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dunno about all that PD, i just take what they give and if they don't give i ask for. But, you're right, if they don't give they no doubt keep. I don't want to be too controversial here..... off the specific 7-11 topic and all that... but Family Mart also do a similar promotion sometimes!! don't ever tell me that Thailand can be boring..

NO David...NO!

Here we go..... A year has nearly past and gone... Time for the next one.... TEYA'S BIRTHDAY PARTY !!! Poster by Quinn of course... did ya guess?

nice one Duke! and... exciting news for you Duke, you have been waiting for it since last December... you can relax now... check the Katty updates tomorrow... oops...edit the Emmy bar updates that is!

do what you want with 'em... stop winding us up Seven! these are money to us poor ol' boys in Thailand..... some people keep 'em some people give 'em some people throw them away. just waiting for official statistics to be posted by QG.

i think you need more this year Rom, due to the strange times we are living through. E.G... photographer of the year.... I note that some Young Bucks are trying to grab Bumblebee's crown while he is undergoing an enforced absence. The aforementioned young bucks of course... Quinn. PD and QG. therefore i would vote that this year Bumblebee is awarded a specific Lifetime Achievement award for his photography, before his crown is stolen from him.

not sure PD. but just looking at the book thing it says in thai: 24th **** [ date start] .... to 23 **** [obviously november] 2563 [ date end] then ****24 month to 15th **** 2563. so i hazard a guess that stamps are given from 24th of whatever month it started up to 23 nov. and can be redeemed until 15th december. i.e stamps are given out up to 23 nov and have to be totally redeemed by 15 dec as it's all dated this year. but remember i can't read thai.. only Spanish. will ask teya or emmy to confirm. i did try to take a photo of the book but my phone seems to only want do videos.

no we aren't, we're gonna be dead.

ha! gotcha! you don't have to lick them... peel off the backing and there ya go. shall we get onto train spotting now....

well...i have bad news... the 7-11 stamp promotion finishes on 23 November i am reliably informed... sorry guys! but QG thanks for the song. Can we get back to work now? In case some of you are confused, i have spent lockdown teaching QG how to speak Cowpoke... this will be useful to him when he's out there a-branding longhorn's on the prairie. Okay, it could be argued that there just ain't so much prairie in West London anymore, and quite probably not many longhorn's either, but a skill is a skill. To complement his cowpoke lessons i have also been teaching him Spanish to help with his mosey to Cuba in January. i have to say that QG...you are -a mucho - goodo studentia. bellamissimo! wella-dunna muchacho! Magnifique! While i'm here a jawin' .. many of us know QG well, what many of you don't know, because he is indeed a very modest man, and i hope that i'm not going to cause him any embarrassment. But he is a bona-fide war hero. Yes! And just after remembrance sunday this may be the time to tell the tale. It is on record that he once flew in Aerial combat against the Bloody Red Baron himself, back in his youth. I mean the red Baron's youth of course, QG was always old... but that is besides the point. unfortunately though QG was shot down by the German Fokker. But at least he tried. Respect!

but Anyway....PD, it's time for my afternoon Ice Coffee at 7-11... i'll pick up a stamp book for you...it will be waiting with teya the next time you go to Emmy's problem solved!... let's get back to Covid... god it's a hard life here sometimes...

no comment needed thanks! this all reminds me of another forum when MacDonalds opened on Soi Buck... that went on for about 15 pages! not forgetting the spaghetti ladyboy at the Diana /Buck junction. Dear God. please tell me i'm not getting like that! all i want to be in life is Anti-Covid man....

nothing printed on the stamps to say so. there are dates printed in the book itself which may state expiry. something something 2563 which i assume is the year. it's all in Thai of course. dunno if stamps can be kept till the next promotion or not. usually my local 7-11 boss just notifies me when the promotion is ending, so i spend 'em. am i really discussing all this? somebody help me!!!.... Quinn, DC, PD...we have been here too long.

the books are normally in a little container on the counter somewhere PD. red, with a cartoon mickey mouse on the cover. they fold out when opened. one side being for one-baht stamps and the rear side for 3 baht stamps... don't mix them up! must confess that i used to give them away as i didn't know what you did with them. But, in a way it's exactly the same as throwing money away. i'm a bit like D.C just use 7-11 for regular stuff, eggs and cleaning bits etc. Helps with not having to carry loads of bits home from the big supermarkets now and then. advantage to using a book is that the little squares where you stick the stamps are numbered so you can tell at a glance how much you have. don't know anything about the phone business, other than it's bloody annoying waiting for some daft thai sorting it out when you are behind them in the queue. i'm convinced that 7-11 stamps are some kind of unofficial currency among thai's. If you went to the flea market on Tepprasit road, you could probably pay in stamps for some Whitney Houston C.D or similar.. but when they ask for 5 stamps P.D, make sure that you give them one-baht stamps, not 3 baht stamps...don't overpay!

affirmative captain.

my god Woodie, that is scary ! how did you recover? did you?

I dunno if some of you are aware or unaware but some years back Dylan hosted a radio show, a different theme every week. No guests, just music. The music he plays may well surprise you. The man is a walking encyclopedia of Americana and English music. here's one of them for your delectation.

indeed Quinn...indeed... call yourself a cowpoke QG! but i'll let Quinn tell you as it was his question...just think big mamoozas QG. another clue. actually thinking about PDs original post concerning the hall of fame nominations this year, maybe it's me but it does seem a pretty poor list. other than the Doobies and T.Rex i don't know any of them, couldn't name you one song by any. Whitney of course with 'i will always bore you' but that's the only one i know of hers. i guess as time goes on nominees are running out except posthumously. Even Marc Bolan? okay a couple of semi-decent songs but hall of fame? edit...bad puddy tat Sylvester! we could have had QG pulling his hair out!

actually i know it too, but only because you told me Quinn. must admit i was desperately trying to forget though...

somehow... i have to say it... i'm not in a state of surprised shock QG.

they have gone upmarket recently QG. No longer the isaan idiot standing there pretending to be a doctor when you walk in. they have a bigger ray gun version near to entrance that you almost touch with the palm of your hand. but... controversy! i forgot a mask! "Mister, Mister, stop!"

whitney feckin' Houston? responsible for the worst, most boring, despicable recording ever made by a wittering bint. i'l leave you to guess the title... or you tell 'em Quinn! i can't even type it without contemplating suicide.

you are correct P.D but sorry, you can't redeem them for ciggies. not sure about alcohol but suspect not. anything else yes. special stuff is things like toasters, kettles whatever they have from time to time from the 7-11 catalogue. they usually announce well in advance when stamps have to be redeemed by. i used 400 baht worth in 7-11 today. they should always be asked for if the staff don't give them. which usually means they will pocket them themselves. ask for 'stickers' not stamps.

i'd certainly nominate Rom for the wind-up merchant of the year.... Kendo? legend? excellent Rom!