Jing Joe

On 12/5/2017 at 4:45 PM, Muhendis said:

Every time we sweat, urinate or cry we lose water and the mineral content thereof. By eating a normal, varied diet we replace the lost minerals. Drinking only distilled water will have the effect of not replacing these minerals which our bodies need however the water does not in itself pose any hazard since, as Jing Joe says. we get more than enough minerals in our veges. You might like to read this:

www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/317698.php

Hi M.    and thanks for what could be a reality that dispels myths that distilled water can leach minerals.  To get any calcium from so called spring water, i understand you need to consume huge quantities of say the calcium carbonate  compound.

Edit. I just read the  well balanced article thanks M.

Liked this;-

"This lack of minerals and additives would only pose a significant risk if distilled water was the only fluid or food that a person consumed.

As most people eat and drink a variety of food and beverages throughout the day, most people will get the salts and minerals they need from these other sources."

No mention of rain water.         Surely its about the nearest thing to distilled water?

It's hygienic storage is important -- sure.

There's a danger of Oestrogens in some town water supplies from the H.R.T and contraceptives.

It only takes an incredible infinitesimally  small amount to detrimentally affect us, mostly women.

Hi George.   Be good to catch up some time on email perhaps?

My PV solar hot water system has been great as described above.

Hi grollies.

You cautioned against distilled water by saying:-

Drinking distilled water is really bad for you long-term.

It contains no trace minerals and will eventually leech minerals from your body.

Ive read about it and found it hard to believe on the basis as I said that rain water is distilled and may not contain trace minerals you refer to.

The dissolved minerals in creek water are usually in compound form and therefore are not readily bio available for our bodies.

Veges do have pure minerals that they convert from compound minerals.

If there's credible research that distilled water will leach minerals from our bodies I could be convinced. 

"I may be wrong and sometimes am".. Smile please. We can learn something new every day.

7 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Sorry no idea what that is.      ( In reference to a MOV )

l think l'll take my tv aerial down don't need it and the only metal thing on the outside of the house.

Metal Oxide Varistor (MOV) is about the size of a 2mm slice of carrot with two leads and can absorb a short duration high voltage surge that sometimes happen in some power circuits BUT  a lightning strike is virtually unstoppable and zaps just about everything.

Asia Cheese rightly said a mobile phone is ok like I've said to my Thai mother in law but she believes the myth.      Crossy rightly made a very good point;- don't use when charging.    I wont shower in a storm.

Another myth is that mobile phones can cause a spark when filing car with petrol.

It's been thoroughly debunked but it lingers on.

I feel for those wives who are terrified of frightening lightning. 

Go easy guys, a big scare can leave a lifelong impression and may just have been so.

Been there done that.

RickFarang rightly mentioned the cutout function and that's only for a few thousandths of an amp current.

Lightning produces probably thousands of amps.

SCARY stuff.

30 minutes ago, RBOP said:

OP says pregnant 10 days and son only knows her for 3 weeks. I'd say the OP is being scammed/ extorted.

Yes.    Was there a proper test? or just 10 days overdue? or hoping the scam will pay off $$ before the menses start again?

The girl may be lovely but who would want to have in-laws like that. 

Off to a bad cash-cow start.   Sorry for the lad.

43 minutes ago, ehs818 said:

What is the age of both the girl and your son. If both are 18 or older, there's no reason to panic. Agree simply to pay for pregnancy related expenses. Pretty sure Thai law does not make impregnating a girl above the age of majority if the father is right there to be a stand up guy. These a**holes are relying on your unfamiliarity with Thai law, and trying to scare money out of you. I'd call that blackmail. Consult a lawyer! And then report their attempt to coerce money out of you to the police. If you do go to the point where a DNA test is conducted, make sure you choose the lab and offer to pay. Do not allow the parents to bribe those ppl. This is a country where you should NEVER let your guard down.

I wish you luck on this. I hate to see farangs getting abused.

I heard the age of consent for a Thai girl is 19.

Hi George and all the old mates.

Good to see George back again in August after long absence  (like me)  

My pumped water-panel solar hot water system is now 6 x 250W solid state solar hot water and works REALLY well. No moving parts, no leaks, no faulty Non return valve etc.

The 180Litre tank is up to 65 degrees by 11am and 12v  through the thermostat turns off the 40A Solid Stare Relay that handles the 80V at 16A  (approx) into the1500W  48V heater element that replaced the 240V never used element.

    Bypassing the thermostat it easily went to 96 degrees by 2pm.

The second hand panels were about $50 each.

Needed experiments more than just paper calculations as to the final configuration of panels and element connections. Internal  resistance rather influenced it.  More info later  if anyone wants it.              George you have my email address.

Now there are 36  panels on the roof for home power and great for the large air con.

Very likely George could easily boil water for hours on end each day in a small boiling chamber with an element and 6 panels.   You could distill quite a bit of water each day.

An automatic water feed could  maintain the level of the small volume of boiling water.

Some commercial distilled drinking water has ozone added for extra (??)   purification and this breaks down to quite oxygenated water and is delicious.

