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On 4/30/2024 at 3:43 PM, The Fugitive said:
I have True Move pre-paid in my main mobile and AIS pre-paid in my back-up mobile. I have the add-on unlimited data packs on both. Cost 1,800 baht per annum for each. Speed rating 1Mbps for both. I find both most satisfactory. Just done a random speed test on True and got; 25.0 Download Mbps, 1.94 Upload Mbps. AIS is usually similar. Sometimes download speeds exceed 50 Mbps. Much more than satisfactory when I'm out and about.
Same as me I use AIS on my mobile speed is good, but my mobile is fairly new, so speed is good.
But if you look at the AIS website, like I did, I could not find my 1800-baht one year package, it should be *777*7329#
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2 hours ago, Crossy said:
Just remember that "ex" is a has-been and a "spurt" is a drip under pressure.
Hence my business cards saying "Specialist"
You beat me to it.
I heard it as ,(e)x, an un-known quantity, a Spurt, a drip under pressure.
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1 hour ago, Georgealbert said:
This was an update report in the Thai media,
“This incident occurred at the entrance of Lat Phrao Soi 49.
The metal cover for the utility hole, where this accident occurred, was one of the 150 metal covers that were stolen during a project to lay down, underground, electrical cables, A temporary cover made of plywood was being used, said Thitiwut Ngernkhlai, the deputy governor of the Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA).
The plywood was 1 cm thick, and the temporary cover was awaiting replacement by a concrete slab. The contractor stated that the thickness of the temporary cover was deemed sufficient, considering the hole was in the middle of the road and not at a crossing point. Witnesses reported the man was running across the road before suddenly disappearing into the hole.
Thitiwut admitted that the incident happened due to the negligence of the MEA, and compensation will be paid to the victim's family. Measures will be taken to ensure that such incidents do not happen again, he added.
Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said that even if the project was not being done by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, they cannot avoid some responsibility.“
This was on Thai TV this evening, they said the same thing the original manhole covers were stolen.
Thai tv said on more than one occasion, the manhole was Sip-Har, meters deep 15 meters in English, not 20 m.
My first thought was why put utility cables in so deep ??.
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5 hours ago, rwill said:
I have mango trees that are flowering right now. One for the second time.
Growing fruit from seed you are not likely to get the same exact fruit as the parent. There are a few mango varieties that grow true from seed from what I have read. They are called polyembryonic varieties.
It is also possible that a mango grown from seed will be sterile and never fruit.
I would say that Mangos grown from seed should all bear fruit, they are not like an F1 hybrid corn/maize verities that will not have any cobs if grown from kept back seed.
They are maybe? somewhere, some hybrid verities that will not bear fruit, but not here in Thailand as most verities are old ones going back a lot of years.
I am trying without a lot of luck, to grow some Gar-lork mangos, they with bear fruit from seed for certain, an old verities, now not easy to find, if I can find a tree, I will try to do some grafting, will have to wait for the rains for certain.
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4 hours ago, Denim said:
A proliferation of expensive shops does not a good airport make.
Decent seating for those having to wait a long time for a connection would make nice change.
And somewhere just to sit down and have a cup of tea/coffee would be nice, or maybe a beer.
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8 hours ago, Gandtee said:
The pic is not mine. I made a copy of the Busmar Astral sidecar and fitted to my Triumph Thunderbird. My wife, three kids and my mate on the back, did some great trips. Some horrible bugger nicked it on Mothers Day when we were about go to visit her.
Looking at that timing cover bike looks mor like a BSA 650 A10.
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7 hours ago, loong said:
A Farang driving a motorbike and sidecar with passenger(s) in the sidecar may draw the attention of the police as an easy way to make a few baht!
You can carry goods but not passengers in the sidecar.
I have been using a side car now for 6 years ever since a hip replacement op, never a problem with the BIB. having been riding motorbikes for 40years plus no problem.
The problem with Thai sidecars is that they are never set up right, they never get the right toe in on the sidecar right, that makes them difficult to ride, the wife's side car was bad until I set it up right, now it rides a treat.
