SDM0712

If you mean ChatOn.........

In fact no, I mean ChatON!

There are several others too that can't be removed.

SDM

Just press and hold app in menu and drag to trash on top

In the version of Android used by Samsung, probably all of the versions, all this does is remove the icon, it doesn't remove the app. As far as I know only my method works. However sometimes apps are bundled in with the OS(such as Chat On with Samsung) and cannot be removed.

sdm

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If the car hasn't been run for 3 years also budget on new tyres, battery and draining the fuel tank and replacing filters and new oil.

Fan Belts, brake fluid, and major service.

I'm no expert but I wouldn't even attempt to start it until you've had the oil changed.

SDM

You could not find a computer forum on TV? Your post belongs in:

Internet, computers, communication, technology, above.

But better you try Googling "Samsung S3, how to remove apps" and I expect that you will find much better guidance than you will find on TV.

My advice is accurate, I also have a Galaxy and have looked into this with the same annoying problem.

SDM

If they came installed the with the phone you probably can't. However these are the steps :

1. Settings

2.Application Manager

3. Select the item you want off and then click uninstall

SDM

They're not talking outside insurance just the compulsory, How much could it be for 3 years? For my old car that'd probably been about 1800b? Is that really worth a discussion?

Depends on the car, I'm pretty sure I pay around 5000 THB a year for the tax square with the mandatory insurance for my MU7, so I'd be a bit unhappy at paying 15,000.

SDM

It's not perfect, nowhere is, but in my opinion the good outweighs the bad.

SDM

You are right. Nothing is perfect and perfection is in the eyes of the beholder anyway. Perfection is impossible but what is tolerable is then the question and this varies with each individual. So then in your opinion what do you consider to be the good in Thailand as opposed to and outweighs the good in your home country?

Happy to answer that.

We used to come to Thailand every three months, for a month, and did that for about 15 years. I know that this was the holiday experience but still enjoyed it here. After my first few trips I stopped holidaying in other countries. I met my wife about 13 years ago and we lived in the UK shortly after marrying, but continued as I say, to holiday here. We had a boy about 8 years ago and it made me look very hard at life, before that I had a very much carefree kind of attitude. I felt, and still feel, that the UK is becoming far too " cosmopolitan ". I started to look at schools and found that I didn't want to send him to state schools and the private schools although starting off very reasonably, soon became very expensive. Financially I have an Estate Agent in North West London (yawn) that is well established and does very well, so had the opportunity to come here, have enough money and return home to resume my old life if it all went wrong. The other driving reason is that ultimately I wanted to retire here and if we didn't move when we did then my boy would have been too old to relocate.

So, reasons to leave my home ;

1. Shocking state of the government school system, and in no way the teachers fault

2. The massive amount of migration from other EU countries. I'm not rascist but when a school class has 30 kids and 15 of them don't speak English as a first language if at all, then there is a problem somewhere.

3. The UK is so PC gone mad that the "Religion of Peace" is starting to affect local communities in a big way

4. I could do it financially and had a good exit plan if it went wrong. So I did.

There are many other reasons, but these are the main ones.

Reasons to come here ;

1. I've always been very happy here, even once I started " enjoying", and I use that term loosely, the expat experience rather than the holiday experience.

2. I'm delighted with the school my son attends, it's private and really very good. He speaks English, as he always did, Thai completely fluently, and will soon start Chinese.

3. I was very bored with my retirement, even though I remained involved with my UK firm, but set up an Estate Agency here a few years ago which I enjoy.

There are other reasons, but these are the ones that come to mind.

SDM

Choosing my words carefully, as far as I understand several things are banned, such as the online version of several British Newspapers, the film version of that well known stage show starring the bald chap that was also in The Magnificent Seven (but had hair in that), also the follow up which has to be made in Malaysia.

I wonder if the movie named after the country that recently held the World Cup is available here ? I imagine not as it's dangerously close to the OP first choice.

SDM

It's not perfect, nowhere is, but in my opinion the good outweighs the bad.

SDM

.............I agree but I also take the captain Kirk approach in that I don't believe in a no win scenario however, by that I mean far more people die in "avoidable collisions" instead of "no way out collisions" ..........

For all the accidents I have been involved in in my youf*, excess speed without the experience to plan was always the culprit and I freely admit it. With more observation and a lightler right foot most could have been avoided. With experience I have learned, as I was always taught but ignored, that when driving to be concentrating in the mid distance rather than a few centimetres in front of the bonnet. Some accidents are unavoidable which is why they're called accidents. It's not really relevant to the thread but, in my opinion, as someone else mentioned, I think different cars may offer different amounts of safety in different conditions.

Jolan Tru

SDM

* Intentional mis spelling to mimic London youth slang accent for our (former) colonial friends.

