Grusa

When you see green slime stalactites on the nozzle, you may safely assume the water is not safe to drink.

When the machine is new, polished, no parts missing, door latches and hinges in good condition, and no stains anywhere, you may not safely assume the water is safe to drink!

Get your own reverse osmosis machine, they are not that expensive, and the water is safer than the 32litre carboys that get delivered everywhere.

Thats a self-balancing mobile speed bump. My Vigo won't even notice it under the wheels. The wifes Lambo could have a problem with the front spoiler.

19 hours ago, Bredbury Blue said:

That will obviously be my last option - maybe my only option.

 

If I take a colorblindness (Ishihara) test online I fail. As I understand that the Thailand driving test is based on the official pointing to varying colours and i'd have to say what the colours are, I may or may not fail (good chance I fail).

 

Before the 'you shouldn't be driving if you're colour-blind' crowd arrive, I would add that I have passed driving tests in the UK and Australia (but they have no C-B test), have been driving for over 30 years, have no problem driving with C-B, I see red, amber (yellow) and green traffic lights no problem (though i don't see the colours red, amber (yellow) and green as non C-B people see them), in fact the only real hinderance C-B presents me is clothes shopping, i.e. colour co-ordination (thank you Mrs BB for selecting clothes for me to buy), but i do have a problem with Ishihara tests (colour perception test for red-green color deficiencies) hence my worry trying to get through the driving test.

The Ishihara test is extremely sensitive and is used for diagnosis. In a clinical situation it must be used under the correct lighting conditions, otherwise the results can be extremely misleading.

The Thai DL "colour vision test" is simply a very poorly conducted colour recognition test, and as such is about as sensitive as a brick to the back of the head. 

If you are protanomalous it is highly unlikely you will not recognise the primary colours they use - picked out from a pseudo-ishihara plate. If you are protanopic you are only possibly likely to fail! Then, the memory trick works as a back-up. So does a folded 500 baht note, correctly applied.

3 hours ago, Ulic said:

I have my doubts that he will spend any time in jail. Appeal delay, appeal delay. 20 years later he will have died a natural death having never spent any time in jail.

A Thai friend told me that will never go to jail. If he fails to win the various appeals, then only his name will go to jail - he will not.????

9 hours ago, JamJar said:

 

I did, frame by frame. Also blows away your assertion that it happened around the ten second mark.

 

 

I've circled the moment when it dropped from between her arms....at fifteen seconds.

 

Are you an acquaintance of his....or the man himself?

 

 

I am sure the guy is a film star. He had a leading part in "Those Magnificent Men". He did everything by the book of instructions.

How about here? Ban Amphur.

Please just let the baht collapse...........

Short story. Amazon in Kanchaburi PTT. Two hot coffees ti ni. Paid with 1000, got change for 500. Complained. Staff called manager, sequence from cctv emailed and shown, 5 minutes max, I was wrong, They were right. No doubts possible, apologies etc., all smiles and wais. No big deal.

4 hours ago, lemonjelly said:

always say how much your handing over when paying for something, let’s them know you’re awake 

Say how much in pasa thai.

Try leasing. The place next to Makro in Pattaya makes a big thing out of no capital investment. Not tried it, not sure how it works.

Or, pay cash to a dodgy person for a dodgy car, be prepared to lose your dodgy investment.

Nobody told him the war ended more than half a century ago! Been living in the jungle ever since.

5 hours ago, hkt83100 said:

The fancy thing between the left and right mouse button? SCNR

Yes I know about mice, but see no relevance.

¿"SCNR"? Maybe I am just thick.

What's a "scroll wheel"?

UK fused plugs  have, looking from the back, the live wire to the fused right pin, neutral to the left pin, earth to the top. European type are the same. Thai plugs and sockets, if marked at all, have liveto the left, neutral to the right. So using an adaptor reverses the polarity!

My Gaggia coffee machine gives me a shock every time I touch its metal parts, unless I reverse the plug. It has an earth, but the socket doesn't.

4 hours ago, PerkinsCuthbert said:

You're right, since Jokerman was terminated, there just hasn't been the enthusiasm for pointing that there once was; why, back in the day, one could almost guarantee two or three good pointings within twenty-four hours, plus bonus assorted, properly printed charts and diagrams. Now? We're lucky if we get one a week, and shabby affairs they are too: slouching rozzers in bursting uniforms, hand-drawn maps and chaotic reenactments, all with desultory pointings. 

