kenio

How many was using the seatbelts?

Not many I guess.

Have you tryed like this, cut the code out.

It worked for me. And add just the code.

2 hours ago, Johnny Mac said:

It's just an utter disaster, I am utterly sick of everything now. Also sick of wearing these damned muzzles and being looked at like I'm evil personified if heaven forbid the thing isn't covering my nose..

 

Answer me this, how come the UK has approx 70000 covid cases a day still, this country now has approx 7000 a day and the UK is pretty much back to normal and we are still in this rut all muzzled up?? Both countries have similar populations.

Maybe that´s why UK have 70.000 cases aday, and 145.000 dead.

13 hours ago, thasoss said:

good luck with your project.You really should be on sight,buy and choose everything yourself.Get as many quotes before deciding on a builder.......as a yardstick if you want a decent job done allow costs to be approx.11000 baht a square metre.Insulate the roof,put in a 1500 litre water tank,so if and when the govt. water is turned off you'll always have water.If the land size is more than 1 naan put in a deep well......cost between 15000-20,000 baht.

You cannot rely on relatives to protect you from a builder doing a lousy job....you should not build if you are not in thailand to oversee the project in my opinion.

Lots of good advice. 

But where did that 11.000 baht a square metre came from.

We build our house five years ago 150 sqm for about 600.000 baht.

It´s a big beautiful thai style house with two bathrooms, tinted windows, AC.

Everything you need for a comfortable life, we stay there four month every year.

As I said before, my wife bought all the material and a lokal builder build the house like we wanted it to be. 

Here´s a photo.

39 minutes ago, Martyjustice said:

Alot of things different from US standards. As said in previous posts, be there. To that end, wait , get there, then rent for the first year. Rent is cheap in Thailand. 
Draw up the  rough floor plan to get an idea. Act as your own general contractor and be prepared to wait. The first word with workmen is “prung nee”(tomorrow). 
Insulation of walls is unheard of. What some people have done is make a double wall with a dead air space in between. As for the roof/ceiling SBC makes a roof tile that has insulation and foil in the back side. A powdered roof vent fan is a good idea too. 
Plumbing, make sure it is vented, not a standard practice in LOS. Electrical insure it’s a 3 wire a ground. Separate circuits for ACs and water heaters. 
Tiling is another issue only a few know about back buttering tiles. Most will lay mortar bed and just tap,tap,tap. Out of 5 tile jobs only found 1 that back buttered. I called the wife over to see. Said see this guy knows the right way to do it. If you don’t you will always get hollow spots under tile. You will always hear it.

Also as stated earlier buy your materials. If you don’t you’ll be paying 100% markup. 
I’ve rambled on enough. Good luck in your home building. 

It´s all so true, but I must say that I´m very pleased with the Thai way of tiling, in our house and four neighbors new build houses as well.

If you do the way "we" use to do, you need a smoother concrete base. Is that the way to say it?       I think you understand what I mean.

I can repeat it again, be there, or it will be very expensive.

If you have millions maybe it doesn´t matter. If not you must be there.

We have a house some km from Siwilai close to Phon Charoen.

We was building a garage on the sunny south side of the house, the garage is warm but the wall to the house is cold.

As Finnsk said, you and your wife must be there. If you have no time now, wait till you have time, it don´t take to long time to build a house.

Your wife must be there when it comes to buy material for the house.

If you´re not there it will be way much moore expensive.

When we were building our house, my wife and I bought all the material and the lokal builder build the house.

Our neighbour used a "construction company" way much more expensive.

They were cheated in many ways.

English is not my language, hope it´s readable.

And good luck, maybe we´ll meet one day at the lokal market in Siwilai.   

4 minutes ago, superal said:

Depends who were spoken to in the survey . If the immigrants then a BIG happy for sure 

I live in Sweden, for me it´s the best country in tha world.

Ofcourse immigrants shall be happy to end up in a country that have no war.

If I lived in a country like Syria I would do everything to get away.

We have problem yes, in some areas in mainly the three biggest cities there

are criminal gangs schooting on eachother.

That´s something that the police have to deal with.

I´m sure they will, they will get what they need to solv this problem.

The only ones that are happy about those gangfights is HA and Bandidos,

now they can do what they do, because police have no time for them.

Sweden is a huge country with only about ten million people.

We need everybody that want to come and have a good intention

and that´s what most people have. 

Because I´m Swedish I have the privilege to spend some month in Thailand every year.

Some people love winter and snow, I don´t.

Strange, my thaiwife she like Sweden wintertime, for her Thailand is to hot.

What have that with immigrants to do, that a luniac is making a phonecall.

3 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

Are you joking here?  The Church has committed some of the worst atrocities and disgusting crimes in the world, from sex abuse or children, torture, slaughter of non believers, fraud, oppression etc etc.

 

 

On ‎2016‎-‎12‎-‎04 at 11:07 AM, piersbeckett said:

Thailand News: Farangs famous to Thais that most expats have never heard of - Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2016/11/29/farangs-famous-thais-most-expats-have-never-heard

They forgot Jonas Andersson.

My wife was not a bar girl , she is i would say middle class , the family have money ,not fortunes ,but are comfortable , she is 24 years younger than me and we have a 22 year old son we were married in the UK so it was no big affair , she is the same as most women ,Thai or western , she would be devastated if i went off having sex with other women ,as would most decent married women , some people i suppose class their free and easy marriages as normal , each to his own . much of my life i have slept with as many women as i could , but neither would i cheat on my wife .

