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New to udon, but vaguely remember the only place to get decent eye exams are at the major hospitals.
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My thoughts, too, are build to be comfortable inside without a/c. This means lots of shade, roof overhangs. And no massive heat trap over your head in uninsulated, unventilated, attic space under a peaked roof. Shaded outside living areas, and my preference for a kitchen/dining area would be mostly breeze block....with actual screening applied.
(Just spent two days with gfs family in the boondocks. The heat is tolerable in the shade, the bugs aren't.)
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Just make sure you have a dashcam. Drive or ride safely, and see what happens when you try to make deadbeat parents be financially responsible when the kid causes damage or injury. (Farang or Thai parents)
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China doesn't need to do anything. The peaceful protestors are trying to invite violent responses to curry aid and sympathy from the west.
Want to cripple china? Ignore the protestors. Let china deal with them heavy handedly. Clean the gene pool up a bit in HK to boot.China is happy for this to escalate you may even have agent provocateurs upping the ante with the violence and destruction of property. Soon they will go in and go in hard and do a Tiananmen Square and the rest of China will cheer it on and the world will do nothing. Meanwhile servile Thais crawl on their knees and just take it for they have never tasted the sweet taste of freedom.
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Last month I got the salary pitch from the divorced grandmother I had just set up house keeping with. I was already giving her some spending money, money for her mother, and covering all expenses.
She told me if she worked full time as a housekeeper she would get 10000 b a month. This is what she expected.
She had never had a full time job of any kind in her life.
I asked her if I was her boyfriend and possible future husband, or an employer?
She chose employer.
I then fired her!
(There were other issues, this was opportune)
I tried to tell her I'd go with the 10,000 b number, but money for mom, her share of the rent and utilities, and food, came out of that. Leaving about 1000 b a month.
( And no more gifts)
She looked at me like was crazy.
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There are posted, minimum speeds on most limited access highways in the USA. Generally around 45 mph.
There is no written minimum speed limit anywhere. Here in Thailand trucks and buses have a maximum speed limit of 80kph on all roads that is a difference of 40kph on some roads but one of the things is that a truck or bus takes a lot longer to reach the speed limit. The biggest problem is that many car drivers do not stick to the maximum speed limit, they all want to go faster and that is not only in Thailand. IF every driver in the world obeyed the road laws there would not be any road deaths, these only happen because at least one driver has broken the road laws in some way.
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There usually is no legal requirement to drive at the speed limit, but there are usually requirements to be at the minimum mandated speed, or above, if there is one. On restricted access highways the minimum speed is often 45 mph, while the speed limit is 65 mph, or higher. Many large trucking fleets operate under the posted speed limits for trucks, and this may mean a 20 mph differential. You will only run into the back of them if you have your head up your butt or are a totally inept driver, and a majority of drivers are.
Not quite my point - An HGV driving at the posted speed limit is driving safely. An HGV or any other Vehicle driving at half the posted speed limit presents a danger, not as much of a danger as someone driving twice the speed limit, however, the danger is presented by the speed differential they create.
Usually the speed limits for an HGV vs a Car vary by 10-20kmh - its not a significant difference. The persons driving at 50kmh on an 120kmh limit road (perhaps with HGV's limited to 100kmh) does present a risk.
Having your HGV rear ended is obviously the fault of the other driver, in no way could you be accused of fault if driving close to the posted speed limit.
Thailand is worse because the unusual situations are multiplied. Last night I had a girl almost run into me on a motorbike, texting while riding, no helmet, and when she passed....no taillight. I drove 5 km in/out of town to meet a friend for dinner. Probably 5 unlit vehicles going the wrong way on each leg. On the return trip a series of 3 white passenger vans ran a red light....impromptu vip convoy without cops?
I expect anything, and when I don't see any craziness and find myself relaxing or speeding up.....I remember, and slow down. It's still out there.
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The danger is from the drivers of the other vehicles, not a slower vehicle driving legally. Many us states have split speed limits for trucks and cars, and frequently a lower minimum speed limit that is required to be maintained. I have over 4 million miles experience driving large, slow, trucks. I have been rear ended by cars. They weren't paying attention. One dumbass decapitated himself running under my trailer. He was doing twice the posted speed limit. I guess I was the slower, dangerous vehicle? To boot, it was daylight.
