kekalot

let me know if you haven't found someone, I live in the area already and might be interested.

I support the build yourself a new one and give that one to them initiative.

On 4/22/2019 at 4:01 PM, scorecard said:

I'm sure that's meaning small because they would be cheaper rather than small in terms of their 'coverage'.

nah, he meant small condoms

when I first got here a few years ago, I bought 3-4 small boxes of 3 condoms and I think they were 90 baht per box (the pink "Love" box) - so 30 baht EACH.

they were indeed too short and felt tight, not fun at all. I gave all of them away to the motorbike taxi guys, they were pleased.

went home, got online on Condom Depot and bought a box of 504 condoms and paid 66$ with free shipping (2100 baht, so ±4 baht each)

funny fact, Crown Skinless Skin condoms are made here in Thailand but you cannot buy them here, they are shipped to America where I can buy them for 4 baht each which is 13% of the price of their Durex (aka 750% more expensive)

also, when I bought a shirt from Aliexpress (most stuff is from China) I bought a medium (my size) and it didn't even get to my belly button, an Asian X-Large is a Medium for me.

alright so this might just be a conspiracy theory but sounds true

when you get real red plates you are supposed to get a brown book where you can write where you go so no problems going out of province

possibly problems if driving at night (yes, stupid)

as far as I know, the red plates should be real plates with a seal on it.

if you get red piece of plastic and no book, those are NOT real red plates.

I was told by someone who should know.. that the dealerships take your money and then hold it as long as possible without paying for the blue book to the company for several months to make interest on your cash at the bank.

eventually after 2-3 months they pay, they get the blue book and the plates come a week later.

don't believe me?

I bought 2 new vehicles here. the first one they gave me fake plates and no brown book

I went to the police station and asked them if it was legal to drive with this fake plastic printed. they were absolutely useless and I got nowhere and left frustrated. they can't even answer a simple question.

3 months later the dealership they called me and I got my white plates

I sold that vehicle

then the next time I went to buy another vehicle I told them I needed to go out of the province and didn't want to be fined.. they said "no problem! no problem!" - yeah. no problem (for you?)

so almost every day I would go to the dealership and ask them about the plates and being very annoying and persistent, asking people to call for me when i couldn't show up.

you know what? I had my white plates within 1 week of starting to be annoying.

coincidence?

On 4/2/2019 at 2:49 AM, webfact said:

The amount of PM2.5 – particulate matter no more than 2.5 millimetres in diameter

PM2.5 is 2.5 micrometers = 0.0025mm not 2.5 millimetres (0.25 centimeter)

they are only 1000x off

44 minutes ago, papa al said:

no idea why people have trouble with fags.

Obama queer,

Big Mike & him kinda cute couple.

assumptions made that Mike is short for Michael?

well, either way, Michael looks like Mike Tyson. so it's fitting.

9 hours ago, nasa123 said:

Last week a stay 2 days in Bangkok and when a was back in Phuket a most have all this( under), and a have live here 10 year ++????

read the top part, this is for applying to get a certificate of residence (to apply for drivers license, buy car/bike or sell car/bike)
it's not to report your address when you go out for 24 hours

10 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

Where is Microsoft based?

not relevant as Microsoft doesn't premake or sell computers or laptops, Apple do.

2 hours ago, atyclb said:

 

proof.

why are you comparing MacOS/PC to a Corolla and Mercedes?

a proper analogy would be to compare a Mustang to a Smart fortwo (apple)

I have been working in IT for 23+ years now and I don't know a single knowledgeable person who would choose Apple over a Windows PC

in fact, I only know two guys who were hardcore Apple fans and both of them were clueless regarding computer usage apart from very basic stuff.

so one of those guys I don't talk to much to but the second still talks to me (known him for 21 years) and always had those stupid rants about why Apple was better than PC

so 2 years ago I sent him a new proper PC (in parts) without telling him a word about it and told him to assemble it and use it for a week or two

if he wanted it he could pay me monthly and if not I would send someone to take it back.

he absolutely kept it

I forced him to learn how to build a computer, a thing he had never done before and in that two years, his knowledge of computers/tech probably went up tenfold.

