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I bought an electric guitar online. Initially it sounded Ok (but what do I know as I'm a beginner and learning?).
One of the thing I noticed though early on is that my fretted stings were significantly #sharp up and down the fretboard, even at the 12th fret. I've used multiple tuners and now have a headstock tuner as well and they all show the same. ##Fretted## notes are sharp. Open strings are spot on.. I can hear it by ear now too.
I talked to a guy who I'm taking lessons from online (American overseas) and he (and others) have said it's an intonation issue and have someone who knows what they are doing check the guitar adjustment.
So I just did that. Went to a guitar shop in Chiang Mai, and asked them to restring the guitar and make sure everything was set up correctly. I specifically mentioned "intonation." Picked it up today. The first thing I noticed is that I now have fret-buzz on the fretted E 6 string. I checked the fretted strings and I'm still #sharp on the fretted notes. I played it if front of the guy, the fret-buzz is obvious and he says, "Normal."
Full-Stop! Ok. Let me have my guitar. Smile. Pay. Leave.
So I'd like a find someone in Chiang Mai who can setup and perform maintenance on a electric guitar, preferably someone who can speak English and is willing to teach me the setup (as I'm a beginner who would like to learn) so I can do it myself. "Tamada" and "pokatee" for some Thais is perhaps different than for their farang customers.
Fret buzz is not normal.
Fretted strings that sound sharp have intonation issues and is not normal.
I'd like to play (and learn) on a guitar that is correctly setup and maintained. I'm looking for recommendations for someone who can correctly set up the electric guitar - it's a bonus if that person can teach me to do it myself.
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7 hours ago, webfact said:The Standard reported on yesterday's meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in which Anutin said that he had been following through on PM Prayuth Chan-ocha's policy of treating Thais and foreigners the same in the vaccine rollout.
First? Define "Foreigner?"
Do you mean foreigners as in Burmese immigrants working for a Thai company? Ok. So you currently have about 50% of that population vaccinated. Why? The obvious - Thai corporations must not shut down or lose money. But! According to my Thai wife Burmese are getting shots first because if they don't get shots, "They will go out and make Thai people sick." So now we also know the propaganda fed to the average Thai via Thai MSM - "Don't complain about Myanmar factory and constitutions workers getting their shots first.....it protects Thais." Well of course, as well as Thai corporate revenue streams and profit margins.
So great! "Foreigners country-wide are not being discriminated against when it comes to vaccinations" and then show an nice graphic showing the total number of "foreigners" who have had a shot. Impressive!!!
Now dear farangs, especially out here in bum-struck Thailand. I'm not talking Muang Chiang Mai but really out in the provinces. Are 50% of the EU, UK, US, AU, NZ, RU, and elsewhere vaccinated right now? Waddayathink? Are vaccines even available. How about Chiang Rai where foreigners of European descent are routinely told, "Not for you farang. Thai first, you last." Bob's your uncle though if you are a foreigner working in a Lamphun factory.
So there are foreigners and ฿฿฿Foreigners฿฿฿. You would think the former is whom the country would cater to. No no no. Expat of European decent are foreigners (little f). We inject upwards of 1M THB into the economy each year. Screw foreigners.
฿฿฿Foreigners฿฿฿ are <deleted>-poor Burmese who bring in revenues for Thai corporations and who the Thai public think are "Dirty people from Myanmar who will give you Covid-19 so they need vaccinations NOW."
Well there you have it. Anutin is right! ฿฿฿Foreigners฿฿฿ are being given vaccinations. The rest of us? Well, Thailand will tell us just what our own countries tell us - "<deleted> off."-
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"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude."
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One check point about 20 km south of Lamphun on HW 11. Manned but seldom operational. One check point at the HW 11/HW121 interchange. Again, manned but seldom operational.
If you have CM or Lamphun plates (if you are a resident) you won't be stopped. No idea south of Lamphun.-
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produces the vaccine from tobacco leaves.
So while you're waiting, break out the snuff.
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8 hours ago, Thailand said:
8.5 million @ 10,000 baht each, quite a bonus?
