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19 minutes ago, dddave said:

Whoa!!

130 minutes?   Life's too short.

But perhaps could be lengthened by a decade or so. Kinda puts things into perspective, don't it?

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Can you site a particular section?

1 hour ago, IamNoone88 said:

I wonder, is there actually anything "good" to say about Pattaya? Who's first?

Here ya go:

Relevant threads: When boredom starts to rule the day, I Love Pattaya, and Why live in Pattaya?

But you may prefer rolling in the catnip of

4 hours ago, ignis said:

Yes...........  1kg of blueberries 280 baht...... 1kg of blackberries 76 baht............ 1kg of Strawberries 48 baht or the big ones are 65 baht.......  there again the local fresh market have 1kg of Fresh big and juicy Strawberries at 70 baht as 'in' season + small ones for 50 baht.

 

Edit: all bought this week so price up to date

Makro a bit out of the way but prices are some of the best around for a lot of items so it can be worth getting there. I get fresh veggies there too. Prices about same as those in Thai fresh markets and posted.

31 minutes ago, dddave said:

I can't help but surmise that eliminating added sugar has played an important role in this BP reduction but I can't prove it and I have no intention of evangelizing over "Demon Sugar"

https://www.lazada.co.th/magideal-pirate-eye-patch-eye-mask-eyeshade-cover-plain-for-adultlazy-eye-amblyopia-intl-17035565.html?spm=a2o4m.searchlist.list.1.11b33861y8hBJu

2 hours ago, smedly said:

the problem in Thailand is city planning and regulations regarding the building of roads and infrastructure going back decades, Pattaya is a fine example and so is Bangkok

Which is only typical in Asia. You ever traveled around? Bangkok itself doesn't make the top 10. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/lists/most-overcrowded-cities-in-the-world/

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While in the west equally going back decades roads and infrastructure especially in cities had to meet certain standards and planning - width of roads - footpaths etc etc, go back 80 years and in the west we were meeting these standards

It's shocking that India is so horrible, then, given the Brits. And Hong Kong! Huh?

Short memory. Seen away from the barstool, the histories and situations of the two regions of the world have been quite different; ignorantly attempting to apply the UK standard reflects the usual provincialism.

For older cities in developed countries – London, Paris or New York – urbanization took place gradually over a century. They had time to adjust. In contrast, in developing Asian, intense urbanization is taking place within a few short decades. Unlike the Western cities that urbanized earlier, developing Asian cities simply do not have the administrative, management, institutional and financial capacities to manage urbanization and resulting socio-economic upheaval within such short periods.

     --https://thediplomat.com/2015/09/urbanization-and-migration-in-developing-asia/

WinnieTheKhwai, who has more sense than most here, is one of the few who by time of the Promenade had it right and even half-predicted The Tunnel, such a rich source of sneers & doomsayin':

I think it dawned on them [City Hall] pretty late that Pattaya was going to be a BIG city. One of the biggest in the country, after Bangkok. . . . Currently Pattaya is probably up there in the top 3 of biggest cities outside of Bangkok. (Subject to what anyone would want to define as being 'Pattaya' . . .) [speaking of the successful tunnels in Chiang Mai] That needs to happen in Pattaya too; all major intersections on Sukhumvit need tunnels and/or flyovers.

WinnieTheKhwai, on 19 Apr 2013 - 06:21

1 hour ago, Somchai Logic said:

Yep, these clowns completely disregard any Safety logic. Primarily because foreigners have no idea how the laws of physics work here. Fire and Safety not same your Country Mr.  

Who are "these clowns" exactly?

Or maybe the clowns in the TVF Fire Brigade don't actually know what happened--could have been mostly smoke, small blaze quickly extinguished, happens sometimes in most countries I guess--and merely jumped on the incident as usual to troll and assert their expertise and superiority.

19 minutes ago, Confuscious said:

Good for the German benefactor.

Will he extend his charity mission to help the many Issan girls in Pattaya who are working at night, barely dressed, to feed their children and their parents upcountry?

Watch the next eposide of German charity mission ......

Why don't you just do that yourself if that's your concern. Are you already doing as much as he's doing?

