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I think it is a big problem especially with older people who depend on a fan.
Just got the message through that an uncle of my gf died because of the heat.
Had already passed do 80 and when I asked if there was an air conditioner there in the house, the answer was negative.
His daughter was doing some shopping and on her return she match he was sleeping but alas, he had passed away.

For many weeks now, everyday between 44 and 47ºC!

Edit, at the moment 44.0ºC

1 hour ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

Had nothing at all to do with the weather.

 

Every Thai knows that rules only apply to others.

 

Wrong! They don't know anything about rules.....a big difference!

45 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

I don't know actually what you mean😳. Therefore I can't answer. Could you explain?

I talk about the reactions, like smileys, confused, etc.

On 5/3/2024 at 2:56 PM, newbee2022 said:

The Islam is no threat, but the extremists in Islam.

And then there are those who are surprised, or laugh at it.
When would those wake up? When it's too late?

Can you imagine that.

Will never forget it, 25 years ago stood with my then girlfriend on the boat to Koh Samui, up on the deck 2 Thai men come up to us to offer a hotel room. As we had already booked something ourselves, we did not want to take advantage of it and my girlfriend tried to make that clear to them but they persisted. Slightly irritated, I started to interfere but my friend pulled me away from them.
Once away from them she made it clear to me not to do that again because of the escalation that might result.
I had learnt my lesson.

Face loss, is the single biggest problem that can happen to a Thai, so yes, avoid any confrontation.

edit: What else I forget to mention, and in particular with a falang, we are nothing to them.

We NOT waiting for busses from HH to BKK, we WAITING for airplanes from HH to BKK for many years!

29 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

I ordered the same cheap instrument from Lazada, produced in China.

Seems to work well.

But, the sensor is very slow at registering the actual ambient temps.

 

Good purchase because of its very LOW cost.

I might buy another one, in fact.

 

 

Previously, I had several weather stations, the most expensive being a 250 euro one.

In a short time, they all break down because of the high temperature or high humidity, or you name it.
Then I had had enough, and didn't really want to spend much money on them anymore, and with this one I am very satisfied.

4 minutes ago, charleskerins said:

47 damn

47.1 to be exactly, above is the temperature insdfe, aircon switched of.

45 minutes ago, Confuscious said:

 

I had an discussion with a shop owner that the person at the counter did not gave me the correct exchange.
I had paid with a 1000 baht bill and received exchange on 500 baht.
The security camera was only about 5 meter away.
But the recorded clip was not clear and I didn't make a fuzz out of it.
Solution: I always carry a 500 baht bill with me in the future and avoided that scam.
No fight involved (maybe because I was not an Englishman).

I mention this before, I always speak loud and clear the money I give, for example when I have to pay 350 and give a note of thousend I say clear "one thousand bath"

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

 

It depends how you define scam.

It's 100 baht, not 10 000 baht.

Is it fair that you were born in a western country where you can afford to fly to thailand 3 times a year and a baht bus driver makes a pittance?

Is it still a scam?

 

So, you think it is normal for falangs to pay double prices in LOS, you better go protect frogs with your ridiculous comment.
We, as foreigners also have to work hard for our pennies, mind you.

1 hour ago, proton said:

My seat would not recline on Qatar business class, how ever that was the last thing I would have complained about, there was quite a list!

It's all misery with those airlines, you complain about Quatar airlines, recently I flew with Emirates, my neighbour was noisily professing the Koran, that doesn't make you happy, imagine it happening to you in Business class.

58 minutes ago, stoner said:

 

adjusted with inflation you got 9 cents back. 

You are very lucky, until now I never get any satang back after they refuse me back from Hong Kong to BKK.

Also I'm 3 years waiting, rubbish!

1 hour ago, DjSilver said:

Thai Airways have always been a 3 star airline taking 5 star airline prices. If Thai Airways even cut their prices in half, the quality and service one is getting would still not be worth it.

Not always, 15-20 years back they where much better.

It will probably be done in a different way than sometimes ago with the lowering of the tax on wine.

After all, today we still pay the same high price.

2 hours ago, Celsius said:

So i dont get it.

 

If you order on lazada do you pay tax now?

 

This would make zero sense and it would be a logistics nightmare.

Of course you pay tax, what do you think about VAT?

Not so difficult, before I had solar cells I also had that problem, not far from me is a car repair shop and has a welding machine, this causes the tension to vary greatly.

To avoid this I bought a automatic voltage regulator, this keeps the voltage constant.

With the solar cells it is not needed anymore, and is now for sale.

15 minutes ago, mstevens said:

Sigh, the pricing is 100% correct and the farang, once again, is wrong.

 

The price of the cheese per kg is 689.72 baht.

 

The size of the cheese is 1.092 kg.

 

1.092 kg x 689.72 baht = 753.17 baht

 

753.17 baht + 7% VAT = 806 baht....which is exactly what it says on the sticker.

 

So true, but if you don't speak the language, you won't be able to see the price per kg.

In bold, I'll see the price I have to pay, underneath Excl. Vat  689.72, than you can draw the conclusion from that.

53 minutes ago, Sophon said:

I assume that when you say you paid more than 7% VAT, you are referring to the difference between the printed price excl. VAT of Baht 689.72 and the price you paid of Baht 806.00? 

 

If that is correct, you seem to be missing that the price excl. VAT is the price per kg., so to reach the final price you have to do 689.72 x 1.092 x 1.07.

That must be it. Very clever, thanks for the explanation.

Problem solved.

As far as I know is in Thailand VAT 7%, I wonder, is that on all goods apart from import duty or on food, or is on food also 7% VAT?

I ask this because I bought cheese at Makro last week.

When you look at the sticker you will see that I paid considerably more than 7% namely more than 15%.

Or is this import duty, however youshouldn't report that as VAT.

6 hours ago, Robert Paulson said:

Does anyone know how to find actual, official holidays. Before you say google I find it’s wrong many times. I’d also like to know how to find out when the toll roads are free as that is indicative of a holiday more than the calendars you will find online, which are often completely wrong. 

Unfortunately, it's been a long time since T.V. published a Thai-calendar.