ThaSalaPaul

Except for tourists, many of whom have no idea

Jeez! Splitting hairs seems to be the appropriate phrase here! Approved or Agreed in principle, who cares (other than you of course)?

And a big premium at that by the look of it. Our inverter and battery are Alpha ESS also from China but not imported by us

Thanks for the video links. Very interesting, I will be checking out options to achieve something similar. I noticed in your video that your batteries cost 68k Baht! Wow, that's a good deal. My single 8kWh LFP battery cost 140k! 1kWh less than yours. Anyway thanks again for the links 🙂

We have solar too and I am i interested in knowing how you hooked up your system to run your house from your car if you have the time to explain it. Thanks 🙂

Setting this on in the menu means that, when you brake and come to a complete standstill the brake (equivalent to a handbrake) will automatically be applied even after you have taken your foot of the pedal. Very useful, especially at traffic lights

Which begs the question who is the Chief of Police paying for his position?

But they don't usually keep all of the money. They take a cut and pass the rest up the chain. Checkpoints are usually given monthly budgets of how much they are expected to collect to be passed up. How else are the guys at the top going to be able to buy condo buildings?

It's not clear whether the girlfriend being referred to was the father's or the son's. I took it to be the son's

The evidence of this thread strongly suggests you don't

Yep, sounds like an oddball exception

Visiting down and outs doesn't amount to preaching. What were they saying to the down and outs? Were you listening? My point really was that people don't go to temples to be or to show themselves as being good people. It's a totally different mindset that you seem to not have understood. Perhaps you haven't been in Thailand long or if you have you have not made much of an attempt to understand the culture

What was he saying? Was he preaching or just giving out news (in place of the village headman) or simply rambling? Even if he was preaching, he shouldn't have been and he was one single monk

Seems you have misunderstood such things as temple visits and have transferred your understanding of what that would mean with Christianity onto Buddhism. More often than not people will visit temples or shrines to ask for something (good luck in exams or finding a boyfriend etc). It rarely has much to do with piety. Hence you never see congregations and people preaching (Buddhist monks don't seek to lecture people)

Proven you say? So where is this proof? You are more likely to find that the proof, proves the exact opposite. See below https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/09/surgical-masks-covid-19.html https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014564118

But it is their civic duty to not willingly spread a virus that is potentially very harmful to some of those they come into contact with. What a selfish attitude. Do you also advocate that men with STD's should not have to bother wearing condoms?

The main purpose of wearing a mask is not to protect the person wearing the mask, but rather to protect others from that person. It's amazing how many people still don't understand that. Similarly some people are proud to announce that they still go into work when they have a cold/flu, not caring that by doing so they will cause others to suffer too.

Well that's disrespectful. You wearing a mask is not to protect you, but rather to protect others from you.

The problem with being pro any nation is when it is done in blind faith without regard to any facts or reason.

It seems reasonable to infer from that comment that you choose to be just as bad as the people you are criticising, but sat on the other side of the fence. In a manner not unlike a belligerent child and not dissimilar to 2 bad guys shooting it out, neither of whom could reasonably expect to garnish much sympathy. I live in Thailand and enjoy living in Thailand. I have very positive feeligs towards Thailand and Thai people. But it doesn't mean I like ALL Thai people or think that ALL Thai people are "good" people. That would be naive in the extreme. Just as with all other countries on the planet, without exception, there are good and bad people and everything in between. An adult (or even a child for that matter) should not judge another person purely based upon where they are or are not from. Mercifully the rest of the world does not adopt your attitude, or we would all be at each other's throats

The reason for wanting to know of any mitigating circumstances would be for the same reason a court of law would seek to find any. If you only see the world in black & white with no shades of grey then this may be difficult to understand. In the event that hypothetically someone is killed it is imperative to know the circumstances leading up to it. Was it cold blooded?, was it in self-defence? was it in anger but accidental?, was it purely accidental (negligent)? Whilst the person who caused the death may be 100% in the wrong, each of those "mitigating" circumstances I just mentioned would result in totally different sentences being administered (sentences administered by courts being a reflection of society's view of those circumstances). Ergo mitigating circumstances are very important I don't see that people rushing to judge others based on a limited grasp of the facts is much different to lynch mob attitudes. For me personally, the fact that a person requires hospitalisation puts the perpetrator in the wrong. The degree of "how" wrong is dependent upon the mitigating circumstances, and these we don't know. I would not like to pass judgement on either one of them without knowing the full facts

But that attitude results in you doing the very thing you dislike other people doing, just on the other side of the same coin. As the saying goes "2 wrongs do not make a right". Everyone deserves to be treated equally regardless of colour, creed or sexual preference.

I think his point was that it is hard to see the logic of making it illegal to drive a car with red plates at night. I too struggle to see the logic of it

The days when nations didn't need to care about events taking place on the other side of the world are loooong gone

Hi Happydreamer. I'm from England. I just finished a book (Troubled Blood) which uses it too. It seems to be quite an ordinary unassuming phrase to me.