Strange

59 minutes ago, Lite Beer said:

My Passport stays at home.

The thought of loosing it scares the hell out of me.

I do exactly the same, but have color copies of my stuff + Thai DL. 

Im not about to hand over my passport to anyone. 

4 minutes ago, steven100 said:

Unfortunately it's the law on any importation of goods.

Same in any other country.

 

Just bad luck they chose your package.

Not in my country. Never in my life paid to import anything. Not once. 

1 minute ago, steven100 said:

Nobody here knows exactly what took place, all pure assumptions.

Actually there is a whole lot we do know. 

The only real unanswered question is who threw the first punch.

3 minutes ago, steven100 said:

I hope at 31 he's learnt a valuable lesson.

I hope at 31, he does not have permanent brain damage from 3 idiot Thais and I hope regardless that the Thais have some form of punishment but I seriously doubt it. 

2 hours ago, Crossy said:

In reality FJ should fettle his entire power arrangements, 600m is a long run at 220V, what size wire was used there one wonders.

In Surin province, after our first house was built, it had a really shitty single phase supply. We were the very last connection in a very long run. 

On a good day we had 240 volts to the house and could run everything we needed + 1 Airconditioner (Had 4 total) On a bad day we would get like 180 volts and the only things we could run would be things like the TV, Routers, Laptops, lightbulbs with filaments etc... 

The PEA wanted some astronomical money from several homeowners (750k in my case) to contribute to extending 3 phase power down through the moo baan. 

What ended up happening was, apparently the PEA can request money or funds from their head office (Korat in my case) to do this kind of thing at no cost to the user. Apparently anyone can do this. Basically petition the PEA to get stable power out to where you live. 

Dunno exactly how rural FJ is (sounds pretty darn rural) but it might be worth a shot. For us I believe it took about 9 months from start to finish. 

15 minutes ago, craigt3365 said:

Don't stretch my comment.  There is proof somebody in Russia did the hack of the DNC server.  No proof Putin did it.  But considering Wikileaks released the data, then there's proof Russia gave the data to them.  Somebody in Russia.

 

I've posted the details many times.

Maybe I should have worded it better, but it was in question form and I wasn't stretching. Its just going through these pages and some posters are stating, like its fact, that "Russia Hacked the DNC Server" in a way that clearly reads they are the ones responsible and should be retaliated against. 

When in fact, just like I have been reading, that its more likely to be a person or group of persons in Russia rather than the Kremlin it self orchestrating it all. 

4 hours ago, wayned said:

F.J.  Can't wait until you tell him about your whatchamacallit!

 

Strange:  What if he hooks his whatcamacallit to his thingy and turns the doohickey, will that work?    Had to say it!!!

Just now, Thaiwrath said:

Allegedly, for being obnoxious, yes.

So for being nothing more than obnoxious, he deserves a beatdown, traumatic brain injury, slandered in the news, on TVF, and the 3 Thais get to walk? 

Sorry man, other than you being obnoxious yourself, I don't agree. 

3 minutes ago, Chicog said:

I think you're the one doing the whinging. I'm simply offering an opinion.

After his comments about Taiwan, this was obviously a test of his response, and he's responded in the same juvenile "ner ner ne ner ner" manner as you seem to reply to posts.

No wonder you like him so much.

Like him even more based on the fact that the English hate him so much. 

OMG OMG TWEETS OMG 

22 minutes ago, Thaiwrath said:

The most likely reason for a blood clot would be his head hitting the ground.

Surely wouldn't have anything to do with the beatdown he received by 3 Thai men. 

13 minutes ago, heybruce said:

Just as Trump's habit of settling out of court does not make him innocent.

Trump wasn't secretary of state at the time with plans to run for president, again. 

1 minute ago, Chicog said:

Er... it's isn't my rulebook and they aren't my ideas.

 

It's what nations have evolved to use as a means of dealing with each other.

Is there something wrong with you?

If it isn't your rulebook, and not your ideas then whatcha wingin about? 

27 minutes ago, Morch said:

How is he tougher or wiser, with respect to Russia, then?

What you're asking for is faith. Not overly convincing.

What would you like to see? I mean Russia is a capable country on all fronts. The US is just as guilty of trolling other countries, Russia included. Remember its not like we had 50 of americas best minds to choose from here. Its was just HRC and Trump. I would prefer to see how Trump plays out rather than HRC. If a huge amount of americans see a pandering, condescending, lying, patronizing windbag when she is addressing our own country, how could she ever be taken seriously by Russia? 

Im not advocating selling out, not by a long shot, but we don't need another war by sitting here blaming Russia for all the USA's problems when largely they are our own fault and we are guilty of the same shit we are accusing Russia for. 

27 minutes ago, Chicog said:

His juvenile tweets about China keeping the stolen drone are indicative of his complete lack of understanding of international relations (not to mention his inability to spell).

As they have with previous Presidents, China has tested the water (excuse the pun) and they are laughing their tits off at his response.

Expect more from them come January, and we'll see if he has an equally asinine response.