PS Incidentally Kirk was wrong about many things, he always said he would die alone, which is how he knew on so many occasions it was not the time for his death. He was wrong about that too.

BSJ, thank you, thank you and once again thank you! SDM

........... I have personally rolled a 240DL 16 times along a highway and walked away from it..........

Oz

16 Times! Are you sure!

After the first time I'm surprised you didn't pick a different route !!

SDM

PS For anyone who can't tell, it's a joke. (Intimation being that this was done on 16 different occasions)

You can run your mouth and keep twisting/dissecting what I said all you like

Twisting? Dissecting?

In fact I have not twisted your words, I have not quoted them out of context to distort their meaning and I have not thus distorted their meaning. I have quoted them verbatim adding a linking word only. They are your own words and not mine or another.

The reality is that you have an opinion which is fine we all have them. However it is just that, an opinion and nothing more of someone who, I don't doubt, is involved in the manufacture of armoured vehicles. You are however I assume not part of any licensing body for Thailand, or I imagine any other country. You are probably correct that it would be difficult for a civilian to buy one, who knows, who really cares, certainly not me. The clip and suggestion that we could have one here meant to be funny.

It seems that you, like many here you are just spoiling for an argument. You could just have said “funny clip, but I'm pretty sure that you're never be able to buy one" and that would be the end of it. But no, thank you for turning something funny into something bitter.

Have a good day.

SDM

PS Running my mouth? I'm not even completely sure what this means.

What Spoonman meant was it isn't offered IN Thailand for the Thailand market.

Quite so, it would have to be imported. A good client of mine specialises in importing Minis to Thailand from Europe. I know its not quite the same thing, the Mini being German and a smaller, but the principle remains.

SDM

Good for you buddy. Go run along and purchase one.

That’s slightly different post to your original ! What you actually said was;

“Good for you buddy.

The topic is about Thailand and I guarantee you nobody here except the military will be allowed to have one in which you replied some pommy guy on TV said anybody could have because they have a civilian model..

Well guess what, not any pleb off the street can have one either.”

Perhaps you haven’t understood my most recent post before this, or maybe any of them, so see really no point in trying to reiterate any of them.

Having said that you have now gone from

“nobody can buy one (except the Military)” because “I build armoured vehicles for a living. I know who can and who cannot buy one”

to “Civilian does not mean the average joe off the street can buy one unless they can satisfy the licensing and permit requirements of their respective countries.”

And now all the way back to;

“I guarantee you nobody here except the military will be allowed to have one ”

Guarantee is a pretty strong word, are you also something to do with the Thai authority that decides what vehicles can be sold in Thailand? They don’t seem to have a problem with allowing Hummers (Humvee), but that’s another story and one I'm not going to get drawn into.

It amusing to note your amended post does away with terms like “ Guarantee” and you now finish with “Good for you buddy. Go run along and purchase one.”

Did you actually read what I wrote, at any stage did I suggest that anyone would actually want to buy one ? The complete opposite in fact !

SDM

.... Personally I prefer my old motor, a Cayenne Turbo, a 3 ton SUV that thinks it's really a racing car.......

SDM

2 Ton

You're quite correct its 2.185 metric tonnes. Those chaps at the Porsche Centre in Hatfield (formerly HR Owen) seem to have misled me. Why did it only do about 8 to the gallon then ?? (Joke, it was because of my heavy right foot)

SDM

Spoonman,are you saying that a normal person cannot buy a Marauder and the clip is wrong? I don't see what your occupation has to do with who can buy this vehicle, unless you work for the Marauders manufacturer. Wikipedia says " In June 2011, the civilian version of the Marauder was featured in British motoring program Top Gear,[9] with Richard Hammond." Now unless I have forgotten it's meaning I'm pretty sure civilian means non-military. SDM

Civilian does not mean the average joe off the street can buy one unless they can satisfy the licensing and permit requirements of their respective countries, upon which time they will be issued with an end user certificate which will allow the purchase.

Good luck getting the license and permits.

It seems that you have gone from

“nobody can buy one (except the Military)”

because

“I build armoured vehicles for a living. I know who can and who cannot buy one”

to

“Civilian does not mean the average joe off the street can buy one unless they can satisfy the licensing and permit requirements of their respective countries.”

(I put the underline in)

So, if I understand your posts correctly, although you started of by saying that only military could buy this vehicle, you seem to go on to change your mind in that you then intimate that a civilian could buy this vehicle if they satisfy the regulations of where they live.

My original post was a bit of fun, humour, a laugh and not even sarcastic. Although the Paramount Group have made a civilian version of this vehicle available to the public on an order only basis, they have made less than 80 since 2007 and most if not all were for military use. It is unlikely in the extreme that anyone would spend 300, 000 GBP on such a monster, even if they would like to crush a few Tuk Tuks or Commuter Vans.