6 hours ago, Gottfrid said:What 10 000 baht? The normal retail price is between 20-25 usd. I guess they will pay much smaller for them, and where is the bonus?
Do the math. 1 billion divided by 8.5 million. About 118 THB each.
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There are Covid checkpoints up here in the north but more often than not there are just a handful of RTP sitting at a table watching the traffic drive by. Typical RTP checkpoint. Occasionally they check, most of the time they don't.
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Just being Captain Obvious, but if this guy is on a retirement visa that his wife just blew up, then why not just reapply for an extension based on marriage? Then there are no restrictions on the bank funds other than seasoning 400,000 THB.
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1 hour ago, BritManToo said:And usually a bit on the large size.
Man hands.
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If a coup was in process, the government would state that it's fake news. Lesson to take away. You can't trust media or government media outlets.
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On 8/1/2021 at 1:39 PM, GammaGlobulin said:
The Japanese society is different in terms of their views concerning self-reliance at all costs.
There may be deep-seated sociological reasons why governments such as the US feel no need to provide vaccines to Americans living abroad.
Sometimes it is better to suffer independently rather than become overly reliant on government handouts.
If the US gov wanted to provide vaccines to Americans living abroad, it would not be beyond the means of such a wealthy country.
However, would this not overly encourage dependency for things such as basic medical care?
It is better to just let nature take its course, rather than trying to intervene and allow all citizens to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
Most Americans love to be self-reliant.
And, you would not wish to have Americans denied this valuable experience.
I am sure that this is the basic reason why American expats have not been provided with COVID vaccines, so far, by the US gov.
Blah blah blah.
I fought for America's Freedoms.In return as an elderly expat? I get a ***k you!
Don't rationalize this for the US government. -
Classmates of Thai PM’s daughters want her to ask her father to resign
Parents of classmates on PM daughters disappear off the face of the Earth. -
Survey shows most Thais seriously concerned about the worsening pandemic
Thank goodness I'm not Thai.-
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Puts thumb and first finger together in a ring.
Blows.
"PFFFFFFTTTTTT"
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On 7/30/2021 at 2:35 PM, outsider said:
Nah, nothing will happen to this git, or any other ministers/members of the cabinet.
Out of curiosity - anyone from Malaysia here? Is this Anutin baboon still better, just as bad, or worse, than the Malaysian Health Minister? For the record, the latter claimed warm water cures Covid-19 infection, mistook a water dispenser for a hand-sanitiser dispenser and called the Spanish Flu 'Spanish Fly'. Amongst other gaffes, so it seems.
I could be a toss-up! ????
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5 hours ago, Sparktrader said:
Date 20yo women
Make u younger
I have no problem with 20 year olds as long as they're taking care of carnal needs. It's afterwards when they open their mouths and you realize that their brains aren't fully formed yet. So over the last 20 years, I draw the line at 30 year olds and above. Anyway, 30 to 35 year old gals are in their sexual prime. Much more fun.
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On 7/31/2021 at 12:21 PM, Mac Mickmanus said:
Have you ever considered that having that attitude is the reason , going by your own posts , why you arent very popular with other people and why your previous partners keep attacking you ?
Come again. Are you a ......."previous partner" by any chance? Most of what he posts is observational with a shade of wit, a dash of humor, with a twist of raw rationalism and spiked with realism.
But! A Popularity Contest. Just like High School! Whoo hoo!
Let's see.
In the Left Corner weighing in at a "Aren't very popular" 51774 - BrittttttttMannnnnnToooooo! (applauds and cheers - hot ginger-blond in his corner parades around with Round 1 Sign)
And in the Right Corner weighing in at a snarky 926 - Marvelous Mac MickkkkMannnnusssss!!! (smattering of applaud, beer can whizs overhead with a couple of drunks chanting, "Mac Mac Mac")
Keep plugging away for another 7 years Marvelous Mac and perhaps you'll catch up if Britmantoo hits his expiration date and checks out before that. ???? Work on your humor!-
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6 hours ago, Rookiescot said:
Its covid. Not the plague. If someone collapses near you please help them.
