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I settled in Khao Lak, no Ruskies there!

I visited KP about 2 months ago, with a view to resettle there (I lived there about 2.5 years ago at Ban Chaloklam). Wow! How it has changed in that short time. Just 1 big building site, rent prices hugely increased, and what seems like half of the Russian population living there. I left in disgust...

A terrible loss for Thai aficionados of early heart attacks....

Who uses pagers? Thousands of doctors and nurses for a start....

Shoot a few of them and the others will soon start to behave properly...

I crashed mine into a cow.....

Don't forget that the 'unofficial' memorial spirit house placed on Nai Yang beach was removed by the airport authorities 😞

Seems to me that this forum is becoming a haven for conspiracy theorists. tin-hat loonies and those with various mental illnesses. Sad times....

The only thing that I see in this video is one smart lass who knows how to increase her YT page views/clicks by antagonising viewers who will respond/share her video. 20 or so years ago I did exactly the same thing with my 'Natachata' AI SMS sex chat program. By insulting users with sexual put-downs etc, they felt forced to respond, (and I therefore made more money). Her strategy seems to work...

Yes! Looking back on those times so many years ago, I realise that I was very lucky to experience such events which are ingrained in my subconscious. I must find time to visit Greece again ....

Memories are amazing. I have visited many countries and there are thousands of events in my life that I can hardly recall. But to this day I still remember the names of the Greek family where we lodged, the name of the restaurant owner, and I can even picture the stuffed tomatoes that he served, the dusty road in Kassiopi village, and I remember the few words of Greek that I learnt some 54 years ago 🙂

For me, the memory is of taking month-long holidays on the island of Corfu with my family, when I was about 11 years old. My father was a university professor, and so benefited from long summer holidays. Each July, we would pack our suitcases (my parents and 2 brothers), and travel by train from our home in Leicester to St Pancras station in north London. Then a taxi across the capital city to Victoria station ,where we could catch the 'boat train' to Dover. Across to Calais on the ferry and another train to Gare du Nord station in Paris. Then across Paris and we boarded the night train that ran all the way from Paris and down to Brindisi in southern Italy. We slept as the train traveled through south France and Switzerland, and then woke up in sunny Italy by the lakes. That whole next day was spent traveling down Italy, close to the coast, looking out of the window all the way at the sights. Finally in the late evening, we arrived in Brindisi and boarded the 'Apia' ship to cross the Adriatic to Corfu island, where we arrived the next morning. Then it was into a small boat to sail along the coast to the pretty village of Kassiopi, where we lodged with a local family. Every day, we would walk to the beach. My father would sit on the beach, marking his student exam papers and swigging Retsina! (I think everyone got a good pass mark because my father was definitely tipsy after marking 50 papers!). I would swim in the clear sea, marveling at the coral and brightly coloured fish. For a young boy with an interest in nature, the various centipedes and 'bugs' on the land fascinated me. Each evening, we would eat in a local taverna (there were very few if any other tourists). The taverna staff would play live Greek music and encourage us to join in with their traditional dances, just like Zorba the Greek! Those wonderful memories are ingrained in my memory, and for this reason I love the music of Mikis Theodorakis and similar music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYQGlBqIrQg&list=RD23VZDS36c7k&index=5 If there is one thing that I want to do before I die, it is to return to visit Greece and to smell the fragrance of the flowers and hear this beautiful music in situ. (In reality, it's probably a tourist ghetto strewn with trash!!). How about you?

Now I know where 'anus rings' come from....

A very minor point, but some posters seem to assume that he is a pedo. I may have missed this, but I can't see anywhere in the report that he committed his offences against kids, (and usually that is mentioned in pedo reports). He could have been raping 80 year old grannies in Australia,

I had: hot green tea home-made Kefir milk muesli watermelon

[quote] ... Also a gold band was within 5% tolerance, silver within 10% and no colour was within 20% tolerance. Totally useless nowadays. ... [/quote] Bill, as an 'old skool' shortwave radio ham, I use the resistor colour code almost everyday 🙂

No problem, but completely wrong lol 🙂 . Resistors in parallel always have a combined value that is less than the value of the lowest-value resistor. So 100 and 250 ohms in parallel will have a total value less than 100 ohms. Anyway, this is not a Physics class! Perhaps Bob (I mean Barboy) could remind us of some of the topics from his BSEE course, since his lecturers seem to have forgotten to teach basic resistor circuit theory 🙂

Every time! (But both dogs and humans think I'm crazy!)

I avoid dog attacks by chasing them... True, if an aggressive dog comes towards me then I run straight at it screaming blue murder, and continue to chase it as far as I can (I have been known to chase dogs right into their owner's house, and I once chased an aggressive dog for more than 2Km!). The dogs are completely scared witless by this rather surprising behaviour. Because of this, I find that aggressive dogs leave me well alone after the first encounter, and Thai people have a habit of running into their houses and locking their doors! Anyway, I have yet to be bitten, but it does take some courage to chase an aggressive dog....

Lol, not sure why he didn't give the answer, since it was a simple series/parallel resistance calculation that even a first year electronics student could calculate. Anyway, a quick calculation gives about 198.7 ohms and so using I=V/R, we get a current of about 0.12A (hope I haven't made any maths errors!!) But I'm sure you didn't know the answer, did you Bob?

You haven't replied to my simple electronics question yet....

Congratulations on graduating with a major in electronics. Please tell me the total resistance of this circuit and the current:

When I started teaching in Burma around 2012, I found that the best hotel in Yangon (Trader's Hotel), was fully booked up by staff from Oxfam, Save The Children etc,who would occasionally pop out in their brand new, 4-wheel drive off-road landrovers to visit the local markets. In disgust, and unwilling to donate any money to them I established my own (miniscule) educational charity in Burma, where every penny/cent/yen etc is used for the benefit of young students).

[quote] what can i do? [/quote] What can you do?? You can go and troll some other forum! Another (no probably the same) shill from Thaiger and I'm getting sick of it!!

Rocket scientist.... Seriously, I worked in the space industry as a designer and also integrations manager/testing of radio frequency (RF) equipments and antennas, especially for space-borne satellites, but also for ground stations. These were mostly commercial and scientific satellites. When ill-health forced me to move to a warmer climate than the UK, it was no surprise that there were no jobs for me in the space sector. (Well there was, but as a non-Thai I was barred from these jobs). So I started building and running small hotels instead. I did that for about 14 years, then moved into the teaching sector, mostly in Myanmar and Laos, but now solely online, teaching Science, English, Geography, World History, Thai language and Computing/STEM.