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In theory you are right, but how many people in Thailand do you know who are part of that "someone who knows what they're doing" group? Personally, I don't have two left hands and I normally I get things done. But there are just some things which I never did before. I.e. I did electrical installation in homes and industry with a professional company a long time ago in a country far away. But I never installed appliances in a kitchen.
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Yingluck Patiently Awaits Homecoming In Thaksin’s Style
OneMoreFarang replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News Headlines
Good. There must be some counterbalance to the Shinawatras. -
Electrically it's not difficult to connect an oven or induction hob to the cables from the breaker box. Make sure you use the correct cable size and appropriate connectors (i.e. for high current). But then what? Put lots of tape around the connected cables and let it dangle behind the oven? Do the connections in a wall box (in the wall) which might be difficult to access? Put the cables into a box and connect them within that box and let the box dangle behind the oven? I am sure lots of option "will work". But what would a professional electrician do? Edit: I forgot to mention: The appliances are in a kitchen cabinet. The cabinet has a thin back wall. I cut away a little part of the back wall where the electrical boxes are. The boxes are in the top left corner. Accessible, but not exactly the perfect location. Currently the cables from the breaker box come out of those electrical boxes.
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Yingluck Patiently Awaits Homecoming In Thaksin’s Style
OneMoreFarang replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News Headlines
Jesus, which part is so difficult to understand? Everybody makes mistakes, including politicians. That's life and accepted. And then are there some people who pretend they made a mistake, but in reality, it was planned from the beginning that this "mistake" will happen. Do you really think those middlemen and warehouse owners got rich by accident? Oh, sorry mister, that must have been a small mistake. Yeah, sure. -
Yingluck Patiently Awaits Homecoming In Thaksin’s Style
OneMoreFarang replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News Headlines
A teacher and diving instructor. I am impressed. And then you also have principles. I am even more impressed. Continue your dabbling... -
Yingluck Patiently Awaits Homecoming In Thaksin’s Style
OneMoreFarang replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News Headlines
I don't remember the details and I don't really want to think too much about it. As far as I remember the rice scheme was promoted to bring money to the poor farmers. And that is obviously one of those reasons those farmers voted for her. But it was obvious that lots of middlemen make huge amounts of profit. And rice was sold by politicians with huge profit margins. And then the warehouses which were supposed to be full of rice - but somehow that rice disappeared. Did she plan all this? No. Did her big brother plan it? I am sure he planned at least some of it. Was she as PM responsible? Yes. Should any person (anywhere in this world) be a candidate for PM, to lead the country, without huge knowledge about what is going on and how politics work? She was incompetent. That was obvious. She should have never applied for the job. But she did apply for the job, and she was responsible, and bad things happened while she was officially in charge. She was responsible and she should be made responsible. "I am sorry" is not good enough. And "I have no idea, I just did what my brother told me to do" is not much better. -
I remember a story from a playboy in Germany many years ago. He had a testament like this: The last girl who has sex with him will get everything. That sounds to me like a reasonable arrangement. P.S.: I guess my personal rest wealth won't be high enough to attract too many girls with such a deal.
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Yingluck Patiently Awaits Homecoming In Thaksin’s Style
OneMoreFarang replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News Headlines
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A dirt bike sounds like a good choice for Bangkok.
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Yingluck Patiently Awaits Homecoming In Thaksin’s Style
OneMoreFarang replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News Headlines
Good that a newbie member knows everything better. Where you here when Thaksin and his cronies ruled the country? Did the rice scam somehow accidentally fail? Or was it designed like that for the greedy "participants"? Maybe read the news instead of asking Noi or Nit in the red village.- 146 replies
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Yingluck Patiently Awaits Homecoming In Thaksin’s Style
OneMoreFarang replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News Headlines
And I had hope that this country got rid of all those corrupt Shinawatras. (And yes, I know, that is not the only corrupt family.)- 146 replies
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Danish man on trial for theft in Bangkok Airport
OneMoreFarang replied to webfact's topic in Bangkok News
value Let me correct that for you: Total retail price 94.500 THB- 77 replies
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Swedes in Thailand: Holiday Nightmare
OneMoreFarang replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News Headlines
And the water in Thailand is warm, and it shouldn't be a problem to survive floating in the sea for an hour or two. Ok, there might be sharks, but better don't think about them. ;) -
Don't forget convenience. Why spend hours in immigration and maybe have headache about this and that? It's like going to a restaurant and eating spaghetti carbonara. In theory I could do it myself, but it's not easy to get it right. So, I let the professionals do that for me and I pay for that service.
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Supreme Court dismisses Yingluck in abuse of power case
OneMoreFarang replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News Headlines
Yeah, sure, there was only one little crime, which wasn't really that important, correct? Next time you are in front of a judge try your reasoning and look what will happen. -
Helmets, What do you recommend? Carbon Type
OneMoreFarang replied to Rhys's topic in Motorcycles in Thailand
Such a lock would definitely ruin the look of my bike. I am not riding a PCX or something ugly like that. ;) -
Supreme Court dismisses Yingluck in abuse of power case
OneMoreFarang replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News Headlines
Should I come to your home and switch on your TV? Or maybe read to you from the news? You should try it yourself sometime, it's interesting to learn about the world out there. -
Supreme Court dismisses Yingluck in abuse of power case
OneMoreFarang replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News Headlines
There is a big difference between making mistakes and setting up million dollar scams. She didn't just make mistakes... -
Supreme Court dismisses Yingluck in abuse of power case
OneMoreFarang replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News Headlines
I would not pretend to be PM if my sister would tell me to do that. And just in case I would be PM then I would follow the law and work for the people - and not my family. And if I would do above, then I would never be in the situation to think about running away from prosecution. -
Real Estate Sales Agents Commissions
OneMoreFarang replied to kuma's topic in Real Estate, Housing, House and Land Ownership
I think a huge problem in Thailand is the fact that it seems everybody can be a "property agent". I.e. a laundry shop in our condominium has papers with property pictures from within the building in their window. Ask her about one of those properties and she wants to full 3% commission from the owner - without any property expertise. Same thing with some people who work in the building management, security guards, etc. I sold a property in Europe. The professional property agent had lots of expenses to sell my property. I.e. he hired a professional company with laser measurement system to measure the property exactly so that later there was no issue if it was 120 sqm or maybe only 118.3 sqm. He advertised and showed many people around the property, he paid for energy efficiency analysis and all these things. All for a fixed commission. In Thailand: I want 3% - for almost no work at all. So maybe ask the agents what they will do to sell your property to the highest bidder and how they will find those people. Instead of telling you that you should lower the price so that he can sell it to the first person who asks. -
Supreme Court dismisses Yingluck in abuse of power case
OneMoreFarang replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News Headlines
I don't know the details of the Thai laws. But basically: - the people who commit crimes - the people who help above to do that. I.e. if I am in a shop and the shop attendant and maybe a security guard look to the back of the shop. That still doesn't give me the right to steal something from the front of the shop.