Its far more likely to be something like a heart attack than extreme covid illness.
People have been collapsing in the streets since there were streets. The list of conditions leading to sudden unconsciousness is long. And yet today the public is now so successfully indoctrinated that if someone falls down in the street it "A Covid Deat!" or "Covid Got Them!" A covid death is more likely to be a lingering death from lack of oxygen and organ failure.
Just toss common sense and basic humanity out to window. Crank the Fear Index to 11 and get out of the way for The New Normal or get run over. -
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2 hours ago, Skallywag said:Trying to "give back" by not polluting the air for no good reason.
You should sell you corbon offsets to the wealthy who have no plans to stop polluting, but by their own devices will use a carbon scheme to make it impossible for average people to afford travel while they globe-trot in the Gulfstream Jets and whiz around on the empty streets. You'll get no thanks - just a tiny amount of money. And an earful of propaganda to keep you compliant.
They've got you to believe that you are the problem, but those rules will never apply to themselves. And as you cash in that tiny credit so you can eat, you'll salute them as they fly overhead. The Heavens will only belong to the New Gods. Gods whom you will worship.-
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On 7/29/2021 at 10:33 AM, BritManToo said:
I can never decide between Stalin and Pol Pot!
Genghis Khan, in the end ...... just for the quote ..........
"Man's highest joy is in victory: to conquer one's enemies; to pursue them; to deprive them of their possessions; to make their beloved weep; to ride on their horses; and to embrace their wives and daughters.."
Barbarian General : “Conan, what is best in life?”
Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger): “To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!” ????-
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3 hours ago, jonclark said:And tomorrow Anutins lawyers will file defamation charges.
That probably is the truth.
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Nobody in any government is culpable unless their political enemies have control over the judiciary. A corollary to that statement is that virtually all politicians are made of Teflon. "The enemy of my enemies is my friend." So The Public is pretty much the enemy of all political animals, and those political animals allow each other to feed off of the herd unimpeded. Sure, they'll shout at each other, call each other names, but other than that - nothing happens.
Politics and Thelema have one common principle:
"Do as thy wilt is the whole of the law." Unlike the politicians, Thelema adds, "Love is the law, love under will." Politicians being self-serving animals have only self-love, therefore the world is theirs for the harvesting.
"Truth" is only what the powerful define as Truth. Conversely, there are no lies, other than what they define as lies.
And here is where we arrive:
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
-George Orwell-
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7 hours ago, Blumpie said:
It's just a flu! It's just a flu!
What they say in 1918?
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1 minute ago, CALSinCM said:So a media outlet could have faced 5 years for publishing this story May 25 as registration where closed and only two vaccines where available in short suppy?
"Plenty of vaccine of any brand for everyone – even third dose, says Anutin"
https://new.thaivisa.com/plenty-of-vaccine-of-any-brand-for-everyone-even-third-dose-says-anutin/I'm just polishing my reality goggles and attempting to understand the difference. There is "official news" and "officially fake news" and there are only one group of people allowed to say which is which. I think I'm beginning to understand. I'm a bit slow. I'll have to think this over a little more.
A caveat:
I find main-stream news hyperbole, exaggeration, over-embellishment, and distortion to be - disgusting.
Facts? Who needs facts. Facts don't sell. Exaggeration and hype sells.
However, I find the exact same behavior by government employees, spokespersons, and ministers to be just as - disgusting.
They both do it and they both do it for the same reasons. However, one has the guns and can throw the other into jail. That's about the only difference. We really do live in a time of universal deceit. That's disgusting as well.-
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TAT proposes paying part of quarantine bill for tourists
in Thailand News
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Keep telling yourself that TAT. I've friends in the US who expressed an interest in coming to Thailand in early 2022. I explained what is involve to come though the Phuket Sandbox. I also laid out the reality of the small businesses - bars closed, entertainment closed, small business shuttered. After explaining that they just went silent. Shock I imagine. These are guys who have been here before and wanted to return to Old Normal. Well - don't kill the messenger. I doubt those folks will be planning a trip.
New Normal ain't gonna be a lot of peoples cup of tea.