RocketDog

This OP is a re-run, and pretty dull the first time through. Not again please.

18 hours ago, alanrchase said:

I bought a cheap replacement on Lazada for a hedge trimmer knowing it would not be very good as I wanted the case. I then bought real 3,000mah 18650 batteries and replaced the ones in the case. New spare battery pack for about 600 baht. Been using it every week for over a year and it is still going strong.

Agreed. You can even buy a spot welder for the nickle connecting straps on Lazada very cheap.

However, I've used acid flux and a soldering iron with tin/lead solder on several occasions as well.

One of the principal joys of living here is that I can more easily totally ignore christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Easter, etc.

4 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Maybe someone should show those tourists how many people die in Thailand daily in traffic accidents compared to shootings. Then they shouldn't worry about shootings anymore. 

Exactly correct.

It's more dangerous to walk, ride, or drive in this country than any other activity.

13 hours ago, connda said:

Someone failed their math classes in school.    ☝️

Salt is sodium chloride. Chlorine atoms have mass.

Someone failed chemistry too.

9 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

That also can be an issue with some streaming services, which when you sign up, they note your original IP address and its geolocation... And then down the road, if you change the IP address and/or location too many times, it can create problems.

 

Hulu with Live TV from the U.S., for example, only will allow 4 IP address changes on your account per year... And after that, they'll only allow you to use their service with the last and final of the 4 IPs you registered on their system. And at that point, you're locked out of being able to use their service with any other IPs for the rest of the year.

 

Ah. Thanks for that info. Trust.Zone has an option, at a small fee I think, to get a permanent OP, but I don't like that idea either.

I use a 'manual' steaming service. From tracker to torrent to memory stick to TV. TV disconnected from internet completely.

I know, I'm a tin foil hat guy who values his privacy. I can live with that moniker. I have done all I can to virtually disappear from the web.

My mood has been boosted the last few weeks just watching the republican party fall into chaos and China imploding.

In both cases they did it to themselves and deserve what they get.

Let the good times roll!

Childish and gratuitous I know, but I just don't care anymore.

6 hours ago, grain said:

There seems to be these endless cycles of luring more foreign visitors with gifts and easy visas, then after the foreigners numbers increase, they start making things difficult again and coming up with plans to charge the foreigners extra and bring in extra taxes. 

Walker passes a farm and see the farmer has  a pig with one leg missing.

He asks farmer why.

"he's too good a pig to eat all at once"

5 hours ago, nobodysfriend said:

bla bla ..

 

more bla bla ...

 

Sure , freedom of press and free speech is what China is famous for .

Look at Hongkong ... you can say what you want , but only once ... before they arrest you .

 

enhancing the quality of news presentations in both countries...

 

... and enhancing the quality of the news as well ... by censoring everything unpleasant to the government .

And they expect people to thank them for that ...

Exactly correct.

Proper title for this thread is:

'China tightens velvet covered iron fist around Thailand's throat while smiling broadly. Hopes to do the same to all member states in ASEAN'.

6 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Go to Gogo bars, look at the stage, problem solved. 

Thanks for the Pic. Only thing that made this thread tolerable.

I'm gotta here now.

23 hours ago, Pi Tao said:

Proton VPN

 

I've had a Proton Mail account since before the service was actually activated. Now I'm a 'plus' member.

I tried to use their VPN but installation failed because my computer clock didn't match theirs. I worked with support but that didn't help. Then I dug deeper and found that there are very few server locations unless you pay more.

Not worth the trouble or cost to me.

I used Express VPN for 15 years but moved to Trust.Zone because express changes the IP address so often it keeps my private book club torrent tracker from working. I've exhausted all options by working with both parties.

So I'll let my Express account end and move completely to Trust.Zone which is working fine for me. $8.88/month on monthly plan.

I misread 'tale' as 'tail' and was expecting a picture of Godzilla in a condo room.

My bad.

At least she didn't destroy the entire building.

16 hours ago, Adumbration said:

Jeesuz wept the fake content on this forum has sunk to new lows.

I second that.

