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I can relate. I live in an upscale suburban area. No farms, no other livestock but <deleted>' roosters all over the place.

Are fireworks effective against roosters? I mean just the sound from the explosions, not as a means to incinerate them.

I was this close to buying a ferret I saw at a market today, at least with that running around the neighborhood the chickens would be feeding the ferret instead of making more damn roosters.

I wonder if foxes make good pets? My fox ate all your fowl again,... again? mai ben rai

I brought a couple bags of grass seed from the U.S. Primarily creeping red fescue and other full sun grasses and it worked well for filling in the gaps and some areas where the sod didn't take. Germinated in 3-4 days and looks great.

I ordered a bag of what was supposed to be the same strain as the sod I have from an online seller in Thailand and I don't think a single seed sprouted, it's been two weeks.

It costs considerably less in the Netherlands for euthanasia. A few hundred euros tops.

Cannabis oil is also readily available there.

I can't believe all the insurance companies that don't cover treatment for cancer. I must be lucky. I pay less than 2k a year and have very comprehensive coverage. Private hospital rooms, dental including crowns, bridges and cleaning 2x a year and medical insurance that covers conventional and alternative treatments for cancer.

Go back to Amsterdam and use Simpsons oil cannabis full extract. It's cured many friends of mine including one person with "terminal" lung cancer. She is now cancer-free.

Cool, I'll do that if they ask.

We went to the government office by Smile and my wife spoke with a woman there who knew her and said "no, problem, I,ll help you, you don't need the translation legalized at the embassy".

If your wife is Thai and has a house book for your house you can use it.

You will not be able to get a yellow book unless there has been a house book issued for the house and you need permission from the holder of the house book to get it.

I may still have a copy of the rental agreement but I haven't lived there for months and the lease expired in September 2014.

I've built a new house in Ubon, I built it, I'm not leasing it and without the yellow book for that address I don't have any current proof of my actual address.

I can go to Bkk later if that's what's required to get the yellow book but I'd prefer to avoid an unnecessary trip just to go visit the embassy again.

I just came back from there getting a withdrawal slip notarized and spent a long day and 5k so I could transfer my own damn money from the U.S. to Europe.

I moved to our new house since my last 90 day report and my visa expires is a few weeks.

I wanted to be prepared and bring a copy of the yellow book as proof of address.

I got a translation of my passport and when to ubon head office to get my passport legalized before we went to the other head office to apply for yellow book.

At the first office we went to they said that I need to go to the US consulate in Bangkok to legalize my passport and the go to the Thai government office to have that legalized.

Do I need a yellow book to show my address to get my extensions or can I give them something else?

Or my previous application I had a rental contract

That was the undocumented step that I figured out that allowed me to finally connect it.

That, and finding someone at Tesco of all places who knew what kind of connector that it was supposed to fit on.

The key to install the torturer device is to have it unscrewed a bit so after you tighten the holding screws you can tighten to make a good seal to the tap lip. They work great if installed correctly.

Why the difference in signal quality between morning and later in the day. Are there usually thick clouds between your dish and the satellite in the morning?

I had a dish that was worthless when it rained and seemed to be bothered by wet clouds in the path too.

Considered, yes. Found a M to M adapter at any of the places here, no.

I just bought a 3m hose and a new screw-on connector for my water tap. Now there are all sorts of places it can fail and leak instead of just a single, solid connection of a standard hose connector, that exists on all the 2m hoses.

I don't understand what this difficult to install, leakage prone connector with the quick disconnect is even there. It only connects to another wash machine hose.

Is it for people wealthy enough to own multiple washing machines, who enjoy connecting and disconnecting hoses between loads to switch from their LG inverter to their Electrolux ultra-smooth drum model, yet too poor or stupid to add a T fitting or Y connector to the line?

If they are rooster-eating snakes I'd love to give them a new home. PM me!

Is Amorn that electrical supply company with offices in each province?

I got it fitted with the 3 m hose but I'm seeing 4-5 failure points instead of the one you'd have with a standard washer hose.

This thing I had to disassemble into three pieces take the washer out put the metal piece that screws into the tap through there, push it through far enough so that I could catch the last flange and tighten it up with the four set screws and then smash the washer back on in between the plastic part.

