RocketDog

On 7/5/2025 at 2:53 PM, Harrisfan said:

Go post on a Trump topic then.

Trump lives in your head 7/24/365 rent free.

He is your be all and end all.

He is the Orange hole around which your universe turns. 

OK. Fine.

But don't bother the rest of us with your obsession.

On 7/4/2025 at 8:47 PM, scorecard said:

 

Thanks.

 

Can you suggest a good VPN, please.

PROTON VPN. 

Blocks ads very well also.

14 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

Its normal behaviour in politics , but jesus, any criticism or animosity suffered by  Biden would pale into insignificance compared to that directed at Donald Trump,   Every lefty in the world has had a go at him, and every media outlet has had it in for him , every remark he made has ever made is micro analysed and all this whilst fighting and winning numerous trumped up legal cases. Lesser men would have crumbled so give some credit where its due.

Biden on the other hand doesn't even know what day it is, he is senile  and whilst he does have some skeletons in the closet he is only worthy of sympathy, there is no point in attacking him he really doesn't understand anything anymore I doubt he'll be around much longer, and  thank god he's not president anymore

Apples and oranges. Poor deflection.

Trump deserves much more than the criticism and scruntiny he's been getting.

You are absolutely correct. Biden doesn't matter now. 

TRUMP IS THE CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER.

2 hours ago, Magictoad said:

I'm sick to death of Google and never use as verb. And have uninstalled all Google features that I can.

As a browser & Search Engine I use Duck Duck Go.

Did that two years ago. Took me two weeks to complete. 

On 7/2/2025 at 8:26 AM, Harrisfan said:

Your posts are really negative. I never said I would only respond to you. You are a liar and super negative. Get help dude.

Pot kettle. 

On 7/1/2025 at 6:40 PM, saakura said:

Yawn....😶

Block him and quit the editorializing. Trust me; your opinion really isn't very important.

6 hours ago, RonJr said:

THERE ARE SOMMANY COUNTLESS BACK TO BACK ADS IN ASEAN NOW I WITH THEY COULD ADDRESS, many times i just have to exit the page because full page ad popups block entire articles over and over its un baerable

I use Proton VPN and see nought except an occasional blank spot even on AN. Never any pop-ups at all. And that is true on every website I visit. 

What irritates me the most is AN censoring their private mail system and disallowing and attachment other than images. Of course they are only doing so for our safety I am sure. Most of the governmental nonsense like that is done in the name of "protecting " us.

4 hours ago, StreetCowboy said:

Breakfasts.  
I normally skip breakfast, so I have a limited social media presence.

I like croissants, but I’d not take a picture of one.

Id take a picture of a potato scone, if the opportunity arose.  Who would not? 

If breakfast is the high point and adventure of your life I pity you. So life is meant to be repetitive, boring, dull and ugly?

Enjoy the pix of your potato scone. You must feel terribly fulfilled.

18 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

Are you an idiot ?       There are no "biden haters" he has retired/ been replaced and has become an irrelevance. Why would anybody hate him  In fact ,  there never was any hate for biden    just pity, for a senile old man and frustration for a system  that allowed to him to to be kept in that position 

If what you say is true it's only turned so in the last month. For all the months after the election we heard nothing but hate from the trumpers as well as Trump himself. Biden was the Original Sin and all the problems in the world were his fault with hate and bile pouring from every orifice in conservative bodies.

Do you actually deny that?

If so then you are yourself the joke.

On 6/30/2025 at 7:55 PM, Bday Prang said:

This should give you a pretty good indication of how the trump haters appear to the rest of us. Pathetic really isn't it?

This should give you a pretty good indication of how the biden haters appear to the rest of us. Pathetic really isn't it?

On 6/27/2025 at 4:35 PM, save the frogs said:

 

Social media is mostly an "illusion" creating fantasies.
People taking photos of themselves in exotic locations.

That's not real life.

The women that are constantly traveling and posting pics of themselves on Instagram in exotic locations can barely keep a relationship alive, let alone raise a family properly.

And all the other women are watching this thinking their lives are boring and they are missing out.

