OneMoreFarang

You write: "The second instance seems like sheer incompetence", and that could be true. But maybe it's just the fact that most normal Thai people (not HiSo or rich) just won't be able to afford 20k treatments. Maybe this doctor told patients before: Yes, we can fix that, it cost 20,000B. And then he probably heard 99 out of 100 times: Forget about that, I can't afford that. And then maybe he gave up to mention that option. In general I have the impression (from limited experience) that Thai doctors tell Thai patients what to do. Take that and shut up. And it seems many patients accept that, after all, this guy is the doctor. When a farang tries to talk with a doctor and ask the doctor to explain and worst case tells the doctor something like "I read on the internet this and that might be an alternative" then it seem Thai doctors don't like that much.

I learned over the years how "normal" Thais are treated by many Thai dentists and it is often horrible. I.e. I visited one of the government hospitals in Bangkok with a Thai woman who was working in a Thai company with what they call Thai medical insurance. Coming there with toothache, after at least an hour waiting she was seen by a normal doctor, no dentist. He gave her some simple pain killers and told her to take them. If it still hurts she should come back in a week or two. He didn't even look in her mouth. When I heard that I talked with them long enough to convince them to see a dentist (one floor up). Finally he saw her, decided the tooth was in bad shape and he pulled it out. Another visit another day to a dental clinic with toothache. The dentist checked the hurting tooth and some other teeth. Then he put a filling in one of the other teeth and told her to come back another day to fix many other problems. The hurting tooth was not fixed. It seems many Thai dentists, and the normal Thai insurance, offer only cheap fillings or extracting teeth. Anything more complicated like root canal treatment or crowns seem not to exist. The dentists don't even mention them. Recently I had a couple of my teeth fixed in a Thai clinic. The doctors from that clinic also work in private hospitals. The clinic has a lot better prices than private hospitals. But it still not cheap. Normal fillings are maybe 1000B, no problem. But I had root canal treatment and recently a crown and a bridge. It cost a lot of money. I think within the last year I paid maybe 100,000 THB. Speaking with others this seems to be not unusual. So coming back to this thread and the wife's friend: Think twice what you want to offer. If a dentist can fix a couple of teeth with fillings then that might be fine. And if the teeth are very bad probably the dentist can extract them and it won't hurt much. But anything in between is likely expensive in the region 10k and more, maybe a lot more.

I spent some time on various websites and YouTube and this is what I learned. For the record: I helped with electrical installations a long time ago with a professional company but I don't have any certificate and I am not up to date. Having said that let me know if you know better than the following: a) having a RCD, RCCB is a lot better than having just a main switch. b) having one RCCB and a couple of MCBs might work but there is a problem with possible too much leakage c) like b but having two RCCBs with each a couple of MCBs is better but depending on the size of the installation there might still be too much leakage d) the alternative is using RCBOs instead of MCBs. So i.e. 8 RCBOs instead of 8 MCBs. That is the best protection. It is more expensive but at the end of the day maybe 10k THB wisely spent. e) See d) with Type A instead of Type AC RCBOs is best. All this, and more, is more or less explained in the following videos. Both together they are almost an hour long. For anybody who likes to know how to do things right I think it's a good investment of your time.

I guess it's easier to con people if you (pretend) you are nice to people. I guess most of these books and videos are about making yourself feeling better about yourself, feeling more confident and be more successful. Are people successful when they con other people? And will they feel better about themselves if they do that? Maybe they will be richer, but I guess often they won't be happy.

How many books or videos do you need for that? I agree that some books and videos have good advice. But it seems many people prefer to read 10 or more books and read the advice and then read another book and maybe compare them and think about them and to be sure read some more books. And then there are people who read advice and do it. I.e. a very long time ago I read Dale Carnegie' book How to Win Friends and Influence People. I read, I understood the meaning, and I acted accordingly. And it made me a better person and it made my life better. Just reading doesn't change anything. Action, doing it, is the important part.

I wonder how many self help and self improve books many of us read over the years. My preferred summary is: Stop reading, do it!

Some RCBOs 40A, N interrupted https://www.lazada.co.th/products/abb-ds201-c40-ac30-2csr255040r1404-miniature-circuit-breaker-with-overload-protection-rcbo-type-ac-1pn-40a-6ka-30ma-240v-i2956828793-s10840598433.html 32A N not interrupted https://www.lazada.co.th/products/abb-miniature-circuit-breaker-with-overload-protection-rcbo-type-ac-1p-32a-10ka-30ma-240v-dse201mc32ac30-2csr275051r1324-i3072681441-s11274180970.html

By now I looked a little more about what is available and what it cost. I found i.e. this ABB supplied on Lazada and they seems to have "everything" https://www.lazada.co.th/acb-official-store/ I am still confused about RCCBs and RCBOs. In theory I understand what they are doing and the difference. But what I don't understand until now is when to use an RCCB with MCBs and when to use RCBOs. Is there a clear rule or recommendations, etc.? Thanks

I am not sure if this is for public discussion. Are (some) mods paid here? Or is it for some people about having that admin privilege? I imagine being a moderator must be sometimes frustrating.

Many of us are members of Thai Visa and now Asean Now for many year. Some people post only occasionally and others all the time. But why? What motivates you to look at posts and participate? Personally I do it for several reasons, in no specific order - Keeping up to date about news and events in Thailand - Learning something mostly related to Thailand, like where to buy things, how to get things done, regulations, best way to do things, etc. - Helping others. Like learning but the opposite, helping others where to find things, get things done, etc. - Just for fun. Making fun of things and others, whatever - And when I am bored It seems there are also other reasons. I.e. there is one person who posts since a couple of months all the time. It seems he only starts new threads but doesn't participate anywhere else. It's obviously up to that person but sometime I think: Why is he doing that. How about you? Why are you here in this forum?

