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1 hour ago, villageidiotY2K said:

i have a standard 1st person insurance from bagkok insurance, does this nomally covers the rental car fees? 

 

From my own experience, the insurance company will say that if drive for doing business, they may compensate car rental costs, but not otherwise, if you're "only" a private person on wheels.

On 3/28/2024 at 2:03 PM, georgegeorgia said:

Yes ! Dave the owner has been a Pattaya character now for over 25 years !

He was supposed to be there that day, but we must have missed him somehow...

On 3/26/2024 at 3:05 AM, georgegeorgia said:

Can sell them to Canterbury Tales bookshop cafe ,Dave in the wheelchair 

Thanks - brought them there!

Having the thankful task of cleaning out stuff an ex-expat left behind, I'm stuck with a number of boxes of English pocket books. Does anyone know where I could donate those? Some sort of English speaking community center/library would come to mind, but I have no idea where to find something like that in Pattaya.

4 hours ago, hellohello123 said:

Is it pick on swedish people this month?

Wouldn't know, because Switzerland is just West of Botswana.

I'm sure "Business Financing, a British travel and tourism media publisher" is a very relevant and reliable source for how to get the biggest and best dandelions too.

One word (actually two): social media

5 hours ago, scorecard said:

 

Actually it was introduced to stop high school boys buying alcohol and skipping school. 

And in view of that, it makes a lot of sense to abolish that regulation; anything to promote growth of the tourist industry [/sarcasm_off]

Like another poster already said: they keep finding more and more "things" to boost tourism, but most of those are at best short term solutions to the forever-growth "problem". How about doing away with double-pricing (oh no, there's an endless repeat), or modernizing public transport systems (or even: invent that in places like Pattaya...) and such?

5 hours ago, Iron Tongue said:

Is it more a case of depression and a wish to "check out" from the world?

 

Realistically, it isn't easy to accidentally fall off a balcony unless one wanted to, or was pushed.

 

 

 

... or drunk, or confused (mini stroke?), or a number of other "natural" reasons. If someone wants to kill themselves, it should be common knowledge that the "safe" height is on/above 7th floor...

It's a green fact that electric vehicles are 100% CO² emission free, because after all, electricity comes from a power socket - right? They're kidding themselves and those who foot the bill for carbon credits, and are jumping with joy all the way to the bank.

Real world question: what's the carbon footprint for an electric bus - production (batteries) and daily running on electricity, sourced from burning stuff?

25 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

If your too sick to go to immigration, how will you get the letter, bank statement, and update your book from the bank? Or are you able to do that all on-line and print it all off?

The bank letter can't be made online. A detailed bank statement can be downloaded online, but it won't do any good in conjunction with any government requirements, as they all need it signed by a bank person!

Getting fast-tracked at a bank when you tell them that you're unwell isn't a problem; getting past immigration queues is.

On 12/4/2023 at 11:48 AM, georgegeorgia said:

Just got me thinking as we get older and retired that we start our hobbies or interests that we put off over life.

 

I noticed in posts there was a lot of photographers on here , seems to a majority,that's not something that interests me ,but what interested me is what they like to photograph.

 

A poster on here rises in the early hours to take pics of "street life" in the early hours in Thailand.

 

I had a Thai tourist visit me in Australia in 2011 we drive up to the Blue Mountains  ,he wasn't interested in that ,he was interested in stopping near rural properties to take pics of......wait for it..... Their postal letterboxes !!!!

 

I was just watching Steve Rosse old farang YouTuber who lives in Turtle Beach phuket , his hobby is making paper mache of......turtles and photography them , he mentions he once took a year after work every afternoon to photo every street sign in Arizona 

 

What is it with photography,vlogging ,selfies etc that interest you 

 

I'm thinking how immature but ..... especially a man of his age late 60's 

 

We all have a new weird interest...in photography, whether that be selfies etc I guess 

But this new generation are obsessed with vlogging and photography, even in the gym etc

 

I just started doing boxing a few times a week to have my young nephew ask me if I had photos of the training ,like it's normal to start taking photos in a boxing gym 

 

Is anyone into this new "vlogging ?

Not photos ,but where I see them walking around with the camera talking to themselves 

 

How much of this should we put up with before it invades our privacy ,some farang eg in Pattaya riding around on a push bike ....vlogging !!

 

What about drone hobby ?

Any interest, this drone hobby is taking off ,why ?

