a bad patent and does not mean that it has been checked technically but that yes it seems plausible," said EPO spokesman Rainer Osterwalder.
"We examine a patent in respect of the state of the current art. All we can do is decide if it is plausible in terms of similar existing cases," said Osterwalder. A search report conducted by the EPO did find eight 'documents considered to be relevant' in the examination of prior art.
The mai pen rai attitude.
Broken flip-flops as fire starters.
The money-ticket cylinder used by bus attendants.
Disposable, one-use electronics.
Tiger balm.
Happy-ending massage.
Yellow polo shirts.
Now that sounds interesting. :bunny3:Quote:
Originally Posted by nidhogg
Tom Yam Kung
One-use dvds
barfines
dual-pricing
Generally accepted to be Burmese originally I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Texpat
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Originally Posted by slimboyfat
It had me fooled recently
I opened the cupboard under the sink and smelt a nasty damp-type smell.
I took everything out and could not find any leak or problem. My face happened to pass nearby the box my wife keeps her bottles and condiments, spices etc, and I found the problem
^^ I thought it was Chinese, originally?
I'm pretty sure that thick orange "three-in-one" iced tea shit is all theirs...
Ah yes Red Bull, the drug that made Milwaukee famous.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by chitown
Thought that was Raging Bull
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ah boxing. a noble sport.
didn't the Thais invent the less noble version which features kicking?
Kathoeys.
Vanity mirrors on motorcycles.
Long single-strand hairs growing perpendicularly from a facial mole.
Not really an invention though is it. it's just boxing with kicking.Quote:
Originally Posted by slimboyfat
I'm going to invent spit boxing, headbutt boxing and pinch boxing.
Sadly, there really is a sport called chess boxing, I think the Dutch invented it.
Umberallas, 10 ft ladders, 48" TV's and 5 people all on a motor bikes.
One thing that the Thais all have in common (and I have not seen this anywhere else in the world) is an ultimate and true love for their king.
i love that stuff!Quote:
Originally Posted by Torbek
I can only think of Red Bull and the sit down toilet.
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They may have invented pole dancing but the lab notebook was not notarized.
It seems Thais do not like to argue when the farang has some fact to rely on, especially if it pokes a hole in how great Thailand is.
Tell her your research turned up the cell phone was invented in Thailand and she will be happy again.
Remember them well - we had them around the engine testbeds when I did my apprenticeship 1958-1962!! Have a wet start or a fuel line go ? just open the door , throw a couple in and shut the door - problem solved ! Dunno what was in them but you had to give it a few minutes before you opened the door again !!Quote:
Originally Posted by hillbillyI remember when this news came out and I thought BS! Why? Back on the farm we had glass balls (about the same size) filled with some sort of liquid to put out a fire.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thetyim
They worked as I found out when I was 13 and my mini-bike was on fire. :)