Trip Hop

3 minutes ago, stevenl said:

See full quote.

Work permit required, no matter how hard you wiggle.

Give over man, are you suggesting that some know-it-all on AseanNow knows more than a Bangkok lawyer with 40 years experience?  Go and find something better to do with your life than trying to bait and troll people.

30 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Is there a reason you omitted this from your quote?

"If the foreigner is only sitting in the restaurant but not serving customers, not training or managing staff, not cooking and not buying supplies, then he does NOT need a work permit for this. But if he is involved in any of these activities, officially he does need a work permit."

Not really except that I thought to post the whole text would be too much?  You clearly doubted my claim and even went to the extent of trying to belittle me by accusing me of a posting an unsourced claim.  I have in return clearly proved to you the contrary, period.  Whilst you quote the above text to try and save face, it is taken partially out of context in that my original quote of. "However, there is another section of Thai law that applies to this situation which is that when this is a small family business he is allowed to take care of his family. So in practice, normally no work permit is enforced", comes after what you have quoted above and therefore somewhat implies overarching principles?

I have already stated in my original post that even my lawyer brother-in-law has said that me carrying out a full time task would cause issues but occasional small help would not, so why are you nit-picking? 

5 minutes ago, stevenl said:

So you make an unsourced claim that working without a work permit is permitted depending on circumstances.

Is that humble pie I see you eating?  And how is it unsourced when it has come from a Bangkok lawyer with near 40 years experience?

2 hours ago, stevenl said:

Looking forward to a link for your claim.

Apologies regarding my earlier post, I was actually searching regarding digital nomads needing a work visa when I came across it and it's actually on the Thai Embassy website where it reads:

However, there is another section of Thai law that applies to this situation which is that when this is a small family business he is allowed to take care of his family. So in practice, normally no work permit is enforced.

It can be found here under the section Other Related Cases.

https://www.thaiembassy.com/thailand/thailand-digital-nomad-visa-and-work-permit

14 minutes ago, Chongalulu said:

That wasn't compressed inside. It imploded. The pressure meter of your tank will not change the deeper you go. The interior pressure remains the same. Before quoting Einstein brush up on your physics. 

I think you should too, as well as your diving theory?  The following taken from the first reference that I could quickly find:

Simply put-as a diver goes deeper into the water, the pressure on everything becomes greater. The volume of air in the dive tanks is getting smaller while the pressure rises. Remember from the basics that you can compress air. 

The link is here:

https://www.greaterclevelandaquarium.com/diving-physics/#:~:text=Simply put-as a diver,becomes compressed when at depth. 

Just now, Chongalulu said:

The tank cannot be compressed by being at depth and there's no difference in the pressure of air you breathe between a tank and air compressed at the surface. The second stage demand valve determines that supplying air at the pressure relative to the depth you're at.

The crew of the Titan submersible might beg to differ with you on this one Einstein?

4 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Looking forward to a link for your claim.

The brother-in-law told me about it but I also came across it not so long back when researching it online.  I haven't got time to look for it myself right now but if you have, it can be found on the website of either Siam Legal or a similar website.  If I get time later to find it myself, I will post it.  

12 hours ago, RobU said:

Interesting opinion however could do without the insulting sarcastic remark at the beginning. Are you for real or just a twerp showing your social  inferiority and ill manners from your location in the UK? Perhaps the idea scares you and you feel that you have to try to suppress all discussion by use of aggression 

Ooh, hark at you?  It would help if you had some knowledge of what you were talking about and a sense of reality before making such a crass suggestion?  Hence the opening comment!  My father always taught me that if I had nothing sensible to say, say nothing; and you could obviously learn from this?  Social inferiority eh?  From your obvious ignorance and lack of real world experience, which is profound from your initial comment, I would be taking a long look in the mirror before suggesting this of others.  Just FYI though I don't have any trouble jetting back and forth the US with work when I need to, so I doubt that anything Thailand brings in will have any effect on me.

On 3/11/2024 at 4:05 AM, Chongalulu said:

No the air they’re breathing will be compressed,that’s why they’re using demand valves. The pressure at 6 metres is such that your lungs would not be able to overcome it to draw uncompressed air from the surface. Take a hose into the pool go to 2 metres underwater and see if you can breathe…

On 3/11/2024 at 4:05 AM, Chongalulu said:

No the air they’re breathing will be compressed,that’s why they’re using demand valves. The pressure at 6 metres is such that your lungs would not be able to overcome it to draw uncompressed air from the surface. Take a hose into the pool go to 2 metres underwater and see if you can breathe…

If you read my other post you would have seen that I clarified this position in that whilst it is compressed it does not suffer from the additional compression created by the tank being at depth.  Hence why using conventional scuba you will always burn more air the deeper you go.

