AlexRRR

On 7/4/2023 at 11:33 AM, sirineou said:

How many Baht bushes are in Pattaya? I honestly don't know , but I am willing to bet that they will not even put a dent in the pollution problem , Probably counteract two or three people burning trash. 

I am a big proponent of the electrification of our transportation system, but this IMO is political grandstanding and lip service. 

If they want to reduce emissions they should implement a program subsidising  EV purchases. 

How about cops on the road pulling over dirty polluting pick ups and trucks...

20 hours ago, farmerjo said:

Tell me you didn't turn the telly off in the 3/4 quarter Alex.????

hahaha you were reading my mind......actually yesterday got real busy in the end didnt get home till  late and didnt sneak a look at the scores.

Sat down this late morning to watch and yeah during that third 50 years of nothingness overcame me...poping more tranquillisers enough to put a hippo to sleep for 100 years....thought do i really need to endure this? So i peaked a look at the app.....well, fell over the line by a point...can you belive?

So heartend i watched out the game, but i keept thinking...did i really read the final score right...you know Melbourne....run it down to the wire...

1 hour ago, farmerjo said:

With all my commenting on here i forgot to put my tip in.????

Grundy would be nice for us with Goldy getting on and i don't see what others do in Xerri for a ruckman.

What we need is a gun centre half forward.

I would be chasing Tom DeKoning from Carlton.

 

Toby Green is my dream man in dark blue and red yoke...Spargo Picket Chandler can all go take a hike...dont fret, only 3 picked Swans 2 were Swans supporters the third we are not going to catch...

Big news from the MCG, Grundy has been omitted, means dropped.....selling cheap with Pies picking up 200,000 of his wage Fj, we can do a package deal for you, Grundy and Spargo.....

No show for Oli by the way...

10 hours ago, farmerjo said:

What round is it this week.

I must say the Kangas looked good in their stripe last week..

C'mon Clarcko get back to what you signed up for,

Its round 18 almost over.......thank god...im still on anti depressants....since the Cats game, i be needing a double dose after this weekend......there toooo fast around the forward line for us if they butcher the ball around the middle...

We could get Dew cheap now.....well he did steady the ship up there...

Clarko hired Ratten say hello to a sinking ship...ho and your man whats his name got into trouble again, the big fella....name escapes me now, you know the one who beat up an umpire at his kids game...didnt get a conviction recorded so he could be on North board, would have cost him a lot...anyway he kinda umm run over is not quite right or sideswiped isnt right either, lets say made a bike rider run off the road while changing lanes in his tree lopping business truck.....Ho officer i didnt see the man said her, copped a small fine and sent on his merry way....the guy has impunity hey...

20 hours ago, gargamon said:

I just received last week fully flexible titanium frame with single vision photochromic lenses with all the coatings including blue block, anti scratch and reflection, etc. from Zenni. Cost all in was about $100 CDN. So cheap I get a new pair every year.

 

Last time I got my eyes checked in Canada, I asked how much for equivalent frames to the Zenni frames. They had some similar titanium frames, without the flexible arms for about $200. Then add all the bells and whistles and you're easily over $400.

I have the frame need someone local for the glass..

6 hours ago, alanrchase said:

30,000 baht for glasses? I paid 14,000 for photochromic progressive lens glasses in a shop next to my local Makro. Stood on them about six months later so used the prescription to get new ones from Zenni for 5,000 baht.

Yes, optics shop in Big C complex, 30,000 but sir we give you discount....and was for lenses only as i want to use my Ray Ban frames again...Other Big C complex optics shop there qouted 20,000 lenses only...

4 hours ago, gargamon said:

Are you bragging or complaining that you overpaid? Anyone that doesn't order from Zenni or equivalent has lost the plot. 

 

Maybe 20 years ago the eyewear industry started marketing eyeglasses as fashion. The price for frames went from cheap to hundreds of dollars just for the frames. All because there's now a label on the same frame that says Rayban or similar. Avoid these crooks. 

Well not where i come from, Ray Ban sunglass frame only about $AU175 tops the lenses are stupid high price, i percerviered with a no name brand optics chain, cheap and nasty, for several years turned out was cheaper to go name brand frames in the end with the amount broken frames i was getting...

Hi, looking for recomendations for optometrists for eye tests and supply of sunglasses in Pattaya using an exsisting frame, in particular the thin light weight bi focal types that go clear as the light fades.

