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Just arrived on samui via the ferry yesterday, an employee (exactly who employee don't know) tried to say there were no buses or taxi waiting for them at lipa noi. I told everyone it was bs, but a few still bought tickets. This occurred just before the transfer bus left to donsak. I called air asia to inform them, they insisted this doesn't happen, I could tell she couldn't care less. Annoying to see people ripped off. Tom

Arriving in Nathon is usually no problem, there will always be taxis and songtaews there even late in the evening.

The ferry port in Lipa Noi is known for having a limited number of taxis and often none at all in the evening, something to think about if you arrive there.

1200 baht, if that is what he asked, is way over the top - its a scam.

I usually pick up my visitors if they arrive in Lipa Noi just because you can never be sure that there is an available taxi or minibus there.

I have no problem accessing Swedish sites, just tried aftonbladet.se and my old uni chalmers.se

As an aside, please excuse my ignorance but why is HC used in Swimming pools? I have had a pool for 10 years and only use a sand filter and chlorine, am I doing something wrong?

G.

Chlorine is in free form a gas (Cl) which when dissolved in water creates Hydrochloric acid (HCl).

Are you are using it in fluid form for your pool or do you "bubble" gas into your pool water?

850 baht for 25L seems like a bargain to me, I buy 5L V-Clean (23% HCl) for around 300 baht at Chaweng Trading or Maenam Trading and use it for removing concrete stains and rust stains on tiles.

The toilet cleaner you buy at Tesco is usually around 15% HCl

My guess, poor guy had a heart attack with his foot on the gas pedal and CRASH! May he RIP.

My thought as well after having seen the wreckage.

It does not even look like a high speed impact and its not like they had to cut him out of it.

Light shower up here in Plai Laem - dry now

Kudos to you for giving a precise location within Tamboon Bophud.

No rain at all in Chaweng, Bophud.

so what u r saying is that the government shall give me a discount on eletric if i can buy solor panels and run them into the government gride?

basically it slows my own meter down is that correct?

No, you would not want to use your own generated electricity since the price you can get when selling it is so much higher than what you pay when buying electricity from the grid.

Sell all what you have and buy it back at a lower price, the same is taught in Stock Broker 101

Two trucks falling over, one to each side, well done Thai truck drivers!

What are those tanks/cylinders in the middle of the road?

Buy the walki-talkies here in Thailand, the red coloured ones are the ones which are approved for public use.

Buy it abroad and then it is very likely that it is of a type not approved for public use here.

Laziness? Do you have children?

Sorry, that line wasn't for you but for the OP who think the closure is because "money rules", I missed to quote him.

But, since you ask, yes I have children (though grown up now) and I never had any problem walking them a couple of hundred meters.

One must have some understanding that hotel and resort owners are not very happy about outsiders filling up the parking space reserved for their customers. Most of them doesn't mind you walking through their premises.

Is the OP referring to the road into Choeng Mon Beach Resort, formally Choeng mon bungalows? There is a barrier there but i've never known them to close it!

It must be that road and it is not like it suddenly has become a private road - it has always been their land.

The problem is not the usage of the road in itself but the fact that if you ride that road then you ride on something that has to be parked somewhere which most likely is also private property (unless you bring your vehicle all the way down to the beach).

There are alternatives, one of them being to park your vehicle on the main road and walk the last bit..

Is it maybe so for you that laziness rules?

Helmet checks tomorrow.

Also, I can not help it but why in the hell is a blurred background considered a high quality professional photography? Is this some new standard to save the memory for those pixels by blurring them out? Strange, if you ask me

Perhaps professional photographers know more about this than you. Actually far from being a "new standard" it is a very old rule-of-thumb to blur background when the subject being photographed is the primary interest. In fact, your eyes do the same thing. Of course, there are exceptions, so that's why it's a rule-of-thumb.

Even you would probably agree if you saw this photo compared to the same photo with the background in full focus.

Also, there's the optical physics of lenses and depth-of-field, but that takes way too long to explain here.

Not only would it take some time, it would also be a complete waste of time explaining for someone who wouldn't understand it anyway.

Wonder where they think the money for this dream will come from...the governments Bt2 trillion loan?

It is peanuts for them, they will only have to sell some rice stock to finance it.

The lad was a jet ski worker

That is one way of describing him, I'd use another description.

He is part of the Buffalo & Jetski family which consider themselves to be mafia and as such doesn't care about killing a cop.

You can see him waing his father and uncle, asking for forgiveness when they load him onto the truck for going with him to the police station - he is only sorry for the trouble he has brought onto the family.

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Right.

Yes.

It's a notice.

On a window or a door.

I've been staring at it for a while now.

Could you let me in on why you find it in any way funny or silly, please?

It's really puzzling me . . .

R

It could have a sexual meaning if you look between the sheet's.

So every time I go and visit friends and they invite me in, immediately now I'm going to think of having unprotected sex with them.

Now I get it!

Odd how some people's minds work . . .

No, not unprotected, where did you get that idea?

Bangkok police has arrived to protect the perpetrator from committing suicide before being brought to court.

me bars dontr make be laugh i have a shopping center frnachise. i meant to call it Big T but i spelt it wrong

We can prolly assume you to be the owner of Pizza Hug on the main road outside Tesco Chaweng

Do you offer franchising?

Did you pay your electricity bill?

They are very quick to disconnect your meter when the bill due date has passed and they haven't got any payment, 3-4 days and you are off the grid.

That's it, I need to buy a diesel Gen, my petrol one costs more to run then the car.

PM me if you are serious, I have a few brand new to choose between and a new delivery of bigger ones (40KVA, 50KVA, 80KVA) arriving next week.

Now where was it that I can get french fries woven into my hair please???

Please PM me when you have found out, I can't be arsed to check this thread every day.

45 minute power cut in Lamai last night, not impressed.

One would think that they should be able to repair broken cables much quicker in the night, there is after all almost no traffic on the roads so it shouldn't take them more than 10-15 minutes to get there.

Does anyone know why the PEA chose to cut our power from 11.30 to 14.10 today? Apparently it was not because of an accident and i was wondering what works must be so important to hit us again today after a scheduled eight hour cut yesterday. After all if it was so important perhaps they might have had the kindness to start again at 8.00am when the temperature has not yet reached 38 degrees.

They cut when they have to, they were working between Samui Town Center and Makro in the morning.

Would you had preferred that they cut power at that time even though it was needed?

Now there are 3 phase switches with 30Ampere, 60Ampere and 100Ampere quite different in price.

What size do I need? I have 4 ACs in my house, 4 water heater, pool motor, fridge and so on. Some of my fuses are 32 Amp.

Is the 60Ampere switch ok?

The 60A switch is more than enough for the generator you bought but you have way too many high-consuming appliances for that genset.

A water heater takes 5-6KW and Sakari 6500 is rated about the same (5.5KW) which is around 25A at 220V.

A 30A 3-phase transfer switch can handle 30A per phase, ie a total of 90A or 20KW but you will need the 60A switch when running on the grid.

81 Km/h is just a step less than a typhoon

Quite a big step since a Tropical storm is between 62-88 km/h, a severe Tropical storm 89-117 km/h, Typhoon starts at 118.

I hope their new prediction holds.