Mikelom

Lets hope that in the near future, we don`t hear about another farang murdered by a nearest and dearest for his money.

Seconded. Well said!

-m.

I got robbed of 14M and a son.

Such is life, BEFORE you know its culture "and after", as long as you learn your way.

I picked up and started again.

So be it.

Such is life. More fool me! - as it was my error.

Believe me, I'm happier now with less than before! , cos I now have nothing.

Thailand is full of good women. It isn't as bad as many posters complain about. Have faith.

Don't put your assets into the view of anyone, apart from your accountant ABROAD. :jap:

Do that, and you are fine!

-m.

That's a very sad photo, seeing all those dogs kept like that

Its a dog eat dog world out there... Mmmmmmm Bisto..

I was in Honk Kong recently, getting a new passport, of course.

I was invited for a 'special' meal, by some ex-pat friends; "a delicacy", they said.

The etiquette around the table, as I observed, was to eat the meat and spit the bones out, onto the table, and into a mound.

The meat was tender, pinkish and served in a chicken like broth, and overall was good. I rated it. I thought it must be 'duck'.

It was then that a path of 'what are we eatibg' shot across my mind, so I nerved up and asked.

The response was 'dog' of course.

I looked around the table, at the huge mound of bones, and only came across one thought.

"The dog would have loved those!"

What ceases to amaze me in this day and age is that one lone man could create so much carnage.

One man managed to obtain such ingredients to make a most powerful of bombs, without questions being raised.

It stuns my belief!

However, my blessings go to all of those families who have lost so many children, with unspent youth thus far.

May they rest in peace, and may their families find strength at this horrific time.

-m.

I wonder how this will affect married couples. The authorities know that when a foreigner marries a poor Thai woman, and they buy a house together, which is put in her name, that the money came from the foreigner. I suppose we all have to find ways to make it look like the money came from her. The silly consequence is that if the land is confiscated, the Thai wife will lose both her home and husband. Then the rich can buy the land at a bargain basement price. Have the officials been on a study trip to Zimbabwe, by any chance?

I'm not clear about your line of thought on this one. They are talking about investors on larger scales, manipulating group managers who will own 50% of the land, and the foreigner owns 50% as a partnership. They are talking large scale land buy outs, not a little man with a Thai wife. A Thai wife will own 100% of the land and house bought by her husband, so there is no issue of risk. They would not confiscate land that is owned 100% outright by a Thai wether her husband was English or from Timbuktu. That is their argument. The larger groups, such as the German conglomerates who own half of Hua Hin, and the Russian conglomerates who own 60% of Pattaya are the ones they are scrutinising, and to add - I agree with this move. Cool down! :jap:

-m.

A slow day at the Mental Health Department.

Is their a real Mental Health Department? Which I doubt? Why bother this is to ridiculous.

Is their? Yes, 'there' is; and it's a lot whole saner than Western Mental Health establishments.

It permits people who are not insane to live on the streets, bathe in fountains and such like, sleep on the pavements and be kings of the road, even if they do struggle to live.

The West, as a general rule, locks such people away, (at great cost), pertaining they are a threat to society and an embarassment to such.

LOS locks away the real nutters, apart from the ones with stolen money who flee the country and buy football clubs etc ( ), and pays for their welfare.

There is a vast difference in real freedom between LOS and the police estates of the Western world, in that what is necessary to really help somebody who is truly 'mentally ill', and not just a pain in the ass to daily lives of others, is assessed in a deliverable way of reconcile and free choice.

You are a guest in this country. It isn't your right to criticise it if you don't like it. In fact, if you don't like it why not sod off?

One day soon, judging by your inability to write accurately, you may well need the Mental Health section of LOS services. What will you do? Go home, because you don't think it is of a real service here?

Think, if possible, about what your thoughts and words that you type actually portray, before issuing dismissals and jokes about institutions of mental health sectors in countries in which you are a 'mere' guest.

-m.

This post also applies to all of the posters who take the pee out of Thailand. If you don't like it then 'go home', but maybe you've got nowhere else to go, Sar Tu!

