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Take a step back, guys. If you want to change Thai driving habits then say goodbye to all that we love about Thai people. I had one accident in 15 years (the usual "Not my fault") and I have seen improvement in driving habits as the old guard, that learnt to drive looking at a buffalo's a**e slowly die off. 

3 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

Which Statistics?

 

WHO lists Thailand as having the one of worst traffic deaths rates in the world.

No Arab state wants these people, Lebanon took in many refugees and it is no longer a predominantly Christian country. Many non-Muslim people had to leave. Egypt certainly doesn't want them. 

There is, or used to be, a law in Switzerland obliging you to slow down and honk when approaching children on the road. Can't see that one working in Thailand. 

I heard this story 40 years ago so it must date back to the 60's: In Iran somebody passed a law forbidding the constant use of horns. Some people actually had a switch that allowed the horn to sound incessantly. The law didn't work. They set up wayside reception committees and:  stripped the guys to their underpants, shaved their heads and painted them red, and confiscated their car and their shoes. After a few days of seeing red headed guys limping down the road, honking ceased. three days the honking ceased. Ah, to be a dictator!

I read a news article two days ago predicting that 'leftists' (authoritarians) were going to attack Trump's mental acuity as a distraction from Biden's unforgivable situation. I don't like Trump's rambling manner of speaking  but don't see that as evidence of mental decline. I don't see his gathering of supporters around himself (unlike in his first term) as evidence of appointing sycophants. There is no medical evidence that he has anything approaching the problems of Biden, and contrary to what the Op wrote, he has taken medical tests regularly. 

Comfrey is associated with moist, shady places. I'm not criticising the use of comfrey but conditions are so different here in Thailand, there are certain adjustments you have to make. I worked in landscape gardening for 50 years and much of what I learnt doesn't apply here. 

23 hours ago, patongphil said:

What do you do with the figs? We have a tree that produces hundreds of fruit a couple of times a year. Usually give them to the cows and they love them.

Sun-dried them or made fig jam. 

16 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Well done your wife

 

I’ve planted three fig trees, they appear to be thriving but their fruit drops soon after forming.

 

 

That can happen in the first year of fruiting. We were getting enormous harvests after three years, two years later they all died at the same time.

A health advisor going around the villages (Buriram) was handing these out a few years ago. I have no idea what they are supposed to be good for, but we do get a small crop off one plant, and for the first time in my life, I saw them blooming. I've also seen them in a schoolhouse garden.

If (as is probable) the potatoes are imported, then they will have received a treatment to prevent them sprouting. Seed potatoes get cultivated in cooler climates where certain insect pests are not around, thus ensuring disease-free crops. Sweet potatoes grow well here, why not try that?

So all the armchair farmers are out en masse. "Isaan" is a huge area, apart from that, even in our village, there are differences between one area and the next. This side of the road we can't grow sugarcane or members of the nightshade family (tomatoes, chili, etc), 10 minutes walk away you can. So no advice from me apart from the post above advising the poster to look around at what is actually growing locally.  I too was going to revolutionise farming when I arrived here and now realise why it is barely a subsistence occupation for most.

The only thing I managed to get done was with the cattle, making sure they were properly fed and immunised. (costs money!) Even then, foot and mouth, various other problems made it not very profitable. So Livestock? Not for us anyway, even though we do still have 6 cows + a magnificent bull.

Even in Europe it is easy to buy a chain saw but getting the salesperson to admit that there is such a thing as a chainsaw file, and even, if we get really nerdy about it, a correct chainsaw file size is a persistent battle. Then comes technique of filing. If you are using you saw a lot you might want to buy a chain sharpening machine, which you will also have to learn how to use.

Anyway: as far as I remember, the round file should be 1/5 larger than the hole it is filing. You also need to file down the depth guages from time to time. I'm giving you what is basically useless information, most of us learnt it professionally and I find it a scam that saws are sold without instructions as to how to maintain the chain. Don't rely on information from Stihl, the chains are interchangeable, good luck.

I worked self employed in Switzerland for 40 years, and I paid more than my employees as it was assumed that I was going to cheat anyway. A ruinous divorce took the rest and I managed to get to Thailand by the fur of my teeth and two suitcases. So now I learn that the globalists (ASEAN) are going to take another  ฿23 000.- from my barely adequate income and I'm not too happy about it. They couldn't intervene in the ongoing Myanmar conflict(s) but invent taxes, yes, they managed that.

Nice! Those are what I call Firebeans, which are judged difficult to grow in my part of Europe.

I must admit, I never even tried runner beans once I had found Yard Long Beans, and I hardly grow anything that I used to grow back home.

In most villages around here (Buriram) we are instructed to burn all rubbish. This includes plastics of course. There are sill a few places where we can leave rubbish if you know where to look. A lot of rubbish appears overnight at the roadside. 

Anecdote: I once saw a school bus stop next to a "no tipping" sige, and a kid jump rubbih there. Education? You have to teach the adults first.

Fish dying during hot weather will often be due to a lack of oxygen in the water. Pumping up ground water should be combined with some kind of aeration, like a fountain, or a solar paddle wheel thingy like you see in public parks. Hope that helps.

No mention yet of the possibility of kidney damage possibly causing back pain. `A blood test which includes uric acid level as a parameter can clear up that question.

It is beyond me, that people haven't read the literature concerning saturated fats. They are not harmful, are in fact desirable.

https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.05.077?fbclid=IwAR1v-IS6yVRkvsY5alEAqgKIbr9MbyyNQHI6u8ODveZPrc9TjQjvalm3AQw&  and 

https://www.zoeharcombe.com/2020/06/cochrane-saturated-fat-reviews/?fbclid=IwAR1o2QWrxy3F4K2xK6HrCnMfSnmG1jnPfOFor6ZpGsqAHGyxp-txCqXYAJ0 

Pretty extensive trials have shown that high levels of Omega-6 are present in all seed oils and that if they overweigh the amount of Omega-3 significantly, they are harmful. 

AND... why does nobody ever mention coconut oil? Olive oil is likely contaminated with other, cheaper oils and will have started to oxidise in your kitchen, which is a complicated reason for not using it, no matter how expensive it is.

6 hours ago, Thingamabob said:

Not very smart to beg the question at Immigration. Asking for problems for yourself, and for the rest of us

You have little idea of how immigration or any office works. You think they might not find out about it and not tax us? 

Five years ago, I asked about the 90 days thing, and was told that I can "avoid" it by paying the fine in advance for the year to come. I think it was  ฿2000.-?

I can't imagine that a pressure washer of normal dimensions would damage roof tiles (unless they pick it up and drop it). The only things you can change on a washer are" distance from the object being cleaned and intensity of the jet. Just tell the guys to start with an open jet (not a direct, pinpoint jet) and see how it goes. It will be difficult to ensure that no water at all will penetrate between the tiles, but that applies during heavy storms anyway. 

16 hours ago, Jingthing said:

That's a lie.

Well, yeah, that's a good, rational argument. McD's say they have no trace of her ever working for them They checked twice. That doesn't matter. What matters is when people have their precious world view challenged, and respond with "that's a lie". 

On 10/21/2024 at 6:03 AM, placeholder said:

Trump serves up McDonald’s fries, but dodges question on minimum wage
Trump didn’t answer a question on pay, instead focusing on promoting his unsubstantiated claim that Kamala Harris never worked at the burger chain.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/20/trump-mcdonalds-minimum-wage/

 

 

Oh, it's substantiated alright, even MacDs has said they can't fing any record of her employment. Try reading something else than your current news source.