Denim

We are very lucky to have new posters giving old hands the heads up. Where would we be without their informative and helpful contributions..

Absolutely disgraceful. The Thai authorities should hang their heads in shame. Being detained for 9 years is bad enough but to be held in that hell hole is absolutely barbaric.

Criminal fugitive vs criminals who have granted themselves amnesty for anything they do wrong and who ban anybody who threatens their hegemony. Unfortunately Thaksin is not really a criminal. They had to move the goal posts just to incriminate him. People often complain that Thaksin had an army of highly paid and qualified legal experts that he would sic on anybody who tried to obstruct him. Those people should ask themselves why , if that is true , those legal experts would allow him to do anything that wasn't legal thereby making it easy for his enemies to ensnare him. They were always at his side making sure he stayed within the law.

These two popped into my head yesterday :

Wait wait wait !!! Are you trying to insinuate that they don't ???? Oh .....lol....you were just kidding .....right ? ????

Yup. Not seen one of those antiques for a very long time. The cheap GI hotels used to have them. Very noisy and rattled like hell after a while. Not even seen one for sale anywhere for donkeys years. Strange post by OP ???

Engines and propellers will be added when funds become available.

I worked with a young guy in England who couldn't locate it on a map of the world and couldn't name a single country. History same. No interest in these subjects whatsoever.

This is one of the phenomena mentioned in the clip. A sudden burst of energy before death.

My gran, a week before she died , saw dead relatives at the end of her bed who ( she said ) told her not to be afraid as they would be waiting for her. Anecdotal , but that's what caught my attention. And to be fair to her .....reformed. Seven years on the wagon.

Well....I hope the first is true. I'm sure some of the go go dancers and Thermaes girls I loved for a few nights must have bought the farm by now. Be great to see them all again , maybe dancing at the foot of the bed. Hmmmm.....need to put up a small stage there maybe and a pole or two.

I know a lot of forum members are as old as or older than me ( 65 ) and I found this video interesting because my grandmother experienced the first of these things before she died. Things to watch out for.

I thought it was their breasts and vagina ? So confusing these days. Hard to keep up with the trends.

Deport and ban from entry. Sorted.

No way , this is the most accurate depiction :

Bill in December was 560. Got yesterdays bill ...................... 2500. Not surprised. Air con on about 18 hours a day set at 27

At least three of those are positives in my book. Less westerners Less night life Less English Plus , less tourists, less traffic , quiet and easy immigration office.

Just don't come anywhere near here , or at least post in advance his itinerary so we can clear out for a week.

Jeez ....imagine meeting this bloke in a bar. You would either get done for murder or go home and slit your wrists .

Agreed. Why I have not gone full steam ahead myself. Experimenting for the first time due to the long period of high temperatures we have had. For a long term solution , correct to be concerned but over a two or three week period I'll try anything just to see for myself what the short and long term effects are or if it helps at all. As another poster said earlier , no one idea will prove a cure all. Having tried everything I can think of it does seem that if you want to be really cool you have to bite the bullet and go for air con. Trouble is, from previous experience , once you have it you will use it and the electric bills go up a lot. Example ....back in the cool season ( lol ) our electric bill was 500 plus baht. Just got my new bill for today after heavy use of the air con, 2500 baht !!! ( only one in the bedroom ) . The guy came to empty our septic tank today and was bitching about the heat. Turns out his electric bill was almost exactly the same as mine ...2500 plus. And he is Thai !! What chance do I have ?

Pretty easy. Just buy some lengths of blue tubing and join to required length. Drill lots of tiny holes in the pipe, mount on brackets and connect to a standpipe. Make sure to plug the end first so pressure builds up and water doesn't flow straight through. Turn on 3 times an hour should be enough. Less than 500 baht. Not going to make a huge difference but just another little push in the right direction. What I have been doing lately is just plain hosing down the walls. Bit of a hassle as needs to be done a few times an hour for a minute or two but does keep wall cooler.

There is another fairly cheap possibility .......................water. You could try rigging up blue piping along the top outside edge of the wall , then spraying the wall with water for about 30 seconds , three times an hour during the hottest part of the day to cool the walls down. I have seen several people in the village have rigged up water sprinklers on their roofs with the same thing in mind. Might help but don't know as haven't tried it .

Adult life ? What adult life is that ? Mental age of a seven year old.

Impossible. Worst excuse ever.

Be that as it may , in the real world , away from charts and statistics ............................its ron shiphai !