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12 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Don't worry, I don't think you can get Covid from cars.

Are you sure?? Why the new ' Law ' , 2 or more in a car should be wearing a mask.  5555555

13 hours ago, candide said:

Nice piece of yellow propaganda!

BTW, apart from short episodes (the longest being Yingluck during one and half year), Thailand has been governed by the yellow/green network since the 2006 coup (juntas, Abhisit,...), that was 15 years ago. So who's to blame for the current level of education?

At least during the 5 years and half (much less than the current general) he was PM, he drastically reduced the child mortality rate, which was a good start.

(the longest being Yingluck during one and half year),,,,, Aren't you forgetting her brother???????

8 hours ago, Golden Thaiger said:

Very probable minimum billing. During covid shutdown had a shop house 0 units used still billed 353b

That's very amazing... Last time I went on a long business trip I switched off electricity at main breaker. Was charged for meter fee 45Thb/month during 3 months. Nothing more....

15 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

 

Good one. 55555

On 6/26/2021 at 8:47 PM, Led Lolly Yellow Lolly said:

 

It's more likely you have a carrier grade NAT IP, this is very common in Thailand now. Most ISPs will give you a public IP instead if you call to ask them. Basically with a carrier grade NAT, you are assigned an IP from the 100.64.0.0/10 IP space, and then you share a single public IP with hundreds, thousands, maybe more, of other customers. This enables ISPs to 'economise' on public IPs, which are in short supply in the IPv4 space.

 

Overall, the problems here in Thailand are that the entire Thailand IP space is a cesspool of malware. I can't remember the figures, but one study released some years ago suggested that more malware on zombie computers exists in Thailand than any other country, which wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. So, you will often find individual IPs, or entire blocks of IPs, on the various blacklists. . .

 

This causes all manner of problems for the casual non-technical user. Maybe one day your access to Facebook might be blocked. Another day, you might have trouble sending an email. . .

 

I operate our own company mailservers (among other types of servers) in our offices as I prefer to keep our hardware on site in our own server room. We have 4 separate ISPs load balanced. Previously we had static IPs, but to save costs, all 4 ISPs are just consumer grade lines. However, due to the way in which I have load balancing set up via our pfSense gateway, the effective reliability is better than a leased line. In order to deal with mail deliverability issues, we route all out outbound mail (from our mailserver) via a VPN tunnel to a static IP in a rack we have in Singapore. So, even though our mailserver is in Chiang Rai, it appears to the world that our mail is coming from a single IP in Singapore. Therefore, we can carefully manage the reputation of that single IP (the source of all our outbound emails) and we have a 100% deliverability rate.

 

None of this helps the OP of course, but I can tell you that Thailand's IP space is pretty much screwed. This is one of the reasons to get a static IP from your ISP (or set up something similar to what I describe above) in order to manage the reputation of IPs you have fully under your control. As I said above, this is what we used to do, but static IPs in Thailand are cost prohibitive, so I now use other lower cost means, such as renting IPs from Singapore and tunneling specific traffic via that route.

 

 

 

 

I tried a drastic solution. Changed ' provider i.e. router ' . Before 3BB, now TOT Fiber. Not saying one or the other are better, don't know but now everything works again as before. Maybe if I had just changed the router from 3BB it would have had the same result??? Just happens TOT had a promotion.... 

On 7/9/2021 at 11:26 AM, Mister Fixit said:

Yes, I found that my testosterone shots were in short supply, so now I have about a dozen in the fridge.

I have enough Kamagra for about a dozen bonks too.  Then it's celibacy from then on ...

I will trawl around various other pharmacies though - someone may still have some on a back shelf.

 

Getting the rest of my meds isn't a problem, it's the imports that are.

 

Suggestion, become a Monk for a few weeks or months.. And indeed emojis don't work... 

3 hours ago, Surelynot said:

....and the Philippines (I think)....both have yet to 'sign up'.

The only thing I don't get to sign up to is a F.....G vaccine.....

8 hours ago, tonray said:

My "Local Health Authority" ? Who might that be ? When they had a vaccine setup at Central Westgate Mall last week, they looked at me like I was from Mars when I stopped to try and ascertain whether I could also be included. In the end, I was sent away with a "not know yet" from the 1 nurse who seemed to speak a bit of English.

Well, if arriving , as stated in the above article, Friday ( July 10 ) it's not gonna get here any time this year...... 

