Kenny202

Lol. I can assure you I don't read them. Take some pills and go.have a lay down. Stop.wasting your life writing out these endless, meaningless scribes. You're welcome ????

I hate that I have to scroll through your drivel everyday just to check on any visa changes, news etc. Have you considered seeing a professional? I pity anyone unlucky enough to have to live with you ????

I use a margarine I buy from Makro in 1kg packs....brand is Blue Band. Has a really nice buttery taste and excellent for cooking. Usually near the mayo area. Was 60 baht a couple of years recently increased to 110 baht. Recipe Jeff the Chef uses exactly the same as mine but I just do mine in the mixer. Crumb the butter and flour first on low. Then add water a little at a time until dough pulling cleanly away from the bowl and nice and pliable. I use the dough for the casings of my pies and puff pastry on top

Makro sell frozen puff pastry sheets, very good too. Usually near the bread / bakery area in the freezer. If you want a basic pie crust recipe pm me. Very easy to make....flour, butter, water. Got a great aussie meat pie filling recipe too ????

I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you

Thanks so much guys, have a pretty good picture of when and where I want to go now. Probably plan trip for November. Thanks all for your help

Just following up. Received the adjustable power pack today and works like a charm ???? You are a lifesaver. Not a light flimsy electronic thing either. Feels like a proper copper wound trx. Will definitely buy another one in a different range. I am always looking for odd voltage power supplies and generally they are expensive, if you can find one at all. Thank you so much again ????

I'd suggest we all ignore his comments. With a user name like that and his horrible comments he is one of those people hiding behind a keyboard who feeds off peoples misery and is just putting bait comments out to get a reaction. Too many like that on AN in fact possibly in the majority. Many others running daily polls on what color Tie everyone is wearing today or if they wear their collar up or down. I often wonder why admin don't immediately shunt people like this. It can't be good for the overall prosperity of the forum. No wonder the forum in the last few years has been put up for sale several times.

Yaya, Bella (Ranee Campen), Davika, Mario Mauer, Nadech, Sunny, Louis Scott, Willy McKintosh, Chompoo, Baifern ... all in the top 15 of Thai / actors and are mixed race. Any Thai person would instantly recognize any of these names. To say Thai people shun mixed race kids is just pure fiction. I was single with my son when he was a baby and I am sure many of the girls I dated were more interested in my son than me lol. It would be a status symbol for them to have a mixed race kid. I even had Thai people asking me if they could "take care" of my son. Anyone here that has a mixed race kid would have experienced the same thing. Always a source of amazement to me as Thais themselves have to be some of the most good looking people in the world yet seem to have a bit of inferiority complex regarding looks.

I have a Thai son. His mother was very dark skinned in fact her nickname in the village was "lair", derogatory term for very dark. My son has very caucasian features and very fair skinned. Looks nothing like his mother apart from the dark brown eyes. I have never seen a "leuk kreung" kid here with say blue eyes or green so don't expect that. Some have lighter brown eyes. Funny my kids appearance is 100% European but underneath he is Thai 100% lol. All the traits (good and bad lol) Loves spicy Thai food, village food. I am guessing maybe you are a little concerned the child maybe not yours and you should be quietly concerned. It does happen here particularly if you are living in her home village where there would be plenty of old husbands, boyfriends and temptations. I have heard Thais discussing some unaware farangs kid thinking the guy was stupid for accepting a kid that clearly wasn't his. The Thais seem to know what's what in this regard. My poor Mrs got the opposite. No one believed my son came from my missus lol. Anyway, I have seen plenty of mixed race kids and some have more predominant Thai features and others Euro. I think you would know though there should be some Euro facial or body features to suggest the child is yours. If the child does look 100% Asian and you have doubts you should get a DNA test. I know it is a difficult thing to suggest to his mother etc but better to find out now than later. Maybe you only need a hair sample or something and the mother doesn't have to know. I had a child back home with a very promiscuous wife and was always a doubt for me and not nice to live with. If you are just concerned with the looks many half Thai kids are exceptionally good looking but its not a given. In any case if it is your child you will love, adore and cherish the child the moment you lay eyes on them ????

We may be better off flying up and just stay based in the city. Is the city center spread out or walkable? Thanks for your reply

Thanks for your detailed useless SA reply

We're not far from Loei now, go camping there and Nam Nao regularly. It is beautiful

Wanted to go and check out Chiang Mai for so long. Looks like a very cool place. I often here the traffic etc compared to Bangkok. Is it really that bad? I hate that sort of scene particularly getting close to Bangkok with all the flyovers, turnoffs etc not to mention the traffic jams and traffic in the city. Is it anything like that in CM? Is it possible to park in the city? Can someone paint me a bit of a picture? Other question best time of year to come re pollution. Definitely don't want to be there in the burning season. Appreciate any info thanks.

I definitely like to keep my vehicles serviced....and air on the side of caution. You say manual gearbox oil every 100,000k's? These guys are hitting me up for a gearbox / 4wd transfer oil change every 10,000k's. I think the cost of the gear oil alone 1500 baht

Recently got a new TV and was delighted to see it connected automatically to the surround system with a HDMI cable using ARC, so the surround sound automatically came on with the TV, can adjust surround volume with TV remote etc. Was ok for about a month then out of the blue not connecting. All of the connection settings on the TV are o and set to ARC auto. I can see the HDMI is connected on the TV but according to the TV when troubleshooting the Surround sound is connected but turned off. I have tried three different HDMI cables including the one we got with the new Samsung TV. So what i want to do is go and look if anything had changed on the set up of the surround system but to do anything like that need to view the setup menu on a screen. TV no go so I plugged the HDMI cable from the sound system to my notebook but still not seeing the surround sound menu screen on my PC. Do I have to go and tell the computer to open a special screen for the HDMI input or something? I see plenty of videos on how I can connect my PC and view the PC screen on a TV but nothing about viewing a third party (surround sound) display on my PC? Any help appreciated.