I am sure there are Thai police officers with talent and who know how to find the bad guys. But what do they do after they found them?...

With a face like that it must be difficult to hide

Instead of opening a new thread: Does anybody of you know where to buy big transparent heavy duty garbage bags? I want to put them in a dust extractor (big vacuum cleaner). And they should be transparent so that I can see from outside how full it is. Where like which big shop chain or online.

My "really?" comment was about her comment "women's testimonys is strong evidence". Not more, not less. I agree we should take the case again this politician serious and if he is guilty then hopefully he will be prosecuted and jailed. But the fact that suddenly 14 women speak out against him doesn't make him automatically guilty. As far as I see those are 14 allegations. Let the authorities find out the truth. I know this will take time and lots of people don't want to wait for proper investigations. But that doesn't make it right to assume he is guilty. Maybe yes, maybe no.

Of course. Charges could never be laid with out the testimonies. It's evidence, not proof. She wrote: "women's testimonys is strong evidence" I just tried to google this. I didn't find anything about strong evidence for rape. But I found the following. That brings me to the conclusion that something someone said, even a woman, is not "strong evidence". "Strong evidence means the recommendation considered the availability of multiple relevant and high - quality scientific studies, which arrived at similar conclusions about the effectiveness of a treatment." From https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/strong-evidence#:~:text=Strong evidence means the recommendation considered the availability,impact on the intervention ’s effect. Sample 1

I wonder how many of the tourists recognized any of those celebrities. I guess it must be frustrating for those famous people when they are treated like nobodies.

And do you know if all those Sony, Panasonic and other brand name batteries are actually from those companies? There are so many batteries with brans name stickers out there. I find it difficult to impossible to find out which are the real thing. I like to listen to your experience if you have any with this supplier and their batteries.

You obviously write a response to all my comments and counter my views. Mostly you just use words like victims, victim blaming, mansplaining, and other woke words. It seems you believe all women. And you think all men are bad. And anybody who questions your world view is one of the bad guys. I think we mostly disagree about what we both think do other people think. It seems you think most people think like you that all women are angels and/or victims and they always tell the truth. I think otherwise. And I think that lots of guys in this forum experienced in Thailand and "back home" lying women. If you don't accept that lots of women lie is your problem, not our problem. What I try to do is to be a voice against lots of crazy woke and/or feminists views. Lots of guys think those feminists are crazy but many guys don't like to talk about that. It's so much easier to let those feminists just talk and ignore them.

I am sure it wasn't 30 years ago. Maybe 10 or 15 years. And that guy worked for years, as far as I remember his last office was in Sukhumvit Soi 23. I guess that worked for a long time because it was used by people who lived in Thailand and never left the country. There could be micky mouse stamps in the passports and it wouldn't matter if nobody looks at those stamps. It happened, and I am sure I am not the only guy who remembers this. But I don't remember names and can't easily research it.

What is considered rape is a legal definition, and it varies all over the world. Experts can argue about that and I am sure not all experts (what's a rape expert?) agree what is rape. For some sexual activities men would go to jail in some countries and they wouldn't be punished at all in other countries. We can all have our own idea of what we call rape. Like we can all have our ideas what we call harassment. And those ideas don't have to match legal definitions. But obviously we must recognize that what matters legally are the legal definitions and not our opinions.

Someone should look up the meaning of that word.

I talk with men, I watch discussions of other men (and women). I don't pretend to be the speaker of all men or even a group of men. Maybe you should listen more to what men talk about and maybe you could learn from that. You don't have to agree, just listen what they think. There was a time when rape was something that included violence. A guy (tried to) rape a woman, she would scream, she would scratch his face, maybe she would kick him. That is without doubt rape. And then there are cases where the woman doesn't say anything. A guy f$#%s her, all seems to be fine, and later it comes to her mind that he raped her. And then there are cases like with Julian Assange where a woman had 3 times sex with him. According to her the first and third time was consensual sex. But when they had sex the second time she thinks he raped her. Really? And why would any women have consensual sex with a guy after he supposedly raped her. It doesn't make any sense - at least not for men.

Really?

I love this video about mansplaining. Enjoy!

Do we need a MeToo movement? Almost all men agree that guys who rape women should go to jail or be executed. If women come forward after such a traumatic event most men are on her side. Report the guy and hopefully he will be prosecuted and then go to jail. But there there are those other cases. Suddenly some women remember that a guy raped them a decade or two ago. Most men don't have much patients with these kind of accusations. Mostly because it is about she said and he said. And for whatever reason some people think women always tell the truth and men always lie. Many (most?) guys get upset with this unfair treatment. And then there is sexual harassment and/or what some people call assault. I.e. maybe a guy makes a (not very sophisticated) move to ask a woman out. That was harassment. He should/will lose his job. Or a guy slaps a girl on her butt. Should he do that? Normally not. But how about if she returns the favor and slaps him in the face. Action, reaction, message sent and likely received. There was a time when that was what happened. Most men learned and didn't do it again. IMHO lots of guys don't like MeToo. They don't like it because everything gets dragged into "rape" and assault and harassment. Women would receive a lot more support from men if they would concentrate on real rape. A woman was raped, the rapist should be punished. Clear rule, clear support. But that is obviously not what many of those feminists want.