Dan Talus

Greetings covid survivors.

  Well my lease is up soon, and I'm  looking to change condos. As you know right now it's a renter's market - you can get fantastic deals.

Anyhow, I have a few condos on Soi 16 in mind (a ways down the Soi,  you know near to where it takes a sharp bend). 

Any heads up on living there? Specifically

* what's it like in the rainy season? flooding? how bad?
 

* traffic? sidewalks seem narrow (non existant ins some places) I will be hoofing it up and down the soi

* shortcuts to Ratchadaphisek (e.g.  a shortcut to hop over to the park), I know you can get through at Foodland and there's an office complex not far down from Foodland with a driveway as well - but any sub-sois or paths further down 16 that can get you through?

* One thing I noticed there's a rather long commercial building on Ratchadphisek, abutting the backside of a lot of Soi 16 condos (this is apears to be the prime blocker in any sort of shortcut  from Soi 16). See attached photo. It appears to be a government building of sorts. I see a lof maintenance trucks and such. My fear is it has something to do with waste management, water treatment, who knows. Any warnings here (noise, odious smells, etc.)?

Thanks for any advice! It' s much appreciated.

--dan  

Most Thais I know disdain eating the crust. Also they slather the pizza in ketchup (yech). So essentially the locals will eat the  accompaying sauce + ketchup  packets and toss the box!  

KENCHRIS International CO LTD. ? Looks about as believable as "Universal Exports".

Thai PM “baffled” by

• the internet
• space travel
• economics
• long division
• ...

(list truncated for brevity)

His story must not be that electrifying, it didn't end up on Banged Up Abroad 

Doff your hat to these fearless saviours of the Thai economy

I think a more accurate title would be "Police puzzled"

However STD(s) are fully available to any UK traveller, free of charge, who can make it to the LOS on their own.

Did someone beat me to that? Come on that was too easy.

Cheers

Have they rounded up the local male Burmese population yet? 

Thailand needs it's own BLM - Burmese Lives Matter.  'Nuff said.

I recognize that bloke. He tried to sell me weed near Sukhumwit Soi 15 ???????? 

Thanks Jan - sure enough, Homepro has it  : https://www.homepro.co.th/p/1063665

Man I feel lazy for not doing an internet search.  
 

My condo here in Bangkok is only ~5 years old, and slowly but surely  things are starting to break.

Today it was the door latch/locking mechanisim on my balcony sliding glass door (same latches on all my windows as well). These have always been dodgy and sorta a pain in the  ass to open, you had to put a lot of force on the door (in the closed direction) and jiggle the lock a bit to get it to unlatch/latch.

Sure enough the  tiny hook part of the latching assembly snapped. See attached photos.

I have no idea how to find  this part , hopefully I can just get the tiny part that snapped,  worst case the locking assembly (but not the whole door!).

Talked to the maintenance guys in the building, no clue. I always (erronesouly) assume at least one of the 200+ other units have had similar issues with whatever thing breaks in my unit and the Condo people are smart enough to keep these parts on hands, or at least know some vendor who stocks the part. No such luck. 

Additonally I can't see any  manufacturer's info on the door casing.  I'd think it would be trivial to contact the manufacturer and probabaly get that part  for free. But alas I don't know who made the door.

Help!  Does any one have an ideas?  

Thanks in advance.

--Dan

Cue up Yakety Sax 
 

I call bullsh*t on that 90.47%.

I work for a large tech company here in Bangkok. The company itself was very proactive about taking staff's temperature when they entered the office as well as the ubiquitous hand sanitizer. Kudos on that.

However it's business as  usual in the men's room - Thai's are absolutely filthy when it comes  to washing their hands after relieving themselves (can ony speak for the men's room - hopefully  Thai poo ying are more sanitary).  It's a quick splash of water on the hands and rarely, rarely using soap and back to work.

So basically they get a squirt of sanitizer on the way into the  office, and after that back to their usual habits.  

Can we re-categorize smooci.com as deliveries of food or parcel delivery?  ????

Additionally you may also have contracted gonorrhea, syphylis and chlamydia.