TheCruncher

When you live in Thailand, there is just 1 rule to live by:

If the Thais aren't bothered and/or doing something about it, suck it up.

Well that is just the thing. I'm sure Thais are bothered by many things that is happening around them, but they will never show their discontent, just bottle it up until it explodes.

And the result of that you can read in the Thai news papers every day.

In respect to my neighbors. At 7pm they had some monks, are at least I think that was it, praying through the speakers for approximate 30 minutes.

After that the shut down the large speakers and are now continuing the party with some more enjoyable music at a much lower level.

I still can hear the music but it is much less disturbing in that I can hear my own tv program now.

Just in case you forgot, this is Thailand. Their culture, their way of life, their rules. Get used to it and learn to live with it instead of being the grumpy old man. There are so many options open to you if you're not happy. Maybe if you took another poster's advice, pay a visit with some food and had a drink or two, then you would understand and they would appreciate you so much more for doing so.

I have no intention to go anywhere where I risk damages to my hearing, as that is what will without doubt occur in that environment.

About 2 years ago there was a funeral about 500 meters from my place, and they had the music on for a full week. I went there to ask if they could slow down a little, as I had a sick kid at that time, and I couldn't hear my own voice when I was there.

I know it is their culture and their way of life, but every culture should respect other people. What they do on their grounds is not my problem, but it shouldn't be a burden for other people while staying on their own property.

....do remember they suffered a loss....

...am quite sure they are not doing it to piss you off.....

...unless there is something you are not telling us......

That took quite a while before I was accused for being the reason for this horrendous noise, you should have added, go home if you don't like it.

Yes they suffered a loss, does that mean everyone within 500 meter has to suffer from hearing loss?

If you look at the video you will notice that where I stood is at least 100 meters from the speakers, and the sound is simply unbearable.

At the side of my house is a children home with over a hundred children between 3 and 10 years old, I'm sure they also gonna appreciate if this goes on though the night.

The strange thing is that with the actual funeral they had a party for a week, but not 1 note of music was played during that week.

Seems as if they now want to catch up with that.

3 days is the norm, same as a house blessing.

Isn't there a law against this?

I respect their grieves but they should also respect other people in my opinion.

They have a big party tent overthere, but I can not believe that anyone can last longer than 5 minutes at that place without serious hearing damages.

This is what is happening currently. Think the neighbor died 100 days ago, so time for some party neighborhood disturbance.

To give you an idea what I'm currently experiencing. Inside the house with all ( double glazed pvc) windows closed I can hardly hear my radio.

How long does 100 day rememberance last normally. I day or 1 week?

In case any one is interested in the issues I had, there is a report about below, take a look. The thing is that this not only happened at night, but throughout the whole day, and I had made plenty of recordings for them.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2950678/Mystery-fridge-s-strange-NOISES-solved-Scientists-finally-trace-source-loud-sounds-haunt-kitchens-night.html

http://video.dailymail.co.uk/video/1418450360/2015/02/1418450360_4048499350001_samsung-fridge-1423737836604.mp4

I bought my Samsung January 2015, had it replaced twice, but still had the same problem of loud knocking noise.

In the past 2 weeks i had 3 technicians visiting, with the latest a head technician from Bangkok. They started the usual game of blame the customer. We are here for 15 minutes already and we don't hear any strange noise so it must be in your imagination.

Then they also tried to blame the inaccuracy of my thermometer, as I had found out that during the night the temperature would float between - 21C and -7C, so they mounted my sensor at the top of the freezer and theirs at the bottom.

After half an hour of that kind of practices, where it was clear that they wanted to find fault by the customer, they asked if I had to go somewhere in the afternoon.

I told them that I had to go to the OCPB office very soon. They got the message and awarded a full refund right away.

By the way I have involved OCPB in an earlier case about a phone which they didn't want to honor the warranty, so they knew I was serious.

My experience with most of the companies, big and large, in Thailand is that it is enough to mention the magic 4 letters to get things going.

Just wanted to know if anyone has experience with the particular refrigerator pictured below. I have finally after 2 replacements reached an agreement with Samsung that they fully refund me for the inverter side by side I bought a year ago, since it made a horrible knocking sound.

So I'm in the market for a new fridge, which obviously will not be a Samsung, and the Hitachi R-S600P2TH I can find at a really good price, new and with full warranty.

Mr Google doesn't know about any known issues, so I thought I post it here in the hope that there are any members who have the same.

Why would the world be interested in an internal conflict, be it Thailand or elsewhere in the world?

What is going on in Europe is an international conflict and concerns millions of people, not thousands.

Today at Big C extra.

Banana cakes 6 for 22 Baht or 10 for 40 Baht.

