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I left my PCX on - a 12 month old battery flat... wouldn't start until I connected it to a car battery.

However, after ten minutes, I could turn it off and touch the start button to restart it... I gave it a 15 minute ride to Makro and there was no further issue....

So if it won't restart after running ten minutes, forget the new battery - or investigate the bike's charging ability.

On 4/4/2020 at 10:02 AM, AussieBob18 said:

I dont often agree with Jingthing, but if things dont slow in the next month or two, he is very likely to be correct.

 

Personally, as many of you know, I am of the view that this is a very bad flu and shutting down the world

Incredible. Actually, during the average flu epidemic I was already more reluctant to go out than normal, and more likely to carry sanitiser... so if this is a VERY BAD FLU that causes people to die from pneumonia, then why wouldn't you try to avoid spreading it? You can live with an R0 of 5 or 6?

Just wait for herd immunity - in America that would equate to maybe 36 million infected (and hopeless medical collapse should push the death rate up a LOT, but just calculate 2% as an acceptable death rate... Great landfill for the Grand Canyon right?

Shutdown just enough to keep the increase steady, keep the healthcare ticking over... and pray for a vaccine... but I'm not sure I'd wanna go to the hospital to get the vaccine, so then you have even more issues.

Wow, you really are desperate.

When I met my wife, she had issues getting to work during the red shirt riots - so I'd pick her up from work and take her home, but she paid for fuel and dinner.

Sex doesn't come into it. Your partner obviously doesn't think that 'taking care' is enough - they want much more... something I see often with Thai women and ladyboy gold diggers alike...

1 hour ago, meechai said:

The CP guy is the only one in that photo wearing a real mask

 

All the rest seem to be wearing the type that is coming off the machine

That type is fairly useless as sides & around nose stay open as seen in same photos

 

CP make a good pork burger though in 7/11 ????

They aren't useless in interrupting the gas flows as people breathe out. With no masks, you're at risk within 2-3 metres of anyone breathing, and more for a cough... sneezes can infect up to 8 metres.

Comical. The world speaks varying levels of American English as do many British people - just look at CBeebies content to see how 'English' our language is.

I agree that 'Graduation' should be reserved for a degree or higher - but the world agrees you might as well make out that your 4 year old is equal to any graduate, no point bitching about it. There is an obvious reduction in vocabulary in most English - and you have to fight back by finding books to read... however, it's the way language moves.

6 minutes ago, spermwhale said:

If it hasn't improved? The last three days we've seen significant drops in the number of new cases. What's not improving? At this rate we could have many days without any new cases.

And they are making a decision like this now after two days of significant drops in reported new cases, it makes me wonder what the F the are hiding. I'm not a conspiracy theorist ever and very main stream in my opinions, but it doesn't add up.

 

 

You mean 'significant drops in new cases reported in the news' right? Not actual 'new cases' which are counted by staff - and as the health minister says, he can't be held responsible for anything they tell him being inaccurate.

What DOES add up is the economics - if my wife's factory does NOT close, she maybe stands to lose only 150,000 bonus next year. If it does close, then social will give her about 10% of her salary - and that's a massive hit even with a mortgage holiday.

I'm sure that closing down is the last thing that most people want in reality. I'd say the nightime curfew is mostly aimed to catch out the night time drinking gambling fools - and the cost is already immense.

55 minutes ago, Grumpy John said:

555! They don't learn much at school normally. Think of it more as day care for kids of all ages!

I'm a bit annoyed about this, my son being home (he's 8 now) means he's improved his arithematic strategies, learned to do fractions, and read five chapter books this holiday so far.

I don't wanna give his time back to school, memorizing useless facts and language about useless old royalty... there are lots of good online sources, his school wouln't come close to any of them.

18 minutes ago, JCP108 said:

What about data on people dying in Thailand of all types of deaths broken down by month? Where can we see that data? I'd like to see that and compare it to the same months last year to see if it looks like there's been a recent bump. We can still all agree that C-19 tests are not being done much here and aren't 100% reliable anyway. How do we see raw data about how many people are dying in Thailand? Anyone?

 

Useless - with fewer people out, there is a slight reduction in road deaths which in itself would be a massive shift in numbers. Remember, many road deaths avoid recording by dying later...

The fact is, COVID may have saved many more lives than it's taken.