Claudius,

I would never cheat on my wife, it was she that encouraging me and she ment it.

We are open about everything, no lies, that´s important.

That have nothing about beeing decent or not to do.

For us sex is something positiv and of course it´s very important that both are at the same level.

There are people that are swingers and all kind of.

I know a man from Germany that is married with a thai girl, they have been together for many years.

When they go to Thailand they use to pay a girl for having a triangel with them.

That´s not my taste, but people are different.

Hey Denio, thanks for your perspective. I'm totally in your corner. I think that many folks on TV have been burnt in some way or another (maybe their own doing) and will bitch until they die (human nature). I bet the majority of Western/Asian relationships are working very well, unnoticed. You are someone I would like to meet. Thanks again,Marty

Hey Marty!

When I´m in Thailand we live up north, about 50 km south of Bueng Kan.

I will go the 10th of Dec. and stay til spring.

My wife is already there, taking care of rubbertrees and other things.

My wife is a little bit shy about this, like she don´t want me to tell people that she´s the one who pay dit and dat

Her mama and papa passed away long time ago, brothers and sisters support themself

.

Her nearest brother who is a very good man, said to her, that you must also think about

that even if you pay for your house and other things

it´s your husband that make it possible for you to make this money.

There are a lot of very good girls (women) in Thailand, even in the bars.

But everybody who think about an relationship with a thaigirl must understand that it takes time and patience

.

They are not raised the way we westerners are, their logical thinking is not always like ours.

There are things that is very important for many of them that means nothing for us.

When you understand that your way to think and behave necessarily is´nt the right way.

Well then you´re a little bit on the way to an balanced and hopefully wonderful relation.

Be honest... Then you are not setting yourself up for failure..

If you are going out tell her.. If you are not sure when you will be home tell her just that.

Show her you love her... Simple.

Problems in all relationships are usually 1 of 2 things.. Money or sex.

And verbal communication.

Sorry, I Think I post this in the wrong place.

Can moderator please move it to another place.

I guess that I´m lucky, because my thai wife since 11 years is not like many descriptions I read about.

Some of you say that I´m the one who pay,

When we get married, there was nothing about party for neighbors, relatives, friends or anything like that, we just get married and was happy about that.

We live in Sweden 8 month a year and the rest in Thailand.

In Sweden she work in a greenhouse from April til October, she have done that for many years now.

In her leisure time she´s picking mushrooms, lingonberrys and blueberrys selling to supermarkets and she is fishing a lot.

In Thailand she have rubber trees and grow vegetables

In Sweden she pay for food and everything we buy, like cloths, schoes everything for the house and for the garden a lot of flowers vegetables and fruit.

She even paid the for a new TV and a new washing machin. When we bought a new (not new) car she paid half of the car.

We (she) have a beautiful house in Isaan, that she build and payed for her own money.

What about me, well I pay all the bills like insurance, electric, TV, internet etc. The house is paid, no loan.

I also bought some furnitures in Thailand.

It was me who wanted the house bigger a couple of years ago, so I furnished the new livingroom.

But when in Thailand with her, I never use my Master Card, if we stay in a hotel or take a domestic flight, she pay with her money.

Very often I read about farangs as walking ATMs.

In the beginning when she had nothing of course I payed for flighttickets and stuff like that, but not now.

I´ve also been reading like "you can take a girl out from a bar, but you can´t take the bar out from the girl"

We met in soy Whitehouse in Jomtien where she was working in a bar.

One good thing about that is that she´s not jealous. I can do what I want.

She know that sex is sometimes only sex for pleasure.

Four years ago when she did´nt want to go to Thailand, she said to me, you can go alone.

She also said, drink beer, dance, go with girls and have a good time, we will not be younger.

I did, when I came home after two month in Thailand she asked me if I had many girls, I said japp.

She said good, I hope they where young if you go with old women you could stay home with me :-)

My wife is 20 years younger than me and I love her deeply, even moore after she let me go alone to Thailand.

After that, I found out that I have moore fun when I go with her, she know how to work hard but she also now how to party.

English is not my first language, but I hope that you can read my writing.

Somebody that have similar experience.

Konina

You would'nt say that if it where your kids

That´s why relatives are no judge.

They can take off and take down the plane without visibility.

But they don´t do it beacause they need to see that the runway is free from objekts like animals and other things.

I´ve been grounded several times because of fog.

Happend in France not so long ago with KLM, we had to wait 4 hours before they could take off.

only 73? it certainly cant be death from old age or natural causes. something is obviously amiss.

I had a friend who did´nt wake up a week ago in Ubon, he was only 47.

He had a not gay boyfriend that try to get rid of him a couple of times before.

My friend was a heavy drinker, quite easy to put somethihg in his drink.

Are they always doing an autopsy to se what cause the death?

But of course nothing will happend, only to say that he eat the "medicin" himself.

We just did it. We have metalframed windows, so they weldes the bars with TIG.

Four windows was 16.000 THB incl. job.

10 millions yes, but the country is very big.

We not only have place for more people, we need more people here.

People is the power of a country.

Can you imagine, in this huge country we have about the same population as London.

Why is nobody using the word qualitytourist.

Is he from wrong country ?

That was what happen to us a couple of days ago

. I didn't know it was that far away Took a taxameter. It was about 100 km from Sukhumvit.

Nothing to say about that, i could ask, but when we arrive there was two options 4.000 THB and 2.000THB.

I just said, Go back. 200 km taxi, almost 2.000 THB and waist of time, for nothing.

Orchid Lodge Pattaya 1975, still a beautiful hotel.