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8 minutes ago, blackshadow said:

thanks i will look later......

You do know it ends December 18th, right? Haha, only kidding.

Estimated $1.6 billion will be gambled in Thailand on FIFAWC, about 30 times more than the cost of buying the rights! There's a moral in there somewhere. Legalise and tax gambling? Would pay for a lot!

40 minutes ago, blackshadow said:

would be nice to know which tv channels the world up is going to be telivsed on ???

https://worldcuppass.com/watch-fifa-world-cup-in-thailand/?amp=1

51 minutes ago, parafareno said:

i called them and they say they investigate the problem...it can take 3 weeks 555...up to you if you wait so long 

I never waited that long. Usually called back in a day or so. You have to fight for your rights!

19 minutes ago, parafareno said:

i dont know maybe it is router? I use tplink m7000   if i put it on balcony the speed is more stable....

i dont know what is going on ....how can be signal bad in pattaya, it has so many 4g antennas

WiFi and phone signals don't like concrete. My tplink's on the top floor, outside, but under cover. It's wired up to 2 access points. What do you use in your phone? Are the speeds the same?

BTW AIS have a shop in central mall, 3rd floor. I've never found them very helpful at all, but the AIS call centre is. They'll run checks on the number and the surrounding towers if you give them your location. Might be a hardware fault in their equipment. Call 1175 free.

14 hours ago, bang saen guy said:

There are 15 threads running on the front page of this section. Maybe some could be combined. Enough already

Just a lot of hot air. Same ASEAN, same COP27, same UN. What do any of these junkets achieve? Russia's still bombing the <deleted> out of Ukraine. The Iranian and Myanmar governments are still slaughtering their citizens. And so it goes on.

2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Complete claptrap. Most - if not ALL - of the poor people I know in the UK are poor for a reason - wasted their money. I worked 25 years, bought my house and retired to Thailand at 50, you seriously saying I should give some of my money to some lazy, drunk, weed smoking bums ?  

You mean HM government? But you already gave them 20%!

3 hours ago, Dogmatix said:

Vote buying ahead of elections in first quarter 2023. 
 

With nothing done about flood prevention since the great floods of 2011 or waste management, Thais will die happy washed away with their families in a torrent of sewage because they could stay up late to watch the footy and gambled on it in 2022. Who wouldn’t want to make this choice?

Do you really believe $28m (1 billion THB) could fix Thailand's flood/drought problems? No, it's a false argument it could be better spent elsewhere. It would take billions of $ to fix, not billions of THB. And how many would actually benefit from public works' spending of a billion THB? Maybe a project in Bangkok to create a public park. How does that benefit folk in Isaan? Or down south?

1 hour ago, stat said:

What makes you think the quality went down? Did you see the 1954 final? As Günther Netzer once said about the teams of 1974 they were playing tip kick football i.e. not running and moving. No pressing nothing, the old teams would loose 0:10 vs a 2022 team.

Brazil 1970, the greatest football team the world ever saw.

Are your speeds from SIM in modem or SIM in phone?

7 hours ago, daveAustin said:

Not too hard to work out. It’s called tactics, to try to get the ref to call a foul, but is thankfully less an issue nowadays with VAR etc. Anyway, dignity and ice hockey? Isn’t that the hobby where they fight every 5 minutes and dressed up in so much foam that you could drop off a cliff and not be hurt? ????

Well, no actually, not tactics, just cheating. You don't see rugby players, NFL players, in fact players in any other sport trying it on, faking injuries, arguing with the ref, having tantrums. Footballers, I mean soccer players, in general are a nauseating bunch of massively overpaid prima donnas. Send 'em off!

I use an AIS SIM both in my phone and in a Tp Link router. Same packages, unlimited at 15Mbps for a year, about 1800 THB. In Pratamnak my phone runs at between 30 and 40 Mbps. The problem with the router is, if there's a power out, the SIM has problems reconnecting. Also, the 2 locations could hardly be more different. Router on a very small island 35k offshore, phone in Pratamnak.

BTW, the router offers WiFi, or wired network, so why all this talk of a hotspot? Oh, you mean when on the move with your phone as a hotspot? Unless your WiFi is encrypted, tethering isn't secure I don't think. Could be wrong on that.

At home, I connect an rj45 cable between my laptop and router. Works well.

