billd766

6 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

i have no use to do banking on my phone...i use the atm and actually go into the bank.....like normal adults do....

 

why ppl use a banking app in this digital world of ransomware--hacking--data breaches is beyond me.....no tnx

That is OK IF you have a branch of BKK fairly close. My nearest branch is 65km away in Kamphaeng Phet. There is another branch slightly north though still in the city on the frontage road of the route 1. Both branches are about an hours drive away.

Like you, I do not use my phone for any banking.

14 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

In other words, it's Debit Card using YOUR money. A Credit Card is where you use the BANKS money and pay it back bit by bit.

Most probably, but as it has been said many times across countless forums, T i T.

45 minutes ago, stevenl said:

I have really had it with people reacting to posters in stead of posts.

Just treat them as small petty minded children, though children usually grow up and out of silly things.

4 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

My APP never worked, along with them not allowing me to have a credit card since I get my SS transfers from the US.

AFAIR most Thai banks will issue a credit card. The drawback for farangs is that the card is tied to a bank account in the card holders name.

If you want, for example, 1 million baht credit on your card, then you need to deposit 1 million baht into that account as surety. IIRC the bank will pay the credit charges, or the minimum balance.

The account cannot be closed for 3 months, should you return the credit card, and again IIRC if attempt to go past your limit the bank will not extend your credit limit and will disallow any further transactions.

Essentially, unlike western credit cards, you are using your own money to fund it, and you have already prepaid to the limit of your credit card.

Again IIRC a credit card is an unsecured loan. In Thailand however, it is a secured loan against the money you have already paid.

I may well be wrong as I got rid of all my credit cards years ago.

36 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said:

Google is your friend. there are numerous videos on line of researchers being brought to task for false information, both in the U.S. and Australia. But hey, you believe what you want, I will follow the money trail, and believe what I want. That is our right......at the moment.

I do, and I do search the internet regularly.

I also do believe what I want to believe, which is not necessarily the same as everybody else.

I also look back to at least 8 years of logging the weather reports that I have been keeping for many years.

12 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

The pro Palestinian supporters conveniently forget this little fact, along with the rape and murder of innocent civilians on October 7th.

THAT was genocide.

Free the hostages and the fighting can stop.

Yet Israel has been murdering Palestinians and stealing their land since Israel was formed.

Do you have any idea what genocide really means?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?sca_esv=4ce04de13f7e18f6&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ADLYWIKNlrezNG7vtkXfy2RZSzMKrJdOjQ:1717774633129&q=genocide&si=ACC90nwZKElgOcNXBU934ENhMNgq8CwYfVJEvxAg4mpo5eIbiU1251R6kBBggkBHM1DdlTnWuvkzN5RS9K9P93X5GHAXWICtfvSiIEvArNLN3h_jd0fCxNI%3D&expnd=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjCgb-W6cmGAxX-3jgGHap8BDcQ2v4IegQIDxBA&biw=873&bih=348&dpr=2.2

noun
noun: genocide; plural noun: genocides
the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
"a campaign of genocide"
Similar:
racial killing massacre wholesale slaughter mass slaughter

That IS what Netanyahu, his murderous Zionist "war cabinet" and the IDF are doing in Gaza and the West Bank, and will keep on doing as long as he and his coalition parties are in power.
 

26 minutes ago, Georgealbert said:

Thanks and here is further evidence.
 

This is an example of foam, being used on a fire in Thailand. There is a foam blanket visible.

 

13.09 on the 7 July at Khru District Office Soi Pracha Uthit 86, Pracha Uthit Road, Thung Khru Subdistrict, Bangkok an electric motorcycle, Thomas EV brand, registration 4 Khor 4503 caught fire.

 

The entire vehicle was destroyed by the fire, with firefighters using foam to extinguish.The responders believe the cause of the fire was a battery problem.

 

It has been many decades since I was taught basic firefighting techniques. Nowadays with more and more EVs coming out I thought it was time for some revision. I had/have thought of buying an electric trike in the future.

I did an internet search for EV extinguishant and came up with these.

https://www.i2comply.com/health-safety/best-fire-extinguisher-for-electrical-fires/#:~:text=The most common fire extinguisher,can use on electrical fires.

The most common fire extinguisher types for electrical fires are Carbon Dioxide or Dry Powder. These will both starve a fire of oxygen without giving you an electric shock. There are also two newer extinguishers – Water Mist and Lith-Ex – which you can use on electrical fires.

Don’t confuse water mist with the traditional water fire extinguisher – which would be very dangerous to use on an electrical fire!  

https://www.viking-life.com/articles/firefighting-protection-against-electric-car-fires/#:~:text=Rosenbauer Battery Extinguisher System (BEST)

Full description
The new Rosenbauer extinguishing system for high-voltage batteries in electrically powered cars is a system for safe, efficient and rapid extinguishing in batteries based on lithium-ion technology. 

This enables direct cooling of battery modules or the battery cells inside the modules and thus fast stopping of the chemical reaction in the cells and the consequent heating. 

The system consists of three main components: an extinguishing unit and a control panel, interconnected with hoses.

The extinguishing unit is placed under the battery and, if necessary, fastened to the car with a jack or in another suitable position. The preferred position is on the underside of the car. The control panel controls the extinguishing unit’s extinguishing spear, which penetrates the battery housing at a safe distance.

There is more information in each link.

I can see that both have their advantages. 

The first will probably easier to obtain in Thailand for use at home, and the second would better for dedicated fire crews.

