madmen

6 minutes ago, steve73 said:

ok.. if married you only need 400k (in your own name).

 

The old adage "better to rent than buy" seems to apply to living here..

 

The old adage never put your eggs in one basket is actually what is happening. Investment 101 keep a balanced portfolio and that means not the whole lot in real estate ! if an emergency does arise you cant just sell off a bathroom to pay for it. If these guys followed the most basic rules of cash management they would have the 800k

Rent vs Buy has nothing to do with it. Poor management of Cash has everything to do with it

Thats Interesting, I wonder if a bank would lend the money. Assuming OP has an income (pension) and is able to show he has capacity to pay after outgoings are deducted then the bank would be in a good position

11 minutes ago, Peasandmash said:

Unbelievable! and horrible!

 

May God have mercy on their souls.

 

Whos god? which souls? 

4 minutes ago, swissie said:

By now, probably all western Heads of State/Governements have issued statements condemning this dreadful act of violence unisono and with conviction.

Strange, If Muslims blow up dozends of Christians routinely, the responses to such an event by Moslem Heads of State/Governements is usually rather "lukewarm" at best. Lacking inner conviction to condemn those acts. So it seems to me.
What could be the reason for that???

I think its pretty obvious. 

3 minutes ago, Justin Side said:

No Thais great. Who cares about the others.

Not Thailand obviously.

Why would they. There duty is to confirm the safety of its own citizens . End of story

2 hours ago, Happystance said:

I always wonder if the people who say things like this have bothered to look at Bangkok's air quality forecasts...?

 

Who cares about Bangkok Isaan or pattaya. Chiang mai is the world leader and thats an amazing stastic. I would worry about your own backyard before trying to make feel good comparisons.

Time to liquidate condos but probably to late.... the Chinese wont be stepping up and who can blame them

1 hour ago, ChipButty said:

And to think you can get locked up for vaping and smoking on the beach 

Thats just for farang to supplement station tea money.

Burning is not farang but Thai and they will never pay any fines so why go after them, its pointless

Thais can not sit still for more than 10 mins without an overpowering urge to nap..why?

Whats really scary is we only hear about those that fell asleep but how many out there right now micro sleeping? A constant battle of closing eye lids and then shocked back into reality for hours on end.

The baht will strengthen on this news !

21 minutes ago, yogi100 said:

 

Are you for real!

 

You might be shocked if it was your innocent friends and family being murdered in cold blood for no reason and then having their slaughter put on the internet for all to see.

 

I bet you'd be singing a different tune then nor would you be saying 'welcome to social media'

Welcome to social media. There is nothing you or I can do about..its the real world. Trying to put me on a guilt trip is ridiculous..grow up or leave the internet world and go read books.

mutt looks like he needs a good feed

live by the sword...

Its surely made in China. That penis clamp looks rather small

6 hours ago, car720 said:

I had it years ago in Indonesia.  The closest thing to death that I have experienced.  Thank God.

I met a guy who had it and said the same thing. His hospital bill was eye watering

4 hours ago, Deerculler said:

The biggest problem for New Zealand and Australia is because they are tied to whatever happens with China.

China is NZ and Aust. biggest trading partner.

If China goes down so do we.

 

If The world economy sneezes Australia catches a cold. I remember buying stock after the 2008 meltdown, when the unemployment figures were up in the US their market would open down strongly due to the volatility of the market back then. The OZ market would open as a blood bath

Your old enough to be mums father. They tolerate you because you provide a service as does your wife. Try telling them Your out of $ and see them all run for the hills. Personally i wouldn't visit the in laws, just send your wife

5 minutes ago, JeffersLos said:

Thanks.

 

And what do I do with it?

 

Mix it up in a spray gun, cover all the TV's etc and spray it into the air all over the condo, like a mosquito sprayer?

 

Or spray it on everything wooden that I see?

 

TIA

I only used it for cockroaches with a water mix of 30:1 in a simple plastic spray bottle and protective gear but termite treatment will be different.

Do what I did and google you tube for "how to spray for termites like a pro" etc

Home pro stocks all the gear like in the pic. Not expensive so do a search home pro on line

14 minutes ago, buick said:

i read an article from reuters which referenced eye witness accounts of white smoke coming out of the back of the plane along with falling debris such as papers and clothing.  others reported a 'loud sound', who knows what that could be - a plane overhead is loud to begin with.  i have no experience at all in this area but would something like the software issue somehow result in this type of result - white smoke and debris coming out the back of the plane ?  as a novice on the topic, i assume the plane would just drop from the sky as the pilot could not control it, so no smoke or debris would be present.  and i haven't seen any discussion at all of these eyewitness accounts in the TV media.  i'm just curious and looking forward to the report once the horrible incident has been investigated further.  here is the link, i'm not sure if it is allowed per TV rules (i know some publications cannot be linked).

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-witnesses/ethiopian-plane-smoked-and-shuddered-before-deadly-plunge-idUSKBN1QS1LJ

 

 

Every major jet crash has witnesses reporting these things they saw

1. it was on fire

2. it was backfiring (really a jet?) and noise was getting really loud

3. there was white smoke, green smoke, blue smoke

4. luggage was falling out

5. people were falling out

etc etc

witnesses are very unreliable however in this case its possible the plane may have exceeded the never exceed speed due to its high speed in a dive and desperate pilots putting in severe control inputs to try and force the plane out of its death plunge possibly breaking it up  so stuff falling out would make sense