ThaiKneeTim

Telecoms cable is mostly underground in the UK, so doesn't have too much of a problem, but railway signal cables have attracted the attention of theives over the last few years. 

Pump compressed air into it then!!! The solution is too easy so they have to spend effort finding excuses instead. 

The moats and central lake of Roi et have diffuser mats that seem to be doing the job, and it's hotter in Isaan than up there in the hills. 

"The tide comes in, the tide goes out, nobody knows how that happens"

Not the brightest person, a nasty temprement, except when the 'broadcast' light goes on.

Personally I never liked his bully boy interview tactics, talking over anyone who didn't follow his way of thinking, or displayed intelligence above his own.

News of the World - Gone!

Kelvin Mackenzie - Gone!

Bill O'Reilly -Gone!

The Sun - On its way out!

Hopefully Murdochs evil empire will disolve before he dies so that he can suffer the sight of its collapse.

If you're a Murdoch fan I challenge you to sell his Sun "newspaper" on a Liverpool street corner.

Only previously testedon ranges, but now it has established credentials having been tasted in combat.

In 1991 as we went to war in Iraq the MOD rushed the new JP233 Runway Denial Bomb into service so that it could hold the 'Used in Combat' badge of honour and therefore make it easier to sell. You can expect to see MOAB sales being pushed on the back of this!

9 minutes ago, Rdrokit said:

The bomb actually weighs 22,600 lbs and has a yield of 11 tons of TNT. That does not mean it has 11 tons of TNT in the bomb. It is filled with 18,700 lbs of H6

 

Composition H6 is a castable military explosive compound composed of the following percentages by weight:

• 44.0% RDX & nitrocellulose
• 29.5% TNT
• 21.0% powdered aluminium
• 5.0% paraffin wax as a phlegmatizing agent.
• 0.5% calcium chloride

For transport and storage calculations we measured ordinance in NEQ (Net Explosive Quantity) for separation to avoid chain reaction. At a military ordinace depot they had storage buildings with fixed separation so had to limit the ordanance stored in each building. it seemed strange to go into some buildings and see boxes stacked to the ceiling, then another that had just a handful of pallets and lots of empty space. With aircraft we could adjust the distance between airframes accordingly.

17 hours ago, SiSePuede419 said:

When I first stayed in Thailand, the apartment had the ground shorted to the neutral.  I offered to help fix it, but the landlady declined my offer.  

 

Smart Thai Landlord not need help from Stupid renter.  I'm sure it boiled down to just that. ?

The supply companies in the uk use a common neutral/earth, this is for two reasons, 1) to bring the neutral voltage down to zero, and 2) reduces the amount of conducting wire needed. To achieve this the star point of to secondary windings of the pole transformer needs to be grounded. I would advise doing it on a Thai installation as the electrical system doesn't seem to be polarity conscious.

9 minutes ago, KarenBravo said:

It's not volts that kill, otherwise 1,000,000 volt tasers could not be used.

It's the ampage that's important.

Not quite true, you can pass a lot of current at low voltage without harm. High voltage, with sufficient current, can cause severe burns. Telephone systems are only 50 volts, but at source they provide high current to power systems, once an arc has been established as a result of a short circuit it's hard to stop. I've had to work on supplies while they're live, and believe me, it's scary stuff, I've seen guys sweating buckets while making the final connection to a new system. 

19 hours ago, Godang said:

We have appliances that should be earthed but my lady says not a problem in Thailand, luckily the shower and aircon have been earthed.

Not a problem until there is an earth fault and the only way for the fault current to flow is through the next poor sucker that touches the faulty equipment. 

Just so you know, it's not just Thais, I worked in South Sudan for an aid agency, my predecessor wired sockets in the operating theatre without earth, next time I saw him in Nairobi I mentioned it; he said "we don't bother with earth wire in Holland". Errm, yes you do, unless it's double insulated  (The symbol for double insulated is a square within a square.). Just because the standard European plug doesn't have a pin, like the British plug, doesn't mean it isn't earthed.