27 minutes ago, IAMHERE said:

FIFA wants about $45million from Thailand. Makes me wonder how much other contries paid. Heck, USA is five times the population so how much did USA pay? Australia has far fewer people, how much did Australia get charged? Any of the nations fielding teams should be paying on a sliding scale depending on how far their country goes in the tournament. Any nation not winning even one game should get a partial refund.

Here's who's got the rights world wide

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup_broadcasting_rights

But can't find who paid what.

Here's what Fox and Telemundo paid

https://www.thewrap.com/fox-snags-fifa-world-cup-broadcast-rights-espn-32056/

but for 2018 and 2022. Now Fox has 2026 wrapped up too.

11 hours ago, IAMHERE said:

How did FIFA decide on that amount of money?  

 

They had a draw

1 hour ago, Lemsta69 said:

There's nothing wrong with adding hot water to an espresso to make it more palatable. Some folk just can't handle the strong hit of a single shot. It took me a very long time to get used to it. 

 

But I don't think that's why Starbucks is considered to be sub-par even though they say they use high quality coffee. I think it's just that their particular blend and way of making the coffee doesn't suit everyone's palate. 

 

My only experience with Starbucks was a negative one. It was at a Vons in San Diego when I was on vacay visiting a friend. I ordered an espresso to drink at the store and when he finally brought it over it was in a standard-sized takeaway cup not the miniature ceramic cup as expected. 

 

No glass of water either and no biscotti. The coffee itself wasn't to my taste but it was so long ago that I don't recall exactly why. 

 

It was such a depressing experience that I'll never go back to a Starbucks again unless they give me free coffee to sample AND I don't have to wait in line behind all the dummies ordering their stupid concoctions. 

 

I'm not against such concoctions but I'm not going to be held up by them. Put in an Express Lane and maybe I'll think about it. I mean, that's why they call it "expresso" isn't it? ????

If you want a weaker cup, just use less grounds OR a different bean/roast. Watering down speaks for itself. Would you water down a single malt, a great wine, a 100 year old brandy because they were too strong? Yeah, why not, but not on an everyday basis on an industrial scale.

Are we sure this wasn't a shoot for The Monk Part III?

Jeremy Fisher greets Sir Isaac Newton, n'est-ce pas?

Many years ago I changed £20k at Vasu, they being the best of breed by far in those days. They provided a room with nobody in it, so you could count out your money into neat piles, unhurried and unflustered. They then entered and counted it. If it tallied, you'd bargain for a better rate, maybe a point or two up on the standard daily rate. Having agreed a rate, they delivered the agreed amount as a very large bound, shrink plastic wrapped bale of baht, in blocks of 100 x 1000 notes. ISTR it was about 1.4 million in those days, so maybe 14 blocks. Ah, the good old days, 70 THB to the £. It just remained for me to stuff said bale into backpack, actually front pack, and set off down Sukhumvit Rd. One for adrenalin junkies only! It did reach its intended destination, too.

50 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Short black is like one nip. Long black is medium black.

It's all just watered down espresso, right? The infamous Americano for instance.

For once it looks like Pattaya News got the scoop (unless you can read Thai):

https://thepattayanews.com/2022/11/14/update-chonburi-high-ranking-police-officer-charged-for-swapping-suspects-with-scapegoats-in-pool-villa-shooting-case-says-big-joke/

1 minute ago, LookMoo said:

Correct it is called "Maternity leave". The made basically keeps the full salary. IN short 13 weeks of maternity leave with 100% wage paid throughout the period. Indonesia's maternity protection is fully funded by employers and not based on social security insurance.

 

Sharia law/tradition say that the formal employer is fully responsible for his employees.

Like in Doha? Qatar? The kafala system?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafala_system

13 minutes ago, LookMoo said:

Its more details if you follow the link to the full article and watch the Video.

Some details about Indonesia, but precious little about Thailand. Nothing's changed. What's the point of the article? It's cheaper here? Is that news?

Love the 2 guys in the background. Secret service for the square cut, and the other looking at Prayut like I've got my eye on you, mate!

1 hour ago, Bangkok Barry said:

So, any way the murderer got out of the room? Did the media ask? Of course not. You don't question a uniform in Thailand, especially if they might not have the answer so they lose face.

He had a key?