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39 minutes ago, Box fighter said:

If everybody who goes to Thailand picks up their litter and picks up a little bit on the beaches then Thailand would be wonderful again or Thais could employ litter Marshall’s already the deck chair operators are responsible for their patch on the beaches 

on the whole I find the streets of Thailand very clean but now the beaches are alone maybe much plastic and debris will wash up on the beaches the story of the pilot whale dying of 8 kg in its stomach is enough to put an advert out all best the poor creature died for it but it’s worldwide not just thai so everybody pull together before the beautiful places are gone forever 

when I was living in Pai someone on the local Facebook group was complaining that there was garbage being left around and that there should be a group made to pick it up.

there were only two options to this:

#1. pick it up, put it in bins, then the dump trucks brings all of it to the football field sized rubbish dump, piles it up with the rest of the 7-8 meters deep of unsorted garbage (batteries, plastics, you name it!) and burn it..  and it would burn nonstop for AT LEAST least 2-4 weeks and EVERYONE in the valley would breathe the toxins (Pai went over 450 on AQI this year, the average in Chiang Mai during burning season was 150ish)

or

#2. leave the garbage laying around.

I agree with the take the bike, then charge 000 baht or even more to get it back.

then if it happens 2-3 times or bike not claimed within X amounts of days, sold at auctions.

the kids don't own the bike, of course.

but if the parents knew this would happen there would be a LOT less kids driving on the street, a lot less adults without helmets/drivers license/insurance too.

less accidents, less deaths etc

a friend near Hua Hin just told me that the Department of Livestock Development took their 5 dogs about 2-3 hours ago

from the way she is talking, she seems to think they will be killed.

On 3/12/2018 at 10:21 PM, dfdgfdfdgs said:

This thread inspired to me to have a go running barefoot properly (on tarmac).  Bar once or twice, I've only really run barefoot on sand before.

*snip*

hey, I would like an update on that if you kept at it.

this is my experience:

I ran barefoot most of my running, always lost feet calluses in the winter when I wasn't running, sadly (I'm from Canada).
most people do not know how to walk anymore, let alone run. they heel strike on both due to shoes. I don't (not anymore)

I used to run 20m 5Ks on my lunch breaks at work quite often..

at the start of the "season" I would end up sometimes with some blisters (much less than I got with hot shoes).. once i had blood filled ones

I can recall about maybe 2 times that I hurt my feet on glass in the last 11 years. just very small shards, took them out.
I stepped on still lit cigarettes 2-3 times,  no needles or anything silly.

now in Thailand I have practically stopped running long distances (soi dogs) but still walk barefoot practically everywhere I go.

humans were walking and running barefoot for hundred of thousands of years before the invention of the "running shoes".

overblown myth used by people who have no clue what they are talking about: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/

On 1/24/2018 at 12:07 PM, mtls2005 said:

 

There have been a few threads here on this subject. That's how I learned about these.

 

I think the EU courts have ruled (against Microsoft) that licenses can be resold. So as PCs get recycled the SW licenses can be resold. Hence most sellers are in the UK and Eur, and the low prices. Legitimacy should not be an issue.

 

Sites like SCDKey and Kinguin are also options, although these may be bulk OEM licenses and a bit more expensive.

 

If you're wary, avoid.

 

 

 

nope, most of those keys are coming from Microsoft Imagine (was called Dreamspark before) which gives technically practically unlimited number of licenses to "students" in universities.. generate hundreds of those and sell them for a few dollars = $$$

I bought a whole bunch of them over the years and they have other stuff too, including Windows Server, Visual Studio, Visio, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, etc.

18 hours ago, papa al said:

Definitely; the Yamaha.

thanks papa, I am guessing it's the same answer regarding that new CB300R? :)

9 minutes ago, EddieBaBaBoBo said:

From the web:

 

One day a merchant came to the village to buy monkeys. He announced that he will buy the monkeys at $100 each. Villagers wondered why somebody would want to buy stray monkeys at $100 each? Still, a few people caught some monkeys and sold them to the merchant. This news spread and more people caught monkeys and sold them to the merchant.

