GarryP

18 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

Indeed.

 

Politicians like Yousaf himself as he pulls controrted/angry faces and can barely stop the spittle flying from his mouth as he repeats the word WHAITE as he shows disgust for Caucasian people holding positions of power in their native land.

 

 

He said this despite the population of Scotland being 96% white/caucasian. WTF did he expect. Love that the Scottish police are being inundated with complaints about this speech under the new law, i.e. it is interpretted as hate speech. They won't do anything though. 

23 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Rubbish. I never heard it or read it being used till this thread. Not everyone reading this forum lives in wokeland.

You need to get your head out of this place and read more mainstream stuff.  

7 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

Never heard of them nor interested in them.

 

PS; TRA etc may be all over the (place) sites you visit but I don't visit them and so I know nothing about them!

Yet another example of "because you know the meaning then everyone else must also know and understand it!"

 

BBC, Guardian, Telegraph, CNN, and numerous other news sites. Mainstream media is covering the topic, especially with the passing of new hate crime legislation in Scotland. I wasn't talking about astrophysics, blockchain technology or any other specialist subject.  

10 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

Yet more three letter postings which are meaningless. 

If you search AGP (which I believe I should not have to do to make sense of posts) the first lot of hits are  here; AGP - Search (bing.com) and range from the Attorney General of Pakistan to automated ground power!!

 

What are the two acronyms referring to?

TRA is all over the place. Can't believe you don't know that one - Transgender rights Activists (gender added just for you to help your understanding). AGPs - blokes turned on by seeing themselves as women, i.e. blokes with autogynephilia. 

On 3/29/2024 at 6:09 PM, GarryP said:

The way they do it around here is they pick the spot and if it is a dry hole, there is no charge. So what I am going to do is tell him where to drill and if it turns out dry, I will pay for labour and fuel costs. Finger crossed. He will be here sometime next week. 

Well that didn't go down as planned. He turned up and despite my telling him that I would cover his costs and labor for drilling where I wanted if it turned out dry, he refused. He would only drill where he wanted. I did not agree so he has gone and we will remain on local supply for the time being. What teed me off the most was his assistant telling my wife to explain the situation to me (they were standing in front of me), despite me already talking to everyone there in Thai.  

4 hours ago, Korat Kiwi said:

Dammit... when is the government going to to a drive to teach kids to swim?   

 

Obviously sorely missing in this country.  Even a lot of adults can't swim hence why so many people drown as no one can jump in to save them. 

 

Sad waste of young lives.  Naturally with all this hot weather, kids want to cool down.  Not realising how deep the pond is... Parents are probably working somewhere else. 

 

Unfortunately it won't be the last of this type of tragedy. 

Don't know what to say really, as nothing could cover the hurt everyone concerned must be feeling.    

When I was a nipper in the UK, swimming lessons were compulsory at primary school level for any places that were located near rivers or the coast. I'm sure it must have saved many lives. No idea whether that is still the case. It would be good to introduce it here, but the investment would be very high as there are very few public swimming pools here.  

6 hours ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

Mate - I am sure that advice below is OK in some circumstances. But it sounds to me like that is not the case here. If it is that bad, she will respond to you telling her by delaying, crying, begging, etc etc - and then if you stay then she and the family will get whatever they can get. 

If it is that bad and the decision is made by you to get a divorce - then you should go see a lawyer and start the proceedings.  He will probably tell you to move out ASAP and take everything you want to keep with you - and not tell anyone where you have gone - no one. Doing that takes planning and smarts - get advice.  If you want a lawyer who is an Expat send me a PM.

 

 

Aust24R posted "She says she wants a divorce, but she has no grounds for a contested divorce when it's only her that wants it,". I interpretted this to mean that his wife wanted the divorce, which, as I said, would be straightforward (assuming they do not have children).  

14 minutes ago, ADog said:

Ive seen 2 of my male friends ex partners batter them, if they knocked them clean out the women would have deserved it.

 

Its not the 1930s anymore when women were gentile and feminine.

I was plant potted, bottled, stabbed and ashtrayed by one of my first girlfriends in Thailand. When I tried to stop her hitting me with her shoe, I broke her elbow (she ended up in a plaster cast). But never once did I fight back. I just tried to protect myself by stopping her from hitting me. Was I naive? Most definitely. A relationship I should have run from.  Not saying that is the case in this instance though. DV, tends to be male on female, but it is not always the case. 

