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Yes, there are a lot of nice people here, hard working, salt of the earth people, awesome - great fun to be around, everyone has accepted my wife and I into the community - but there are one hell of a lot of lazy people here too. We have had problems finding general workers, building labour, easy work - the first thing is how much you are paying and then they aren't interested in a days work, they want "Job 'n knock". It's not just the fussy westerner, business owners find it difficult to find reliable staff. I have two husband and wife teams rendering my house at the moment, they say working with your wife is the only reliable way to ensure you get a full days work done.

Who is going to let him know? Actually, the poster is kind of looking in the wrong direction - Issan is kind of OK, the people are a bit uneducated, lazy, the local food is kind of inedible at times - but the locals are friendly enough, its nice, quiet, convenient. It's the Deep South! Hell, I moved there for work, moved house lock, stock and .. and just regretted it. I was stuck for 12 years. Apart from one guy at work, I never spoke to a westerner, never even saw a westerner for months on end, the local people were so stubborn and rude, even to other Thais. You would walk into a shop and everyone would hide, it doesn't stop raining, its so far away from Bangkok, we would go to KL, its closer. In the end we embraced it, the food is a redeeming feature. We tried to buy land, all we could find was expensive parcels of land that no one wanted, wasted a year looking.

yes, he 100% he should accept the fare he stopped for, but what if the traffic is bad and he knows at that time of night he won't get a return fare - rather than refuse the fare, he offers him a deal - 300B, we dont know from a 30 second clip where the guy was, this guy laid a trap and purposely waited for a driver who wouldn't use a meter, he didnt make a banner saying, this guy wanted to charge me a possible 40B more to travel from lower Suk to Khao San during rush hour, a 45 minute journey in the best time. He also didnt make a video of the guy following him who when he jabbed his finger at the meter, just nodded and he jumped in .. what great content that would make.

ride shares have also appeared in this time - grab, etc .. which seems to have discounted some type of fares. idk, there is lots of talk on reddit how tourists find it easier to navigate and the bargains they got - other times, to me, they seem to have paid more than a taxi hailed from the side of the road.

Not trying to defend the driver, but up to a certain point its his perogative, he's being straight with the guy. If they feel like they can talk to the customer, they will often tell them why, the traffic is bad in that area, its rush hour on a rainy night, I can make more doing little hops to the BTS and back, sorry. I had many times when the driver refused a long fare, to Minburi or Thonburi, if you ask why, the answer is always, they are running out of gas and would need to take you to a gas station or their shift is ending soon and they were looking for a fare to take them closer to mo chit. Tik Tok has overtaken vocal conversation theses days.

Has the situation drastically changed in BKK? When we used to live there getting a decent taxi driver wasn’t difficult, I think maybe 75% chance. You would ask politely and the guy driving would give you a strange look to say “of course I will use the meter. Why not?” - never take a standing taxi unless it’s at an issan food stall and the guy is just finishing lunch. But I read on Reddit, tourists constantly bemoaning taxi drivers. I don’t know or care, but this guy has gone out of his way to catch a taxi driver, he’s already got the phone out with the intention of catching him out to make a video, the phone is in his hand, it’s pretty shady. Maybe we see the guy at the police station, but I hope we see Mr jason too, making a video to purposely damage Thai tourism. i checked his feed, he does have another video with a guy where he negotiates 20B discount on a tuktuk, but videos of a guy saying ‘yes I use the meter ever day’ dont generate likes.

My wife gets called "Khun Nai" which translates to Madam, or they call her madam. I find this slightly offensive, they also call other wives of westerners madam too. They are kind of referring to her as, maybe a little better than the average, idk, anyway she kind of tolerates it but it annoys me a little, we don't have anything more than most people in our village, she is quite happy sitting in the "rot puang" when we go and recycle the cardboard and plastic bottles.

For many years they refused to open a second savings account on a non-O based upon marriage, I tried multiple branches, over many years, always one of the same answer from the manager, not company policy, Bank of Thailand rules (lol), "if you had a retirement or WP then multiple accounts are OK" - I finally got one as I mentioned above. My wife always had multiple accounts with Kasikorn, never an issue. Then we moved provinces, and we went with all our accounts, and I streamlined everything, we both had required two accounts, again, was not possible, I showed them my two account books and asked for them to be transferred and the older accounts closed down. They did so without any further questioning. The wife asked for two accounts, and to close down 4 other random accounts - they said it was only possible for Thai people to have one account. She has a little casual market stall, I have been trying to keep business separate from personal banking. I asked what about businesses, how can we have a separate account for her business, surely they must offer business banking, I don't know, her turnover is OK, but doesnt make a lot, they didnt really seem to want to suggest anything, in the end they gave her two personal accounts. Yes, my accounts are all linked with the banking app. I think you are correct, you have a business and presumably a WP and non-B, have as many as you like, but with my marriage extension, I was always told "not possible" - others experience may vary. Just looking @richard_smith237 has a similar story to mine.

