Trip Hop

On 12/29/2023 at 4:16 AM, alex8912 said:

So you can tell if someone is from the USA or Canada by their speech??  Or their look? Honestly your post is sooo full of it DUDE!!  Then of course you saw them again. They also had gold chains!!??  You are really full of it DUDE. We all know where you are from as well. 

Not always but these 2 just happened to mention where they were from when they were trying to coax a couple of bar girls out of the bar without paying the bar fine.

The use of the word DUDE and similar others are a dead giveaway though! 😘

Nothing against Yanks or Canadians and got quite a few decent friends from both countries.  Just making a point to the OP that it's not just the Brits walking around shirtless.

You sound like you need some anger management counselling? 

2 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   What makes you think that the dog is right in its judgements ?

I quite often walk past restaurants/shops  if there's a growling dog inside and don't go inside because of the dog 

Because my other half thinks exactly the same as the dog and she’s a very street wise Bangkok girl. I’d trust both of them with my life. Stop being so pedantic just to sound smart as who mentioned anything about snarling dogs? As stated in my original post, unless you’re a shady looking person you wouldn’t have a problem!

31 minutes ago, BestB said:

 

 

i have 2 pitbulls, big loving teddy bears but they hate badly dressed men, rubbish collectors and anyone else who looks “dirty”

 

 

We have a 3 legged Thai Ridgeback that is soppy as anything but is exactly the same.  If anyone pulls up at our restaurant in a car or on a motorbike, he greets them with his tail wagging and a big smile.  Anyone shady looking walks by and he shows them his teeth, just so they know the score if they should come around visiting one night.  It's strange how they know who most probably won't be trouble and who possibly might?

10 hours ago, ezzra said:

The incoming is where mostly the biggest bottlenecks are and hopefully a solution for that will be found soon with the help

of those portly, well fed high ranking immigration's officers...

 

I came in last Saturday afternoon and the 1st immigration queue was down to the bottom of the ramp. Went to the 2nd and that was at the bottom of the ramp too but didn’t have the zig zag lines. Friends came in exactly the same time this Thursday and it was exactly the same. 

6 hours ago, alex8912 said:

You had to show a bank statement don't  text false things. The employer info is for METV. A tourist visa app for 60 days MUST provide a recent bank statement with I believe is about $600 USD. I did one a few weeks ago as well. 

Nope, not at all. I was expecting it to ask on the application but it didn’t. I don’t even have physical statements so would have to print one to pdf if I did. Even thought about it after and considered whether I had missed it on the application and expected it to be rejected but it wasn’t. From your unfounded accusations I’m obviously a better person than you, perhaps the visa office seen that too?

On 11/15/2023 at 5:57 PM, Woke to Sounds of Horking said:

SETV, correct?  May I ask where you applied from?  Sent mine from Canada 29 Oct and still waiting.  Day 12 now. Ridiculous.

Sorry for the late reply but only just seen this due to the site being down. Standard 60 day SETV applied for online from the UK. Hope you’ve got yours sorted by now?

9 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Yes, due to certain situations, I often book my flight a few days before I go 

When I applied, they wanted to see accommodation for the whole stay and a letter from my employee and I was concerned about  safety of the web site and sending them by bank details 

Strange? Just done a standard 60 day TV, no bank or employer details required and only showed accommodation for the first week. Approved in 2-3 days. 

15 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Thailand should make it easer to get tourist visas .

Not having to book all the accommodation before being given a visa and not having to book flights beforehand . 

I’m not sure what you are complaining about here? My e-visa just took 2 days to be approved. Are you telling me that you want to leave booking your flight until the last week?  No need to book all your accommodation either, as a week will be enough. You could even book somewhere with free cancellation and change it after your visa is issued?

49 minutes ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

Not arguing with you at all, but my point is still valid, any criminal can get a gun in the UK

Nope, not any criminal.  In fact it was far easier years ago.  Believe it or not, a lot of criminals shy away from them due to the increases in the sentencing just for possession and hence most probably the reduction in incidents over the last decade or so as stated by johnnybangkok?  Back in the 70s/80s, sawn off shotguns were common place but you rarely see them these days.

