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I visited the Summer Palace of Rama 6 near Hua hin, the rooms are very small , no aeration at all

it's near the sea, maybe the breeze from the sea could bring a little bit fresh air, but really , I thought the small rooms were very hot, and I think that living here was very difficult

but your explanations are good , surely people lived outside near the sea

Thank you for your response 🙂

I think Thailand will drop this story

1 hour ago, emptypockets said:

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Chess, maybe, but that would usually mean playing with another farang. None I know of in the wife's village.

Chess, you can play against computer or other people on line ( for ex at lichess org , free, or you buy a software

I play often chess against computer , computer is better than humain

One of my hobbies is making wooden model boats. complicated ships take several months to be done , very interesting ; I buy them in Europe or with Amazon

On 12/21/2025 at 9:26 AM, brian69 said:

Who needs 5 dogs yet alone 5 pit bulls ?.....😠

Yes , I wonder how these people work ( think )  to have 5 dangerous dogs at home 

even one, I don't want this sort of dangerous and ugly dogs : there are so many nice and better dogs ....

7 hours ago, StayinThailand2much said:

Woke up this morning; it was 'freezing cold', 21 degr. Celsius! 😆 (Lived too long in the tropics...)

Same for me, 15 years in Thailand and I am chilly ( may be it comes with the age, too ) 

19 hours ago, Luuk Chaai said:

great advice,   take pills....

why not just eat a proper human diet ?

because sometimes diet is not enough, for exemple when you are on pre-diabet ( 100-120 ) 

8 hours ago, FolkGuitar said:

... and that beats out having to stick yourself with a needle several times a day, just checking your blood sugar, to say nothing of the daily insulin injections.
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There are different stages of diabetes; moderate diabetes does not require insulin. A good diet and one pill a day are sufficient.

Hello  big question for today, be sure I am not crazy or delirious 

 . Is destiny predetermined? Is everything just chance? Do we feel like something is pulling the strings, as if we were puppets?

I had 58 years ago a very strange experience and I wonder if we have free will ( Google translation , the French expression is " avons nous le libre arbitre ) ?

Is something ( or someone ) decide for us  ?. 

What are your ideas about this ? i have noticed that AN members have ideas for everything 😀

French Polynesians speak a French that is very understandable to people from mainland France (unlike Quebecers), but they roll their "r"s, which sounds strange to me, being French myself.
P.S.: I thought only Americans didn't know geography; but I was wrong, some Australians don't either.

Still speaking of Covid ? you are 5 years late 

many other subjects to speak about 

1 hour ago, chickenslegs said:

This is puzzling.

School run this morning, Sattahip, not a single parent or child wearing a mask. Shopping in Big C this evening, not a single customer or member of staff wearing a mask as far as I could see.

Out last evening, Bang Saray restaurant and bars - no masks there.

I was in Jomtien Immigration last week, maybe one or two staff with masks, perhaps they had colds and didn't want to spread their germs.

I rarely see anyone masked up these days.

Same here, upcountry : maybe 1 % have a mask 

52 minutes ago, Caldera said:

 

I don't think the fact that they use their personal email accounts to email customers of the bank is a laughing matter. Their poor training and unprofessional conduct becomes more and more obvious and is a reason for concern.

I tought it was a scam, because banks and other serious firms don't call you " sir ", but write your name and surname 

scammers don't know them

I have seen the same or maybe the same sort of picture, taken in Vietnam during the  war  ( the guy on the picture could be a soldier ) 

They like to hide under quiet, discreet places: stones, planks, flower pots, clothes. I saw a video of a young Indonesian woman hunting them to eat them after cooking. She caught them, barefoot and by hand, and because she got many, she had a very big  smile: incredible!

Yes, the one on the  picture is very long, never seen one like this

centipedes can be in the house, bed, gloves, shoes , bathrooms, around houses, flower pots , anywhere ...

28 minutes ago, VBF said:

I see - thanks. I've never seen one - I presume where you live is fairly rural.

You have never seen one in Thailand ? they are everywhere, even in cities 

last week, I see 4 of them in my compost : very dangerous and painful animal 

I have killed already several of them, the animal I fear the most here with the cobras

I live upcountry but you find centipedes and snakes everywhere, even in Bangkok

3 hours ago, CharlieH said:

MOVED to Electrical forum

Where is it, I didn't find it ?

4 hours ago, NotEinstein said:

Definitely sounds as if the cable insulation has broken down - it will burn at the point of failure until either the circuit trip/fuse reacts, or the cable burns through. Try another cable.

Yes, I think ( and hope )  it's only the cable, I removed it immediately 

electricity didn't stop, the outlet from outside is absolutely normal

Hello, I didn't find a special forum for "electricity", so I write here

I plugged a cable that connects a computer monitor to a wall outlet, which I use every day without any problems. This time, there was a "bang" and a loud flash. I immediately removed my hand and saw that the cable was damaged on one side. The question is: is it the cable or the outlet? Note that the computer monitor no longer turned on, which is why I wanted to test it on another outlet.

thank you

4 hours ago, Stressed Eric said:

Have you ever come across these wenches? The ones who usually work in bars in tourist heavy areas and are nice as pie when they think they have a fresh fish in their net, and as soon you speak Thai they turn from the princess bride into the wicked witch of the west.

 

Why is it this way? Thailand seems to be the only country in the world where speaking the local lingo as a foreigner is widely discouraged. 

Many many years ago, I went with bar girls, some times travelling with them in Thailand

at this period I was interested in Thai language and I can tell you that my biggest teachers were bar girls and they were happy to speak with me in Thai

now I don't go with bargirls, I can speak and read Thai ( not fluent ) and because here it's upcountry, Thai people are delighted to speak Thai with me 

1 hour ago, Puccini said:

 

It is precisely this situation that the hospitals take advantage of.

True, but in this case, what is better ? pay nothing in hospital or pay in pharmacies ?

It's very expensive for health insurance, but if pharmacies make bills accepted by health insurance, I will do it because my health insurance has financial problems

for instance I pay one Tenelia pill 43 bahts, it's very much for my health insurance which reimburse 90% of this price 

56 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

My meds are covered by insurance.

If I buy outside of the hospital the money will then come from my pocket.

My insurance reimburses me 90 % of medicines and I wonder if pharmacies  make a bill accepted by my insurance : to present to my insurance everything on the same document is more convenient