alien365

My 1 year old Ranger can easily do 1,000km on a tank if highway driving. Its more comfortable than my previous car. For city driving though, forget it. Regarding stopping, I personally don't like stopping until I have to. Once you stop, all those cars you've had to pass get ahead of you again. Still, once concentration starts dwindling on a long drive, I will take a break (usually around 3-400km) as a matter of safety.

I think the word hate is probably used inaccurately for many. Im guessing those who don't like golf (like me) are not very good at it and the game therefore stresses a person out. It shouldn't be difficult to hit the ball straight, but it is. Same applies for putting a ball in a hole from a meter or so away. The game makes me feel stupid. Others laughed at me or were constantly shaking their heads, so I stopped trying to play properly due to actual golfers too.

I've had two accidents here and both involved being hit from behind when the lights had turned red. The first was a high school kid riding a bike who was too busy talking to his mates on the back of his bike. I saw him in my mirrors but there's nothing I could do when I wasn't first at the light. The second was a lady in a Teana. My dashcam showed she was looking at her phone. I'll await being called a racist now, that I don't know the road rules, that I must be wrong for getting annoyed by these incidents, and that I'm victim blaming for sharing my anecdotal experience from the latest troll. Oh yes I forgot, something about boats...

Pre-covid some wore masks for the pollution or if they had a cold, but in my experience it was a maximum of 10%. Now it's about 60% wearing them. The girls I speak to say they also wear them if they have a spot/pimples now or so they don't have to put makeup on.

I was in the same situation as you with Ford. I tried to add an excess and named drivers to reduce the 20+k premium. I'm now back to Roojai (that's who I used on my previous car) and pay 10k. You can choose to use the dealer repair service, but that will be an extra few thousand a year. Not worth it in my opinion though as I've only made one small claim in 10 years here. That would have been an extra 20-30k premium during that period for the luxury to use them once.

I've come to the conclusion that they are too flat and not suited to my taste. The weizen was foul, tasted of chemicals and got thrown down the sink. The dunkel was flat. The lager is flat and has a lingering aftertaste that doesn't agree with me. It left me and my Thai friends with bad hangovers too. The rose is a girly drink that effectively tastes of sugar and also gave a bad hangover. I won't be drinking any of them again.

Other providers also have a premium diesel but Shell's is better and the most expensive due to the additives in their mixture. Importantly to me, it just feels nicer to drive. For the sake of a baht or two I'm happy with that trade off. If money were more important to me, I wouldn't have bought a Ranger.

I think its plain for all to see that they are focusing on the wrong type of immigration. They should be cracking down on those with no genuine connection to the UK who cost the country an absolute fortune. For some reason though, those in power just seem to want to ruin our country.

As its the same price, B7 all the way. The pickup is a year old and can run B20 but I see no reason to use it without a price incentive. When the prices return to normal market rates, we'll see. Like my previous petrol car, I'll probably try them all and see which feels best to drive (91 was the best for my car). So far Shell B7 is what I'm sticking with. I'd love to try the premium but that's more than a thousand baht extra per tank.

I wouldn't exactly say her life is the 'real world'. She has 5 kids, her choice, that she cannot support. Her place doesn't allow kids left alone, which I find an unusual clause in a cheap rental contract, so she should move. Why doesn't the deadbeat dad with no job look after them? He is doing nothing anyway or has he been actively looking for a job for three months too? Out of the house at all times? In the real world, a person with responsibilities does whatever they can to look after their children. As I say, if she's pretty I'm sure she could get a job that pays more as she's earning less than minimum wage anyway for the capital (the real world). Could she not work in marketing or try selling something? Even working as a lottery seller would work.

If I was paying bottled water prices I'd be outraged at this. Where I get my water from they effectively fill the water this way too, but I get 20l for 10 baht. I'm not too fussed as my body handles it fine.

As a beauty technician, I'm sure she could find an extra source of income to support her kids... You'd have thought after having three kids she'd understand she can't afford to look after them on 320baht per day. Her kids clearly mean nothing to her.

Regarding point 4. My easy pass has worked on all toll roads for many years. You can buy one immediately after a tollbooth (stay far left). Take your passport and give them some cash to put on it. Normally though you'd have to wait a few hours for it to activate, or that's what they told me anyway and they were right. I had to reverse out.

I would never use a toll road from Nakhon Pathom to head his way so the same applies from Phuket. There's no 'local' roads to speak of. It just makes sense travelling on Phet Kasem to Rama 2, to Kanchanapisek, to 1, 2 and onwards. The only spot I see that could cause confusion is the signage getting on road 1 from Kanchanapisek road (9), but that's not a toll issue. While I understand the OPs anxiety about the tollbooths, some will be slightly different, but they are mostly signed well in advance to 'keep right' for easy pass /MPass (makes sense considering the right lane is the fast lane on the road and using those passes is meant to be faster). If the road is painted blue, then move out of that lane as you're in the wrong one. The booth itself will also have a blue sign saying easy pass on it which is easy to spot. I really dont see what toll road you would use though in bkk. You'd just be going through the center for no reason. If the new one has opened at the number 2 section,then I wouldn't use it either. The original road isn't busy unless you're travelling at a holiday time.

What I tend to do is order my food and then tell them I can eat spicy, followed by I like to eat khuar kling (I usually get a 'wohooa' kind of sound from them). When they hear I can eat southern spicy I always get the correct spice level

The American definition of capitol relates to government, so it doesn't matter whether they are using US or UK English here. Capital is correct

It could have been advertised earlier. Bit late now to book a flight and accommodation, then drive to Bankok and hop on the plane to check it out.

Another one actively going in search of things to be offended by.

Do you have to have a 4x4 to go up here or will a normal pick-up truck do?

Ang Sila, never heard of it. But I've been to Bang Saen and Sri Racha many times. I knew they were in Chonburi province, but not part of one city.

From Google maps I'd never have known. I guess I must have driven past it quite quickly on the motorway.

I thought it was a province, not a city.

Culture is relevant regarding how societies follow those rules. Many simply don't follow the rules here as society allows them not to. If you call someone out for bad riding, you are seen as the problem to others, not the person doing wrong in the first place.

What is the point in commenting though if someone else has already said what you are thinking? That's were a simple emoji works well.

The bigger and heavier bag you buy, the more likely it will be put at the bottom of the pile and be damaged. I used to religiously use the hardcase by samsonite or American tourister. I now use duffel bags or my big rucksack (Decathlon) as they are very light and get put on top of the heavy bags. I've never had any damage to the these.