MikeN

Currently to turn on/off the bedroom light I have to get out of bed, I want to enable switching off the bedroom light from the bed with a switch either side of the headboard and at the door. Elsewhere I would need 2 3way and a 4way switch as in the diagram : sparky says "mai dai, mai mee"....looking through Thai watsadu website I found that 3 way switches (common,L1,L2 terminals) are called 2 way here. I assumed that would make 4 way switches 3 way but I cannot find anything listed at Homepro, Dohome or Thai Watsadu. Only one way or two way. Are "4 way" switches not available here ?

The Thailand Tigers for a start. https://thailand-tigers.com/index.php

So the vast majority of people would pay a fine of zero baht, in line with their tax paid ? If people obeyed the traffic laws they wouldn’t need to pay any fines, something that this MP seems to have overlooked.

What is there to consider ? Whether being the leader of a military coup counts as being PM or not. My guess is the answer will be no, and that his time as PM started after the election. I don’t think they will announce that yet though, for appearances sake they will consider the new evidence for a while. I will make no comment or speculation on the size of the envelope containing the new “evidence”

The monks at our local forest wat only eat once per day, and walk about 6km on their alms round, but there are still a few that are overweight, the problem comes from the junk food they are given. It is easier to buy packaged food, or make something that is quick and easy...usually fried. Both lead to obesity and diabetes. As the monk in the OP said, exercising is one thing but they shouldn’t be posting on social media.

You know that taxis do run on gas, not petrol, don’t you ? But I do agree with your sentiments about motorbikes on the road ...and Americans ! ????

That depends on who is in government at the time of asking.

Having loose, unrestrained cargo piled high on that bench seat would be dangerous for the driver ! The rear seat is designed for passengers by Toyota, Isuzu etc ( after all, parcels don’t need a padded seat) and my (made in Thailand) Hilux back in Australia has seat belts fitted in the rear. Smart cabs here are sold has cargo vehicles and incur less tax than 4 door pickups or cars, that’s why there are no seat belts fitted. I wouldn’t be surprised if the mounting points are there though, just hidden under the plastic trim. Otherwise the vehicle makers would have to retool just to make a Thai version of the same car body’s, probably cheaper to just hide the mounting points. But I am not going to rip my pickup apart to look ????

As people were talking about foreign tourists using their credit cards from home, including Australia, it is relevant, unlike talking about getting a credit card here.

He used to post regularly in the Bangkok Photographers Facebook group but haven’t seen him there lately. Perhaps he got tired of people pointing out that his “fame” from a few magazine articles didn’t mean he was above the law .... he had a habit of breaking in to private property to shoot his pics. Also used to fly his drone in prohibited areas.

Last week I was in the narrow rural soi out the front of our place when i saw a girl of about 15 coming home from school on her scooter, she had her phone in hand in front of her face so either taking a selfie or reading a text. Hit a pothole a few meters behind me and lost control, luckily she went right and into a flooded rice paddy and not left into a brick wall. She was n't hurt but worried about her phone somewhere in the rice paddy.

Well our Scoopy does, so you think wrong. It’s a Honda sticker, from the factory. And it’s 91, although my missus always goes to the nearest servo and fills up with 95.

You have to make an appointment at the Oz embassy for an interview and when I checked last month there was a 7 week waiting time for that ! Then your passport will take at least 6 weeks, maybe more as apparently the passport office has a lot of applications for new passports now that people can travel overseas again. So that would be at least 13 weeks before you get your new passport, November might be a bit late ?

The Ukraine war is the major reason why fertilizer prices have gone up so much, and that is certainly a Thai rice farmer’s business. So Prayut is condoning the actions of the guy in the Kremlin causing those price rises. My wife’s family have decided to only plant enough rice for them this year, it’s just not economical to do anything else. Apparently quite a few others are thinking the same way. If the rice harvest is down this year because of the cost of fertilizer does that make Russia’s invasion Thailand’s business ?

I wonder if a certain “Boss” could slip in and out of Thailand to watch without the RTP realizing? ”Oh we didn’t know he was coming, nobody told us” ....or we couldn’t see him from behind the pile of brown envelopes on our desk.

The so called social media critics apparently didn’t read the bit about driving the electric scooters in the area of the Phuket City Hall not on public streets.

Maybe it’s when they get bored with twiddling their thumbs in the “inactive post” office and decide to resign ? Or the inactive office is so overcrowded and they get quietly shuffled out the door to make room for the next group of inactive officers. Either way they probably get to keep their pensions !

If she doesn’t like farang, then I would think that teaching Thai at a language school is not the best choice of occupation ?

Seeing as the Computer Crimes Act covers anything the ruling class might take offence at, then of course they could get into trouble.

Many years ago I was on the BTS near a family group of Thais, presumably 2 grandparents, mother and 2 boys, when a “farang” backpacker got on. Mother said to the boys “farang kii nok “, and if anybody deserved that this girl did....one of the scruffiest backpackers I have ever seen. So the boys started chanting farang kii nok whenever another foreigner got on. Grandpa said something to the mother about “Mai supaap” (not polite), she replied that farang wouldn’t understand, don’t worry. The boys kept jumping up and down, pointing at the farang kii nok, like typical spoilt Thai boys. When I walked past them at my station I couldn’t resist telling the mother that “ Luk Mai supaap, farang baang khon phoot parsa Thai dai “ The pronunciation was probably 5/10 but grandpa cracked up and mother looked suitably chastened.

You are right, and not quite right, here .....they do use khon with western nationalities, ie khon angrit. But they don’t use it like they do with groups of people such as khon Asian, khon apfrigaa (Asians, Africans). I do find that disuse of the honorific “khon” a bit disrespectful . (And if the urban legend that the word originates from farangset (French) I would be more offended....what me ? French? ) I did once ask my Thai language teacher why they don’t say khon farang and she got upset with me for asking. As the only Caucasian in the class, with 2 Koreans and 2 Japanese, I got upset with her when talking about food she would ask the others “what would Koreans/Japanese eat” then ask me “what do farang eat?”. For heavens sake, you went to university, you should know that there are many different farang countries, cultures and languages, and you know where I come from so why not say what do Australians eat ? That use of farang is just rude laziness!

Not quite correct ....when you get your extension it will be valid until the passport expiry, then you have to get a new extension once you get the new passport. You cannot transfer the old one. That’s what immigration told me, my new passport would not be ready in time for my extension. I wasn’t expecting a more than two month wait just for an interview appointment plus at least six weeks for processsing after that.....last time it took 3 months ! So my next extension will be for only 11 months, no big deal.

They may not have a choice about being there, but if they think it is wrong they could always aim to miss their targets instead of committing war crimes by firing on hospitals, apartment blocks and civilian shelters. After all, they are only poorly trained inexperienced conscripts,( or so their apologists claim), nobody would be surprised if they did miss.

At 29 satang to the ruble their small notes are pretty much toilet paper. Cash only, no electronic transfers, and apparently the largest Russian note is 5000, so that’s 145 baht.

What are their contributions to the world, since the 2nd half of the 20th century, anyway? Buckwheat? Vodka? What else? Taking all the astronauts up to the ISS since NASA lost the ability to do so. Speaking of which, I wonder what the nationality mix is up there right now ? I cannot be bothered actually Googling it but there could be some interesting conversations up there at the moment. Edit : Ok....I did Google it, currently there are 2 Russian crew and 9 from “unfriendly” countries. Hope none of them are due to return home on a Soyuz soon !