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On 1/27/2018 at 1:49 PM, unblocktheplanet said:
We have U-bends under our sinks but...the septic stink comes up through the bath drain. Not an easy fix to remove the bathtub! Any ideas???
The bath should not run into the black septic tank, there should be 2 tanks, a black and a grey and it is ok to put chemicals into the grey tank. The smell may just be from deposits in the waste pipes to the grey tank. The Thais can be a bit slack when it comes to 'fall' on the pipes and water can lie in the pipe. I put hot water and bleach down mine fairly regularly to try and keep them clean.
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On 1/26/2018 at 8:34 PM, Tofer said:
I would also appreciate anybodies opinion of why the Thais separate the waste from whb's/showers/floor drains from the waste out of the wc. Complete nonsense in my opinion, as the water from those appliances help flush out the main drain carrying solids from the wc.
Water from wash basins and showers is known as 'grey' water and will normally contain substances harmful to the bio system. This water should be routed to the grey tank and only 'black' water from the toilets routed to the black tank.
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On 1/26/2018 at 3:38 PM, Golden Triangle said:
My Mrs regularly uses toilet cleaners as the water where we are stains the bowls more than I do, are these cleaners bad for septic tanks ? This is my first experience of septic tanks as in the UK I was connected to mains sewers. If so what would you recommend ?
We have the same problem as we use well water which is very hard. We found that a fairly fine wet & dry paper will take the stains off without scratching the ceramic.
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On 1/25/2018 at 7:31 PM, trainman34014 said:
Wherever we go to eat i always let my Thai Mrs choose what we are eating as i love all Thai food and she only chooses the healthiest food anyway. It's rare for me to even look at a Menu unless we go somewhere with mostly Western style food. When the bill arrives the Wife checks every Baht and has on numerous occasions down the years sent the bill back for alteration, normally for the subtraction of items we never ordered or had delivered. I cannot recall a time when we have been subjected to any dual pricing but if it ever happens the Wife will sort it...Period !
Exactly. There is no dual pricing around here, but then there are very few foreigners. Everything in the markets are priced so you know what you need to pay. If I go to the hospital, clinic or dentist I pay the same as the Thais. In December I had a comprehensive check up at the cancer hospital,1600 baht, and the week before last I had a tooth out, 500 baht, what is there to complain about.
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9 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:
Yes, I have done the same.(moving a car from BKK to chonburi) I think pattaya is like a branch office and Chonburi is the head office for the province. Apparently the number plate machine is at Chonburi, pattaya waits for delivery.
It was my very first visit to a DLT and I chose Pattaya because I thought they would be more familiar with foreigners. Although I live only 12Km from the Chonburi office it was quicker and easier to get to Pattaya. Been using Chonburi ever since, yet to see that video people talk about.
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22 hours ago, gamini said:
The yellow book is not a tambien baan . Having lived here for the last 35 years I can not think of a single time I ever could have used it! I have posted before on this forum that it serves no purpose whatsoever.
That really is a matter of perception and what what you may be interested in. My yellow book has got me free flu jabs and free medical check up at the mobile clinic but I appreciate that may not be of any interest.
The point of significance is the pink ID card but you no doubt say that is no use either.
The Cancer hospital at Chonburi offers a check up service and when I went a few years ago I had to hand over my passport and this was passed around the various departments with the documents during the check up, which was a little bit disconcerting. When I went back a couple of weeks ago for another check up I handed over my pink ID card, just like the Thais, this was then slipped into a small plastic wallet and stapled to the check up documents, a much more sensible arrangement. But all a matter of perception.
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15 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:
As others have mentioned, I have used yellow book exclusively at Pattaya DLT over the past couple of years. Lots of reports that they now dont accept it.
I think it may come down to the English script/Thai script thing (see post 26). License has your name in English, yellow book has your name in Thai.
It would be interesting to see if you started the process, getting a license with name in Thai script, if yellow book (name in Thai) would be accepted as proof.
A thai license with name in English has your passport number on the license. A thai license in Thai (name) has your citizen Number (from yellow book/Pink ID). I can see the logic behind it.
Than again, TIT
I was turned away by Pattaya DLT about 3 years ago, they said had to be CR from immigration. Went to the Chonburi office the same afternoon,no problem.
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I have never been a fan of diesel engines but you cannot argue the economy and engine life figures. Thailand is one of the countries that puts alcohol in the petrol(Gasohol), this keeps the engine clean by wearing it away, the higher the E number the greater the wear.
People should also remember that the Thai government capped the price of diesel, not sure if that is still in play, but during the period of high oil prices there was a very significant saving with diesel.
Personally I wouldn't touch LPG with a barge pole.
A few years back a LPG lorry crashed into a gold shop just off the Chonburi bypass. A couple of opportunists passing by rushed into the shop to see what they could grab. The lorry exploded killing the shop owner, the driver and one of the looters, the other looter and the shop assistant were badly injured.
Bad enough having to drive among them far less behind the wheel.