 

Life is not meant to be a constant adventure and seeking endless thrills. 

 

What, pray tell, is it meant to be?

6 hours ago, Steve Mee said:

 

Apparently GACP certification costs hundreds of thousands baht & it takes months to obtain approval.  

 

I have been informed by some smaller growers that they will be going underground as certification costs are prohibitive.  

Growing underground may  prove prohibitively expensive as well as that's usually where the roots go.

On 6/29/2025 at 7:44 AM, KannikaP said:

I used to love reading Aesop's Fables when I was 5 years old. 555

Lewie's life is more like the lascivious Canterbury Tales, Chaucer.

20 hours ago, ozz1 said:

Don't want to upset the Chinese masters about their inferior steel reinforcement what a joke

 

You hit the nail directly on the now-buried head.

I'm prepared to believe the design was poor and/or poorly implemented but have absolutely no doubt that some of the materials were sub-standard as well.

I've bought enough Chinese products here (as if I had any practical choice) to know how they roll.

22 hours ago, garygooner said:

Asians love to kick. 

Stand up & fight like a man. 

Silly remark.

If you can't avoid a fight then fight to win.

Legs are stronger than arms. Simple mechanics really.

On 6/26/2025 at 6:49 AM, BritManToo said:

Let me see, you need my phone and my fingerprint and my PIN to make a payment.

It what way do you feel this is insecure?

So a thirf would need you and your phone and a credible threat. 

All seems simple enough for any lowlife to understand. With no app on your phone things become complicated rapidly for the thief. 

Where am I wrong?

5 hours ago, bamnutsak said:

I think a lot of shops have closed, if only for a few days while owners grapple with new regulations. An opinion based on social media posts.

 

Sale of cannabis is said to be illegal without prescription.

 

Police are shutting down some stores they "inspect" for failures to adhere to old/existing regulations (record keeping, tax, etc.).

 

I think it will take a while to get the "Medical Cannabis" procedures in place. They seem to have cobbled together a prescription form which lists ailments treatable with medical cannabis. Not sure if "Other" is listed? Asthma is, but that seems medically criminal to allow someone with asthma to smoke cannabis.

 

 

 The situation could change again, this morning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Google picture translate for what its worth.2:19

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Practitioners of Chinese medicine under the law on the practice of medicine and practitioners of dentistry under the law on the practice of dentistry who use it to treat their patients

(6) It is prohibited to sell controlled herbs or products processed from controlled herbs for trade through vending machines, electronic channels or computer networks.

(2) It is prohibited to advertise controlled herbs in all channels for trade.

(4) It is prohibited to sell controlled herbs or products processed from controlled herbs for trade in the following places:

(a) Temples or places for religious ceremonies

(b) Dormitories under the law on dormitories

(c) Public parks, zoos and amusement parks

The sale of controlled herbs for trade according to paragraph one (3) does not include the sale of controlled herbs to any person who has a prescription from a practitioner of medicine under the law on medicine, practitioners of Thai traditional medicine, practitioners of applied Thai traditional medicine and folk doctors under the law on Thai traditional medicine, practitioners of Chinese medicine under the law on the practice of medicine Pharmacists under the Pharmacy Profession Act and dentists under the Dental Profession Act for medical benefits

The dispensing order under paragraph two shall specify the amount or quantity of use as necessary for specific treatment, which shall not exceed thirty days.

Section 5 The licensee under Section 46) prior to the effective date of this announcement, specifically for the part that is controlled herbs under this announcement, shall comply with the conditions specified in Section 3 of this announcement.

Section 4 The reporting form, the form for reporting details of the export of controlled herbs per time, and the dispensing order form shall be in accordance with the form announced by the Director-General.

Announced on 23 June 2021

(Mr. Somsak Thepsuthin) Minister of Public Health

On 6/23/2025 at 2:24 PM, Crossy said:

From your other thread I gather you have:-

• 30 x panels of about 530W each
• 2 x 20kW 3-phase inverters
• 35kWh of storage

I admit to being intrigued as to why you have 40kW of inverter with only 16kW of panels. Future expansion maybe?