Bring back BJ, I say!

That last comment could win you a free two-week holiday at a luxurious army resort near Nakhon Nowhere!

Startrek has had tricorders for centuries. I didn't realise they were invented here!

5 hours ago, bluesofa said:

What's the yellow on his uniform? It's not egg that has dribbled from his face is it?

 

Give him enough rope, and he might hang himself!

Our pool, which is huge, 30+years old and at ground level, was "renovated" just over a year ago. It was closed for nearly six months. All the grout had been eaten away by chemical imbalance, it was forever turning green - the manager blamed Russian visitors using sun cream! Much of the pipework for the filter system was irretrievably blocked or broken. None of that was replaced, nor was the antiquated wiring for the pool lights. The tiles could not be replicated, so they were taken from the jacuzzi, which was completely re-done. The whole thing was re-grouted.

Now, one year on, the grout is disappearing, the pool keeps going green, and a supplementary pump and filter has to be used every second day. Tiles are coming loose, and we do not have an effective vacuum line, or a hose and pole long enough to reach the bottom. The bottom drain does not work. Half the lights do not work. Air keeps bubbling up from the few working return ports.

There was no effective oversight of the project, the budget, the work and the planning were never put to the residents. A tribe of monkeys could have done a better, cheaper, job in half the time. Any competent westerner could have told them that major plumbing work was needed, and should be properly done while the pool was empty!

20 hours ago, marcusarelus said:

Same with gangs everywhere.  Why do they have drive by shootings instead of one on one gentleman's duels.  Times changed right after Camelot and that King Arthur and Lancelot thing.  

I envisage 12foot lances on motosais. No helmet.

Can it be done in English?

2 hours ago, ezzra said:

Everytime you get a procedure done at the hospital you will receive this laundry list of charges the will make you scratch your head what were they for, the government with all it's good intentions can not stop the hospitals who are private business and are there to make as much money as quickly as possible, to add some items to the end bill to cover any government restrictions i'm sure...

A few years ago I suffered two crushed vertebrae, treated by surgery at a well known international hospital in Patts. I have no complaints at all about the treatment, apart from physio which was less than incompetent.

At the end, the bill was indeed a laundry list, detailing every wipe, needle, pill, pair of gloves, etc. etc., totalling about 300,000 baht. I was self-financing. The bill was in fact very cheap compared to UK or USA private medicine.

After going through the bill with a fine tooth comb, it was trimmed by 20,000 baht:-  physio sessions which never took place, disposables which were not used, meals not ordered or eaten, procedures not carried out, etc.

Without some in-depth medical knowledge it is almost impossible to check one of these statements, especially if traumatised post-surgery. 

Always ask for a full printed statement before paying, always check it in detail, or ask someone with appropriate knowledge to do so, never buy any medication from the hospital unless it is a controlled drug, and not even then If you can help it. 

2 hours ago, Kasset Tak said:

I guess that they have either left their brains at home or are too busy being on their phones to pay attention on what is happening around them.

You can't leave at home assets you have never possessed!

It is my perception, as a driver of both car and motorbike, that the standard of driving, never good, has deteriorated drastically over the last year or so. Not particularly relevant to this thread, it seems to me that many car drivers do so as if they were still on two wheels.

There are so many elephants in this particular room being ignored, I will be arrested, tortured, fined, and deported if I even hint at them, and anyone who reads about them will be shot.

You have been warned.

14 hours ago, kuma said:

I like this approach. When I renewed my visa in March (Jomtien) I was given a one page document advising I needed to bring an up to date bank book with the unmarried minimum requirement (800,000 THB) for my first 90 day reporting period. For te remainder of the 90 day reports, I will have to show a bank book updated with a minimum 400,000 THB minimum balance, which must be back up to 800,000 THB 60 days prior to seeking to renew my one year retirement visa next year.

I believe this was the process outlined, not sure if/how it is being enforced nationally. I expect Jomtien would be one of the tougher offices in terms of compliance.

My experience at Jomtien, when collecting extension was made to sign a copy of the rules with a specific date to show an updated passbook. It so happened that that date was within 7 days of the 90day report falling due, however I hve since exited and returned so the dates no longer match. I will play safe and turn up with the book on the date ordered.... but which desk to go to?