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

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.

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

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?

... 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?

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.

Plenty of BKK number plates in Pattaya every weekend, and triple that on long weekends, despite the well-planned road constructions during high season that turn already clogged traffic into a nightmare.

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...

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).

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.

No doubt learned from US fender chasers!

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?