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18 hours ago, TravelerEastWest said:

Reconditioned is not good.

 

Do you have any battery shops that you suggest?

https://www.phonepartworld.com/

https://www.ifixit.com/Kits/iPhone-Fix-Kits/iPhone-Battery-Kits

2 hours ago, TravelerEastWest said:

Thank you! I agree with you...

 

I will go to a small friendly shop that can do it while I wait. Waiting a week and two trips is expensive for me as I am busy with family life and work...

The small shops will sell you a reconditioned battery. Better to buy a brand one online from a battery supply store, THEN have one of the small shops do the replacement for you if you don't want to do it yourself. Get the best of both worlds, although doing it yourself is rewarding in and of itself.

22 hours ago, dj230 said:

You'd be surprised how cheap apple charges for their batteries, and they're authentic, those tiny phone shops using cheap batteries are going to need to be replaced again in a year, might explode, or not hold a good charge. With phones being essential these days, I don't know why one would want to save a couple bucks on it with the risks.

When I tried to have my iPhone battery changed by Apple Care in Airport Plaza a few years ago, they wanted 3,000 Baht and it would take a week because they were so busy. I ordered a new (not reconditioned) battery online from a battery company for $27. It came with a small set of tools and step-by-step instructions for replacing it. Between their instructions, and some YouTube videos, it took me less than 20 minutes to do it myself. It's not rocket science; it's just 3-4 screws and plugs. Still working fine today, and holds a charge as well as it did when new. No risk involved.

You can buy a new (rather than reconditioned) genuine iPhone battery online. They generally come with a small set of the tools needed to change the battery yourself. There are plenty of videos with step-by-step instructions on Youtube. It looks a bit daunting at first glance, but doesn't take more than about 15 minutes to actually do it yourself.

25 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Thank you for saying exactly what I just said.

Obviously, even with two people saying it, there are those who just don't get it. And probably never will.

23 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Tobacco is utterly heinous, and one of the filthiest habits any person can pick up. It is unbelievably unpleasant for most non smokers to be around these highly addicted, weak willed individuals.

Absolutely!  Most non-smokers I know can not stand the smell, especially that of cigarette ash trays or the smell of old cigarette smoke on smoker's clothing.

7 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Non Smoker here, 

I believe you're wrong and the bad smell is due to you being sensitised by first being an addict and then quitting. I've never smoked tobacco, and don't find the smell particular offensive. It's a bit like those who get religion in later life become more pious than those who always believed.

Some people actually like the smell of Skunk.  Does that mean most people don't find it offensive?  I used to smoke a pipe as well as cigarettes, but don't find the smell of pipe tobacco offensive. In fact, I rather like it. But cigarettes produce an especially vile smell for many non-smokers. Obviously, not all of them. Has nothing to do with being sensitized to it. If it were a pleasant smell, something that people like, there would be cigarette incense, and cigarette perfume. Manufacturers wouldn't pass up the opportunity to make a profit.

I was a smoker for 46 years. Pack and a half a day of unfiltered menthol's. I stopped 23 years ago. Smokers have a right to smoke. Currently, it's their choice, their freedom. But I sure wish they could understand how badly they smell. It would be enough to get many of them to be more considerate of others.

A year or so after I stopped, I went around to all my friends and relatives an apologized for my behavior. As a smoker, I was never aware of just how badly smokers smell, and how badly cigarette smoke can smell to non-smokers. I always thought the non-smokers waving away the smoke were just being histrionic. I was wrong. But as smoking kills off most of one's sense of smell, I never realized the stink I was creating.  Now I do realize it. Now I do smell it. Frankly, I'm amazed that non-smoking women had anything to do with me when I was smoking... Smokers really, really stink. Must taste pretty bad when kissing too!

I don't worry about taking in second-hand smoke. There are enough pollutants in the air that one person's cigarette, smoked on the other side of a room amounts to little more. But the smell... especially in restaurants, is enough to cause a person to gag. Certainly ruins the taste of good food.

1. Remove larger magazines. Make 3-round clips largest legally permitted. That's large enough for hunting. Make possession of larger rifle magazines a criminal offense.

2. Enforce existing gun regulations. That's not being done now.

3. Require training, testing, health checks, licensing, and insurance, for firearm ownership. We do that for driving. Why not for firearms? The Constitution with its 2nd Amendment can be amended again. It's been done before.

