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1 hour ago, Pilotman said:

yes it always is with appeasers and their mates, until it all goes wrong and then they call in the Military to sort out the <deleted> that they produce. Makes me sick to the stomach that some people just don't learn anything from history. 

Question is how is china running sore to world's peace?

2 hours ago, Pilotman said:

At some point, bullies always, but always have to be faced and countered. If that means war, ( actually, lets call it a serious confrontation) then so be it. The alternative, over time, may be far worse. China is a running sore to world peace,  and as we have seen to the world's health, and needs to be confronted and stopped. 

Sorry to say, but that it's pure <deleted>.

1 hour ago, foreverlomsak said:

Have you actually got one or is that only from reading the rules

I have a secured credit card, yeah. Can't even apply for an unsecured one as I do not have a work permit. 

And you may ask, why would you want to have a deposit blocked (in this case 125,000THB) in order to get a credit card, you could just use a debit card. Well in my case it was worth it because with the credit card I get VIP Parking in CentralPlaza shopping malls. Wasting 50 minutes of my life every now and then inside their damned parking going up and down looking for a place to park is really a hassle, so it was well worth it. You can get the full deposit anytime you want, and cancel the credit card anytime you want and have the deposit refunded so long as you don't have outstanding debts. If you pay back within the month no interest. Pretty much a Debit Card with benefits and an annual cost of 4,000THB.

59 minutes ago, foreverlomsak said:

e.g. debit card as they are limited to your account balance, as is a standard debit card, if you have it in your account you can spend it, otherwise go away.

That is only for people who don't have work permit. If you have a work permit and a minimum salary of 50,000 THB you can also get an unsecured (meaning no deposit needed) credit card.

1 hour ago, foreverlomsak said:

It's called a debit card, as far as I'm aware no credit card is available to non-Thais.

non-Thais can also get credit cards..

Bottom line is, if you don't ground yourself, you won't get electrocuted. Unless you grab live and neutral with each of your hands and the current flows through your heart. 

But I bet in this case he just accidentally touched a live wire while he was grounded. So even if you have disconnected the power and made sure there is no power, better to also make sure you are not ground yourself (gloves, proper boots, etc..).

After all, even if the power is on, you can't get electrocuted when you're not grounded!

14 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

If you are suggesting that the road education we receive in the West is of no benefit to us in Thailand, then I disagree. 

 

However, if your point is that if we insist on driving to Western rules and standard in Thailand (i.e. UK road rules and standards) we would present more risk to ourselves and others, then I agree. 

 

Driving here defiantly requires adaptation - I would argue that part of driving education in the West is learning to adapt to different conditions. i.e. being aware of aquaplaning, using a low gear to descend steep slopes so as not to overheat our brakes, even basic such as seatbelt and helmet wear, always stopping at red lights, not tailgating, braking distances, not overtaking on a blind bend, mirror before manoeuvre, checking blind spots etc... 

 

None of the above make us perfect drivers (no one is), however, when applying a generalisation, in aggregate being more aware of the consequences of poor driving makes us (Westerners) safer through our knowledge. 

 

Safer and arguably better is the driver who has excellent driver education and who is also able to adapt to local driving standards within reason. 

 

Notice I wrote adapt to local driving standards and not adopt local driving standards. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well said, I agree. 
 

In my personal case since I moved to China at a very young age, I had to learn there how to drive. And while I certainly would have liked  to get a better driver education like the one you get in the West (for example, I don’t even know how to drive manual, as all the courses were with automatic, and thus I’ve always bought automatic all my life). 
 

But I can tell you that there’s one advantage to that, very few things surprise me on the roads here in Thailand (except motorcycles, or some a*hole speeding or drink driving). Things like getting overtaken on the left, cars coming to a stop in the middle of the road, car coming opposite way to you on a two way road after overtaking someone,  daily occurrence. Now, I’m not excusing these practices, but we can’t fight them alone, and again once a freshly arrived foreigner arrives to Thailand and starts driving only to suddenly get overtaken on the left or something similar  he may suddenly become nervous and end up being a risk to himself and others.

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

 Many foreigners in Thailand have had better driver education, so it would be expected that they are better drivers with a better understanding of the consequences.

 

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No correlation at all. We foreigners may have had better driver education and be better amazing drivers back in our farangland country. But once you drive in mostly any Asian country, if you continue with your farangland country driving education mindset and farangland rules in mind, you won’t enjoy the road here and you will actually be dangerous and end up causing or suffering an accident. 

