radiochaser

16 hours ago, xtrnuno41 said:

So i thought what would they cost buying here in online shop

They cost 155 euro, with rate today 155 x 38 = almost 5900 baht. Expensive as well.

Same like the toaster of same series.

However it is not the most expensive one.

THis was the topper: A titanium bolling tank, not electric. 2000 X 38 = 76000 baht !1??!!

 

There are electric toothbrushes costing 16270 Baht !! Really, wtf , incredible

 

 

 

I really dont get what they try to achieve with those prices. Yha of course money, but I will not ever buy.

You have to be crazy to buy, I think.

From amazon UK.   A lot cheaper than 76,000 baht.   What currency is that 2000?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boundless-Voyage-Titanium-Capacity-Stovetop/dp/B0B9XW4ZV5?th=1

13 hours ago, NORDO said:

I have ridden my bike both ways VTE to Udon and back.  Ship your bike from Bang Sue to Udon or Nong Khai.  Do yourself a favor and print the Lao immigration visa form, fill it out, paste a photo on it and have 40 USD , or same in THB or Euro.  I have ridden the bike through the motorbike lanes both sides.  Might need to park the bike with motorbikes and clear as they do.   Never had an issue.

How long was your one way trip between the cities?   I am assuming you mean bicycle when you write bike. 

13 minutes ago, bbko said:

So you'd be ok if Thai tourists started visiting your country and were begging on a daily basis?

I hear that is happening in New York City.  Only they aren't Thai and they aren't tourists.   Undocumented immigrants the progressive left calls them. 

17 hours ago, BigStar said:

 

Endlessly repeated myth, as I've noted. No evidence ever given, 'cause there is none.

I am curious.  Were you there back then? 

41 minutes ago, Cereal said:

Congratulations. Still, that's a long way from 300 feet. 

Yes and seeing some videos of BASE jumpers, I am very happy about that!

5 minutes ago, radiochaser said:

We can't fish a little more?

6 minutes ago, BigStar said:

 

Wouldn't, didn't, and as you say you have no reason to think they did. Are we done with this red herring?

This bing dot com search did fine more references to Vietnam military going to Pattya in the 1960's

https://www.bing.com/search?q=Vietnam+troops+R%26R+in+Pattya+Thailand&form=QBLH&sp=-1&ghc=1&lq=0&pq=vietnam+troops+r%26r+in+pattya+thailand&sc=11-37&qs=n&sk=&cvid=7D78EECED23443E2ACCC2A3DAFC04E6F&ghsh=0&ghacc=0&ghpl=

3 minutes ago, BigStar said:

 

Wouldn't, didn't, and as you say you have no reason to think they did. Are we done with this red herring?

I just found this on wikipedia..   But, it is wikipedia!

Pattaya Beach in Thailand was a fishing village until the 1960s when thousands of U.S. troops from Vietnam showed up for R&R, leading to the creation of one of the largest red light districts in the world. The heart of its economy remains sex tourism. Soldiers sometimes called the breaks "I&I" for "intoxication and intercourse".^[8] The 1973 novel Saint Jack and its 1979 film adaptation revolve around the American GIs who came to Singapore during the Vietnam War on R&R for the prostitution that was prevalent in the city-state at the time.<sup>[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%26R_(military)</sup>

Just now, BigStar said:

 

Wouldn't, didn't, and as you say you have no reason to think they did. Are we done with this red herring?

We can't fish a little more?

1 minute ago, BigStar said:

 

Right. The point under discussion comes from the erroneous claim from a Daily Mail writer quoted by @HauptmannUK

 

 

It's a common myth sometimes repeated here by those who don't know any better and who'll quote "sources."

 

I tried to edit my post with the following but was unable to. 

