Moonlover

4 minutes ago, stoner said:

14 hours ago, Moonlover said:

Rural village or or an estate type village?

 

4 minutes ago, stoner said:

 

near robinson phuket.

I have no idea where Robinson, Phuket is.

3 hours ago, bamnutsak said:

The last time he was ousted he went to India and did the monk-hood thing.

 

 

‘BIG JOKE’ LEFT COUNTRY, DAYS AFTER GOV’T WARNING

 

https://www.khaosodenglish.com/politics/2020/01/27/big-joke-left-country-days-after-govt-warning/

 

 

This is the equivalent of the Thai bus driver doing a runner after a "brake failure". 

And once he returned from his sabbatical in India, he was very quickly 'back in the saddle'. Watch this space.

34 minutes ago, Gsxrnz said:

Single use plastic bags and canine excrement- it's a conundrum.

Especially as excrement deposited in the right place, as dogs will do if they have the freedom to, actually benefits the environment.

Crap has been fertilizing the planet for millions of years.

On 3/21/2024 at 1:50 PM, rabas said:

Two immediate family members including my wife got sick about a week ago with a respiratory illness mostly localized to the throat. Symptoms include troublesome persistent coughing, a moderate sore throat, and little nasal involvement. I'm told there is a lot going around up country in parts of Buriram where we have relatives.

 

I have little input from elsewhere. Has anyone heard of something like this?  Is something going around? Any thoughts on if it is viral or bacterial? I'm all too aware of Thailand's air pollution issues but symptoms, locale, and timing seem the rule that out.

 

Many thanks.

Yes, we had the same up in our village near Sakon Nakhon. Both my wife and I had persistent coughs for 2 or 3 weeks and she tells me several other family members were affected. We can't attribute this to bad as we generally enjoy quite good air quality around here.

We never sought medical advise, just sucked a lot of Fisherman's Friends. Lozenges that is, before anyone starts. 

44 minutes ago, stoner said:

 

i come across new landmines in my village almost daily. many on the pavement too. 

Rural village or or an estate type village?

7 hours ago, DPKANKAN said:

They still have not explained how the most neediest poor people living in the boonies, with no bank accounts, no electric, no mobile phones are going to get their share!!!!

9 hours ago, Kim Jones said:

Wonder what the age cut off is? Will my 10 year old daughter be eligible?

These issues are addressed in this article. https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/economy/40030624

There's some interesting information that I've unearthed on this web site. Electric motorcycles in Thailand

Of course the rules herein are being blatantly ignored as is the way in Thailand. I've pointed out a few times, the dangers of kids as young as 5 years old riding these machines around the village and even out on the highway (such as it is), but the usual answer prevails. "It's up to them".

48 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

It's so sad to think a person can live their life without any children. 

 

It's my kids that keep me going, giving me the strength to succeed, in facing the world's daily challenges. 

 

Couldn't think of living in a world without my kids. 

 

 

I had 3 kids by 2 wives, but I was never really cut out to be a father and would have preferred to have done without.

13 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

What's a check?

American spelling of cheque.

12 hours ago, stoner said:

 

ok so what is the right thing to say ? 

 

i am more than willing to have a decent conversation about the subject but about 5 minutes in i will be called a thai basher etc. everything to do with driving and roads here is a very serious subject that requires a massive amount of change. none of which i have seen in since first coming here. 

 

daily i walk past transport trucks with tires so bad i am amazed how they even maintain pressure. i could go on and on about so many things but as my original comment was getting at. 

 

the wheels on the bus go round and round....20 years and counting for me 

 

so what's your thoughts then ? 

 

My earlier comments were not about driving standards in Thailand. We already have enough 'know it all's ' on this forum to cover that issue.

My issue is about the plethora of mindless degenerates who make sick jokes and nasty (usually racist) comments whenever tragedy strikes.

And on that issue my thoughts are already clear.

1 minute ago, stoner said:

3 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

Along with the stupid childish comments that inevitably accompany them.

 

1 minute ago, stoner said:

 

chicken and the egg right. 

Yes, with a similar number of brain cells. What a sad lot you are.

2 hours ago, stoner said:

after seeing the same headline over and over it becomes a parody of itself. 

 

Along with the stupid childish comments that inevitably accompany them.

14 minutes ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

I have just been advised that although the final transfer to the Krungsri bank is a 'local transfer' - the original transfer is international into a 'banking transfer pool'

You need to go back and study how Wise operates. There is no 'original international transfer'. No money crosses borders. That's the whole ethos of the way they operate.

As far far taxation goes, that is well off topic.

5 minutes ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

Show me - prove it to us all.  International transfers show in Thai bank books/accounts - the reason does not necessarily do so - but the source of the money does. Prove that wrong - please. There are lots of worried people about incxome taxes who would love to know this - me too - please go right ahead and show us. 

My Wise in-payments are ALWAYS marked as a domestic transfer on my Krungsri statements and many thousands of Wise users are aware  that this true for all none partners banks. Only the 3 partner banks will be marked up as an international transfer and apparently, even that is not always the case.

19 minutes ago, Mutt Daeng said:

I've done a bit of research on the power meter plugs and measuring power on small AC devices.

This is my source: https://brian-candler.medium.com/rediscovering-the-power-factor-9dbf4187c311

Power = Voltage x Current works for Direct Current (DC). But as it turns out, it doesn’t necessarily work for Alternating Current (AC). For AC, the real formula is: Power = Voltage x Current x Power Factor.

So, with my PC, TV, USB Hub plugged into a 4 gang socket connected to the mains via the power meter plug:

Voltage reading (fluctuating) = 222V

Current Reading (Fluctuating) = 551mA

Power Factor (Fluctuating) = 0.714

Power reading Fluctuating) = 88.04W

Calculated power = V * A * PF = 87.34 W

Only a difference of 0.7 watts between calculated power and the reading from the meter. That's good enough for me.

Yep that's in accord with my own ball park assessment. I run my laptop plus the modem/router and a small desk top lamp off my Zircon 840 watt UPS. With a new battery it will run for about 30 minutes, although it's aging now and will need replacing soon. Batteries are readily available through Lazada.

6 minutes ago, Mutt Daeng said:

TBH it's to protect me from the ever increasing number of brownouts and 1-5 second blackouts that i have experienced recently, so I don't really need a belt & braces solution, but I appreciate the advice. Thanks

This is the main reason that I use a UPS. I was getting fed up with the short blackouts knocking my internet connection off-line.

2 minutes ago, Mutt Daeng said:

I think the monitor can display voltage, current and power. That's a job for tomorrow as my degree of compos mentisness is currently disadvantaged by the number of Changs that I've swallowed so far today. Thanks for your assistance so far.

Wise decision. 

16 minutes ago, Mutt Daeng said:

I was expecting more than 100 watts. I contacted the shop where I bought all the components for the pc and they said I would need to have a UPS capable of supplying more than 650 watts (the psu I chose to install was 650 watts). I didn't think that was correct, so I bought the power meter plug to do some investigating of my own.

Ok, so it's either it's the shop that's got it wrong, or your power monitor is telling porkie pies. Which one to trust.

The simplest way to establish which is to find out the current flow. Can your monitor display the voltage and the current drawn? If it does then it's a simple matter to calculate the power yourself. Volts x Amps (P=V x A) 

Let's know how how it goes.

56 minutes ago, Mutt Daeng said:

The power meter showed that less than 100 watts was being used. Does this seem right? 

Why do you ask, don't you trust it?

On 3/11/2024 at 9:42 AM, proton said:

Islamic terrorist attack, continuing the use of words like insurgents does not help, call it what it is, jihad.

It's always somebody else's fault!