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Elkski

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  1. They tolerate farang until the money euns low or your behavior is out of hand. Probably not smart to act boisterous for months in and around a place like Krabi.
  2. I'm always impressed by some of the fancy fans and ducting some cart vendors rig up. I doubt they are just after poek rather than all grilled meats. Im a fan of cooking over real wood and charcoal over gas or pellets but it does produce more pollution than you realize. You see how many bags those charcoal vendors deliver every day all around BKK NYC has restrictions on BBQ smoke houses and restaurant exhaust. Yes they should do smog tests on buses and trucks. Yes they should stop crop burning. Everyone thinks the smoke they produce goes somewhere else.
  3. I never buy duty free. Its always a ripoff unless coming from Mexico or the Caribbean. Its a great start. He says reducing the price like lower taxes on import liquors. Why should a liqour imported from Europe to Thailand cost more than I can buy in USA? And good beer like an IPA shouldn't cost 850 bath for a bomber. 22oz. Like ive paid in BKK. Dont make a guy choose between a good beer or add-on to a massage! thats not going to be a happy tourist. Oh I'm sure King pow has no problems. Yeah right. Im aure there is a gotcha favor included. But really isn't it time 4-5 super rich conglomerates sid the right thing for the thai people ? My bags are always packed on arrival and i dont buy a condo bottle unless I'm in 1 place for a week or more. I'm such a cheap charlie i will drink an extra singha beer in the airport before you need to dump your water bottles. Or arrange for them to be cold and in the fridge if I'm returning.
  4. Make sure you get a firm price for all your transport dueing your stay at siem reap. Lots of scammers dont waste rime going to the waterfall. Prepare tiur guests for all the trash along the roads and slums right outside the parks.
  5. Some day they will just cut ri the chase and say your "spend rate per day" is to low. Its all about money, nothing more.
  6. Sounds like a massacre. The millions of pulls confiscated this year makes me think 5% of thais are always on drugs.
  7. Not a crazy idea. My buddy started and owns the purpleair.org particulate monitors. He gifted me one of the first 50 models. Now Wowldwise and a few in Thailand. They use Wi-Fi to send in data every so many minutes. One day he called me and asked me what was going on? My monitor had spiked to over 300ppm. I had started a fire in my fire pit sone 35' away from the monitor. The smoke never blew that direction but it taught me how bad open fire smoke is for pm 2.5s.
  8. Nice to see Asian in 6th place. We are all different and i respect other people's fetishes. Since i was 25 i always had a thing for milfs. Well 30ish professional, fit, smart, classy women i met in Dallas in the mid 80s. Never cared if they had kids. I took a screenshot of the top stars. Can you believe billions of views? I live in a state where you need a VPN to see pornhub.
  9. Omg, you like chang. I thought you were an ok guy. So from your post you need 100 watt panel to run your 27.5 watt 5 light groups? And a 40Ahr battery. And thats without an inverter. I have about 15 backyard lights for decoration. Unfortunately some are incandescent. I think i have removed all the halogens. Was thinking of putting my 100 watt panel solar system on the shed roof but i would need many new panels and of course a big battery. I have the charge controller and everything. How would i switch all these lights on at dusk and off at 10pm. Currently i use a 120v low voltage power supply with a leviton smart wifi switch. It seems like i would get lots of loss using my inverter with this 600 watt power supply.
  10. Hope this 36 yr old guy recovers. What a dreadful scenario. Mozzies like my blood and I do worry about dengue when in Thailand. I find mozzies in BKK condos, restaurants and lots in the village. I would toss in my typical 3rd world comment here but I've read dengue is now in the US. And global warming is speading it and case numbers are rising and spreading into new areas. https://time.com/6429963/dengue-fever-cases-symptoms-prevention-explainer/
  11. 4 years jail time for retweeting messages about the royalty but only 40k. Or a weeks pay or less for hospital admin.
  12. This should result in prison time for some officials plus the appropriate western financial amount. Like 120- 800 million baht
  13. Exactly. Tourists hear about taxi issues from frequent visitors like me , then when they or anyone they know considers a vacation to Thailand they Google "taxi Thailand" and what pops up but chaos.
