LivinLOS

On 9/29/2023 at 6:37 AM, webfact said:

he was telling the truth, the Police Department is rotten to its core

There..  Thats the line.. 

On 9/27/2023 at 8:16 AM, JBChiangRai said:

Yet he said in June 2022 as he legalised it...

 

"Thai Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said he expected legal cannabis production to boost the economy but cautioned that recreational use of the drug remains illegal.

“It’s a no,” said Anutin, who is also a deputy prime minister. “We still have regulations under the law that control the consumption, smoking or use of cannabis products in non-productive ways.”"

Watch what they do not what they say

49 minutes ago, Pib said:

However this new rule works out or possibly just disappears as resistance grows against it the Thai revenue dept is not going to be looking back in time like 2, 3, 5 years, etc.  If the new rule does go into affect 1 Jan 2024 then they would only be looking from that date forward...and as said earlier on income, interest, dividends earned since 1 Jan 2024 (not before that) if not already shielded by a DTA.

Disagree as the entire issue here is PAST earnings being claimed as savings.. If it doesnt look backwards the whole thing is useless. 

On 9/22/2023 at 1:33 AM, Bert got kinky said:

 

Who is in charge here, the convicted prisoner or the Justice department?

 

Rhetorical question I assume ? 

yes I thought the same about granite.. thats how you cook a steak in a fancy hot stone restaurant !! 

I dont like the idea of deck to the edge though.. even if it is practical..

Is there any light color 'soft' stone or tile solution to make a barrier between deck and pool ?? Or that also would integrate with hardscape attractively ?? I was seeking to avoid sandwash but I may need to make cost compromises and a light grey sandwash somehow looks better than the cheap 'standard yellow' that's the norm. I could live with a well done sandwash is creatively done with lines and some design attention.  

 

On 9/22/2023 at 5:51 AM, ezzra said:

Again, put up or shut up, where are the evidence?

The entire system is a money making machine whose primary income source is tolerating the breaking of laws and being paid to not enforce them. 

The of course theres the Ferrari joes of the organisation.. 

How much evidence do you need. 

31 minutes ago, JimTripper said:

• minimum investment of USD 500,000 in Thai government bonds, foreign direct investment, Thai property or any combination.
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• Applicants with a personal income ranging between USD 40,000 and USD 80,000 a year may also be eligible, granted they have a minimum investment of USD 250,000 in Thai government bonds, foreign direct investment, Thai property or any combination.

and these inward remittances will be taxed next year ?? ????

Left hand.. right hand !!! 

On 8/15/2022 at 1:27 PM, Lacrimas said:

They have such a fixed old mindset, most people making good money are freelancers nowadays and they exclude that category. 

Because they culturally believe everyone will lie all the time.. 

Employer means control, salary proof and contracts that are harder to forge.. Freelancers would just lie (in a Thai mindset context) and claim the eligibility.. Many of these Thai 'centralized' top down type demands stem from a suspicion of total distrust / lack of honesty expectations. 

I have a fiber inground pool which has been in there for 10 - 12 years, I know these things have a lifespan and as I am refurbishing a house I am looking at options.

Its still in solid condition but there is the start of some hairline cracking on the sun exposed top surface and I can see cosmetically it may be something in the coming years. Structurally it seems solid and nothing looks to be weak or in need of attention. Its actually a functionally good pool (I used to be fairly snobby about fiber pools but this has been easy to keep and its 'just' big enough) aside from being skimmer. 

Obviously I could tear it out and put in a concrete pool but 1 - 1.5m to do it really nice is offputting. Then again so is doing a lot of house and garden landscape, including pool decking and a large garden sala, to then need to tear it out in a couple of years !! 

Does anyone have any advice on pool coping stones ?? Sandstone, porcelain, cantilevered cement...  

I was going to put a deck (processed fake wood style) but I could hardscape it also. 

 

Before I knock up something and laminate it.. Long shot, but does anyone think there may be a source of these stickers ?? 

Not sure of the pattern is semi standard or different per valve maker ?? 

Small thing but trying to keep it all tidy

2 hours ago, SuperSaiyan said:

 

No, not right. Don't make it complicated.

