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On 11/10/2019 at 9:29 AM, faraday said:
Yes, I'd like to experience snow one last time: Magical.
I still remember the time in junior school when my friend saw snow for the first time. She was born and brought up in Kenya. Snow started to fall in the early afternoon in the middle of class. She just got up and walked over to the window like a zombie , stood there and stared, totally silent. It took a while for us to process what was going on!
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Quote5,000 lanterns under Choeng Doi administrative officials, 600 under Chiangmai Senkobfah Company, and 3,000 under other private companies.
The corporatisation of culture could not be more clear!
Also if you talk to much older residents, they will tell you that there was never the release of lanterns on a massive scale. Only very few were released, mostly by temples.
So in the name of "progress" we get 8600 pieces of rubbish released simultaneously!!
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QuoteHe also said locals had been urged to bring lanterns that could land in their own property or in front of their houses.
You mean bring ones that go 10m up and then straight down??
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Golden Tree Snake.
The ones I have come across are not timid at all. We had one a few years ago that had a sense of humour, its favourite trick was to drop out of the tree on top of you. The first couple of times we thought it just had a bad grip up there. But after about the tenth time we figured it must be doing it on purpose.
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I was told if its a cash payment and person who ordered does not show up/ not there, the delivery person has to pay. Not sure if that is true but wouldn't be surprised.
It is just another big company who will trash any competition then turn the screws on.
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Isn't Starbucks here owned by the same franchise as Hong Kong. Seeing as they are getting trashed in HK maybe a plan to expand more here.
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053 243036 Ang Tong water pumps Charoenrat Rd.
If you are in the city area they are quick , if in the outer suburbs you may need to wait a few days as they gather a few customers in the same vicinity .
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9 hours ago, IraqRon said:
Do the French tourist have insurance to cover their hosp. bills or will they be unpaid and the amount added to the baht that they say expats owe???
This is an example of why I support the idea of charging all tourist some small amount upon entry to cover such incidences.
If they took a trip with a registered TAT licensed tour company they would be covered for hospital bills, as it is a type of accident.
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The majority of Thais fail to comprehend that tourists mostly came here (and returned) in the past due to the incredible amount of diversity and culture that existed in the country.
In the north you could have maybe 10 languages and dialects in a 100kms radius. Not to mention costumes, textiles, food etc etc. The past years have a seen a complete annihilation of the diversity that existed and attracted people here in the first place. Present day Thailand exhibits a confounding sameness of language, dress, uniform, behaviour, food choices etc etc. Ironically you have a line up of the stifling conformity that illustrates the point perfectly. One almost feels as though one should be equipped with protective gear to find a trail through the minefield , instead of taking an entertaining and relaxing holiday.
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22 minutes ago, kamahele said:
Is this different than the "royal bees" which are aggressive but are supposed to bring good luck? Had to live with one of their nests in the yard for 6 months until they moved away to avoid bad luck lol. Couldn't keep the outside lights on at night as they swarm at the light.
If you are in the North of Thailand , the ones that most people regard as lucky and won't move the nests are called "min".
Not too sure what the proper name for these are but they are very dark and can build some huge nests. Luckily they mostly like to build nests high in trees (but not always). They don't seem very aggressive though.
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32 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:Maybe wild bees ;
There was a nest in an ilang-ilang in our garden;
I wanted to photograph them and I approached too much;
a good part of them attack me;
some stung me, one in an eyebrow;
the bites were very painful and lasted a long time;
If they have been stung by a whole nest of hundreds of bees, they are lucky to be alive.
RIP for the guideThose look like Paper Wasps.
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Maybe Asian giant hornets ? Had to make detours a few times to avoid them, give them a wide berth. Looks like this group literally stumbled into them on the trail. Very nasty. Poor guy.
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When it comes to present day Thai officialdom runaround/ridiculousness , I think I may have discovered the "piece de la resistance".
A close friend (Thai) needed to remove his tour van from the yellow plate system and convert it to a private vehicle. The whole debacle took 4 months ! I kid you not , 4 months. He had to put together a file of endless photos, bank statements, land titles, literally an essay on why he didn't want to use the vehicle for business any more. At one stage where it looked a sure fire success they said it wouldn't pass because his van picture was parked at his "rural place". So he ended up moving his house registration for a week just to satisfy their requirements!
Then again looked sure success, but the woman at the desk sent him back because his file wasn't as "big and beautiful" as the others - stressing how thick the other files in the pile were! Like some kind of Prathom 3 paper glut project!
Then when the file was accepted he naively thought that was the end. NO!!!! They took off his yellow plate and told him he would have to wait to see if his application was successful! So now basically it was an illegal vehicle with no registration that he had to keep off the road and just park. Then he waited about 6 weeks for them to have their meeting and decide. Lucky for him he was one of only 3 to pass from of a whole stack of he estimated to be around 30.
Then he still had to wait a couple of weeks before ordinary book and plate could be issued. This is to get out of the system and not in! The others that failed would have to have gone through I guess double the trouble to get back into the system!!! What a mess !!!!
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6 hours ago, banagan said:
The same on my desktop , no pin. But if you press the search icon on the top left where the coordinates are, the pin will then show up. The granite store is about opposite to that building in the photo (NW of traffic lights).
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Difficult to tell but I think its a Banded Kukri
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16 minutes ago, neilrob said:
Details were announced at the recent meeting with the new US Consul. It looks much larger, and will be between the Superhighway and the middle ring, near Payap. The present consulate will probably be retained as the residence of the consul, but there is still some doubt of this.
I hope they don't flog it off, as most other countries have done. It would then probably be ripped down and turned into a shopping mall!
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Try this in places that you think they may have congregated. If they can't get on the dogs they will soon disappear and they seem to hate this powder so it keeps them out of the places they might hide. You can just clean up the powder after a few weeks.
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15 minutes ago, Gecko123 said:
Goat on top of hay truck (must save money on gas).
Well that doesn't work out , because if you are towing the goat too, then the added weight uses more gas! Next time tell the goat to walk !
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13 hours ago, Gecko123 said:
Goat on top of camouflaged pick up ??
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10 minutes ago, elektrified said:
I was about to post "what an idiot" the Italian is - until I read and considered your post. I would have to agree. It would be very easy to set anyone up. Often we are quick to judge when we should consider all angles first.
I don't see how they could charge him for possession as it seems to have never reached him. Proof of purchase? No mention made of credit card payments etc. There was a small amount of something found at his home but personally I would have an open mind on that issue.
The majority of posters seem to have found him guilty because of his appearance, so god forbid that any of us looks like we might be that way inclined. The whole concept is something that does seem a little troubling especially for those with a few enemies.
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Rather disturbing to hear that you could be arrested for something you receive in the post. Would make it unbelievably easy to set anyone up.
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You would have thought the hotel would be checking/organising paperwork with a conference of this size. How could the issue not have arisen when they hired the space in a hotel of this size/grade. If this was a smaller , less plush hotel it would almost be a sure thing that the hotel owner/manager would have been hauled up too.
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Err , name of hotel not mentioned. It is right there on the photo of the immigration banner !!
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They are seriously relying on pastry puff pies to rescue them. Geez!! Actually Krispy Kreme would be a better bet, but I don't think they own that one.
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Has anyone got married recently at the Amphur Muang Chiang Mai Registration Office behind 3 Kings Monument?
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I think you might find that the Amphur about a block west of the 3 Kings has now moved to be in the same compound as the SalaKlang (out on Chotana, going towards Mae Rim). I don't know if that is all their services but I know for some things they have definitely moved.