I made sure my pumps, shower, aircon, and the metal framework of the roof are all earthed.

I couldn't find the footage on YouTube, but they did a destruction test on an old 747 airframe at Bruntingthorpe Airfield in the UK to demonstrate the bomb resistant ULD (The container they load the bags into.) although I have no idea if any airlines implemented them.

Bombs on aircraft aren't that frequent but nearly everyone on board a flight takes at least one electronic device with Lithium-ion batteries. The odds of a Lithium-ion  fire are greater than a bomb, so I'd rather go with the ICAO advice.

1 hour ago, NCC1701A said:

“We believe that electrical leakage from the power meter box could have somehow made it through or under the corner of the wall. Mr Wilkinson might have touched the wall while he was gardening,”

 

since when does a concrete wall conduct electricity?

 

" ...electricity-supply meter for the house, with a jumble of connected wires hanging underneath."

 

How is this different than anywhere else?

 

RIP.

 

 

 

Concrete will conduct very well if there is even a hint of dampness. The ground is a reasonably good conducter, the conductivity varies according to the geology, when it's high resistance we improve conductivity with earth or ground wires. In my home region the ground is very sandy so doesn't hold moisture, therefore an array of earth wires, or ground mat, it used to lower resistance. 

Never underestimate the importance of the ground wire on electricalsystems and appliances. 

So, a bomb in a laptop is somehow safer in the hold than on the passenger deck!!!

The risk of a Lithium-ion fire is greater than that of a bomb, so stuffing all that Lithium-ion in the hold isn't the smartest of ideas.

Physics is the same in every country you halfwit! 

What an astounding level of ignorance! Before reporting anything the author of this article needs to do some research, that's if they can see beyond their bias!

There's a huge difference between transgender and transvestite, like the difference between a journalist and a blogger, which are you?

1 hour ago, ajarngreg said:

 

 It's saddening to see so many people making jokes about some peoples' religious beliefs.

 

        

Most people don't have a problem with the religious beliefs of others, until they impinge of my life expectancy I don't either, and this is an obvious case of trusting in a good luck charm instead of driving skills that is responsible for the deaths of people who don't share your faith.

By all means test your trust in your faith by jumping off a tall building, but please don't test your faith as you're overtaking coming towards me on my side of the road. 

3 hours ago, jonclark said:

Apart from saying it is nonsense. Can anyone offer any verifible evidence that it was not the amulets the saved him? 

 

The burden of proof rests with those making ridiculous claims, not those who laugh in their faces!

3 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

It would be interesting to conduct a study and tallying how many of the dead victims had amulets, statues, protective spells or other religious knick-knack fixed to their vehicles and how many didn't. I think the results would be eye-opening, as pretty much every local driver has some sort of "divine protective device". The study's outcome would clearly attest to the fact that these devices are obviously useless. In fact, they're potentially dangerous, because they might contribute to drivers being more careless than they'd perhaps otherwise be.

Only the survivors get to boast about the magical powers of their amulets! 

5 hours ago, USPatriot said:

He isn't hurting anyone if that what he believes saved him good. Then

for him.

 

 

But not good for the rest of us on the roads when fools like this think that trinkets surpass the need for driving skills. 

1 minute ago, fruitman said:

Europe also has tuktuks and they are cheaper than the ones in BKK.

 

I maybe see 1 tuktuk a week in BKK and 10000 taxi's a day.

 

Only backpackers use tuktuk's and they are not the tourists thailand wants.

How wrong could you possibly be!!!!? Tourists like to try the local charactaristics, no matter what spending bracket they're in. The reason most people travel to far flung places is to experience something different, not the same old homogenised crap they used to back home. I think you're confusing tourists with expats!

2 minutes ago, fruitman said:

 

...taxi's are cheaper so who'll take a tuktuk?