TBH I don't think that enough attention was given in the beginning to the serious problem of EV fires, which are small in number now, but will grow as more EVs appear on the roads in the future. 

I am using Chrome on my pc and for the last 3 days the fast up button has now moved again and neatly covers the notification button.

Now I can only see notifications if there is a number in the fast up button box.

No matter how many notifications I have as soon as I read any one of them, then return to notifications the fast up button has covered it and I can no longer read ANY notification,

Can this be fixed by moving the fast up button to somewhere else, or delete it completely, pretty please?

51 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I have yet to hear of any solutions from them that is affordable, acceptable and works.

Fair enough.

Have you heard of any solutions from the posters here that are affordable, acceptable That works?

23 hours ago, Njoku said:

Why dont you take this concern of yours up with the Hamas leadership, who have shown no regard for the population, they have allowed a war to happen because they refuse to understand the very nature of what murders and kiddnappings on the scale of Oct 7th would bring.

 

It could have been over in the first few days, hand back the hostages and hand over the killers...

 

That would equally apply to Netanyahu, his criminal Zionist war cabinet and all the generals of the IDF. 

I have not seen anywhere that the Palestinians have ever invaded Israel, stolen Israeli houses and land and formed illegal settlements.

However I do see that happen every day and have done for many years, especially now in Gaza.

South Africa is one country that has taken Israel to the International courts in the Hague and have won their case.

Israel will of course ignore that ruling as they have ignored all the others.

2 hours ago, Thingamabob said:

At 83 years old, much the same. Early morning exercise, followed by domestic tasks which I am able to tackle. Afternoons, word games/ crosswords, evenings, movies and sports on TV.

Good for you. I suspect that like me, the spirit is willing, though the flesh can't keep up as for me there are not enough hours in the day to keep up with all the things I would like to do.

11 hours ago, still kicking said:

My family member has 2 cats in a cage all day long and when they are taking out of the cage ones a day they are on a leash disgusting what Thai people do to animals 

Only slightly off the topic. Animal cruelty does not just happen in Thailand.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp33z8z12kyo

A woman who kept 191 dogs in "pitiful" conditions in Devon has been jailed.
Diana Curtis, 66, of Peters Marland, had kept the dogs in crates and cages in a remote field near Chittlehamholt and in kennels near Chulmleigh Cross, Exeter Crown Court heard.
Curtis had previously pleaded guilty to seven counts of causing unnecessary suffering to animals.
She was jailed for 25 months and handed a lifetime ban from owning animals.

There is more information in the link.

The previous woman owner should be tie up in a toilet and boiling water poured over her and the whole thing videoed. I wonder if she would find a kind loving home after that, especially if it came with a note and a copy of both videos,

3 hours ago, ElwoodP said:

Name calling posts will be removed right away (2 just gone).

Polite and informative posts are alway welcome.

 

@billd766 Nice post, thank you, I enjoyed reading that one!

Thank you.

The problem I have is that when it is a reasonable post the morons cam on and screw it up with their little posts all pretending to be serious.

1 minute ago, transam said:

So we did not carpet bomb Germany............🤣

Is carpet bombing the same as genocide?

5 minutes ago, transam said:

I have, your country did worse during 1939/45.........

Not true.

However, it is your country too.

18 hours ago, herfiehandbag said:

1) Norway was not neutral in WWII. It was invaded by Germany, defeated and occupied. The government went into exile in Britain. It maintained an active resistance organisation, and was liberated by Britain in 1945.

 

2) Being recognised by various countries, and international agencies will be of little comfort to the leaders of Hamas when Israel catches up with them.

The same will apply to Netanyahu, his murderous war cabinet and all of the top generals of the IDF.

"I was just obeying orders" is not a defence against genocide, nor has it been since the Nuremburg war trials since 1947, before Israel even existed.

20 hours ago, transam said:

Then why do members keep using the word here...........🤔

why not look up the definition of genocide on the internet and compare that definition with what Netanyahu, the Israeli "war cabinet" and the IDF are doing in Gaza, the west bank and Lebanon.

I just did and came to the conclusion (without the help of the ICC, the ICJ), that Israel is committing genocide.

7 minutes ago, Njoku said:

What about the thousands of rockets that go the other way?

And what about the thousands of Palestinian men women, children and babies slaughtered every day, communities smashed and destroyed, infrastructure destroyed, lack of food, water, sanitation, medical supplies, hospitals damaged or destroyed.

Or, as they only affect the Palestinians, doesn't that matter to you?

IMHO there will never be a deal or a cease fire whilst Netanyahu and his murderous "war" cabinet remain as politicians in Israel. There is a better chance of a peace settlement with Palestinians and without Hamas.

I doubt that the Hamas leaders will ever give up their freedom and surrender to the ICC or the ICJ. The same applies to Netanyahu, his cabinet and the leaders of the IDF.

Peace and the withdrawal of the IDF from Gaza may be achieved IF the USA, the UK and the EU stop all ALL arms deliveries to Israel, and Iran does the same with Hamas.

Again IMHO it will need a multi-national military army, navy and airforce to enforce it, but they MUST be given the powers to instantly return fire at whoever fires at them. That may work until the body bags start coming home.

48 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

It was the case some years ago, even if you had an Israeli stamp in your passport some countries would deny you entry, 

That is why when I was working I had 2 passports. 1 for muslim countries and the other for the rest of the world.

Every country in the world has the right to allow or dis-allow citizens of any other country entry, even persons with diplomatic immunity.