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59 minutes ago, Phrafarang said:

Rimping at Nim City Daily near Airport Plaza had them yesterday

Thanks ... will pop down there first thing tomorrow.

Well done to Petermik for getting the inference.... is was a little obscure and it helps to be a pom.

https://www.bookdepository.com/Viz-Annual-Last-Turkey-Shop-2009-Viz/9781906372408

Anyone seen any turkeys for sale in the last couple of days?

Apparently I now need one urgently for Xmas day and I'm almost out of time.

Much appreciated.

mcm.

They have a good selection of beers on tap.

Sometimes you just need a pint of Guinness !!

mcm

9 hours ago, MadMac said:

The October beer was ok, too expensive anyway. Pizza sucks, they don't put tomato sauce on it. The owner throws perhaps a round of free drinks, it's nice. Overall I don't think it will survive. Thais don't go there and for me it was a one time and skip.

I quite like the place. I think they are doing a great job ... the imported German Oktoberfest beer at 199 bht for 500ml is for me a great deal - but I understand that there will always be Cheap Charlies who complain when Chang is too expensive at 60 baht.

I very much doubt that they will miss you. It's a happy place and miserable people never like happy places.

Well ...... Live Music is definitely back at The Hangout.

No idea who else is doing it in town but it sounded pretty good.

Hope this is helpful info for some.

I'm going to try The Hangout ... based on my theory that free beer is the best beer. :)

Anyone know what the options are in CM this weekend for watching the footie?

Cheers.

8 minutes ago, Sandy Freckle said:

What variety of football ?..., hands free..., all in rough n tumble..., or the Aussie ariel ping pong one ?  

according to their  FB page ...... most of them.

 

 

 

 

 

The Hangout

4 hrs ·

Here is this weeks LIVE Sports Schedule...The Hangout has them all.
Come and enjoy live sports while having a cold Draft Beer!

Thur 22
16:00 Golf European Open LIVE
16:00 Cricket India v New Zealand Test LIVE

Fri 23
15:00 Rugby Mitre 10 Cup Counties v Waikato LIVE
16:00 Golf European Open LIVE
16:00 Cricket India v New Zealand Test LIVE
16.30 AFL Geelong v Sydney LIVE
16.50 NRL Sharks v Cowboys LIVE
20:00 Rugby Currie Cup Boland v Bulls LIVE
24:00 Rugby Currie Cup Griquas v Western Province

Sat 24
13:00 Cricket India v New Zealand Test LIVE
14:00 AFL GWS v Bulldogs LIVE
14.30 Rugby Mitre 10 Cup Hawkes Bay v Tasman LIVE
16.45 NRL Storm v Raiders LIVE
17.30 Bikes Moto GP Spain Qualifying LIVE
18:00 Golf European Open LIVE
18.30 Premier League Man U v Leicester LIVE
18.30 Super League UK Hull KR v Huddersfield
20:00 Rugby Currie Cup Pumas v Cheetahs LIVE
21:00 Rugby Guinness Pro12 Munster v Edinburgh
21:00 Premier League Bournemouth v Everton LIVE
21:00 Premier League Liverpool v Hull LIVE
21:00 Premier League Middlesbrough v Spurs LIVE
21:00 Premier League Stoke v West Brom LIVE
21:00 Premier League Sunderland v Crystal Palace LIVE
21:00 Premier League Swansea v Man City LIVE
21:00 Rugby Aviva Northampton v Wasps LIVE
22:00 Rugby Currie Cup Kings v Lions LIVE
23:00 NCAA Football San Jose v Iowa St LIVE
23.30 Premier League Arsenal v Chelsea LIVE

Sun 25
15.30 Bikes Moto GP Spain Qualifying LIVE
15.30 Cricket India v New Zealand Test LIVE
18:00 Bikes FIM Motocross Italy (3 races) LIVE
18:00 Golf European Open LIVE
19:00 Scottish Premiership Aberdeen v Rangers LIVE
21:00 Rugby Aviva Leicester v Bath LIVE
21.15 Rugby Top 14 Toulon v Clermont Auvergne
22:00 Premier League West Ham v Southampton LIVE

22 hours ago, 4evermaat said:

do pumps come with their own bypass switch in case of power outage so that you can still get gravity-fed water pressure?

