CGW

24 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

You are in Pattaya and taking what you see there as typical of   the whole country. It is definitely not.

i am not in Pattaya, I have visited recently, I am in the NE, I see what is happening up here, your view differs to what I am seeing and hearing.

2 minutes ago, khunPer said:

32 million tourists, target was 40 million for 2020, 8 millions has already been here.

I stand corrected!

I must be alone in seeing misery and desperation, suicide rates are off scale, have to get me some of those rose tinted glasses you and Sheryl have. ???? 

It's going to get a lot worse before (if) it ever gets better.

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Thai teachers automatically protect their own.

As does the state! teachers are integral to the "state" as they are responsible for indoctrinating the children to believe nonsense, if you think that is far fetched, look at what Thai kids learn!

It's true of many other countries as well!

On 10/5/2020 at 5:32 PM, Skeptic7 said:

Happens every time. Why expected to be any different this time??? 

Expectation? or are they happy ????

Years back Beach road rarely flooded and Jomtien never, then they built on all the swamp lands that used to hold the water, added the drain off from the dark side to the load and surprise, surprise, its too much for the system to cope with - well I never!

47 minutes ago, scorecard said:

Complaints hit bit time and the then police chief ordered that these cars remove the flashing lights and sirens. It took some tome to get most of these car owners to remove the lights/sirens,

I was living in Bangkok 30 years ago, must have missed these, traffic was so bad back then, they had barely started building roads, that lights and horns made no difference. The "body snatchers" used to try muscle their way through, as they were the predecessor to the ambulance which has now become common, but they never got far fast, they used to position themselves every hundred yards or so down small soi's off the main roads prior to rush hour, ready to "snatch"! (gold, jewellery, watches, wallets, dead or alive bodies, they took it all!) ????

8 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

What you see in Pattaya is a far cry from what is the case in most of the country.

I accept that, the tourist areas are the worst affected, the majority of the country is doing well enough, but the majority of the locals left long ago and are now stuck in places like Pattata, Samui, Phucket, CM ect, there is no point them going home. 35 million tourists generated a lot of income for low payed workers!

25 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

Depending on what age group you use to represent working age, it's about 600-800,000

Your spinning government figures, whats the reality? you don't lose 35 million tourists and not have high unemployment, sure if you are the government and don't want to pay out any money you can fudge the numbers, have you seen the food lines that form in Pattaya when free food is being handed out, it's all well and good having a job, but a lot will not be earning anything like minimum wage.

People return to their home province, really? they left "home" as there was no work, now they go back there, not happening where I am.

3 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

So why the warning?

? socialism at work, they got your back - otherwise - no idea, unless they are lying on a daily basis about how much water is really stored, I live next to a reservoir and that is at its lowest level for many years.

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

I was talking about the full ones ?

There are no full ones, most are Way down to what would be expected this time of year.

https://www.thaiwater.net/DATA/REPORT/php/rid_dam_1.php?lang=en

20 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

water mains had been destroyed

Journalism, once an occupation that commanded respect!

The sun had already near 'destroyed the "mains" by the looks of it!

52 minutes ago, rumak said:

As soon as it starts to heat up outside I close windows and doors and keep the cooler air inside for as

In all seriousness! once the hot weather arrives - so does the pollution, another reason for closing up the house and keeping the heat and pollution out ???? 

1 hour ago, KarenBravo said:

For those hot months, only an AC will work.

It's no accident that houses all around the world in the tropics have the same features. Maybe because they are effective?

Pretty much what I said (or meant) in my first post, dependant on how a chap choose to read it ???? 

Effective rules! 

4 minutes ago, KarenBravo said:

There is no need to be insulting. I stand by my experience that breezes cool a house.

I apoligise if you consider my response to be insulting, i thought with your sarcasm that you would not expect a polite reply.

Off course a breeze can cool a house, certainly below 35° after that no, you obviously don't live in the North or NE if you don't get 40° weather in the summer.

