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15 hours ago, ThailandFoodExpert said:

 

 

Don't you think that Benz are nicer with the star on the front grill ?

 

 

 

 

My friends often ask me whether I drive my father in law's car  

For me, if I wanted something sportier such as the star on the front grill, I'll then get a BMW. The reason why I choose Mercedes over pretty much any other brand is precisely their "Classic, Business" look. And the star on the bonnet a must for me. Sad to see they are slowly taking it away, before even the C-Class had it, now not even the E-Class 

In China the girls say that Mercedes with the star on the front grill belong to 'playboys', definitely not what I want others to think about me 55555

Edit: Thankfully here in Asia they don't tend to be stolen... I had a friend back in Europe, who superglued bits of glass to his star ornament in the bonnet (after having had it stolen 2 times). One day after work found it stained with blood, and not too long thereafter the police came to his house looking for him. They tried to steal his bonnet star and he ended up paying a fine, unbelievable. 

All I can say, is that, I am not a native English speaker. Spanish native speaker from Spain here. 

At school as in all the way from primary until high school, English classes were taught by a Spaniard teacher, who explained English grammar using Spanish, every class put a handful of words and their translation into Spanish, and then of course the typical Listenings on the radio-cassette by Cambridge University blah blah. (Heck, I still remember the WorkBook and StudentsBook bullsh***t. No wonder nobody else from my high school class nowadays is able to speak any English at all)

Had it not been because my parents spent quite a bite of money during the course of several years in taking me to a "private school" in the afternoons (Wednesday & Friday) with a brit teacher who was extremely strict and wouldn't allow a single word of Spanish during class, I would probably still be speaking English the same way as my classmates. And trust me, that during the first couple of years, I understood very few of what he was talking, but eventually got there. 

So I can not offer any advice on where you can find such a job. But as someone who had to learn English not as native language, I can confidently say that while you may think talking in their language is making them a favor, on the long term it may be quite the opposite. 

(As a matter of fact, we also studied French all the way from primary until high school (and it was taught the same way as English). I never took any French classes outside school, and so my French today is just about as good as my classmate's English, rofl ????.)

I too, looked last year into buying a villa in Hua Hin, as an investment. In order to rent it out at some point once tourism returned to normal levels. 

Eventually decided against it, as my wife is not Thai, I trust nobody else Thai, and none of the options given by law experts (aka lawyers) pleased me the slightest. Sad, because a house in Hua Hin is for damn sure a nice investment, but.... Hopefully someday they'll change the laws...

For you though, the situation is different, you have a Thai girlfriend.

You don't need to ask yourself whether your relationship will go down the drain or not, because you can't know what will happen, at best just a guess. What you really need to ask yourself is: if your relationship goes down the drain and you fully paid for that house, will your gf try to screw you and take from you whatever doesn't belong to her? Only you know this answer, and I am afraid that this answer is what matters most to making your decision. 

1 hour ago, onebir said:

But why not make the perfect crime... perfect?

Tbh I couldn't care less if they catch me. That's why I wrote my own unit's number and not somebody else's/ 

Can't wait til they confront me about it, to laugh my <deleted> off in front of the juristic office guys and tell them that they can remove it 1000x if they want, I will put it back 1000x too until they give me back my spot ????

1 hour ago, onebir said:

One mistake: not masking the number in the pic in the OP ????

Meh, so many condos in Bangkok that do this. ????

1 hour ago, prophet01 said:

@ctxa

Yes, I have Avast installed and running.

Disdabled it but but there was no change.

 

Not sufficiently computer security literate to be able to commment on the remainder of your post as had to look up the computer security related acronyms NAT and DMZ.

Then gonna have to try something a little more technical.

1. Please, open Firefox and type the following in the address bar: about:support

2. Then click the button which says Open Folder

3. A Windows File Explorer Window will pop up, then you will look for a file called cert8.db and you are gonna RENAME it (to cert8.bak). Then you are gonna restart the browser and try again. 

PS: When I say RENAME, DONT DELETE it. Nothing should happen even if you deleted it, but it's better to keep it renamed just in case it messes something up you can always revert it.

Hope this helps,

lmao, just read that he is being held in Spain pending extradition to the US. After running through half the world from US justice, he got nabbed by the Guardia Civil. Makes me proud as a Spaniard that they put an end to this degenerate scumbag's freedom ????

(PS: Hopefully they will send him back to the US. I don't think fellow Spanish taxpayer citizens deserve to pay for this dude's meals at jail with their hard earn money which they pay in taxes)

17 hours ago, jackdd said:

 

 

Not having her windscreen blacked out might have helped her in seeing him.

To do this is obviously quite stupid, but does Thailand even have a law against it?

