Plern

24 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Sorry, I googled it, and you are right, Indian produced. I tried  a few and works well. 

I think the name Ajanta kinda tipoff there bro ????

5 minutes ago, asf6 said:

^ Or grind the coffee in the kitchen instead of the bedroom. ????

The wall is shared. Everything dead silent. Grinders are ridiculously noisy. You're not funny just annoying

28 minutes ago, asf6 said:

Most baristas agree

Most *baristas* are under 30 and only drink warm milk-coffee, know little or nothing about the stuff and are paid peanuts bc that's what the job is worth.

How many times now at airports I'm stuck with Starbucks. I wait ten minutes for a 5 dollar coffee to be handed to me cold. They have no connection to real coffee or real coffee drinkers.

While iced black coffee with sugar can be a refreshing as is a HOT and proper makiato (sp?) that's not what I order.

Black coffee please...

I often forget to say HOT and it just strikes me as so ironic bc to make coffee the water needs to be HOT.

*Excludes southern Europe where they take the job seriously.

I've been buying ground coffee bc grinding coffee 450am will wake the wife. JIN on shopee has a med-dark french roast bean or ground 180b+/- 500g incl shipping. It's not epic, isn't flat or weak but lacks full bodiedness, bold, complex flavor... but ticks most of the boxes. Say it's all Arabica

Strength of Lao / rubusto can be great but it's just strong and often flat, one dimensional

Available in ground or bean.

3 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Hillkoff Chiang Mai delivery anywhere Italian expresso beans unbeatable @220bt per bag ????

A bag... Is that 125gms or 1250gms?

2 minutes ago, Denim said:

Well....you get what you pay for.  Just a typical Bangkok suburb. Only stayed 3 months while wife was studying at Rangsit. I really enjoyed the roof top pool which I nearly always had to myself.

Rangsit is closer to Pathumthani than BKK CBD now c'mon everyone! Seriously...

8 hours ago, Chicksaw said:

Plern, old buddy, you kind of tipped your cards when you said Bangkapi is not in Bkk. Why don't you go find some wood to chop and sit the rest of this thread out.

Yes, not belaboring the point. Is it technically Bangkok - yes. Despite not being IN Bangkok many often consider Suvarnabhumi Bangkok as well. It's not. Bangkapi is roughly the same distance from BKK CBD as Nonthaburi as you can see by the map I posted. This fact and that I'd have no idea other then work why a single, foreign male would want to live *out there*

While I'm certain there are some benefits, I'll bet my detractors the op decides to not opt for bangkapi.

6 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Yes, your opinion, contradicting science.

Oh yes, the science.... ????????

1 hour ago, marin said:

We live in different worlds. Bangkapi is a major district of Bangkok. I dont make a distinction of where a foreigner might want to live. But I have been here long enough to have a nice detached house and a car. I never knew Bangkapi had no modern public transportation to it, so thanks for that. 

Nowhere close to an established rail line by my memory.

Detached house lol, I guess you missed the point of the entire post or were you offering your house rent for 5k pm? Maybe you'll toss in your car for thr duration of the lease too! He'll need that.

42 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

combined BTS and metro station within 5 minutes walk (500m) of the condo I posted, at Lam Sali intersection opening soon.  The Mall (Bangkapi) is about a ten-minute walk, with a pier where you can catch the canal boats to downtown. 

So, obviously not *downtown*

Or, Mr single guy can live on Sukhumvhit BTS line with all the other farang near the farang food and pubs.

This is a new thing, a very new thing and it changes nothing that it's a suburb and nowhere close to Bangkok proper. I'm not stating there's anything negative about the area I know little of it. Although I seriously doubt this of the least interest to a single foreign male, apparently first lease in BKK, paying 5k pm for accomodation.

31 minutes ago, marin said:

You dont know Bangkok well do you? A well known district of Bangkok.????

I do. I can't imagine a foreigner would want to live there in a 5k whatever instead of on the BTS (the favorite) or even the blue line - or even the purple line. Another issue would be not being able to search on foot like on Sukhumvhit and Ratchada. Hot, slow, expensive, random search.

1 minute ago, Andrew65 said:

Isn't the current 'deal' that the maximum fine for overstay is 20,000, which once thrown in the monkey-house defrays at a rate of 200 Baht per day? 100 days in pokey, and then deported.

Yes, sounds right...so just pay 20k and go. Good deal for 3 years overstay. ???? I think too good. Moreover, if the chancer doesn't have the 20k then Thailand is stuck feeding the moron. Probably lose money at that rate. Ok, law is about principle but the law broken is in the end civil and not criminal.

14 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

Bangkapi

Not really Bangkok.

Local migrants aside it's very easy to fix this. Ever day overstay is b1000 or one day in the pokey. 30 days + banned for 2 years, 90 days five years, 180 days + life.

No press conferences or fancy BMWs

2 hours ago, bignok said:

Phanom Rung.

Despite the temple being absolutely classic Khmer architecture and it is nice... It's not much imo compared to most of the temples in the Angkor complex. Your plan is back asxwards.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phanom_Rung_Historical_Park

10 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

Thai people will hate me for saying it, but Phanom Rung - nice as it is (been there twice) - is just a small not very well-maintained temple compared with the splendor of the Angkor Wat temple complex.

It's probably maintained better it just didn't wear better. Angkor is a splendor all its own and very unique especially as it faces west. Many of the temples are very unique. Most temples in the SRP complex built under Jayavarman 7 I recall.

First trip was 92. I moved there (well, PNH).

Last trip was ?? 2000 was saddened by the wear and tear as well as the guardrails. I recall and have sweet memories of stringing up a hammock in ThaProm and just chilling out with the birds and a huge bag of weed I paid 1usd for in Phnom Penh. Maybe six tourists thru the entire (week)day.

Fond memories.

Flat yes, condo no way.

You'll need to look off transit lines. Perhaps BangNa and beyond (ugh). Anything past On Nut (including) I personally find slummy. Still, gonna be well over 5k even for a tiny studio condo.

If you're asking such questions on this forum I'm making a wild leap and saying you're probably not good at locating and bargaining for apartments. Simple, clean aartments with AC can be had central BKK for 4500-8500. So, imo 8k. I know a good apt block with flats 5 to 6k good location.

Beware of purchasing anything on Lazada.

FTFY

Motorcycle cycle in USA= death sentence

Motorcycle in Thailand= suicide

4 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

As you say. 

 

Your loss. 

 

The Chinese room argument holds that a digital computer executing a program cannot have a "mind", "understanding", or "consciousness",^[a] regardless of how intelligently or human-like the program may make the computer behave. The argument was presented by philosopher John Searle in his paper "Minds, Brains, and Programs", published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences in 1980. 

 

 

I stated precisely this as a response to your post so I am again lost on your post. Current AI models are not sentient, far from it. Merely, fancy parlor trick/s. Will AGI happen? Singularity? Yes. I believe so.

9 minutes ago, ezzra said:

A lawyer friend of mine is busy with Chinees merchants signing multiple contracts with durian farmers to export the fruits to China, maybe that's the reason for the price jump.

The season is coming to an end that's all. The Chinese have for years done an excellent job of wiping the fruit off the Thai market

14 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Most over-priced obnoxious fruit I've ever had the mis-fortune to smell.

IMHO

Funny, I love it but understand as most farang don't like Thai food either.

Guava, dragon fruit, meh.