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On 8/22/2020 at 5:43 PM, giddyup said:

They die.

I've been using this for 2 years not cremated yet,  cost a bit more than 700 baht though.

23 hours ago, Boomer6969 said:

That's a nice antique. Try to flog it as such and get yourself a real 55inch TV for 17k to 22k.

Plasma seems to be much more  forgiving of digital artefacts I can watch low bitrate 420P

( small file size) an my 50 inch Plasma and it looks fine (to me) at 2.5 meters away..one big disadvantage of Plasma though is  its so noisy in the remote control frequency that sometimes with a very bright screen even the original remote has trouble getting through..I was pulling my hair out wondering why a home made universal remote for my Aircon,lights and TV stopped working when the TV was on ???? 

The receivers for sale in Thailand are all "much the same"  for about 700 baht up.. all the ones I've looked at have  a USB port that can  connect to a flash drive or hard drive to record or playback recordings, have  HDMI and composite outputs and a remote control...you could try importing some "high end" equipment form Europe or UK which use the same DVB-T2 standard but the Thai customs department may have a nice surprise for you !

Don't they test the blood for various things before giving to someone ?

50 minutes ago, Scoria said:

In case you're having more problems than usual with the Chonburi Immigration, it may be because it is hacked

Ohh dear not again ????   lucky it didn't work very well in the first place, maybe this will encourage a rethink resulting in a  useful working site with up to date  accurate and concise  information

7 hours ago, webfact said:

recent reports that more than 50% of the 2,027 cameras in Pattaya were broken. 

Same every year for years and years..it seems like rocket science to replace broken cameras and fix broken cables.

The Benz driver obviously had a powerful amulet ????

9 hours ago, NanLaew said:

More recently on Jomtien, a branch fell from one of the old, untended trees and killed an Italian guy. Instead of doing some much needed lopping of old, dangerous branches, they cut all the trees down and bought some more palm trees from Nong Nuch Gardens.

Here is the culprit beheaded !!!

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

Betya miss the old transformer box they used to use eh!

This one ?

21 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

They get it from their daddy, CCP.

In another thread  8000 people turn up at a hotel to apply for 300 jobs  !!!!!

38 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

Stuck in a flying toothpaste tube isn't fun. I'd much prefer train travel

I was stuck on the Trans Siberian Express  from Moscow to Vladivostok  for 2 weeks  it wasn't much fun either ????

2 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

meanwhile, the same day of this announcement, in the local news we have this

And this

https://www.pattayamail.com/news/human-cost-of-pandemic-on-full-display-at-social-security-office-311345

3 hours ago, scorecard said:

A few times there's been overnight camps, son returns the 'permission to attend' forms with a note that he will accompany the school bus and stay until bedtime, then he brings the kid home and takes back to the camp site early next morning. 

What's the point  of not letting the kid camp out overnight with school friends at a supervised camp site ?  seems a bit odd to me  unless he changes into a pumpkin at midnight ????

Just now, SteveK said:

It's much more likely that they don't have a clue and quoted a high figure hoping that you'd just buy a new one. They were not expecting you to agree to a 12k repair! 

Yes that seems likely to me too... if they replaced the CPU and motherboard then there would not be much more to go wrong, but still not the best idea..take it somewhere else ( 2 or 3 places) for another opinion first.

1 hour ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Maybe Pattaya prefers the higher spending international tourists?

Don't know about Pattaya so much these days..but Jomtien is very busy every weekend with Thai tourists,

yesterday  busy all the way along to the 2 restaurants at the south end  "Bpoo Ben"  was doing good trade  "Loong Sawai"  about half as busy   but I think maybe they relied more on  those large Thai disco tour buses.

Photo from last year before all the WuFlu nonsense.

4 minutes ago, Chivas said:

now we have pictures of lakes.

What's wrong with pictures ?  It's a nice lake ????

 and you only posted one picture of the  Sabai lodge demolition site to keep us amused ????

21 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

I think baht buses up and down the strip in Pattaya are brilliant for a weekend tourist. Just hop on and off at will. Price more or less fixed. 

Yes its a good system for the town center.

Now though even "007"  is laid up    due to lack of customers.