2014 Dmax 4WD pick up....just nearing 120,000 km. Always had regular 10k services since new. Just wondering if that's still necesary? I am a great believer in regular service and oil changes but on the other hand could do without the 4000-6000 baht charge every 10000ks. I am sure the gearbox oil doesn't need changing that regularly. What does everyone else do with a vehicle around this age or what is the norm

Oh damn. Nice guy and always helpful and straight forward. RIP buddy

Will do. Still a bit skeptical as I know I was looking for a 14v supply some time ago and you just couldn't use one of the light electronic power supplies. I forget why but it had to be a copper wound job and they are expensive these days. Anyway, can't beat all those reviews. If it is ok I will turn around and buy the 9-24v also. I have quite a bit of vintage sound and vision gear and many have odd voltages. Thanks again my friend ????

Thanks for your help mate. Just ordered one. Incredibly cheap under 200 baht too. And locally from Bangkok too. have 300+ positive reviews so it should be ok. I don't know how you found it. I searched Lazada high and low thins morning...Thai and English...but thanks a bunch. I just went back to check because usually these cheaper power supplies are AC secondary (not DC) and the DC ones usually wire wound and much more expensive. It is DC so happy days ????

It wont work. The unit has its own internal smarts / electronics inside. Comes up with an error message and shuts down...over volt

Struggling to find an 8volt 5 amp DC power adapter cheaply. There are plenty of 12 volt ones around Would it be safe to put a cheap component like a resistor or something on the DC side to reduce the voltage? I assume in series on the positive lead? (or parallel across + -) At 5 amps it is a reasonable amount of power so don't want anything to heat up too much or be a safety risk. Powering a LED panel video light so close to 8 volt should be ok. The unit has an 8 volt input socket for a power adapter

I don't know if you seen the Netflix doco but yeah he lost heaps....his role in one of the biggest movie franchises ever (Pirates) for a start and many other potential loss of earnings. And what about the money and trauma in the years leading up to and during the trial. The man deserves a medal in my book. he put integrity and honor before all else. By the way technically and morally he won the case against Amber Heard......but lost the libel case against the Sun newspaper who was the organization that published her original story in the first place. I don't think anyone really "wins" these sort of cases financially or otherwise. All he did was defend himself. The damage was already done. I lived with a very similar type of women here in my early days of Thailand. I never laid a hand on her in 3 years but should have. This women just used to regularly lose her shet. Would go on for 3 days sometimes. After she would say she got a "short" in her brain. I can remember a night I had my baby son in my arms, my arms up protecting him and myself from her blows when she blanked out. the next morning I caught her in the bathroom taking selfies of the bruises on her forearms where her flailing blows hit my arms held up to protect me and my son. Truly disgusting person....In the end she got on a bus and left....and wanted to return the next day. I refused to let her. I was left with a 3 month old baby. She then went and intentionally contacted / befriended anyone in our estate and told them the reason she didn't take the baby with her was because I had basically abducted him and refused her access to him...as if in Thailand. The most ridiculous thing was that even though I did the right thing and stuck by / raised my son on my own...they seemed to believe her and being Thailand and me not speaking the language I was unable to defend myself. They didn't know she had also abandoned 3 other children to different fathers (nor did I until 2 years into the relationship). Not that I cared what others think but made us living there pretty uncomfortable. A couple of years after she broke into my house while I was out and demanded I come and meet her. I told her 6 times to leave peaceably and in the end had no choice but to contact the police. Next minute I am down the police station defending myself against her allegations and told by the cop I need to pay her 500k to remove her lol. She told him I had tried to strangle her that morning....I hadn't physically been within 5km of her for 2 years. At that point I got a lawyer involved and the police told her to leave my house and never come back. And what I have described probably the nicer events. She still haunts us in different ways 8 years later. Was cringeworthy for me watching the Amber Heard trial because I had lived through much of the same myself. Seems to be the MO of some women here to keep a checklist of perceived slights against them as some sort of blackmail that you wont leave them and more important to cover themselves from loss of face back home when yet another of their relationships inevitably fails. I said to one women why don't you try and just be a nicer person, contribute to the relationship a little more rather than all the a$$ covering games to cover yourself. Half of their movies, drama shows and music dedicated to the same subject

Very very well said, never heard it quite articulated like that but so true. I been over most of the world and never seen a bigger group of misfits and oddballs than I have here in Thailand, possibly myself included. Areas like Pattaya are generally human cesspits. And I am not talking about the Thai's. At the same time condescending and self righteous, particularly AN users.

Seems more and more these days these woke groups or women can call misogyny, abuse etc and the guy is immediately guilty and in many cases has his career, reputation or both instantly destroyed without investigation. Good on Johnny Depp for standing up to that vile cow even though it cost him millions and destroyed his career. Always that shadow of doubt even though he was clearly the abused during the trial. Known a few here try it on. Mainly a face saving move to cover their embarrassment of yet another failed relationship. Plaster stuff all over FB accusing you of the very things they did lol. And should you retort in anyway even meekly a threat to call Police or they actually do. It will all turn around...always does. Hope it's sooner than later. Makes me sick