Lannig

Sarcasm and tongue in cheek talk is an art lost on the Thai people and Asian in general.....

only to be met with a blank stare and lamb eyes look.....

Don't agree with this. They have their own way of doing sarcasm (and this sign is an example).

It's just different from ours, they don't get ours and in some occasions I needed someone to explain theirs to me.

They could save money by not printing the "no" ballots. Won't change a thing.

After all the aggressive advertising during TV news and shows, we start getting advertising in the background of these police pictures too? great

Yes the latest version, same as the new fr.thaivisa.com

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I've just had a look to the French forum and it's just like I feared: material design with massive wasting of screen real estate, abuse of bright white backgrounds and dark, high contrast page elements like title bars (an eyesore to me).

Please, pretty please keep an option to use the old theme on this forum, if it's bound to evolve towards the design of the French one.

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Oops. Duplicate posts. Got a database error at first attempt and it seemed that my post hadn't made it.

Does ANYONE raise their own child in Thailand. You read or hear or see all the time of kids being palmed off to grandparents or other family, because the mother has been deserted by the husband (note in this case there is no mention of a father) and can't cope/can't afford the kid/has no interest or ability to raise their own child etc.

Already discussed in another dedicated thread... can you consider another reason? such as both parents needing to go to where the jobs are e.g. Bangkok, to make a living for their children and not wanting to take them along because they will live there in unhealthy conditions, probably unable to get them to school or attend to them because of working long hours?

Definitely something I see happening a lot in my small town upcountry. Kids left with grandparents because they are (usually) safe and the school is within walking distance, while money flows back from Bangkok where parents work and live, sometimes in corrugated metal sheet "shelters" next to construction areas or such.

Because your flash drive is formatted in FAT32 which supports file up to 4 Gb in size.

If you want to go over 4 Gb, you need to reformat it in exFAT or NTFS.

Good hygiene is the prevention of this disease. With no toilet paper and no soap it is easy to see why this occurs.

The bum spray is a cleaner alternative to paper.

True. However if you find a public school with anything but a tank and a plastic bucket in toilets, telll me.

Homosexuality and Islam apparently go hand-in-glove, considering that geographical region of the planet, where the largest demographic collective of Sodomites, can be found.

Executing all homosexuals would eradicate about 70% of the Muslim male population. Now, there's a thought...............

Hope that Islamic (misnomer) cleric's ideal world "wish" comes true, someday. And, good riddance. Bye, bye...................

Oh my... you using the word "sodomites" makes me think that you would be equally happy to seem them and Muslims wiped from the surface of the Earth, am I wrong?

Stinking troll.

Laptops discharging due to residual power consumption even when powered off are not uncommon.

At work, we have a small Lenovo X-something notebook we pass around for on-call duties (can't recall the exact model number) that is well-known for this. It seems to be due to the fingerprint reader that remains powered even if the computer is shut down. Its battery is drained out in less than 2 weeks even if not used at all, and it's been doing this since new.

A laptop is never 100% powered off unless you take the battery out.

The LAN (Ethernet) port remains under a low power state to support the wake-on-LAN features. Sometimes the USB ports remain powered as well, to support a keyboard with a power button.

Some models have settings in the BIOS you can use to turn this off. On others you can't (we couldn't on the said Lenovo laptop, no such setting in the BIOS).

Depending on the brand and model, the power drain can range from almost unnoticeable to a nuisance.

Something to do with running backups at that time mabye?

I've seen this happening to so many forums...

I recently bought a Netgear 4G air card. It works well but says neither 3G or 4G. It says DC. It is about twice as fast as my old 3G air card. I thought it may actually be 4G but after a lot of searching, I found that it stands for dual channel.

Indeed. It's dual carrier HSPA aka. 3G+/H+

Not 4G/LTE.

Lannig.

I lived in Pattaya for 11 years,it was enough for me.So dont get the idea that i dont know Pattaya and all its little hell holes that go with it.I had a bar for 5 years and over those years i saw things and people that you cant even imagine.So dont try and tell me about my post.How long have you been here? because if its a long time then you have still learned nothing.i came to live in KK because in the village,its peacefull and i am left alone to do things that you cant do without having immigration or the RTB on your back. I also have the company of a good woman who gives me no trouble.

You lead your life.

And keep your opinions where they belong,between your ears.

I also have very good friends still in Pattaya,who keep me clued up.

Obviously you misunderstood my point.

