NorthernRyland

Yeah it's Joven 500 but from 2012. It says clearly on the side it needs to be connected to ground and has warnings etc... I'll go outside a little later and track down the wires. This is a crappy little wooden cabin (weekend getaway) which is built to the bare minimum of standards in all regards so you can expect anything.

Yeah I'll need to track that down outside or find the land lord. Good idea many people pointed out. Yeah I think I've seen that button on other models (it said press to test or something?) but this seems to be the cheapest entry level Joven and is missing one. There's a picture of the breaker but I don't know what to look for. If there's an earth maybe it's hidden in the back and I nee to track it down outside.

I've just noticed this wiring in the shower of a rental. Sorry the photo is dark but those wires are going into the shower and the hole isn't even sealed (usually there is a rubber ring I think)! Not only is the conduit not completed they've stripped the wire casing even well before inserting into the shower. The way it looks water could easily splash in there even though this hasn't happened in the over 1 year I've been renting this little wooden cabin. How bad is this? Does it require immediate attention?

Watching videos of people retiring in South East Asia they always mentioned how Thai's can barely speak English and this is major factor when considering retirement. Don't they get something like 10 years of English in school? Either the education or the students must be defective.

Maybe that means they're becoming middle class and not willing to waste their valuable time on trivial things. Many trades people in the US have a minimum cost to come to your house, even if they do nothing. On the other hand it seems many Thais aren't motivated by money as they already own transportation and have free housing. I don't blame them myself but it is annoying if you need some help but then maybe I should be blaming myself for being lazy. ????

In typical Chinese fashion they put the entire sign in Chinese and probably only spoke Chinese or would take Chinese customers.

Classic. This is something you're supposed to get over by the time you're out of yours teens (at the latest!) but so many Thai's never seemed to learn how to handle conflicts. It would be a nightmare to actually work here and rely on these people in real life situations. Blows my mind how people pull it off.

Until last Monday and then it flipped back. Even getting rains again now. Once this blows through it should pick back up.

"One man's trash is another man's treasure"

I was just in Pai over the weekend and those dirty pot smoking hippies are going to be devastated if these new rules happen.

Probably because the people being studied were in their late 70s and 80s where health risks increase each year anyways. Every single time there's some catch or little omitted detail. Not falling for it.

Thai PBS just won't let it go. It comes in waves during certain seasons. Nothing has changed since 2020 in this regard so why don't they just shut up about it already? We know.

LOL everyone got it and the government destroyed the economy by closing borders for over a year. Not to mention the cost of needless COVID prevention measure. Total fail.

It's literally just a tax harvesting plantation at this point.

No, but those things happen outside of this context on fairly regular basis.

Exactly what China is doing also. Peas in a pod.

Does this only apply to PayPal accounts linked to Thai bank accounts? I just opened my account and I didn't see any notifications. What ever it means it's just one more reason why Thailand makes it difficult for foreigners living here and people should reconsider. Boomers now retiring en masse now should be paying attention to this in particular.

What that graph is showing is the people who were vulnerable got ill first and then rates fell as potential victims who were left were more robust. Impossible to say what effect the vaccines had at this point. Correlation doesn't equal causation etc... etc...

100% chance this is total B.S. These so-called vaccines do nothing to prevent transmission and this is now public and well known information outside of the 3rd world. Sounds like Thailand is stealing US media talking points from January 2021.

Could have been any of us. RIP.

I was talking to some Thai guy in a village the other week and he commented on my dog (see the photo) he said he had a dog also and I ask what breed. The guy literally said "oh you know the kind that's really big and likes to bite people". This was an otherwise normal middle aged farmer but he thought this to be a totally reasonable thing to say. Shameless idiots.

The government is staffed by the people from the village so obviously we get nowhere. No easy fixes here without replacing the government with people from another culture.

What for? I think they're just doing busy work to justify their pay check so it's probably best to not get upset about it but it's still annoying.

they're still seriously doing house visits after 11 years?? That's just abusive in my opinion. No reason whatsoever for that. They told me only once at Chiang Mai but we'll see about that!

That's all fine but only one time! More than that implies they think you're a fraud or they're just being intrusive for the sake of it. I would be annoyed if I was the OP.