NorthernRyland

This is why songkran sucks. There are no boundaries, everyone is fair game. You wanted to take a break and have a cup of coffee? Sorry drink my <deleted> water and stay home if you don't like it. It's Thai culture guys. It's not polite to dump water in someone's coffee the rest of the year how does it become acceptable during a 3 day magic window? Nothing changes, your coffee is still ruined all the same.

just an air gap? I have to assume some insulation material would have higher R value than air but maybe that would good enough. 9*18 is a big space though, would probably cost 20k+ baht for something basic.

Yet very common. What's a better solution? I guess you can do foam insulation metal sheeting but that's kind of ugly if nothing else.

I can think of restaurants that have low ceilings and metal roofs. Even if I like their food I simply can not eat there during most times of the year because it feels like an oven. If they spent a few thousand baht to put in some 1CM foam that would make just enough difference to survive with a fan on you.

You could buy like 250 condos and rent them out for 10,000B+/month for $23mil USD. How much revenue does this website generate per month? I doubt it's anywhere near that but what do I know.

The hill tribes cut the forests down for crops too. Hmong do that in Chiang Mai also but the forest department restricts them to their immediate area.

That may be true but did you see the picture of the guys butt I posted?

I simply don't see Thai people as having the spirit required to do the hard policing it would take. It's not just burning it's all the usual problems, stray dogs, littering on vacant land, dangerous driving etc... These aren't people that are willing to have ugly confrontations and do what would needs to be done. I have zero confidence this will ever change unless the people themselves decide they want to stop.

I say it's mostly the hill tribes who are foraging and hunting, and yes they extend into Myanmar and Laos. Just look at who's living around the areas which are burning. It's the same places every year around the same people.

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

Ditto my home in Samoeng loses power constantly during storms and it's because all the power lines are running along roads in the mountains and when a tree a falls it will take down the lines.

and Thai's put them to shame with their speaker stacks loaded up in the back of pickups. You wouldn't think it by looking at travel brochures but Thailand has a hardcore redneck culture well surpassing anything in America, with the one exception of monster trucks and wrestling.

The Songkran gods must receive sacrifices before the rains can start.

No joke this happens at least once a year where my wife works. Same thing every time. Poor guys, I wish Thailand had more squirrels, I quite like them.

This seems way off base to me. Ok maybe very old people or actual government officials in uniform are spared but everyone else is game on. The majority of the people splashing water are kids in the 9-20 age range and you've given them full permission for 3 days to run around in a pickup truck with a barrel of water. Do you seriously think they know any better or even care? Thai's are so repressed the rest of the year you really see the excitement in their eyes when they find a target. For the rest of the people mob mentality and booze is another powerful factor. They do not care. I long ago gave up trying to go out unless I'm 100% prepared to get wet and even so it's not the water that pisses me off it's the being targeted aspect and drunk people trying to get you to pull over so they can soak you and if they get you stopped they won't take no for answer. It's like hunting almost. The real reason I hate songkran is because I can't go outside for 3 days without a car and have to sit home and listen to retardation inducing music. It's horrible. Why didn't I get buy the cheapest ticket to some country? I need to make that my songkran resolution for next year.

take that your partners family.

Where I'm from in America it's always expected to yield to pedestrians in parking lots and it would be considered extremely rude to do what the car did here. The car however is doing the usual rude stuff you do in Thailand so can't be considered at fault. Obviously this isn't America thought so you can't expect cars to yield and especially shouldn't get all pissed off like that (the guy was probably American). What do other Europeans do? If you're in an area where people are likely walking (parking lot, or this mall entrance with foot traffic) do the people need to be extra careful to not get hit (like Thailand) or do you look out for them and yield when need be?

No video just dropped, same theme. They do this constantly but no one seems to be learning any lessons.

I started learning how to read within months of arriving in Thailand. I just thought it would be cool to be able to read a menu and order food, kind of like a magic trick. You can learn on your own at home easily and it's really rewarding. Maybe the only choice I made in Thailand which I'm 100% confident was the right one.

Is this a joke? that's basically all jobs in Thailand. Selling fried chicken under a metal roof in 38c? Thai people do that crap all day.

Those pesky Ukrainian-Portuguese again.

"she was talking back so I hit her. What else could I have done?"

You are retired in Thailand and you can't find the time to bake your own beans? Let that sink in for a while.

This is such a sad comment. I really enjoying speaking with the women who clean our house and do laundry. They work at my wife's company earning not even 10k month so they take part time jobs to earn extra cash. They are such nice people if you can make some banter with them and joke around.

it pains my soul to see American wigger culture has infected Australia. All countries should ban American mainstream music as a national security threat. Yes it really is that bad.