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36 minutes ago, madmen said:

Why all he did was ask questions and film.

And that is more than enough for a defamation case in Thailand. Here the truth is no defence, ask Andy Hall

I wonder if it is just coincidental that these charges get dropped just as they (finally) get around to investigating and possibly disciplining the police officers who were responsible for the lack of progress in the case ?

OP, you might be able to buy at that price but it will not be close to "civilization", it won't have easy access to electricity or town water supply, and it won't have a full chanote to build a house on.

On the other hand, it might be perfect for somebody who wants to go offgrid in the middle of nowhere.

2 hours ago, Venom said:

But didn't they predict a death toll of 2 million minimum? This must be a huge disappointment to many. 

“They” claimed it would all be over by Easter.....but “they” live in their own little dreamworld on Pennsylvania Avenue.

22 hours ago, yuyiinthesky said:

 

Please explain how a virus can spread if his hosts, which it needs to reproduce, die?

 

Everytime a host dies, it becomes unavailable for the virus to reproduce it. If survival and reproduction is the target, then this is a failure.

 

You may want to read up a little on Darwin and evolution, instead of scaremongering journalism.

Or are you one of these people which claim the virus has its own conscience, its free will and that will is to kill us?

 

 

 

With this virus you can be infectious before you start showing symptoms, and even when you do realize you are sick, you do not drop dead immediately! There is plenty of time for the virus to spread and reproduce before a host dies. You are giving the virus too much credit.

1 hour ago, Dante99 said:

All land has some restrictions, it is up to the buyer to research what he is buying to know what they are.  Same anywhere.

True, but the point is that the locals knew only they could use it for tourism but sold it to outsiders, then the locals complained about the resorts !

On 7/3/2020 at 3:10 PM, cooked said:

Scaffolding, now there's an idea my mind didn't get around the idea of not using a ladder.

So possible plan B, 4 x 12mm reinforcing rods in the concrete footing, over which I could place a 20cm diameter PVC pipe, fill with vibrated concrete, taking care to leave holes in the appropriate places.

I hadn't really thought about do-it-yourself solutions...  the idea of a galvanised steel pole of suitable diameter also looks attractive to me.

Thanks guys...

The cheapest (grade 5) 200mm PVC pipes will cost you at least 1200 baht per 4m length, plus concrete,rebar. The PVC pipes get expensive quickly as you increase the diameter. For the same price you could get a 6m length of 3in galvanized pipe.

9 hours ago, Laza 45 said:

 

$Au up from 21.17 June 23 to 21.59 at close yesterday.. so up 42 points.. an extra 420 Bt on a $1,000 Au.. at least it is in the right direction.  Lets see what happens on Monday.. 

As Monday is a public holiday, probably nothing will change from close of business Friday.

I thought the idea at drive-ins was to keep the windows closed and fogged up so nobody could see what was going on inside ?

1 hour ago, Guderian said:

 

That sign's a bit lax, they normally write the price in Thai script too to make sure foreigners can't grok what's going on.

 

I went to Khon Kaen Zoo once, where they had a big sign in Thai and English with the various prices. Not surprisingly the prices were different, but the thing that got me was that the English language sign had the same discounts for children and over 60s as the Thai script, but when I asked for the seniors price they said, "No, thats for Thais only" ......well why waste your time and money putting up a big sign in English advertising discounts then ? ......Idiots !

20 hours ago, mikebike said:

What is, "digital book burning"?

Using a Kindle as kindling, perhaps ?

On 6/23/2020 at 3:15 AM, yuyiinthesky said:

Do you understand the impact of loosing your job, of becoming unable to provide for your family, to pay your rent?
Do you understand the impact of furloughed doctors and nurses caused by empty hospitals, with no Covid patients, and no other patients?

Do you know what the cost is of a bankruptcy, of a business forever closed? Do you know the impact of such a closure on the employees, the families of the employees, the taxes they do not pay anymore?

 

Ah no, you don’t, you are not affected. Good pension, right?

OK, so we have established that to you Black Lives Don’t Matter, White Lives Don’t Matter, only money matters ?

5% of cases die and many more have long term effects, one estimate I read said up to 10% will have significant effects for up to 6 months or more.

 According to the latest figures the most recent million cases occurred in 8 days ( the first million took 3 months), so 50,000 of them will die, and another 100,000 will be suffering for a while longer. And then how long will the next million cases take ? A week ? All these casualties cost money that is so precious to you .....ongoing health care costs, lost productivity, unpaid taxes, etc. Do you want those costs to keep rising just because some people think their civil liberties are being infringed by having to wear a mask for a few minutes at the 7/11 ? Or because your favourite bar is closed for a while ? Bar closures are temporary, death is for ever.

 And then there is absolutely no evidence of long term immunity so even if you survive the first time with no or little effects you might not be so lucky next year, or the year after.

 Perhaps some of the COVID deniers should move to Brazil.....

15 hours ago, twocatsmac said:

The old “we’re right, they’re wrong” attitude.

Why even have an election ?

Sounds just like a certain country in South East Asia.......

20 minutes ago, Sujo said:

Thais dont need to worry about their safety?

Of course not, they should have bought the right amulet to protect them. That's why they probably rode there on their motorbike, all 3 of them on the one bike, no helmets of course.

22 hours ago, tifino said:

soon they will ban all films done in Colour

And then they will all be black and white. I'm sure that would be offensive to somebody. Perhaps they should all be in 50 Shades of Grey ?

2 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Haven't a clue what your on about, in my village there is rainwater runaways only, what do you want me to do when I built my house construct a properly designed cess pit at the time, or just send my house <deleted> to the rain runaways.

Are you a builder. ?

You do know what a septic tank is, don't you ? What do they have to do with rainwater runaways ? Septic tanks are connected to a leach field, for the treated overflow, not the village drainage system. Cesspits are just a hole full of you-know-what polluting the groundwater.

3 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Your way too serious for me, until a nationwide system is built cesspit pits are the only way. 

If you wanna go and do your business in the woods go ahead. 

No, proper septic tanks are the way to go, not concrete ring cesspits. All your concrete rings do is save you the trouble of digging a hole for "your business".

Transferwise has a sliding scale of fees, so for a large amount it may not be the cheapest. First step is obviously to check how much your bank would charge, they often have a fixed fee. You can work out Transferwise’s costs online, so compare them.

21 hours ago, david555 said:

Pen & Paper it is for me...….????

I went into Thai Watsadu in Ubon, had my temperature checked then the girl pointed to the QR code but I wanted to write it down so she points to a table behind me. Instead of a form, with everybody in chronological order, they had credit card sized bits of paper to write your details on, which then went into a cardboard box, just like a lucky draw.

 If it became necessary to contact anybody, they are going to have to sort out a box full of “tickets” to find anybody who was there at a certain time!! 

And no checkout either ......

2 hours ago, dabhand said:

Looks like Greece is an option to U.S. folk, among others, from June 15. 

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-30/greece-opens-borders-to-all-continents-from-june-15-with-rules

Greece needs the tourist dollar, just like Thailand needs it too. The difference is the Euro countries are going in to their peak season, Thailand is in the low season and can (relatively speaking) afford to wait a bit.