 

Or do you have to build your own bypass (a 3 way valve prior to pump inlet with pvc pipe that goes around the pump)?

 

If a gas generator was used as a backup, is it to the main house breaker, or exclusively to the pump?  Is it set to switch over to gas generator as soon as electric is below a certain threshold?

Truth is that you don't really need to make a bypass at all .... the water will flow through the pump quite well without power. You may gain a little extra flow by creating the bypass but I would test it first without. Just unplug the pump and see what happens when you open a tap somewhere .... it may be sufficient.

The easiest way to use a backup gas powered generator with the pump is just to unplug the pump from the mains and plug it in the generator. I assume that you will be using a portable petrol powered generator.

You can get fancy if you want to spend big bucks ... get a proper diesel genset that can wire directly into the mains with an Auto Transfer Switch ..... and then you don't have to worry about the power going out at all. But I would caution that this needs to be done by a specialist company who knows what they are doing (not necessarily the same thing in the country) and you are into real money.

29 minutes ago, Sparkles said:

Australia has an education system as good as anywhere in the world.At this moment 30+%  of high school students move onto University compared with, in my days, when it was 5% (1950's-60's)

 

Australia is a very multi racial society.At my old high school now there are 27 different ethnic groups.

Some people who migrated in the 50's and 60's, from Europe mainly, still carry their accent,we get along and always have there are no communication problems.                 Australia and NZ are nearly top of the list as a destination for Asian students to continue their studies

 

This Australian sterotype of kangaroos running up and down the streets, a koala on every lampost and Paul Hogan" talk and look- a -likes," wrestling crocodiles is rather tiring.                  

I take it that you never really went outside Sydney much ........ (this is all a bit off topic anyway)

I accept that pumps need electricity to run ...... but I think I small petrol generator is still cheaper than a water tower. (for those times that the electricity has failed)

The size of the pump is determined by the demand of the house and maximum head height of the highest tap / shower.

Most single family houses in Thailand can easily be happy with a single 250W or 350W constant pressure pump. But of course that is a broad generalization. All the pump manufacturers have brochures with a usage chart on them. 

Given that most power outages in my area happen during rain storms, using solar to power the pump may be best if you use a battery storage system .... as the sun is usually too weak to power a pump through an inverter alone during a storm.

If the purpose of the tower is to create water pressure by gravity, then you are almost always better off going for a pump instead.

You'll get 1 bar of pressure for every 10m up your tank is .... and that does not take into account any losses due to pipe bends etc ...... for most westerners .... 1.2 bar is the minimum for a comfortable shower. Almost impossible to achieve in reality.

Good luck.

You guys are being bullies.

If I understood his post correctly, he said he went to a new place and had a good time. What's the problem with that?

Loads of people post both positive and negative about all kinds of places - that is one of the reasons we have Internet forums.

Do you think he owns the place? Please ...... Give me a break.

Santi's music school is the best you will find.

http://www.santimusicschool.ac.th/

see if they can offer something suitable.

mcm.

Apologies if this has been previously covered.

Is there an elegant way to subscribe to Truevisions and be able to use multiple TV sets in the house?

True wants an extra 400 + / month for every extra set which seems very expensive.

Are there other devices which I can purchase that will accomplish the mission yet only pay monthly for the single set ?

Thanks.

MCM.

sent you PM.

Expect drilling prices about 2 to 4 times higher than normal. Even Thai rice farmers are willing to pay this at the time being; lots of rice which will be ready for harvesting soon will die before without water. Our neighbour paid 20'000 THB for 2 days of drilling two weeks ago but they didn't find a sufficient water vein --- 40 rai of rice dried up. (And our dicktator even mocks these guys: "We told you ...!") Current rice prices went up to 11' - 12'000 THB/ton for the successful ones.

The 'normal' price is 1000 baht / metre. (drilling only ... not all the bits and pieces that you'll need later)

I'm in Mae Rim and had to go down 100m to find sufficient volume. YMMV.

No idea what the demand is at the moment.

L'Analytic are the popular guys in town for drilling.

Good luck.

We moved our daughter out of Varee as it was just a Thai school. at a price.She was better off. in the local village school where there were no "Chelsea Cruiser" parents. Actually as everywhere in LOS there were no parents. We moved our daughter out of Panyaden as the teachers/administration were totally incompetent. I think the so called "Science" teacher boasted he had a degree from some Bible College and Neil the Head was a whizz on refugees but we were not.