7 hours ago, RobU said:

Stop UK criminals by demanding an enhanced DBS disclosure as part of the visa application process. I don't know if other countries have similar systems but it shows criminal.record including if someone is on the sex offenders register and can be accessed online by the person making the check

Are you for real?  Enhanced DBS are only available to employers and registered organisations that can justify their need.  Do you honestly think that the UK is going to release that kind of data in to the hands of a country that ranks fairly low on the least corruption index and wouldn't know what data protection is if it fell on one of their heads?  

10 hours ago, impulse said:

 

That is absolutely wrong and a good way to die of an embolism if you hold your breath on ascent.  You can't breathe "uncompressed air" any deeper than a couple of feet. If you think you can, try breathing through a garden hose next time you're in a pool.  In fact, the closer you are to the surface, the more important it is to not hold your breath on ascent using any source of air, because of the inverse nature of Boyles law on the expansion of a gas.

 

From 6 metres, no chance.  Explain how I never suffered an embolism when as a kid we used to dive to touch the bottom of the 6m deep diving pool at the local swimming pool?  Additionally and whilst not advisable I've also seen plenty of dive students having breathed compressed air, panic and bolt to the surface without exhaling from a bit deeper than that and never suffered an embolism.  Maybe I should have explained in a bit more detail in that the air is tank supplied and compressed but at surface pressure so it doesn't suffer the same additional compression as if the tank was at the same depth as the user?  However, you still might want to check up on your physics as the pressure in water is linear with depth and therefore you will get the same percentage of expansion/compression going from say 10m to 7m as you would from 3m to the surface.  Boyle's Law is a linear equation (P1.V1=P2.V2) and therefore your claim regarding it being more important closer to the surface is a total load of tosh as it's all based on the pressure difference between the 2 points (depths) in the water. 

6 hours ago, sirineou said:

Hard to get it right just  with lead weight. 

i guess you guys made it up with skill. 

But as you dive deeper your body is compressed and it's volume changes, so does your  buoyancy.

unfortunately you can't  change you led weight to compensate, 

But you can add air or reduce air to compensate for your buoyancy changes if you have a BC vest. 

I lived in Florida  a sort drive to the keys, 60-80 ft visibility , water temperature in the 80s 

Diving in 30-40 ft where downtime is not an issue. 

With your BC vest adjust your buoyancy to neutral , and glide while rising or descending a bit by inhaling or exhaling. That's what I called nirvana. 

It's definitely a nice feeling when you get your buoyancy just right enabling you to do this.

On 3/9/2024 at 3:25 AM, 2long said:

Idiots! Not only for damaging the reef and its inhabitants, but for endangering their own lives with this type of 'diving.' Up and down possibly with fast ascents and maybe without any training will soon see them in the chamber.

The system is known as Snuba (or a variation of this) and has been around for about 20 years.  Quite safe at 6m depth even at with fast ascents due to the air being surface supplied and not compressed.  At this depth, no risk of the bends either unless they were down there for an unimaginable time whereby hypothermia would most probably have set in first.  There should be a divemaster keeping an eye on them though. 

On 3/9/2024 at 8:24 AM, Chongalulu said:

Potential for pulmonary barotrauma and pneumothorax by not breathing out on the ascent along with decompression sickness (bends) from uncontrolled ascents. 

The air is surface supplied i.e. not compressed and therefore there will be little or no expansion upon ascent, so no worry of pulmonary barotrauma.  At the 6m they will be diving at, there will not be enough pressure for there to be a worry of a build up of nitrogen bubbles in the joints  and therefore your suggestion of possible decompression sickness i.e. the bends is rather ludicrous.  The system that they are using is called Snuba (or a variation of it), has been around for about 20 years and is quite safe for use at 6m for these exact reasons.

2 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

A Li-Ion battery cannot be transported in the hold unless attached to the equipment it is intended to power. The attached battery must not exceed 100Wh in capacity. Airlines should require that they have been tested to UN standards by an independent authority, That would be totally impractical and impossible.

In February 2016, ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation) which regulates the transport of Dangerous Goods in aviation, enacted a ban on transporting standalone lithium-ion batteries as cargo on passenger aircraft. The ban went into effect April 1, 2016, and remains in force.

https://paguk.com/content/air-transportation-li-ion-batteries-0

I flew in December with EVA whilst carrying some cordless power tools.  After researching their conditions thoroughly, they will not allow any lithium batteries in the hold (even if attached) unless it is pre-cleared with them.  Therefore the actual tools went in the hold in a suitcase and I carried the batteries (72Wh each) in my hand luggage in li-po bags.  The li-po bags were not a stated requirement by them but I did it to avoid any possible hassle at security.

