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We are leaving LOS for 3 months. The question is what to do with the car. It is a Navara 4WD diesel from 2009. One mechanic in the shop said to put it on blocks, the other one said blocks not necessary.

Any comments, even advice please?

Safety is no issue, we can leave the car close to the house of the in laws. They could start the engine now and then but no driver's licence.

Thanks

You have two options.

A: You make a recording of their party. Hire one of these walls of sound Thai people use at every occasion, when somebody gets married or dies, goes into the wat ow wants to dry her hair.

Play the sound of the party from 05:30 in the morning. Make sure they can hear it in Chiang Mai. You could even take a week off and have a clock installed to stop it at 24:00.

B: You move to a small romantic rural village in Isaan, like the one where I live. The last three weeks we had several funerals, three weddings and two persons joined the wat (on seperate occasions mind you). They start the walls of sound at around 05:30 when your neighbor is still snoring I guess, fifteen minutes after the wats bell. To avoid moments of silence, during the day, at least 15 cars pass, selling garlic, brooms, soy sauce, matrresses. They all try to kill the competition with portable walls of sound on their pick ups.

The village dogs are the only resistance. From the moment one of these sound pick ups turns into the village, they start howling untill peace returns in their sector.

Since a few weeks, a new type of sound pick ups have turned up. They shout numbers to help me learn the Thai numbers. So I shouted back: Loo lew. "I know alreay" My wife thought thas was rude because we have elections soon and I should not shout at the local politicians before they have distributed the money. Thai culture you know.

I hope this helps: Thai people drink, because at night they are afraid of the spirits. Noise will chase the spirits away. Unfortunately drinking attract the spirits who are keen on cheap Thai liquor. Understanding this riddle might be the beginning of a solution.

Tragic.

They all learn from their surroundings and the media (movies, news...).

Rightm but some kill and others don't

we live in Sa Kaeo. We have an internet connection from TT&T. A bit slow, but not bad. Since a few days, Yahoo Uk stops now and then. At the moment no Yahoo, all the rest works as usual.

Anybody else in this area has similar problems? Thanks

I have been watching this storm steadily creep West/N.W. the last couple days in Google Earth. It looks like it is about here.........:jap:

And not a thing heard from thr Green Loonies and climate change yobbo's who 6 months ago were bemoaning Thailand's droughts

But how nice, we hear from you!

Droughts and rainfall are getting more intense, not only six months ago.

A card that allows you to take 200.000 THB? I think I can take max 50.000 a week. If I need more, reset the maximum for an hour os so.

Several posters claim there MUST be more to this? Why? To satisfy your greed for sensation?

In Belgium a teacher was accused by three 12 year old girls. He and his family went through a hel_l for one and a half year. The usual anonymous crowd of cowards threatened with the stake and castration. The girls did not keep their mouth shut and it came out that they had tried to punish the men because he gave them bad marks. He had lost his job and had moved to another town.

I hope this Australian teacher is innocent. That would mean less damage to the 4-year old boy. If somebody made the boy tell lies, he/she must stand trial.

If the teacher is proven to be guilty, he must be punished as the law speaks. But most of all, the boy must given lots of love and some therapy.

Try asda (supermarket) travel. Seems Air India is a good choice and great service.

Please do not combine things like Air India and good and service. I have problems with my ulcer and with my blood pressure.

Google:

Thailand "Reservoir Induced Seismicity"

During the rainy season, the land around our house is getting lower every year. The water falls from the roof (about 5,5m) and washes the soil away. In the dry season, everybody is trying to find some cheap landfill to restore the original level of the land. I have offered the in-laws to install a water collecting system (about 200m2 of roof). Their usual answer is: "we have 3 big "ong" (giant jars) and that is enough for us to drink untill the next rain." How can I oppose this wisdom?

6000 guns + ammo. Stolen in one go, or lost and petered away over a period of 20 years?

If stolen in one time, we must be talking about 200 to 300 m3? Correct? That is 4 or 5 big seacontainers!

I can imagine a soldier taking 20 liters of diesel every week, but 4 containers?

Does the Thai army use the explosive sniffers at the exit of the barracks?

Since several days

no internet or very very very sloooow

customer service by telephone: cannot connect most of the time, when connect, after "for english plee pe nigh", I press nine and somebody starts talking a tsunami of Thai

sometimes they try to convince me or my wife to upgrade to a new service, specially for "inter channel", according to the lady, this means an international connection. I have tried to explain that their credibility is rather low, seen the quality of their actual service.

I do not have the impression, that in their eyes, this is a valid argument.

from the BBC site

"True Story of the Bridge on the river Kwai.

........ In the hope that one day the true story would be told, Lieutenant Colonel Philip Toosey, the commander of the Bridge Camp, left behind nearly 50 hours of taped memoirs recounting his experiences during captivity. Using these tapes, eyewitness accounts of those who built the real bridge, and an astonishing correspondence with Colonel Toosey kept with his Japanese captor after the war, this film uncovers a story even more remarkable than the legend created by the film. In reality, Toosey saved most of his men by working on the bridge, and was viewed as a hero by them. Even his captor respected him, and credited him with later saving his life after World War II. "

Next time you go to the pass, look at the memorial plaque there. It lists fallen officers and soldiers from different countries. I do not remember the exact details, but it struck me that there was a big difference in the ratio officers/ soldiers for individual countries. I remember that the ratio was highest for the Dutch. This was due to the fact that many of the Dutch soldiers came from Indonesia and had some experience with life in the jungle.