There's been quite a bit of bad publicity about drinking distilled water but my question is ;-  Apart from some possibly dissolved oxygen or nitrogen in rain water, whats the difference?     Cool evaporation is how nature does it and maybe if it wasn't for the distillation rain water process, wouldn't all the water on earth have become more and more polluted?

Just thinking.

Saw one recently at a function;-

.  A 44 gallon steel drum cut in half like two half moons.

One half mounted horizontally on suitable height steel legs, a motorized spit turning device bought on line rather cheap.

A small hole at each end on the ends accommodated this device. Maybe screwed in place? not sure.

Bar B Que fuel beads in the bottom started with fire lighters.

The top half was hinged one side and suitable handles to open/close.

Took about 45m max for tender delicious chooks skewered on the turner.

A cooking plate could be easily mounted in place of the spit turner, and maybe  combined with a raised steel fire

tray to speed up the heat compared to the slower spit cooking.

Need to be a DIY metal handy person.

Slippery little culprit eh.    :-)

30 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

Smells like she sells a scam program.

And sounds like she picked up where Dale Carnegie left off with her Thai version of ;-

"How to skim friends and influential people"

"SMOKING" :-               A dying habit.

That puts a whole new (combined) meaning to the old film descriptions;-   "cops and robbers".

4 hours ago, rct99q said:

After spawning two children here, boy and a girl, it has been interesting to see some responses from local ladies both married and single.

You see, and not thru my good looks, our daughters DNA mix up produced a rather startlingly beautiful child. 

Somehow the mixing God got it right and blended her with my wife's softer Thai roundish face, my American chin, nose and Irish Pearly white skin.

My wife is always asked by Thai women if she is the step mom as they can not believe this dark skinned Isan woman produced this remarkable creature. 

At many functions we go to at some point in the evening my wife is usually asked about the possibility of using my swimmers for a family member etc..

I find it rather amusing at times. But goes to the point of the .. desire of some women or family members searching for that certain look of child that can sometimes come from a mix of Thai & Caucasian blood lines.

 

Never carried it further than a good laugh but on occasion have hinted to my wife how much we could charge for a good specimen. Never really get an answer. I am thinking not much.

 

Very discretely put rct99q.        My childless Thai wife often acknowledges how the combination of two (DNA mix as you put it), often results in a better looking child than either of the parents.

Seems like as in your reference, God gets it right in more ways than one in that before the woman has a chance to realize and tell her partner she is pregnant, the cell divisions producing;-  the facial looks, the fingerprints and the ovaries or testicles of the child have been messaged to the embryo to start development.      

 What a miracle --- two invisible bits of nothing join and presto we have us, and what a pity the hopeful recipients of the confiscated frozen sperm will miss out.

 Come to think of it- a woman is very special in this ability to make another human life from just one "throw-away" micro dot from any man .  And wow what a huge fine for trafficking them in bulk.     Just thinking.   

8 hours ago, Poppadom said:

Sperm smuggling fine: 200,000 baht

Beating and kicking someone unconscious: 500 baht 

Agree Poppadom.

 There will be a huge variety of similar disproportionate fines you have raised.

Police also intend to prosecute the person or persons who made the video and posted the footage on the internet under the Computer Crimes Act. 

On face value of the above statement it appears the police being obliged to abide by the law to its full extent BUT;-

A ray of hope hinges on the potential looseness of the word "intend".

 "The Lord Law works in mysterious ways"   might just conveniently see a way out for the poster with a warning.    Maybe at a price?

Or is this just my being too naive?

If prosecution eventuates, pity help any future victims or their would be video do-good bystanders,  unless of course one and all learn to provide the footage only to the police and not the internet.  

But providing the police first opens up a can of worms scenario of them not taking any action.

Posting stuff on social media has become a way of life but there's a new pitfall now BUT

Q    ---  Will the Thai public get to know it?

Q    --   Will the followup on this particular Computer Crimes Act ever surface for us to read?

      And if the prosecuted is fined they'd be too scared to show that on social media.

On 4/16/2017 at 10:47 AM, Jing Joe said:

Then again--- does anyone know what kind of snake it is?

Googled Thai toads and it looks like common Indian Toad.

A for the snake??

On 10/7/2016 at 11:50 PM, Enoon said:

 

Good idea, the growth hormones will do wonders for your physique.

 

You are going for gender reassignment, right?

This subject may have died but just noticed this important post re hormones.

Probably the most risky hormone they use is oestradiol, that shortens the number of weeks the cattle are on grain but is the breast growth promoter in women.

Unless it is opposed by the beautiful hormone;  Progesterone, it causes abnormal breast growth in women and men.  Breast cancer can be just a step away.    

There are supposed to be witholding times after stopping the growth hormones for cattle but the truth is that Oestrogenic  hormones have an affinity to fat and hang around for a long time and infinitesimally small amounts do great damage.

On 4/14/2017 at 6:03 PM, Jing Joe said:

Does anyone know what kind of frog/toad it is?

It looks like an Aussie cane toad. Don't tell me Thailand has them too?

Hope not. 

They should have never been introduced  here, there or anywhere.

If it was the other way round and a snake or a goanna (large lizzard) wa eating a cane toad, they would die from the toad's poison. 

