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Agreed, and the volume level is just too low.

Visa exempt arrivals, which I would guess is a large chunk of all average western tourists, don't pay any fee unless staying longer when they apply for an extension......

You both realise this is in the Pattaya forum........ For context my weather station currently reading 35 in the shade outside and humidity of 60%. Humidity was higher yesterday from memory.

Thanks, (on behalf of the OP ) as I couldn't be bothered to look it up

19th - tomorrow is last and biggest day. There was a thread on this only last week.......

Good as I think you will find that i mentioned it in the post that you replied to.......

I also missed it. Did not even know we still had one after they closed the office down that used to be close to Immigration in Soi 5.........

Certainly I have not seen any water splashing (other than travelling pick ups on their way to or from) between 3rd Road/Central junction and Suk and down along 3rd to Nua and the road past Big C Extra going north - Yume/Arunatei or whatever it is called. Mainly because there are few if any actual bars along there. Apus may be worth looking at and lots of other blocks set back off that road. NB - all bets off for the 19th and probably 18th as well........

Information for anybody who has a log in for the Kodi forums but not looked for a couple of weeks. https://kodi.tv/article/important-kodi-forum-data-breach/

Thanks I will have to try that

The Fillet Mignon looks nice. What are the delivery prices or minimum order details as can't easily find on the site?

I would not mind the app but isn't this only all in Thai at the moment?

Thanks yes that appears to make sense. Our guy always comes early so never actually see if he looks at the meter or just delivers the bill.

I guess so -

Same except I did not realise the meters were smart...........

My old bills were like that except always early in the morning but same date and time. They came and changed all the meters in the village about 18 months ago or so. Looks like they can now read remotely but need the guy to come and deliver the bill - which also has the receipt for the last payment underneath it.

A little elitist no......... I disagree. People can learn and basic ADB set up and simple commands are not difficult - plenty of online help. Specific commands however to output what he is seeing would have been useful.

I go through periods where I monitor the electricity usage on the meter and sometimes check the bill vs the meter reading. The last few months where I have done this there appears to be a larger differential then there ever used to be between the bill reading and the meter itself. Always lower and today significantly so. So on the bill below it gives a meter reading date and time of 14/04, at I presume midnight, and a printing date of 15/04 at 06.41. I had always presumed the "Recent reading" figure was taken at the printing date? It being a holiday I hadn't expected the bill for a few days so did not realise it was in the box until 11am. When I checked the actual meter reading it was 12316 - 26 units more than on the bill. For context recent usage over 24 hours has been between 17 and 21 units. A week ago usage overnight until 11 the next morning was only 9 units. So my question is when was the 12290 reading actually taken?

Do any of us really care.........

Very nice but I would suggest that most people don't really want to spend that sort of money on an android box or equivalent considering they generally cost between 1k and 2.5k baht. If I wanted to I would just plug my laptop into the TV for the same effect.

Yes but with the caveat that if you are being based on the "new" pension which needs 35 years then topping up contributions from pre 2016 may not buy you any extra pension. Unless I missed it @piston broke did not specify which of the 2 rates his pension would be based on. This is why you are supposed to (or used to be supposed to) have a "chat" with someone from the Pensions Advisory Service or similar to make sure paying any contributions was worthwhile. Perhaps they have done away with that now.............. Informative article here - https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/pensions/article-11886127/Last-chance-boost-state-pension-100-000.html?ico=mol_desktop_money-newtab&molReferrerUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fmoney%2Findex.html A long way down the page is this which is worth reading -

I am surprised if you were surprised...... This used to happen frequently in Pattaya at Songkran pre Covid and often remarked upon in the forums. PS - you may want to check your volume levels as for me I had to almost max out the level on my lap top to hear very clearly - and no my ears weren't full of water.......

Thanks for posting that. I have seen him before but I found this one pretty irritating and the IFixit segues especially so but the overall message does not surprise me. Its a shame however that he didn't give a link to a video clearly explaining how the average punter could use ADB to check if they wanted.

Not sure you can just pay extra NICS (buy missing years as you put it) just like that. From the gov.uk info -https://www.gov.uk/voluntary-national-insurance-contributions/deadlines This is what I did after speaking to a pensions adviser and a few years ago it still took some months before I received a reply - now likely to be longer.

He has if they know he lives in Thailand......... Depending where you live.........