BaldPlumber

One for the Brits.

Cunk on Britain. 5 episode mini series in which Philomena Cunk explains the last two thousand years of British history.

Anyone who liked Screenwipe and/or Charlie Brooker will love this.

Extremely funny, but not for pedants who may well suffer a heart attack watching it.

Available on iPlayer, torrent and streaming sites.

hi, i told him i had no experience or expertise on custom whatsoever and wanted them to take care of it all, so the deal is they take care of everything and i get the bike to my room, and that is why the price bumped from $680 to $1280

just like that

 

i have no intention of roaming around on sukumvit, i just want the torque to get out of trouble, and save myself a heart attack if i get forced to paddle just coz it got uphill pratamnak

 

question: do you know anything about this particular model ?

i'm 1.95 meter / 6'4 and worry if i will fit on it ?

and another question: do you think i should go

for it ? i'm not sure if its comfortable,

but otoh i am really uncomfortable with police harassing me on combustion bikes

 

 

I built a full size fat bike with a 1.5kW hub motor with a 20ah 52V battery a couple of years ago.

The bike was huge fun and had a range of about 60 or 70km from memory.

I sold it with the intention of building another one with a mid drive, but never got round to doing it.

In my experience, you'd be better off finding a decent donor bike and then just buying the bits you need.

The batteries and the controller need careful consideration, especially when thinking about peak output.

My bike could easily get up all of the hills locally, but as I said, the mid drive is by far the better bet.

As far as prices go, a decent battery pack and the BBSHD kit will cost ~ 50K and then of course you have the cost of the bike.

In no way do the costs stack up against a small motorbike, but I totally understand why you might be keen on an ebike.

Personally, I think the current prices are crazy when you consider you can get a Tesla model 3 for about $30K after government rebate. They should be a quarter of their current price I think, but watch this space considering that there are possibly exciting developments with solid state batteries allegedly just around the corner which should improve power density, charge times and safety considerably.

Just look at the current development by most major car manufacturers to see which way we are heading.

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Better at football
 
Germans have it all over the poms

We Brits often joke that Germans lack a sense of humour.
 
Perhaps they just have a "different" sense of humour (well, this German certainly does).
 

Anyone know where to find one locally?

I'm after a real one, not a sandwich maker with attachments.

Been to most of the likely places, but with no luck.

TIA

A few months ago I got in a car accident in Bangkok, long story short a police officer wanted a bribe and i didnt give it, and i ended up in klong prem for four days until I made bail. (a court recently dismissed everything).  
 
Anyway, while in klong prem I shared a cell with a big lad from London in his 50s who who said he lived in pattaya as a property developer. Apparently his thai business partner fiddled some papers and it got him in a lot of trouble. He was arrested and jailed first in pattaya, and later in bangkok. I was wondering what happened to him - if his appeal was succesful - but i forgot his name. So i wondered if anyone hear remembers seeing it in the news?   He was really big, bald, with an old fashioned name.
 
(We also shared a courtyard with that canadian murderer michael karas, didnt know what he did until i came out )

I am sorry to say this ,but after 25 years of coming here ,living here and having a business here , no one has ever claimed to be from the sas or any spy organization ,i have never been ripped off by any girl telling me she "loves" me i have only once paid a bribe to a traffic cop and that was almost 20 years ago ,and i have been ripped off on a commission owed me by an expat ,once , it is very rare that a Thai tries to get a higher "tourist" price off me and i have been happily married to a Thai woman for 20 years .

Tell me what am i doing wrong?[emoji2]

Either that or they're massively exaggerating, or spend most of their life in bars taking to compete losers.

I ride a push bike most days along Jomtien Beach Road. I see people politely smoking on the sidewalks, off the beach, disposing of the butts in the readily available garbage bins. No fanfare, no parade, no problems.

19 minutes ago, sirineou said:

"We are not in a marriage we are in a club and there is no exit fee when you leave a club "

Have you ever tried to leave a club with out paying your bar bill?

Generally you might not expect to pay any future non-existent bar bills, let alone any future bar bills for other members when you leave the club.

This might help some.

The BBC iPlayer add-on works under kodi if you use the supplied proxy.

Will not stream live TV, but had the usual VOD functionality works fine.

Problem solved.

I doubt anyone is interested but it turns out that VBA variables cannot contain unicode and a different technique is needed.

I have a problem with toggling access forms to display either the Roman / Latin character set and the Thai character set.

If someone has done this before I would be very grateful for some advice.

My problem is this ...

I am using a font that supports both Latin and non-Latin, including Thai. If I hard code any controls caption property within design view, the form will render correctly.

However, if I change the caption property on, say, form load in my VBA code, the form will not render properly. In fact, it won't include any Thai characters.

It makes no difference if I reset the font name to the exact same one specified in design view.

I've tried the various expert forums, but the amount of people with experience of non-Latin based coding seems to be in short supply. Hopefully I'll have better luck here!

Any help greatly appreciated.

Sheryl, thank you so much for your input and advice.

Much appreciated.

I'll read it again tomorrow and take some notes!

Many thanks

Swiss1960 thanks for the advice, Howard thanks for the entertainment!

Way to go,can the 57 year old guy get this coverage too in Czech republic?

Hi

Expat in Jomtien looking for reasonably priced health insurance.

I'm 57 and in, as far as I know, pretty good health. Have a little bit of tinnitus in one ear, but no one is going to fix that!

I should explain, I am not interested in a 5-star hotel experience. If admitted to hospital, I don't want or need a private room, I don't care about an al la carte menu, I'm unlikely to be interested in choosing from a specially selected wine list during the course of my stay.

I am interested in well trained medical staff who have access to decent drugs, equipment and other paraphernalia that might be useful in the course of fixing me up.

Is this an impossible dream or should I be prepared to don my cravat and crushed velvet jacket else feel hopelessly underdressed when presenting myself for my urgent medical experience?

That sounds incredibly slow.

I've just checked my system that has about 750 movies and 100's of TV series and a library cleanup takes at most 3 seconds.

Maybe you've got an fragmented system disk or database - have you tried exporting and importing your library? best approach would be to export your library, de-fragment your system disk and then import the library.

That all makes perfect sense.

Very odd for Thailand!

37 minutes ago, jippytum said:

The JPM is required to take legal action against co owners six months in arrears .As a last resort the  JPM with the management committee approval is authorized by the condominium act to  cease the supply of basic utilities to the unit in arrears.

What form of legal action? I would have thought that removing and storing the water meter would have been the quickest and easiest approach.

OK thanks. May as well do it today then.

Just a quicky.

My 90 day reporting date is the 9th (Sunday) but I'm leaving Thailand on the 10th for a month or so.

Do I need to do the 90 day report? If I do, it's going to have to be today.

Thanks

Given up trying now

Came to realise that it's more cost effective to hire a car as and when I need one.

Living in a city a car is impractical for day to day use given the ridiculous traffic congestion, so use would really be restricted for traveling away.

Surprisingly enough, car rental cost is extremely reasonable.

So, problem solved.

Thanks all