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Gsxrnz

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  1. Pajamas, pyjamas. And anyway, Peppa Pig isn't a thing in Thailand.
  2. It just means you have a fetish. Don't fret.
  3. Because the online options in Thailand have ramped up the prices too much, have limited choices, and also don't currently stock my specific brand of refillable pods.
  4. I buy online from Singapore, delivered by Thai Post. It's difficult to contain my laughter when the motorcycle Postie hands me a VAT invoice for 37 baht on my 3K baht delivery.
  5. What's Som-Tom? Would have been more believable if the author had plopped the scooter on the center stand, turned on the key, pulled on the brake lever and stomped on the kick-starter. Probably also orders Samsong.
  6. From Buriram, 26, has money problems, has an 8 year-old daughter and speaks decent English - I think I know her. Does she have a one syllable, three letter name?
  7. I don't know who is safer - the 250+ Thais in Iran, or the 2.1 Million Arab Israelis in Israel.
  8. Since the classification relates to construction costs, I would suggest the costings would relate to a shophouse style. It actually appears to be three shophouses, as the second picture shows no continuation of the dividing wall between the neighbours to the left and right.
  9. A very short list of foreigners seeking residency permits.
  10. I'd say it's a shophouse.
  11. The 2011 first car tax rebate and borrowing to rebuild and repair after the 2011 floods set the ball in motion for rocketing household debt. Covid borrowing was the cherry on top. I think HH debt reached 95% of GDP. Thailand is in a debt spiral and is now suffering from reduced domestic consumption as debt servicing is eating up more and more of their income.
  12. There's a reason I taught myself to say Far Cough Noddy in eleven languages, including Swahili.
  13. +/- 3 millennia. She's not aging well, she should probably start wearing petroleum based cosmetics - oh wait...
  14. Next to no damage so the driver can't have been going that fast.
  15. For 10% of the hotel costs they could pay for an expeditionary force to occupy the entire French coast and strongly dissuade the foreign invaders from launching their landing craft. But preventing the invaders from leaving French soil isn't on the agenda of Labour or the Conservatives. In fact, quite the opposite.
  16. The mistake was making the country's biggest criminal syndicate responsible for enforcing road safety.
  17. OP - changing tyres won't help (much) riding over the piece of road in your picture. Observe from behind another scooter riding on the same surface - look at the motor and rear wheel in relation to the floorboard and you will see the whole "frame" warping on every bump due to the frame design, and cheap-as-chips suspension. Some after-market adjustable suspension that can adjust pre-load, damping, and rebound might help. A steering damper might also help. But hey, it's a scooter and not practical or feasible. Best advice is to use decent tyres with a general purpose tread and experiment with tyre pressure. Don't go above the recommended pressure, a recipe for disaster in the wet. A slightly lower pressure will help grip and braking in the wet. Avoid the white paint when braking or leaning, especially in the wet. As somebody has already suggested, don't have a "white knuckle" grip on the bars, hold them loosely with bent elbows. Avoid the straight arm grip style. When riding solo over the section of road, shift your weight as much as practical to the rear and specifically don't have your weight leaning on the bars - this takes weight slightly off the front, meaning less impact from the road surface. Standing up dirt bike style will also help, it just depends whether you're prepared to look like a muppet.
  18. I'm considering lodging historical reparation claims against the Celts, Jutes, Angles, Saxons, Romans, Danes (and Scandies in General), France and Germany. I suspect the melanin content of both the protagonist and antagonists in this fantasy might be an issue.
  19. Trump will play hard to get for a while, but it will result in make-up sex via meme eventually.
  20. I don't notice it anymore, I must have acclimatized. But when I go back home, I'm a white knuckle driver - it's scary as $heet when you have to abide by all the rules.
  21. The Europeans seem to be begging for a war to solve their domestic problems. I suspect they may well start throwing stones first.
  22. And then they add the service charge on top. The missus pockets all the change - Thais don't believe in tipping.
  23. Right of way in Thailand is governed by vehicle mass. It pays dividends to be aware of your place in the pecking order.
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