Mothballs certainly work. Buy them at Macro and just pucture the bag. Also the ghecko spray above does work but you need to keep spraying. I sprayed it on cotton balls or similiar and placed it in places they hide...gone pretty much

Mothballs sure don't work, see post 11, tried them in fact strew them all over the place but they just increased in number.

Don't be confused, we are not talking about those small Jing Jocks that are climbing the walls inside the house.

Its very simple , seal up every way in for them

Virtually impossible to seal every hole, the shed is made out of Shera planks, and they need only a small gap to get in and out.

Sell your home or rent to nice people that like Tokays and you move out or go abroad.

Finally the " if you don't like it go home " brigade has arrived.

Tokays are my best friends. There are a few living around the house, but I also have two inside. One normal sized one lives behind the wardrobe in my daughter's room and a pretty large one lives in my bedroom, alternating between the behind the wardrobe and behind the curtain. Never any mosquitos in either room. Awesome creatures, albeit noisy at times.

Do you take them for a walk every day, or do you just let them poo behind the closet ?

They are potty trained. Only occasionally I find a little mistake, which gets cleaned up. A fresh one is a bit wet and sticky, so I first let it dry for a day or so.

I guess most animals are well behaved here in Thailand. Like our two dogs, haven't pooped inside the house or compound since they arrived as 8-week old puppies. Actually I've never seen them poop at all. They are 3.5yrs now.

You never seen them pop in 3.5 years I think one day you'll be in for a big surprise.

Tokays are my best friends. There are a few living around the house, but I also have two inside. One normal sized one lives behind the wardrobe in my daughter's room and a pretty large one lives in my bedroom, alternating between the behind the wardrobe and behind the curtain. Never any mosquitos in either room. Awesome creatures, albeit noisy at times.

Do you take them for a walk every day, or do you just let them poo behind the closet ?

I'd much rather have a family of tokays than a single centipede or those little tan scorpions. Unfortunately we have a family of cats move in and they have killed off most of the tokays. A few days ago I saw a huge centipede. That's the first one I have seen since the cats came and killed my lizards. Get a cat if you want to get rid of your beneficial lizards.

I'm allergic to cats.

I miss them. Love their calls. So rare nowadays.

How could you send me some?

I was never much annoyed by them except when they walked on the roof over me or got into the house (rare).

The little buggers are much more of an annoyance.

I hated to learn they have nested in my PCs power supply and I needed a new one.

Thanks you can come get them, free to a good home. By the way, I never hear them, it's only theirmassive amount of excrement that makes me mad.

Please don't make me homeless.

On a more serious note, have you asked any of your neighbors if they would like to rid you of them? When we get too many around the house my wife tells the neighbors and they come catch a few and thin the herd.

I don't have neighbors, and if i had any I doubt I could explain to them what I want.

Buy a spray in Homepro, works really well.

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I'm not dealing with those small Gecko's but with large Tokays.

Would be handy is they had something solid that contains that chemical, so could hang it in the shed, but spraying them is a hopeless task because they are hiding behind stuff.

There is another version you hang, looks like a giant Tea bag! They dont like the smell and vacate (usually)

Will have look for it. Have previously tried Naphthalene blocks, but they don't care about them.

Buy a spray in Homepro, works really well.

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I'm not dealing with those small Gecko's but with large Tokays.

Would be handy is they had something solid that contains that chemical, so could hang it in the shed, but spraying them is a hopeless task because they are hiding behind stuff.

Its very simple , seal up every way in for them

Virtually impossible to seal every hole, the shed is made out of Shera planks, and they need only a small gap to get in and out.

I don't have a single Tokay in my garden shed,............................I have a frigging family of 6 living in there.

That means that every so many months I have to clean the shed, which functions as a storage of left over materials and what not, because the smell of Tokay excrement gets unbearable.

This is a half day job every time, because tere are store many small items like sand stone, bricks and so on, and the excrement is behind tose of course.

So I want to indefinitely get rid of them. How do I do that.

I have now put rat poison in the shed, but I don't know if that is gonna work.

Yup there are foreigners here doing that.

There's also a gang trying to lure people into a house and then drug them...be aware...They have tried me about 5 times.

Tried it on you 5 times? You must have written something on your forehead.

So you were going to buy it anyway, and it cost you the same as it would have done elsewhere?

Please step on your bike and leave this thread, because I answered you already that I was NOT gonna buy it anyway, and I have no idea how much it would have cost me at the time that I ran out of the product that I still had at home.

So did you pay more for the product than you would have done later elsewhere?

Do you know how much an article will be priced next week or the week thereafter.

By the way your question is irrelevant and off topic, because the topic is about how they fool customers into believing an article is in promotion by using false pricing.