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14 hours ago, Logosone said:

"Ms. Trump’s status as an outcast culminated in 1999 when Fred Trump Sr. died, and she discovered that she and her brother had been cut out of his will, depriving them of what they believed was their rightful share of untold millions."

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/nyregion/mary-trump-book.html

 

So a fair and impartial account then.

Fair and impartial are not requirements to reveal/support truth. 

12 hours ago, Sujo said:

Now that the supreme court has ruled the electoral college system must follow what the people voted for there is no more use for it.

Is that true? 

Is this the Federal Supreme Court or a state court(s)? 

I recently read that several states had or would make that change but not all had. 

If you are correct I rejoice and agree with you 100%.

5 hours ago, steven100 said:

maybe some farang needs to sit down with their IT guy and explain the problems and issues.

Obviously they are not aware of how bad it is ... 

We can sit here and complain until the cows come home but that ain't gonna fix it.

The 'face' issue here would prevent anything remotely like your suggestion from ever happening. 

If the designers were aware of their incompetence they would have sought advice before they started. If they are aware of it now they won't willingly admit it. If they are not aware of how bad it is then they are truly incompetent. 

I have yet to see a Thai website that is easy to navigate and works properly. Even the Bangkok Bank website is only minimally functional.

This is just not a strength here. The Thai IT infrastructure is in its infancy. 

The typical Thai citizen does not reach for a web browser in daily life. Until that changes there is no impetus (money) for web development to grow. 

22 hours ago, pgrahmm said:

Well - if you could wake up anyplace/someplace else tomorrow - where would you be instead.....?

Me, personally, I'd wake up in America in the 1950's. Not being 10 yo again this time. But being 25 again at that time would be great.

I was very lucky to have good parents and lots of opportunity to make any life I wanted and was willing to work for. 

It was not idyllic but humans were just starting to dig ourselves into the holes that have now become too numerous and deep to crawl out of. 

I cannot blame people who are pessimistic now, but neither can I recommend it. We're all doomed to death, but there's not much point in dwelling on it. 

Change what you can and accept the rest. 

Who benefits? 

The virus by spreading its RNA, and autocrats who tighten their control. 

Pretty much everybody else loses to some of extent or another. 

25 minutes ago, nervona81732 said:

Not a chance and BTW this is not a pandemic. It is a plandemic  The first posters subject matter was spot on. Further more any body who voluntarily wears a mask in fear is an idiot. 555 Seriously.

Well said, original thoughts, and rousingly persuasive call to action. 

On 7/5/2020 at 10:13 AM, innosiem said:

it is cheaper to buy the equipment and do it yourself
this is what i have just done,
as my house has 10 Aircon units
usually price is around 500-700 baht per unit

you can buy the Gas (~500 baht) and pressure gauges (~1200 baht) on Lazada
that is all you need
check what gas your Aircon requires (most modern wall units are R32)
many units have a big sticker on the compressor or just check model online
you are looking for R32 or R401a usually for recent units,
also use R32 and R401a to search on lazada for equipment as rest is usually in Thai

plenty of youtube videos show you how to top up gas

as for cleaning filters just take them out and rinse in shower, easy as.

sounds like whoever done the service for you,
charged you the price for the new equipment

The OP was about cleaning, not refilling with refrigerant. But you provide good info anyway. It is pretty easy to top up with gauges and a refrigerant bottle as you say. 

As for cleaning, I paif 500 each for 3 units in Cha-am. However, they did significantly more than clean the blower filter as you suggest,thst is indeed trivial. 

They took the evaporator unit in the room apart, minimum tools required, but some experience with the plastic housing no doubt helped. They took the blower fan and the drop pan outside and pressure washed them. The also put a plastic hood with drain bag around the evaporator inside and power washed it down into a drain bucket. Then they went outside and power washed the condenser unit fins. The condenser fins can be easily cleaned with a pressure nozzle on a hose and is much more likely to require cleaning than the evaporator inside does. Allowing either unit to suffer with dirty fins will shorten compressor life and waste electricity.

Clearly this is a relatively simple job with the right tools and supplies, but messing around on a ladder in the house, washing, etc. is not enjoyable to me. I worked and saved for retirement a good part of my life and think that avoiding such things is part of my payback. That seemed well worth 500 thb to me. 

