paddypower

On 2/10/2025 at 10:30 AM, Ben Zioner said:

Netscape? Wasn't that an Internet browser of the sixties.

 

As regards your question, I'd say "it depends". ISP could be throttling certain kind of traffic so the VPN could improve things, but if the problem is cause by your TV the VPN won't change a thing. But using a Roku device would work miracles.

Netscape 🙂 yeah, I need to do a memory wipe.

14 hours ago, frank83628 said:

Who hasnt seen it, the clip is decades old, why has it gone nowhere is all this time?

Try again screetchy sore loser🤡

you are (deliberately) missing the point, a very MAGA disease.  the age of the vid. is not important. all it shows is that Trump was (and still is) a lecher . I'm also in favor of the Epstein client list being published. the reason ( to quote Trump's words)  'too many powerful people would get hurt'.  you're a denialist.

30 minutes ago, jayboy said:

 

Agreed but if Israel is always picked out - when other far worse abuses by other countries are ignored - one suspects antisemitism is at work.Also many antisemites use the cover of criticism of Israel to disguise their prejudice.

''  Agreed but if Israel is always picked out - when other far worse abuses by other countries are ignored'' . nobody except my MAGA friends) support Russia's invasions of neighboring countries. whats your opinion on that situation?  Criticism of Israel is NOT antisemitism.  this is a worn out misrepresentation. The Jews amongst my friends are 99% against the way Israeli has been ' bombing the $~## out of civilians. what Hamas did and does is indefensible.  if you read today's news you will find that Israel is rubbing its hands in glee at the prospect of grabbing even more land, despite international law. FYI: Israel is a country. Judaism is a world wide religion, as much based on the teaching of other religions such as Islam and Christianity. The majority of countries in the world support the concept of a 2 state solution.  

On 2/7/2025 at 7:48 AM, rick44 said:

As a mental exercise, try replacing the term “Isreali nationals” in this article with say… Americans! Do you condemn all Americans because of the actions of a small group of people?

 

This article proffers only the view points of the hospital staff. We haven’t heard the rebuttal from the Israelis.

 

Normally, a balanced news article should have the story from both sides .

oh ! you mean like Israeli military? no international news teams allowed into Gaza. the alternative being to get shot ? 

On 2/9/2025 at 7:30 AM, Mr Meeseeks said:

Arrest, detain, deport.

 

Get rid of the undesirables without ceremony. 

 

The Thais have a brilliant immigration system.

 

How I hope and pray the UK follows the same model with additional remigration for those that do not belong there.

'The Thais have a brilliant immigration system.' not if you're here legally . Thailand must be one of the few countries in the world where your experiences when visiting your local Immigration office depend on the mood of the IO you are dealing with. we used to deal with this guy,who, sometimes you'd think he was so into cross-dressing that he was having his period.

On 2/8/2025 at 7:04 PM, Ben Zioner said:

Isn't that obvious to you? He wants to access content that isn't available in Thailand.

Yes and No. I turn on my vpn on my tablet when i want to download tv shows.

next (this is my age showing 😉 ) - if i turn off my vpn, does that have any impact on my problem with my netscape viewing on my android tv ?

3 minutes ago, frank83628 said:

I'd prefer the release the whole Epstein client list... then we'd see where Trump is compared to the rest 

You have seen this, then. ? 

.  Trump will never escape the moniker ' The only President of the US found guilty of what is defined in NY State as 'rape'.

7 hours ago, placeholder said:

Believing in the Big Lie much?

"The BBC, for example, was said to have received approximately $3.2 million (2.6 million pounds) during the 2023-2024 financial year. But that money didn’t go to its news operation. It went to BBC Media Action, an international charity that is “part of the BBC family,” but editorially and financially separate from BBC News, the charity said in a statement. It accounted for about 8% of BBC Media Action’s budget that year."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/claims-usaid-funding-spreading-online-205600612.html

 

 

"USAspending.gov can correctly filter specific payments to The New York Times which shows that over the last five years, government agencies spent about $1.6 million, almost entirely on subscriptions. Other payments include ads, legal notices and delivery charges.

Over the past 17 years, the period Cheong searched under, total spending came to $3.1 million.

The New York Times' managing director of external communications, Charlie Stadtlander, told Newsweek: "It was surprising to see social media attention on the fact that a small number of government offices, libraries and courts purchase subscriptions to The New York Times and other media outlets."

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-us-government-did-not-give-new-york-times-tens-millions-2027981

the only way to stop all this slagging of USAID by the MAGA is to post that video of Trump entertaining Epstein and a truck load of what appears to be coked-up, high-as-kites ladies.

On 2/6/2025 at 2:14 PM, placeholder said:

My position is that it's irrelevant whether the increase is due to increased diagnoses or an actual increase in occurrence. What is relevant is that massive studies have shown no correlation between autism and vaccination s.

absolutely. everything is being studied to death today, vv yesteryear. and, also any aberrations which come up in the newer studies are being seized on and extrapolated, as justification for any pet conspiracy which is being promoted today. my wife takes wafarin, to ensure no blood clotting after several replacement surgeries. Yet, countless people will tell you that wafarin is rat poison. and don't start me diving down the rabbit hole, where  wine is good/ wine is bad/ wine is good (maybe...)

