onebir

1 hour ago, tgeezer said:

Thai-language.com has everything necessary to learn the Thai language to a high level.  

The alphabet is there under Resources or lessons.  I hear nothing using an iPad when I "click" the speaker symbol so I assume that a computer is necessary to get what you want.  
 

Do you mean this? I use it for the consonant objects, but for now prefer the one linked in the OP for the characters (easier to compare similar-looking characters, & plays sounds fine on Firefox; maybe an ipad browser issue?) 

10 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Neither him, nor any member of his spectacularly toxic family will ever have any place in American politics again.

What actually needs to happen to exclude him/family from politics?

I haven't gone through the lessons, but just being able to click to listen to the sound of each consonant and each vowel is very helpful. (Being able to click a button to mix up the letters, so it's more like a game, would be even better.)

7 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Two rooms on the fifth floor of the building - 517 and 518 - had been rented on a daily basis. 

So that's where to go if you feel like a good poker/covid/raid gamble next week ????

15 hours ago, tonray said:

The only panic buying I ever do is when I see egfruit at some local market....so hard to find in Bangkok area...I usually buy up most of the inventory. Addicted to it...great for smoothies

 

Yet another strange fruit on TVF!

2 hours ago, David T Pike said:

magine this, you just did a 14 day ASQ in Bangkok and went to one of these provinces to finally start your vacation then this came down? ????

https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/travel-alert-bangkok-travelers-must-now-quarantine-in-these-26-provinces/

That would be "Groundhog Day Again (the Sequel)".

23 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The ambitious plan to launch a lunar orbiter within seven years sparked questions about Thailand’s technological capabilities and whether a costly space mission is justified amid the virus-triggered economic crisis.

That really takes the mooncake

6 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

Reply from Chang:

 

Dear ChangFan,

 

We never changed the recipe of our beer, however, we did a big cleaning of our brewing equipment a while back...

That's odd, this is what they sent to me:

Dear onebir,

since the passing of Mildred, the elephant who had long been sole supplier of our secret ingredient, earlier last year, we have been forced to rely on younger, less constipated elephants for supplies of that 'brown gold'. This may have resulted in changes in the flavour (and consistency) or our brew.

Thank you for remaining a loyal consumer of our products, and apologies for the inconvenience,

Chang (It's not the dog's ****locks, it's...) Beer

4 hours ago, Colin Beech said:

Sorry off the topic, but in the early 80's whilst working in Saudi Arabia we could buy none alcoholic beer and by simply adding yeast and sugar and then leaving it to ferment for 3-4 weeks it was potent and a decent drink.

With ginger instead of the non-alcoholic beer  you'd have had alcoholic ginger beer. (Which presumably would also have been a bit harder to identify as alcoholic, if the religious police had come calling.)

52 minutes ago, poskat said:

0% beer, all the crappy taste with none of the payoff

Just add sangsom

Are the immigration officials Thais?

1 hour ago, webfact said:

A shortage of containers and rise in freight rate.

Read this, still don't really understand why there's a shortage of containers in Asia...

13 minutes ago, Wandering Brit said:

Pattaya is most definitely NOT an option. I have a Thai 'uncle' there who, shall we say, owns a diverse range of businesses and last time I was there drove me, my wife and my mother-in-law down the strip waving at his 'contractors' and shouting words to effect of 'hey girls, do you like my nephew?'!

When the TVF Pattayites get wind of this, you may gain some 'friends'.

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

DPM Prawit said that there are no gambling dens in Bangkok because gambling in Thailand is illegal, and the police are on top of such issues,

 Impeccable logic

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

Local health authorities urged party-goers to self-isolate for seven days.

That'll work

On 12/27/2020 at 11:26 AM, rabas said:

 

It might only require a couple more CoV-SARS-2 mutations. As the rest of the world approaches 100 million cases, the mutations start coming fast.

Don't the vaccines target conserved regions the spike protein needs to be able to dock with effectively with angiotensin receptors? If so, they should be at least somewhat effective against any mutation with the same basic replication strategy.

(That said I just checked how influenza replicates. Apparently it targets the 'sialic acid receptor', but the preceding logic doesn't seem to work for flu vaccines. Answers on a postcard to... me.)

12 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Most Thais I know would rather their home was repossessed by the bank than sell for less than they paid for it.

Doesn't getting repo'd seriously mess up their credit?

Apparently there was a clinical trial. Wonder if it got written up.

4 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Cock fighting rings

Bull fighting rings

Maybe they meant "cock and bull fighting"?