 

Then, the merchant announced that he will buy monkeys at $200 each. The villagers sold the remaining monkeys at $200 each. Then the merchant announced he will buy at $500 each! It took a lot of effort but finally, the villagers caught the remaining six monkeys, and they received $500 each.

Then the merchant announced he will buy monkeys at $1,000 each! The villagers were very sad as there were no more monkeys left for them to sell. Then, the merchant’s employee told the villagers that he will secretly sell some monkeys at $700 so that the villagers can make $300. Rich people bought monkeys in big lots. Poor people borrowed money and bought monkeys.

 

The villagers waited for the merchant to return. But nobody came. They ran to the employee’s house. But he was missing too.

 

Too late, the villagers realized that they have bought useless stray monkeys at $700 each but are unable to sell them.

 

Bitcoin is the next monkey business. It will make a lot of people bankrupt and a few people filthy rich.

the point where this story fails vs Bitcoin is that there is not JUST one merchant.

there are millions of them, and some of them don't give a crap if you want to buy their bitcoin for $10,000 or $20,000 because they will not sell it under $50,000 (or $100,000)

weak hands will sell it for less but then when all the weak hands selling low (or at loss) are done.. there will only be the ones selling at $50,000 left then the price will be $50,000

in the end, it doesn't matter if you don't understand how limited availability works, you can still use dollars who get printed in the billions every year and enjoy inflation.

https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoinobituaries/

it's been "dead" 236 times now

Krungsri is using Ripple and another one already too

yawns for overblown myth

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/

3 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Obviously the internet is an option. But I am not so sure it will work for some of us, who are already a little older and who like pretty young girls. The girls I am thinking about don't need the internet to find guys. They are attractive and they will meet enough guys offline. And if they would ever go to an internet dating site then I guess they wouldn't look for an older guy - they will be flooded with messages from young guys. Obviously there are pretty young girls who look for old guys on the internet, but most of the time only because of the money.

that's a fair point, for sure!

one of the semi attractive girl that messaged me online showed me her inbox after 2 days had 195 unread messages.

also, as a joke we registered my sister online once, she is fairly attractive and got over 350 messages in 3 days on some local dating

I read all of the messages.. 95% of the messages were trash, kept the rest of the 5% but she laughed and was not interested in replying.

9 hours ago, pee paub said:

I ride an mt-03 and love that little bike. Not good for the highway but excellent in congested traffic - I can squeeze through any space the scooters can. The only glitch is the wider turning circle, and a couple of back and forths, as JonnyF said, has always done the trick. I expect any of the other 300 class nakeds would be similar. I prefer the twin cylinder engine characteristics over the KTM’s single, but to each their own.

just out of curiosity, if I was looking at the CB300F ABS (used to have the CB500F) would the MT-03 be a better choice in your opinion?

market cap is the current price per coin multiplied by the number of coins in circulation

example: Bitcoin: $11,690.90 per coin and 16,811,900 coins = $196,546,241,710 market cap

absolutely impossible to sell even 10% of those coins at this price, there are not enough buyers, the price would drop quickly until the 10% are sold (plus some people that are panic selling)

in fact you would not even be able to sell 1% of the coins (168,119 of them) at current price because there are not enough buyers

https://www.gdax.com/trade/BTC-USD

check on the left side and let me know if you ever see anything over 1000 BTC (you won't). green for people buying, red is people selling

and even if in theory it dropped to 5000$, the market cap would be 84,059,500,000$ and still mean nothing because within a few days the price would skyrocket back to the current selling price because people are not willing to sell under $11,690

it means absolutely nothing for crypto

if someone created 1,000,000,000 circulation alt coin and sold them ALL at 10 cents each to me, it creates a 100 million market cap but if I bought all those coins and decided that i'm not selling one of them under 1$ then it's now 10x that and can only go up since no one in their right mind would sell it under the price they paid for.

no offense but you could have found that by yourself if you bothered to Google what you seem to want to diss

market cap doesn't mean squat.

about the Jellyfish, I seem to remember it's around September? I might be well off.

they are not technically dangerous but can make you itchy plus around that time water is dirty/cloudy enough that you can't see them very well and end up swinging your hands, feet or everything "into" them all the time, meh..