Why not? I have done it long time ago, helps immensely with the sun. And I've never experienced any visibility issues. Not even in mountain roads at 4AM at night without a single light except my headlights. 

The fact that it isn't allowed in the US, doesn't mean that it shouldn't be done anywhere else in the world, or that it affects safety in any way. As a matter of fact, the US bans tinting windows not for safety reasons, but mainly because those thugs with guns and badge over there in the US want to see who is driving ????

Do you happen to have an antivirus? 

I would guess that your antivirus is (largely unnecessarily) scanning the site's SSL certificates, which obviously slows it down. If you do have an antivirus, try disabling it completely first then try to load the website again. 

If you have Windows 10, I wouldn't install an antivirus either. Enable Windows Defender, make sure to install always latest Windows updates, and set up your firewall, NAT, and DMZ properly, and you will be just fine, as good as an AV. (Keeping in mind that Windows is a pretty insecure OS, but "that's a whole different kettle of fish". So you gotta make up for that with a properly configured NAT and DMZ, neither of which an AV can set up for you. Remember WannaCry, when all Windows computers even those with AV got owned?)

Well he sure as f***k is a fraud. And a low life scumbag, too. 

1 hour ago, NilSS said:

 

 

Where do you get your news, the twatter feed of some 'citizen' journalist?

 

I don't agree with you at all. The depth and breadth of investigative journalism on the big news corps like Al Jazeera (and even the BBC) is nothing short of superb, and better than it EVER was. This week's Panorama (Missing Princess) is dynamite.

 

 

 

 

Nah, whenever I am bored enough, I would read news from several big corps. CNN, Fox News, BBC, EFE, RT, Global Times, Al-Jazzera.... Nevertheless it is more of a past-time than anything else, just to get an an approximate idea of what's going on around the world. No matter which one it is, I take 'em all with the same pinch of salt, and I certainly wouldn't bet a single penny on whether what they are reporting is fully correct and not biased (purposefully omitting things, reporting things slightly different,...). 

I could however agree, that Al-Jazeera is probably the less-crappy of them all, and they go to huge extents on investigative journalism. But again, at least Al-Jazeera is private, so even if they were biased, meh, they can do whatever they want, they're a private company after all. Not like the BBC which is paid for by every UK household, yet they are extremely biased towards certain things, that is really shameful. I really understand how certain UK households which can't swallow some of the bs the BBC makes, feels after having to mandatorily pay for them

The only media I fully trust, is the local newspaper of my hometown back in Europe. ~10,000 inhabitants, I fully trust that they are not biased at all. Because there is nothing to be biased when reporting about the things that happen in a ~10,000 inhabitants town. ????

Still reading any media? ????

Journalists are a joke nowadays. Moved by political and economical powers rather than doing what they should do and doing so impartially.... Too sad. There is not a single place to go for minimally decent information about what's going on in the rest world....

27 minutes ago, John Drake said:

 

Where is your proof for this statement? 

Well, the first cases of the Spanish flu were registered in the US. Just like the first cases of COVID were registered in China. 
 

But point is, it doesn’t matter. Because I don’t believe that the US should stop being respected because of “unleashing” the Spanish flu, and neither should China for “unleashing” COVID. Read the small letter in my post ????

13 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Who could respect a country that unleashed such a filthy virus on the world that's so far killed 2.5 million people??? Who could respect a country that stole islands of smaller nations in the South China Sea and turned them into military bases as part of their aggressive expansionist program to dominate the region and the world???

Then, we should stop respecting the USA as they unleashed the so called Spanish flu. And Mexico too, they unleashed the H1N1 swine flu in 2009. 

Edit: Just looking at the words I just wrote makes me laugh myself from how silly it sounds. Can't explain how you were able to hit the Send button, specially from the first part. ????‍♂️

1 hour ago, Susco said:

 

I'm not sure I agree on that with you. Gamestop was one of the first stocks that the Reddit crowd pulled to unrealistic levels.

 

350 US$, many people have lost fortunes. A few weeks ago I posted a story about a billionaire investor who lost 8 million USD, or 80% of his investment in the stock, in just a few days. He will survive, but how many small investors lost 80% ?

 

While I neither do agree with what Rediters are doing (aka, bump and dump). Certainly those big guys which have turned Wall Street into a casino, do deserve the losses they are seeing thanks to the reditors. 

I have no time or will to write a bible here, so I'll just leave a video here (from a mechanic, though certainly a smart person), on his opinion about this whole thing. Which happens to be pretty similar to mine.

It is not normal. But sometimes it happens. Electronics are this way. 

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

You may be making a quite risky assumption. I have been told of several examples where the car driver was deemed to be automatically at fault in a collision with a motorcyclist. Particularly if it's a situation where it's a farang, obviously wealthy, and a poor Thai.