2 minutes ago, beammeup said:

The virus has a lipid (fat) skin holding its protein contents. Imagine butter in this heat. Its not rocket science, its the heat and the sunshine. Thailand is winning and I for one am happy about it. I believe the numbers are real.

Amazing, for the same reason we should also assume Flu is going to be erased this week?

I figured the virus would most likely live INSIDE the body where the 'heat and sunshine' have no effect, and would spread most efficiently from contact/close proximity - I don't worry that it'll sit on the road and get breathed in with dust outside, but I was reluctant to go to shopping centres before they got closed, and work environments are also risky - but I think Thai's are being a bit more careful about it than many westerners were in the early days.

I think Songkran will give another healthy breathing space - and by the end of the month we might well see a good limit on the spread.

Some people like to get worked up over stupid things like that... so now you hate M*A*S*H because they didn't make it in widescreen? I feel sorry for you...

I still have some old stuff, I am watching NYPD Blue and have no issues with having unused screen at the sides... I use Plex Media Player, and tried windowing it - but it's just better fullscreen with black bars.

It doesn't need to be 'Dettol'. Any disinfectant can do the job - I bought Aro disinfectant and only the scent is slightly different but at half the price.

As for hand sanitizer - 90 baht for the small bottle of Gel is ridiculous. I prefer an alchohol spray (I picked up a litre of isopropyl for about 220 baht) with a bit of oil and Aloe gel mixed in; great for spraying trolley handles too.

My advice is to carry it - there's a risk, the last time I was caught was 9 years ago (starting with a casual conversation outside a 7-11 before the <deleted> said he was a policeman and his friend turned up to haul two of us away. Fortunately I had my passport, but my buddy was in a cell for 4 hours until we could get his girlfriend to go home, pick up his passport and go get him released.

It's not a normal thing, but in this country things can rapidly get murky.

Yup, one major reason for never returning to the UK - ignorant, stupid selfish idiots trashing millions of tons of food.

4 hours ago, hotchilli said:

So just another copy/paste product.

It was already invented, N99 masks have been around for a long time.

To call this Thai homemade effort the same name might be a "copyright infringement" ?

N99 refers to the rating of the filter - it is not a copyrite...

N99 stands a good chance (assuming it's well fitted) of actually protecting you from some airborne virus.

If you're sensible, you won't be out much - but if you must do a monthly shopping run, it's worth planning - at least a good mask and if things get worse, then swimming goggles/mask to stop it going in your eyes is a good plan, as is a shower to make sure you don't have any in your hair after returning home.

I haven't seen an advertisement on TV for donkey's years - also we don't all have Netflix. Some of us don't want it. Years ago I got sick with what TV was being fed to me, I no longer have a 'TV' connection/antenna... I hooked up my HTPC and use that to feed my screen/hifi.

For TV content, I prefer something like TVChaos for British TV, or 'More than TV' amongst others where you could grab lots of good TV - like...

'8 out of 10 cats', 24, Amazing Stories, The Age of A.I., Avenue 5, Crackanory, Creature Comforts, Godfather of Harlem, The Handmaid's Tail, The Mandalorian, Star Trek Picard... though for general searches, I also find good results with my 'top 5' BT Bot DHT Magnet Search, BT Dig, UTorrentMui, and torrentdownloads.me.

So drop in at InvadeIT and order a coupleof nice 4TB Toshiba drives (less than 3000 baht each - bargain) to let you go crazy and download more than I can watch.

But don't forget, those same sites can allow you to obtain more books than you can read in your lifetime... and reading is always superior to watching TV.

Software like 'clipgrab' also lets you grab some of those cool Youtube vids into a Plex folder... I'm currently 80% into book 5 of The Wheel of Time (annoying American writing style with some glaringly bad English - but good story nonetheless and well over 10,000 pages to go at).

23 minutes ago, teatree said:

Studentwear?

Yes, and I'll bet the people queueing up weren't staying 2 metres apart - great way to spread the virus.

That's good news for Bangkok Hospital - 25,000 for Covid19 test there. I'll bet there's a very long queue. For the clever people who invested heavily in these hospitals it's a golden age.

It's not easy to gauge - some cultural habits can go a long way to modify virus behaviour, and Thai's aren't heavily into physical contact, so it's quite hard to compare to other countries really.

