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so he cannot speak Thai she cannot speak English where a normal small talk conversation does not seem possible seriously, what type of clown would you need to be get married in this scenario?

for myself i don't mind being left out when there is a group convo many times the family are here and only some speak English, those times it can be better to be left out lol but even when family do speak English very often they will converse in Thai in front of me but usually when the convo is just small talk or of no relevance to myself i never find it rude when Thais speak Thai regardless of who is in the room, or how it may feel but a foreigner speaking Thai is a completely different matter, especially if English is most convenient for those in the conversation

depends on setting and circumstance if you are in small setting, English is your first language and you are cutting the farang out of the conversation between his wife and yourself, that is very disrespectful, if for instance you are at a dinner or event with a few wives and/or talking to a group etc and farang is not the only one left out of the convo then that is completely different. If English is your first language, and you were having a convo with myself, and then you decided to talk to my wife in Thai (assuming i would not understand any) cutting me out of the convo, it would likely be the last convo you have with my wife or myself and would likely be cut short.

take it to a samsung customer service centre 🤦‍♂️ i had a Laptop brought to me from uk and had battery replaced under warranty in Pattaya at samsung service centre on sukhumvit near lotus, but i think they moved it to pattaya klang for bkk see HERE to me it sounds like the shop just repaired the screen themselves, hence the offer of refund.

if you think you may have any need for any more cables in future, you can buy the cable and connectors and crimpers and make yourself it is very easy to do, and is what i now do since wiring my new office i run a lot of LAN cables in the wall obviously you may buy a good bit more cable than you need, Glink CAT6 100m is like 400 baht iirc you can buy the shieled connectors cheap and can colour code the cables if doing this though be sure to buy the pass through connectors and crimpers for such as they are much easier than the old ones obviously doing this you can make the cable exactly the right length

Minimum wage is not good for any economy.

If you have a topic of discussion (or not) you can try using meetup.com if you have a friend or two just start meeting at a regular spot that others are welcome to join

Just to be clear, my decision to be off grid has absolutely nothing to do with environment or carbon footprint blah blah😉

but but but.... your carbon footprint you do know it is very common to use carbon generators at deadly levels to grow high grade? Sorry to break it to you Canada is so screwed, i honestly hope you are here and not there. you at least get a thumbs up if you got out already. BTW, what strain you puffin today?

like i said, put the reefer down so i can understand what you are getting at? some of the worst what? people? i may agree lol, but i only got you, Ricky, Julian and Bubbles to go by....lol

now this is a much more sensible comment i agree we should be going back to reusable glass

put the reefer down and actually read what has been typed firstly you know nothing of me, so it is foolish to assume anything then you go on to tell me i use grid power, after i have already stated i am COMPLETEY OFF GRID if you want a conversation please do find the answers to these questions for yourself. what percent of the atmosphere is Co2? what percent of that is man made? At what level of Co2 does all life on earth die? What happens to the oxygen levels in the atmosphere when Co2 levels increase? how many KW is the average to charge an EV? what is the average household use in KW? if you know these then we can have a conversation now as to myself to address your dumb af comments my cars is used extremely little, it would make zero sense either side of the argument for myself to purchase a new car regardless of fuel we have extremely small amount of garbage, literally one bag a month, which is mainly nappies that are mostly agar agar (we use nappies night time only, daytime we use terrycloth) we do not burn any garbage or plastics which are toxic again i am not referring to general air pollution but the releasing of toxic chemicals to those around you in near proximity not to mention it is actually illegal to burn garbage now this does not matter to myself, but............. Now, i have shown you mine, you show me yours.

This is the problem right here, thinking it is about what we are told it is about for my comments i am specifically referring to burning of plastics and the toxicity to those around you i do not care about "carbon footprint" as i understand how backwards this mentality is CO2 = life i do not live completely off grid and nearly self sufficient for any such reasons. don't be fooled by the nonsense that is put out in order to impose more tax and regulations and as far as EV drivers go.... there are reasons to buy an EV saving the environment is not one of them, and thinking you have the moral high ground because you drive one is just asinine

i was more referring to toxicity to those around you if you can smell it then it is inside you i did forget to mention for you none of this is a worry as you drive an EV so when you are out on the road everybody will know there is a "good person" that is better than everyone else behind the wheel as i said there are other ways, we are right in the sticks and have no need to burn toxic plastics

What i read..... and not all plastic packaging can be sold for recycling, which is the trash you burn. anything that is biodegradable is not trash, really not much else apart from plastic packaging that is not biodegradable

Burning plastics is very toxic, there are other ways we simply bag ours up and simply use a public bin whenever we are out we also visit the FIL once a month who gets our plastic trash if we have any we are totally off grid, and there is no trash collection where we are. we DO NOT burn toxic plastic trash (or anything else for that matter) "Hypocrisy - the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform."

lots of BS around recycling, when you pull up at the gas station, you see the 3 bins for recycle or normal trash if you sit there long enough you will see the guy come and collect the trash from all 3 bins and put it all in the same cart. most recycling is virtue signalling or just another way to fine the public The big problem with recycling is the cost or energy needed to recycle can be more than producing new

mmmmmmm........🤔

Colombo, Sri Lanka. But takes 4 days, so you can take a trip for 3 days somewhere go see Tea Plantations etc then pick up passport and then can take a trip down south to the beaches if you want to stay longer they do now also have an airport down south, so possibly will not need to travel back to Colombo for return flight not been for many years, so cannot comment on current flights, or visa services but previous visits was told "for you (foreigner) can do any visa" for a fee of course.

where did i say this does not happen? As i said most people ignore the fact that Grab drivers get paid very little while the tech company takes a chunk all the customers care about is cheap cheap price Thank you for proving my point.

Grab drivers make so little they cannot afford to sit in traffic burning fuel. Customers always love the cheap cheap prices but most people are unaware or ignore the fact that apps like, Grab, Bolt, Uber, Lineman etc pay the actual person doing the work very little while the tech company takes a big chunk the companies do not care about the workers or the turnover as they know there are plenty more people desperate enough to have a go One thing you can do to try and help avoid drivers wanting to cancel is tell them in advance what their tip will be Many people do this anyway to get the ride accepted quicker where demand is high but personally this should never be needed, as this just allows the greedy tech company to continue being greedy

Get used to it as this is becoming the norm. Not just airlines, but many companies have resorted to bots for customer service, and now chat GPT is available to use it will only become more common and widespread.

Once the new railways are fully operational it will be the end of the line for many Thai Businesses.

ALL Ibis Hotels allow dogs under 15kg iirc you can also try PetFriendlyThailand and BringFido

i have not read the bill, maybe they will take a different route and only allow licensed pharmacies to sell, it sounds like it is all about licensing, basically you need a prescription....cough cough that is same as US but then they made cards instead of repeated prescriptions i doubt they would want to lose the tax they are already receiving and as you say nothing against possession and consumption it is just the trade they are going after so if they continue to let licensed weed sellers sell, they will need a way for that seller to verify it is for buyers health otherwise they make it prescription only....cough cough and it just gets sold at pharmacies other possibility is this is just an extra tax that goes into different pockets just have to see how they apply the fine and whether it is applied the same to all as 60,000 will be affordable by busy shops just like craft beers brewers paying 10,000 Baht fine every month this would also very much favour the bigger operators and make it difficult for smaller competition to get going they could easily corner the weed outlet market like this