Most sll bikes have a small radius. Driving around in Sa Kaeo, there is often no way I can go to a regular gas station, there are none. In every small village a few shops have a few bottles, usually 91 daeng. They up the price to 40 THB.

See: OANDA Historical Exchange Rates GBP vs THB 1997 365 days

typical cash rate

avg (365 days) 53,20485

high 83.35496 231297

low 39.50960 170697

It seems to be very difficult to male a good poll.

Now we have only two answers possible

spray + tissue

tissue only

could someone ( I do not have my toolbox here) please add:

use sliced bread

spray only, then run around the bathroom backwards three times

thanks, that will be an enormous relief.

This fred is a load of crap

Who's Fred??????

Don't you know Fred? Fred the Thread!

A very large microwave oven might work quite well on woodworm too!

Next month, I am buying a deep freezer. I have thought about using it for woodworm as well.

One of the first pieces of furniture I made here in Thailand was a small rack to hang in the bathroom. It is now about two years old. Going to the loo at night, I heard a gnawing sound. In the morning, I checked with a stethoscope. It sounded like a small bulldozer.

I had to leave my car for a few days in the sun, because the neighbors are building a wall. I put the rack on the dashboard, together with a digital thermometer I could rea from the outside. Max. temp. reached: 69.9 C! (An idea to make hot water?) Now, four days later: deadly silence in my bathroom rack.

I hope somebody can use the same method. No thanks.

We have the 4MB internet connection from TT&T at 631.30 THB/month. Usually the quality is very good, but every few weeks it goes down drastically. After a few days, my wife gives them a call, they go to the routine of checking the speed from their own side and "Nothing is wrong". Usually, a few minutes (or a day) after the call, the quality goes up again. I have taught my wife to be a little bit more self-confident on the phone and e.g. ask for a refund. If necessary, she will call several times.

The last two or three times, they have a new dish on the menu. If we pay more, we will get a better international connection. So far, not clear what this is going to cost.

Now I am writing them a letter, telling I am apalled at the way they try to push us in a more expensive price range whereas we would be fine according to them when we started. My idea is that I will pay more, but get the same quality with intermittent drops problems.

Does somebody have experience with this? Is a guarantee possible? Or TIT?

Thanks

Yesterday (230210), most of the day, very slow Internet. Not seen Thai police message. In the evening suddenly everything OK. This morning same slow. I can go to the home pages of a site, e.g. Thaivisa, but as soon as I go into the page of a certain topic, everything freezes. Closed down PC, restarted and saw 5 Windows updates. After the updates, everything fine.

Always rent from a serious company. I have very good experience with North Wheels and Avis at CM. In Khon Kaen I used Thai-car-rent.

Never rent from a small shop, sometimes they use stolen cars, and hardly ever have real insurance. For rental companies, a special, expensive, insurance is needed. The shop will tell you they have insurance, like every car in Thailand, but usually they do not have the insurance they need.

It is possible that if they do not have the legal insurance for rental agencies, threatening with legal action might help, but I would not advise that.

Pay quickly (you might try to bring the price a bit down) and make sure that this story has definitely come to an end. Some rental agencies can and will charge you the day price untill the car is back on the road. You have signed that in the contract, but you probably did not read it. Ask for a decent receipt that brings the story to a final conclusion.

Every time I rent a car, I take a few pictures of the car.

Many times I have wondered, what hospital will I go to if something serious happens to me in Thailand. I always thought I would go to a private clinic. They look better, cleaner and more sophisticated.

My wife is a registered Thai nurse. During a small trip she got food poisoning. In the middle of the night she called an ambulance. I followed the ambulance with our car. During the trip she was feeling very bad. The co driver heard she was a nurse in government service and decided to bring her to a private hospital (not logical, but there was nothing we could do).

The doctor gave a prescription for antibiotics and a few other medicines. A nurse came to tell us that if we wanted to stay the rest of the night, the bill would be around 13.000 THB. Suddenly, the doctor reappeared and told that since "you are a nurse, I will take the antibiotics off the prescription..." He saw that as a kind of discount...

When a nurse gave my wife an injection, we both saw her make a serious mistake in the procedure.

So far for this private hospital. I know that government hospitals are from from ideal, but I feel this private hospital was a little bit too money-orientated.

Ya catholic priests are much worse! Good point!

But yes, being a monk is supposed to mean you are a better human.

If I am correct, being a monk is about improving yourselve, not trying to be better than others.

Many soi dogs are sick. They have skin diseases, parasites, bowel problems etc. If Thai like to have the dogs in their soi, that is fine with me. But a little bit of responsability would imply that one takes care of the most prevalent diseases. One of the most common forms of contamination of rabies in Thailand is from puppies to children.

I have seen a a beautiful retriever with a broken leg (open wound) near the veterinarian faculty in Khon Kaen. My wife gave them a call and asked if they could not provide some help for wounded street dogs, after all it might be some good practice for the students. Not possible of course. Two weeks later, the full faculty was out in full force at a dog show, giving free advice to poodle owners and selling heaps of very special and very expensive dog food.

Many dogs live in teh wats. Actually, Thai people go to a wat if they want to have a puppy. Some wats take good care of the dogs and in my experience (one exception) dogs at a wat are not aggressive.