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Interesting all these are from 2013 (6-yrs ago) 

My computer informed me HD getting problems change HD.

Removed problem SECONDARY (E) HD.

Did not do anything with it.

Wattana was not interested trying to recover. 

Continued computer operating with PRIMARY (C) HD in computer.

Anybody around 6-yrs later still having good luck with ComU2 ?

Pls. inform me.

Than you. 

When Blue Disk players came out I bought the LG BD560 player which Played fine next put it in storage for longer than I want to show and now hooked everything up and lo and behold what played fine years ago now does not work anymore. Player excess 10-years and disk with 25-yrs of age. 

Players I now look at all seem to have Password and Country code. Interested in plain vanilla player without uncle involved with password and country code in addition to region. So far unable to find such DVD player. Seen any around?  

Having done business with 3M for some 50-years in US - Europe and now needing UV film applied to ALL the windows in my new house so as normal I contacted by EMAIL as they say in the 3M website NEED HELP CONTACT US so I contacted their BKK Thailand Office about my need, that was 3-weeks ago and the silence has been deafening. From looking around the area I see high-rise office glass towers and hotels having 3M UV film applied.

Anybody around who can let me know who to get 3M out of their Rip van Winkel sleep to do a private home?

This would never have happen when my father's friend Willie Heineken was living and ran the company.

Recently Heineken introduced 0.0 Beer in Thailand and based on the short time it was bought off the helves it sure proved a market for the product, ever since the 0.0 shelves in the markets are EMPTY OUT OF STOCK is the perpetual reply. Sure looks like as usually: Wall Street running the company since the dead of my father and his friend Willie Heineken.

Anybody around who can let me and all the other interested in the Pattaya Area when the next LIMIT supply will arrive? 

HEINEKEN 0-0 sounds great my father a friend of Willey Heineken both RIP would be have been pleased to see this event.

Now where ITH do you buy this Heineken 0-0 in Pattaya? From the info it is as usual Thailand = Bangkok and the rest can go to you know where. 

Some time ago I was able to buy Oettinger Alkoholfrei (At a reasonable price) but since the store has changed hands a couple times and now belongs to nearly everything the Central Boys (that is if PC Big Boy hasn't gobbled it up yet) the price became outrages and the regular Oettinger buyers said, "PASS". 

JINGTHING

Interesting reading about your reports covering femtosecond cataract surgery but I notice it all is dater 2012 today we are 2018 and I need my eyes fixed because loosing eye sight.

When living in BKK I always used Rutnin Hospital on Soi Asoke. Years ago for us foreigners we used Dr. Som for Dental - Dr. Rutnin for Eyes - Dr. Elizabeth for General Medical, all off them R.I.P.  I'm octogenarian (89).  Now live 30-km outside Pattaya and use PIH and BHP.  Have consulted BHP the other day regarding cataract surgery and all info lined up with info of MAYO CLINIC but on a few visits to BHP Eye Clinic I never did see any patient going into the Glaucoma / Cataract Room to see the Dr. I wonder how many cataract surgeries BHP is performing???

As for PIH Eye section I do not consider it because there is no comparison with the BHP Eye Clinic. 

Any chance you have more up to date info about BHP Eye Clinic, also does it have the femtosecond first stage equipment? 

4 hours ago, cncltd1973 said:

Still unclear how immigration finds them, if they aren't at their registered address and the homeowner hasn't registered them. Anyone know how?

Yes.

In the world you farangs come from they are called Detectives who are dressed in civilian clothes.

5 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

Is that a blood pressure monitor on the desk, in the photo, lol

No.

Probably it is a lie detector in disguise.

6 hours ago, Dustdevil said:

Then I guess you don't know any educated people in China. All the ones i know can't wait to get out.

and why do they not get out???

The Beijing and Shanghai (just to name two) international airports are open to get out, so are the border crossings. Maybe the "educated" people you know / associate with are of a particular type supported by a particular trouble maker country.

6 hours ago, Penicillin said:

He looks a bit ruffed up.

Some Brits look like that when exposed to the sun in tropical countries, I have worked with several who had this problem. 

4 hours ago, Truscott said:

Why does the word 'Bangkok' appear in this story?

Because that is about the only town most Farang know (unless you live in Pattaya),, no need to write Rayong because they wouldn't have a clue were that town is.

2 hours ago, DoctorG said:

The real question should be how they managed to get the visas. From what I read on here it appears very difficult to get tourist visas for Thai girls to go almost anywhere.

That is correct, as a matter of fact some countries even when they have a visa for that country entrance immigration officers will not allow them to enter if the girls look sort of promiscuous. HK the other day turned two around and put them back on the plane. Big hullabaloo of course from Exceptionalistan about human rights of which itself is the worlds biggest offender.