1 hour ago, scottiejohn said:

How do you work that out?

They have similar failure rates and SSDs are more expensive per GB/TB but of course faster.

SSD drives are limited to the amount of read/writes that can be performed. This usually causes the lifespan to be in the same range as a rotational HDD for an average user.

I'm addressing OP's case specifically where he goes through HDDs like water. I don't see that happening w/ SSDs. I also don't see an average user, esp OP, approaching the limits of SSD R/W for many years. You might read https://www.networkworld.com/article/2873551/data-center/debunking-ssd-myths.html. But of course it can fail any time as well and when it does forget about the ol' freezer trick.

5 hours ago, Jingthing said:

I think this article is worth posting.

Obviously genetics plays a role in a lot of things including propensity towards obesity.

But whatever our genetics, there are things we can do. 

This article suggests an approach that makes sense to me --

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/well/eat/counting-calories-weight-loss-diet-dieting-low-carb-low-fat.html
 

 

I noticed that study. As dontoearth says, the study has its flaws. But yes most any diet will work for losing weight if you stick to it religously. So then it becomes a question of which diet is that? Weight Watchers works great so long as you can afford it and keep going to the meetings.

Low carb has one of the highest, and in some cases the highest, rates of compliance long term. It's one of the simplest, no calorie couting (though you can't just pig out beyond the limits of all common sense). 

Intermittent fasting can lessen the burden of dieting and is a good thing but then it's a burden in itself that many can't make themselves shoulder.

http://pattayadailynews.com/“advanced-lab-pattaya”-center-analyzes-diseases/

http://www.pattaya-lab.com/

13 hours ago, dontoearth said:

 And I do enjoy the cherries and berries here in TH.   We have such short seasons in the midwest where I am from and don't import berries or cherries.  

Makro has the best deal on frozen berries in case that's of interest to anyone.

46 minutes ago, Jonah777 said:

FIX THE EXISTING FIRST PEOPLE BEFORE EXPANSION:

Pattaya (WORLD CLASS RESORT as Thai officials call it) and surrounding areas have little to "NO" adequate infrastructure, any heavy rains and the streets are flooded, not adequate electric, terrible if any city planning, beaches which I wouldn't aloud a black lab to swim in let alone my children, city and various services can't meet demands now, crime & corruption on a level which exceeds New York, London and Bangkok combined, traffic messes everywhere one turns,  NO restrictions for zoning   ..thus the entire city is chaos on steroids  ....any talk of "Expansion" without fixing the existing issues shall make is "WORLD CLASS RESORT" unfit for any visitors or resident.

Here ya go man:

20 minutes ago, lanista said:

If westerners pull out and go to Vietnam or PI's  all thats left is bus loads of  CCC    -chinese cheap charlies.

or another CCC -counter corrruption commision.

I thought they'd already pulled out. 

Sept. 3, 2003 - In the definitive 17-page grandaddy of all "killed the goose" threads, TVF doomsayers proclaim Armageddon finally at hand: Lo! the long-prophesied Farang Exodus and thus the total collapse of the Thai economy. Incredibly, at a time when all Thais would soon be reduced to laboring in rice paddies, construction of Siam Paragon continues unabated and Central Pattana PCL (CPN) starts massive renovations and expansion of Central World Plaza. Insanity! Nobody would be left to shop in them!

Ruling out the foreigner was a 17-page "killing the goose" bash fest prompted by the news that after many years Thailand would dare raise visa fees. OMG. THIS WAS IT. The teeth gnashing, the hair pulling, the knickers twisting; the ranting, the wailing, the screaming, the anguish, the shock, the accusations of insanity, and of course the dire prophecies! No one would be left to shop in the malls, no one would buy condos, bar girls would disappear, and Thais would all have to return to work in rice paddies. Back to the Stone Age! Oh, it was gonna be a thousand million times worse than later prophecies of the total destruction of Pattaya tourism by widening Beach Road.

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When Burma finally opens its doors and introduces the world to hundreds of pristine islands i think thats it for Pattaya. But will they allow sex tourism?  Laos wont, and its tourism industry has already stalled.

