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Maybe its safer this way, so in case of an accident with a car the kid just fly away instead of being squeezed in between the parent and the bike handle and the car that caused the accident.

On 6/10/2025 at 9:43 AM, Arkie said:

transfers were done on my iPhone and with my home network.

I think your card information was stolen and used, and was not used from your phone or home network, You simply just got the notification that it was used to your phone.

Use debit card online can be dangerous because when you use a debit card the money leaves your account directly and you might not get it back. If you use a Credit card the bank can freeze the payment and you will get the money back.

In Thailand you have to pay 7% VAT on the service charge as well, so service charge is added before VAT.

I usually give tip, not if they apply charge service charge.

1000 Baht meal + 10% service charge =  1100฿ plus 7% VAT = 1177. Baht 

Google Drive, O-365 drive, DropBox, iCloud etc is not Backup services, it is File Sync and Share Service. You need a proper backup on top of that. So many people loosing files thinking G-drive etc is a proper backup.

On 5/19/2025 at 1:14 AM, still kicking said:

My sight is declining day by day hard to watch TV or even read AN    

Go and see an eye doctor directly, if it is Glaucoma they can stop it, but the damage done is irreversible. 

6 hours ago, Gsxrnz said:

I'm all for the metric system, but buying eggs in packs of ten is just wrong. 

Im not sure what this has to do with the Metric system?  

The metric system is a decimal system of measurement based on the meter (length), kilogram (mass), and second (time).

29 minutes ago, Rumpelstilskin said:

New shops opening up near Eastern Seaboard, never seen anyone enter. Must be portals to an unknown dimension.

I believe many survive on online sales, Like a few Restaurants in my area, almost never see a Customer sitting there eating but they are frequently visited by delivery services.

On 4/18/2025 at 6:02 PM, steven100 said:

so all the pit bull attacks were because the dog had a sore hip .....

 

garbage talk

Did I say all Pit bulls?? I gave one example that happened to my sister and their Rottweiler?  There are probably another 1,000 excuses why a well trained dog suddenly bite no matter what breed.

By the way my sister Is a trainer for dog trainers, some call her Dog Psychologist, she also help people owning a "problematic" dog with both dog training and train the owner.

On 4/18/2025 at 12:50 PM, Thailand Tiger said:

I don't think this online reporting is working. I did an application a week ago. I've been logging in and checking several times a day, and it just sits there as pending. I looks like it's not even monotored by immigration.

I got mine approved on the last day on the 18th, I thought I had to go there since it was my 1st after new VISA ext. but was approved last minute . I'm happy

My sister had a properly trained Rottweiler and closer to 10 years old it sometimes started to behave aggressively. One day it bit a kid very badly. When they took the dog back their car they noticed that if you approached the dog from the side back it got very stressed, When they took the dog to the vet to be put down they noticed it they tried to pet the dog on the hip it tended to bite. An X-ray showed that the dog has developed a very bad hip on one side and was probably in great pain if some one touched or petted it.

So even very properly trained dogs might get issues causes them to bite.

On 4/17/2025 at 10:19 AM, Mason45 said:

I need to go shopping at Tops and Friendship supermarkets. So I was wondering what's the best time to do this

Between 11am to 2pm, or 5pm to midnight or you can not buy beer.

Sukhumvit Hospital between Sukhumvit 63 and 65 is really good, I went there when I dropped a computer on my toe. Very good.

So this guy walk around taking pictures of people he like without their consent and hand over a polaroid picture if the picture tun out to be nice. What happen to all the digital pictures he don't print?

Ask first, then take a picture... 

Seat belts and Airbags usually work together and if you do not use the seat belt the airbag might be disabled, If you do not use seat belt the airbag can actually worsen your injury in case of an accident. You move forward towards the airbag and the airbag detonate and throw you back.

Do not use those things they fool the cars safety system.

8 hours ago, Celsius said:

 

I asked meta.....

 

 

AI give like 80% un-correct answers... you have to fact check them. 

On 3/6/2025 at 6:45 PM, Robert_Smith said:

It is Ralf.

 

Regards,

Bob.

No Its not...

Thailand is not a third world country, but rather an upper-middle income economy. It's considered a developing country that's making progress towards becoming more developed. 

Thailand has a growing economy and is considered a middle power in global affairs. 
It's a founding member of ASEAN and has the second-largest economy in Southeast Asia. 
Thailand's income per capita has increased, and its poverty rate has decreased. 
It's considered a newly industrialized economy, with manufacturing, agriculture, and tourism as leading sectors. 
Thailand is making progress towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals. 
However, some say that Thailand has pockets of poverty, and that the country's structural transformation has stalled since the mid-2010s. 

On 3/5/2025 at 9:09 PM, TimBKK said:

Just Friendship, and once at Villa a few weeks ago.

It might have been Villa Market, A friend of ours she got her CC hijacked 3 times before she realize that is was from after been using her card at Villa Market the details got stolen and used.