One of my friends was in his car, and hit by a drunk Thai on a scooter. His fault, according to the police.

Permit me to doubt there are many provincial/rural Thais on scooters that are insured against damage to other vehicles. Can't get blood out of a stone.

True, the likelihood of yourself sustaining injury is low. Damage to your wallet is another matter, which is why I am extra careful in the car when anything on two wheels is near me.

I mean. You are absolutely right on that statement. And it is to be expect, if a poor old man crashes you in a rural place and he has no money or insurance, well, how can he pay when he has no money? I recon that so long as there are no major injuries, it would be best to let them place you at fault and then very likely your own insurance will take care of it, (if you have premium coverage that is ofc, not only third party coverage. Which I would say is a must in Thailand). 

However I reckon things would be different in a farang-farang collision, specially since I have both front and rear facing dash cams mounted on my car. So if a crash happened and if it actually was his fault it wouldn't be hard to prove. 

Last point, it is probably the best advice you could give to anyone driving in Thailand. Be extra careful with anything in two wheels. It's not that difficult to kill someone on two wheels, even if the accident happened as a result of his lousy driving agains traffic rules, you will still be in a huge mess shall the person on two wheels die. 

10,000 THB is $330. Given that you have no experience at all in this sort of things. Are you seriously gonna risk ending up at the hospital with a nail through your hand? Or risk messing it up and having to replace the entire roof over 330 USD? 

5 hours ago, Gandtee said:

I stream BBC World news and cricket via Filmon. BBC News repeatedly reloads every few seconds as if the tape is restarting. The cricket on Channel 4 via Filmon stops every few seconds and resumes after a few seconds. Is this buffering or something attributable to my PC?  CNN on Filmon does not have these problems. Any suggestions?

 

You just answered yourself by saying CNN does not have those problems. Clearly not your hardware causing it. 

I guess that your connection to whichever server from which you are streaming that content is not good enough for streaming on real time at such high resolution. Think about it, you may have 500 MB/S download speed, but that is only to servers inside of Thailand. It will vary greatly to any other server around the world depending on where it is located. And not only the download speed, ping time and packet loss are important factors as well. 

Some options which you have to try and correct this constant buffering: 

1. Stream the BBC from another service in which you may have better connection to their server. 

2. Lower the quality of the video. 

3. Set a way higher buffer time, so that it won't have to be buffering all the time.

26 minutes ago, Sujo said:

Do you have a hobby? I suggest you get one.

 

Do you have issues with falangs leaving a mouthful in the bottom of their beers? Now thats an issue worth UN intervention.

Not sure what your even trying to say. 

1 hour ago, DBath said:

How do you know said rider rants at Thai people? Seems to me you are upset with his lousy driving, which I can understand...but why are you judging him for not wearing a helmet? Why do you care? It’s not really your problem is it?

I couldn't care less about what he does. Because considering he is driving a motorcycle and I am driving a car. He is gonna have a hell hard of a time trying to injure me in the slightest. And even if his lousy driving causes an accident and my car is damaged, he or his insurance are gonna pay for repairs anyway. So I don't really care. 

I just used him as an example of how funny it is to see farangs bashing Thai people here in TVF (for many things, not just driving skills). And then you see farang doing same or worse. I don't know whether that guy comes to TVF to bash Thais, but it doesn't matter. Point is, not everything is as bad here in LOS as the typical bashers claims, and not everything is as good back in the west as they believe. And not every farang wear helmets like they seem to believe. 

Anyway, truth is someone a few posts behind, made a very detailed and accurate depiction of the typical racist Thai bashers dumb as rocks. Of course, that doesn't include all farang here in LOS, and neither does it include all TVF members, many nice people both in TVF and in LOS. My rage was just directed towards the bashers. Not more not less. 

1 hour ago, GrandPapillon said:

but trust can't be built using calculation, that's my point. That's actually mistrust. I am guessing your are in your 20s or 30s, so some kind of GenY, who have serious mistrust with society, and understandingly so. But bitcoins and BLC is actually built on mistrust, because you can't trust anybody, anything, you need an exponential calculation to "secure" your insecurity. It's simply not workable in the long run in terms of energy use and GPU/CPU utilization.

 

Trust is always a leap of faith. If you think calculations is going to "replace" trust, by overdoing "tourette" calculations, then you have to start to question the insanity of the method and the purpose the project. And speaking of independence, you got it wrong too. You are simply displacing the roadblock to "independence" with the overzealous calculations. Where is the independence and the corruption free environment when you have to rely on third party exchanges to trade your coins? right, like nobody got robbed with that little scam despite all the calculations ????