Christian Canadian Americans with little clue about anything. Other parents moved their children to the Asia=Pacific. The Panyaden staff were looking at Lanna for their children. Lanna is somewhere in 1960.

Drugs are a very big problem at Prem. There is nothing in Thailand let alone Chiang Mai that compares with Singapore. Dara and Montfort are basically your choices but they are both huge and aggressively Thai. You have to accept that schools in Thailand are lousy and if international expensive. English Programs are taught by Phillippinos and Cameroonians annd are a complete waste of time and money at 20000 Baht a term. Sorry to be depressing, but based on experience!!

I would suggest that, if you cannot prove a drug problem currently at Prem, you are making a defamatory statement. I recall an issue around ten years ago. No mention on this thread of NIS. How does that rate?

Oh you "recall an issue?" Talk to some Thais. We are European. We don't do defamation

I see Prem are dealing with it . Defamation of other IB and boarding schools.

https://ptis.ac.th/news/2016-04-prem-drugs-awareness-week

You stated in your post and I quote ..... 'Drugs are a very big problem at Prem.'

Please elaborate ........ unless you made it up. It is a big statement and I think it warrants details or an explanation from you as to why you believe or know this to be the case.

Thanks.

Drugs are a very big problem at Prem.

What ??

I sprinkled a bunch of pepper mixed with some chilli powder on the grass last night.

Lawn untouched this morning !

a safer option than collecting tiger poo.

I will do again this evening and then see if Thai dogs have a learning curve .......

I've just put down a lot of new grass sod on my presently unfenced property.

Every night, the neighbourhood dogs come and make a mess of it and tear chunks of it up.

Talking to the dogs owners is as useful as talking to the buffalo down the road.

Any ideas how to keep the dogs off the lawn ? Non lethal methods only please (for now).

Many thanks.

MCM.

Its not a case of "some genius deciding" etc etc, its to do with the massive tax the government slap on "luxury goods" and which they increased a couple of years ago taking decent bottles from around 399 baht up to over 1000 baht each.

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P.P.: I actually meant the geniuses who decided to inflict this massive tax. I know it has everything to do with the tax. I often wonder if they've actually increased their revenues on wine or if they've declined. My guess is they've declined. I drink more beer now and hear so many people complaining about the current crap juice that's on the market now and which one doesn't suck too much! What's next, beer? Increase the tax on that to a ridicules level and then let the companies alter that also!

I'm always a little baffled where people always quote the massive taxes on wine. 300% is the figure usually quoted.

Truth is ......

Australian and Chilean wine come in at exactly 0% duty - due to free trade agreements with Thailand.

There is of course excise tax at 60% of FOB price.

and VAT - 7% of FOB price

Municipal tax is 10% of excise tax.

and lastly 2% health tax.

It all totals about 70% of the FOB wholesale price.

The reason wine sells for a lot of money here is because every label needs to be registered to a specific importer - essentially giving a monopoly to a few big players. The importers/agents are making a ton of money while happily promoting the story that the taxes are huge. Nobody really wants to rock the boat.

Adding fruit to wine reduces the taxes further.

PS. Old world wine is taxed at 54% duty in addition to the others listed. - still not the 300% often quoted.

The Raintree was a little bit more than a tad expensive. It was ridiculously priced. Steak of the Day is a bit overpriced but they have their niche with the Prem crowd. Baan Salad was, in my opinion, better than Steak of the Day, but was not nearly as busy, and was closed on my last visit. So I doubt there is a market for more up priced eateries in the Plaza. More important is the need to support Simon in the plaza, north of and down from Steak of the Day, as he has the only western/farang oriented bar in Mae Rim. And his Swedish meatballs are as flavorful as anything offered by Steak of the Day.

I went to The Raintree on quite a number of occasions. Can't remember a single time when they did not completely cock up the order.

Even if we only ordered 3 items, they would forget 2 and deliver a third that was never ordered.

Nice - but frustratingly clueless.

Try these guys.

http://www.nics-group.com/

My biggest smile was when I ordered a small item in April 2013 from Ebay.

My friendly postie from Maerim delivered it to my mailbox in July 2015. It took me ages to remember what and why this item appeared out of the blue.

Better late than never I suppose.