7 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

I can see rolling shutdowns happening for atleast another 12 months.. I reckon 2nd quarter 2023.

Or as the song goes: ' In the year 2525 '........

On 7/8/2021 at 3:09 PM, JackGats said:

The driving school through which I renewed my licence got the residency certificate for me. It cost me 1000 instead of the 500 the visa agency used to charge, but the visa agency told me they couldn't do residency certificates anymore. That was end of March.

Depending on IO, the COR's are free.....

13 hours ago, Leaver said:

 

Maybe because it doesn't guarantee future tourists, who keep a lot more in jobs here.

 

Good point, you did understand I was joking??

16 hours ago, expat_4_life said:

When I saw this thread title, I thought surely this was to be a discussion about the ills of mixing

shots of vodka and Jagermeister, or gin and whiskey, or some other cringe worthy hangover

laden mixture.

Same here, that's why I refer to my previous post. 55555

On 7/9/2021 at 6:41 AM, clivebaxter said:

German chancellor had AZ then pfiser, so I think we can take that as pretty safe

In case of doubt try mixing Sang Som and Lao Kao. 555555

22 hours ago, CLW said:

I think these Bidi cigarettes are clove flavored / mixed cigarettes. Very common in Indonesia. The clove compound is going to numb your throat and your lung tissue so you can smoke more / inhale deeper. Due to health concerns they are slowly disappering / outlawed all over the world

Plenty of them in Indonesia...

On 7/9/2021 at 9:12 AM, Badrabbit said:

Yes mate, Insurance paid, the Nurses were lovely!

I hope they didn't bite... ( the nurses ) 5555555

33 minutes ago, Nanaplaza666 said:

That's why you should look for an agent.

Don't get one of the brown shirt ones. 5555

On 7/9/2021 at 11:26 AM, bkk6060 said:

Good luck with it.

I never understand why and how the UK people put up with it.

Just a terrible system screwing over pensioners.  What ever happened to all the money?

 

The UK has the worst state pension in the developed world- in 2016 it was only worth 29% of average income. It is striking how much less that is than other countries: the EU average is 70.5% meaning that UK pensions receive more than two times less than comparable countries

Do they have a choice???

On 7/6/2021 at 2:39 PM, Delight said:

 As stated  earlier I report on my progress to obtain a death certificate

pertaining to the death of my friend.

Progress to date -None

I went to Pattaya City Hospital.

The stated that they could not issue the document.

They simply referred me to the British embassy.

 

Given that I am not next of kin-then there is no point in following this up.

Project ends

 

 

Not meaning to offend but is it possible the cost of Hospital has not been settled and that therefor they don't want to issue the Document?? 

On 7/9/2021 at 7:39 AM, jacko45k said:

That is a bad phrase to read, as an Expat in Pattaya, with what appears to be a snowball's chance in hell of getting any jabs whatsoever. 

Especially now reading the new report on Sinovac.....

9 hours ago, smedly said:

unrivalled sacrifice 

 

how on earth will he survive, I will donate a sticky rice meal for free, I feel the pain

Don't forget the ' Som Tam' 55555555

18 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Then he will be paid what he is worth!

I haven't had a salary for 18 months, so nothing left to give up; Except the hope on getting a vaccine......

18 hours ago, pj123 said:

In the email from the embassy they say "Travellers must, however, be in these eligible countries for at least 21 consecutive days." They don't say: "one of these eligible countries for at least 21 days". It would appear you can stay in multiple countries to reach the requirement of 21 days.  But its not 100% clear.

 

Is anything ever clear in Th. ????????

On 7/8/2021 at 7:18 PM, tonray said:

Certain places attract the worst of us.

Why isn't security wearing a riot gun as in Ph and Spain ?????

On 7/8/2021 at 8:44 PM, timendres said:

I would not describe her as "hot". Have dated far more attractive girls in the US.

Have dated much better anywhere in the world.  

On 7/9/2021 at 9:40 AM, Jingthing said:

I disagree with characterizing this topic as woke vs. not woke though I knew people would.

 

That's overly simplistic and a too easy way to dismiss this discussion.

 

I think its more about globalization and exposure.

 

In the U.S. salsa is more popular than ketchup now and sushi and Pho are typical American foods.

 

I think its ultimately about the lines of exotic and ethnic being melted away by practical realities making those terms simple passe over time.

Other typical original American dishes would be Spaghetti, Pizza, Tacos, etc.....55555