1 hour ago, mikebell said:

Interpol will contact RTP and in five year's time they'll start looking.  Meanwhile the Red Bull brat will be at this weekend's F1 meeting.

Someone from my locality who I knew very vaguely, went on the run in Thailand several years ago after teaching a nightclub bouncer a lesson after he tried picking on him. I haven’t seen him around since pre-Covid days but he was at large for several years (and still maybe), despite having an interpol red notice on him. Had a Thai wife and a couple of kids too. 

2 hours ago, trevoromgh said:

No travel insurance will cover her if she intentionally went to the waterfall to jump off but the mere act of hiking up to the waterfall in the first place could in itself be considered  a 'hazardous' activity which no insurance will cover unless previously agreed in advance. 

The pool at the bottom of Hin Lad is barely deep enough to swim in and in order to jump off you’d have to be able to accelerate like Yousain Bolt to clear the rocks on the way down. Most probably either hurt herself on the 30 minute hike through the jungle to get there or a slip on the rocks of the stream that flows to the waterfall?  I’ve had many a travel insurance policy over the years and often paid extra for other hazardous activities. However I cannot recall walking up a mountain ever being classed as such!

Sounds like it may be a similar scam to where sometimes if you get a trial version of a software or app, they still ask for your debit card details?  What they don't tell you clearly though is that they sign you up for automatic renewal every month unless you cancel.  Got caught very similarly a couple of months ago by an online merchant website that I bought something from whereby they automatically signed me up for their discount club and starting debiting about £8/month from my account.  By the time that I had noticed it, they'd already taken 3 months but luckily I had the original invoice for my purchase which clearly stated that membership to their discount club was free and therefore everything was refunded immediately by my bank. 

25 minutes ago, RobU said:

If you want more than the Occupational Therapist recommends you have to pay for it yourself. Not bull***t but the honest truth and as I said all benefits are backdated to the date of application using Gofundme is scamming good hearted people who think there is no support

Give it up will you?  You have no experience whatsoever of dealing with this local authority yourself yet you talk as if you are the Oracle?  OT at this authority couldn't even organise getting the small adaptions required for my mother during the latter stages of her Alzheimer's so we ended up paying ourselves, let alone something like this?  It was the same for a close friend who was at risk of falling due to a back condition causing her to lose feeling in her one leg.  One of my closest and oldest friends in this world has not long recently left her job of 14 years as Policy Manager for a well known charity that supports people like this because she couldn't take the stress anymore of seeing people who genuinely deserved help but were constantly being let down by this authority amongst others.   Such was her knowledge on the laws regarding this subject that she even used to attend the Senedd and advise the Welsh Ministers on any policy changes they were proposing. Yet apparently you know more than all of us?  

7 hours ago, RobU said:

From the Pattaya news:

"he finds himself in a cruel twist of fate, struggling to secure the necessary modifications for his own home. A GoFundMe page has been established by his family to bridge this gap, "

Bull***t, the local authority will do all necessary adaptations for free. He is also entitled to disability living allowance at the higher rate for mobility and care to the tune of over £300 per week. It's a tragedy but the family is milking the Gofundme community.

Have personal experience of dealing with Taff Ely CBC regarding disability adaptations have we?  I have as I'm originally from not far from this guy and whilst in theory what you say is correct, the reality is far from it, especially if you want to remain in your own home.  Due to the time that it takes to get everything approved and budget allocated, people often end up paying for it themselves.  Keep your nasty comments and bull***t to yourself until you know what you're talking about!

4 hours ago, retarius said:

Did she fall off the scooter and fall 20 metres? She should appeal the scooter vs motorbike decision. When I was a kid they had scooters that were 250cc....most Thai 'motorbikes' like Honda Wave of Click are/were 125cc. Honda made the Click 160cc recently for no apparent reason. The bike is now too heavy for my wife to ride and it's too fast for my liking. I'm old so have no wish to tear about the place.  

The Click 155i/160i were made in response to the loss of sales to the more powerful Yamaha Aerox.  5Kg should be negligible to a rider especially with it being slung so low in the frame?

2 hours ago, baansgr said:

Put a chang vest on him, looks like so many living here....wonder how many thousands more there are lurking around

Take a look at the appearance of say Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nilsen, Harold Shipman, et al?

Judge a person just by their looks?  A self-righteous, bigoted opinion if ever I have heard one! 

17 minutes ago, Nickcage49 said:

Please no.

 

At least finish the road repairs first. This place is a mess already.

Something I’ve never been able to understand myself. Even the Mrs rants that they done nothing when Covid was around and nothing in low season. Come high season they’re digging up everywhere without a care on how it portrays the place to visitors but expects them to not only come back but also increase in ridiculous numbers? If Pattaya had a real rainy season like other parts of the country then I could understand but it doesn’t except for the very occasional flooding?