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10 hours ago, webfact said:

The Tourism Authority of Thailand's newest director of Asia and the south Pacific told Bangkok Business News that tourists are clearly desperate to come to Thailand.

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.

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. 
Thanks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

Puts thumb and first finger together in a ring.
Blows.
"PFFFFFFTTTTTT" 

Sure.  Of course not.

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!  ????

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.

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!  

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.

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!”   ????

7 hours ago, Blumpie said:

It's just a flu!  It's just a flu!

What they say in 1918? 
If sematics cured diseases than the pandemic would be over.