OneMoreFarang

Good luck with that. When I did the big renovation of my condominium, the workers and my gf and my project manager were complaining that I look too much at the details. Like: why does he do that? Now I just removed the already broken silicone (it isn't really silicone) around my bathtub. And I will put myself good quality silicone around it. My gf asks me: Why didn't you make sure the workers did that correct when they did it? So much about checking the work: Too much, too little, it is never correct. Maybe you have already experience with that. If not, hold on for the ride.

Good that we have experts like you here. Maybe next time you shouldn't ask "what next" but give us all a lecture how to do things in Thailand. Or maybe create a YouTube channel, "Me, the Thailand Expert" or something like this. Good luck with the rest of your life.

There is an easy solution: Let her do it and decide things, and let her be responsible for it. Obviously, there will be he headache later on. But there will be anyhow headache later on. At least you can avoid the headache now. ;)

That's like: He stole my money and now I steal his money. You don't have to be a legal expert to realize that if person A does something wrong that doesn't give person B the right to also do something wrong. It might be that you don't care. But maybe you start to care if he sues you for not paying the rent and not returning the keys. You will lose. And then don't say nobody warned you.

And with that you will likely breach the contract which you signed. Of course, you have to pay your bills and return the keys.

About what would happen in Thailand: Option A: If the Chinese would be VIPs, then the Thai authorities would make sure there is no unauthorized filming. Option B: If they are nobodies, then nobody would care. Just f o if you don't like it. I saw that video from the UK. The group of Chinese people in the video (not all Chinese people in general) are just stupid. They walk as a group waving Chinese flags into a camera, stay in the view of the camera, and then demand not to be filmed. How stupid is that? If they really needed to be in that place for whatever reason without camera then maybe one of them could have discreetly asked the cameraman, off camera, if he would be so nice to point the camera in another direction for 10 min. I guess that would have been no problem. But no, they walk all in red into the camera, stand in front of the lens, and asked not to be filmed. Congratulations for showing your stupidity.

By now Thailand must be the hub for almost anything. Does anybody have a list of all the Thailand hub promises from the last decades and what actually happened? Is Thailand the hub for anything? Of course there is the nightlife, but I don't remember if that was ever promoted.

Good that the bad guys were arrested. We had two managers who both did shady business. But they still showed up and behaved like they are the people who do everything right. And some owners still supported them. Later more was revealed and the old managers didn't come to the building anymore. But it seems there are no actions happening to challenge those old managers in court and hopefully they should be in jail one day. It seems many owners don't want that the bad guys have to pay for their actions. Sad. But it seems that is not unusual.

Funny enough, when I arrived in Bangkok, I thought I will never ride in this chaos. And then I rode for two years on motorcycle taxis and got used to it and since about 20 years I ride my own bikes. Basically, no accident until now. But I guess one day I will be too old for a bike and have to use a car. Let's see.

Personally, I think motorcycles are almost always the best in Bangkok. At least if traveling alone for with only one passenger and nothing heavy. Getting through the traffic is most of the time easy and it's faster than any public transport. And it helps that I don't have to wear suit and tie in this climate on a bike. ;)

A long time ago in a country far away I used my car for work and I drove maybe 20k km per year. In Bangkok I have two motorcycles. Together I rode with them about 40k in the last 10 years. So, if I would now buy an EV, it is unlikely that I would use it for 80k or more within the next 20 years. But obviously the battery and probably other parts would be dead by then.

I don't remember where I read it. Something like: The production of EVs is so environmental unfriendly that an EV has to be use for more than 80,000km before its environmental impact becomes positive. So it seems environmentally they only make sense for people who drive them a lot and for a long time.

IMHO it would be stupid not to pay them. And if you own the bar, you should be able to pay them. Happy girls make you happy. It's simple.

I real life you are probably right. But did it never happen to you that you sit in a bar, and you like it, but you think: If I would be the boss, then I would change this and that to make it even better?

What a stupid comment! Do you support Stalin because you don't like Hitler? They can be both bad at the same time. Trump is obviously a serial liar. Biden is clearly not mentally fit, at least sometimes. I, as an outsider, would love to see two or more competent people presenting their different political views. And I would love to see informed voters thinking about what is better for them and their country. But no, the two American parties have, IMHO, both bad candidates. Only one of them is even worse than the other one. Why does not at least one party present a smart not too old candidate with good ideas? There must be one or two of them in that big country.

Even if I have the competence to do that, who would understand it? The want to be expert will likely find a reason why he disagrees. And others, who are no experts, won't be able to judge who is right and who is wrong. And obviously I don't blame the normal people that they are no computer experts, people can't be experts in everything.

Correct And people who buy vinyl could do the same - if they wanted to do that. There is no need to buy any physical medium anymore.

It depends. Let's say I am in a computer forum. And one of those half informed want to be specialist "explains" something completely wrong. I don't want to spend any time to explain it to the idiot. But I can still leave an emoticon which tells other readers that that comment is bad and should be ignored. That's just one example. I am also a little confused that some people seem to have some negative feelings when others add sad or confused icons to their posts. Just accept it. What's the problem? Is your self-confidence really so low that a couple of negative icons in an anonymous forum hurt you? Really? If anybody wants to add 10 or 20 negative icons on my posts, please feel free to do it. I couldn't care less.

I see something similar riding motorcycle. Let's say I am behind a car and there is just no way to overtake it. So maybe I have 2m distance to the car. Then some idiot comes with his bike from the back and squeezes into that 2m "gap" in front of me. Obviously he also can't pass the car. If I see that happening, then I make sure there is no gap. Go to the back again!

It seems some Thais do multitasking like that. And other Thais are used to it. Sometime when I go to my regular coffee shop and in front of me is someone who can't make up his mind which sandwich he should order, I use the same method. I tell them from the second row "a double espresso and a chocolate croissant". Then the people next to the cashier can prepare that already, and it's ready for me when I actually pay, after the person in front of me finally made up his mind. Obviously some farang who needs 5 min to select a sandwich doesn't like that, but that is his problem, not my problem. ;)

Really? When I got a tourist visa at the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh I had to show a flight out of Thailand. Otherwise I wouldn't have gotten that tourist visa. For a Non-B visa that was not necessary. That happened in middle of 2023.

I leave it empty. Nobody ever complained. That also reminds me of your earlier question, I think it was about a permanent address in that country. Maybe you can just write: non. Years ago we had here thread about covid certificates. It seems one of those certificates required some kind of number from the doctor who provided that certificate. One member here searched long and hard to find a doctor with such a number. Later when he was in the embassy and told them about his problem they just replied that the number was not necessary. He could have left that field blank. So whatever they ask, maybe you don't need to provide that information.

I have the right setup. All digital until the speaker chassis. Perfect sound - at least as perfect as I am willing to invest.

That's the theory. I.e. did you ever try to argue with a MAGA fan about the orange one? That's just one example of mission impossible.

Why? Does it never happen to you that you listen to someone or read something and you disagree completely? And you know that it would be useless to say or write to that person to change their mind. Then it's easy to just click on sad or maybe confused to show to others that what was written is incorrect. I.e. with some people and some politicians. People just don't want to listen to facts. There is no point in even trying to explain things to them.