I guess I wasn't paying attention the other day, or rather, I thought I was but I still had a near miss.
On the Expressway I was checking my mirror and doing a shoulder check (blind spot) to pull from the middle lane to the right most lane. The car in front was doing about 60km (not that slow), I knew my approach speed as I check my mirror and shoulder checked, but I couldn't change lanes due to the approaching car in the outside lane, which, regardless of my indication signal clearly showed no intension of slowing or checking his speed to allow me to change lanes in front of him.
The car in front suddenly slowed further (it was a battered, beaten up old pickup), it was probably doing 40kmh by this time - I had to emergency brake.
In short: Any vehicle who's speed varies significantly from the surrounding traffic poses a danger. On the Expressway where the speed limits are 120kmh, everyone should be doing 110 to 120 kmh where traffic permits.
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Better stock up on your tutti-frutti, fruit loop, chocolate, macadamia nut, bubble gum flavors now, you die-hard 'smokers'.
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More likely an act of idiots who want to label criminal acts as 'grassroots activism'. I'm sure the airline will idly stand by as their business is trashed.
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And they have the big rimz to prove it!
"If the slow vehicles cause that much of a problem for you, you are...a very bad driver".
No, that can't be right; Thaivisa farangs are all, without exception, the world's best drivers. I know that because they tell us that here on a daily basis.
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If the slow vehicles cause that much of a problem for you, you are not paying attention, and/or a very bad driver. (Excluding unlit slow vehicles at night). If you've driven at all here you should have learned to expect vehicles or beasts going in any direction, at any time, with no indication there might be anything else on the road.
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Are you supportive of Cathay Pacific cabin crew sabotaging the aircraft, which happened recently? Maybe they are just 'protesting'?
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About as much proof as the protesters have that any act they want to appear to distance themselves from, was conducted by mainland China operatives.
The levels of disinformation from both sides are out of control.
Other than you claiming so - any actual support for that "lot of foreign sponsored trouble makers" bit?
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11 minutes ago, PJPom said:I agree that they should be allowed to protest but if I was a Police Officer and you were about to engulf me and my fellow Officers in burning petrol I would shoot you without a second thought
These are not 'peaceful protests'. They are doing anything to get the sympathy and support of western nations, including contriving facts and trying to incite violent reactions from the police. They have largely been handled with kid gloves because of this.
These are RIOTERS, not 'protesters'. The clean faced kids singing songs and holding hands aren't the problem. The radical criminals, are.
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Tie a chunk of meat around your neck and let the stray dogs chase you.
Probably walking, biking is the best option.
When I lived in a small rural village briefly, my exercise consisted of morning walks in the quest to find a dirt path or road that was a shortcut to the next village 5 km away. Never found it, but walked my butt off looking for it. The first few times my GF followed me, assuming I was going to visit another lady. Eventually she just figured out I was crazy.
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20 days ago, I had enough of my gfs refusing to talk about important issues, among other things.(no, not climate change...but relationship stuff)
She was gone for a few hours, at Mama's. I had my stuffed bagged up in the living room when she returned. Amazingly, she was willing to talk, and even made some changes.....for about 12 hours. The next day it was back to normal, and worse.
Never bothered to unpack. Was gone in 30 minutes. My goal is to not accumulate anything I can't throw in my vehicle in 30 minutes, and leave.
I regret leaving some nice teak furniture behind, but not the dingbat usually sprawled on it, watching music videos or lakorn.
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If you are doing something that is worthy of being snitched out for, in what trashy world are you one of the 'good guys'?
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Rain-x works, somewhat, but not worth the trouble, overall. Better to have decent wipers. I have used it on exterior mirrors on a big truck, probably the best use.
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Enforce the existing laws.
You can start with licenses, and maybe something as extreme as requiring a working taillight
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Fwiw, notarization of medical not needed at dc consulate. Also no mention of health insurance
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I doubt she has the same emotions. Your kids are happy, and lucky. Move on.
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The med certificate being notarized must just be a la consulate requirement, not needed at dc. Make sure you check the specifics for the consulate you will use, they vary.
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Nobody remembers the cbx?
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How does the trap know the gecko is humane?
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