bluesofa

2 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

No cruise control from the wee actor then ..

It looks like you're taking the p!ss.

8 hours ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Following it up with “ Manhunt “.

Martin Clunes ( again ) in a serious role this time about a true story of a French girl killed on London’s Twickenham Green in 2004. 
3 part mini series from last year highlighting Clunes’s versatility.

I saw series 1 from 2019.  Searching for series 2, I can only find a US series of the same name.

Any clue where I might find it, and the uploader?
Hopefully it's not UKChaos, as I can't get that to d/l any more since their move many months ago.

1 hour ago, polpott said:

Large external telecomms cable is usually steel wire armoured. I always used a hacksaw to get through the bulk of the cable then finished it off with side cutters (not pliers).

I'd agree with that.

However looking at the photos, there doesn't appear to be any armouring surrounding the cable pairs inside, and the black plastic outer-sheathing.

The underground cables were usually armoured and the aerial cable had a multi-strand steel wire above the multi-pair cable, but moulded above it for support (almost like a figure-of-eight looking at it in cross-section).

6 hours ago, webfact said:

IEAT, TOT to roll out 5G technology in 14 industrial estates

I would have thought that all the companies in these industrial estates would have FTTH (Fibre to The Home) - as in all the way to the router?

The Wi-Fi from this would surely be fast enough to cover work usage.

Not quite sure how much faster 5G is than Wi-Fi using Fibre, there seems to be a lot of discussion about it.

1 minute ago, tgw said:

 

there are some easy ways to guarantee success:

- ban on driving any vehicle

- ban on fuel

- stop counting accidents and casualties

Don't forget the last one is official policy - regarding counting deaths occurring after the scene of the accident anyway.

1 minute ago, partington said:

 

No, this is clearly not the case from the original article.   The Thai vaccine will be made from genetically modified plants (if this ever actually occurs).  None of the other current vaccines use anything like this technology.

 

 The manufacturing steps for isolating injectable proteins from plant leaves have nothing in common  at all with making mRNA  ( basis of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines ) which is a chemical synthesis, or making large quantities of viruses  ( basis of Russian Sputnik and Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines) by growing huge amounts of mammalian cells in culture. 

 

The world needs as many working vaccines as possible, so all efforts are worthwhile.   However this potential plant produced vaccine has never been tested on a single human subject, and there is no indication at all that it will be successful at even raising an immune response.  They are many years from needing a factory!

'The Thai vaccine will be made from genetically modified plants'   That makes me think of the most dangerous company in the world, Monsanto (now taken over by Bayer)

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University will launch a campaign this Friday to encourage members of the public to donate in support of an ambitious project for the development and production of Thailand’s domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine, to be produced from tobacco leaves.

Why does this remind me of the story yesterday:

'Thai business woman says she was defrauded of 42 million baht by medium'

1 hour ago, Kenneth White said:

Zero is almost an unattainable number to reach. I have lived in Thailand for several years now and don't understand why just Phuket has this target and not all of Thailand. Thailand leads the world in traffic fatalities. If the Thai police would take just half the police at the check point and have them patrol the streets and truly enforce the traffic laws I think Thailand would notice a dramatic drop in traffic fatalities. 

'If the Thai police would take just half the police at the check point and have them patrol the streets'

Perhaps that might result in an increase in hit and run deaths for the police on the streets.

1 hour ago, RobertHima said:

If only they had a GT200 substance detector..

I would never suggest that a GT200 lie detector would be more useful.

3 minutes ago, Misterwhisper said:

Exactly what I thought.

 

Remember that scene from Mel Brooks' "Robin Hood - Men in Tights" where Prince John requests the sheriff to tell him the bad news "in a good way, so they won't sound so bad"? 

The very first spin doctor!

5 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Not according to this OP, but if you go to the Ph News story, yes, it says that it was the cables and not the pole which was burning.

Now unless the cooking station was made of flammable material instead of stainless steel, how could it be destroyed. 

Stainless steel melts at around 1,500C. Perhaps she was cooking some very hot food?

3 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

How would you know if he was in the court ? 

You saw through that one.

3 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

 

Hahahahahaha .. stop making a habit of those monk jokes .. hahahaha ..

There's no alm in it.

3 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

No all you'll get with Thai Airways is donuts and custard ..

End up in the pudding club?

4 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

Why did the medium cross the road .? 

To communicate with those on the other side ..

I'd have thought he'd have rented a flown Thai Airways - to get to a higher plane.

10 minutes ago, Blue Muton said:

I guess the medium can now afford to go large.

Hence: small medium at large.

38 minutes ago, mr_lob said:

One of these should be free with every vehicle purchase. 
My mate Somchai told me they work a treat to prevent accidents

I think that's due to the excessive weight prevent any speeding.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Phuket’s leading officials have set zero deaths from road accidents as the goal to be achieved during the Seven Days of Danger road-safety campaign this New Year, to be enforced from Dec 29 to Jan 4

'deaths', not accidents.
As we know, as long as you don't die at the scene it doesn't count as a road accident death. Just get them away as quickly as possible. Even death in the ambulance I don't think is counted.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Civil construction of Bang Sue Central Station, which will serve as the hub of high-speed train connecting three airports (Don Mueang, Suvarnabhumi and U-Tapao), as well as the 10 stations of the Red Line urban train route, is now 100 per cent complete.

'100 percent complete'

We just need the high-speed trains now.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Thai business woman says she was defrauded of 42 million baht by medium

Well that's rare.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Contacted via phone the medium has denied everything.

Why would a medium need to use a phone?

1 hour ago, Surelynot said:

Are monks allowed to enter other peoples body's?'

Only with a chaperone.

Thinking about it, this seems a very appropriate name. You can't deny there's some tat in this idea:

1 minute ago, Surelynot said:

4 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Here: https://tinder.com/  

Or do you already have an account?

Did have until the wife found out.

She won't be keen on TAT's new campaign then.

1 minute ago, petermik said:

We cannot...Thai only...no fat sweaty sickly smelly farangs allowed....

I'm not sickly - unless I've had more than ten beers anyway.