Just stay home and wait and see... It takes a few weeks for any issues to appear - people recently jumped on busses, so we can wait another month to see if there's an exponential rise in that figure - or perhaps limited testing will keep the numbers low until the death rate starts to peak.

The biggest concern, as always, is actually one of economics. Life is cheap and many companies are gagging their staff. My wife wouldn't post to Facebook or share news outside her family even if there were any - we can't afford it.

Amazing - surely anyone allowed to travel must also be kept in quarantine upon arrival... so what's the risk?

Something we don't know about?

It's a good job all the clever people are well gagged.

On 6/6/2018 at 8:04 PM, Orton Rd said:

we have Mitsubishi heavy duty in the bedroom, I always have found it VERY noisy even though we have it service by mitsu guys. I'd go for Daikin

Mitsubishi Heavy Duty is rubbish - we're talking about a different company right? Mitsubishi Mr Slim inverter is a totally different animal

I have a Daikin downstairs, 18k BTU inverter model, works well... but the Mitsu in the bedroom is the best design - extremely simple to clean.

However, you get to pay extra for the Mitsu - I got mine when the refrigerant was being phased out, so I paid about 66% of the ticket price of a new model. Otherwise I'd go with Daikin.

I'm sure that Hitachi and Panasonic are great too, but not sure about maintenance/cleaning.

Something else to note about inverters - they usually have some kind of 'saver' mode which adds 2 celcius to the setting when you're not around (Daikin has a magic eye function), the Mitus has a 'saver' and also a 'memory' setting, so I set it at 29 when I go out - it keeps the room from cooking too much and makes it easier to cool when you get home.

The total consumption from running the bedroom air 24 hours now is cheaper than I used to pay when I turned off my 'simple' a/c unit in a condo in the past every time I went out. The other benefit is that the living room downstairs rarely goes up past 29 as the heat doesn't come down through the house as much.

On 3/27/2020 at 3:22 PM, GordyS said:

Whenever there is a topic about eggs, everybody uses the tried and tested puns.

Doesn't happen for anything else, strange really

Eggsactly - an eggscrutiating eggshibit of eggshausting puns. One egg pun is un oeuf for anyone.

23 hours ago, phetphet said:

Stuck at home all day, but first thing every other morning I go on my motorbike, masked up with alcohol wipes in hand to the supermarket for bread, milk and groceries. No one in there early.

ROFL huge effort, only go out every 2 days... bread lasts more than 2 days, and a gallon of milk is certainly good for more than a week...

The hardest part for me was to decide to stop my son playing outside - as some of the other kids aren't very aware, and two of their mothers are busy out shopping to sell stuff in the moobahn for a profit and have no problem leaving their kids to go out and play together and visit each other's household.

Whilst everyone's getting eggs locally now, the kids also more likely to be picking up covid from her...

Excercise - 15 minutes quick walking around the moobahn at 7.30am and again at 5.30pm, otherwise stay home, read books, homeschooling maths (arithematic), watch TV.

I went to Tesco last week - very nice and quiet, easy to steer more than 2 metres clear of anyone, but they had no broccoli so I'll stick with Makro next time (maybe next month). I'm not worried about visiting the 7-11 when I need to, I'll just wait until there aren't more than a couple of folks in there...

We have a market in the soi, for fresh veg, so when my cilantro gets nasty (lasts a good week in the fridge) I'll go pick up some more there.

I don't recieve any change in cash as I have tons of ready cash and heaps of 50's 20's and coins... so I think the only way we'll get this is if his mother brings it home. She has no choice other than to carry 3 other people from her office in the car when she finishes work - imagining her office is another 'household' if one gets it, they'll probably all be exposed before anyone knows.

Good news is she swears they are also staying home and not taking or making any visits.

I have bundles of notes, 50's and 20's and a jar of loose change so that I don't need to get change when I spend money.

If I go did get change, then the weak spot is that I'd have to put the change away before cleaning my hands - possibly infecting my pocket also... so it's best to avoid it. I have a bag to put dirty change in, and I told my wife to spray her credit card and clean her hands if she uses a card.

I'm curious how many folks prefer gel to alchohol - I carry a spray with pure isopropyl alchohol and find I don't need moisturizers as it doesn't dry my skin - but it's great for spraying handles if you take out a shopping trolley...