Had what i think rather expensive quotes of 20,000 and above one was close to 30,000 and included that magic word all Thais love to hear a discounted price...just for lenses and there been at Glasses shops at 2 Big C's, a little better at a shop at Central Festival, one said...sent to Japan to be made....to justify the cost i  guess.....think thats just a con as i know a person who works in outer area of BKK that makes eye glass lenses....by the way my Aussie OPSM im failry sure are manufactured here in Thailand bar the frames...

Back home i got two pairs one standard one sunglass bi focal like the ones i descriped for around 32,000 and OPSM are regarded as expensive in AU.

On 1/4/2020 at 11:50 AM, JimmyJ said:

I'm here from the US on a SETV.

 

Went to Bangkok Bank at Kad Suen Kaew mall.

 

Showed my passport.

Showed rent receipts.

The clerk said the receipts do not help - he had a sample form that he said I need to get from Thai Imm. stating that "XYZ Street" is where I am living.

I need to bring a passport photo for the form.

 

He said with that I can open an account.

 

Will be going to Imm. to extend my SETV next week and will get this form taken care of (hopefully) as well.

Yep....must have went into 20 banks no one ever showed me what you were shown, which brings me back to Thais in general dont have a clue, fob you off dick you around frustrate you and give you no relavent information, i lived here for a year in 2011 went home wound up like a top...back 1.5 ys ago to stay silly me, same old same old, agent got me my account and visa and guess what? They just give you enough info for 24 hrs then your on your own...found out how good that agent was when i went to  immgiration yesterday, any way its not to bad and i kinda expect obstacles thrown up at me from time to time...

On 1/4/2020 at 9:48 AM, kiever said:

http://tiktokservicesthailand.com/

they set up bank account for me when i came LOS with 30 days tourist visa (30 days visa exemption). i didnt have even tourist visa when i came .
dont need any paperworks other than your passport and dont need to buy silly insurance from bank.

i also get my thai driver license with them in 3 hours only.we went land of transport mornin 07:00 and i was keeping my driver license at 10:00 am
they are just great.
bad thing : they provide their services only in pattaya

Yes well using an agent here might casue you issues if you need to do your Non O again like what i found out yesterday, typical Thais "lack off" dont tell you anything more than you need to know for the next 24 hrs...Immigration info form is "lack off" as well.....

1 minute ago, Yellowtail said:

Only the 800K account

Thank you, im with BKK bank, will they require a residency certificate from me to open this new account? 

Like i been with them for a year, transferred funds in to buy a condo and car, so they know me....But this is Thailand....still learning....

On 7/5/2023 at 6:20 AM, rwill said:

I think it is better to have a separate account for the immigration requirement for a couple of reasons.  

1)  To have bank statements that don't have 100's of entries for immigration to look at.

2) To keep you from accidentially overspending and dropping below the required amount.

 

I imagine even a regular savings account you could open without getting a card for it if you wanted.

I am soon to drop 800k into a fixed account for visa requirements, question, they ask for bank statments for the year, do you show each account or statments of where the 800k is parked only and they acccpet it?

41 minutes ago, Will27 said:

A premiership puts you ahead though Uncle Alex.

Eagles a recent flag as well sir.....its hard to take that our team has only one hurrah in them......????.....at least Eagles historicly bounce back pretty quickly....i might have to get reincarnated to see the next one...

Almost forgot, Hardwick to the Suns, Dew might not see out the season according to miss Wilson, she also mentioned that since the May Melksham dust up Dees 14 of 15 or the other way around, that that fight has disturbed the playing group, think she might have something there...Jake had been a Simon fav since that time hardly gets a game.....M Loyd recons and i kinda agree as well Dees a spent force on there way down, The Man Kane says its Dees ball use not the forwards as i say too.

9 minutes ago, farmerjo said:

Hasn't exactly been roses for me and my boys????

Was hoping Will's mob was going to get up on the weekend so we could get that young Reid fella.

 

The umpiring is irking me,four of them now and i don't see any benefit for the game.

Was peeved picking the Dockers to start with but when the game was in the balance and Luke Ryan went for a hanger,two bad decisions in a row and with a blink of an eye the game was over.

Should be interesting and hope it comes in very soon...talk about clubs being able to shift contracted players, not sure you cant as Pies moved off grundy easy enough.

Umps well i seen a few horrible decisions but we were playing like North so whats the point in complaining?

Do you realize that Demons are the worst performing club since 1965? North are miles in front of us...only other team who could lay claim in 20 ys are the Suns...