I reckon it's after when its around when it gets very windy and rainy, wild seas.. but to be honest I stopped paying attention to the beach after a year or so, living 30 meters from it I was almost every day on it (I have a dog) but I would very rarely go in the water anymore, it's just not that "special" after a few months there..

if I was there I could ask around but my friend would take days to reply online, if ever (old lady)

1 hour ago, jamesmacleod said:

Many Ferang meet ladies in Bars etc, it's not my cup of tea to purchase a lady, but sometimes (like 1 in 100 relationships or something silly) it works out really well!

 

Many Thai ladies go to Ferang pubs and clubs looking to meet mr right the Ferang, it is another possible avenue of exploration, although you'll have to get the lady to leave the nightlife (this can lead to marriage in like 1 in 50 times or something similar) !

 

Quite a few Thai ladies who are married or with Ferangs offer out friends and relatives  (this can work out like 1 in 25 times or something similar)

 

about 250,000 ladies go online and use sites like Thai friendly and Thai cupid to meet ferangs (and this can work out about 1 in 12 times for marriage or long term relationships)

 

All estimates of success above are completely made up, I have no idea what the true figures are, it's any ones guess! 

 

 

 

 

 

pay attention to this, the girls you meet online on sites like Thaicupid and Thaifriendly are mostly "farang hunters".. as in they would NOT date a Thai man and will give you a story that .. "once a thai man treated me poorly so no more Thai men.."

trust me, I met quite a few from Thaicupid over the years (never from Thaifriendly, F that free site lol) and 95% of them told me that exact story.

most girls on there are quite disillusioned.. and most of them have had farang boyfriends before (not that this is bad) but I have found from the constant contacts that I have kept with some of them over the years that most are not that smart.. (no dissing here) as they should know that they are basically dating short term tourists and that those people are only here for a fun time.. but the girls are none the wiser.

I keep hearing about those e-Boyfriends or tourists they met and then cry to me when they leave or find someone else other than them. about 5 or 6 of them are now single with kids from those tourists that had no plans on staying more than a few days or weeks to begin with.

proof in point: last year, i broke up with my girlfriend of 1.5 year because she had a major meltdown so i told her we needed a break, she wouldn't give me a break so i told her "maybe we should break up". anyways a week later she met an idiot tourist in hua hin (don't ask me how) and the week after that he got her pregnant.

I've been hearing about this dummy for 11 months now, she married him out of shame as her family practically disowned her and now living a sexless and loveless marriage with a 2 months old kid.

turns out buddy is a broke ass and has to go back home next month, lol.

On 1/12/2018 at 8:52 AM, RocketDog said:

Ahhhhhhhhhh.... They have landed, in droves. They clog the airports every day with huge tour groups.

Thankfully they haven't swarmed Chaam yet. Only a matter of time I suppose.

As for trash on the beach, I think chaam beach is relatively clean compared to more popular tourist destinations. Hmmmmm. Makes me wonder who the trash droppers on the tourist beaches really are. I fervently hope chaam never becomes popular!

 

Also, I've only been here a year, but never see jellies in the water like Huahin has. Water seems pretty clean on beaches. Not crystal clear but not dirty either.

 

Almost total lack of people on the beaches except for the Thai weekend crowd from Bangkok. Thankfully falang goobers like me are also very scarce. Still seems like near - paradise to me.

 

I can't understand how the people here make a living with so little tourist income even in high season. Condos galore stand practically empty. Must be a tax thing for Thai investors.