My point was that most of these ugly things you were listing are happening almost only in rotten tourist places like Pattaya and Phuket. They are not representative of Thailand as a whole, and I'm sure that you must know this if you're living away from these hell holes now. Well, you actually seem to, so basically were are on the same line, why reducing Thailand to Pattaya's ugliness? Can we agree saying that Pattaya is not Thailand? This thread is about Thailand, not Pattaya.

I'm no longer in Thailand but I have lived there for 8 years, commuting from my home base in central Thailand to BKK for work.

As for my opinions, I'm exactly as entitled to post them here as you are.

Yes, audio books are great on long journeys driving on my own.

Beats listening music or even talk radio to keep me awake.

We have a radio channel here in France that broadcasts audio books late at night during summer. I carefully record them (digitally) and play them from an USB thumb driver in my car or from my Android phone (sorry couldn't resist ) that plugs just as well into the car's audio.

I do agree that there's nothing like e-ink readers. I have a Kindle Paperwhite too, it's been given to me as a present when I used to read e-books on an Android tablet and I would never, ever think of going back. It's incomparably more comfortable, especially to my 50+ yo eyes.

The value of the pound sterling plummeted but then shot back up again to recent levels.

Really? your claiming this in bold and large font doesn't make it true

Did not bother to check the Footsie or read further.

Great job from the crew? well, if we strictly consider the outcome, then yes.

However there's a lot of discussion going on about why they did not evacuate and whether this could have had dramatic consequences with only slightly different conditions (such as wind blowing differently). Google "British Airtours 28M" for a very different outcome.

In the case of the BA flight in Los Angeles, evacuation was called although the fire was much less extensive.

I'm not a Thai basher. I do criticise harshly sometimes, more the government than the people, but when I see unfair bashing I'm ready to jump in and defend the many great things of this country and its people.

However, if there's one thread that makes me wanting to bash bitterly and relentlessly, that's the one.

I won't, though. Everything has been said already. It would be useless. Words fail me anyway...

Works for me too with DTAC... most of the time.

Sometimes (a couple of times per month, usually within the midnight-4AM time frame in Thailand) the SMS are so slow to arrive that the OTP pin has expired before I can get the SMS. In such a situation it sometimes takes up to 15 minutes before I receive them. Too late.

Not sure whether the delays are induced by roaming or if KBANK is slow to emit them (because of ongoing nightly maintenance on their systems)

That's the second serious engine fire incident on a triple-7 in less than a year.

Last one was BA2276, a Britifh Airways flight from Las Vegas to London in September 2015

In that case the engine was a GE90.

Based on the tail number of that SQ aircraft (9V-SWB) it seems that this is yet another GE90 burning.

Busy times ahead for GE engineers, I'd say.

Woke up grumpy today, Winnie? I usually enjoy your posts much (and I "liked" many of them) but you seem a bit over the edge in this thread

Just saying...

Disclaimer: I'm no Thai apologist. Really I am not if you care reading my usual posts. But I feel the need to counter this oversimplified Thai bashing:

I have learnt their language (can hold a conversation).
Thais are the least curious people that I have ever met. Most of their conversation centres around money, food and malicious gossip (usually about their friends).

We don't talk to the same Thai people then (hence the risk of making such generalisations).

I keep getting questions all day long about my my life, my own country, computers and the Internet (for those who know I work in IT)
It even gets boring sometimes, I have to say.

As to culture, Thais don't read books,

Do you see many people under 50 reading books much in your home country? I don't. Not much difference I'd say.

their traditional music is all very much the same and their modern music is a poor imitation of Western music.

Wrong. If it's an imitation, it would be of Korean and/or Japanese pop.

Thinking in this country is not considered a virtue, thus the Thai saying "Don't think too much".

One could see it another, more positive way, as hedonism.
We westerners think too much sometimes, and always considering the wrong side of things.

The only part of their culture that I consider any good is their food..........you can keep the rest.

Food is as important to Thais as it is to us Frenchies. That's certainly an element of culture we have in common, and I enjoy this every day while in the LOS.

Ah... monday's episode of Thailand's favourite comedy.

A bit Pattaya-centric view for someone whose nickname suggests he lives in Khon Kaen, isn't it?

Or Phuket-centric.

If you look carefully above your head, you'll notice that the spaghetti-style hanging cables are phone cables and not power cables, most of the time.

Not that this changes anything to their ugliness and the ineptness of the people who put them this way.