Just now, paddypower said:

 

no wonder my knowledge about this topic is out-of-date. (and  i thought village life is slow, 555)  i still can't figure if my vpn makes a difference 🙂 

postscript: i am using the native Netflix app. - and only on my tv.  and no I have not tried to update it. I will have to research how to do that. thanks.

23 hours ago, Centigrade32 said:

 

It's from 2018, so seven years old. Are you using the native Netflix application on the TV? Have you ever updated it via Google Play or anywhere else?

23 hours ago, Centigrade32 said:

 

It's from 2018, so seven years old. Are you using the native Netflix application on the TV? Have you ever updated it via Google Play or anywhere else?

no wonder my knowledge about this topic is out-of-date. (and  i thought village life is slow, 555)  i still can't figure if my vpn makes a difference 🙂 

1 hour ago, baansgr said:

Yep, right onto his 3rd term 👍 

remind me to go back and finish watching that movie 'Civil War' which i thought was hopelessly silly

4 hours ago, WDSmart said:

Actually, "most" voting US citizens did not vote for Trump. He only got 49.7%, so "most" of the voting US citizens voted for someone else. Harris got 48.2%, so she only lost the popular vote by 1.5%.
2024 Presidential General Election Results

 

a convenient 'fact' ignored by the maga cult. not that i would want to see word salad Harris as POTUS,

On 2/5/2025 at 10:32 AM, KhunLA said:

No sh!t 

 

We did buy 2 lots of land last year, and instant profit of about 40%, if we sold right away.   Also decided to stop bringing my pension in, via ATM, as it earns 4.99% (?), sitting in USA.  Figure if I crap out, wife can have brother transfer instantly out of my account to his (since we use same broker), then send to her.

 

Was a nice experiment last year, living on my pittance of a pension, and not touching my Soc Sec.   Anything better than the 1 ish % they give us here @ BBL. 🙄

 

On topic ... as always ... hopefully the doomsayers will be accurate, and tariffs will jack up inflation, and the lower exchange rate, if continues, will be off set by a nice COLA.

 

Saw a YT short yesterday, and didn't realize, prior to WW I & II, most govt spending, the whole damn budget almost, was financed by tariffs on imports.  WTF

 

How did it all turn the opposite so fast ?   Thieving bastards 🥵

 

'We did buy 2 lots of land last year, and instant profit of about 40%, if we sold right away.'  don't be naive - wifey has tucked those land titles away fur..every.  Go ahead, test my theory - try to get her okay to sell the land to a non-relative. 

23 minutes ago, superal said:

I don't have Netflix but if I have my Surfshark VPN on , my speed test drops from 380 Mbps download to 40 Mbps . I am in contact with S/S at the moment and they are trying to rectify it . My contract ends in 1 month and I may change the VPN to Nord .

Do you regularly clear your cache and turn off your router for 30 minutes ? Does your router get hot ?

My speed tests are always low at the week ends and evenings , popular times for surfing .  You may be paying for 1 Gbps but your ISP will state that in busier times you will not get that . You may get up to 1 Gbps ( best case scenario ) .

The mysteries of the internet . I get buffering often on Wizz TV but others not far away do not and same ISP . It seems that Thai internet techs have limited skills up here in Issan . YouTube never a problem because they have many quality servers globally .

interesting. thanks. waiting for some other responses re: Netflix subscribers. i think it might be my tv, b/c my neighbours have 2 tvs and watch different Netflix shows simultaneously. no buffering, same ISP.

10 minutes ago, Andycoops said:

As far as I know 0800 numbers are only available in the UK, not internationally.

 

For example my bank has a 0800 number as do other companies agencies I deal with but they all provide a international number for overseas callers, alongside the UK 0800 free number.

hmm... my problem which I need advice on - is NewYork Times just scam-billed me for the next year's subscription, even though i cancelled in December. their subscription service says -'for Asia Pacific call this number in OZ - except the number is not functioning. the alternative is to call the 1-800 number in the US. someone here suggested using Skype. can you use Skype to do that?

On 12/6/2024 at 10:04 AM, superal said:

Can anyone explain why it is that YouTube videos play in a high resolution and never buffer but every IPTV service that I have tried all buffer ?

i can't answer that. But i have 2 related questions. i have TOT's 1Gbps down/500 Mb up package. #1: on my Android smart Sony TV, there is no buffering on YouTube. But, just recently, Netflix buffers all the time. #2: speed testing on my tablet, i get 650 down, 450 up, (with my Proton VPN turned on). I have read many posts on different threads and still have the question, does having your VPN 'on' affect the incoming signal from Netflix.  ?

tia

On 1/29/2025 at 9:40 AM, Guderian said:

 

I did it 3 weeks ago and there's a sign up where they issue the queue numbers saying that the process takes one hour. The lady said the same to me when she handed me the ticket, come back in one hour. The place was really busy so I went for a drive and had a bite to eat in Burger King, then went back just a bit over an hour later. The wretched place was even more packed now, as not only had a continuous stream of TM47 and TM30 customers arrived, but all the people who had been told to come back in an hour had returned. A woman shouts out ticket numbers randomly and it was another 25 minutes before my number was announced. All in all, from the time I arrived at Immigration until I got my passport back it was almost exactly 2 hours. A huge waste of time for something that's so utterly pointless.