Tourists, and as tourism is one of Thailands biggest export it matters quite considerably!

4 minutes ago, louse1953 said:

It is only fact in your mind,nothing to do with reality.I have been eating Thai 95% of the time for 41 years.

I studiously avoid the western fast food crap and eat healthy Thai food, admittedly most of it is in Central Isaan where it's generally better than Bagnkok street food. I lose all the weight I gained on my trips back to my homeland, and feel better for it. I've even eaten the bugs on offer, my preference being the crunchy crickets rather than the chewy larvae, of whatever insect it is! I let my missus be my guide, she does all the food purchasing, at Thai prices and tailored to my tastes (Not so spicey that it takes the skin off the roof of my mouth, and without Pa'la!)

Okay, here's my tuppence worth; As an occasional visitor to Bangkok I liked the street vendors, they added character to the city. If I want bland, sterile, shiney malls I can go to any western city, or Singapore. What I didn't like was the narrowed pathway and having to duck under canopies erected by short arse Thais, so my solution to keep tourists and local farangs happy is to close one carriageway of Sukhumvit for the nighttime traders to set up stalls. 

The market that used to be in front of, and down the side of, the Big C in Ratchada was closed down too, but they've now set up on the vacant lot next door, there is always a solution that keeps all parties happy.

I'll be passing through Bangkok again in a few days, I'll take a look at the market scene to see if it is thriving elsewhere.

On 24/11/2016 at 10:02 AM, Bangkok Barry said:

 

Very few Thai goods in UK stores. Care to back up your accusation with facts? Any?

On 24/11/2016 at 10:02 AM, Bangkok Barry said:

 

Very few Thai goods in UK stores. Care to back up your accusation with facts? Any? From any source?

From any source?

I never made any accusations!!

I think someone else has already busted the "no Thai rice" myth.

Tesco was sourcing much of its chicken Fri. Thailand, although there was an exposé documentary on the slave conditions of the supplier that might have put an end to that. 

There are many other products from Thai suppliers in the Tesco world section of their UK stores. Although I know if no specific items, there stands a good chance that many items of clothing in the F&F range are made in Thailand. I have checked but the labels don't indicate the country of origin.

2 hours ago, Laughing Gravy said:

Yes he was but that doesn't mean he is not mentally ill. I understand why the CPS went that way in its prosecution and I am not against that decision.  Also as a terrorist, again I am not against it just question the exact definition. Better he is in a maximum security prison than a cushy mental hospital prison with chance of parole as he can be cured. Just look at Ian Brady.

Just for those who don't think he was mentally ill to do what he did, when and how, if that doesn't make you a sick mentally ill person then what does.

If he was black, or brown, and had even the most tenuous Muslim connection, the newspapers would have headlined with "Terrorist", but of course he was a white neo fascist nationalist, so the Daily Mail, Daily Express and the Murdoch rags aren't going to point a finger at one of their own kind!

Well of course they're commuted to South East Asia, and Thailand in particular, it was making money for them while they were losing millions in their failed 'Fresh & Easy' attempt to enter the US grocery market.

The Thai business is also a useful money laundering operation for Tesco; they buy goods made in Thailand from the Lotus profits then sell them in their British stores, thereby avoiding embargoes and taxes on transferring money out of Thailand, and all totally legitimate.

1 hour ago, Familyonthemove said:

 

Seen the Red Arrows many times in UK (met the Team Leader many years ago ...  my Father was in the RAF - used to fly a Hunter amongst other jet fighters).  Never get tired of watching them display - will be heading to Hua Hin for sure.  My Dad used to get the display details and tell us where to sit on the beach to get the best view. 

 

I remember when they used the Gnat before the Hawk.  The Gnat made a better noise!  I was just searching for a photo of a Gnat and found one for sale.  A snip at $365,000.

There is a static Gnat on display at Cotswold Airport  (formally RAF Kemble).