Enoon

1 hour ago, Destiny1990 said:

Why can foreigners in my country rape and plunder and murder without even getting extradited ?

You would like it in the UK.

If you are a dumb 15 year old teenager, British born, who got sucked into ISIS, they will strip you of your nationality and banish you;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamima_Begum

Have fun with that one guys.

45 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Maybe you should read your own link before posting false information from a 13-year old article.   Foreigners are currently not allowed to own, possess, carry, use, or whatever, firearms.

Were licences previously issued, legitimately, to foreigners, revoked?

I can't be @rsed to find out but I'm confident that you are.

5 hours ago, save the frogs said:

 

Stop jogging. It's an unhealthy activity. Too complicated to explain the science behind it.

 

I didnt know they had country in Sweden. 

Do Swedish country singers wear cowboy hats?

What visa can you use to be a country singer in Thailand? "Entertainer" visa?

 

He sings Thai country music.......Luk Thung.

Thought it totally weird when I saw him years ago;

Not as weird as the "Best Foreign Husband" competitions though;

Act normal and smile a lot.

9 hours ago, mfd101 said:

True, but as usual the expert commentators here on AN ignore the question: Why do poor farmers behave like this year after year?

 

ie People who barely know where their next meal is coming from, who have a passive attitude to life carefully reinforced on a continuing basis by religion and by the feudal state, who never have new & better methods explained to them including how this will help with their next meal as opposed to merely helping the (relatively rich) contractor ...

If action were taken against the farmers it would contradict a basic tenet of feudal maintenance.

To paraphrase Magna Carta:

"......villeins should not have fines/pressures imposed upon them so heavy that they would have to give up the necessaries of life...."

                        Feudal Britain, G W S Barrow, 1956.

To do so threatens the compact between serf and overlord.

It is already become shaky in Thailand.

Devotion to maintaining an anachronistic institution is, ultimately, what fans the flames of the polluting fires.

43 minutes ago, proton said:

How about the guy selling burgers on the street in Bangkok and putting himself all over the internet, does he get away with it cos hes a double amputee?

He was swiftly hounded out of business.

He was first featured on AN on 17th January 2017.

Two days later:

"Gareth Payne said on his No Name Burger Facebook fan page that he had been "verbally attacked". He cited other farangs "on some site" as being responsible. He said that people were "talking so bad" about him and he just wanted to make people happy and be left alone, reports Daily News."

On 3/5/2024 at 10:08 PM, franzen101 said:

Me and my wife, we're a middle-aged couple, are planning to Thailand. This will be our first trip to Asia, and we have many questions. We are not seasoned travelers, we are newbies. Here are my questions: what documents do I need to enter Thailand, is it safe to drink tap water in Thailand, what vaccinations do I need before traveling to Thailand, how do I get around in Thailand, what are some must-visit destinations or attractions in Thailand, what is the weather like in Thailand during my travel dates, is it customary to tip in Thailand, are there any cultural customs or etiquette I should be aware of.? These are my questions, I hope to get answers.

You will probably get much better information if you type each of your questions into a google search.

Type them one at a time, after the answer to your first question move on and type the second question.

During those searches you will probably find the answers to some of your questions before you have asked them.

Also you will find answers to questions that you haven't thought to ask here, such as "How do we avoid getting ripped off by lovely, smiling, Buddhist Thai people?"

This will get you started on that journey of discovery:

https://yourthaiguide.com/top-10-bangkok-scams-you-should-avoid/

Have a wonderful time and don't forget to bring respirators.

16 minutes ago, Pouatchee said:

i usually am pretty handy, but when it comes to electricity and electronics i am totally lost. 

here goes:

i connected 3 9 volt batteries in parallel. i tested with a voltmeter and i get 27 volts, now my batteries are at 24 v. now, considering batteries lose their charge, i connected a 27 volt power supply + to + and - to - to my batteries. [i am not trying to recharge the batteries. i am just trying to maintain  the v. ] i checked with a voltmeter and the 2 combined produce v combined. where did the xtra 3 volts go?

 

here is what i am trying to do. i am trying to make colloidal silver so i have two poles [+/-] connected to silver plates dipped in water. i have been using the 3 batteries in parallel for a while now but it is getting expensive in batteries.

 

on monday i bought a 24 v power supply and jacked the power up to 27 v by turning the settings screw. when i connect the +/- of the power supply to the silver plates it does not work at all. 27 v of batteries does, but not a power supply. damn... i am going bald scratching my head. the power supply is about 3 amps but the batteries are in milliamps. what am i doing wrong?