 

I've "done photography" for the last ~50 years, with ever evolving cameras/possibilities, and I've meanwhile gone into drones (2) and a gimbal camera. Not for fame, not for fortunes, but it's like painting the moment (took a lot longer before, what of canvas, paint tubes, the mess), and capturing "weird things" like a series of mailboxes that don't look like the ones at home! As to the "why": because everybody can, with modern phones doubling as cameras with wet-dream performance and "vlogging" gadgets that are seriously close to the real professional, really expensive gear! As to me personally, in the course of (at the latest with digital) photography, i learned the ins and outs of Photoshop, and nowadays real serious video mastering apps (Blackmagic Davinci Resolve). Sometimes keeps me busy for more hours than planned...

40 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

I wonder whether DW would entertain an investigation into just what proportion of the "sex tourists" are Germans, and perhaps more pertinently, how many of the Go-Gos and bars have an element ( however disguised) of German ownership and management.

 

I remember West Germany in the 1970s and 80s. Just about every city of any size had at least one street with purpose built "contact centres" bars and shop windows. Pride of place in Hannover was held by a multi storey knocking shop entirely staffed by Thai women!

 

Aids, unrestricted internet porn and cheap overseas flights put the boot into all that.

In fact, I saw a segment of the DW "oh look what we found here" on X/Twitter. They did an interview with a German guy, somewhere under the umbrellas of Pattaya beach. What percolated was that the report (more or less openly) said "this doesn't conform with German/Western morality standards" - need I say more? As if Germany didn't have more pressing concerns, such as co-paying for human slaughter in Ukraine, a government that's destroying the local industry, unlimited migration by non-refugees (I could go on for hours).

1 hour ago, it is what it is said:

This documentary is currently blocked in Thailand.

 

there's non so blind as those who don't want to see.

It's most probably a geoblock, and not one from Thailand, but from the TV station itself. The broadcasting rights are often limited at German stations.

57 minutes ago, Crossy said:

I would agree ^^^, it's common area, condo issue!

 

Is there another breaker/fuse in the line, possibly in a utilities room on your floor?

 

No breaker in between; it's around 80 meters of uninterrupted cable from the common electric meter/main breaker room to where it first reappears at the in-condo breaker box.

The meter in the common meter room on the floor is working (PEA says), there is power on the breaker next to it (the building tech says), but no power from the mains cable at the fuse box. The management office ladies say "your problem" - isn't the cable (some 80 meters in the roof of the corridor) part of the common area?

Krungsri, took 3 minutes, no sweat.

Kasikornbank (opposite in Central) said - like another poster mentioned - only for khun Thai, not for farang.

12 hours ago, BananaStrong said:

I think just being Uyghur Muslim in China is a crime.   

 

But if China says it's a crime, I guess we might as well blame the muslim!!!!!

 

Many countries charge minorities with actual crimes, which is generally not believed by an educated person and is a crime against humanity.

Unless you're an avid reader of NYT or any of a number of "China bad" publications, and don't get your news via NED associated "NGOs", you might have seen that Uyghurs are actually treated like anyone else in China, pretty much regardless of religion etc. - unless they stick out for actual crimes, like *everybody* else in China, regardless of where in the country or what religion they follow (there are countless churches, mosques, synagogues and what-have-you's, in the open and accepted by the state). But the flood of negative comments / propaganda from the West is unbelievable - I don't blame people for thinking that China is a hellhole, because it's actually not easy to get past fake and channelled information/news!

2 hours ago, Time Traveller said:

What the hell?  Just saw this. Why would they close their internet banking?

I don't have a Thai phone either, and I'm out of the country now, so don't know how I'm going to pay my bills after this month.    

Any ideas?

Do you have another account/bank in Thailand with eBanking? You could transfer your money there. I just saw the KTB announcement, and it creates the very same problems for a friend who's abroad and recuperating from a bad accident... You don't necessarily need a "Thai phone" to run banking apps, but the requirement of using a mobile connection (as opposed to a WiFi connection) doesn't bode well if you're abroad - I can sense a brickload of problems flying our way!

5 hours ago, Onerak said:

Female sex workers don't harass tourists because they have at least possibilities of becoming future brides of some person rejected by females of his own kind in exchange for a "wife visa". A transgender prostitute can not give any thing like a "wife visa" in exchange for becoming a lover of a homo sexual. So they are more desperate to harass and get whatever they could from tourists. 

You're both off the facts: ladyboys and gays are incompatible. Get your facts straight (oh, that was an almost unintended pun).