Edited: having re read your post I will partially agree.  Most R&R folks probably would not go to Pattaya on R&R.  I know that There were some who had been assigned to the 7th, PCS'ed to Vietnam and went on R&R back to Thailand to visit their friends at the 7th and in Udon Thanii.   I don't know if any went down to Pattya during R&R.   We had personnel TDY back and forth from Vietnam and Thailand, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Europe, etc as some MOS's had a small number of personnel in them.   I was a 05D and there were only about 550 of us stationed in various countries.  During my time at the 8th RRFS at Phu Bai, VN, we were supposed to have 24 personnel working rotating 8 hour shifts.  At one point in time, the day shift (12 noon to 12 midnight) had 3!  A SP4 who was assigned to the RDF site at Chiang Mai was TDY'ed to work on my shift for a couple of months.   

2 minutes ago, BigStar said:

 

So there you are. That's not formal R&R leave. Spending your precious R&R fishing in a quiet fishing village wasn't on any grunt's list of desirable ways to spend R&R. Pattaya as we know it (still lost in the 80s and 90s) took off after the war. 

They were not on R&R.  Almost all the personnel assigned to the 7th at Ramuson station were on permanent assignment with some there on TDY.  At the time I was there, we had RDF sites at other places in Thailand as well and they may have also traveled to different places in Thailand, as I did.     All personnel that went to Pattaya were on regular leave as I was when I traveled to Khan Kean (sp?).   

R&R in Thailand was for those military personnel that were assigned permanent stations in Vietnam.   Like I was and later PCSed to Thailand. 

31 minutes ago, BigStar said:

 

Did you ask any? Link? Dates? Numbers?  Bangkok was the big R&R scene, for obvious reasons. I happen to know a former bomber pilot stationed at Utapao. He and his buds went to Pattaya sometimes for fishing. Had boats out to Koh Larn in those days as well. Great restful place. 🙂

 

During my time there from 9/72 -5/73.  If there are any web site links on the internet about 7th RRFS personnel going there, I have not found them or did and forgot about it.  I think there may be some youtube posts about being down there. in the late 1960's up until the 7th closed in 1975 or 1976..   Personal experience of guys telling me or I overhearing them talking about going to Pattya.   Fishing and being on the beach I believe were the primary reason.   Some of them went down there with their tilaks.  

There were guys that were stationed at the 7th at least three years and one or two that may have been there 4 or more years.  Then there were guys that managed to be hired to work for the business' that were working for the U.S. government.   Federal Electric, CIA, NSA civilians, (as opposed to the NSA military grunts).  

OK, this is the first time I have seen this.  But I don't know if anyone from Radio Research was with them.  In 1959, I think all RR personel were working out of Bangkok.   There was a Radio Direction Finding (RDF) antenna array on top of a hotel in Bankok, There may have been some RDF sites someplace in Thailand but I can't remember if there was.   

I was going to post a link then realized it was from the B. Post.   Do a search with bing dot com with this term   .. did Radio Research have anyone stationed at Pattay, Thailand?

13 hours ago, BigStar said:

 

False history endlessly repeated to confirm bias. Fishing village, true. Popular with troops, nonsense.

Then why did soldiers from the 7th RRFS outside of Udon Thanii like to go down there for in country leave?  

11 hours ago, LosLobo said:

Seems like 'Trump's White house was the largest drug trafficking organisation in DC'.

 

"Trump said at a campaign event in New Hampshire Saturday. “Death penalty for the drug dealers.”
 

Trump doubles down on death penalty for drug dealers | The Hill

 

Why was the CISB changed from 2014, obama and vp bidens years, to 2019, by hand?   That does not look like a typographical error. If I had typed that and made a typographical error it would have been 2013 or 2015.   Yes, the handwritten dates look to be 2019, but I have seen people writing 4's that looked like 9's and had to ask which it was.  

Why the blacked out censoring, what is someone trying to hide?  Could the censoring be hiding the names of personnel that both ordered the medication and received the medication that were in administration before Trump was in office and not during the Trump years?

Is there a computer back up of this data?

Is this another hit piece?

17 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

Does that really work?   
I bought something different here in the U.S. of A. that had a bait that mosquitos like and used propane to create carbon dioxide, allegedly to attract mosquitos.   The bait worked as I found out when I opened it inside the house and in a few minutes I had several mosquitoes around the bait and me.   This thing was supposed to attract and vacuumed mosquitos from 1/4 to 1/2 mile ( I forget which) and vacuum them into a net bag. 

