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6 hours ago, AgMech Cowboy said:

Where is this guy? I can't get my barber to cut mine short enough. Tells me, I cut too short, not see you for 2 months. I not cut too short so I can see you in 1 month. ????????

Ban Amphur, 150m past 7/11 towards beach.

We have tried all sorts of devices and methods with varying, but uniformly disappointing, results.

We had a very expensive "Mosquito Magnet", which sits in the garden, runs off 12 volts and a gas cylinder, and uses an attractant chemical. It was very effective to start with, the catch was huge, but it suddenly started to have none. One day when opening it I noticed movement inside: their was a lizard in residence, eating all the catch! After a couple of years, it failed to ignite.. I had to import and fit new parts in the burner, very expensive! After another couple of years, the plastic casing started to disintegrate - heat and uv degradation - and could not be repaired. As the thing cost about 13,000baht, and cost 120 per month for gas and another 100 for the attractant, it was a very expensive method of killing perhaps 80% of the pests, and we still got bitten!

We have tried citronella burners of various sorts, which repel 80%, are messy, have to be filled with oil and lit, or use candles, etc, etc. Too much smell and trouble for too little effect. Spirals , same same, and some smell truly vile, at least to my senses!

Electric zappers assorted: yes they work, but if based on uv fluorescent tubes, the tubes do not last very long - much less than normal white light ones - and are expensive unless you buy in bulk from Ali, where the quality is poor and they last even less; and fitting them is not easy, as you have to remove all the protection from the high tension zapper grid (be sure to short out the grid with a screwdriver to discharge it before you touch anything! At one point we had three of these on our very small terrace, and still got bitten! They are expensive on electricity, about 36 watts!

LED uv traps and zappers last rather better, IF the electronics running the leds is of good quality, and that is a big if. You don't necessarily get what you pay for.  They are cheap to run, about 5 watts. Traps are noisy, and the fans eventually wear out; cleaning them can be difficult. 

The mosquitos are bad right now, and we are using only three small "Black Hole" machines, one in each of two bathrooms and one in the kitchen, I empty them once a month and there is always a good catch. For watching the TV at night we have a tower fan blowing straight at us, and a "tennis racquet" zapper to mop up the hardy ones. Seal up the bedroom before sleepy time, aircon on and fumigate.

10 hours ago, Thunder26 said:

Checking temperature is useless and a waste of time. It doesn't prevent the virus spread. I feel sorry for those people who have to stand and take the temperature. They could've done something else more productive

I quite agree it is useless, but it's a job at a time when millions don't have one. Smile at them and say thank you...you'll make their day.

Not to hijack the post, but whatever happened to Big Joke?......and can we please have him back?...

3 hours ago, tlock said:

 

I think it just means we need to lockdown harder.  Hopefully technology will advance so we can achieve 100% lockdown where we are able to get food and necessities without ever coming into contact with another human being.  For example, all deliveries being subjected to an hour of UV light prior to being touched.  Obviously this would need to occur at each step of the supply chain where an item is passed from 1 human to another.

 

I think you are delusional!

Only 300,000 in an ATM? Must be a poor area, I would expect much richer pickings! I would also expect a faceful of indelible dye!

Go ahead.

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On 5/6/2020 at 4:52 PM, AhFarangJa said:

I would recommend using a plane, not a dog. 

Sorry, but could not resist it, all this isolation......driving me mad.....

You beat me to it.....

7 hours ago, villageidiotY2K said:

Nananananaaanaaaa

Dub give a tosser I do it my way

Gotta get me some chowmeun and more booze stock to keep my sanity ya feel me

Watch the Birdy, that'll kill you!

9 hours ago, JoeMc said:

Got a Phillip unit .. brilliant for chips ..also use it ..

Cook fish in tinfoil ..excellent (place the fish on oiled tin foil ..salt and slices of lemon, wrap 18/20mins) 

Reheat pizza slice

Chicken wings

Check out YouTube lots of ideas 

Limitations: container size

When you say "chips", do you mean those frozen sticks of compressed mashed potato type stuff, or can it do a decent job of "real" potatoes cut up by hand?

6 hours ago, Dmaxdan said:

I can't wear a face mask whilst I'm driving because they make my glasses steam up which makes it tricky to see where I'm going! 

Which part of the law says you need to see where you are going? Nobody else cares, why should you?

Nothing says you need to breathe, either. If you stop breathing, you won't spread contagion. Well, not very far, at least! (You won't kill too many with your driving habits either.)

There is a simple answer, and here in LOS we have the infrastructure to implement and enforce.

Make naturism 100% compulsory.

No blackmail or profit if everyone is naked anyway.

6 hours ago, OnTheGround said:

I wear a mask since first week of march. Not seen any people be fined or warned for not wearing a face mask in Pattaya.

Although it's hot and uncomfortable to wear, almost all people wear some kind of face mask now.

But how many are wearing them under the chin, or over the mouth only? and how many are anything other than scrap fabric, filtering nothing? "Disposables", how many are into their 3rd week of use? Does it matter whether it's colour side in or color side out? Of course you have to take it off to sneeze or spit, then there's having a smoke.

Chocolate teapots are fashionable this week!

It might be quiet, but I notice the boy racers starting up again. Not long until a wire across the lamposts is needed.....(joke, in poor taste I agree - so what? )

Never mind, at least they all survived C***D-19.

(Sorry, , irony alert)

I have such a mirror. It works automatically, recording both front and rear views, the display is a small touch screen in the middle, which switches off after a minute or so. The only way to know it is working is a small red clock display and red recording light, until you touch the screen or one of the buttons. It is an android device, so can also navigate with gps, etc.

There are a few things to think about:-

It is much longer than the standard mirror, and heavy. So, the sunscreens foul it, I had to cut a chunk out of mine, and the mirror swivel can't take the load: every time I hit a bump, or a rough road, the mirror drops. I have tried to compensate with elastic bands, which works gor a while but they quickly rot in the heat and sunlight!

The mirror I have is designed for a left hand drive car, so the camera is on the wrong end of the mirror, and points too much to the left. In theory I could turn it upside down, but then I would have upside down videos, and an upside down screen display.

It eats micro SD cards. They do not seem to last long, whether it's the heat or the constant recycling, but they only last months.

To use it for navigation, it's almost useless, the screen is not bright enough and the print too small in full daylight. At night it's too bright and blots out the mirror!

I would not buy another, I would have a separate dash-mount camera.

1 hour ago, Paradise Pete said:

 

Why do people keep dragging Trump into this? ????

because somebody mentioned Goofy.

4 minutes ago, bert bloggs said:

Hong Kong and Japanese media also an American Senetor are saying they think he is dead .

I was trying to say, he was some kind of vegetable before. There is no great difference between a live vegetable, a dying vegetable, and a dead vegetable, in this context. Not even evil vegetables.

Come to think of it, what have vegetables done to deserve comparison with this pos?

9 hours ago, steven100 said:

yeah ... I read the South Korea & Fox news, and it's Japan who says Kim Jong Un is in a ' vegetative state '

 

 

so what has changed?