I lived in Cha-am for 4+ years (but not there now) and seen plenty of jellyfishes in the sea, there is a particular time of the year that they are damn everywhere and I wouldn't even go in the water

slow season is slow for public businesses but they make a living from selling to Thai people

I rented a small "bachelor" for 3000 baht literally 30 meters from the beach for those years

but have you inquired prices on some of the little houses in the sois off Ruamjit?  those houses they TRY to rent them for 20,000 - 30,000+ baht per month and their reasoning behind it is that almost EVERY weekend they rent those small houses to the "rich" Thai kids coming from Bangkok at 3-4-5000+ baht per night (the kids show up 4-10 of them in one little house, lol) and they make an absolute killing out of that.

  you can affix the Elite Visa at Suvarnabhumi, Phuket, or Chiang Mai International Airport (Direct International Arrival Flight Only)

that's what I was told

to be honest I have gotten this specific answer quite a bit : "I didn't pay attention in school and did not care about learning English back then" and it's almost always the same story

even my met some girl still at university and her English was quite good told me roughly the same thing

I would assume that it's because the "we don't need English because Thai is better" is being pushed on all of them.

plus i can confirm that they are not allowed to ask questions to the teachers because if the teachers cannot answer they will "lose face".

just applied for the Thailand Elite Superiority Extension (1m/20 years) about an hour ago, we'll see how that goes.

On 10/12/2017 at 10:56 AM, ncc1701d said:

Thanks for the offer. But I need to be able to save progress for a few different users which i’m told above steam can’t do.

hmm, nothing to do with Steam itself, the game developers decide where the save games files go. it's on a per game basis

what you want to use in this case is the Steam Family sharing. only one person can access the library (games) at a time but the savegames are definitely split (if we are talking different computers here)

the only way the savegames would be "shared" is if you access a second Steam account while on the same computer and use the same game (depending on how the game was programmed) it might just be a local folder where it would fetch the games from

Steam Family sharing absolutely works, I have over 5000 games by now on Steam (yes) and my brother definitely has his own save games down in Canada, the cloud saves will not download between 2 accounts, only the local files with do that.y

you can even trick the system sometimes and play some of the games cooperatively even if you just own one copy on Steam.

otherwise, finding triple A quality games on disk? unlikely to happen, you will most likely just end up with a Steam installer and a steam code in the box

On 9/7/2017 at 7:46 AM, ncc1701d said:

Thanks. I'm not too keen on those sorts of games. Just the action / role playing / storyline. 

 

But anyway, I think I will just go buy what I can legally from an authorized store in Thailand and take it from there.

If you are looking for some games I might be able to hook you up with some games you might fancy, no pirate bs, and for free..

I got a few duplicates they would be on Steam

let me know if that's something you would be interested in

IT professional for 20 years now upgraded to windows 10 on day one.. not a single problem on my 5 computers at home likely by now over 50 other systems built or upgraded to windows 10

just disable cortana and all the crap during install if you can read.

also, everyone with Windows 10 should download Classic Start Menu from http://www.classicshell.net/downloads/

as the regular metro user interface is trash

my friend decided to keep Metro and every time he can't find something he asks me to remotely assist him and I get a headache just thinking about it.

On 10/7/2017 at 10:41 PM, Briggsy said:

Report:

 

Earlier this week, 3rd entry on 2nd METV. Entry point was Suwannaphum. Have stayed the last 6 years in Thailand on TETV's, SETV's & METV's. No questions. 60-day stamp.

generic question, how long have you stayed home to apply for the 2nd METV?

I am tempted to do the same thing but I have been here for the full 9 months and a few visas in between 1x ED and  2-3x triple tourist visas mostly for the last 4 years and a few trips home (2-4 months usually)

 I am tempted to go home for like 2-3-4 weeks this December to get another METV but almost afraid that they would .. maybe decline me the visa (then the trip is a waster of time, 50,000 baht or so)

well aware of the sensitive location but Apple Cider Vinegar on a cotton bud, it will either instantly or after a while sting if it's jock itch so you know it's working.

then you let it dry and try to keep the area as dry as possible. might have to repeat for a while depending on severity

you can expect peeling skin at some point and maybe some discoloration depending on what you use

fungi drying/dying under skin has to get out somehow