I call them gop gop mai law.  Frog ugly.

Then again--- does anyone know what kind of snake it is?

8 hours ago, Harold the Great said:

 I love this country and its people yet the behaviour and tolerance for bad behaviors knowing in advance its going to happen I can't understand.  My Thai wife is the one pushing me for us to leave here due to so much of this bad behavior in general. We have tried to help the community in may ways and I'm really disappointed. 

Does anyone have any positive suggestions?

Well said Harold.   My thoughts are - when there is;-

 Such a tolerable high level B.A.C of approx 0.1% +  Mai pen rai so ingrained + Cop corruption + little speed regulation + few B.A.C checks + few drug tests + traffic congestion + insufficient road rule policing + Jai Rohn resulting in road rage + more than two on bikes + general overloading  + unroadworthiness (especially bald tyres) + not wearing seat belts + not wearing helmets + unlicensed + ???    =  MADNESS as others have put it.

I'm always striving to be positive Harold but with these observations above, how many element in the formula would need to be removed to start to make a difference in the lives of  Thais whom I have found to be generally lovely people?

 B.A.C. tests have increased resulting in impoundment of so many cars that's probably tough by world standards but a good positive start. What next? 

Relieved my sister in law safely made her trip from C.M. back to Bkk. well before the holiday.  Khorp Khun Pachau.

22 hours ago, Muhendis said:

Proper grounding is indeed important the mild shocks are, as Crossy has already said,           etc 

With Crossy and Muhendis on board you can be sure of good advice. We go back a long way.  Others too have good notes and with Crossy monitoring, erroneous stuff will be cut.

Do you reckon if he wasn't just drumming up business, he may have simply used his MM and discovered that the supposed earths in the meter box were hot above actual ground  because of no or poor connection to ground?      Is there actually a ground stake there?

And then again apart from a capacitance effect if there is leakage from an appliance (Hot water system?) it could lift the earth connections voltages above ground.

 And then again if there actually is an RCD or earth leakage circuit breaker, that should be tripping if the leakage is above its trip point as Crossy??  asked.  

Or was the sparky meaning neutral is considerably above ground-- that opens a can of worms,  surely before the meter box?? 

Does anyone know what kind of frog/toad it is?

It looks like an Aussie cane toad. Don't tell me Thailand has them too?

Hope not. 

They should have never been introduced  here, there or anywhere.

If it was the other way round and a snake or a goanna (large lizzard) wa eating a cane toad, they would die from the toad's poison. 

I call them gop gop mai law.  Frog ugly.

On 3/24/2017 at 8:58 PM, Sphere said:

Our village electrician once told me thai electricity is different....doesn't need grounding. 

Wow,  where did he get his electricians licence.     Village qualified??

He's a danger to society and will spread his myth everywhere, plus leave  a likely trail of accidents just waiting to happen eh?

I was nearly killed in Bkk from my wife's fridge that had a faulty compressor motor with 39 ohms from active to the chassis. 

Only the typical  two pin plug on the power cord. That cabinet sure needed grounding.  

The Residual circuit breaker Crossy mentioned would be one step better.

Thai electricity hurts just the same as Aus 240v. Tell me about it.

Does the USA have an earth on their appliances? 

21 hours ago, Crossy said:

 

If it's grounded and has an RCD somewhere it will be just fine :)

Crossy mate,  is it a fair comment to say;- given any sort of fault (e.g. typically heater element leakage,) with even  just an RCD in circuit the unbalance between active and neutral will shut the power off,  but with a decent earth, the leakage current will not be painfully via the victim, however brief the RCD set time delay and current trip may be?     

Regardless of any other wisdom before or after this event in these posts, I've been quite moved by the unnecessary tragedy  of this and have compassion for;- she first up, and then he trying to rescue her maybe with the broom found nearby.       Sorry I didn't express this in my previous post.

1 hour ago, ataloss said:

Had the same problem with electrical shower units when I first visited Thailand years ago. When I settled in Thailand I bought a Japanese gas shower unit and have used one ever since. Peace of mind....

Even though I have earth leakage circuit breaker here and bought back a Sharp electric heater with me from L.O.S. , i preferred to buy/install a Chinese gas heater.  8 seconds later and lovely hot water and very little gas used if careful BUT BUT BUT ;-

MUST be very careful of the carbon monoxide emissions though. Must have good ventilation.

Great minds think alike and you just beat me to it.. Good to see you again Crossy.  :-) 

16 hours ago, docshock13 said:

What a horrible creature.  

Two possibilities haven't been suggested in any of the posts;-

1     She looks quite western and therefore possibly a blonde (notice the streaks?)

2     She stole the bike with the keys in it and this is her first tank fill.

As for her Jai Rohn ranting, she is very mild compared to someone I've known all my married life.      

10 hours ago, Anthony Loh said:

Very interesting! What's wrong with this girl?


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Hopefully she's not on the drug ice.  Even worse the Flakka drug where people tend to strip and run but when they're down, on the ground their torment is unbelievable.

 If you want to be absolutely terrified, google the you tube results of what happens with that one.

 Hope all is better now with this woman.