 

 

considering the price of batteries  

"when it comes to electricity and electronics i am totally lost"

I  believe you are correct in your self assessment.

You have not connected your batteries in parallel.

1.  There isn't going to be the sort of nuclear exchange that is usually depicted in the "WW3" disaster scenarios used to panic/entertain those who know no better.

2. There is going to be no "Nuclear Winter".

2 minutes ago, bradiston said:

Agree. It was not a fun event. All that faux femininity completely vanished. A really unpleasant side to the trans culture. Violent and brutal. But, who am I to judge? Just calling it as I saw it, that's all. Could say the same about the lads out on a night out I guess, brawling with security.

"Crazy like a woman, strong like a man"

5 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

You do not 'date' someone on-line.

And you do not send 4 million to someone you've never properly met, if ever.

You do if you are "vulnerable".

Games rooms are full of lonely, incel, nerds.......she chose her fishing ground well.

Once again we see the "tricoteuses" of AN turning, like a pack of soi dogs, on a fellow expat.

Why....moral outrage and an urgent desire for "justice"?

No ******* way.

It's all about "reputation" and "image"....all they care about is themselves and the way it might reflect on them.

What a sad bunch of self-interested, insecure, paranoid *****.

I've got Thai people walking through my compound today just like any other day....shortcuts to their fields.

Everyones happy

They don't give a ****, and neither do I, you poor sad *****.

4 hours ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

So... in your mind... unprovoked ASSAULT & BATTERY is a minor incident... sad

There is no "equity" when it comes to crime... one does not mitigate the other

I thought that usually it was treated as such in Thailand.

So much so that the police tell the parties to **** off and sort it out between themselves.

Money changes hands and that's it.

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Apparently, my misses thinks things are happening but very slowly.

(I've told her I won't be bringing anymore money into Thailand until this guy is in jail)

 

It's frustrating that a foreigner speaking rudely to a Thai doctor gets instant court action.

But a Thai attempting to kill a foreigner is not important!

I'm sure the British press/media would love the story.

From a "third party" obviously.

It could roll quite nicely.....all the way back to Thailand.

Especially if the third party were to make it clear that you were unable to say anything or take any action against the would-be murderer, because they would ruin you in the courts with the disgustingly preferential, wealth, influence, elite protecting defamation laws.

Would make a nice sequel to the Koh Tao case.

1 hour ago, Tropicalevo said:

I do not defend the Swiss guy's actions, nor his wife's but they are not to blame for the fact that steps are on public land.

That is down to the developer/management company.

Two separate issues.

Encroachment and GBH.

As an aside, any man who hits a woman is a low life in my book.

"As an aside, any man who hits a woman is a low life in my book."

Except if the woman was Irma Geese.......or the like of.

Maybe take a little water with your compulsion to be a......"gentleman".

1 hour ago, KhunLA said:

Kalasin, another 'white elephant' project .... 

 

That's one boring A$$ province, as are the others bordering.  Think we spent 1 or 2 nights there, and explored the 'area'.   Most interesting thing was watching the buffalos while sipping a few, while at a lakeside 'rustic' bungalow.  Good R&R break as was non-stop looping around the are prior.

 

 

Roi Et had a nice ice cream shop across from the lake, which did have an Aquarium and paddle 'swan' boats 

 

Yasothon ... Rocket Festival

 

Kalasin also has a unique "annular rocket" festival:

Only about 20% of them exploded when I was there!

10 minutes ago, Cereal said:

It is not going to change. A few years back there was a survey of Thai drivers which was quite comprehensive.

 

In short, a full third of the respondents said there was literally nothing they could do to prevent an accident. Nothing. It is all preordained. 

 

Driving drunk, not wearing a seatbelt, in the rain, with the stereo blasting, forgot to put on your headlights, texting a friend on the phone that you're coming over for beers, speeding and blasting through a stop sign without even noticing there was one....has NOTHING to do with getting T-boned and killed by a huge over-loaded semi-truck with <deleted>ty brakes and a driver whacked out of his mind on yaba. 

 

It's simply the way things were meant to be.

 

How can you change that? It's such a profoundly stupid, and yet molecularly ingrained, attitude......

"How can you change that? It's such a profoundly stupid, and yet molecularly ingrained, attitude......"

A lot of eggs will need to be broken before the omelette is made.

A lot of eggs.