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On 9/17/2023 at 11:15 AM, Rimmer said:

I fitted a new 6mm tinted glass sheet over an existing sliding window to cut down occasional music noise, cost around B2500 It has cut noise by probably 75%.  They made a very neat job of it.

 

Not sure if you can do that over a sliding door though and the cost might be quite high.

Interesting. Did you fit the plastic sheet to the inside or outside? 

Did you get it from a popular hardware chain?

2 hours ago, doctormann said:

I believe that there is also a tax treaty between UK and Thailand.

Being an ex civil servant, my state and civil service pensions are taxed in UK at source. The government grabs it before the residue is paid to me. I assume this would make me exempt here, but who knows. It remains to be seen if I remain here or am forced to return to the dreaded land of my birth.

About time too.

On 9/13/2023 at 5:33 PM, Siamic said:

Is there an expert specialist on hemiplegic migraines anywhere in Thailand?

Thanks!

I don't know if it would work for you, but I used to have a migraine attack about once a week. Just the coloured lights, very rarely a headache. I lived with it until I had an attack whilst driving on the motorway, when I was virtually blind on my left-hand side. A friend recommended daily Cardiprin tablets which contain 100mg Aspirin. Since I started taking them, a couple of years ago, I can count the number of attacks on one hand. The result has been nothing short of miraculous. Not for people who bleed easily.

Surprised? Not even slightly. Best just to keep your head down and hope that the locals eventually sort this corruption in high places.

I did my Nth marriage extension at Jomtien last month and the one-month confirmation from Bangkok was due yesterday (Sunday). I've been checking the new app which I was given, but the message hasn't changed from when I first downloaded it. I figured that since I'm on one day overstay as far as my visa stamp is concerned, that I'd visit Jomtien this afternoon to check. The lady IO didn't check the tray and sharply told me that if it didn't appear on the app (which I don't have much faith in) then they hadn't received the confirmation. This will be the first of many confirmations that hasn't been on time. Grateful to know if anyone has used this app successfully recently and did the confirmation arrive by the due date?

1 hour ago, Gsxrnz said:

This is Thailand. I can see the Sub eventually being powered by a string of Honda PCX150 motors. 

How about a big strong elastic band?!

I think it's all to do with religion. If you believe in a supernatural being then it follows that you must believe in ghosts. After all, what else is a supernatural being? It follows that the stronger the belief in religion, the firmer the belief in ghosts. 

On 9/5/2023 at 5:09 PM, Crossy said:

Recently my Chrome browser (3 different machines) has decided not to remember my Lazada username.

 

Password remembered OK once I've typed my email address.

 

Since I use a gmail address the "log in using Google" works ok, but it's still more clicks.

 

Lazada really, really want us to use their App. I really, really don't want too!

 

Just me??

I had the same a couple of days ago, wouldn't log me in on chrome username and P/W. Tried my gmail details and that worked ok. Went back to Chrome login but entered phone number instead of email and it worked ok. Also use Shopee so no real problems.

5 hours ago, foreverlomsak said:

I assume from your amazement that you don't visit Immigration, the modes of dress are often weird and wonderful, which is why Immigration Jomtien at one time issued a dress code, don't know if it's still valid. Will admit that I tend to wear more formal attire (long pants/trousers and polo shirt) when I visit Immigration.

I once saw a guy that I knew get turfed away from Jomtien for wearing a "wifebeater" vest. He was a body building type and liked to show off his muscles. He cam back 15 minutes later in a white shirt which he bought up on Beach Rd. Don't know if they still have the same policy, but I too always wear longs and a smart shirt with collar. Doesn't hurt to do it once a year to get something from them that they have and I really want.

On 9/2/2023 at 6:01 PM, GammaGlobulin said:

I LOVE Chanting.

 

Don't you?

 

Especially when the chanting is AMPLIFIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Of course, what I REALLY Like is...,

GREAT CHANTING, and,

That is about the ONLY Kind of Chanting I really prefer.

 

What about you?

 

In addition to the chanting, what other advantages do you enjoy by living next to a 

TEMPLE!

 

 

I have been listening to Gregorian Chants for decades.

I can really get into the good stuff.

 

 

I just wish they could add a few more LOUDspeakers at my temple, because...

 

THAT is what's really needed around here.

 

Spacing out, and,

As Usual,

Gamma

 

This is an OLDIE but a GOODIE,

I guess.

 

Normally, I don't ever listen to the old stuff, but, for historical purposes, I found this interesting.