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On 1/23/2018 at 11:29 AM, Colabamumbai said:
And you do not get the address until you book. I told an owner/renter I would be coming by Baht bus, he told me the location would not be good for me. Nor did he offer how to by taxi.....leaves a lot to be desired.
That is a bit of a niggle but you do have the option to cancel within 48 hours without cost.
I made a booking for Sheffield and did not get a full postal address. Twice I asked the owner for the address and after a few days when there had been no reply to the second request I had come to the conclusion I should cancel. I was away from home at the time with bad internet so decided to wait till I returned, however before I got home Airbnb cancelled the booking, I got full refund and they removed the listing.
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I came back into Thailand from Malaysia with just enough room for an entry stamp, but the page had been blank, the notes at the back took up a full page. The IO made no comment about the passport being full.
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On 1/20/2018 at 8:38 PM, Mangkhut said:
That could happen to any hired out room/flat/house regardless of how you you rent out your accomodation. Using an agency to rent it out, rent it out privatly, using Airbnb - none of them gives any reasurance that the guest/renter will f*** up something.
On the Airbnb platform the person who hires out state his houserules and a very common statement is «not suited for party/gatherings» or «partys not allowed». Of course this wont scare the truly idiots but at least it sends a clear signal.
Quite, and the Thais seem fairly laid back about it. Last year a friend of mine asked me to see about getting a house in Bang Saen for a couple of nights. There was 12 of them in total coming and we managed to get them a 5 bedroom house for the 2 nights. The company had several properties in a small soi just across from the beach and they gave us a bundle of keys and said have a look around, the were managed from a condo block around the corner. When my friend and his family arrived we picked up the keys from a guy sat on the corner and went into the house. It was a bit short on crockery and a few other things so they just went round to the condo block and a few minutes later a girl turned up with everything they had asked for, no checks or anything. On the way out they just gave the keys back to the guy on the corner, all very casual.
As for Airbnb, they can be quite careful. As it happens I have just made a booking for 3 nights in a condo at Hua Hin and during the booking process they took my photo to compare with the one they have on file.
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On 1/20/2018 at 12:43 PM, dick dasterdly said:
April 2019?? The campaign to not leave the EU started immediately the result was announced! Not to mention during the run-up to the referendum...
But this is admittedly a (partly) facetious comment. If the UK genuinely leaves the EU, I suspect that an even smaller number will be immediately looking to re-join - as they know that the terms on offer would likely be far worse than before leaving.
Edit - 20 years later is an entirely different proposition as nobody has the first idea as to how the UK/EU will have fared this far in the future.
Yes, April 2019 was an assumption based on "The campaign to not leave the EU" having been terminated for fairly obvious reasons.
There is certainly validity in what you say but I think there is little doubt that the campaign to be part of the EU will soldier on under a different flag.
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No surprises here.
Theresa May has once again refused to say she would vote for Brexit if there was another referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union (EU).
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The brexiteers think that it is all sown up. There is every probability that April 2019 will see the start of the campaign to join the European Union, after all that is democracy.
It is already in peoples minds.
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5 hours ago, aright said:
Forget about the crystal ball ....leopard ...spots etc. Why don't we have a look at the reality of the SNP over the last few years as seen by the New Statesman, before your so called reality kicks in.
Reminder: Some people would regard the New Statesman as the leading progressive and cultural magazine in the UK unlike the Richard Murphy altar at which you worship.
"Scotland already has one of the most powerful devolved administrations in the entire world. The SNP has ruled in Holyrood for nine years, and had a majority for the last five. Yet the SNP’s record, particularly for the most disadvantaged in society whom it claims to speak for, is dire."
Another distorted response. Are we to take it that this confirms that you know exactly what changes will take place.
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3 hours ago, RuamRudy said:
Again, look at how these fallacies about Scottish "GDP" are just that - scare stories that fall apart with the first little scratch on the surface.
Quite.
"To determine if Scotland would be better off or not, one has to reconstruct the national accounts to show how they would appear if Scotland were financially independent. This is because a number of revenue and spending transfers between Scotland and rUK would either cease to exist or be returned to the parent economy. Reallocating those spending and tax flows would change Scotland’s fiscal balances significantly in Scotland’s favour.
This point is now acknowledged in relation to oil and gas revenues, and perhaps debt interest payments; but not with respect to the other transfers and subsidy reversals. In other words, most economists continue to use the national accounts as they are. Insofar as their projections show Scotland worse off, they are showing how the Scottish economy would look if the union continued. That is to make a case for independence, not against it."
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9 hours ago, aright said:
After 10 years of the SNP Scotland has seen low growth, low productivity and a complete lack of innovation. See the GDP figures. The Scottish economy is leading the country into recession and its growth rate is significantly lower than the rest of the UK
Scotland has a world class work force and some of the worlds leading University's so no excuses there. Its all down to the SNP.
On the basis of record, Nicola Sturgeons white paper?
Call me arrogant!
