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    Domestic / cross cultural issues - Thai / Foreigner concerns

    House burgled

    By betzse, Created on: 06/04/2015, Last updated on: 07/04/2015

    » On Saturday the 21st of March, my wife received a call that her Mother who lives in Ban Thaen, Chaiyaphum was quite sick and that June needed to get home as soon as possible. She left the house that afternoon and drove 80 kilometers to Ban Thaen. The following morning she took her mother to the hospital...

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    Domestic / cross cultural issues - Thai / Foreigner concerns

    cool kids and their motorbikes, new trend !?!

    By pachangamac042, Created on: 28/11/2008, Last updated on: 12/02/2009

    » There is a brand new trend in the village I stay up here near Chaiyaphum. Young people strip their motorbikes of everything “you don’t really need” like; lights, protections, exhaust pipes, silencers, mirrors and so on and then go on the streets an “do the monkey” on their bikes, specially...

    • Sean Moran commented : Certainly does defy logic in the context of multitasking operations at those sorts of decibels, but motivation itself is compromised by the removal of a tuned length extractor (US Eng. header) from a high-compression engine as well ?!? It's meant to be built at a certain length and radius so that a sine wave between the exhaust valve and the end of the pipe actually assists the rate of pollution and resultant global-warming as the valve opens over each cycle. It's not going to make the bike any quicker to remove the exhaust unless it's blocked up with buffalo turds or something. Logic and Chaiyaphum might be a bit of a chin scratcher though. Lonely Planet 2004 if I remember, mentioned that most Thai mattayom students couldn't pin the Chaiyaphum tail on the elephant's head. I used to use it on classroom know-it-alls all the time and three times out of four they won't get it until you draw the regions and add in Petchabun. Only driven through once and had lunch on the way back the next day. Very peaceful sort of place by the look of it. Have you heard any new hit songs on the radio about someone riding around on a motorbike with no muffler installed? Maybe it's the latest Lydia song behind the craze?

    • pachangamac042 commented : Sean, I understand that some Thais put a helmet on, to protect their wallets (fine). And yes, Lord Buddha protects them while on their bikes. I just wonder, how comes that in a Buddhist country so many people die on road accidents on a daily basis? I still think that a double insurance, your Buddha around your neck AND a good helmet protecting your head, may be better. “Still, that trend with no silencers sounds like a lot of noise pollution for nothing much at all.” Not much at all? You ride a shi*ty 100ccm bike which sounds like an old superbike machine, I guess that must be really cool in their eyes. And pollution? Not sure there is such a word in the Thai language. “most Thai mattayom students couldn't pin the Chaiyaphum tail on the elephant's head”. What should that be good for? Hey all students know where to find a good old Som Tam or Gautiau. That is real knowledge not the strange things they teach you in schools up here. Geography, Math, Grammar, English and so on does not fill your stomach. Ups, I think I am getting out of topic here. The Lydia song? Well, mai ru, I am more into rock and so. And yes, there is a I-Saan song about “motocy”, I will have to ask my wife to translate it to me. I will tell you when I find out myself. Oh, and yes Sean, Chaiyaphum is a very peaceful place as long as the trendy kids or not around.

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