 

 

so thermogenics is fake.. 2 identical people, who consume the same calories and one who takes amphetamines burn the same output.. 

Thats nonsense. 

A buddy of mine, getting middle aged and out of shape went and has his hormones done, started TRT, without any change in diet or working out dropped about 10 - 12 kilos and reverted back to shape with no lifestyle change. 

7 hours ago, JimTripper said:

They eat more often, but much less food then people in more affluent countries.

 

You need to look at what they are actually consuming, not just time sitting at a food stall.

 

The USA for example has large meals with large portions. In Thailand it’s just a bowl of soup or a side of rice or several dishes spread out but there’s not much food there.

 

If I ate here like I did in the USA I would need 2 or 3 dishes at each meal, not one.

Yeah I dont think any sane people are talking about American portions.. 

But again, my wife portion consumption is still way higher than mine, per sitting, and I have 1 or 2 sittings she is 5 - 7.. and still is less than half my weight.. 

9 hours ago, SuperSaiyan said:

It's just simple numbers - I really wonder what's so hard to understand. Or could it be some people lack math understanding and think about some magic happens?

Its also metabolism.. 

By your logic 1500 cal will always be slimmer than someone who consumes 1800 cal and an amphetamine pill every day.. I mean its just calories in right ?? 

9 hours ago, SuperSaiyan said:

No, food and kcal is not something magically.

 

45kg female means she can eat 1000-1200kcal per day without getting fat. If she eats one day 2000 and the next day 400, she doesn't get fat.

 

It's all very simple.

it really isnt with her tho.. She is well known among her and my friend circle as being this insanely hungry one all the time.. Its like this running joke.. She also gets insanely hangry minutes after becoming hungry, like as soon as she is hungry, you have a 20 minute window to get food in her before her mood goes mental. 

Yesterday I eat a banana in the morning, nothing else bar espresso's until +-3pm then a penang moo.. about 6 7pm a few spoons of natural yoghurt (not a bowl or 'portion') and that was the full days food intake.. And not an unusual day.. I almost never have breakfast and often 1 meal a day or a lunch and plate of fruit afternoon.. I am a 110kg on a good day (but 193cm) My wife woke up at 10:30 pm to go make herself an omelet on rice, actually woke up in the night to go cook khai jeow.. She will have eaten at a minimum 5 times in the day something as large as my penang moo days main meal. Shes already had one full cooked meal and its dawn. Rail thin, 45 kgs in her 40s, eats continuously through the day, a meal every other hour. 

4 hours ago, SuperSaiyan said:

 

No, she does not.

You dont know her.. She absolutely does.. meal after meal all through the day.. Its noon and so far I have had a banana, shes had 3 meals.. 

9 minutes ago, Henryford said:

Look at Thai meals, usually very small portions. Also no puddings, no cakes, no sweets and (until recently) no fast food.

hmm.. I eat Thai potions.. possibly 2 times a day.. Compared to her 5 plus, a portion every 2 hours or so all through the day.. 

On 9/1/2023 at 2:54 AM, Bangkok Barry said:

Died in 2020 at the age of 89. I saw him once when I was visiting the BP building. If you wanted to invent the least likely looking person to cover Bangkok's nightlife it would be have been him, but there we are.

I dont know.. I think he looks like a fair amalgamation of a lot of the denizens of 'Bangkoks nightlife' ????

On 9/1/2023 at 8:31 AM, richard_smith237 said:

Anyone driving with any sense of responsibility and awareness

Theres your problem right there.. 

On 9/1/2023 at 5:08 AM, brianthainess said:

Attempted Murder! buy a piss head, no money in that, init. 

The expectation that the police are there to stop laws being broken is a western assumption. 

The police are there to make money for the police.. If that means being paid to tolerate laws being broken, or collect petty fines as a tax on the population, that is what they will do. Occasionally social media will shame them into the job of enforcing the law but its only to maintain the primary income processes. Until this changes, with a total rebuild, which they will resist and fight, so it will continue to be.

Police, Army, these power structures are just more clans that have evolved out of a clan based society. In such a collectivised culture the success and preservation of your clan is more important that the rights of the individual, so right and wrong no longer means anything outside of the framework of what is happing to or for your clan. Its an entirely different moral mindset.