1 hour ago, kiwikeith said:

Foreigners have been named in the Covid outbreak, and we know they are myamese, I think this might be the case here, wait and see. 

Do you seriously think that a Myanmarese guy who can pay for a 1M Baht truck lives in Thailand? Im sure that a Myanmarese who has such money will be happy in Myanmar 

Isn't it funny how farang criticize Thai drivers everywhere and boast on how good they drive, but then such things happen. As a matter of fact, the only accident (or rather incident) I've ever had myself while driving in Thailand was caused by a (drunk) farang in a motorcycle who rear-ended me while I was stopped waiting for the light and he was changing lights (single line, ofc in the road). 

PS: This coming from a farang, so dont call me racist. Just a rant, sometimes you are queuing at immigration, or the DLT and some other farang looking for conversation starts talking about how bad Thai people drive, and how good he himself drives. Really annoying. Had to vent this out somewhere. 

And for the drive in this news, hope justice is done and if convicted pays the price of such a selfish action.

13 hours ago, elgenon said:

Do you mind if I am lazy and ask you where this is? Thanks.

I normally get their burgers through Grab app. Really don't know where it is phisically located

1 hour ago, Jumbo1968 said:

The local U.K. Government wouldn’t verify income letters so I doubt very much they will do a Covid Cert,

Not sure about income letters, but that's the way it works for university degrees

21 hours ago, techietraveller84 said:

Soon, there are going to be a lot of counterfeit vaccination certificates out there. Wonder how Thailand is going to determine what's legit and what isn't?

 

https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/travelers-using-counterfeit-covid-test-results

I suppose you will have to have the vaccination certificates certified by your local government. And then take that certification to the Thai embassy in your country for an extra certification and stamping by the Thai embassy. 

That should be pretty counterfeit-proof. 

59 minutes ago, Pravda said:

 

Actually, now that the other guy has mentioned it, at every single Sunrise Taco branch I visited there are only Filipinos employed. It's like they have a wholesale deal with this country. 

 

Also a lot of Filipinos work in Paragon.... probably has to do with their English ability. 

I’ve been to Sunrise Tacos in Terminal 21 Sukhumvit, and I don’t know if they were filipino or not. BUT, their English proficiency seemed lower to me than many other places where the waiters are Thai. 
 

I know many people say Thai people have a very low level of English. But me living in China, I think Thais speak very nice English most of them, btw. Guess everything is relative... 

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

OK, new to me, but apparently black Sichuan peppercorns are a thing.

 

Lamatar1 Black Sichuan Pepper 3.5 Oz From Mt. Everest Country Nepal Timur | eBay

 

I guess I'm going to have to break down and probably throw away the 80 baht for the mystery bottle.

I tried to communicate at the grocery store that I wanted to open a bottle and smell them and I think they understood me but it's a pretty outrageous request and I could see it wasn't going to be easy to get them to agree to that, so I just dropped it.

 

 

 

If you need to ask in Chinese you could show them this phrase: 

老板，你能帮我打开看一下味道么？（laoban，ni neng bang wo da kai kan yi xia weidao me？）

That should be enough to get them to show you samples.

Classic Sichuan normally blends two flavors 麻（ma）and 辣（spicy). Please note that the Chinese word for anesthesia is 麻醉, so you can imagine what's going on with the flavor 麻. Not really spicy but more like completely numbing your tongue, haha. 

Now there are two places well known for 火锅（hot-pot）one is 四川省（Sichuan Province）the other is 重庆市（Chongqing City), which in the past used to be a part of Sichuan but nowadays is sort of a province by itself (meaning that is governed directly by the Central Government, together with Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin). Both cities speak a very similar dialect （四川话）but there are certain differences. And the same is true for hot-pot. 

Sichuan people prefer a hot-pot soup in which you can really feel the spicy. Whereas Chongqing people prefer a hotpot in which you can feel the 麻（ma) more than the 辣（spicy). Which is probably why 重庆火锅（Chongqing Hotpot）are more famous in the west and 四川火锅（Sichuan Hotpot）is more famous inside China. 

