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BillWoodruff wrote: If you can go in the "high-season" months, late October through early January when the weather is bearable,
Fairly flexible, although kind of stuck to school holidays unless something happens on Thursday to revert the blanket ban on children having holidays during term time with hefty fines for taking your kids out of school that the last lot introduced.
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I should say that my comments reflect my own aversion to hot weather, and, as a child having been dragged away from my books, chemistry set, electronics' kits, etc., to go the beach (Florida) too often, I am not a "beach person."
Lots of people from England, Europe, etc. come to Thailand to enjoy the fierce sunshine and hotter weather in the hotter months of the year, and enjoy the famous tropical beaches.
Many people, like me, really enjoy the real rainy season here (roughly from June through August).
cheers, Bill
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chriselst wrote: Where would you go on holiday with my wife and a 10 year old girl?
Here[^]
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Avoiding the obvious joke.
Depends on the time of year / budget.
I'd come to sunny Queensland.
Depending if you want it quiet (Sunshine Coast) or Full on (Gold Coast)
There's theme parks on the Gold Coast, quiet beaches on the Sunshine Coast
Brisbane (right in the middle) is a reasonable sized city
Take a trip for a few days up to the barrier reef (go do the outer reef tour and, if budget allows, stay for a couple of nights on Heron Island.
Go whale watching if its the right time of year.
Fly down to Sydney for a couple of nights - just to see the Opera House & have a beer on Circular Quay
You could drive it and take a few days, stopping overnight - depends on your thing (and the wife and kid's things)
& you can pop in for a cup of tea while you're here!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Thanks for the invite, probably a bit beyond us at the moment.
My mum and dad are doing 23 nights in Oz next January as they desperately try to spend my inheritance. Can't remember exactly where they're going, 5 or 6 places I think, mostly flying and one coastal coach journey.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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It's not cheap - although the Aus $ has been pretty low for a while so cheaper than it was!
When we came on hols (before emigrating) it was definately the best hol ever - so I'd recommend it if you can scrape together the lolly in the future - maybe when the offspring decides she's too old to holiday with mum & dad anymore 
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I got a half-year summary of my cell-phone usage (monthly average):
50 minutes of talk
24 SMS
80 MB of browsing
My wife's:
5 hours and 30 minutes of talk
110 SMS
115 MB of browsing
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So you're wife's the quiet type.
Now, if it were her daily usage, that would be quite normal.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: 24 SMS
In half a year???????? 
Jeremy Falcon
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Let me lower the bar even more: 0.0 in the last five years.
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This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
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"You mean like from space?"
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: (monthly average)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Totally missed that part... but I've sent more texts than that already this morning and it's not even 8AM. Boggles the mind man.
Jeremy Falcon
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From both directions. The last two or three months is probably the first time I've gone from measuring my usage in texts/month instead of months/text. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Not a big fan of the phone?
Jeremy Falcon
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Too small, not enough pixels. My home desktop still isn't entirely satisfying[^] in that regard; but in all ways except DPI (something notionally budgeted as next years xmas gift for myself) it's well ahead of any fondleslab. 
The only reason I've been texting as much as I have involves on ill adult, a second whose cell's voicemail is broken, and their kids who I'm not willing to risk putting on the spot with as bearers of bad news by calling the house phone when I don't know who'd pickup. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Gotcha. I think I'll send someone a text about this. 
Jeremy Falcon
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The only SMSs I send are to my parents (like really once in a while) only because they're the only people I know who own a phone, but don't use WhatsApp 
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Sander Rossel wrote: but don't use WhatsApp
That must mean I'm as old as your parents then. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Or at least as technologically impaired 
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Not really. I believe too much technology is a bad thing. I prefer to talk to people with voice.
Jeremy Falcon
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That doesn't explain your excessive use of SMS
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She is doing all the communication for you. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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That's because men's bums are bigger than women's bums, so the pictures are proportionately bigger.
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