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1 hour ago, rkidlad said:

They don't even pretend to understand how democracies work. Their job isn't to tell us how something is good or bad; it's to explain why. If you can't explain why, you're simply abusing your power.

 

 

They have made it very clear that thai democracy is "different"

On 5/5/2020 at 12:07 PM, Jcord1 said:

The Anonymous clinic now has doctors on site that will write prescriptions. 

I think both comments here are incredibly useful, anyone  being hiv + would have a responsibility to provide disclosure in some circumstances,  hovever disclosure should be at their own discretion where no one else can be affected.

On 5/4/2020 at 1:33 PM, AndyAndyAndy said:

You can get tested in any hospital. It will cost a few hundred bahts. Just go to any public hospital, tell them you want get a blood test. They will send you to see a doctor and you can speak to him in private. Results are in about a 1 hour.

 

Bumrungrad is extremely expensive. What will cost you 500 Baht in public hospital will cost you 15 000 Baht in Bumrungrad! Not kidding.

 

Also it does seem like you have an anxiety, not heart problem/HIV. Do you drink a lot? Anxiety comes as a result of alcohol abuse... .
 

Anxiety may also come from thinking you are hiv positive, especially if you dont truly understand the diease and treatments currently available.

5 minutes ago, OneeyedJohn said:

I agree, pretty despicable ain't it.

I find threads like this helpful in thst they give me a good idea of who here is simply a miserable waste of skin.

5 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Welcome home, get in the food begging cue

I really wonder what must be going through your mind that you would feel the need to make a remark like this.

4 hours ago, Huckenfell said:

This would become rather a long drawn out proceedure as i had to pass through 2 countries on my way back to Australia.  

 

Transit is different from entering a country.

1 hour ago, jomtienisgood said:

Maybe more often than you think. It's my bike, when I'm alone I drive, when wife comes along she drives... And anticipating your next question or comment; Yes we both have a valid drivers licence.

 

when i said it doesn't happen often i meant that i dont get on someone else motorcycle unless it one of my local win. 

generally i grab or take taxis.

Strangely, after reading this post I became aware yesterday of a buzzing noise I assumed was one of the neighbors running a battered air conditioner they rarely run.

I went outside and reailzed it was my pump turning over too slowly and it was scorching hot due to not being able to build up enough pressure to shut off.

I killed main power to it, put a fan on it to cool it down and popped the cap to release pressure from hot water inside.

I feared the tank had gotten low and the pump had run dry, but tank was full, so after it cooled I tried it again.

This time no pump action but a buzzing sound,  so I removed the pump cover so the plastic impeller external fan was showing to see if the pump had seized. 

It rotated freely, so I was lucky there, pump not seized. I flipped power back on and same buzzing. I gave the impeller fan a spin with a screw driver and the pump kicked in, but sounded kind of sickly.

So i popped the starting capacitor out, took it to one of our local motorcycle win, and 30 minutes later he was back with a new starting capacitor.

200 baht for the capacitor, 100 baht for the motorcycle guy and now the pump runs like new.

The capacitor was shot, and it seems that in addition to finally dying to the point where it did not have enough juice to kick the pump on, it was running the pump at a lover voltage than normal. Thus the pump was staying on longer and struggling to build up the needed pressure.

Once the capacitor was replaced, the pump has been working far better, and is far quieter now than it had been before.

I had been living in the phils while a friend rented my house, so I hadnt noticed the degradation ir change in sound, though I was aware the pump seemed much more active than I remembered and suspicious it was running a bit loud. I thought there might be a problem with the pressure valve, but that was in fine shape.

Over my years in thailand it seems I have gotten very handy with mitsubishi pressure pumps,but this was a first for me with the stsrt capacitor, it usually is a dead pressure valve or pump losing prime.

22 hours ago, Neeranam said:

I tried this and after a few hours the water in the bowl was red. 

What to do now? 

Replace the hardware inside.

On 5/17/2020 at 1:28 PM, Neeranam said:

Thanks for all the replies!

 

For the meantime, I just turn it off(bypass switch) at night.

 

It seems to be going on for just a couple of seconds but every minute or so.

 

We are in the city and don't really need the pump -  the only thing I like it for is a shower, and of course when there is no supply, which doesn't happen much these days in Khon Kaen.

 

My wife has an irrigation piping system in the garden but that on another circuit. 

 

I'll buy some food dye, that's a good idea. 

If its coming on that frequently you have a considerable leak. 

Mine tops up pressure once an hour or two for about 2-3 seconds. 

A bum gun with an old tap is the culprit. It drips about a bucket of water a day.

2 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

He will have a brush with the law, but promise to  make a clean sweep of things.

Somtimes a grand sweeping gesture is needed to get your point across.

7 minutes ago, Mick501 said:

How about 1 million baht fine for repeatedly subjecting readers to this lame comment?

Thai visa would be a remarkable money spinner if the inane were a chargeable offense

13 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

Thanks. Next time I comment on an article about people not social distancing, I’ll be sure to do it from an unknowing perspective. 

 

 

Nah,just stop complaining.