When it comes to the oil, many hotpot places here in Thailand do not use the real oil, use a rather synthetic one (fake if you will, lol). For example, last time in Pattaya we tried a hotpot which is right next to Terminal 21 (completely forgot the name)  it was rather expensive and used a fake synthetic oil.  In Bangkok I would undoubtedly recommend 8豆火锅(8 Bean Hot Pot) in Huay Khwang, 3 minutes walking away from Huay Khwang MRT Station. Owned by a Chinese girl from Chongqing and his Thai husband, they use the REAL oil and it's super cheap. Best hotpot I've ever tried in Thailand. 

PS: Not trying to publicize them, haha. It's just that it is the closest you can get in Thailand to the original one IMO.

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

Better question is why do people in our home countries always assume our Asian wives are ex hookers ? 

The people in farangland who ask that question have a history of coming to Asia in the past? If so, there's your answer ????

We have a saying in Spanish: "Se cree el ladron que son todos de su misma condición", something like "A thief believes everyone else also steals"

2 hours ago, ChristianBlessing said:

If neither you nor your wife speak or understand Thai, how exactly are you drawing this conclusion?

Because that policeman which I talk about in my first post, didn't stop talking in Thai to my wife until she showed him her passport cover. Then he nicely asked us in English to go. So I am completely sure that the policeman was thinking we were hiding something and I had told my wife to seem like a foreigner to avoid questions ????

And when it comes to other people, what is the sense in keep talking Thai to her after she has already told them 1 or 2 times that she doesn't speak Thai. Must be that they think they're being lied to! 

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2 minutes ago, CrunchWrapSupreme said:

My lovely Issan wife ???????????????? has been mistaken for Filipina ???????? by the lovely Filipino staff at Sunrise Tacos ???? in Mega Bangna. ????

You really love ❤️  Mexican ???????? food ????????????

59 minutes ago, GinBoy2 said:

Curiously this Asian thing doesn't seem to translate to the West, in America at least.

 

I can be out and about with either my wife or my adult son, yet nobody seems to make the assumption that I'm the only one who can speak English.

 

It's all very curious

Few years ago I took my grandparents to visit London. So that they would be able to get out of Spain at least once in their life and visit another country. 

Well, my grandma wanted to buy sort of a hat at some random stall around Picadilly Circus and started speaking Spanish to the poor man there, and she seemed angry when the poor lad couldn't understand her. Don't think it's that different after all...

3 hours ago, NewGuy said:

Hi gurus, I’ve got an HP laptop with 2 months left in warranty. About six months ago it would shut down every week or two; I figured that some program update completed in a sloppy fashion. Then, about 2 weeks ago it started happening frequently, usually when down loading torrents. Google searches got me to set a switch which showed the ‘stopcode’ - it still would close down, power light still on, from time to time. Following Google advice, I did 1) Windows memory diagnostic test - no problems, 2) cpu-z and gpu-z - temperatures okay, 3) windows 10 assessment tool -okay, 4) chkdsk /f on all internal,external drives - no problems, 5) SFC scannow - found corrupted files and repaired them - still kept crashing, 6) tried a qBittorrent update - crashed on stopcode ‘kernel’.

 

I don’t think I can fix it myself. I doubt that deleting sensitive work files and giving it to jib for repair would work. Don’t know if I could get a shredder app to run without crashing to finish the job. A big ALSO is that I have to have it working well in two/three weeks. 
 

I’m in Pattaya. I would like to hook up with a Windows software expert, sit with him/her while the fix is done (eyeballs on my data). Who can you recommend?  
 

Cheers

You forgot to mention whether it runs a SSD or HDD, I suppose that given how new it is, it would be a SSD. But just in case:

You should check whether your computer runs a SSD (solid state drive) or HDD (mechanical hard drive). If the second before you take the laptop anywhere, you should start by backing up your important data. 

An often overlooked reason of sudden BSODs could very well a dying (or corrupted) HDD. If it is an HDD I would bet (without even looking at it), there's your cause.

1 hour ago, GinBoy2 said:

I think this explains the phenomenon

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Hahaha, nice one! As silly and staged as that video may seem. It's not too off reality!

5 minutes ago, ChouDoufu said:

 

laowai, at about 1.90m,

local boys average 1.55, the ladies around 1.45m.

Haha that I know. Laowai from Shenzhen here too. 
 

What surprises me even more than the question in this topic is how on earth you manage to understand Hainan dialect? I can speak Mandarin pretty well, and when I was in Sanya their dialect sounded like Vietnamese to me ????????