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There really is only one foreigner I used to 'lunch' with on occasion when he was in Thailand. A fellow American with mainly shared views on the state of the world. He, on the other hand, had a wide variety of farang characters for friends, one being the alcholic golf pro and another a big lawyer for some foreign firm who lives in some 200K baht per month condo near the US embassy. Once he convinced me to grab lunch with this crowd and I was never so disgusted in my life. Topic of conversation were "Look at that 'slit' over there, maybe I should go over and 'pork' her for dessert (the golf pro who was drunk before lunch arrived), "I need to send my GF somewhere for an abortion, maybe Hong Kong, my wife ? ah...she doesn't give a $$$$ as long as her ATM card keeps working" (The rich lawyer guy). This is why I tend to avoid foreigners in Thailand, it seems to attract the bottom of the barrel insofar as ethical behavior, and that just makes me uncomfortable. My friend thinks these guys are hilarious and maybe hangs out with them for their antics I guess.

@Ubonjoe

Prepaid plan. My phone was lost. Went to AIS shop.. New SIM same number. Also many yearly SIM plan packages. I buy yearly and never need to worry monthly refilling.

No, but if he makes a TikTok video about it, high probability they will see it

The Queue at Airport Arrival:

Soon that pic may be recreated for tourists in downtown Bangkok: Make your Holiday 'Flooded" with Memories

It could..depends on where the water is dripping inside. Yeah...I'm like you...I did it at first more out of curiosity, now I get them in 3 times a year to clean everything out. Too much hassle and quite a mess if you don't have the proper tools.

The blockage likely is not in the drain pipe outside but in the hose/pan inside the unit in the house. You need to either take the thing apart (messy) and use some compressed air/water or shop vac to clear the drain line -or- have a service person do it. There is a tray that will fill up when the unit is not draining properly, this is what is overflowing. If your drain is located on the right side when you take the cover off you'll see a plug on the exact opposite side, removing this plug will drain the tray. Perhaps the tray became full with an outside line blockage and still has some water in it (can happen if the unit is not leveled correctly slightly down to the drain side.

Except have to test them with 3 X the rainfall because that is the factor between Bangkok and LA

If by protective you mean laying a nice cushiony layer inside your arteries to allow blood to flow in a more relaxed fashion (read slower or not at all) then I guess so !

He is just providing proof of where he lives which is sometimes necessary when you don't have a rental agreement to show.

Perhaps not so much deep fried food and a kilo of rice each meal washed down with either Lao Kho, Chang or a sweet drink with 100 gms of sugar might help a bit too.

I hope he didn't promise them Lao Khao in payment.

RoofTop Moon Party LadPhrao Road condos in full swing

That's my house !

In a couple of hours I'll out to the MooBaan entrance. Across the street are some rice fields and next to the MooBaan is a lotus pond. We'll see how high the water is in the rice fields, which will give a good indication of how saturated the system is currently. If the level is near the road...get out my swimming trunks....ha ha ha ha

In Nonthaburi (Bang Yai) and while not near the river, I am worried about the sewer systems being overwhelmed and unable to take the water flow. In that case, the streets and house plumbing become "the river" and not much will stop it. We just had about 3 hours of incredibly hard rain pass over...sunny now but too much water already in the system.

Nonthaburi right now....raining as hard as I have ever seen. This storm will not quit. Moving important papers to second floor, cutting power to first floor before I go to bed each night. Stress free retirement my (***)

The why don't you call them ?

When you remove all the trees and vegetation and replace them with condos and houses...global problem. A hillside covered with vegetation can absorb 4 times the amount of rain that a bare landscape can. In Bangkok a similar problem that was made worse by filling in old khlongs for condos. On the west side of the river most of the old canals still exist and there is rarely the kind of flooding seen in east side areas such as Lad Phrao where most have been filled in and built on top.

Makita UR3000. Bump Feed works like a charm

Any vaccines approved by the WHO (World Heallth Organization) https://covid19.trackvaccines.org/agency/who/

It's a Makita corded string trimmer. Tomorrow I'll go out back to the storage box and get you the model # . it's what's built-in to the trimmer.

I'd like to sell certain posters history here as a NFT...but I'm afraid some of the posts are so outrageous nobody would believe them.

Many countries have reciprocal tax treaties with Thailand, meaning if you pay tax on income in your home country you do not pay tax on same income in Thailand, avoiding double taxation. Check if your country has said agreement.