Thais online have fun as cherished number auction sees "ฮฮ 9999" pass 100 MILLION baht!

[Bluespunk]

2 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

It happens in UK, and other countries I guess.

Never said it was a definition that only applied to Thais.

[Mac Mickmanus]

14 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Maybe, encouraging millionaires to waste millions on space flights.

Just like people waste money going on cruises 

[sammieuk1]

Whoever has the plate covid 1 will be rich and possibly coughing ????

[digger70]

18 hours ago, BostonRob2 said:

Hang on, say you buy it for 10 million then sell it on next week for 15 million. Is that stupid in your book?

Yep, I don't have 10 Mill  just stupid to think about it.

[CrunchWrapSupreme]

7 hours ago, Neeranam said:

While the Billionaires in the West race to space with a lot more than this. 

Space is the place. Humanity must venture from this planet eventually.

 

A space race is of great benefit to all. We realized tremendous advancement during the space race of the 60's, 70's, and 80's, driven by the Cold War. Electronics, computers, aerospace design, materials, all greatly advanced, and likely wouldn't have been if not for that motivation.

 

Then following the collapse of the Soviet Union, losing a rival with whom to compete, along with an economic downturn, that advancement had stagnated. The Shuttle program was obsolete, and following disasters and mishaps it had to be abandoned. It was then quite sad that America couldn't get to space by ourselves for nearly a decade, when we'd been to the moon 50 years before. That finally changed last year, with SpaceX successfully executing their Dragon Crew program.

 

These are exciting times once again, with this new space race. Branson's stunt was nothing new, firing spaceships from airplanes had been done by the NASA X Plane program 50 years ago. But what the billionaire playboy proved was that it can now be done privately, without massive govt programs, for a miniscule fraction of that previous budget. The same goes for Elon Musk. Some may say it's a waste, playing with his expensive toys, but it's incredible what he's done with only a fraction of what the NASA budget used to be, and at a much quicker pace.

 

It's unbelievable Mars is now on the horizon, after that period of stagnation. We needed some people to jumpstart things again. I believe we'll see advancement for humanity as there had been before. My students love hearing about all this as well. NASA t-shirts have become popular items in the markets. Even if they don't get to space, it def creates a few future scientists and engineers.

 

The BKK hi-sos are unlikely to hand over their baht to see food handed to the needy queues in Pattaya, poor Issan farmers, or have quality vaccines ordered and distributed en masse. Well, we can collect the necessary funds by selling them 9999 plates for their Ferraris. In the same vein, perhaps it takes some billionaire playboys and their competing egos to again drive an effort for humanity's benefit.

[SW Happy]

Meanwhile, your average Thais are struggling and desperate.

[pokerface1]

On 7/16/2021 at 3:10 PM, webfact said:

ASEAN Now notes that the cherished number plate business started to take off in Thailand in the 1990s well after the west.

Now the west is getting caught up in a new form of technology " Non Fungible Tokens or NFTs

Create value in thing that have no inherent value. The value turns into psychological hype and excitement around a thing. The first ever twit on twitter sold for in excess of 2 million dollars that's just one of the many NFT that have been transacted on the blockchain. As long as the craziness is shared by many others your safe with your investment as long as it remains non fungible.

At least number plate 9999 is tangible. I wonder how much I could get for it listed as an NFT all I need to find is a few crazy Thais 555

[pokerface1]

On 7/16/2021 at 7:31 PM, hotchilli said:

More zero's than brains...

I think he got a bargain at 1000000 baht as it's a great investment for the future. I mean if you just imagine how a thai person would think then you might understand why he could be on a winner.

Edited July 18, 2021 by pokerface1

[BostonRob2]

22 hours ago, Neeranam said:

It doesn't read "porn" at all.  It is "Pon". 

I thought you were a resident. -ร , is pronounced -orn. Did you miss that lesson?

[BostonRob2]

13 hours ago, SW Happy said:

Meanwhile, your average Thais are struggling and desperate.

The average Thai with a job has got tons of disposable income. Nothing to spend it on.

[Neeranam]

7 minutes ago, BostonRob2 said:

I thought you were a resident. -ร , is pronounced -orn. Did you miss that lesson?

No, I'm Thai. No, it is pronounced "on or awn". I know many people with names ending in  พร and none of them are pronounced 'porn'. 

I guess you are English and pronounce 'farm' like 'fam' instead of correctly, "farim". 

[BostonRob2]

2 hours ago, Neeranam said:

No, I'm Thai. No, it is pronounced "on or awn". I know many people with names ending in  พร and none of them are pronounced 'porn'. 

I guess you are English and pronounce 'farm' like 'fam' instead of correctly, "farim". 

-orn is the same sound as -awn. Morn, fawn, corn, sawn. Porn and pawn are homophones. How would you transliterate the Thai word for arrow? 

[Neeranam]

8 minutes ago, BostonRob2 said:

-orn is the same sound as -awn. Morn, fawn, corn, sawn. Porn and pawn are homophones. How would you transliterate the Thai word for arrow? 

I disagree, "orn" as in "horn/corn/born" the 'r' is pronounced. 

Arrow(ลูกศร) -  is transliterated as "look sawn". There is no 'r' sound as there is no 'r'. The ร becomes a 'n' sound when it's at the end of a word. Early foreign transliterators mistook this final letter as an initial one. 

 

Porn and pawn are not homophones as they are not pronounced the same, where I come from anyway. 

[BostonRob2]

1 hour ago, Neeranam said:

I disagree, "orn" as in "horn/corn/born" the 'r' is pronounced. 

Arrow(ลูกศร) -  is transliterated as "look sawn". There is no 'r' sound as there is no 'r'. The ร becomes a 'n' sound when it's at the end of a word. Early foreign transliterators mistook this final letter as an initial one. 

 

Porn and pawn are not homophones as they are not pronounced the same, where I come from anyway. 

You're struggling. I suggest some gentle afternoon reading of Rooster's treatise on newbies. 

[daveAustin]

On 7/16/2021 at 6:40 AM, sniggie said:

That would look good on a Ferrari.

Even better on a Honda Dream ????

[Neeranam]

3 hours ago, BostonRob2 said:

You're struggling. I suggest some gentle afternoon reading of Rooster's treatise on newbies. 

Thanks for the confirmation that you're a troll. 

[impulse]

On 7/16/2021 at 7:08 AM, BostonRob2 said:

Hang on, say you buy it for 10 million then sell it on next week for 15 million. Is that stupid in your book?

Are they transferable?

 

[BostonRob2]

17 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Thanks for the confirmation that you're a troll. 

Not at all. One final question. Would you show any difference in the transliteration of arrow and teach. By your reckoning teach would come out as "son" as arrow and teach are also homophones. Or do you think they are not homophones? As a Thai I would expect you might know.