Nice to hear somebody who knows that they are talking about!

Although the Japanese are attempting to be creative, adding sea water is incredibly dangerous to this operation.

It has been covered via the media that the rods have already been exposed to the air and local environment, within the facility. It would appear that access has now become somewhat risky.

Sea water will indeed, if not destroy the pumping systems and cooling systems, leave salt deposits that are destructive to the whole process (which must be clinically clean and purified).

If pumped into the system, and surrounding the cores, it will be incredibly complex to remove and permit functional use of the reactor cooling system for good.

That in itself lends itself to massive risk in plunging the rods back to where they belong, if at all possible, after events have stabilised.

The Japanese, may indeed send in Kamikaze engineers to work for as long as possible to clean matters,(in order to save face).

AS for reactor 3 melting down - um - I hazard a guess at Chernobyl repeated, unless the Kamikaze guys do their job. Pity them.

-m.

Reply to post in other thread:

Thanks, I understand this point of view, but cooling it with sea-water would have the same effect as boric acid. - The reactor would never be up again. This is talked about since more than 12 hours.

The problems seem to be with the injection of sea-water and boric acid.

Although Boric acid isn't a standard regulating compound in a BWR, it is just an additive to the coolant, and does no harm to the reactor. It regulates the reaction in much the same way as the control rods do. When flushed out again, reaction starts back up.

Sea water however is messily corrosive crap, will clog up pipes and destroy pumps and seals etc.

The main problem seems to be that without power, there is not enough water pressure to overcome the reactors pressure, so you don't get any water in. This causes the water inside the reactor to boil off, increasing the pressure even more.

Releasing this pressure means releasing lightly radioactive water to the atmosphere (and maybe causing another explosion just like in #1, as hydrogen may have formed).

So basically what they will be doing is choosing between evils, carefully weighing:

- Scrapping the reactor / Trying to salvage it

- Venting radioactive steam / keep trying to keep enough water in the reactor

- Explosion risks / Radiation risks

I suspect it was chloroform, which has often been used in the north of Th, to knock out travellers and then rob them.

Chloroform can cause cardiac fibrillation in the eldery quite easily, especially if the chloroform is old.

That would account for Mrs. Old Dear on the bed, and Mr. Old Dear in a strange position.

It's easy to say room service, and then take advantage without a struggle with elders.

However, I am awaiting the autopsy investigation, as we all are. That itself will need to be done by somebody thorough as even chloroform, if not suspected, can easily be overlooked in autopsy.

My condolances to the families back in UK, no matter the outcome.

-m.

I can't understand anyone keeping that amount of cash in a home safe, it seems the thieves may have known something.

It would have been safer to keep the cash in a secret hiding spot within the house and just a small amount of cash in the safe, that way the thieves would have got something and may have left without incident.

Unlikely that will be caught.

Yeah silly of him to put it in the safe, why did he not put it under the matress

Errrm. Why not a bank?

" prompting the pilot to dive 8,000 metres (26,000 feet)".

I seriously doubt they dived 8k meters.Probably descended IMO.

If it descended so dramatically, maybe it was a 3rd sex pilot?

Therefore, it is safe to assume that the money from these fines is properly accounted for and used in accordance with official rules and regulations.

I think you are experienced enough to know that assumptions, with regard to rules and regulations, don't quite adhere to the reality here.

I know of one British citizen whose PP was taken from him, because his double entry had been stamped twice on his first entry. He duly tried to go out and back in on time, but his PP was confiscated, and he was obliged to pay the 20,000Bht. He obliged, paid fully, was allowed back in............ WITHOUT his PP and told to get a new one from the British Embassy.

Assumption incorrect!

-M.

What a load of codswallop. There are few who intentionally overstay. Those who do should be punished, yes; but jail? Look back at European laws...... and you shall see, that in truth, jail wouldn't happen!

I know of 3 or 4 farang who recently had accidents and were hospitalised, and were worried sick ( et al + worried sick) because their visas ran out during their stays in hospital. Jail them? What planet is this?

Abusers of the systems should be punished. Laws start at HOME!!!!

-M.