56 minutes ago, Krataiboy said:

 

Do not make the mistake of trading freedom for security.

Freedom??? What freedom???

20 hours ago, tropo said:

 

If that was an option, but it isn't. I don't have anyone coming over.

 

Theft should not be a problem with FedEx or DHL as the item would be declared to full value. I'm only concerned about how Thai customs handle gold jewelry, and everything with DHL and FedEx goes through customs.

Yes and from experience there is no FedEx or DHL employee to watch the Thai customs. They just wheel the lot over to Thai customs and are called when Thai customs is finished with their rummaging through what was wheeled over to them.

LOL in LOS

5 hours ago, Alive said:

The Buddhist leadership needs to change the system in Thailand. Many Thais become monks only out of tradition knowing they will drop out in a few weeks and come back to society. Others do it because they have no job or life plan. Thailand needs to reclassify what a monk is and how one can become one in my opinion. These people who join for short term reasons need to be treated as novices and need to wear something like simple white clothing. They should be required to follow the precepts but not be allowed to become and
"instant" monk. The can still make merit this way and if they truly wish to go further after they go for a certain period as a novice they could actually go through the process to become a monk. The system is just not working as it is now. Okay many will probably disagree with this suggestion but it would be a way to screen people for sincerity and a way to raise the quality of those actually wearing the robes.

Good suggestion to get the ball rolling. Yes there definitely must be a difference in the clothing of temporary monks.

To become a real monk is a lengthy procedure I know this by a former maintenance technician  (and a very good one at that) who worked with me went into the monkhood a year ago. From what I understand from him he will be studying in different temples with different teachers (monks) for a minimum of 3-years.

He was a good and reliable maintenance technician and I'm sure he also will be a reliable and honest monk.

5 hours ago, colinneil said:

Is this just another piece of bs?

Usually when the hydraulics fail the ram would not push up.

Or am i missing something.

Correct, if the hydraulics fail then NOTHING will happen. But if the driver in the cab hits the operating lever then something will happen, as in this case.

Remember recently another identical thing did happen but that driver said he accidentally bumped the operating lever.

3 hours ago, Deepinthailand said:

If you say so I'm no expert on species of mozzies. But I very much doubt any species of mozzies can or will be eradicated on mass. Perspective is called for. White sharks kill a fair few people every year. But do we go all out to eradicate them!!! I get bitten a few times by mozzies but that's my fault not there's. 

White sharks kill a fair few people every year. But do we go all out to eradicate them!!!

Yes the human animal does with their shark fin soup cutting off the fins and throwing the then incapacitated shark back in the ocean. And the six-pack Joe Blow coach potatoe of the world call these people  HUMAN. 

2 hours ago, masuk said:

For the rest of the English speaking world, 220lbs (sic) is 100kg.

 

Considering the UK changed to metric in the mid-sixties,  they sure are slow in converting.

I believe he US Senate approved changing to the System Internationale (SI) in the late 1880s.

 

Catch up guys, this is the 21st century!

Yes, APPROVED.

After approval it takes the capitalist industry to APPLY it.

Well now we are in the  American owned NEW WORLD and the applying will never see the light of day.

But the scientists in the laboratories in the US use the metric system because it is easier to work with.

1 hour ago, Srikcir said:

I'm not a mechanic but the trailer should have its own brakes (vs cab brakes), albeit controlled from the cab via an air brake resevoir mounted on the cab chasis. It is air pressure controlled within the cab that operates the brakes within the trailer to brake. I'd think there would be something like a dead man cut-off vis a vis a backup trailer air resevoir on the trailer chasis that upon its separation from the cab that the trailer brakes automatically lock.

Your thinking is absolutely correct and that is how it was a longtime ago ( + - 80 years) after a trailer loaded with housing construction bricks come loose and careened into school play yard at morning break time in Holland killing scores and injuring scores more of children. This is were DAF made its name with designing brakes that were automatically applied when the pressure to keep them off was lost and the brakes then automatically applied.

Of course in that system the brakes are applied when the trailer is disconnected from its pressure source when parked.  Which is another safety because then the parked trailer by itself cannot roll away on its own accord.

Well I'm sure you know how capitalism works when in control.

Now the brakes are applied with pressure and when there is no pressure there are no brakes. 

While on the subject of trailer brakes, there are now trailers on the road in Thailand that have one more axel with 4-wheels installed and if you care to take a look these new third axel installations you will notice this third axel HAS NO BRAKES. Typical Thailand,  Safe money.