Kasikorn will tell you a second account with them is not possible, if you have a WP or are retired, you can open as many as you like - non-O, not possible. I got one after many attempts, I got one helpline manager to see sense. I had 2M in one account, the same account I was using for Lazada and using the atm with a queue of people behind me, I just wasn't happy. She spoke to the branch on my behalf and they organized a second account for me. They even said the same to my wife, who is Thai, she has a small business. I wanted her to keep our monthly expenditures in a different account to her business income. They insisted it was not possible - I tried to ask what provisions they had for small businesses or whatever, let my wife speak to them and we can try and discuss what they could do for her and ways to comply to get a second account. In the end they relented and gave her two accounts. Maybe easier to find a different bank in that province that will allow you to open an account.

Great! You sold me on it. We watched a new Liam Neeson last night, rather uninspriring, Retribution

Hell! I haven't been home to the UK for 20 years .. I felt begrudged to pay 75p or a quid for a bottle of drink last time. 13 quid for vegetarian sushi! Some prices don't seem to be so unreasonable tho'

https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/jamie-olivers-restaurant-group-collapses-how-it-all-went-wrong/news-story/6ab5a508290b40e10a9bbe01140a4a74 I have a feeling the whole company folded, he cites Brexit as a point in this Australian article - not that he necessarily managed to fail in the Australian and Thai markets.

I understand the OP, I tried a few places and experienced the same, maybe they are a little rustic or artesian, idk? I like PRIME from the Buriram Pie Man, I gather they are made in Pattaya, I wouldn't say they are gourmet but I like them for a quick meal when we are pushed for time.

That’s what I mean - like, this isn’t Gordon Ramsay at the savoy grill. This is fish and chips along with risotto cooked in a chain restaurant with his name on it. Who would pay for that when many restaurants offer the same standard - I would rather cook at home or go to a Bangkok restaurant with a reputation rather than someone’s name. I imagine the service will be very good tho’ and the food would be of a pretty reliable quality.

I need to check the serial for you, maybe HG not EG - I was just working off images on internet and memory - Lazada have this - https://s.lazada.co.th/s.Pc5Fl but it’s really something for 3bb to supply you for free - I had enough problems with getting them to figure out how to configure their own kit in the first place, the solution was like another poster, have the correct VLAN to add to your PPoE credentials - they would probably walk away from a non-3bb ONU.

It's a Huawei, EG8010H - We had some difficulties when moving in, 3BB didnt really know how to install it. The 3BB "tech" tried to tell me it wouldn't work because I was living in the village, I was too far away from the city, that there was a different protocol used in Issan than the south, etc and they bought 3 different types of ONT to try and solve the issue. So, if you cant get the one mentioned, they have alternatives. There is no config, they are already setup, it's just a basic terminal, one fibre port in - one ethernet port out.

Brassic returns for series 05 - Started last night.

@transam

I was wondering this the other day .. sunk without a trace, right? I am unsure if all his chain restaurants didn't go the same way. Who would go to a Ramsay restaurant and eat Fish and Chips?

@Jingthing I just got a notification on my phone that bottoms, a movie you were looking for is available on the torrent sites.

The answer to the problem is do the work anyway and say, as you pointed out "any problems give me a call" - the saving face factor is not picking up the telephone when you want them to come back to the job to sort their bad work out. As I'm currently building, I just have to tell myself - some of these guys left school at primary school, a lot can't read or write, when you see their homes, they are combination of cinder blocks and corrugated zinc, they throw their M150 bottles out the window at home, and they get paid 450B daily which they live on until the next days pay - they dont know any better.

AKA The Teacher I am struggling through your recommendation of The Pimp, the German series set in the Reeperbahn - there's a few holes in the plot and that women keeps on taking off her top and displaying her chest, I can't watch it while I'm eating my dinner, puts me right off. I don't think I have seen such an ugly bunch of actors in all my life.

The music industry has changed in recent years, big acts make more money from live performances, merch, recorded video and TV performances rather than make money for record labels. I don't think they care so much about music piracy these days, or do they? It's not like you need to purchase a physical copy any longer, you just subscribe to a streaming service and listen to it, my missus just logs on to Spotify for free, even when I have a Deezer account and had in the past bought her Apple Music she puts up with the adverts on Spotify. I download music from the streaming sites (illegally) then cancel the subscription, I then have the freedom to stream at my own leisure from my own server to the car or around the house, its a labour of love, and I think to myself an increasing number of people cant be bothered with this any longer, because there is an amazing selection available on Deezer, tidal, etc. There are some figures that are spouted about how much (music) pirates spend on their "hobby" - they are more inclined to buy physical copies, discover and purchase new material from online stores like Bandcamp, and subscribe to both video and audio streaming services. But yes, im with you .. make your own mind up - I think I would draw the line at blind drunk driving, but I would readily rip out the seatbelt warning alarm on my truck.

Where's the chili? shouldn't there be little red pieces in it? slices of garlic? Some folks omit the onion / shallot .. Im not a lover of adding onions, but don't you have it with sliced long bean? Perhaps its a regional thing, coming from the Deep South, it's not Krakow if it doesn't have long beans.

I find all Thai food to be a bit one note, just throw everything on top of some raw meat in a wok and stir it about, everything in the pan tastes the same. This is why I prefer many dishes rather than "on rice" - one spicy dish, one sweet, some sour condiment, a soup with tofu, some vegetables. The dish in the pic isn't Krapaow, looks like savory mince that my mum used to make us with a bisto cube.