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On 10/17/2019 at 3:53 PM, Jingthing said:

Well if you're still looking, I had already told you where to find them in Marina Mall and don't understand why you didn't simply follow those directions.

 

Anyway I was there last night and I can report the item you want is IN STOCK and I can now give you even better directions.

 

Mall -- Marina Mall

Store -- KOMONOYA (Japanese chain, small cute items)

Only location in town

Location in Mall -- 

Directly across from the area between OWN DAYS OPTICAL and BOOTS

You can't miss it, but apparently you did last time.

In the store --

Enter and walk straight in.

You will see Aisle 4.

The item is on the right hand side of Aisle 4.

The English label of the item is Steel Nail Clipper, Straight Type. 

It is large. It's exactly what you wanted.

 

Enjoy. 

victorious ! JT was spot on, they have loads of straight nail clippers,

60 baht a piece, i bought 5 and got 1 free.

i have tried get my hands of them for about 10 years now i think

On 11/8/2019 at 8:26 PM, cmarshall said:

Which has, so far, proved so successful.

you havnt kept up. 10 years ago i would have to speak thai

for the most part to get anything done,

but today i next to never come across anyone who doesnt speak english,

save my maids, even ole mom & pop at a resturant that didnt speak

english 10 years ago somehow picked up english when i came back ?!?

1 hour ago, Hawky said:

Oh <deleted>. I'm new to all this and just recently started leasing a condo in Pattaya. Only for 6 months and already paid two months deposit. 

 

The landlord is Thai. Sounds like I should be prepared to lose it all for no reason? My GF who is also on the lease and is Thai paid the deposit on my behalf. Does that make any difference or are they indiscrimate with who they steal from?

never send your gf when its time to get the deposit back,

insist that its paid back when you are face to face, and with the owner, not any kind of secretary.

dont accept any other trickery,

and for practical purposes, use real shoes when you go to claim back deposit,

preferably those with steel reinforced toe

2 hours ago, steven100 said:

so why didn't the landlord inspect the room before giving back any deposit ?

even if the landlord and the tenant didn't get on, it's no reason to leave a place like that.

what ever gave you the idea that the land lady gave back deposit ?

on contrary its standard practice in thailand to steal the deposit,

and i suspect the tenant wanted to even the scale a bit

9 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

If there is intelligent life out there, it will never allow us off this rock. They will have seen what we did to this rock and they ain't gonna allow us to do it elsewhere.

I'd go with the "doomed as a species". Any species that destroys the environment that supports it is doomed, and we've been busily destroying our environment since they learned to make fire.

disagree, the west are doing well in this regard,

and i expect rest of the world to catch up the slack.

as a specie we are certainly not the worst,

that title belongs to the sea life forms that uses co2

as building materials for their shells.

while a good survival strategy short term,

long term they are depleting co2 until algae cant get enough of it,

and with out the algae, they will them self go extinct.

that is to say, they are self destructive and dont even know it.

in contrast we humans have the ability to dig up

these life forms and recycle the co2 they took with them into their grave.

we are the saviors of the planets life

18 minutes ago, mauGR1 said:

Hopefully in a few decades we'll be able to control the increasing of population through education, without resorting to barbaric means like wars or forced sterilisations, this ball is not yet too small for all of us.

Eventually nature will take care of it with an asteroid, volcanoes, pole shifting, you name it.

actually pole shifting isnt nearly as bad as one would expect,

it has happened several times since life became a thing on earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51usJ74pPP8

On 6/3/2019 at 12:30 PM, Jane Dough said:

I suggest you change your name to GBH. 

 

Of course this incident is terrible but resorting to violence is not the answer. 

 

The neighbors did the right thing in alerting the authorities though they were rather late.

 

Rooster

my father was a bully, and retaliating with violence is the answer

3 hours ago, Forethat said:

I beg to differ.

 

Mankind's biggest battle is the reptile brain mentality that makes people susceptible to whatever verbal excrement someone comes up with. 

If I didn't know any better I'd say the climate panic hoax is nothing but a huge psychological experiment; someone is trying to find out how much BS you can shove down someone's throat - and charge them for the privilege - before they realise they are being played. Like a banjo.

that thought did cross my mind, either way it grudge me that i will be

included as one of the extinction cultists 50 years from now and cant

defend myself

12 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I'm all for anything that makes it less cold.

I'm also for reducing if not eliminating waste and pollution, which can be achieved by reducing population.

yes, the plastic waste bothers me too, i think the western population & states are handling it well enough, but the lack of large trash cans and emptying of them here is an 'in the face' occurrence, it especially bothers me that its going into the oceans

i burned mine, i had no intention to return on my first trip to thailand,

the idea was to die here from the onset.

mangkot, minus the yellow stuff

the similarities between scandinavia & thailand is

that i can buy a bottle of coca cola in both countries,

the difference is that i cant see any plastic litter in scandinavia.

i think ultimately it comes down to the people being mindful of litter,

and the state provide incentives to be mindful of litter.

i note that the trash cans in thailand always spill over

and the wind & floods carries it away

long before the truck comes around and empty it.

there is also a cultural difference, in scandinavia the norm is to cook yourself,

while in thailand the norm is to buy cooked food and bring it home in a plastic bag.

not necessarily a bad idea, but for sure thailand has an incentive

to invent a bag that can keep a hot soup contained over a long time,

but yet still be decomposable

just stop it already, its not fun any more

NASA testify before congress on climate

https://www.youtube.com/user/TonyHeller1/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=1

1 hour ago, Crazy Alex said:

No, the science is NOT settled. Not even NASA agrees with you (emphasis added):

 

Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals¹ show that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree*: Climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities.

 

https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/

 

Obviously, the science is not settled. Would you drink out of a can that some stranger handed to you and said it was "extremely likely" it wasn't anything toxic?

what im wondering is, if its extremely likely that co2 caused the rise in the 1980-2000 interval,

then what is the extremely likely cause for the rise in the 1910-1940 interval ?

i mean, its the same climb, so there has to be some extremely likely cause for the earlier rise too, right ?

or does climate just act like this without an extremely likely cause ?

30 minutes ago, lucifer666 said:

Buy a larger amplifier and play the most obnoxious music you can find. Played at full volume of course.

i used to play jimi hendrix on the jukebox when the cafe in the school

was fully seated and i needed a chair and table,

people would invariably flee the menace

as long as you keep separate economies, and go dutch over expenses,

and never under any circumstance lend out money,

i predict a nice life, but otoh if you break any of these principles,

i predict you will ruin your life for good.

keep in mind your responsibility is your own well being

its not expensive to employ directional typically 30 degree field sound back (LRAD)

https://m.alibaba.com/product/60682270775/Long-Range-Acoustic-Device-For-Crowd.html

someone here came up with the theory that wind power

is cheap and reliable enough to replace current electricity generation,

but on the odd chance wind doesnt blow a few days or nights,

what will make up the shortfall ?