Actually your put-downs are typical of many of the threads I see on TV. I think its fair to say that the clip I posted was really quite funny but your curt retort pretty much took all the fun out of it and turned it into a debate on can you or can’t you buy one. It’s completely irrelevant since no one in their right mind would buy one, unless they are someone with far more money than sense. Perhaps I am the only one that had a good laugh at Richard Hammond showing us what it could do, perhaps its my odd British sense of humour, perhaps it’s not funny at all.

But I challenge anyone to find a stronger vehicle that’s not a tank (ex-military tanks are also available by the way to be purchased by a civilian, depending on manufacture date, model and country of residence)

Have a nice day.

SDM

Spoonman,are you saying that a normal person cannot buy a Marauder and the clip is wrong? I don't see what your occupation has to do with who can buy this vehicle, unless you work for the Marauders manufacturer.

Wikipedia says "

In June 2011, the civilian version of the Marauder was featured in British motoring program Top Gear,[9] with Richard Hammond."

Now unless I have forgotten it's meaning I'm pretty sure civilian means non-military.

SDM

The best and safest car in Thailand, this would be my choice and I hope this link works

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDoRmT0iRic&sns=em

I would just love one of these in Phuket,mor anywhere in Thailand for that matter. And it's bullet proof !

SDM

How is that the safest car in Thailand when nobody can buy one (except the Military) even if they were for sale here.

I think it's probably the safest car on the planet (Earth), and why can't anyone buy one ? Richard was quite clear when he said that as long as the buyer passes a background check, anyone can buy one if they have the 300 large. I'm pretty sure they are only for sale in SA so anyone would have to import one, unless they live in SA that is. The real question is could it possibly be classed as a luxury good and attract that tax here ? Don't see much luxury.

My post was what we English call " tongue in cheek", in another words a joke. But to answer such a serious retort that seems unaware of that, the fact remains that, anyone can in theory buy one and without doubt there is no safer car anywhere. Personally I prefer my old motor, a Cayenne Turbo, a 3 ton SUV that thinks it's really a racing car.

SDM

The best and safest car in Thailand, this would be my choice and I hope this link works

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDoRmT0iRic&sns=em

I would just love one of these in Phuket,mor anywhere in Thailand for that matter. And it's bullet proof !

SDM

Saw an interesting article in the Phuket Gazette on this very topic entitled

"PHUKET: Jet-skis are back on Phukets beaches after operators vowed to double up as beach cleaners, as well as volunteer lifeguards, Phuket Jet-Ski Club Nucha Petchvimol told the Phuket Gazette today. - See more at: http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket-news/Jetski-operators-back-beach-vow-protect-Phuket/32422#ad-image-0"

Personally I am very relieved that these guardians of the beach are back to safeguard us as we swim and keep the beaches clean with their usual charming and friendly swagger.*

SDM

* I'm English, it's sarcastic.

What really cracks me up is the use of the turn signal to indicate a lane change. That is a good one.

That's the law in Australia! Changing lanes? - then indicate.

Same as when leaving a roundabout. Indicate when you are leaving (turning left in Thailand) so the guy giving way to you knows that he can enter the roundabout.

Absolutely wrong, (in Thailand) the guy entering the roundabout has right of way. So he should not be waiting for you anyway... True story mate!

I always wondered that. We all casually attach our home countries regulations to here that may not apply. I think this is also the rule in one European country, France or Spain I think.

S

What really cracks me up is the use of the turn signal to indicate a lane change. That is a good one.

That's the law in Australia! Changing lanes? - then indicate.

Same as when leaving a roundabout. Indicate when you are leaving (turning left in Thailand) so the guy giving way to you knows that he can enter the roundabout.

Absolutely wrong, (in Thailand) the guy entering the roundabout has right of way. So he should not be waiting for you anyway... True story mate!

I always wondered that. We all casually attach our home countries regulations to here that may not apply. I think this is also the rule in one European country, France or Spain I think.

S

What really cracks me up is the use of the turn signal to indicate a lane change. That is a good one.

That's the law in Australia! Changing lanes? - then indicate.

Same as when leaving a roundabout. Indicate when you are leaving (turning left in Thailand) so the guy giving way to you knows that he can enter the roundabout.

Absolutely wrong, (in Thailand) the guy entering the roundabout has right of way. So he should not be waiting for you anyway... True story mate!

I always wondered that. We all casually attach our home countries regulations to here that may not apply. I think this is also the rule in one European country, France or Spain I think.

S

I'd like to know the indicater signals of trucks when following them on the highways.

I think the outside indicator means it is ok to overtake - except when they are turning right..........

Ant the inside indicator means not safe to overtake - except............

Left indicator means it's ok to overtake, right means you overtake you're be squashed.

S