Khaeng Mak

6 hours ago, Sheryl said:

 

Absolute nonsense as regards Thais as a people.

 

Both empathy and charity are well understood and I do not find the percent of Thai people who practice them to be much different than people anywhere.

 

What you say may be true of the particular Thais you are dealing with but it is hardly true of Thais as a people.

 

They run the full gamut of types and characters. Selfish, selfless. Cruel, compassionate. etc

 

There may also be other issues at play, e.g. your motives may for some reason be being misconstrued or your actions not make sense to people as cosntituting charitable assistance.

 

As for the OP's story, I think most likely people either did not understand his plan to have the man make use of his samlor or may have felt it was clearly not going to work (and they could have been right on that score...not at all clear the man had any inclination or ability to make a go of being a samlor driver). Thais understand charity well enough, but development-type schemes less well...and sometimes the ones foreigners hatch aren't realistic to the situation or person for reasons they don't see buy that Thais easily can.

Sorry Sheryl, but I have to side with the OP on this.

I have multiple examples to provide but I will rely on just two.

First, I know a very poor lady and her much older husband (she muslim, he isaan but converted). He was in a bad motorcycle accident and had a good part of his gizzards removed as a result.  I visited them in their shanty and could see that he was not recovering very well.  So I spent the next month, providing them with lots of extra fresh meat and fruit and veges.  I also provided him with some multi vitamins.

He slowly turned around and made a decent recovery.  I stopped supply the extra rations.  His wife came to my house and asked if I could continue because she wanted to sell them at the village market.

This year a 30 something homeless Thai guy set up camp near the beach.  He came from Surat.  The local people were very weary of him, thinking he either murdered someone, or had drug mafia on his tail.  The guy speaks a little English so I do like to chat with him as it also helps me to practice my Thai.  I was at a night market with my girl and bought several shirts and shorts for him.  I gave them to him when no one was looking.  In my opinion the only worthy charity is that which is done anonymously.

Anyway.  A few days later. The guy asks me if I can buy him a gas bottle and stove so that he can cook on the beach.

Empathy and charity is viewed as weakness here.  And in my experience any act of altruism will be followed by a request for more.

Just tell her to get a farang boyfriend.  He will clear her debt for her.

All lies.  EXPECTING is the key word in this article.  Oh and that archive photo is from when they had teething problems with the new check in system so the punters were lined up out into the street.

4 hours ago, bowerboy said:

You can find the army chiefs daughter on Facebook... speaks perfect English and lists her place of residence as Maryland, USA

His son is also active on social media. Also educated abroad and likes to use the F word in his posts.  

Wait.  Let me just check that I have this correct.

You paid off a mortgage for a house that is in your wife's name and now you can't afford to live in Thailand?

3 hours ago, MaxLee said:

One of these days, the ruling regime will shut down the entire internet in Thailand,.... who wants to bet?

Suckers bet.

10 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

 

I am not saying that diesel alone is responsible for the current issues. But, it is a significant part of the problem. And in my opinion, with the issues facing Thailand, there is simply no need for diesel cars and trucks to be permitted on the road.

 

In Thailand, manufacturers are pushing to delay implementation of Euro 6 standards from 2020 to 2028. The list goes on. Even if Europe somehow manages to solve its problem of high diesel car emissions over the next several years, it is likely to persist for much longer in Asia and Africa unless something happens to change things.

 

We know much more about the global health impacts of high real-world NOx emissions. A study published earlier this year in Nature,  in which some of my colleagues at the International Council on Clean Transportation were involved, estimated that excess diesel vehicle NOx emissions – amounts greater than are already nominally permitted under regulations – were linked to about 38,000 premature deaths worldwide in 2015, mostly in the EU, China, and India. The study projected that the impact of all real-world diesel NOx emissions, both permitted and “excess”, will grow to 183,600 early deaths in 2040.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/07/death-diesel-why-no-reverse-gear

 

 

Spider Mike.  I like your posts.  But he has got you on this one.  How clean or dirty the oil is in a diesel engine will have no impact whatsoever on its emissions.

What will make a difference is the state of the piston rings, injectors, and fume reticulation system.

Never heard of her and don't recognize her face. What was see ever in?

My guess rear lights not working on the truck.  Black and covered in tar. Bike speeding and did not see it in the darkness.

5 hours ago, bluebluewater said:

I have seen none of what is being claimed.  I'm thinking somebody is telling a porky.

More propaganda from the Nation.  Just pure lies. 4 out of every Thais I know don't even have a credit card.  And a good many of them no bank account.

For the life of me I cannot see how all of this will not end in violence.

You can buy top up credits from Lazada.

As another thought it would be very easy to weld some sleeves to the bar to bring it up to 50mm.

If no one comes to pick it up you can sell it to one of the recycling guys that come around to check the bins at first light.  They will get about 9baht a kilo for the steel.  If you work on a 50/50 split you might get enough to buy a bowl of somtam.

1 hour ago, simon43 said:

The first small hotel (10 air-cons) that I built in Phuket cost 1 million baht for the electricity supply because a transformer was installed, (and that tends to be the expensive part...).

 

But for my 2nd, 3rd and 4th hotels of similar size, I wanted to avoid using the expensive transformer.  Since this was a 3-phase supply, I carefully allocated the current load from all the rooms across the 3 phases and then promised the local PEA boss that I wouldn't 'blow' the supply!

 

For these 3 small hotels, my promise held good, no transformer was demanded, the install/supply quote was minimal and to date the supply hasn't been overloaded.

 

So it can be done with a careful electrical circuit design and load balancing etc, and an understanding PEA manager...

Yes my thoughts as well.  The are just trying to up sell you.  Just get three phrase run to the house.  And then get a private electrician to run single phase 10amp supply out to your bungalows.  I assume that you do not require separate meters on the bungalows?

And how far are the bungalows from your house as voltage drop may be an issue.

25 minutes ago, AusDieMaus said:

Thnx for all the advice. I will try the Ranong crossing, but will go 2 days early, so if they deny me the exit I will still have time to try the crossing at Psar Phrum/Pailin in Cambodia which I used in the past and was all smiles by the IOs every time. 

There should be no entry in the system. When I went for the extension I observed the IO closely for some raising eyebrows or confused looks, but it was all smooth sailing, so I am sure no such entry exists. The only possible reason that the entry exists could be that the immigration office in Bangkok does not show such entries as they only are applied when crossing the border, and that such an entry would only pop up in immigration offices at border crossings. But I don't think so, any thoughts?

There are two available crossing at Ranong.  The regular one which is an absolute zoo.  And the one at the ferry port for the Andaman Casino which is on a small island just off the coast.  Make sure you use the Andaman ferry.  It is much easier process, way less crowded, and you can literally come back on the same ferry if you don't want to spend a few hours at the casino.

Broke in 3 years. 

Didn't BJ bust some Chinese doing the same thing up in CM and few months back but they could not find anything illegal about what they were doing?

Or did this group not hand over a fat enough brown envelope?

Are the 3 Nepali tailors on the left having a competition to see who can poke their stomach out the furthest?

26 minutes ago, Agusts said:

You probably don't live in Phuket, do you really think anyone will dare to steal from JetSki mafia - that would be the end of his life and all his extended family, I bet if they just leave them on the beach with the keys on, no one dare to even touch it, let alone steal it... lol

 

 

Rubbish.  If it was easier to leave the skis on the beach they would. Simple as that.  Jet ski thugs are the laziest creatures on earth.  That is why they rely on scamming as their business model.