So basically Trump isn't playing by the same rulebook as past presidents & you don't like it. 

So basically Trump isn't understanding your idea of international relations & you don't like it. 

Tough titty. 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Are police above the law?

In thailand hell yeah they are. 

9 minutes ago, farmerjo said:

Yes it's single phase but i run it 600 metres from the meter install to the house.

The pump will be 100 metres further on from the house and will run for about 6 hours at a time while other appliances are being used in the house.

Yes it's a glorified extension cable and  i would like to know which would perform better,thru the dial thingy or straight out of the mains.

Sorry,i'm a fitter not a sparky so my terminology is not good. 

No worries. 

I think the end of the day, the wiring to your original bore pump dial thingy may be too small to piggy back another 14A pump off that circuit. I think its also very likely that the new 14A pump will probably pop the breaker for that circuit too. 

Do you know what size the wire is going from your house, to your bore pump dial thingy? What size breaker is the bore pump using? Do you know what the current bore pump amperage draw is?

19 minutes ago, CLW said:

I re-read the two news articles, they are already naming the different injuries. So it could be possible that there is something lost in translation. Both injuries are categorised under Traumatic brain injury.
So just hypothetically speaking, he was hit and because of his drunk state, he got unconscious and fell down on his head.
But all speculations, better wait until he can make a statement or the CCTV footage emerges

Think about what you are saying. Walk it through in your head. 

How, the shit, do you fall down so hard that you give yourself a traumatic brain injury? 

What is far more likely, and completely reported in the news and undisputed even by the media, is that 3 Thai males beat on the poor guy to the point of brain injury because allegedly, as reported by the 3 thai males themselves, he threw the first punch. 

Geez man that sounds like every cop-out I ever heard. 

"I just hit him a little bit!!" "He fell and hit his head!!"" "Its not my fault!!"

This is your pump and the specs:

WCM 1505S

http://itec.co.th/imageupload/39140/Mitsubishi/WCM catalog_2.pdf

4 minutes ago, farmerjo said:

Sorry will have another go,the silver box in the 1st picture has the dial,it was required to start the bore pump as my power supply is not the best.(will take a picture of the front with dial and guage tomorrow) 

I was thinking if i got the power from there it may be more consistent than from the main lines during operation of the pump.

The 2nd pic is what i will set up next to the pump and plug into.

What kind of power supply do you have? Single Phase or 3 Phase? Some kind of generator unit supplying power? 

Just trying to wrap my head around the need for the dial thing & what it does.  Maybe Crossy or the other guys know why but its kind of a curveball for me. 

So basically you want to use the second pic plastic box thingy as like a glorified extension cable to run your 14 amp centrifugal pump from? And you want to know if it would be better to tap into the dial thingy or mains power?

3 minutes ago, Thaiwrath said:

 

You are all about speculation, better if you pipe down. 

I will continue to say whatever I want and ur just gonna have to deal with it. 

Its mind boggling to me that people would take the word of three 20-something year old thai men that gang beat a tourist and severely hospitalized him. 

They are the absolute last people that should be listened to let alone be the quotes used in the media. 

Besides there were THREE of them and they beat the everliving hell out of the guy. 

33 minutes ago, farmerjo said:

I have a box thingy wired up to the bore pump which when you turn the dial to 4 or so it gives enough power to start the bore pump.

I don't understand this part. Whats the dial do? Is the box thingy the thing you pictured with the knife switch, breaker, and plug? Cause I don't see a dial in there. 

Can you be more descriptive in what you are looking to achieve? Dont really understand what your after. 

Just now, Thaiwrath said:

Have you any evidence that his story was wrong ?

The real question, considering our location, is do you have any evidence, other than what the "Security Turds" say?

Just now, CLW said:

I believe the facts from the both newspaper articles.
Nothing more or less.
Surprisingly Mr German obviously didn't say anything to the police, which is more likely he has something to hide

Lmao

Sheep. 

1 hour ago, craigt3365 said:

There is proof positive.  Russia hacked the DNC server.  But potentially not the election.  Just emails.

So there is proof that Putin, Russia, etc. themselves are directly responsible for the DNC hack & releasing the emails via Wikileaks? 

Not denying involvement in some form or another, but directly responsible? Orchestrated it all? 

11 minutes ago, stubuzz said:

Why are you impressed? They added water and weakened the mix and were poorly equipped and had to use your tools.

Witch, in all fairness, is pretty normal for Thailand & hardly anything to lose sleep over or get stressed about. 

Been a couple months since I looked into this. 

Curious to know what you guys are doing currently to get around Netflix US restrictions here in Thailand. 

I have a Macbook laptop. My router is not DDWRT. I have a Minix Box Android Box. 

Before the nexflix crackdown I was using my PS4 to watch netflix as I could get full HD where as my Android Box was only SD. Apparently its still the same. Netflix isn't compatible in full HD on the Android Boxes. 

So how are you guys doing it, if at all? Whats your system for working around the restrictions?