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7 hours ago, Bim Smith said:

CDC advice is if you're already vaccinated or had the previous one you're more likely to get it. How convenient a new booster is approved. 

Cambell's fallen off the trolley and mainly posts to attract new antivaxxer/conspiracy theorist subscribers. He bangs on abot excess deaths and completely failed to mention the 70+M exces deaths following the 1918 pandemic (with ZERO vaccines given!!). 

On 8/23/2023 at 5:25 PM, foreverlomsak said:

Sounds like a certain country starting with Th and finishing in ailand

Nothing wrong in making a buck/baht. The problem is when people come and dont bring the money....and stay. I can't fault any conutry/people for not wanting this. If you come, don't expect citizens to support you financially. 

2 hours ago, Purdey said:

It is was inevitable that China would will catch up.

It hasn't happened yet. The Japanese took decades. 

5 hours ago, brianthainess said:

So he can wear his own clothes, and not have to get a haircut, I wonder what other inmates feel about that.

Nothing...they were raised in this system and know their place in society. It's normal. 

Just now, ravip said:

What about the middle class?

An engineer, technician, policeman, secretary etc. etc

If they're a civil servant they get a nice pension and medical care. Other professionals are likely to have a provident fund or some other kinds of investments (as well as being looked after by family). The nice thing about a civil servant pension is that you can keep working full time after 60 (not for givt though) and still get the full pension. 

16 minutes ago, ricklev said:

Has the Pink Line monorail to the Changwattana government complex opened? I saw an article that said test runs started last week but it was unclear if all stations were open or if they would be open on 1 September.  It will be nice to avoid the taxi drivers there as well as the horrible traffic in the afternoon. 

I live around there. Yes the traffic is terrible int he afternoon, and I wonder why they are still using lanes to park their trucks and store construction equipment. They are slowely opening some parts of some lanes. I saw some testing of a train a month ago, but I have no idea of when it will open, but the openign keeps getting pushed back. Maybe next year or the followin year? There is still a lot of construction to do around Impact (I think I saw a sign saying that is at least 2 years away from being finished. They certainly don't seem in any hurry to finish any of it. Tivanon road is still a mess as well. 

On 8/17/2023 at 2:57 PM, CanNot said:

Hello,

I have a Mazda 3 with the OEM wheels 205/60 R16. I want to change it to the bigger OEM spec  215/45 R18x7. 

I have been to two dedicated rim shops and both told me that R18x7 doesn't exist in the rim after market, just R18x8 or R17x7.5 and I would need 225/45 for those rims.

 

I want to stick to the OEM specs, can anybody point me to a shop (Bangkok & Pattaya area) or manufacture which provides R18x7 ?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Definitely you can get 17x8 rims. Try some other shops. These are from www.tivanon.com

9 hours ago, transam said:

Why would one..................????

No idea, as the low ride tritons have to low powered motor (unlike the high riders). More "fun" would be the low rider 4 door revo with 200+hp and no traction control system...especially on those stock skinny tires. 

21 hours ago, madmitch said:

Yep. Over 60 is too old for regullar Government employees but the norm for MPs, especially cabinet ministers. Prawit is 77, the speaker is 79 and the rest keep the local hair dye shop in business.

60 is too young. Many 60 year olds still have all their mental faculties. My wife retired from government 2 years ago, but has taken another more senior position (but not srictly as a government employee). It's not like the ork is arduous like in construction. I would think many poeple can work until their are 70-75 or so. 

Probably got an Elite visa and got confused, as they said he could sail through customs...he thought they said skate through customs. ????

6 hours ago, Joseph98765 said:

The easiest way....

You have work permit? you get thai price....

Most places don't allow for that. 

On 8/1/2023 at 3:52 PM, sometimewoodworker said:

Weather prediction is not possible, unless you are looking at a general area and a short time. The time is in hours to days.

 

Accurate rain prediction for a small area is not possible. I have seen rain on one side of a street while the other side was dry. No forecast has ever been able to be that specific.

 

There are some areas where you can predict no rain and some times of the year where you can be reasonably sure of no rain.

There is a reason why the weather services have the most advanced powerful computers.

The www.windy.com shows real time rain. I would say for my location it is 98% accurate - if rain at my house it almost certainly is raining. It also shows the movement of rain, so if there is a storm front coming you can expect it, as long as it's not far away. It may break up or dissapate. It other instances, rain can start spontaneously from existing clouds.  The The current situation. 

8 hours ago, BritManToo said:

This page suggests only 5% of Thais regularly pay income tax.

 

https://asiafoundation.org/2015/04/15/thailand-and-taxes/

"Many Thais, both rich and poor, are simply outside of the tax system. Just three million Thais out of 67 million regularly pay income taxes."

Those 5% probably work for the government. My wife paid something like 160K in tax last year. 

I douby many businesses pay much tax at all and run separate books if they are ever audited. 

On 7/30/2023 at 7:11 AM, rabas said:

Thai tax revenues help support the venues, foreigners pay no tax.

 

Maybe you don't but I pay a lot!!

2 hours ago, SiSePuede419 said:

Naturally aspirated, 5th generation hybrid, reliable, dependable Toyota.

Boring AF...that's the toyota motto. 

2 hours ago, SiSePuede419 said:

Don't get a new CR-V.  They have turbos now.

 

Turbos wear out faster than aspirated engines and cost more for maintenance.

Except the top spec cr-v is hybrid non-turbo. 

Post some links for your second statement. It turbo engines fail, that is mainly due to abuse or poor maintainence. 

www.windy.com

Click "weather radar" to get the current rainfall. It's very accurate. 

40 minutes ago, Goat said:

If the Thais did this there would be howls of "racism" on this forum and TAT are stupid etc. 

 

Nice people the Thais.

Take your xenophobia elsewhere you old goat. 

On 7/25/2023 at 10:55 AM, JBChiangRai said:

My MG4 is the first car I have ever bought that hasn't had to have something fixed under warranty (touch wood).

And you have had this car exactly how long? .....most cars are fine during the warranty period. But 5-10 years down the track is when you will meet problems. Just be sure to sell it well before the warranty expires. 

11 minutes ago, bignok said:

Or is that like taking sand to the beach?

Or coals to Newcastle!

8 hours ago, In the jungle said:

No.

It's a plug-in hybrid, so not a fully electric vehicle. If EV if would still be on fire lol