Exchanges are not a part of the Blockchain. And the blockchain can not guarantee which exchange is a scam or not. It's not even the point for which the Blockchain was developed, a exchange serves the purpose of trading the tokens of a Blockchain, BLC can only guarantee that the tokens are real and not fake, but it can not guarantee that those who run the exchange are not scammer. So we can say that BLC can only guarantee the integrity of data, and it does it very well. USD, you can print fake USD and flood the market with them, Germans did it during WW2, and I heard that North Koreans were doing it recently too. Can you put "fake Bitcoins" (tokens) into the Bitcoin blockchain. Nope. Again, I know about the 51% attack and all of that, but nobody has that much computational power. 

Your only argument against it is energy use, sure the Bitcoin Blockchain currently uses more energy annually than the entire country of Argentina. And it has a carbon footprint close to that of New Zealand. Do you know the carbon footprint of eBay without counting delivery? Just by counting the services which they provide in order to ensure trust between seller and buyer (offices, servers, logistics centers,....). Let me show you with an attached image from eBays website. 

Building trust is costly, not only on the blockchain. With every and any other centralized solution. If building trust was as easy as you claim, blockchain wouldn't even exist, and society wouldn't have the many trust issues which we have and that you yourself mention. 

You talk about me being in my 20s or 30s, so I assume you must be in your 50s, or 60s. Yet you still believe the fantasies and perfect emision free world utopia of a teenager, Greta Thornberg.

I am still waiting for you, to tell me about a decentralized way of building trust which is infinitely better than the Blockchain, maybe we can unveil the future here in TVF ????

PS: Just like internal combustion engines were considerably less efficient in the 40s than they are nowadays, I have no doubt that as society discovers the idea of decentralized trust and starts using it more and more, new technologies more efficient than the current Bitcoin Blockchain will appear. Like I said in my previous post, it's not about the current Bitcoin Blockchain being la creme de la creme. It's just that the current Bitcoin Blockchain has set the bases of decentralized trust, and whether you like it or not it is gonna play an important role in the near future of our society, the concept of decentralized trust.

PS2: You still seem to not understand, that Blockchain uses cases go very far from finance and trading tokens in exchanges. There is even a blockchain created to share and keep well protected medical data of patients from all around the world, there are no tokens to be traded, there is no money to be invested into it. And such like this example, Blockchain has use cases in nearly every field of society, healthcare, governments, automotive, aviation, logistics, etc.... Do you understand this?

13 minutes ago, Bradmeister said:

Stop saying Farang.  Its a man.  

 

As far as "bashing" all counties have responsible and irresponsible drivers and riders. 

 

Been in the Eastern Block lately? South America or even Nepal?  

 

Need I remind you, that if this man wishes to break the law and kill himself from a front lobe impact....thats his business. Not ours, mine or even yours. 

 

I've been run over here by, (in no particular order) A Japanese woman, a Thai woman, a Thai man, an Australian man, and a Elderly Burmese woman with her 3 wheeler.

 

End the name calling. 

 

 

Mate, I am farang myself. White European. I am no expert in Thai language. But I consider it to be the same thing as laowai (老外) is in Chinese. Which I know it’s in no way racist, just an informal word for the term ‘foreigner’. I am willing to bet it’s the same exact thing in Thai. (As it is in Japanese with the term gaijin 外人）

So nope, it doesn’t bother me to be called farang and/or laowai. And I call other foreigners by those terms.

However if it does bother you, I’ll take note of it and try to avoid it in the future. ????

10 minutes ago, Natai Beach said:

It is fairly apparent to me that most of the “Thai bashers” 
 

1) wouldn’t actually have the baแs to actually bash a Thai, in fact most of them seem quite intimidated by Thai men

 

2) consider themselves morally and intellectually superior than the general population, however have married or are in a long term relationship with a prostitute, often helping to raise her children. The irony.

 

3) are socially quite isolated as being married to a prostitute certainly restricts who will socialise with you and they often have built a house in the village of the prostitute for her and somehow think they should be loved for it. And they base their views on all Thais as the same of their experiences living with the extended family of a prostitute.

4) no matter how good something is about Thailand, they will try to turn it into a negative

5) can’t read, write, speak or understand Thai language even if they have lived here for 10+ years. Despite that they like to mock Thai pronunciation of Thai people’s English who have never been to an English speaking country. “Tink too mutt” 

 

I find them quite amusing. I enjoy meeting them in real life, being positive and happy confuses them. It is funny to watch them complain and carry on and the Thais not actually care what they are harping on about which further compounds their misery and frustrations.

 

I must say that this is by far the best post I’ve read in a long while. You’ve nailed it. I don’t think anyone else could have said it better ????????????????????????