When she started to talk to her friends about it several of her friends also had their card information stolen at Villa, They did let management at Villa know.

I don't think we are living in the same Thailand been here 20 years and still can only think of one time I ordered a medium rare beef and it was well done. I did eat it anyway because I know when over cooked the only way to fix it is to throw it away and make a new. I did let the owner know tho, and he wanted to compensate me, but it was good so I declined.

Or maybe we have different levels of tolerance. I might be perfectly fine with something you send back to the kitchen.

On 3/3/2025 at 2:55 PM, Robert_Smith said:

Just been to one of my favorite places frequented for years, never had a problem and always order 3 big beers, everyime I visit..

 

This time when it came to pay the bill she said I had 4, when I knew damn well I only had 3, cos that's all I ever have in this joint!

 

An argument ensued, in which she was adamant I had 4 beers instead of 3, until her boss came over checked the bill and confirmed that I was right. She then left off in a fit of rage, almost in tears.. what is the solution to this kind of nonsense? Is it pay beer by beer or what? Which itself I have found an inconvenience,  sometimes I have left after paying beer by beer before being asked 'have you paid your bill?...

 

What the hell is wrong with these people? Why can they never accept when they are wrong? She left without a sorry a nothing, just walked away angry.

 

Thais are an incredibly strange Group indeed!

 

Regards, 

Bob.

I was in a restaurant with a similar story like yours, the customers made a big fuzz about having 3 beers when the bill said 4, he also stated he never drink more than 3 beers in an evening. In his case they let him off paying 3 beers, and I just by accident was there a few days later when he came back and the manager asked him to follow. Apparently they had it clear on the CCTV that he had ordered 4 beers that evening. He had to pay for 4 only drinking 3 that evening. I asked the manager sinca I know him a bit, and he say he is a regular customer, and just said we was so sorry he must have forgotten one because he usually only have 3.

I do forget how many beers I drink sometimes, and if they take the bottles away like they do on some places I just kindly ask them to leave them so I can keep count... My wife taught me to do that.

She left off in a bit of rage and almost in tears because she lost her face, being wrong or at least corrected by the boss. She was probably sure she was correct otherwise my guess is she would have corrected it directly as they usually do. If they later can confirm you had 4 she probably has to pay for one out of her own pocket. And that remind me of another story, we went to a Thai restaurant and we ordered a big plate of Khao pad poo. Fried rice with crab, and when severed we noticed it seamed wrong and called the guy serving us, and he said he was sorry since he thought Khao pad Moo, Fried rice with pork. So he took it back and came back a few minutes with the correct dish, He was very helpful and during he was helping us filling classes of beers and such, one of my Thai friends asked what happens with the wrong order, and the servant say he has to pay for it with own money, and he can eat it hungry or not no staff discount given.

We gave him tip under the pay slip thingy enough to purchase a lot of  Fried rice pork.

3 hours ago, cookie1974 said:

Not being able to buy alcohol for a day or 2 during buddha days is hardly a problem, unless you are an alcoholic, in which case stock up the day before, its not rocket science is it?

I had a delegation of 5 business men from Japan visiting to talk business, and after our meeting they wanted to host me dinner at a pretty nice riverside restaurant, and when we arrived we learned it was an alcohol ban day, they were very disappointed and some tried to drink that undrinkable Heineken 0.0 including me.

On 2/27/2025 at 2:51 PM, Jaggg88 said:

but antibiotics did not make me better.

Antibiotics does not help against the Flu that is caused my Virus.

I was down with the Flu for 11 days, coughing tons of phlegm, 39 degree fever, pain in my muscles, problem to catch my breath, sore throat, tight sinuses...

My wife have the vaccine shot, she just got a little sore throat. 

I'll probably get the flu vaccine next year.

I still go with Cambridge description of a TukTuk  (And Wikipedia)

I think they simply call the small busses for TukTuk, so tourists understand what they mean. 

Being here for 20 years I can not remember a single local call those a Tuk-Tuk, Mini bus or Taxi I have heard, but never called a Tuk-Tuk as far as I can remember.  Ok I'm Usually not that often in very touristy places... I also asked my Thai wife if those were tuk-tuk, and she said No, Mini Bus.

When I ask for a Picture of a tuk-tuk this is what I get:

On 2/22/2025 at 8:06 AM, Classic Ray said:

All the tuk tuks in Bangkok have three wheels, is this a special breed in Phuket?

On 2/22/2025 at 2:03 PM, richard_smith237 said:

 

No... its still a TukTuk.....    

 

.... TukTuk is just the name for that type of small transport... 

 

They can be 3 or 4 wheeled and vary throughout Thailand. 

 

I have to agree with Classic Ray, I have been taught that the 1st Picture is a TukTuk, and the lower two is called  "Song teaw, sɔ̌ɔng-tɛ̌ɛo" (Two row) สองแถว.