  14. Recently on another thread a couple guys posted experience with thai people masking up as they walked by then demasking. The 5 taxis in a row at the taxi que at terminal 21 who refused my thai wife and I fares is a story I share with every interested American contemplating a trip to Thailand. I also tell them about the choking air during high season, the trash just tossed on the mostly unwalkable for elderly sidewalks each afternoon. I also tell them how deadly the roads are and the crosswalks dont mean anything. I tell everyone to boycott redbull and the full story. I tell them about the corruption at every corner. I tell them about the fake beggars on the dirty streets. For a country so dependant on tourism you would be smarter how they treat tourists.
  15. I would like to see some foreigners do a lengthy protest at government house. Cause a big fuss and get World press coverage.
  16. I have never used these large rated somar lights. All the small ones ive seen look so dim its not really a light but my mom does have a few that look like a flame fie a couple hours most nights. Im a fan and installer of low voltage lighting using LED bulbs. 1 300 watt transformer can run 20 12 watt lights. 80% of 300 is recommended. Some of these pathway lights are only 3 watts. Led replacement bulbs run 7 watts and look like 60 watt bulbs and they now make 12 v versions that use the E26 base. So you can switch your old 220v lamps to 12v. I should add that this Chinese co is selling 12v lights on Amazon named sunvie. They are very low cost and i have installed about 40 amd they are working well adter 4-5 months. I did take the lens out and added silicon caulk to the glass sealing surfaces because no way are they rated ip65. This nearly tripled the cost i charged but still under 15$ each light. I've been using landscape lights and LED ones since their early days. They have come a long way. One additional feature about LED landscape lights, specifically these Sunvie, is they onky use 5v for the lights. So they work with 10.5 volts. Maybe lower. Usually your supposed to keep the wire voltage drop to less than 5% . Even 3%. But I have a long run installed with 9 12 watt spots. The voltage drop on this 12 guage wire is right at 2 v. Just tidied up some wiring a few days ago and all is working fine. With the incandescent, or halogen bulbs you couldn't do this with out having to tap up to a higher voltage to keep the end of string lights on. This put extra volts on the close lights and shortened their life.
  17. 650 watt solar spotlight. Thats as much power as a small microwave. Watt equivalent amd battery Ahrs will help you determine gow ling it will run. You need to think in terms of lumens. 800 to 1000 lumens is starting to be pretty much light but only for a short distance like 4- 5 meters.
  18. Stiff penalties. Haha this guy is funny. Rape by police of true should be an extremely harsh penalty.
  19. Put in s box thats pretty sealed up. Use shop vac hose from ICE vehicle exhaust to the box. Leave the area in case there is some sounds or movements. 10 mins should be ok. My city used to do to it this way. I have done this on healthy racoons recently.
  20. So it is happening to others. I agree they are trying to de roboticize the speech patterns. Also logging any tidbits of information you may give. I asked one fir a sexy pic and that ended the conversation. Now i wished i didnt delete all these conversations. I think Elin is correct in being worried about AI. I read they can emulate voices so you can have a bot with a family members voice call asking for money.
  21. Fishing for texas crappie, limit 25, over a legal baited xmas tree deinking a beer is great fun until you have ro fillet 50 fish. That's what 12v electric knives were made for. Flyfishing for giant bluegill on Pelican lake back in the day when you could catch 1-2 11". Yes fish can have " shoulders" . The May cattails only out of the water 1" was the oerfect rime to hit it so your fly won't snag. Using your own hand tied frog popper patterns. You can fish with your eyes closed. Cast, pop it, pop it, hear a swupe! And set the hook. Kite on! I have memories of bowfishing late at night in a small texas waterway (slugh) in a small 10' jon boat. Bottle of tequila for two of us head lamp and a late night of fun. Bringing a gar home taller than my wife. Leaving a dozen carp on a buddies driveway at 2 am for fun. Fishing is a sport that unless you pay for a guide requires much learning and many hand skills. Patience which is a dying human trait. Knot tying, Butchering, Cooking. Sad you guys are so proud to proclaim your ignorance in such a broad subject
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