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MikeN

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  1. On 9/1/2019 at 6:12 PM, Huckenfell said:

    I for one am not at all convinced that there is anything wrong with Concrete ring septic, provided they are properly installed. I have lived in several places with concrete rings and there has never been any problem. The microbe action works just as well in concrete as in plastic, only difference is that plastic tanks are pretty and cost a hell of a lot more money.

     

    The plastic tanks have media built in to the system for the microbes to live in and multiply, which the effluent has to pass through. 

    The concrete rings don't have this media, so the microbes do not work as effectively. I'm sure you "could" have a concrete ring cesspit with a media bed for the microbes, but I'm equally sure that 99.99999% do not have one.

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  2. 22 hours ago, Max69xl said:

    I have a hard time believing that sliding windows are installed permanently. Are you sure you haven't missed anything? Can't you ask an "expert". 

    If his condo block has a handyman that's who i would be asking ..... I assume the OP has done that already ? As I am sure he would not be the first person who has had to clean or replace a window in that condo block.

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  3. 12 hours ago, madmen said:

    There is a (series) of trains that goes from Bangkok to Moscow and can hop on and off for short stays enroute.The website is seat 61 or similar.. on the bucket list

    Good luck doing that at the moment....you would have to start from Vietnam. But in the not too far distant future the chinese will have built their (military transport) railway through Laos and on to Thailand, then you will be able to do it.

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  4. 50 minutes ago, 2long said:

    How about all those cars on red plates. Red plates are effectively 'trade plates' for test driving only and during daylight hours. Thais get these on new cars until their plate arrives and the car is registered. This can take months in some cases. If these cars are seen going through red lights etc, what'll happen?

    It's all quite retarded, isn't it really?

    So send the penalty notice to the registered owner, they can either pay up or chase after whoever had the car, the car dealers would know whose car the plates were on.

     Same with hire cars.....

     Same if you let your son/daughter drive ...

      It’s all quite simple really.....

  5. 1 hour ago, emptypockets said:

    This is NOT the Uk. Brazil have a similar system for low level drink driving. Points only for a few beers. Have an accident and you are in deep doo doo though. A far more practical and realistic system.

    Not everyone who has three beers turns into a homicidal driving maniac as the Western Governments want s to believe and artificially construct social pressure to do support this.

    The idea is to deter people from drinking and driving before they have an accident, not just to penalize them afterwards.

  6. 12 hours ago, Isaanbiker said:

    You've gotta be kidding with your pinky one.

     This one was issued for people from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. Not for foreigners.

     

      But people like you believe that they have certain rights? Nope, you don't. 

     

        wake up, please. 

                

    People from those three countries are foreigners too.....

    But white faced foreigners who have the yellow tabien baan can also get the pink ID card too, plenty of posts here on TV.

     

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  7. On 8/22/2019 at 11:26 AM, kohlenkutscher said:

    Where can I buy a shredder for garden waste (thicker branches O 3-4 cm)?

    I live in Hua Hin.

    You would have been better off starting a new thread instead of resurrecting this old one, but Buriram Builders Merchants, aka " Ruangsangthai ", are supposed to be one of the best places for that sort of stuff, and deliver all over thailand.

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  8. 8 hours ago, IsaanAussie said:

    Don't waste time apologising. Go cut the grass again. Wash the car AND polish it! 

    AND do the laundry and leave it out on the line.....or rack, seeing as most places don't have a clothesline.

    This is my first full wet season so I cannot really compare, but most of the paddies around our place here in northern Ubon have some water in them.

  9. 17 hours ago, Pilotman said:

    agreed.  In Western terms my 'T' shirt size is 'Large', in Thai terms its XXL , or anywhere between the two.  There is no consistency so i never buy clothes online here.  

    Yes, a few weeks ago I bought a pair of jeans and 2 pairs of shorts from Tesco. The jeans were labeled size 32, but were bigger and looser around the waist than the size 34 shorts, one of which was noticeably looser than the other. And they were all the same brand!!! No way would I buy clothes online yet the missus does and claims they always fit.

     I have never had a problem with Lazada for any of the stuff I have bought, mainly small electronics.

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  10. 12 hours ago, prevaill said:

    Also which android box model would u recommend? You think i could find the box in a Thai mall?

    the best place to buy one is on Lazada, hundreds available there.....searching for  "android smart tv box 2019" gives 388 answers right now, or "streaming media players" gives you 240 (which shows how crap Lazada's search engine is). I think a lot of them are just rebadged generic items, look for ones with the most memory installed. Personally, I've got an NVIDIA Shield which I'm happy with.

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    Meanwhile the man in charge has gone into hiding after apparently getting wise to a police and military raid accompanying the forestry officials yesterday.

     

    An alien encounter event planned for tomorrow (Saturday) has now been shelved and it is all quiet at the retreat.

    Or maybe he could n't be bothered doing the TM30s for all those aliens and thought it was going to be Immigration coming to get him ....

  12. 30 minutes ago, jackdd said:

    What i wrote is still true, even if your friends did it there.

    Immigration police might accept it, but actually it's supposed to be done at your local police station, just look at the law:

    For the TM28 it says:

    "Shall notify the police official of the local police station where such alien resides"

     

    And if you look at the actual form, (http://www.immigrationbangkok.com/files/visa_forms/tm28.pdf) it says no such thing....  the TM28 starts "To the Immigration officer" and ends as being signed at "xxxxx" Immigration office

  13. Assuming you have a laptop, it would be easier to put the VPN on that and then cast to your TV. A friend tried to connect his Samsung via VPN but gave up because it would never work effectively ....and he is a software geek. Samsung TVs have their own operating system, not your usual run of the mill Android.

     

  14. 19 minutes ago, sanemax said:

    The UK leased Hong Kong from China for 150 years and that lease expired in 1998

    Actually it was only the New Territories and the outlying islands that were leased, under the Nangking Treaty China ceded Hong Kong Island to the British in perpetuity, and also the Kowloon peninsula a few years later. So in theory the UK “could” have kept a lot of Hong Kong but it would not have been practical.

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