On 9/16/2023 at 11:37 AM, DjSilver said:

Thai airways will go bankruptcy again. They have higher prices than let's say Qatar Airwats, Emirates and Etihad. However, their service and quality isn't even close to half. This is why most people doesn't want to pay overpriced for less. And Thai Airways are managed by Thais, so no wonder it goes bad. Thai business is never successful in the long run, since Thais only see fast money now.

Not my personal experience from my last 2 trips in April and August.  Qatar was £200 more expensive for a one-stop with not exactly great transit times when compared to a direct with Thai but most probably due to them sharing with BA?  Both Emirates and Etihad were roughly the same price or marginally under Thai but again with not exactly great transit times and the Emirates flight took off from Heathrow and returned to Gatwick. ????  

You have to laugh at their audacity though!  Willing to get into bed with nearly every nation the west despises but then expects the west to supply them with their best tech?  Do they think that just because it is Germany instead of the US they will get any different outcome to that of the F-35A's?  

34 minutes ago, Isaan sailor said:

How ‘bout some free visas for Western tourists?

I can't see it myself?  They know that most Thailand newbies or non-regulars from the west are already catered for enough under the 30 day visa free arrival.  Free visas to the remaining long stayers or regulars won't make much difference as they are already used to the current system.  I will say though that the increase to 45 days visa free last year did entice me to change my normal 30 day trip to 6 weeks?  

21 hours ago, Keep Right said:

Same here, no more COVID cocktail for me.

I think that the fact that the UK are no longer offering shots to those under 65 unless you are high risk, says a lot about this?

I've had it 3 times personally and even the first time I was well enough to continue to work from home.  A close friend, the Covid Queen as we call her has had it about 6 times.  On the other hand though I have another friend who had it when it first surfaced, spent a few days in an induced coma and still suffers from long Covid, so I think it affects different people in different ways?

3 hours ago, ezzra said:

Just wondering what have brought such a young man to one day, get up and kill his father? i know that the answer to that could present unlimited reasons fro such act, pity though, of the 2 lives that are now wasted.

Alcoholism is described as both a physical and mental addiction.  Depending on how long the father has been this way and his behaviour within the family unit over this time, no doubt some of it most probably will have transposed over to the son in some form of another?  Add to that, that the son possibly took solace in alcohol and/or ya ba etc and it's a powder keg waiting to ignite.

I expect his father didn't deserve this though, so RIP!

10 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

Well done...   you are debating the qualities of commercial drone batteries in a thread about electric motorcycles. 

 

This is as disjointed as another thread where a poster asked about clearances around a tumble drier in the home and then another poster started arguing how he was more knowledgeable with his experience of 25 kgs commercial driers !!!...  

 

 

Any 'genuine' concern for batteries is about as real as there would be general concern for putting an extremely flammable liquid in a tank and driving around with it if petroleum technology were a new tech today. As such, the concern isn't so genuine as it is ill-informed paranoia. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah it did get a bit side tracked but me and KhunLA have sorted our differences now.

Battery tech is battery tech though and your ignorance prevails you!  Enjoy your day!

1 hour ago, Shop mak said:

Suggest OP write a article rather than a 18 Minute very Long Video.

An article wouldn't attract the advertising revenue that a video on a successful YouTube channel would?  YouTube analyses the amount of followers/number of views of a channel's content and pay the channel's owner to place their paid for adverts within as herfiehandbag has stated above.  Longer time means more adverts and revenue.

5 hours ago, retarius said:

Isn't anyone following the war in Ukraine? Drones are really easy to shoot down if you have a radar system and a gun. This is a vehicle for doing reconnaissance over borders, meaning spying for the purposes of invading.

Why invading?  Why not spying on say insurgents, drug/people traffickers and potential illegal immigrants in the border areas?

You'd also need something a bit more advanced than just a radar system and a "gun"! 

If they have a cellphone or their house phone is capable of using the + sign then it's the +6663.... as stated above.  If not it will be 0116663.....

26 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

I wasn't comparing anything, just pointing out, I'm not a liar.  

 

You are the one that assumed I was operating commercial drones.

 

Toys they are not, and fit my purpose of making vids, or different camera angle.  And giving these idle hands something to tinker with.

