Tropicalevo

Can we please put these guys back in power?

You mean just like most other nationalities? Or are Indians, Brits, Israelis etc all model citizens?

Quite a few places rent out electric scooters on Samui. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g676072-d27127825

Fact of life. It happened on one of the houses that I had built. I retained 10% of the final payment for the snagging list fixing and the builder said that he would loose money , so he walk away from the job. Next house, different builder, I retained 20%. Snagging list fixed.

oh please' stop with the thai bashers Not Thai bashing. Just a generalised statement that is true most of the time. I ran a charity in Cambodia and I wanted the register it in Thailand as I live here. The lawyer said - forget it. It will never be allowed. Thailand does not like to admit that it is getting help from a foreign charity. I replied that the charity was helping kids in Cambodia, not in Thailand. Lawyer said that it made no difference. Almost impossible for a foreigner to run a charity in Thailand. I had to register it in the USA. (The Cambodian 'charity business' was too corrupt.) Lots more examples of Thais refusing help from foreign countries. Flood control, garbage incinerators and so on.

The Cave rescue comes to mind. And the poor governor who accepted the foreigners help lost his job for doing so. Even though the rescue was a 100% success.

I do not know if the drivers are similar to the ones on Samui, but here, they drive like they are Alex Albon in an F1 race if they are late for a drop off or pick up.

And the bar steward got away. Terrible.

Most of the zebra crossings here on Samui are so faded that they are difficult to see in the day time. Not helped by the idiots that park on them (where the paint is a bit more bright) as they have to park as close to the shop as possible.

'Is it possible that China owns the future?' It is highly likely, almost a certainty. They have been planning and executing their expansion for decades whilst the west looks forever inwards.

Just met an honest 3BB techie. He says that many on our development have the same problem. 3BB are checking the cables and systemss at their end. One customer just contacted us and said - 'No more 3BB for me - please change my supplier to Truevision'. Oh the joys of living on a tropical island. Thank you and it's good night from me

Thanks. My heart goes out to the nurses trying to hold the babies. Very difficult with social media these days, but there is also misinformation. I read an article somewhere - sorry, I cannot remember where, that said that some of the shots were from different earthquakes - not the recent one. I think that the opening shot of the sunken road was one of them. At the end of the day - most of the film (all?) is accurate and the devastation was huge.

That number is greatly understated. Thailand only counts those people who die at the roadside - like this poor lad. When the victims die in the ambulance, at the hospital or elsewhere, it is not counted as a road death. RIP Carlos.

Very well done 'bystanders'. It's a shame that the police did not linger in rescuing this guy.

For goodness sake. A seismograph does not save lives. It is already happening when the thing records it. That is too late. The buildings that he wants to 'protect' are completed already, are they not? What will he do when there is an earthquake - send people to the site to hold it steady?

For hundreds of years, no one has cared. A couple of years from now and no one will care again, unless the press keep pushing things like this. It is the size of the earthquake that matters, not the number of them. 43 earthquakes in the UK in the last 60 days. https://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_uk_events.html This from Wikipedia regarding quakes in the UK.

So you encourage the murder of people's pets. That is sad. Where I live friends have all got dogs and they are walked on leashes. However, two of the dogs have been poisoned by inconsiderate people leaving poison at the side of the road to do exactly what you describe. Nothing to stop a kid from picking up the poisoned food and eating it either. Poison does not discriminate who or what it kills. That is down to people like you.

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Well done Mr Amarit.

I tend to look beyond the 'window dressing'. Very attractive, natural face. No apparent 'enhancements. More importantly, her attitude to life. Working a a road sweeper to bring up two kids.

Sadly, it's the same the world over. Fighting over dead relatives estates. Mind you, the inheritance laws in Thailand are slightly different. It all depends if the husband left a will leaving everything to his wife. I had to go to court here when my wife died without leaving a will. Regardless of this - the lad's treatment of his mum it totally unforgivable.

The guys actually got away with the files and only later, were told to come back and return them. The question is, did they return all of them?

I do not think that anyone who lives in Thailand, and has been involved in construction or buying a new property, is surprised to find that the likely result of the collapse was substandard materials/cost cutting.

Impressive. Well done whoever you are.

Thanks phetphet. I am convinced that it is a faulty cable/connection. A friend who transferred to 3BB at the same time as me is having the same problem. I suspect that he is on the same cable. I reached out to the community to see if it was a 3BB issue in their network v a one off. The confusing bit is that AIS wifi hotspot also drops out now and that has not happened to me before in 20 years I have about 10 other accounts with 3BB in my name and no problems other than the one that you had with damaged cables. We have a good rapport with the engineers and they fix them quickly. Unfortunately, it seems that this particular engineer is a newbee.