fredwiggy

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Only 5 countries to go, why waste time? I recommend a visit to North Sentinel island, out in the Bay of Bengal, not too far away from Thailand.. They'll welcome such a world traveler.

This is from 2018. Not sure if still valid, from another posting here Panthip Plaza 3rd? Floor. 053-217949, 08-9191-4110 But be advised that they are VERY expensive. I took a a few (4) VHS cassettes over to be transferred to DVD and the guy wanted 6K Baht. He says he has to disassemble the cassettes and clean the mold off the tape before he will use them in his machines. He said it takes him minimum 3-4 hours per cassette. He would not negotiate. I've passed by 20 times and never seen a customer in there. So a few weeks later I asked a Thai friend to inquire and see what kind of price he would be quoted. He was quoted more - 6200 Baht (that should dispel an theory that farangs get charged more.) My friend also said that he would not negotiate the price and that he told him that he is the only person in Chiang Mai that offers this service because "nobody else knew what they were doing and they have all gone out of business." I checked with a friend in Bangkok who is quite knowledgeable and he told me that the price is correct to do the job properly. He said all video cassettes in Thailand will have mold if not stored individually in zip lock bags with silica gel inside. Heads are getting harder to find to keep the old machines running. Another in bangkok.............https://web.facebook.com/digital.station.bangkok/?_rdc=1&_rdr

Some just need to learn the hard way.

They come at you with a machete or gun you defend yourself with whatever force necessary. That is attempted murder, and the price is harsh, at least to an American. If they are in such a hurry, they wouldn't brake test you .If they do, that's arrogance, thinking they own the road. They don't.

If I'm doing the speed limit, or slightly above, in the outer lane, and someone comes up on my arse, without flashing their lights, I stay right there. They have a lane to the left to go around you, you aren't going too slow in the outer lane, and arrogance doesn't fly with me anyway. If they are in a hurry, flash your lights, and I'll gladly let you pass, even though again, they could just go around me. Same thing back home in Texas. If there is traffic, and they want to go faster, and I can pull to the left, I will. But getting up on my arse isn't going to help their cause.

8 back home in Texas, very little problems. Here, maybe a 2. Only things good here are it's less expensive and my girlfriend now is good to me. Bad choice moving here but I wasn't going to leave my daughter here to live knowing what her future would be.. Good food here, much better back home. Boring in Isaan, something to do daily back home. Here power goes out daily for a few seconds, and weekly for hours. Back home maybe three times a year. Wifi here inconsistent, back home never a problem. Roads here terrible, back home fixed very fast, and potholes didn't happen a month after fixing them. Bugs here make Texas look like paradise. Rainy season and hot back home more temperate and variable. many others but just a few.

Just happened while I was reading this posting! It's Mai pen rai as far as locals doing anything about it. Like I mentioned, my ex said this had been happening for years before I even moved here. One more reason I'm moving back asap. This has nothing to do with anything besides incompetency. Power should not go out unless there is a storm, and something was hit, besides trees hitting the lines, which they finally cleared last year around here. This is equipment failure, or improper maintenance. Seeing it happens all over, that is more reason to believe it's who they are hiring, and training, or the lack of it. There is now a heavy storm at my house, and the power is staying on.

No speed limits are meant to be broken. If you are going over a posted speed limit, you are not driving safely. And those tickets might catch up to you eventually, as they passed a law last year enforcing them, and who do you think they will make pay?

Labor, because without them, there is no artist promoting. Getting mega rich from songs is ridiculous, and always has been. There are many artists that are mediocre musicians yet are millionaires because people will buy anything, and pay for it. And there are artists that are much better musicians than some and are living like the rest of us.

You and others you know might have caught Covid but didn't know it, or were just carriers. Most people aren't affected anyway. That vaccines caused cancer that fast is ludicrous. Vaccines don't prevent catching it, just from getting very sick or dying. Fact is, most of the people who died weren't vaccinated.

It's one of my favorite dishes, and I've had it many ways before i came here and while here. Long beans, onions, chili and no chili, basil and krapow seasonings.