If the cap fits,wear it. Obviously you have a crystal ball and know exactly what changes will take place should independence ever come about.
Just like brexit opinions are being thrown about based on current circumstances, one day reality will kick in.
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13 hours ago, aright said:
Nothing. As you can see my reply was addressed to three contributors who have raised different issues and is there to be ignored if you so wish. If you think you are the only one who counts I can assure you, you are wrong. Why do you indulge in such petty point scoring?
You asked a question and got an answer, end of story.
Do not quote me and introduce other issues, nothing short of deliberate distortion.
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5 hours ago, RuamRudy said:
There is, of course, a counter argument that having only limited control of the economic levers a country needs to grow its economy is hindering the Scottish Government's ability to do so.
But the undercurrent of your point above, if I understand it correctly, is that the SNP would drive an independent Scotland into bankruptcy, and here is where that argument falls on it face: Scottish politics post independence would not be SNP driven. The SNP itself is a broad church of people of all political hues. I have no doubt that, post independence, it would cease to exist as we know it, and that a more traditional political landscape would quickly emerge. I even see the possiblity of a Scottish Tory government in an independent Scotland, but one with full control of the economy.
With regards derailing Brexit - more power to her elbow. Scotland was clear - we do not want pulled out of Europe. She is following the will of the Scottish electorate.
Alex Salmond, unlike the English government, published a 650 page white paper prior to the referendum. That white paper had a significant number of flaws and I certainly would not have voted for it.
Until Nicola Sturgeon publishes her white paper only the arrogant would comment on what effect it would have on the Scottish economy.
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Another one bites the dust
A part of the infrastructure for the Galileo satellite system will be relocated from the Britain to Spain because of the UK’s departure from the EU, the European Commission has announced.
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6 hours ago, Steve Mepham said:
Every last one of these Pygmy Politicians are simply playing Politics, you cant blame them because they are Politicians. But most of this posturing is simply designed to make Brexit just a little more difficult.
So is TM actually working closely with the Pygmy Politicians?
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8 hours ago, RuamRudy said:
Yesterday the Times reported that support for independence had dropped to 43% - I simply cannot comprehend this. What is it that Scots see in Westminster that would want them to stay part of it? Unless, of course, the Times is disseminating fake news...
The question is, how do they measure support. As I said previously, many are in favour of independence but they do not want another referendum. Very easy to ask a question that gives the answer you want to hear.
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5 hours ago, aright said:
Yes ,sandyf, I saw Ian Blackford (SNP I think) say a study was published last Monday, on PMQ's. However if you remember my original question was "What independent assessment has been made?" Mondays report was a Government (SNP) report so I'm afraid its conclusions are ??????
Blackford, however, made no reference to the latest GDP figures which show the Scottish economy grew 0.2% in the third quarter last year compared to 0.4% in the UK overall. The GDP figures also showed that the Scottish economy grew by 0.6% between the third quarter of 2016 and the same period in 2017 while the UK economy increased by 1.7%.
Mrs May pointed out to Blackford that according to her analysis 1.7% is higher than 0.6% proving you are better off under a Conservative government than an SNP one. However if you insist on standing by SNP conclusions the Conservatives have said Scotland's economy has consistently underperformed the UK as a whole for the last decade causing a growth gap which has cost Scotland £16.5 billion
Trade Unions called the statistics worrying and showed the economy continues to stagnate. Business Groups called for immediate action.
The UK's 0.7% growth in the fourth quarter shook off fears about the economic impact of Brexit but the SNP have yet to explain why the Brexit impact has not affected the rest of the UK only Scotland.
Dean Lockhart (yes Conservative) said such low trends in economic growth have not been witnessed in 60 years; this is Nicola Sturgeons mess but her only answer is to blame Brexit and raise taxes.
Yes Bild...I agree ...More scaremongering and disinformation from her government once again in yet another attempt to derail Brexit.
What on earth has GDP got to do with the Scottish government study on brexit, that was what you brought into question.
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Yesterday Theresa May stood up in the HoC and stated that she was working very closely with the devolved administrations to ensure a brexit that suited everyone. I wonder which devolved administrations she was referring to.
There hasn't been a devolved administration in NI for over a year, unless it is now known as the DUP.
If TM is working very closely with the Scottish administration it must be in secret, Nicola Sturgeon appears to have no idea.
Theresa May's statement was her stock response. in this case to a question regarding problems in the Welsh administration.
On Tuesday, First Minister Carwyn Jones described the proposed law in its current form as "a fundamental assault on devolution" and threatened to introduce a so-called Continuity Bill to protect Welsh interests before the end of January unless the "necessary amendments" are made.
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"vital" - it's hardly a matter of life and death.
There can be ambiguity and I can understand the need to try and avoid it but making up a set of rules and telling people they must adhere to them is not the way to deal with it.
If the terminology police were not quite so dogmatic and a bit more tolerant of what gets posted then we wouldn't be going over this issue time and time again.