5 hours ago, HighPriority said:

If you follow his advice and divining “skills” you at least absolve yourself of blame if you end up with a dry hole, if you stick to your guns you might still end up with no water and either way you’ll end up with less Baht… 🤣

If you do hit water it’s the greatest feeling in the world 👍🏼

The way they do it around here is they pick the spot and if it is a dry hole, there is no charge. So what I am going to do is tell him where to drill and if it turns out dry, I will pay for labour and fuel costs. Finger crossed. He will be here sometime next week. 

Had a fellow round this morning with his divining rods, his bore drill gear was on his pickup truck parked outside. Said there was no water where we wanted to drill and suggested another place in the garden about 10 meters away. I just think that he wanted to drill somwhere that was easier to get in with his truck. Claimed the place he recommended was a water channel. Haven't made my mind up but don't really believe in the accuracy of divining after reading studies on it.     

17 hours ago, owl sees all said:

Thanks for that insight Mick.

 

100 metres is some depth. I have 7 deep-wells on our farms, and the deepest is 44 metres; 6 at 5 inch bore. One 4 inch.

 

Our recent bores were 9k baht each. The first of these wells is giving very good water, with a total cost about 37k. That includes the bore work. The second one cost 14k plus the 9k bore. So 23k. Only two panels though; so 17.500 baht (26/27k with bore) if three.

 

We am still trouble-shooting the systems. Tinkering really. Me and Mildred went today to do some work on the underground section.

 

People (Thai farmers) have come round to have a look at what we have done. Reckon they are thinking of giving it a go themselves. The difference between a company doing the job, and doing it yourself, can be as much as 13k IME. If you do it yourself, you are sure that the best units are used. But it takes longer. The professional construction boys are in and out in two/three days.

 

For a home with a smallish garden, I assume that a 4" bore would be sufficient.

14 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Good Luck, Man!

Sincerely!

I would opt for Thai citizenship, if I could have dual citizenship....but....it seems to be such a long....

Row to hoe.

 

Good Luck.

Sincere best wishes for your success, Man!

 

Note:  Seemingly, too few try for this.  Maybe, they think it's just completely out of their reach.  Good Luck!

 

I would do it, in a heartbeat....if I thought I could.

 

 

Dual citizenship very much depends on the country you are from. I believe Denmark, Japan, South Korea and quite a few others do not allow dual citizenship. However, many countries do, including the UK, Australia, pretty much any Commonwealth country, USA, etc.

I thought it was out of my reach and there was no way in hell that I would qualify. However, a poster on this thread (he knows who he is) suggested that I check with Special Branch first before giving up and I will be eternally grateful for that, because, low and behold, I did actually qualify and now have a Thai ID card and passport. I would suggest you do the same, if you are from a country that allows dual citizenship. In my case, even if my home country did not allow dual citizenship, I would have been willing to give it up. I've been here for 41 years and it is my home.     

46 minutes ago, rexpotter said:

Same issue for me, so many of them. Even a small kick from my bicycle to their nose runs them off, if I can hit it. Seems like they are most aggressive night and early morning, during the heat they are passive. Why do the locals feed them, I guess that's the real issue. Does it make them feel kind or like a good person?

Now I am upcountry, I don't have many encounters when out cycling in the daytime. On the few occassions I do, growling back at them works 90% of the time and for the other 10%, I use my ultrasonic dog chaser which I have with me when out cycling. However, at night time you really can't cycle anywhere without all the dogs getting aggressive.  

This is my dog chaser. 

1 hour ago, ChipButty said:

Obviously meet the wrong people

Nah, probably because I left the UK when I was 19. 

10 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

I dont shake hands with a Thai, they never wash their hands after a <deleted>, I'll stick to a wai

I never shook hands in the UK and I don't recall seeing anyone shaking hands, but maybe in my neck of the woods it wasn't a thing.  

It is all a bit confusing. The sister-in-law had a bore drilled at the back of her house and the water was greasy/dirty, so she had another drilled at the front of her house and the water was crystal clear, which she now uses instead of the local tap water (so less than 20 meters apart). Another person we know had two ponds dug out that were less than 20 meters apart on a slope and the water in the one at the top is crystal clear blue/green (stunning actually and I've never the like of it before - wouldn't dare swim in it though until I know why it is that colour) and in the pond below, the water just looks like normal pond water. All of these are in a radius of no more than 750 meters of my house (maybe even slightly less). 

The local resevoir is about 2 kms from my house. I've already raised concerns about water quality with my wife and we both agree that if the well water quality is poor, we'll just use it for watering the garden (unless there are a lot of chemicals too, in which case we'll just ditch it). 