Yes, but he has taken revenge on some

They set speed limits for a reason. They have figured out the safe speed one can travel on a certain road in dry conditions. In wet conditions of course you need to reduce speed. It's not a follower mentality if you are driving safely, both for you and your passengers, and the others on the road. I speed, a little over the limit, mostly when others aren't close to me. Pretty much I'm keeping up with the other drivers on the road, as many here speed also, but I'm not going much over the set limit, and I won't when it's raining, both for my own maneuvering, and the fact I know many others here aren't good drivers. And those tickets you are throwing away might come back to you, as they are in the system and when you go to register the care, they can come up where you have to pay the fines first.

Many in the music business make way too much money just for singing and playing songs. Musicians play music because they like to play, to entertain others with their talents, but it shouldn't lead to millions. They should play because they like to play, as it used to be. That's the promoters who have made it that way. People who set up concerts, meaning the workers, electricians, roadies, and such, deserve pay because without them the musician would have to promote themselves, and that costs money. They are the backbone that keeps the musicians going. The concerts cost a lot of money to pay the backers, the venues and the artists themselves, but they don't deserve millions for just a few songs and an hour or so of playing. Tickets should cost a lot less, and more would go, and more would sell out, and if you include the food served, more would buy if those prices would go down also. Same goes for actors and movies.

It always deadens the tastes of food if you use more than a chili or two. They are so used to adding more here that they lose the true flavors, and subtle tastes of other condiments that are added. Too much chili will also hurt your stomach, as it has for not only me, but many here I've talked to, including my ex's family and now girlfriend. She can't stop adding it, even though it hurts her insides, and diarrhea is rampant here, from all the chili added. This is but one of many links that tells more.........https://www.eatthis.com/news-ugly-dangers-spicy-foods/

It's Pad Krapow. You can use chicken, beef, or pork, minced or in pieces. My girlfriend cooks it a variety of ways, as do I, and the restaurant right next to where she lives makes it, and it looks exactly like the picture.

Taken one down can also mean getting the sh*ts, as many can testify if they visited Mexico and didn't heed the warnings. I never said killed. And slow motion suicide is what millions do when they don't follow a healthy lifestyle.

True, but it's slow motion suicide, whereas drinking bad water will hit you immediately. It's always best to use the large water jugs which are filtered water and cheap insurance. Water has taken many people down in many countries.

https://alvawater.com/th/boiled-water-is-it-safe-to-consume/?lang=en

Thanks to the replies about getting a UPS. I was thinking about that when I first moved here but let it go until now. That's on my Christmas list for myself now!

This wasn't an attack. This was a common sense reply. Vaccines have proven to save millions of lives over the centuries. I don't have a "type", and you didn't vaccinate because of other people, because you can still carry Covid and spread it, even though it might not hurt you. I'm myself, and do things that seem like sensible things. I got a vaccine because I didn't want to take a chance of being one of the healthy individuals that died, as I have no ailments I know of, and exercise and eat healthy all the time. No one knows if they would have been a victim if they didn't vaccinate, so let it lie. You have your opinion, and all I did was let you know what the truth was. Healthy people have died from Covid. I'm sure, being a person that exercises, that you knew this already. It has nothing to do with anger on my part. Vaccines are to protect you, and me, personally. Not others. It's up to you if you don't want a vaccine. I have a good friend that hasn't, as far as I know, gotten one, even though i tried to convince him otherwise, as i didn't want to see him die.

I have been wondering for quite awhile if any others have been having this kind of problem. Almost every day, without fail, the power will shut off for just a couple of seconds. Then I have to reboot my computer, which isn't fun, waiting for everything to load, and sometimes I will be typing something and the power will go off, and I'll lose what I typed. Also, the power will go off randomly just about once a week, for a few hours. I do know when they are working on something, because I'll be the one who calls them and asks. When I lived in Texas, the power might go off twice or three times a year, and usually during a storm. Here, it's daily, for a second or two, and weekly for hours. I know this isn't normal, but nothing's ever done. I asked my ex how long this has been happening, because I've seen it for the 6 years I've been living here, and she said many years. I live in southern Sisaket province, so I'm wondering if others in other areas, who use PEA, are having this trouble. I will be going to talk with them again, as I tried telling them at the local office and they didn't say much besides I don't know.

You might want to tell that to the hundreds of healthy doctors and nurses who died from exposure before vaccines came along. Most people either don't get Covid or don't know they have it. I'm as healthy as you, having trained for over 50 years and kept a healthy diet for longer, and I didn't take the chance of being a statistic, preferring to be here as long as possible, both for myself and my family. It wasn't just obese and those with pre existing conditions that died.