You must have other hobbies surly Fj? Im going out and having pizza to forget tonight as im still wound up like a top...actualy im still to get over the Cats game the Gaints game was kinda blurry you know....

I want to know why as a kid did i make such a bad decsion on following who i do....all my mates were Pies Blues and Bombers...

21 minutes ago, farmerjo said:

It certainly was trying conditions Alex.

In a nutshell if your going to play an extra behind the ball put him on the goal line.

It did take the smarts of Kelly to win it,not many others on the ground could of done that.

 

The Bombers heartbreak ranks above yours????

 

 

AIS just informed me i  gained 19 new points for paying my phone bill ontime....in 3 months i can get a free Aunt Annies....

Dont start me....Fj....like there all lost it, the obvious is to say the froward line isnt working....no mate its how they shuffel the ball out of defence and midfield, but it would help if instructions came out and say hey fella take you high marking backman for a run up to the wing and we will come down the other wing......Hey Ben Brown love your work ethics but just run out and stay around 50m ark plz...simple stuff like that....Oh and fullback kick to numbers and out on the flanks plz....May could use a spell at Casey too...Petty why is he getting a game?

You could put a bullet up Chandlers backside at half time too.....why he still getting a game? Spargo im packing off to you with a 3rd round pick all for free end of season.....Jordan didnt play isnt going to make it....bite my tongue....Slakkie Hunter has turned the corner since being rubbed out....

Dees playing like a bottom 4 team boys Saints and Lions next two weeks we will end up fighting to stay in the 8.....cant justify $200 a year on what there dishing up....you made all my bad memoreys resurface Fj...

Well men them cripples on crutches didnt win which makes us look even worse, anyway i decided i cant justify spending $200 on watching a never ending Indian Bollywood soapie on AFL watch anymore...at lest they have a happy ending after 3 hrs, i get to endure 50 ys of.........

Got the work around this morning in my head....since i want to watch NFL again i need to well would be prudent to drop something else...so bye bye AFL, i can watch on Bingsport quality is a little less but then my team always offer me a little less ....no catch up but who wants to watch them later anyway? and only $100 plus i get to see Spurs and Newcastle and some really decent teams from Europe....

Wonder if Pert has been in the ear of Hardwick? gees something has to change...pretty boys dont like to get there hair wet hey?

Ive actualy grown to like Simon the way he talks and says a lot about nothing...but like most coaches and Neil Danahier was another they wont for the life of Allah drop there favourites...and Simon has a few...

What a horrible game, was like watching two bottom of the table VFL teams at it, surly the AFL can come up with something better? The experince of playin in a paddock is off putting, gees they make Tassie build a new staduim and allow the brothers to offer up that Alice Springs Paddock...

I say no to anymore games in the outback.......or at least till they build something that is an AFL standard staduim...

10 minutes ago, GeoffH said:

Wikipedia amongst many others, disagees. 

 

"His father, Edward, born in England, died when Cable was six and he was raised by his indigenous mother, Dorothy a member of the Noongar people of south-west Western Australia."

 

AFL had him in Indigenous Team of the Centrury......for how long though.

 

Certainly Barry always acknowledged and claimed his aboriginality through his mother, Dorothy, on may occasions, over years.

 

 

We were taking about Choco Williams, but thanks....Bazza Cable, naughty old man...

13 hours ago, farmerjo said:

Just watched the hall of fame,good night till Choco Williams came on.

What is wrong with people today,if you want to get into politics do it.

Don't cower behind a profile,no wonder Australia is a mess and all respect to Choco lost.

Had to look it up, wish he put that into the Demons.....well he mentioned the Voice so well yeah...think he is part Koorie, dont start me on that one.....i go for the we are all the same under the sun thingo, from the little i read on that i cant see how its going to change anything but the budget, more freeloaders and meetings to get paid for with little to no inprovments they could have just put the energy into fixing up whats already in place dont you think? Anyway i have little intrest and i wont be voting good luck for them to fine me from there........i didnt vote either...

They kicked Barry out Fj, so theres an extra trophy to give out...

Anyway Fj if you didint watch you wouldnt have got pissed off....and untill you mentioned it i was oblivious to it as the only thing that intrests me is trade week which is 2 and the actual on ground stuff...everything else is a yawn....

Young Will's head would be still spinning....Eagles have stopped short on saying if Madam Gulittine is making an aperance anytime soon....