I had it running for 2 weeks until the propane tank ran out.   Wife (a Thai mosquito magnet) and I went out to check the net bag.  Three mosquitoes were in it after the two weeks.  As we were checking that thing for mosquitoes, my wife killed 5 or 6 mosquitoes trying to suck blood from her legs.  I returned the thing for a refund.  

2 hours ago, 1FinickyOne said:

and if you turn them over, though they may have some belly, their back is never fat... 

I take it you have not seen some of the women in Pennsylvania, U.S. of A.!
Some?  I mean a lot of the women in Pennsylvania! 😫

On 1/27/2024 at 12:19 AM, bbko said:

Older, fatter, uglier women (and men) are always more desperate. 

Just because I am ugly and old does not make me desperate!  😁

On 1/27/2024 at 9:31 PM, brianthainess said:

And so is Gravity. On a side note, I once had an automatic car, and the battery went flat, 3 Thai guys insisted on trying to bump start it.   🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

In my lifetime, I have only seen one car, with an automatic transmission, a generator, and a dead battery, started by pushing it.   But it was pushed to 40 miles per hour speed, before it started up.  

 

On 1/23/2024 at 12:51 AM, 300sd said:

She's advocate for abortion rights. That should help. Why not just make her the czar.

She was supposed, as reported in the news, to spearhead efforts to address the crisis at the U.S. / Mexico border.   I did hear her talk about it in a video, so I guess she did her job of addressing it!

On 1/22/2024 at 8:59 PM, Chomper Higgot said:

And stop once the baby is delivered. 
 

 

Is that an all inclusive statement about all republicans?  What about the progressive left?  Would they help women and baby after the baby is born?   Perhaps, if money is involved, is my opinion. 
I helped 6 women find help.   They all went to planned parenthood and were told that they did not provide any prenatal care.   Planned parenthood then tried to convince each of them to abort the baby.   Women refused.  Two planned parent hood facilities referred two women to pediatric facilities (I think they were pediatric facilities), that were no longer in business.  One place referred a woman back to planned parenthood.  

I located three places that helped the women and babies through prenatal and after birth.   Four of the woman were still receiving assistance from those three facilities for their babies and themselves 2 years after birth, I think one moved to another state and one married.   It was easy to see, from literature and other means, that none of the three facilities the six women went to were associated with the progressive left.   Two were not receiving any federal funds.  Those two survived on donations and volunteers from the local community and with medical personnel also volunteering.    I don't know if the third facilities was receiving any federal funds.   

Off topic of my post a bit, but I knew a woman California, that would get pregnant, then get an abortion, because she would then be eligible for free health and dental care for a year!  

1 hour ago, Cereal said:

Yeah.....I just can't feel sorry for people who get killed doing profoundly stupid stuff. 

 

Generally, a minimum safe altitude to jump is 2500 feet and most jumpers open their chutes at 2000 feet. This guy jumped from about 300 feet (judging about 10 feet per floor x 29 floors). Unauthorized entry into the building. Trying to get likes on his pathetically external locus of control personality for his online persona. 

 

He's (was) an idiot. I hope he wasn't married with kids. I feel sorry for his parents. 

My first three jumps for qualification with a National Guard Airborne company were from 1500 feet.   Jump qualified jumpers went out at 1200 feet.

1 hour ago, Henryford said:

A person would fall 290 feet in under 4 seconds. Is that enough time for a parachute to deploy AND slow you down.

Not having a lot a lot of experience with that, just 5 jumps from 1500 feet and above.  I would say the parachute would have to deploy immediately after you jump.   Someone posted a video showing a guy jumping from the top of a smoke stack and it looked like someone may have held the drag chute (pulls the parachute out of the pack) pulling the parachute out as he jumped.   Might have only fallen no more than 25 feet before it deployed. 

On 1/26/2024 at 8:16 PM, Nordic summer said:

I don't normally bring vinegar to the beach, but guess what other remedy I always keep on tap

Where would you buy vinegar for use after jelly fish stings?