 

Personally, I would have simply admitted that oops, and extended an apology for the false implication.  Instead of deflecting.

 

But that's me.

 

Have a nice day.

KhunLA, I'm a fair man and will hold my hands up when I am wrong.  From the drone link that you posted, there actually are drones that are IP67 rated and the reason that I most probably haven't heard of them to date is that they are not what we regard as commercial/industrial drones, Nevertheless, I apologise. 

Perhaps if I had said commercial drones then I would have been more accurate and if you check out the Matrice 300/350 RTK, you will see that they are widely regarded as the new standard for industrial drones and only been available in the last 2-3 years with IP45/IP55 rating?  The main problem being I think that it is hard to maintain a fully sealed unit when being exposed to substantial changes in pressure due to altitude?  This excepting the new Ascent Spirit but that is virtually military grade and costs somewhere in the region of USD70,000?  

You didn't do yourself any favours with your first comment though or by trying to rubbish my claim about the fact that a a pair of batteries could actually cost as much as your E-MB?

Have a nice day yourself!

4 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Why is he 'obviously telling porkies'.... He [KhunLA] has stated that he has operated 'kit' (drone & E-MB) in the rain and the batteries neither shrunk nor exploded.

 

He's providing real world experience that they hysteria against batteries may be just that, hysteria and while there is well documented risk of batteries catching fire, the real world incidence is rare. 

 

Its the same for the batteries mobile phones - while there is some hysteria, the real world experience for pretty much all of us is that the phones we have possessed have not exploded or caught fire. 

The shrunk comment was a further bit of sarcasm from him in response to my initial reply to the post.  Obviously something fully waterproof and encased in whatever type of hard plastic they use is hardly going to shrink?

He may be giving real world experience from his point of view but that doesn't give him the right to talk down to people who most probably know just as much and possibly more?

As for hysteria, I admit there is quite a bit of that around.  However from my world experience I can tell you that I've actually experienced one of those batteries pictured in my last reply to him going up in flames and it's not a pretty sight despite that being a Li-ion and not even a Li-Po?  Hence these days why we not only always carry Li-Po fire extinguishers but also carry the batteries themselves in special pouches or a transport case specifically designed for them?  Even the emergency & rescue services are up in arms at the moment because they are being told by H&S not to leave them on stand-by charge due to risk of fire and their vehicles are being kitted out with special charging stations so that they can be charged on the way to a scene?  So whilst there is a lot of hysteria, there's also a lot of genuine concern?

3 hours ago, KhunLA said:

 

Does the battery for your drone cost ฿74k, as that was the price of my E-MB.

 

 

 

 

Afraid so or near enough for a pair as I did say?  These are the old models, the new ones are even more expensive (about 4500B extra each I would estimate) and don't appear to be available in Thailand yet?  You need a pair not only to balance the UAV but also to make it worthwhile you taking off for a commercial operation?  We get about 40 minutes mapping time from a pair with just a single payload and 35 minutes with the additional LIDAR strapped on.  Now if you're "intelligent" enough to be able to supply me with a battery to match this for $130, myself and a lot of other people around the world would be very very interested?  Even at $260 it would be a steal and there would be 100% profit in it for you?  Nice drone BTW, shame it's not much more than a toy but that is where you are comparing apples with oranges?

26 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

No need, I've actually got caught in the rain a couple times, drones & E-MB.  Didn't shrink or explode.

Interesting comment as there are only a couple of high end drones that are capable of being flown in the rain?  So unless you've been operating a commercial drone operation in the last 2 or so years (when the first IP45 drone was launched), you're obviously telling porkies about the drone?  Now considering the amount of time that you appear to have been in Thailand, I find that very unlikely?  Also when you consider that the price of the most expensive model E-MB that you are promoting here wouldn't even buy a pair of batteries for one of our drones, it kind of puts things into perspective?

I'm not dismissive of E-MBs, although it would take a lot for me to buy one.  I am however somewhat objective to your sarcastic and immediately condescending attitude to someone who may just know actually more about batteries than you do?  Especially as you're obviously telling porkies to further your case?  A bit of basic business advice, telling porkies about anything in life when you're trying to promote something, doesn't exactly bode well for business!