This edition of AN is rank with navel gazing by the usual suspects.

It's all good though. It helps me wean off the site entirely. There is seldom anything of interest here now.

57 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

You see.

A true scientist must never state the obvious as an immutable fact.

Scientists must always use words like apparently, or from the data it seems to show that....

This is why I (almost) ALWAYS use absolutely and maybe in the same sentence.

These are things you learn while writing theses, which I accurately call feces.

In fact, ALMOST everyone knows that most theses are nothing but feces, maybe.

 

 

You're absolutely maybe losing it dude.

11 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Maugham is definitely an author for Farang who appreciate Asia, maybe.

So that's a definite maybe GG?

You're losing it dude.

5 hours ago, brianthainess said:

Depends where you live, trying to find bank staff that can understand English is not always easy. They phone their center then you have to use them to translate.

Google translate on phone.?

Or, use the translate web app to prepare description of what services you need and print it to take to bank.

This is not a hostage situation or rocket surgery.

"I need to have a  document notarized"

ฉันต้องมีเอกสารรับรอง

Done.

On 10/3/2023 at 5:25 PM, Fatboi said:

Hiya,

I've got a couple of documents that I need to have my signature witnessed for so i can send them off, is there anywhere (as close to Rawai as possible) that might be able to do that for me?
Thanks ????

Any all all banks have certified notaries. If your own bank they should do it free or small fee. Can provide witnesses also if needed.

4 hours ago, ezzra said:

As it turned out paying the road tax would have cost him a lot less that 5k, hard lesson learned, or maybe not...

Ah yes. But that might be somewhere in the unknown future.

Thai people don't do 'future'.

21 hours ago, bignok said:

What is the present? Current minute, hour or day or week?

 

How are we supposed to live in something that cant be defined or can it?

 

 

To simplify it:

Be Here Now.

(Ramdass aka Richard Alpert, Timothy Leary colleague)

7 hours ago, Tropposurfer said:

Tens of thousands or perhaps a million years from now after when we have poisoned our planet and died out as a species, and then after hundreds of millions of years the earth will have buried the detritus of human existence and there will be no trace of us. 

 

Alls well that ends well.

5 hours ago, Tropposurfer said:

I'd get a second opinion ... quickly!

 

I have and have had since my 52nd year a surgical sedated rectal photographic colonoscopy and prostate exam ever 2 years. Small haemorrhoid and a few tiny polyps removed along the ways.

  

It is a procedure recommended Australia-wide and has been for years now. I also take advantage of the Oz National Health Systems free bowel cancer screening every year - a quick stool sample. and off to the lab. 

 

If anyone is over 50 and hasn't had a colonoscopy procedure then get it done asap.

 

Ancient digital rectal exams and even scans are not anywhere as clear to conclude and diagnose any abnormal size of the prostate or other growths compared to the camera and then tissue sample (usually done at the time of the colonoscopy in Oz if anything abnormal is found). 

OP. I'd recommend a second opinion too, and bringing your question to this forum is a good idea too.

Not to hijack the topic, but.... I just had a video colonoscopy, general anesthesia, done 4 months ago at San Paulo Hospital, Hua Hin. $600 USD.

Very professional staff and equipment. I'm 74 and they found no polyps. I ask for and readily received full review documents and color pictures they took. I am very impressed with their work.

Well GG, I think you got answers commensurate with your inquiry.

In other words, mostly nonsense from bored people.

Loquacios

verbosity does not denote quality.

Coming north from Pranburi toward Huahin there is a sign saying "HUA NIH 20km".

It was clearly done with a paint stencil and the user flipped the second stencil backwards. There is no place named Hua Nih.

We pass there frequently and always conjecture about who lives there and what they do. We've concluded it's a government black project location. ????????

3 hours ago, bob smith said:

can we play this movie daily in cinemas nationwide for the foreseeable future please ???? 

Absolutely! Where we can voluntarily offer funding for your idea?

Seems an inexpensive way to buy some peace and quiet as well as standing room at the shrimp buffets.

Maybe use funds to pay for looping footage at some of the airport televisions?