3 hours ago, rkidlad said:

Just one of many examples, but I was in Villa last week and there was some guy looking at the sandwiches. I waited by the side for him to finish, and as I waited, a few people just went straight in and picked up what they wanted. NO distancing at all. Then we got to the checkout where people were distancing, but there was only one lane open. As we were waiting, the other cashier was setting up and you could see the creepers (that's what I call the idiots who think they're cunning and smart by pushing in) waiting by the side ready to pounce. As soon as she opened her till, a few people barged forward. 

 

Social distancing here really is just a buzzword. 

Get over it.

Creepers indeed. 

Spend less time focusing on others and live your life.

Sigh.

5 hours ago, Dumbastheycome said:

If  they start redundancies  from the top down it  might help !

 

yeah, i highly doubt layoffs will start at the top of the salary scale.

34 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Doggy Doo? What a childish thing to say. Pelosi is embarrassing herself again.

 

They say old people eventually return to infancy. It's time for the care home Nancy.

It is time the us stopped electing geriatrics period.

Nobidy over 50 allowed to run,nobody over 60 allowed to sit.

4 hours ago, rvaviator said:

My GF told me that the videos are old - Not that it excuses the poor English. Apparently the recordings was done a few years ago.

Yes, I recall seeing them some years ago as well. It was a distance learning initiative of sorts.

9 minutes ago, toast1 said:

I like Thai Air, its like a scruffy, peculiar old friend.

 

The staff are nice, food good, and there are sexpats to chat with.

Sure the planes can be old, entertainment patchy and website illogical, but it always has a relaxed, scruffy atmosphere I enjoy.

 

Thai over philipine airlines any old day.

45 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

That's not fixed. Paragraphs contain the same topic and are changed when the topic changes. You have made sentences into paragraphs. One very long paragraph is hard for some to digest, so you break it down into shorter ones. Not one sentence per paragraph.  lol

Have a good night fred. May you prosper.

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"old guys almost dead already"

Hits rather close to home, its a wonder he doesnt see the parallel.

I doubt he is taking it, and I think he is shilling.

1 hour ago, fredwiggy said:

You know, I don't disagree with what you are saying here but, you corrected me for using one long paragraph, while you use one sentence after another and space them, even though a lot of it is the same topic. That's wrong. I type without stopping, and sometimes I change topics, therefor I should start a new paragraph. Paragraphs should be 100 to 200 words, unless you're changing topics, and it can be less. And you correct others spelling mistakes while missing your own. Just sayin... And the US government has been crapola for a time. We've had some good presidents, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Bush, Clinton (some things), and Reagan, in recent times, and the one we have now isn't near presidential material, has hesitated and cost American lives, is a egotist, misogynist, racist fool that needs to be ousted. He spent money on a wall that isn't helping much, where the money should have gone to medical for everyone like Canada has. Whether Biden will do things better will remain to be seen, IF hes elected. I pray for my family and friends back home he is elected though. America needs a change.

Fixed it for ya.

Parapraphs are not solely about topics, but about ideas and points, about pacing, about readability and clarity and for emphasis.

And yes I make mistakes and mispellings, but they are generally typos. I am wiriting on a tablet, and not expending any real effort. 

If you can not see that this is more clear than the original, I cant help you.

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You know, I don't disagree with what you are saying here but, you corrected me for using one long paragraph, while you use one sentence after another and space them, even though a lot of it is the same topic.

That's wrong.

I type without stopping, and sometimes I change topics, therefor I should start a new paragraph. Paragraphs should be 100 to 200 words, unless you're changing topics, and it can be less.

And you correct others spelling mistakes while missing your own. Just sayin...

And the US government has been crapola for a time. We've had some good presidents, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Bush, Clinton (some things), and Reagan, in recent times.

The one we have now isn't near presidential material, has hesitated and cost American lives, is a egotist, misogynist, racist fool that needs to be ousted.

He spent money on a wall that isn't helping much, where the money should have gone to medical for everyone like Canada has.

Whether Biden will do things better will remain to be seen, IF hes elected. I pray for my family and friends back home he is elected though.

America needs a change.

4 minutes ago, flinc2020 said:

This problem is not just here in Thailand. I taught in an international school in China where I taught history, health, science and literature but NOT English conversation. That was taught by a Chinese teacher who could not hold a simple conversation in English and operated his class on the basis of speaking Chinese interspurced with a few English words then giving the students a 2 page handout to read aloud. His low level of teaching made my classes far more difficult. If the students (and to be fair many of them spoke better English than he did) can't manage simple sentences in English how are they meant to follow a science or history lesson? Even his handouts were abyssmal. I got into the habit of stealing a copy, correcting it and handing it out during my lessons.

Now, having said that, there is one major difference between teachers like my Chinese colleague and Thai English teachers. Many, if not most, of the Chinese English teachers I dealt with admitted openly that they found holding conversations in English difficu;t and that they had issues with pronunciation. I have NEVER met a Thai English teacher willing to make the same confession. They truly believe that THEY have the correct pronunciation (because they are THAI and therefore never wrong) and it is the native speaker that is wrong. I have actually found myself in a classroom being berated it broken English for "teaching the students bad pronunciation" because I pronounced a word correctly, not the way she did! So, seeing that TV thing, doesn't surprise me that it has government support.

forgive me for pointing it out,  but you lost me at "interspurced"