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4 hours ago, johng said:

Duorail

twice as good with 2 rails instead of 1

With twice as many fatalities no doubt

10 minutes ago, peterb17 said:

You are not moving to Outer Mongolia- all the brands in Meiji, Chok Chai , Dutch milk you normally find are not made from powder- and are really quite good.

I have never been to America- so can’t compare .

 

I would be more worried about buying pasteurised Pla Ra when you are knocking up a batch of Som Tam - you have to watch out for those pesky liver flukes. 

 

Enjoy your adventures in the Kingdom 

So you think they don't have milk in Mongolia ?

1 hour ago, SomchaiDIY said:

thailand standard wall system is not designed on strip foundation it use standard beam with column loading

 

 

standard column with beam

 

For question of price >

In the year 2017 at rayong hotel we paid baht 1000 for each meter of 2.5 meter high wall cement coat 2 side and high quality work standard cement block

Please note there is proper method and many wrong method in these wall constructions

Most important that the column footing are deep enough and of correct size 

Important that beams are connected correctly before column and beam concrete is installed

 

 

somebody else who has no comprehension about local builders outside of the main population centres.

1 hour ago, TSF said:

LOL, that's what I was thinking too. Who the hell would want to be an alien and doing 90-day reports when they could be cruising the Med or Caribbean in a yacht.

Have you thought fo a second a person married to a Thai and having Thai school children would find it quite difficult to provide schooling to their children in the Caribbean ? 

3 hours ago, DM07 said:

...and again, religious zealots tell everybody else what to do and to spy and tell on your neighbors! 3rd world and forever will be!

Sent from my RNE-L22 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app
 

And rest assured,  Buddhist Lent or any other day dicated as special by any  religion will not stop those so called "religious" Monks or Catholic priests from abusing children irrespective of whether they drink alcohol  or not  on any day of the week, special or not.

2 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

So is gambling, yet pretty much any monastery permits the sale of lottery tickets on its premises at any time of the year.

 

Oh, and selling allegedly "magic" amulets to the gullible in order to turn hefty profits is also considered a sin, but alas, it doesn't prevent temples from engaging in this most lucrative trade under the flimsy disguise of "giving believers a chance to make religious merit".

killing animals also 

2 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

I don't drink alcools but I'm sure all the minimarts in my village will sell alcools tomorrow;

in my village and in all the villages in Thailand.

Police never come in the little villages in Thailand .

They always come often to see us in the village I live in and tomorrow will be no exception and it will also be no exception for them to enjoy a few beers with me that I will buy, as normal, from the village shop opposite my house.  They go almost house to house and how the hell they get back  to their main police station without driving of the road after drinking so much goodness knows.

When I first came to live in Thailand the only milk that approached the taste of real pasteurised milk that I was used to in the UK was Meiji.  the taste was quite acceptable but the additives always gave me pause for thought. As another poster has said Chok Chai milk is another pasturised real milk  which given the opportunity I used to buy but it was and still is not widely available.

However in the last couple of years or so many of the local stores  up here in Udon,  Villa, Tesco Lotus, Tops etc have been stocking real pasteurised milk by Anne Dairies.  To me that taste almost identical to the "gold Top" pasturised milk that once upon a time you could buy in the UK. 

4 minutes ago, paulikens said:

hes 23 hes allowed to do what he wants with his money

Coming from Liverpool I would suggest it more likely that he had someone else's money ????

1 minute ago, Bluespunk said:

Any vote on the future of Ireland should involve the whole of Ireland. 

Goodness if comments like this keep coming up regarding the North and South of Ireland someone is going to start an IRA thread soon

1 minute ago, wgdanson said:

To add to what you say, yes the BE will accept pdfs of bank statements. I did my Income Letter from them and DID NOT print out a single sheet, filled in their forms with a pdf editor. They must be 'relaxed' about pension statements because I never sent them any (I don't get them), simply bank statements which say where the payment has come from DWP or whatever, both from my UK and Thai banks. £20k in the bank for next year, no worries then !  

 

Sorry just remembered I had to print out the Credit Card sheet because I needed to sign that one.

if you scan in your signature you don't even need to sign it in ink, just add a copy of the scan signature to the .pdf and they accept it ! absurdity at its best.

2 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

The BE accepts original UK banks statements as well as downloaded/printed versions of the same statements or a mixture of both. I have no idea if they are similarly relaxed on pension statements and other stuff offered up by applicants.

To answer that question regarding pension statements.  In days of old you would provide them with originals and copies.  You still can if you wish I undertsand.  However, their preferred method of receiving these items now is via email as an attachment to your application for a Certificate of Income Letter. So yes they relaxed the requirement themselves for witnessing original documents.

My wife say something to the Monks regularly and every month I bury a frog in the hope miracles will happen - does that count ?

They normally build walls with a strip foundation 20 to 30 cm wide by 30 to 40 cm deep from the surface.  Thats why 99% of the walls you see in Thailand after a few years start to lean or collapse. 

1 minute ago, Maestro said:

The Pension Service, part of the Department for Works and Pensions, sends me annually this form CF(N)1175 to my address in Switzerland, where I currently reside, but from your post it appears that they do not send it to recipients of a pension in Thailand.

 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=10bAk8z6cXUzkeDoBg-C8Z9YOqZeeSGVi

You get no pension increase if living in Thailand so there is no requirement for them to send the letter.

7 minutes ago, Antonymous said:

Why is the graph relevant to the Brexit debate? It is a stark counter to the arguments put forth by the EU and remainers that Britain's economy will fail without the EU. In short, the graph shows that Britain has experienced declining economic growth since it joined the EU.

 

Brexit will allow the UK to set up trade deals directly with countries outside the EU, including the USA. Loss in trade with Europe will be more than offset with trade with other countries. Europe will be the biggest loser from a Brexit, not the UK.

 

Change your medication as you are clearly hallucinating  ????

44 minutes ago, lupin said:

I'm left wondering how they're going to reduce "stupidity" since that seems a major cause of death here.

Its the Hub of it here

1 minute ago, yang123 said:

Good (188 sigs), but a complaint direct to FCO Consular Department is likely to receive a more immediate response and reach the operational parts with supervisory power over Bangkok Consular Section.

Haven't had a response yet, well only an automated reply