Well Willie, Big karl didnt get the sack for getting us crushed by 36 to 8 goals and we were beaten by the Lions who were 3rd and running hot at the time...(Swans back in full swing and last year GFinalsit) we around 10th in a 12 team divison league the following week we came up against the Bombers who were sitting 5th and thought there poo dont stink...Walters kicked 6 straight in the first quarter even before they opened there account, finnished with 7 for the day, holding that margin untill the end of the game...so i would be expecting to see the Eagles roll the Saints next week and your at home...i will be picking Eagles next week.... gooooo Rinnieeeee

That is some Aussie beer in si sa ket I found in of all places…..don’t get me going Fj, I checked up on B Brown after getting done rolled peed on by them cripples on crutches, he’s looks like he’s been out this week first game 2.1 decent stats too….Cameron went off at the 15 min mark…. I’ve had trouble sleeping last 2 nights…. I’m livid, imagin poor will after todays result, hey billy you only got 31 goals kicked on you we had 36 and I had a 1 hr drive home to spew on it… not to mention the hard cash I handed over….

if there’s a team that knows how to NOT turn up….how to torment it’s supporters for 50 ys….the DNA is arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Anyway it’s obvious isn’t it? Plus them 2 loafers well all them small forwards…. Picket just got a new deal so he can rest fir a couple of years….

I know we don’t turn up after a by but this was a give me, for free all wrapped up handed to you on a solid gold plate by a dozed bikini clad Thai honeys. 
 

On 6/23/2023 at 8:00 AM, farmerjo said:

Time for the Dees to bring back Benny Brown and straighten them up.

Not sure how they lost last night but they did.

 

AFL round 15 the business end of the season is starting....a little early but tomorrow i want to be out side.....so what have we learned so far? Port are hot and if Demons dont win it i hope Port do, Lions...hehehe well there ok, Gaints and Tigers on the up Blues bounce back and Freo back in there hole....  

Thursday night in Catland vs Demons, well once we would be shaking at the knees but not now, apart from the 1980 Tigers dont think there's been a worse follow up to a GF win, well we were pretty ordinary last year....You know i wouldn't get to excited that we knocked off the Pies like they were due big time to loose and of course we needed to step up, assuming the Demons are serious and zooming back into contention its a bucket of water over the Cats....wet cats are not pretty......there gone baby gone for this year, while Demons could now be ready to turn the corner chugging along like a worn out steam train with finals in sight the locomotive is being replaced by maybe a bullet train......how they do the Cats will say if its a second hand one from 1995 or a brand newie made this year...

Saints vs Lions.....yeah well......nice jumper by the way Chooks...almost last week....Think the Lions will polish up this week, Pelican if he could kick straight might be the factor since hes not much good for anything else....Both will play finals....both yet to show they could actually be there GF day...

Swans vs Eagles.....well not a good time for Swans to get back on track hey Billy? Eagles are due for a win....but not this week.....Wooden spoon for you Billy no finals for Swans...

Freo vs Bombers Im inclined to think that Windy hill crowed is better, surprised to see them in the 8 actually, i guess they will play finals this year while Freo........i did say they wouldnt......

Pies vs Crows, expecting the Pies to stich up the Sth Aussies here, they might make a go of it and i can tell ya if you wear them like your girl friend wears her trackie dakki they might be able to get over them, Pies do hear footsteps, they arnt up to close checking footy, goooo Rinnie....Pies Will play finals for sure....Crows if they do this mob are in with a big chance...

Suns vs Hawks.....danger danger Stewie Dew,......im still banking on a late surge from the Suns....but if they get done this round there pretty much fodder for everyone else... not looking good for either to play finals this year even though i tiped the Suns too.....

Hey i ran out of teams....its still a bye time......since its review time.......here we go.....

Blues? not enough at anything, would have to do better than lazurath to play finals....and he rise up from being dead...

GWS...its a late mid seson hurrah....good on them and could shake the tree but there not going to figure....

North.....forget it....dont even think about it for the next 5 ys....and the big question is when will Clarkson get over it? god dam pussy....

Port, yes there in with a super chance, love to see Hinkley sock it to whats his name and sign for a new club in August for next year...

Tigers....nice little run...can they do it? ummm.....they might not need to look for a new coach....

Bulldogs....same old same old, same same but not different.....not sure what they need...there in the 8....suprise suprise....well no one takes much notice below who is 4th right unl;ess its your team battling away......