There are already plenty of 'infringements' to firearms ownership; it takes three separate licenses to own a fully automatic firearm, shoulder-fired missiles, etc. A few more infringements can do a world of good.

4. Make any crime committed with a firearm punishable by Life Imprisonment Without Parole at Hard Labor.

This won't completely stop the crazies, but it will sure slow down crime with firearms. 17yr old gangbangers will think twice before shooting rivals at schools, or in drive-by shootings that go on several times a day in the U.S.  Life imprisonment without parole. Not a one or two year sentence that becomes a status symbol to gang members.

Fiskars make an excellent scissor sharpening device that is as easy to use as the scissors! Pocket sized, and inexpensive if you can find it.

Otherwise, here is an effective  tool for sharpening scissors, but I do NOT recommend it for knives.

https://shopee.co.th/????????????Ready-Stock????Knife-Sharpener-Upgrade-Version-4-Stage-Professional-Kitchen-Sharpening-Stone-Scissor-i.491393189.12891206257?sp_atk=e455aa0e-0a5a-4b79-88c0-093a326156ed&xptdk=e455aa0e-0a5a-4b79-88c0-093a326156ed

How does gold discolor?

I have never eaten 'good' authentic Chinese Food in Chiang Mai. Too much Thai influence. If I want a Chinese restaurant, I go up to Mae Salong, up near the Burmese border.

But Chinese cooking is really pretty simple to do at home. Once you learn the basics, many dishes are available to you in just a few minutes. Prep time is longer, but cooking times are usually short except for stews. That has been the ONLY way I've been able to eat good authentic Cantonese, Sichuan, Hunan, Shandong, and now even Fujian style (thanks to the Chinese grocery store that opened recently near Thapae Gate.) Chinese cooking is much less complicated than Thai cooking, easy to learn.

I would check out YOK on the Superhighway. They seem to stock just about everything one needs for commercial cooking supplies.

38 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

What would you expect from a place next to LK that rents short-time rooms?

I'd expect their rooms to be immaculately clean, well, laid out, and nicely furnished.

After all, the restaurant is.

11 hours ago, Forza2002 said:

Hardly 25KM... only 8KM away from LK Soi 3... 

 

More to the point,  while it's actually 10.7km from Loi Kraw, soi 3 location to the restaurant in Seraphi based on Google Map directions, it's more than 19km from my house to the Seraphi restaurant, but less than 5km to the Loi Kraw site.

That's 38km round trip. That becomes a more difficult trip for people who do not have cars... and even for those who do, based on the crazy drivers on that stretch of road.

As if there aren't enough delivery riders zigging and zagging through traffic at high speed now, causing dozens of near accidents and terrorizing other motorists, let's add a few more riders without bothering to enforce safe driving regulations...

7 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Yes but you omitted Islam and examples such  as the mosque in Grenada. However, its stands to reason  the newest and most expansionist religion, Islam, would be the greatest perpatrator. Turkey, Iran Afghanistan were all "built on' by islam

Afghanistan was a buddist country originally ...and in our life time the Buddhas at Band I Mir were destroyed by ISIS / Taliban BTW : My information is based on education,  travel and personal experience NOT cutting and pasting from wiki pedia.

Your correct. It has been done by Islam too.  But the point wasn't that it was done by religions, but that it has been done for many different reasons over history. You're most fortunate that you have experienced it first hand...

There are still 3-4 used book stores still open in Chiang Mai.

2 hours ago, orang37 said:

I cannot see the relevance of the analogy that a copy-cat business is like the re-purposing of a religious edifice by another religion.

 

It had nothing to do with the religious 'edifice' itself, but the 'location' of it. They were central meeting spots. Down through the ages, those locations were the centers of commerce and society, with people from outlying areas used to traveling to them regularly.  Today we would say 'location, location, location.' People are used to going to that location for German food. And based on the fact that it always seems busy when I pass by these days, I'd say people are still coming to this location for it, regardless of who owns it.

5 hours ago, 1FinickyOne said:

once you get a topper, do you need all new sheet sets to cover the added volume? 

We bought a 'Tempur Memory Foam' topper over 20 years ago. Expensive, but the best sleeping investment I ever made. It's as comfortable today as the day we bought it. And no, no new sheets needed.

The latex sellers try to tell us that the memory foam only lasts a few years, but if you get the good stuff, it lasts damn near forever!