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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.

already answered !

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The new respiratory disease ........ is far deadlier than the seasonal flu has been in decades. The last time the flu killed as many people in the United States was in the 1957-1958 season, when 116,000 died.

 

That is going to upset a few people here who keep insisting otherwise.

Are these good or bad bugs that are taking over my cucumbers ? Noticed the first ones a few days ago, now there were about 15 this morning. They don't seem to be doing any visible damage but I flicked most off them off this morning.

12 minutes ago, Skallywag said:

You see a bowl 100 skittles and only 1 would kill you, would you still take one?????

It was 3%, not 1% ! But look at it this way .....You get on the BTS with 100 other passengers, 3 of them (on average) will be infected and could infect you. Then you go into a market with 100 people around you, 3 of them will be infected and could infect you.  Then into Big C with another 100 people and another 3 infected people. And then back on the BTS....yes, another 100 people and another 3 carriers. That's 12 people you have come close to and could potentially infect you.

And then repeat again next day. How are the odds now ? or the next day ?

4 hours ago, Logosone said:

I'm not confused at all. If you read the paper itself rather than CNN you'll see it's 43% that are asymptomatic:

 

Notably, 43% of the participants who tested positive reported having no symptoms, although symptoms almost certainly developed later in some of them. 

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2006100

 

Indeed Iceland is a small country, that is why they can test their whole population, which is their plan.

 

From their work so far we see that 0.8 per cent of the population has the virus.

 

So 43% or 50% of 0.8 % of the population is still an exceedingly tiny number.

 

They have 1800 confirmed cases out of 58000 tests, which is just over 3%. To claim only 0.8% of the population has the virus you are assuming that nobody else is infected, which is patently ridiculous.

18 hours ago, tribalfusion001 said:

Brainwashed.

Paranoid.

2 hours ago, redwood1 said:

Everyone should start throwing a fit about having to use the infected covid pen that others have used to sign.....7-11 employees will soon stop caring at all whether you sign or not.....

Every shop that I have been into since this started, and others seen on tv and YouTube, you and others have to sanitize your hands first plus temp check, then sign in, and had more sanitizer on the desk with the pens. Pretty low risk when people sanitize their hands before and after using the pens.

On 5/20/2020 at 11:32 AM, thurien said:

in Lootut, fresh pens on the left, used pens on the right (will be sanitized before being moved back to the left)

And at my local Tesco, hands are sanitized at entry then you are allowed in to sign the paperwork, and another bottle of sanitizer next to it so the paranoid can clean their hands again. More risk to you from that motosai speeding through the store carpark with 3 passengers, 6 bags of groceries and not a single helmet...or license.

I am not a complete Luddite, but there are some things I do not understand about this QR code process. Assuming you have a QR code reading app on your phone, how on earth does that QR code tell you how crowded the store is ? Surely it would have to connect you to a server with that info? I would be wary about anything that automatically takes you to an unknown website, and that’s assuming you even have mobile data turned on or are connected to the mall WiFi so that you can connect.

1 hour ago, khunken said:

Wat Phra Si Mahathat is very close to DM so, yes.

The next batch of stations scheduled to open in December will include Don Muang station.

Don Mueang station is on the Red Line, over the highway from the DM passenger terminals. This BTS Green Line is on the other side of the airport, along the front of the RTAF base.

 Getting from one of the tourist areas along the green line to the airport via Don Mueang red line would involve at least 2 changes of train. So the best option would be to one of the new Green Line stations and then taxi ...or perhaps they might even have the common sense to have a shuttle bus ?

9 hours ago, superatoz said:

my bank has a direct transfer to thailand , next day no fees but i wonder if its better then transfer wise  

 

what u guys think  ?

It will depend on your bank and it's fees. I used to believe all this "transferwise is cheaper" until i did a real life comparison, transferring AU$1500 from my Australian bank account directly and via T.W.

The $1495 ($1500 less a fixed $5 fee) direct from my bank gave me a few hundred baht more than Transferwise debiting my bank account $1500. Tw's sliding scale of fees would make it even more expensive with a higher amount, so I would guess that in my case around AU$1300 is the point where Transferwise becomes more expensive than my bank.

Whatever you do, send the money in your home currency and let them change it here (unless it is some obscure currency !)

The 1st live show I ever saw was the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival, with Bob Dylan and The Band, Joe Cocker, The Who, and The Moody Blues, and lots of filler bands that I've long forgotten. We lived just over on the mainland, so i badgered my mum into letting me go with an older cousin, my dad was away with the navy, he would never had let me go. It was well organised, not too big, and we both returned unharmed and not stoned so we were allowed to go to the 1970 show as well.....what a shambles that was ! 1969 was all "peace, love,music" but 1970 was booze, drugs and agro. The sound in 1970 was terrible, but i did manage to hear Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez (oh, what a voice), Melanie, The Who and Moody Blues again. Heard but did n't see The Doors because they would n't turn the lights on.

One of my favourites would have to be George Thorogood and The Destroyers in a pub show before they hit the big time, and also Tina Turner's comeback tour. saw her on Christmas Eve in Perth, australia...it was the last show on her Private Dancer comeback tour so it was party time. She was on stage for over 3 hours, encore after encore, ran out of songs so her gospel singing roots came out and she ended up singing Christmas carols !

My musical tastes have changed since then, before moving to Thailand I used to head to Tamworth every January for the Country Music Festival, my favourite performer there was 8 Ball Aitken. Used to catch his pub shows nearly every night. 

4 hours ago, Grumpy John said:

For a delightful change try frozen mango. It's just like ice cream....but harder.   

actually I was looking at Icecream makers on Lazada, and thinking about mango icecream ????

On 5/5/2020 at 6:29 AM, ExpatOilWorker said:

Central..

 

At 299 baht/kg the key word here is .....organic !

As to how much they normally sell for, I really don't know how anybody manages to sell them around here. Everybody has more than enough from friends or relatives. Every second house seems to have the "mango leather" drying in the sun. The guy across the soi from us has just given us a couple more purple mango to add to the 10 assorted we have already. I never thought that I would say this, but I'm getting a bit tired of mango !

Mango smoothies, mango leather, mango with sticky rice and coconut milk, diced mango with my muesli or just plain fresh mango........ ????

19 hours ago, steven100 said:

“This is the last time that Thai Airways will receive support from the government. If the situation worsens, there will be a complete structural overhaul [of the airline],” Prayut said.

 

Translation .... get rid of the Air Force has beens who are currently running it, and replace them with his Army buddies.

Cannot bring in a real management team as they would n't let "somebody" pilot the plane as if it was his private big boy's toy.

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The kits were secured from China by Fortescue Metals Group founder Andrew Forrest.

Well I hope Twiggy has actually got the kits, considering how the Chinese have spat the dummy over the calls for an investigation into how COVID spread.

Ah yes, Merlin Entertainments ....the foreign company that operates the Bangkok Seaworld at Siam Paragon and charges foreign visitors double.

”running out of liquidity “ ? No sympathy for you, sorry !