I have never heard him talk about his iMac since unless I asked about it (he is now using it as a Plex media server, lol)

also heard he had done a (very unnecessary) upgrade to his PC recently and also kitted it with 3 monitors

you should buy that new iMac that comes with a 5400 rpm hard drives (a technology that was superseded in 1992)

this guy knows what he is talking about as he has been working making a killing of repairing faulty apple devices for years.

so for you, dunning-kruger effect it is.

I agree with the above, putting an SSD on my 300$ Walmart laptop from 5 years ago made it 12x as fast to start as it used to be

so instead of pressing power button and waiting 6 minutes for the hard drive usage to go under 100% (and unusable laptop)..
 

now I can be logged into Windows 10 in under 25 seconds.

Just now, emptypockets said:

You expect the dentist to work for free?

I expect you to read, he added 100 baht on the base rate for writing the name of a medicine on a piece of paper
it was not a prescription

how about these.

I used to bring my dog to get shots at a vet shop here, I ONLY wanted shots but my Thai is not good enough to explain that so I brought a friend most times.

every single time I went there they would pick up my dog as soon as i entered the door and take it away without even knowing what i wanted, do whatever THEY wanted and then present me with a bill after they did it. +500 baht first time.

second time I went he had a wound from fighting with some dog, the wound it looked like it might be mange.. so I asked her to check with them if they knew if it was mange or not.. no answer, just took my dog out in the other room, cut a bit of skin off and said it wasn't and charged me 200 extra baht for it. (I didn't ask for that)

I told my friend that next time I only want the shots and nothing else and to tell them to ask me before doing something that they will bill me for.

friend started saying that I talked too much and.. you know the drill.

+

last time i went to the dentist i had a cut in my mouth so i told him to be careful, he said i could get some cheap stuff from the pharmacy to help it heal (10-15 baht he said)

at the end, he picked up a blank piece of paper, wrote down the name of the medicine and told me to show it to the pharmacy.. then charged me 100 baht extra for that paper, I wasn't impressed. (no, it wasn't a prescription)

of course the amounts are negligible but a lot of people don't like to be nickle and dimed

1 hour ago, Mac98 said:

i was adopted, the second adopted child in my new family. My new mother was widowed with two children and couldn't have any more. She remarried and her new husband wanted two of his own. They adopted a boy and a girl. Growing up we were as normal as any family and loyal to the end. Lots of half farang kids in orphanages, each cuter than the next. I visited with a Thai lady and then with my daughter, an award-winning actress, who put on a show for one of the classes. Try a visit. You will want more than one.

I thought the adoption process here was expensive and really drawn out? I might be wrong but i remember reading about it.

if it is, it's a shame.

3 minutes ago, steve187 said:

not working

it's .go.th

https://extranet.immigration.go.th/fn24online/

interestingly enough, if you click on it, it says "Login for FN hotel" and the registration page says FNHOTELREG which I assume means its for hotel registrations (heard of this before, was told people could not register, only if you had a hotel license)

or maybe its just not edited properly for purposes

Transferwise is not an international transfer, it's a local transfer as you can see on the bottom right.

they take the money from you in the US to their US account and then turn around and transfer from their Thai account to you in Thailand, it's not an international transfer.

If that agent decide that it is acceptable, good for you but you might go next time and have another immigration agent that will refuse it.

I would assume that if you were to get a printout from your bank in the US as well showing the same amount being taken out (to reference with the TW PDF) then you might have more chances but YMMV.

make an account on localbitcoins

get a wallet on electrum.org

buy btc, transfer to your electrum wallet.

done.

I'm interested in answers to this.

the prices are pretty good and I mostly use my internet for Line and GPS.

6 hours ago, watcharacters said:

 

Would it make you feel better if I said malicious content arrived on my laptop due to deception?

 

not really, not paying attention and agreeing to stuff isn't deception

and not sure how a homepage change is "malicious content"

here, 2 seconds search on google on how to change a homepage on Firefox

if that doesn't work, it's in options and Home and you put the page you want

used to order tons of stuff off aliexpress (cheap stuff, gimmicks.)

always got my stuff until one day the packages stop and the next 10-15 orders never showed up (usually takes a month or two to get stuff from China)

i'm sure it was something similar as there's no way those packages never made it otherwise (shipped from all over the place to me)