 

 

I live very close to a temple and I can say that the only advantage is that it isn't too far to cart me when it's my turn to be sent up the chimney. I can't hear the chanting, which I wouldn't mind listening to, it's the high-powered hi-fi blasting out bass-heavy pop music that drives me mad every time there's a wedding , or some youth turns up for monk duty. Not to mention the dozens of vicious dogs which inhabit the place, which bark all night and are very threatening if you attempt to walk to the village. A place of peace and serenity it is not.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

British Man Badly Bashed Up After Chatting Up A Girl
by TNR Staff 

 

The two Thai men who badly beat up a British man being arrested by police. Photos: Amarin TV

 

A BRITISH man was severely bashed up by two Thai youths in Chonburi province at dawn today (Sep. 3) after he chatted up a girl in a shop there, Amarin TV said.

 

The unidentified British man ended up with a swollen head, a broken nose and three teeth knocked out. He is now under close medical supervision as he has suffered cerebral haemorrhage.

 

A Pattaya police station team investigated the attack in Nong Prue subdistrict, Bang Lamung district, with a surveillance camera clip showing two Thai men attacking the Briton while one of the attacker’s girlfriend and her friend tried to stop them. Afterwards they hopped on their motorcycles and rode to a nearby apartment building.

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2023/09/03/british-man-badly-bashed-up-after-chatting-up-a-girl/

 

-- THAI NEWSROOM 2023-09-04

 

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Only two onto one?! 

"He is now under close medical supervision as he has suffered cerebral haemorrhage."

For the Thai apologists, this guy didn't just get a thump for his cheek, he was beaten very severely and could have died.

On 8/29/2023 at 4:59 PM, brianthainess said:

Kamagra as said on soi buak  are 100mg tabs, my ''friend'' says he only takes max 1/2 a tab and he is 70, you may need too stand on your head to take a pee though 

A quarter tab should be sufficient. Was for me anyway until my late 60s. Any more and it was like having a third leg. Buy a pill cutter to make chopping them up easier.

Your byline takes me back to my second day in Pattaya, when I woke early morning in Pattaya slouched across an outside table. Fortunately, my wallet seemed to be intact and I managed to get a motorbike taxi to take me to my hotel. Good job I remembered its name because I couldn't have directed him. It seemed to be an awfully long way way though. After sixteen years of living here, I still have no idea of where I ended up.

8 hours ago, Mike Teavee said:

I've been to Bang Saen many times & don't recall seeing any bar areas though granted I was only going for a beach break from Bangkok

 

Are you sure you're not mixing it up with Ban Chang which does have an old school bar area & is somewhere that regular crawls from Pattaya are run to.  

Yes, recommend Ban Chang, especially it's afternoon bar sessions. Bang Saen always looked fairly boring to me, however, never spent much time there and usually only went to visit daughter who was a university student and rented a flat there. That was several years back though.

On 8/26/2023 at 10:21 AM, JimTripper said:

Actually, “America” is a trump trash type of thing to say. “Making America Great Again!” Type of thing.

 

Its basically over patriotism.

 

Me, west coast near San Francisco. Liberal.

"Me, west coast near San Francisco. Liberal."

We guessed.

4 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

And yet we still get the moronic comments about someone who might have tried to commit suicide. Pathetic, but hardly unusual on this site.

It's called dark humour. You were obviously never in the armed forces.

3 hours ago, RocketDog said:

Especially on a one way street. Some of the more cunning drivers consider it a great opportunity to save a few seconds of transport time.

Thais are great ones for shortcuts, they just can't resist them. Take the central reservation between lanes of a dual carriageway during roadworks. Anywhere that there's space to squeeze a bike between bollards becomes an unofficial track across to the other lane. Often followed by them riding against the flow of traffic. It's not as though going to the correct u-turn requires any legwork. Bless them.

It's mainly women that go to Gambia, surely? The old fat ugly ones that play hard to get in the UK and cause us elderly hansum men to come to Thailand for the pretty pleasant easy to engage local women who think we're a good catch ????

On 8/21/2023 at 7:09 AM, JayClay said:

That was my question, too. I can't imagine there being any nutrients in chared body ash.

 

For me the obvious way to give back to the earth would seem to be being burried straight into the ground without any kind of casket.

In time, we all return to the stardust from which everything is made, including the earth, so I'd like to return to it as quickly as possible. That is the moral answer, actually I wish to be disposed of as cheaply and with as little fuss as possible within the law. I guess it'll be up to my missus, so going up the temple chimney seems the likely method.