1 hour ago, monkey4u said:

Another well maintained vehicle causing chaos in Thailand

The driver should be shot for driving this rig without trailer brakes

No not the driver should be shot.

The whole Gov. Transportation Dep. should be shot for allowing all the safety violations being allowed to continue 24/7/365 and 366 on a Leap Year.  

5 hours ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

 

Of course.

 

As a foreigner you require a work permit for any work including unpaid volunteer work.

Same like the foreigner who has a bar in what ever you like to call HER name when hanging around the joint and talking the boozers he needs a WORKPERMIT. I have seen it happen while having a beer and the boys from the Labor Dept. walked in while the foreign "owner" was talking to me in a bar in Soi Cowboy in its early days.  

36 minutes ago, williamgeorgeallen said:

a very valid point. however after many years of throwing billions of baht at reducing flooding it seems that the problem can not be solved until the corruption problem is solved first. might as well spend the money on something more tangible. no, not road safety or education, something else.

- cannot be solve until the corruption problem is solved -

You got that right because that problem with the BKK flooding has been going on as far back as the Rama V era,, as explained in detail in the book King of the Waters. It is an old book not too easy to find in Thai bookstores.

Happy reading.

3 hours ago, tomwct said:

Unfortunately, many Thai's buy their drivers licenses without passing an exam and missed the movie where it says stop

and look before crossing railroad tracks. Basically, this guy murdered his family because of his  incompetence. RIP to

the family!

And Thailand wants Highspeed Trains.

Any idea what a Highspeed train will do at 230KPH and worse yet what it will do to the Highspeed train, and worse than that, the PASSENGERS.

As a commercial pilot with 10,000 plus hours I have even stopped flying as a passenger.

Sure as hell you will not see me in a Thai Highspeed train.

10 hours ago, Beats56 said:

Where I come from, Ontario Can. We have to get a new license sticker ever year that falls on you birthday. They look in the computer to see if there are unpaid fines , parking tickets etc. If there are you can't get the sticker until they are paid.

 On time I wasn't paying attention to my speed and cop pulled me over. I said I hadnt had a ticket in years. Hé goes to his car and checks on the computer  (all police cars have computers ). Hé comes back and said I was right and let me off with a warning to watch my speed.

 

 

 

 

You said it COMPUTERS.  That is were Thailand Land Transportation falls flat on its face.

23 hours ago, Familyonthemove said:

 

That's the dilemma I've been struggling with - as I know the market is saturated and there's always something new being built.

 

But here's the 'theory' .....

 

Over the next 6 or so years that I plan to be working and living in central Bangkok I will probably spend around 4 million THB in rent, (because of the high cost of wanting to live close to my office in Chidlom).  So my original plan was to buy a condo for around 4 million baht and live in that.  So after 6 years I'd have spent the same in deposit, loan repayments and interest as I would have spent in rent .... but I'd now have a paid for condo to either sell or rent out.

 

My theory started to show some holes when I found that the cost of a condo anywhere near the office is over 7 million THB.  But I reasoned that as the end game was a paid-for condo in central Bangkok, it may still make sense if I buy wisely. 

 

The maths are a bit suspect, as a 4 million THB condo would need to be out as far as Bearing - and that far out the rental is much less around Chidlom.  But perhaps there's an optimum model where I travel a but further, pay a bit less and still get a decent property rather than blowing a load of money on rent?  That's why I'm now looking at Asoke, Phrom Phong, Ekamai, On Nut - short motorsai ride distance from BTS, or centrally located condos in 'secondary' locations like Ruamrudee Soi 2/3,, Soi Nai Lert, Ploenchitt/Pratunam.

 

And that also explains how I've ground to a halt.  Case of falang thinking too much.

You are like everybody else, you want to live around the Sukhumvit area and if at all possible around the City Center area. Well you better budget ten million plus.  I see you mention Soi Ruamrudee, now you are really talking money. You have  champagne taste on a Beer budget.

Then you make a sensible comment Bearing Area but when you stay within walking distance of Sky train station you are still in high price territory.  If you go out Central City Bangna you get in your Beer budget. But there is no Sky train and in the middle of the night there is no motorcycle taxi from Bearing Station to Central Bangna.  Then when your contractual working condition time is up you go back home, wherever that might be. You think you can sale, think again. I have owned to live in several properties but all of them took not months but years to offload.  From decades in Thailand my advice, keep renting for the 5-6 years, pack you suitcase and go home. Now if you intent to retire in Thailand after contract completion, then buy, but in retirement I sure as hell would not live in the areas you now are talking about. I have lived in these areas during my working years but in retirement I landed up living on a golf course in the country away from the Bangkok SMOG.

LOL in LOS