First of all you need a breeze, then the air needs to be able to flow to remove heat, if you have these weather conditions where you are - good 

They are rare days up here in the summer, in the "winter" we have days like this, but it makes little difference as cool anyway, the house cools down at night and tetains the cool during the day anyway, opening windows just equalises the heat with the outside.

13 minutes ago, KarenBravo said:

I think that experience and common sense indicates that houses that have a through breeze are cooler than houses with no breeze. That is based on my 40+ years in the tropics.

A 40° through breeze (when there is one!) that is then able to ignore insect screens, sure ???? 

So much for experience! 

44 minutes ago, KarenBravo said:

Alignment. My house faces NE. The prevailing winds here are NE and SW. Always have a breeze inside the house helped by lots of windows.

I struggle with this statement based on my 40+ years in the tropics!

The winds here do not blow very often, the slight breeze is blocked out if you have insect screens on your windows, in the middle of summer opening windows up when its 40° outside just equalises the temperature, if the house is hotter than 40° all well and good!

Even a human body at rest produces waste heat as part of its basic life processes. This heat has to go somewhere, otherwise the body would overheat. If the outside temperature equals your body temperature, your body is unable to dispose of its excess heat without overheating. (Actually, so long as humidity remains reasonably low, your body can employ evaporative cooling, which is how we survive on hot days without air conditioning. But excessive sweating is not exactly fun. And in 100% relative humidity, 32-33 degrees Centigrade can be deadly to an otherwise healthy human being. )

We feel most comfortable in temperatures where the body's natural ability to dissipate heat without heroic measures (like sweating) equals the amount of waste heat our body produces at rest, so those who want to "get used' to the heat, enjoy 

On 10/4/2020 at 1:14 PM, rumak said:

Keeping sun off the roof /  walls as much as possible is IMO  the first consideration.  Once the walls heat up.... its an oven

Once the floors in the house get above 30° you know its hot, roof and walls are easy to deal with the floor not so, only happens in the heat of the summer - thankfully!

2 minutes ago, transam said:

There are a few like you out there, sadly,

There are a LOT like you out there - that sadly that are unable to grasp reality, you have spent too long being told what to believe!

Coffee and cake for me ???? 

45 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

The UK has tested itself into an unnecessary panic. 

I would add with Very dubious testing that even the "inventor" states should not be used, PCR testing = very unreliable, the fact that this is an agenda seems to be beyond the understanding of most, they prefer to believe the MSM over facts.

The WEF is going to help out by taking on more "responsibilities though, this is the same forum that moved "industry" to China, yet folks still refuse to let it register what the true agenda is behind Controla virus!

24 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

We are living in changing times. 

Indeed we are! not all bad news though? the WEF announced that due to the "global reset" they will now take on more responsibility, good of them and totally unprecedented 

At what point will we envy the "freedom" the Chinese people enjoy 

Aim high Thailand!  #1 or nothing.........

Ignore the fact there will be a drought this year over much of the country due to the "rainy" season not delivering! 

17 minutes ago, Dazinoz said:

Might be the photos but some don't look straight.

I thought that, they look like mine , difference is mine don't have a roof on top to act like a sail.

Thats not what I envisaged!

The looks like the posts are "off the shelf" they have a pre formed flat bottom that is about 3 x the area of the post, there doesn't look like there is a lot buried. Measure how much stick up there is then subtract from original................

We have 12 of these in the wife's veggie garden, they are in the ground 1/2 Metre with no concrete, they are only for holding netting to stop sun, they wont fall down but are not particularly secure.

19 hours ago, Dazinoz said:

Thais using "experienced" person to build house so far and, I assume, on the cheap, are probably not going to listen to farang as we know nothing.

For anyone to give a helpful response would need to know how deep the footing are and what they are sitting in?

The top soils here tend to be little more than silt, hopefully they have gone deeper, you would expect so 

I understand Thai logic to some extent, when you have no money then you have a roof over your head, theirs a huge difference in ones life. My wife was bought up in a shack, her parents now live in a "house" basic, but it has four walls - their quality of life has improved a 1,000 fold, sure it is a similar situation with the Mother, so hope it turns out for the best.