Somebody posted a pic of a pristine Thai beach recently as a model for Pattaya. It's been sitting there for hundreds of years. Trouble is it had almost no tourists as opposed to 8 million or so yearly for Pattaya. We'll add your prophecy to the huge TVF pile of similar.

5 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

More boom coming to the city of boom boom then .. " But who knows what the EEC actually means " .. Indeed who does .? None of our lot appear to have a handle on it .. 

 

Our lot knows there will be no EEC so no need to have a handle on it. First they'd need to have a handle on the changed demographics of Pattaya tourism rather than believing it's still all about the Golden Egg Layers, i.e., the "naughty mongers," the economic powerhouses behind Pattaya's now-vanished prosperity, those great jobs creators. Sadly, they were "put off" and left the paradise of Cambodia etc., leaving us w/all these deserted streets and bleached ruins. No EEC gon' change that, man. We know exactly what's needed: free beer, cheap bar fines, B200 a night rooms again, and residency visas for all.

1 hour ago, trianglechoke said:

Finally a topic that even the trolls of Thai Visa can't screw up!

Almost. The fortunate thing is that the article didn't say anything good about Thais for the bigots to seize upon. However, our whataboutistas are starting to jump in to screw it up anyway w/ off topic pontificating.

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Awesome guy. Most here would put there parents in a  home for a share of her house sale.

Awesome guy, yes.

5 hours ago, Thechook said:

They're Kidding right?  World class resort it definately isn't.  The beaches are disgusting sewage ponds and swallowing any of the water will kill you.  Pattaya doesnt tick a single box when it comes to resorts

This thread has turned into quite a lovely little bash fest. Fortunately we have all the Pattaya whinges collected now and if you have anything new you can just add it in. Here's the cheese:

16 hours ago, lanista said:

Everyone knows Pattaya is no1 sex tourism capital of Asia. Why try to make it out to be something it  isnt?

Or maybe only you know that and everyone else knows the capital is actually Bangkok. Then question is why is it you think you "know" that.  

4 hours ago, ozmeldo said:

Still expensive. Maybe when I get a new laptop. I have a thing about squeezing life out of old gadgets.

You can get smaller and cheaper. After a while buying one SSD becomes cheaper than multiple HDDs.

4 hours ago, ozmeldo said:

Thanks THIS is good advice. I agree about Seagate and WD. WD never had great reputation, didn't Seagate buy them out?

Seagate didn't buy them out.

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Funny, I've two very old Seagate drives, run fine. Trustworthy. Two since then, junk and the Toshiba junk. Replacement, junk.

Different models have different stats. Guy writing on hardocp recently said one of his drives lasted 15 years. But any drive can fail whenever it d@mn well pleases. I happened to have one of the less reliable Seagate models and yes it failed so I"m not a fan. Backblaze regularly ranks Toshiba and HGST at the top. But they aren't testing the small drives.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175089-who-makes-the-most-reliable-hard-drives

2 hours ago, watcharacters said:

 10 baht says the coppers favor the bird.

 

YOu on?

If you know already--and of course you do--then that should be good enough for you. Wondering where your next baht bus fare will come from I guess.

Or, hell, HDD don't like you, just use an SSD drive. These look sweet:

https://www.lazada.co.th/samsung-1tb-850-pro-2534-ssd-1094102.html?spm=a2o4m.searchlist.list.12.eb8636c2ZBwKjK

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2 hours ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

On a point of order the OP is in the Pattaya section whilst many of these whinges are generic Thailand whinges. Maybe the topic should fork into General, Just a thought.

Certainly true and something I've thought about. My defense is that even the generic whinges were collected in the Pattaya forum and a Pattaya whinger probably believes that the whatever he's whinging about is a lot worse, even disastrous, in Pattaya. I trust word will get around to those reading the General forum as the Pattaya forum is so lively.

I almost never read forums other than Pattaya, Health, and IT--and the Movies/TV Shows thread the Farang Pub--unless a topic comes up in the TV Newsletter.

The same situation will arise if I post TVF Poster Economics: A Primer. I'd like that to stay in the Pattaya forum at least a while because I've only read Pattaya-related postings by our ace TVF economists, many of whom do live, or did, in Pattaya. Probably need to change the title . . . .