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2 hours ago, roo860 said:

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We 'Muricans are known for our friendliness. In fact we're the number one preference of Thai P4P girls and ladyboys as shown in recent research by the Thai Tourist Office of Sexual Research. The Thai working girls and "gurls" cited us for our good manners, generosity, luxuriant hair (on our heads, not our backs as with *some* nations (you know who you are)), lack of tattoos, understandable English, abhorrence of 'soccer', and large "endowment".

I do not know the reasons for this particular 'Murican's regretable forwardness toward your missus and can only conclude that he's a fake 'Murican. Perhaps Canadian. Like any desired commodity, there are many fakes on the market. Caveat Emptor! Check his wallet or endowment for proper verification. All else can be faked.)

Yay Judge

On 1/17/2017 at 6:48 PM, Artisi said:

ABS is glueable with the appropriate adhesive , don't know if it is available in Thailand although would think so

I found some (as below)!

http://www.zenco.co.th/ta-cement-for-abs.html

And thanks very much to all!

On 1/17/2017 at 6:16 PM, Gulfsailor said:

If you can remove the lid I would use acetone to melt the edges and stick them together. Don't bother asking for acetone as in my experience no one knows what it is in Thailand. Instead buy some cheap odorless nail polish remover. 

If there is little or no stress, you could also try simple superglue. 

Thanks for your interest. Attached is a picture of the lid and it ain't pretty, and the hinges move only with too much effort though I've tried to clean them with spray cleaner. I was hesitant to spray lube in there.

My idea is to use an ABS panel (my son is flying here anyway so he'll take one along) and the ABS cement I found below yesterday by searching the internet...if they're out I'll do the acetone thing as you recommend.

http://www.zenco.co.th/ta-cement-for-abs.html

A Japanese company in Lad Prao area. I'll probably need to layer the patches for strength so it's going to take a lot of cement I think. I'll have to do this outside!

Hi All,

No really housing related (a cracked ABS plastic laptop lid), but I need ABS plastic glue/cement to fix it. I've

googled around and no other glues or autobody products will bond well enough.

I thought DIY housing might have a clue, since ABS glue is sometimes used in plumbing.

I live in Bangkok.

Thanks.

On 1/8/2017 at 8:38 AM, sotonowl said:

That was crafty, I was waiting for the quote to prompt me. Please don't try and complicate something which is quite simple, bring and take was the question, have you any idea of the difference? Don't let old chomsky, (god bless him) mess with your head either, language is for communication.

 

Please don't think you know everything. I just thought you might be interested instead of perceiving it as a threat. How wrong I was. My very last word on this ridiculous thread.

9 hours ago, muzmurray said:

 

No mention of Chomsky saying that here;

 

http://languagelearningandteaching.blogspot.com/2008/04/what-is-language-and-how-can-we-define.html

 

Or anywhere else that I looked.

http://skipperkongen.dk/2014/07/27/the-purpose-of-language-by-chomsky/

My last post. This has spun out of control. Good luck and no hard feelings.

10 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

Can you speak your own mind or do you have to quote other people all the time? You are right snobs are everywhere.

O Deer.

I'm out of here...

I've always had an affection for bastards (having once been one)...even for anal-compulsives.

What's the original purpose of language? Everyone says, "Oh, for communication of course", but Chomsky thinks it's for thinking, to clarify concepts and effective planning in one's *own* head, and you can get an inkling of this if you ask yourself who (or with whom, as you'd say) you spend the most time talking to each day? It's yourself.

1 hour ago, sotonowl said:

i'll take that as as no then

Or you could take it with Gin and Holy Water....and find consolation that the great English writer Raymond Chandler had to learn English all over again once he came to 'the States'.

13 hours ago, sotonowl said:

That's very noble of you but do you know the difference between "bring" and "take"? If not, you'd better leave well alone, we have too many Americans already who don't have a clue.

Good luck anyway.

There are snobs everywhere!

The Thai level of difficulty lies far below "bring" and "take". It's more the difference between "blin" and "tay", at least for the Thais I'm talking about. Their troubles aren't with subtle semantics, but with gross mispronunciation.

"I can give you a sentence with the word horticulture.  You
 can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think."
-- Dorothy Parker
 

>So no single Thai can teach English?

Who said that? You're just trying to be obnoxious and you're succeeding. 

There are always exceptions to any generality. The great mass of Thai English teachers are incompetent. There are many examples of English tests these teachers give and they're incomprehensible. No native English speaker could answer these questions because the questions are ambiguous and contradictory and ill-formed.

You can go back to kicking your dog now.

18 hours ago, lamyai3 said:

 

Learning Thai is a much better plan, it'll increase your interactions and enrich your experience here enormously. In the process you'll probably find yourself indirectly helping people with English anyway their as you come into contact with a larger pool of people. 

Thanks. I've been putting it off for eons, but it makes sense. I've always been a horrible language student, so it's not something I'd do if I didn't really have to. (I'd rather feed all the stray dogs the length of Sukumvit :). 

My old German teacher says it's very common with people good at Math/Science to be awful at languages and I'm the poster child for that. I think some people have a knack for languages and women are better at languages than men (they crave more yak yak?)

18 hours ago, JHolmesJr said:

If u sit in a bar with a beer and teach the girls you dint need a permit....worth considering...im sure they'll love it. 

It works the other way to...