So far it doesn't seem to be leaking but if it were a standard connector I think it would last forever. I don't see any advantage in this quick connect situation for something that I'm never going to disconnect. I don't know how difficult it would make be for them to make a 3 m long hose with standard connectors on the end without all this additional bullshit on one end of the hose. I didn't findbit any simpler to screw a tap to a hose with 4 screws and a rubber washer than just seen a hise fitting in a connector.

Not at the 10 stores I went to. Home Pro, Do Home, Thai Wasadu, Lotus, Big-C, Home Buy, Home hub.

Washers need burst proof hose since they are inside your home and connected and turned on all the time. If they weren't they could burst and fill your house up with water when you're gone for the weekend.

I can't find any materials to make a hose and I can't find anybody at the stores that can show me what kind of a tap this other 3 m long hose contraption connects to

I need a 3m hose to connect my washing machine to the tap. After visiting around 10 stores I have found 2m hoses (which I already have but it's too short) with a standard female hose fitting at each end, and 3 meter hoses with a standard female hose fitting at one end to attach to the washer and some medieval-looking torture device with 4 set screws that's supposed to seal the tap to a rubber washer and it has a quick disconnect with ball bearings inside.

Before I found my 2m hose, I bought one of the hoses with different connectors at each end and found no way to attach it to my tap without leaking and didn't find any other taps that this contraption would mate with. I can't see why I'd want to disconnect it since it doesn't seem to be a standard hose quick coupling anyway.

My question, where can I find a 3m hose with standard fittings at each end, or what kind of faucet is it that these oddball hoses connect to? I'm in Ubon. On the right is the one I want, on the left is the unnecessarily complicated model.

Retire at 66 years and 4 months, average life expectancy for men living in the US is 72, probably less if you're living in Thailand. 5-6 years worth of benefits. Who knows what will happen with Social Security in the next decade, benefits may be reduced, retirement age may be increased again.

I was given some wrong info. I think the person was thinking about SS disability where they take a percentage of your thee highest earning years. SS retirement benefits are calculated based on your 35 highest years divided by 420 ( months in 35 years), indexed for inflation and a percentage of each of three tiers added together.

The good news is that it seems possible to pay in 15% from years you were self employed to increase the payment amount. But, is it worth giving away 60k to add 10k a year to your benefits or is it better to invest the 60k since you have a 5 year break even point and the actuarials pretty much expect you to die withng 5-6 years after you retire anyway?

I worked in the US for over 20 years but that was almost 20 years ago.

I qualify easily for the minimum of them for her of yours work but my highest three years of income were over 20 years ago and it doesn't amount to that much in the monthly benefits right now.

I am currently self-employed and living outside of the U.S. Are there any ways that I could add to my U.S. earned income for the next few years to increase my monthly benefit without physically moving back to the US, getting a job and paying into Social Security as a employee of another company?

Can I set up a business in the U.S. and pay myself as an employee? Can I contribute directly to Social Security from outside of the country based on the company that I own outside the U.S.? What I need to have someone else set up a company and then hire me as an employee and me pay all of the bills?

Any ideas?

I heard it was to keep school kids from buying alcohol after school.

Or maybe to make sure drunks don't live in bars all day.

Does anyone know why alcohol can't be purchased between 2-5pm, what is so significant about those 3 hours?

Just think how empty the roads would be if they required every "licensed" driver here to be retested and had a mandatory 100k fine and 10 days in jail for driving without a new, real, drivers license.

I don't care if they're exotic, I just want an animal whose diet consists primarily of roosters.

In Minnesota the government gave refuge to a lot of Somalias. Many of them drive taxis. To show their appreciation for being saved from whatever hell they were enduring in Somalia, they put up signs in their taxis refusing service to anyone who is transporting alcohol ( carrying a bottle of wine or beer home from the market in a bag) or anyone who appears to have had a drink of alcohol.

Had dogs, cats, birds and fish, been there, done that. I'm interested in getting a pet that's also a benefit to homestead.

I'm considering either a hawk, harrier, kite, falcon, owl or a raccoon, skunk, fox or a weasel.

Any good sources around Ubon?

I'm guessing the Big-C in Ubon is different than the one in Pattaya or Phuket or whichever one here some people consider less than worthless.

I'm not a frequent customer but whenever I go to the one in Ubon they seem to be well stocked, clean, helpful staff that don't stalk you like they do in Home Pro or Tesco.

To replace Big-C with Lidl or Aldi seems like a big downgrade based on my experiences with those places in the Netherlands.