Oh, and don't forget that a copy of your TM30 slip is listed as a requirement on their 'what to bring' sign. Why? They don't even ask for that when you do the annual visa extension, which is surely a lot more important than the stupid 90-day report. There are times I almost hope that they start playing hardball over taxes so they can drive me out of the country and I'll never have to put up with this particular aspect of Thai bureaucratic idiocy again!

count your blessings - you have a Burger King 🙂 is online 90 day not working ?

19 hours ago, Centigrade32 said:

 

Which model of SONY Bravia? Sounds like a TV issue. How is Netflix on your PC or Smartphone? NetFlix 4k? 1080p? 480p?

tks for spellck. 😉 SONY MODEL KD43X 7500F. unsure about netflix on my mobile, never use it there. (actually tv is not 'newish', probably 3-4 years old)

On 12/23/2024 at 4:10 PM, KannikaP said:

So which ISP are you using? And IPTV for International sports?

I can use my Zoo IPTV on my phone via my DTAC SIM card faultlessly, but like the security of a good router and LAN connectivity for my PCs. NORD works and is within my budget.

hopefully this is on topic - i use TOT/NT. I was getting buffering (throttling?) on my newish TV (Sony Bavaria) - only when i am watching Netflix. Service guys came, did a speed test. replaced my ISP receiver with a new one. download speed increased from 250 to 650 Mps. it did not fix the problem. any suggestions. my TOT package is 1Gbs/500Mbs fibre.  other TOT users in my village with a lower download package report no problem with Netscape. viewing. with an increased sub fee coming - i am seriously thinking of dumping Netflix and relying 100% on streaming

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Dear Folks,

 

Am I wrong or is the New American Suffragette even more insufferable than at any time in American history?

 

Why is this?

Why I say….!!!!

 

Also, the new American female news “reporter”:

 

Why do they HOUND us, instead of trying to just be HUMAN, and engage in meaningful social intercourse, for a change?

(This is what happens when a perfectly nice Chinese girl from XiaMen moves to the USA at age 2. She turns into a hound, seemingly. In China, she would have grown and become a REAL woman, instead.  But, in the USA, after growing up there, she turned into THIS!!!!)

 

Yes, the new American female seems to HOUND instead of REPORT.

 

Especially in recent news conferences with my friend Trump, they don’t even wait for an answer. Instead, they just Talk, Talk, TALK, instead of listen.  Don’t they even want an answer to their questions?  Seems that they do not.

 

This is why I don’t want no American Woman in my life.

 

Maybe what Trump and others, and even we, need is some sort of GONG we can use when interacting with them?...just to stop them from foaming at the mouth, or something. 

Strident is not the word for it.

What we need is a NEW word to describe the new American Woman.

Not sure what it might be…

But, this phenomenon is not limited to just female American reporters, as you probably already know. 

 

Some new word we can add to our lexicon, is what we need.

 

Thank goodness I moved to Asia over 45 years ago.

 

And now, at least to me, the difference between the American Woman of the 1970s and the 2020s is like Night and Day.

 

Where will this all end?

Will these girls begin to just….

Explode on camera when they finally blow a gasket?

Blow a gasket?

That’s a phrase I will not soon forget.

 

How do you guys who still live part-time in the USA tolerate this?

Same in the UK?

 

Bewildered, and, girls, PLEASE….

Keep your voices down,

Gamma

 

Note:  American Woman, stay away from me, please…

Stay away, please.....!!!

 

 

one of Canada's best

1 hour ago, bkk6060 said:

Yes, 100% correct they are mostly so annoying and want to be in control.

And gigantic, 6 feet tall is not unusual with gigantic bodies.  No appeal whatsoever big mouths, big bodies.   And, they mostly don't care any sexual interaction it is just a big chore and they want you to hurry up.  Not worth even trying.

Fortunately as it is changing here, but you can still find a decent woman.  Asia is the beat place to be.

more to love. 555 as for 'hurrying you up', for a lot of men its the opposite - they're not named Fast Draw McGraw for nothing

 my Line app deleted access for the past 12 months chat messages (back and forward), between me and a friend. i did not select to back up into my Google storage. So i cannot restore from that source. the only unusual actions i took in the past week are: (i) i changed my google address in my profile from Thailand to Canada, as i was getting p/o'd with Google constantly opening a new search screen in Thai language and (ii) i set up a Line contact in my own name (to save 2 photos/docs I received from the same friend) . any advice  please? tia

opening a new thread - (just for info) my Line app deleted access for the past 12 months chat messages (back and forward), between me and a friend. i did not select to back up into my Google storage.  see my new topic on this, tks.