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Is it wrong that my first thoughts were that I want one of those? Alternative to the bike for 7-11 trips during the monsoon season.

Next we need to cancel the Citizenship of a few more people who are still in the UK.

If I'm paying cashless, and it's the scan a printed barcode (Grab, small restaurants) I add the tip to the amount. If it's the on-screen system with amount, as in bigger restaurants, I'll tip in cash. Locals seem to do the same. When I first arrived I used to tip more, as I was thinking in home currency, but now only 20 THB plus loose change. I try to avoid using taxis now, but for motorcycle taxis I tip, and everytime they try to give me the change and look confused, so I guess locals do not tip the 'Win'.

It's freely available on the streets where I live - sold from the back of cars at night. They all have bright flashing lights as advertising, so not hard for the police to spot if they believed it was threat to humanity. Anyone tried it?

The Kicks is all electric drive, which reduces any maintenance issue with the ICE drive system, such as the rubber belt CVT. The Kicks also has an ordinary car battery, so no expensive replacement needed in future. The latest Kicks has had an interior upgrade, so it looks more upmarket inside than the first version. Generally Nissan have a better ride than Toyota or Honda, and the Kicks is reasonably quiet at highway speeds. The one pedal system is great in heavy traffic. But a downside of Nissan is higher depreciation than Toyota, although it's new price is slightly lower cost than the Yaris Cross. I'm looking to replace an X-Trail, and as there's no new X-Trail in Thailand, I'm considering downsizing to a Kicks or a Yaris Cross. Also looking at CR-V, but it looks like a chest freezer, and the Subaru Forester, which is currently a great price.

I thought the Yaris Cross had a CVT gearbox in addition to the electric motor? It may rev less when accelerating, as the electric motor provides assistance, but I thought it still had CVT? If you want all electric drive plus an ICE for charging, the Nissan Kicks is an option.

I've found the Google Maps motorcycle setting to be very unreliable - often trying to take me on to the Expressways. Yes, there are some Expressway entrance roads that also lead to normal (non-toll) roads, but usually the non-toll road will also be shown on a green sign amongst all the blue signage. But it can be a lottery. There's also the blue sign entrances to the elevated Expressways with the huge 'No motorcycle' signs painted on the roadway, but some of them lead to a convenient U-turn, whereas others only go onto the Expressway. I try to remember which is which when driving the car, then avoid the wrong ones when on the bike.

There used to be a ThaiVisa bar just off lower Sukhumvit, and there were regular meet-ups. I went a couple of times, but without the common interest of say, a business meeting or a sports club or hobby gathering, the conversations are awkward. Just because you happen to be strangers in a strange land, doesn't mean you're friends.

Perhaps a translation error. Maybe the witness said they were Brigadoonians?

But marathons are a race 😀 There's been several big running events in Chonburi that specifically mentioned the top international runners taking part (won by a Kenyan I think). And this weekend in Bangsaen is an international Iron Man competition. So I guess it depends on the aims of the sponsor rather than any racism.

The discussion was about Asus rather than Acer. At work we have large numbers of auditors travelling with their laptops daily, and both Lenovo and Dell had a very poor reliability record, whereas in our experience Asus was the most reliable. We never tried the cheap Chinese OEM laptops mentooned in the OP as their spec would not meet the IT departments requirements.

I have an Asus dual screen laptop, but it looks different to this 'Mistme' OEM laptop. Is this a Chinese copy? Very pleased with my Asus dual screen, but it wasn't bought off Lazada .... and I think it may be better to go to somewhere like Banana IT and get a genuine Asus on one of their deals. I did notice some very slim, large (single) IPS screen, i5 Asus laptops in Banana on offer and starting from 9,800 THB.

Thanks .... saves me some cash - will wait for streaming, shouldn't be long. I think the best recent Spiderman movie is the animated Into the Spider verse. And over at Disney+ I tried to watch The Marvels .... couldn't even get half way through - looks like they tried to aim a movie at teenage girls, and missed.

Not sure you need to buy equipment from UK? I bought a consumer unit with ELCB from Homepro, and it included fitting. The guy from Homepro removed the ancient unit with ceramic fuses and fitted the new one. The condo maintenance manager checked the installation after fitting, and said it was OK. That was about 6 months ago, and I'm still here 😄 I had a (cheap Chinese) air fryer short out last month due to over heating and the unit tripped, so it seems to work. Also used a plug-in socket tester and that indicated it was OK.

Post colonial guilt ... an early form of Wokeness. Modern India, or should we call it Borat, has benefitted from the Empire days, although most wouldn't admit that. "What have the English ever done for us"?

I"ve avoided expat gatherings for years because of the expats. You either get the corporate 'Masters of the Universe' with their permanently pregnant wives breeding at the company's expense, or the 'financial advisors' trying to grab a part of people's pensions. The only slight positives were the moderately attractive Thai girls from the relocation companies and the sponsored hotel snacks

Maybe a female Banded Leg Orb Weaver? Impressive looking beast!

Is it even worse than Meg 2 The Stench? That was so bad it wasn't even funny, and to add to the cringe it had a heavy dose of Chinese State Propaganda.

That's a very annoying situation. I use Skype to phone them, as I'm always left listening to hold messages for 30 minutes or more. Skype can connect to UK freephone numbers, and if a normal number, the cost is much lower than making a mobile call. I'm surprised you're paying tax on your Gov pension, is this because other income takes you over the limit? Are you filing an annual tax return? Is your pension paid direct into a Thai bank account?

If the employee is from China, it's a good bet the owner is also from the land of the overturning tour boats. But as owning the business (and the cub) is technically illegal, he's probably off trying to find a Thai fall guy.

That's the other viewpoint of the photo I posted earlier 😆

Still don't understand that one. Do you have an oil leak from the cam cover that's causing the water hose to be soaked in oil? Or do they mean oil in the water effecting the hose from inside? Either way, it's the oil leak that's the key issue, not the hose. Hoses are easy and cheap to replace, but why is the oil there.

Maybe it's the translation, but this explanation does not sound logical to me .... "radiator leaking, oil is mixed with coolant which is cause pipe to swell. oil flowing inside pipe, the coolant is sludge. " There's several points where oil and water can mix, the headgasket being the most common, the water pump is another possibility, or internal corrosion in the cooling galleries. But you can also lose water through leaking hoses, radiator or pump, and you can lose oil through a simple gasket leak. The key issue is if there's evidence of oil and water mixing rather than simple, separate oil and water leaks. The classic sign of a steamy exhaust is easier to spot in cold countries, harder to spot in Thailand. So the best diagnosis is emulsion 'yoghurt' in the oil. Easy to spot if you remove the oil filler cap or dipstick (in serious cases) and also if you drain the oil. An oily haze and smell when you remove the radiator cap is another sign (the real radiator cap, not the expansion rank cap ... but be careful removing it if the engine is hot ... ask me how I know). Some newer engines may not have an easily accessed radiator cap. If no emulsion in the oil, probably just leaky hoses and gaskets. Cheaper job, but still needs some dismantling.

As mentioned in the reply above - the big home improvement stores. Megahome and Thaiwatsadu have a wide range of window seals - I bought some similar to your photo for dust proofing and sound reduction. Available in white and brown.

I was trying a new remote flashgun using the Missus as a test model .... and I think her long hair looks great. Short hair just isn't as sensual .... or photogenic.