I actually knew a Scottish guy who learned very good Thai that way. He just hung out in a lady bar and told the girls he just wanted to drink beer, and chat if they wanted to. This worked out very well (there's lots of downtime in a bar), although he learned bar girl Thai, which was pretty funny.

He even learned the Isan dialect. Unknowing girls would think they were hiding conversation from him (knowing he spoke Thai), so he got in on some very interesting conversations as a silent partner.

As you can probably guess, he was an alcoholic and died tragically on his motorbike in Hua Hin after getting his first well paying English/Math teaching job at a Thai "high school". He had just finished celebrating and was on his way home. RIP Tim.

At least not one where you're in the room.

More ego, more ego, and yet again more ego....So many unhappy farang egotists in Thailand...Well, it's understandable, the expat syndrome someone might call it.

Good rant and spot on about the cell phones. Behavior without consequences is behavior that will continue.

...Well, so much for that idea. I've got something now they'll *really* like. I'll learn Thai! It's about time anyway. I know about 100 words after 15 years. Time for more. Off to the circus..

I'll be creating a Thai bank account as a step toward a "retirement extension".

I guessed Bangkok Bank was the way to go, since they're the flagship bank of the country (intl. offices) and therefore unlikely to go bankrupt (unlike Thai Farmers a few years ago).

Access to ATMs (I mostly live in Bangkok), reasonable fees, and online banking would be pluses. As of now, I don't intend to actually *use* the account that much. It's mainly for the "retirement extension".

Hmmm. Well, maybe you're right. Anything depends on the personality of the person involved, even if they're volunteering. I'm just a bit annoyed that in this English deprived/depraved land, where the Filipinos are coming in under ASEAN and stealing the well paying English speaking positions away from Thais (eg at my Bumrungrad hospital), that the government doesn't encourage willing people who'll work for free to help their people speak better English. Talk about "taking jobs away from Thais"! 

In many other countries there are government sponsored and homegrown groups with precisely this focus: formal or informal get togethers to help each other learn another language. It's just stupid, but in xenophobic Thailand it's probably quite natural...And for all that's said and done, the Thais have a cultural bias against learning other languages. Something to do with "cultural pride".

What a crazy country. And a Thai teaching English...talk about the blind leading the blind. So much for wanting to help the country for free....

Just a retired guy in the Big City looking for a rewarding way to pass the time, perhaps 10-15 hours a week helping out with conversation and pronunciation. I'm American with degrees in Psych and Electrical Engineering and write pretty well...but I know that's not the same as "teaching pretty well".

I certainly don't expect/want to be paid. I've done some hours informally helping my Thai GH owner's daughter with her pronunciation and reading. I always make mp3 collections of words she has trouble with during the sessions so she can play them on her cell for practice.

It's absurd, and I got a full interrogation there by the immigration officer, a young woman, who went through my passport with a fine tooth comb. She wanted to know "what is your reason for being here?" "Do you have a Thai wife?" (I don't.) and a number of other hilarious questions. She was just a kid really, so it makes me wonder what kind of training they're getting, and as you noted, to what purpose? Extortion? Guard against terrorists? (I'm nearly 70 and look it, and I've been here 16 years and never even had an overstay)....

It's inconvenient, because I usually swing by Ranong for a visa run when I'm visiting friends 4 hours away in Bang Saphan. Somebody here said with Poi Pet it's the same situation. So, I guess I'll be flying up to Phenom Penh for my next run if I can't do the 800K-in-the-bank-report-inside-the-country thing in the next 3 months. I like Thailand, but it's a banana republic in many ways.

Well, thank Thaivisa for getting the story out, and what to do about these uniformed bullies.
 

3 minutes ago, baboon said:

Is this at the pier or the Andaman Club checkpoint?

Yes.

12 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

You would apply at Chaeng Wattana immigration if you are living in Bangkok.

You have to do a income affidavit to prove your SS income. Immigration will not accept anything else. Info about the affidavit is here: https://th.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/local-resources-of-u-s-citizens/notaries-public/income-affidavit/  You will need to make an appointment before going to the embassy.

Here is some math for you. Your monthly income of $1400 is equal to 49,000 baht using 35 baht to the dollar. That gives you a annual income of 588k baht. Subtract that from 800k baht and you get 212k baht that you need in the bank. It would be better to put in a little more in the bank to allow for exchange rate fluctuations. 

Thanks again. This is great stuff. You're saving me quite a bit of work and I appreciate it, being almost 70 with health issues. It good to know that I don't have to keep all of 800K in a Thai bank account and about the income affidavit requirement. I've been up to Chaeng Wattana.

I don't know where I got the idea about criminal background and health checks. Anyway, THANKS AGAIN!

2 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

You will apply for the one year extension at your local immigration office. If living in Prachuapkhirikhan province the office in Hua Hin would be where you would apply for the extension

You would only need to go to the US embassy if you wanted to prove your income for the extension application by doing a income affidavit there.

You apply for a extension of stay based upon retirement. You could say retirement extension and they would understand what you want,

I'd be doing it out of BKK since I mostly live there now, not Bang Saphan. Nice to hear that I don't have to cough up the full 800K baht, but just 800K baht minus my monthly pension of $1400/mo. (or however the math works).

I have proof of the Social Security pension, but it might be good to get a US Embassy cert. of it. I"ll get busy setting up a transfer to a Thai bank when I know the amount Immigration wants.

And thanks for the terminology when speaking to Thai Immigration.

I very much appreciate your willingness to help me out. :)