 

Anyway, with so few panels you are nowhere near maxing out your inverters and so limiting the available power. In fact you could even be under-paneled for the MPPTs to make it into their ideal working zone.

 

What is the state of charge of your batteries? If there's nowhere for the energy to go it won't get made.

 

And using inverters well under their rated power means much lower efficiency, wasted panel power in conversion.

No story here.

It all happened last year.

On 24th June 2024, Somsak Thepsuthin, Thai

2 hours ago, Donga said:

The truth of US healthcare. Let's look at it...

1. Very high health spending per capita, if not the highest
2. Dismal health indices amongst OECD countries, amongst the lowest

And getting worse, so trust you accept that what they've been doing has been a failure.

So much spurious health research these days. Billions wasted. So yep, let's get back to basics, and that means firing the complicit CDC rubber stamp for the over powerful pharma and food industries.

So mainstream media all screech together... RFK got rid of 17 experts. Often shudder when I see that word, as so many "experts" seem plain dumb or maybe ideologically challenged. He replaced them with 8, "including some with a history of vaccine skepticism and questioning pandemic restrictions." So a more balanced panel on vaccinations and also question pandemic restrictions. Restriction eh, as a Covid believer and 5x vax, I call them pandemic excesses, abused by left wing govts and caused so much misery among the lower echelons. The hypocrisy is outrageous.

I'm not sure RFK will be successful, but wish him well. A lot of media will look for anything they can to discredit him, including "experts" who've been fired and previous admin spokesmen and women. MSM love that. 

Articles like this lack objectivity, are deceptive. I will seek an outlet in this space that keeps a fairer track of how things go. Will vaccinations plummet after all? Will we have a wave of pandemics because of RFK, stay tuned.

Won't be easy to track objectively so we may have to look at those major indices in a few years time.

 

 

Well said. 

1 hour ago, frank83628 said:

Another load of absolute BULL.

 

'Insiders say' so once again, anonymous sources, so notHong can be verified, just another in the long line of left wing Democrat backing outlet hit pieces for  the sheep to bleat over

Be honest. 

Even if valid sources would be named you would never accept the truth.

While I understand all the frustration and irritation of folks on this thread it's important to keep three things in mind:

1. This applies only to the mobile app.

2. Many Thai people are being scammed into transferring large amounts to external bank accounts, those unknown to your bank

3. Mobile apps with or without facial recognition invite funds theft if the phone is lost or the owner being hostage. 

In view of this it's clear (to me) that the banks are not doing this to irritate or discriminate against non-thai folks. These are guard rails to minimize problems for the banks and their customers as the internet becomes a more dangerous playground daily.

As one reply tried to say:

Stop clutching your pearls over a minor inconveniece.

Personally I have never had nor ever will have any app that can access my assets directly on my phone. It is simply not worth the risk to me for the minor convenience it offers.

Society is paying in manifold ways from poor nutrition to  environmental damage to risky banking all for the sake of 'convenience'. As if saving scant minutes here or there will grace them with the time to finally conquer the universe as they planned.

Nobody puts their seat belt or helmet on on just before they have an accident. Putting it on as soon as you enter the car is tolerable to you or it's not.

18 hours ago, AustinRacing said:

Sometimes the opposite happens to me. She scans the item then says please go get another one it is buy1 get1 free. 

That has happened to me several times at Makro in Pranburi. Often they send a runner to fetch the second item.

I have never experienced the other scams named in this thread.

Just sayin'

We did it several years ago by bus. Cheap. We rolled it up and they hoisted it into a storage area on the side of the bus.

On 6/8/2025 at 12:29 AM, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

I HATE that... I HATED it too when SCB recently did the same thing.

 

I really dislike trying to do personal banking stuff on a mobile phone screen. I'd 100% rather be doing it via my personal computer, large monitor and web browser at home.

 

 

I feel the same. Besides that if your phone is stolen or lost the app gives them access unless you have 2FA and a good password. Of course if the 2FA goes to your phone, well.......

either way it's a risk I have no reason to take.

I will be closing my account with SCB  and finding another bank that allows true internet banking besides my account at BBL.