I hesitate to mention the fact that even if you have an engineering degree, designed and built air con units before you retired, your Thai mate will consider you foolishly incompetent compared to the 20 yo Thai "Aircon Engineer" who cleans your unit.  Just accept that fact, pay the money, and move on. ????

If you use an aircon very much I know from experience that cleaning once a year is mandatory and hygenic. I don't do it every year for units that we don't use heavily. 

Topping up the refrigerant should only be necessary every few years at most. If you need to do it every year then you have a leak. 

10 hours ago, andy72 said:

Not asking much

fit to fly
covid free

same bloody thing lets duplicate that test

covid insurance is any company giving that

a third world joke response to a disease with 0.00.5% morbidity

look at EU its like a game show come on down

or the uk seemingly celebrating july the 4th <deleted>

just drunken morons another reason for not living in the USA's 51st state.

trumps basrard child boris bumbling hos way through an indian chancellor who is fated to follow usa giving every citizen cash

meanwhile thailand want us all to follow the yellow brick road pick up the tin man lion and scarecrow along the way  

this sure aint kansas toto
 

Come on. Don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel. 

Prequel to Planet of the Apes? 

9 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Perhaps the motorcyclist will claim he was just being thrifty by trying to reduce the wear on his front tyre.

Or maybe he knew his front brake didn't work and was being cautious? 

4 hours ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

you can have hours of fun watching dumb accidents in thailand on y-tube

Fun? 

4 hours ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

alcohol ... responsible for most road deaths, fights, domestic violence...

 

yeah, basic rights

People... responsible for most road deaths, fights, domestic violence... 

Yeah, basic humans

3 hours ago, bronzedude said:

How much dol they charge at Jomtien for the resident certificate and do you need 2 for both a motorbike and a car license? or can you just make a copy and use that for the second license. Thanks

Yes, one needed for each license. Must be originals with photo and stamp. 

I just did it at Huahin IO a few months ago. 

Don't forget the doctor's health exam report.

I don't remember for sure but believe two originals of that are needed too. Basically you are submitting the required documents for each license as separate transactions. 

18 hours ago, DrTuner said:

I'm happy I'm not a herbivore. Eat Meaaaatttthh, delicious murrrder. Best seasoned with tears of vegans.

So you seriously consider your dietary preferences a militant action? Sad. 

The most important mail to USA for me will be my absentee Election Ballot for the upcoming presidential election. 

It's my understanding (please verify) that if it gets to Thailand it can be returned to the American embassy in Bangkok. 

I assume they have a guaranteed mail service from there back to USA. 

That's if Agent Orange doesn't order the immigration service to quarantine ballots from foreign countries to be quarantined until after the election. ????

15 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

Yes US taxes due July 15. Down to the deadline. Gonna try to file online this year.

You can still file for an extension, the first of which is always allowed by IRS without question. But simply state that you need the extension because you are outside USA. 

I'm pretty sure you can file this simple form online too. 

No penalties unless you actually owe taxes. 

Even when living in the USA I did this for many years, every year. No problems at all. 

7 minutes ago, Fairynuff said:

I also disagree with your interpretation. I’ll wait and see what dire circumstances  I find myself in. Up to now I seem to be fine

Again, disagreement is always your option. I wasn't arguing about that.

Otherwise I was stating undeniable facts regarding the jurisdiction of sovereign countries/states.

The sole arguable exception being that denying reality "often", not always, leads to bad ends. 

It is allowable to disagree with gravity, but doing so often leads to disagreeable ends. 

On 7/1/2020 at 1:21 PM, Fairynuff said:

I agree with everything you say except the nonsense about being guests

A guest is somebody who is not a citizen. So you are certainly welcome to deny your status but you surely realize that you cannot change it without formally becoming a citizen.

If you don't have a Thai passport then you are a guest subject to deportation at the sole discretion of the Thai government. That is the hard reality of it. Denying reality often leads to dire circumstances. 

It follows that it is equally difficult to formally become a non-citizen of your birth country, especially so in America. It is both difficult and expensive to renounce citizenship there. 

Just now, steelepulse said:

Just curious, so if in the last 35 days there's been asymptomatic carriers, where are the people that are showing signs of being infected?  Surely they can't all be asymptomatic.

A snake may not strike everybody that walks by but it hardly means he's no longer there. 

Just now, BritManToo said:

Would point out posting 'fake COVID scares' is punishable by prison in Thailand.

And, your point is....?