OneMoreFarang

I learn when I have a motivation to learn. In school I was always bad in any language. When I was on holiday, I had to learn a foreign language to be able to communicate. That's how I learned English. And in Thailand I learned Thai as far as I needed to learn it. If I need only, let's say, 1,000 words, why should I learn 3,000 or 5,000? Another sample is learning programming languages. One way is to just learn it step by step. I learned it mostly by having projects which I wanted to do, and I learned how to use a programming language to do what I wanted. For me this motivation makes a big difference. I guess with that I also answered my own question from above. Do I really need more Thai? No, not really.

In theory, it could be. I could check the engine number. But then, someone could take all the parts out of one engine and replace them with the parts of a similar engine. How far do we have to go to make sure there is no fraud? Sometimes it is nice when we can just trust companies to do the right thing.

In general, criminals are not the smartest. There are of course some exceptions.

Just a few answers: KTM bike, authorized KTM service center. I did go back to the problematic place. With a red oil pressure waring lamp on. They told me they don't see any problem, I should come back if I have a problem. No, I didn't drop it while drunk. I might ride after one or two beers, but definitely not drunk. And the cover is visibly scratched like it was pulled or pushed over a street. A simple drop doesn't leave scratches like that. And I also never work up one morning and thought: Where are all those scratches on my body from. ????

That is exactly what I will do.

How many people are able to use such situation? For me, the only person who is near me when I sleep is my gf. And I don't get so drunk to allow that someone uses my fingerprint on my phone.

Is it that easy? If the valves are bad adjusted, then it might be possible to hear that. But probably only if one has experience with exactly that bike how it should sound. When I was young, I did a lot of work on my bike myself at home in a nice garage with lots of tools. Now, in a condominium, I can't do that anymore. And I am also not so keen anymore to do that kind of work. It's nice to have an experienced mechanic or shop who we can trust. I don't have the time and patience to stand behind them all the time and look what they are doing. And I know also their perspective. It's no fun to work with someone looking over your shoulder all the time.

That is certainly what I will do in the future. I guess my problem is that I associate the KTM brand with quality and quality service. I am sure in more civilized countries above wouldn't happen. I shouldn't have assumed that KTM service in Thailand is on a high quality level.

In theory you are right. But then I checked some pictures and I found one from a few weeks ago which shows part of the scratches. The scratches are on the low side of the engine cover and not so obvious that one can't miss them.

Banking apps have to be installed and authorized on the users phone. It is not possible to just install a banking app on any phone, enter a username and password and transfer money. And everybody who has such apps on his/her phone should have the phone password or fingerprint protected. As I mentioned earlier, I don't know how well the phone protection works (if it is enabled). But I don't think it is so easy that every taxi-driver can hack it.

Probably he will like that. ????

And it wasn't Somchai's corner shop...

We all know that the laws in this country are a little strange when it comes to complaining. So I won't write names. My bike had some problems after the service at an authorized service center. They were supposed to service my bike and check for anything that needs fixing. They charged me for a new rear brake disk, they charged for valve adjustments, and other things. Now I had the red oil warning light on, and they didn't really care. That was for me the moment to look for someone else. Now I found a new specialist and he seems to know what he is doing. He sent me a couple of pictures and explained the situation. The valve setting is incorrect, the rear brake disk is not new, and it seems someone crashed the bike on a ride. There are scratches on the engine cover. I never crashed my bike, and nobody else has a key, I have no other explanation who could have crashed the bike. Did you ever have experience like that? Did you do anything? Can anything be done? The bill from that shop was about 20,000B. I am annoyed that I paid for a bad job and things on the invoice which are not true. But I discovered these problems months later, so I guess there is little I can do. Any opinions or advice?

If anybody would find my Android phone, and the person does not know my PIN and does not have my fingerprint, then I would think nothing bad can happen? Is that assumption wrong? I have bank apps, but they all require fingerprinting or a PIN or both. Some also have additional security settings.

If the billionaire would be a woman, then they would call her victim... Men in the same situation are obviously stupid old guys who deserve that.

Sometimes it's good to read that not only farangs get scammed.

Ok, so far, I understand that. But will only the victims of this crime get that money? Or all victims of all crimes? And do they all get the same amount?

Why?

Internet forums with interesting members who don't just spam the forum all the time with new topics.

Does he also swing his hips when he walks in front of you? ????

I am sure you can also get that reaction from a tuktuk driver in front of a temple - far away from any bar.

I also showered with my father when I was maybe 10 years old. We did exactly that, shower. I also think I remember I felt a little uncomfortable. But my father didn't do anything he shouldn't have done. But imagine now someone would come out: My father showered with me when I was 10. The horror! I guess few of us had a life where one or the other situation couldn't have been misinterpreted. Biden if obviously far away from being the perfect president. But I understand that people voted for him, looking at the alternative.

That was also my first impression, about 30 years ago in the rainy season in some dirty soi in a cheap hotel without AC. Times changed.

The above sentence "She was 12, I was 30" can be totally harmless. I.e. our family visited the zoo. I told my nice about the animals, she was 12, I was 30. The sentence is only bad if we use our fantasy to imagine in which condition it could have been used. But as far as I see that is in this case our fantasy and not any factual information about what he did at that time. I am not a Biden fan and also not his biggest critic. I think we should be fair.

What you describe are typical situation where Thais are looking for inexperienced foreigners to (mostly) sell them something. That is a reason why I speak Thai in shops or with taxi drivers so that they know right away that I am not new in town. If they don't want to talk to me because my Thai is not too bad, then I agree with a comment above, I am not interested in those people who are happier if I don't understand their language.