One thing is for sure, I'll not be doing it myself. I don't have the background in stuff like that. I do only pretty basic stuff like grouting, gardening, putting together Ikea furniture, hanging pictures, fixing taps, etc. 

20 hours ago, owl sees all said:

 

Having had to find out about solar systems has given me an insight into, not on what to do, but not what to do. The whole thing is a bit of a balancing act.

 

I take it Garry, that you wish to draw water from a deep well, with a DC current supplied by solar panels. And be independent of any regular water and leccy supply. Right then, certain things are musts.

 

1/ The well must actually go into a water table. It's obvious I know. But no water means no independent system.

 

2/ You will not use that much water for a home. So no need to go over the top on the equipment. But there are essentials. Can't by-pass them.

 

3/ You need a tank or something to hold the water. Then you will be able tap into it 24/7.

 

So! Assuming that you find water  - usually 6 to 10 metre down - you will need a DC pump, and a solar unit to drive it. I'll suggest that you don't get the most powerful pump. A 500/600 watt unit would be OK. To drive the pump you will need a solar set-up of between 800 and 1000 watts in total. That will be two panels. You will need a controller. Some of them are programmable. And some programmable remotely. Keep it simple. Keep the cables consistent. If the cable attached to the pump is 4mm square then the whole cable to the control box should be the same throughout.

 

Thought should be given to the mounting of the panels and the distances, to both the pump, and the controller.

 

Ask about Garry about the water. Find out if it is consistent once you get into the table. If it is, then 30 metre deep should be OK for the pump. If you hear that pumps are cutting out, due to lack of water, then you might have to go deeper; perhaps to 40 metres. BUT!! In that case a more powerful pump will be needed, and that means more panels, or at least two higher rated ones.

 

As I say; it's all a balancing act. Get the basic about the water in ya mind first. The rest is pretty straightforward.

 

One final thing. If the water is good, then it will go through your system into the house taps. If - on the other hand - the quality is not as good as hoped for, then a filtering i=unit should be considered also.

 

Good luck. Keep in touch with it all.

Thanks for that. I (my wife) got another quote today. 60k including 3 solar panels, pump, drilling etc. The only problem is that the equipment is loaded on a 6 wheel truck and it may be difficult to get into the area we wish to drill. The drill system is pneumatic percussion as opposed to rotary, which is probably okay as there is a lot of rock (in our case even piling the fence piles around our property enountered issues with rock only 6 or 7 meters down).

Limited area for drilling.

FYI, we already have a tank so we could probably link up to that. 

Really, the only reason we want to do this is that the local water supply starts to stink in March and starts to get visibly dirty until the rains kick in. It is a money spinner for the local Tesaban. The regional water supply agency offered to link our district to the Lam Pao dam supply and that would have been great, but then the locals in office and string pullers would not be able to skim any money off for local water supply. So we are still using the local pond ( which is not really big enough for the district town where I live).  

Hopefully, we will find something that works either this month or next.    

55 minutes ago, chickenslegs said:

When my wife had a bore hole drilled on her land near Surin, the drilling rig arrived on the back of a normal size pick-up.

I guess the size of the rig will depend on the depth of the bore and the soil/rock.

 

Not my photo, but similar to this ... and very, very rusty.

My wife jus got a quote for drilling and solar cell (35k but only one solar cell) or drilling plus electric hook up (23k). No charge if no water found. Seems a bit expensive. 

We want to to have a water borehole drilled at the front of our house. Problem is that access is quite limited. Maybe a pickup could fit but not a 6 wheel truck, so trying to find alternatives in my area. Doesn't look that promising.   

2 hours ago, Foxx said:

 

Well, that's one way of looking at it.  But they hardly "abstain from worldly pleasures" when they gorge themselves before dawn and after sunset and end up throwing away a lot of wasted food.

Ramadan is also "the month of jihad".  According to one source, last Ramadan there were 145 terror attacks in the name of Allah resulting in 741 deaths.  Total attacks during the same period in the name of other religions combined:  zero.

What about during the period of Lent? Surely that's the Christian equivalent. But probably zero then too.   

4 hours ago, charleskerins said:

Get better medical info on here than in the states  ,I just went from 10 to 5 also.

You'd also need to monitor that the reduction did not result in a rise in BP. If it doesn't, that would be good. I've been on 5mg for about 10 years now and luckily no serious swelling at all.  

I heard yesterday that Bitkub is now accepting the opening of accounts by foreigners. 

20 hours ago, Lacessit said:

In other words, you're a snob. Don't worry, I don't want to be friends with you.

Spelling error there. It should be a 'k' not an 's'.