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Yes E 20 is good for performance, E85 even better but not everywhere available and results in much higher fuel consumption. If you have ever time just stop once in the evening at the PTT station at the 10 baht tollway Bangkok - Cheang Watthana. Every evening around 10pm you will find a lot of tuned cars, they for sure can confirm what I claimed and you can find very good tuners in their midst.


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Ethanol blended fuel has more potential but needs more volume. My VW Flex car in Brazil got more Hp on E100 (more like E95 to stop people drinking it) but got less Km/L.
From Wikipedia "

• 1.0L VHT 72 hp (76 hp Ethanol) producing 95 Nm (104 Nm Ethanol) @ 3850 rpm

 
About 600 km per tank on "benzine' but only about 450 on E100!
 
When comparing one has to calculate in baht/km just as one would if comparing LPG!

Est Cola property huh?
 
sorry thought you had been here for a while. Anyway, welcome to Bangkok. Hope you enjoy it. 

Old Pepsi warehouse next to The River sold. Soon to be 70 story tower. 
 
Bubble popped two years ago after coup. Market frozen. Real estate world in Bangkok grim. 
 
But hey, hat do I know. Jump in. Water feels good!

The River is another troubled project that is depreciating rapidly. 10 years of stop and start construction allowed developer to claim appreciation. Not true. What lead to higher prices was the project (more or less) being complete. 
 
Still less than 50% occupied with the new owner(Dumb Singapore money clueless about ThAiland) renting unsold units on a daily rate. 
 
Now with the the new tower raising just east of it, half the units will have thier view blocked. 
 
No no way anyone could sell a unit there unless they went far below "market" price. Hundreds available. 

I am not an engineer, so if I may ask, what is actually the problem? As I see it, the expansion gap is probably quite big but how does this affect the structure or safety of the bridge?


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I am not an engineer, so if I may ask, what is actually the problem? As I see it, the expansion gap is probably quite big but how does this affect the structure or safety of the bridge?


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Robot cops programmed to accept tea money?

The world will be severely effected in the near future.  It is a question of labor price, production rates and convenience.  With a five year write off can pay a fair amount for something that will work 24 hours a day, no complaints or concerns over working conditions, or age, will produce the same as 10 or 100 workers.  In the future will be mostly a matter of desire to have a face to face contact.  Accounting, stock analysis, and recommendations, serving food, making food, transportation, can all be handled in a quicker manner with AI.  Question is what to do with 50% of the population that isn't flexible enough to take on a new career due to age, smarts, physical limitation, personality, and experience. A lot of the new jobs will involve working with people.

Just don't give the machines a work permit - problem solved Thai style!

Yes, it's a great place and you'll be getting a monorail soon, but I always chuckle when chaopraya living is considered hiso waterfront location. It's a giant garbage dump.

I live at The River condo opposite Shangrila access to Bts and walking distance to Siam Icon. So yes I consider this prime location...


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I bought my condo 5y ago and the only reason was just to have my own place. After 5y value is still more or less the same and renting out would really not yield great returns. Although prime location next to the Chao Phraya river.
It is very dangerous to compare HKK real estate market with Bangkok. The insane high price per m2 in HKK is because of the limited surface area of HKK while Bangkok has a very large surface area with potentially different centers. Sukhumvit area also has condos with quite high values per m2 but IMO has reached it's maximum. There are just too many other areas in the vincinity which offer the same conditions. There is maybe no real estate bubble yet but possibly one in the making.


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and the driver possibly did not have a legal license, if one at all.  Anyway BMW drivers are above the law in Thailand so a small fine 10,000 baht fine and away to do it again .  Thainess at its ugliest. 

Why many Thai people switch of airco in the car before they shut down the engine?
Tides are directly the result of more or less rain.



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Block "rotate screen",turn upside down, the thumb now aims downwards. Push = unlike. Anyway this is how I would explain this..


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You ask for solutions, I would advice to look for feasable options and removing or silencing kids is not one of them. Try to go with the flow not against...
If the noise is really a nuisance, other residents will also complain. If so the juristic department will have to take action to solve the noise problem. I would suggest to cover the walls with sound absorbing materials which, if well selected, could be esthetic as well.


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Alzheimer could be the cause, it is very difficult if not impossible to care for an Alzheimer patient. My father had it, he choose the same way to die. He was also abandoned by his long time girlfriend but I never blamed her because I understood she probably suffered more than him.


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Or the price is wrong or the type is wrong, but 7 mill for X1 is more than double the local market price.


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If you have to pay an allowance to her.. it should tell you everything. 
10 years here and TV members still amaze me.. 

Thanks for the hint, I will Veet my head and let you know if this will increase my libido..


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I am nearly sixty,but I still have the same hair volume since I was a young boy. Yes gray hairs become dominant but they still grow fast. I have to go to the hairdresser every month. I wash my hair daily with a cheap wash and go shampoo. So I am convinced it is 90% genetical. This should be good news but it isn't...my girl friend and her friends think Jason Statham is the most sexy man on earth.. go figure!



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We live in a non touristy area in (almost) the middle of nowhere.
 
I feel very welcomed by my wife's tropical garden, the climate (September-March), the house & swimming pool that I built.
The local Thais (incl family) are neither particularly welcoming or non welcoming - I have little in common with most of them. I concentrate on a few and ignore the rest.
The government officials are very unwelcoming, but hey, they don't even welcome their own countrymen..... 
As for the touristy places, I have never been there, but I guess they are full of money hungry Thais trying to take advantage of sex & alcohol hungry farangs. Not my problem.
 
April - august we spend in Europe - another part of the world that is neither particularly welcoming or unwelcoming.
 
 
 

No witnesses, so it is one piece of circumstantial DNA, a money transfer and the testimony of a cleaning lady who worked in his Condo complex. I suspect this will be going to the Appeal Court. To be satisfied of guilt beyond all reasonable doubt, I would have liked to have seen something a bit more concrete.

Probable scenario..

Turnover for many Thai is equal to profit.

After 2 months she will be bored and ask for an assistant and from there you have another 3 months before closure. Classic business is coffee shop, selling clothes, food shop, hair salon, bar. Above scenario can be applied to all. As many posters advice better give her a monthly allowance than a business.

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