Where you get, you can only carry goods not passengers from I do not know, look around you not all side cars are used for selling hotdogs and meat balls, defiantly more outfits hauling people than goods.
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Not certain, if it has thorns could well be a lime tree.
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I would say from Swampy, go to the North Easten Bus Terminal ,Morchit, and get a bus cost? No more than 500 baht, a VIP night bus might be a bit more, all the buses are air con good seats.
I would feel safer in a bus than a 5-hour taxi ride, at least a bus will have a toilet.
Now having done a lot of miles o9n buses over the past 20 years, that would be way I would go.
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1 hour ago, MicroB said:There isn't the money to pay for overseas pensioners, who mostly don't vote, who mostly don't pay taxes, to have their pension increased.
We know they is no money in the pot, but as for paying taxes, like most Brits living out of they own country and have been paying the NI tax for 35 years, so surly they should be able to get the increase.
Note, with the triple lock coming into force in the UK pensions have gone up, but more than one person has said it is now going beyond they 12000 GBP personnel allowance, and they are saying they could well be having to pay tax, after paying tax they could be down more money than before the increase.
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How long is a piece of string? , when a tree bear fruit depends how well it is growing, and how well it is fed and watered? we had a Kaffer lime tree that did bear any fruit for 8-9 years after we planted it ,and we have a Pomelo tree been with us for the same time, still no fruit.
Also, Mangos like the cool season, it helps set the flowers.
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Sugar cane like water, any dry spell will show in reduced yields.
In my area the op has got it wrong, cassava price is at an all-time high, more cassava is being grown this year than in past years, a lot of cane has been ploughed out and not replaced.
Our local sugar mill this year received 1.5 million tons of cane ,let's see what next year will bring.
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13 minutes ago, dinsdale said:
Making an F1 street circuit in Bangkok would not be an easy task. Not only does a track need to be set out there also needs to be space for the pits and grandstands. Apart from that having a street circuit means massive disruption to traffic in the area for a couple weeks. Maybe out near Savanabhumi Airport. I would be very interested to see a plan of where it would be but something tells me as it is they have no idea. Reality is though that the F1 world circuit is full and to break into it is not easy.
My first thoughts where they would have to do some very serious road repairs before they can even think about F1 in Thailand, a trip down to Singapore would be a good idea, to see how it is done, and it works.
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3 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:
I have listened to people who live close to CMU, ages around 40 to 50, speak about the much cooler temperatures they experienced, at all times of the year, several decades ago.
CMU, at that time, was surrounded by heavily forested land.
These people seem nostalgic for the days when they did not fry in the heat, and also the days when they could enjoy crisp cool low-humidity air, much of the year.
Those days are long gone.
Instead, we can take a look at this graph for a LOOK BACK or a LOOK FORWARD to what has gone before and what is ahead concerning the temperature anomaly in store for us.
Not a particularly rosy picture is painted by these graphs:
Note that the rate of change will continue to increase, as well, which is something referred to as intensity. And, this can't be good.
NOTE: Unfortunately, although the report was published in 2021, the above graphs seem to have been based on data collected before 2005. And, since this rosy picture continues to become even bleaker, as time goes by, I suspect that the newer data may look even less appealing to the average Thai citizen, not to mention the Farang lurking about here.
NOTE 2: I guess it's NOT our imagination that, in the near past, temps actually WERE cooler:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_Thailand
Interesting graph, when I first come here in in 1993, I was told Thailand had by then, cut down 75 % of their forests, in my area cental Lopburi, it was all wooded the wife can just remember that, older people can remember hearing elephants trumping.
Now, it just an agriculture area, where cassava, corn, sugar cane rules the roost.
The wifehas said a lot when she was younger it never got this hot, and she has been in farming for a lot of years and would know.
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14 hours ago, Pesche said:
"coping with the growing challenges posed by climate change."
THERE IS NO CLIMATE CHANGE!
Stop it!
We have El Niño and it is peak of the hot season.
This is NOT the "climate change"!
Up to about 10 years ago, not many people had heard of El Nimo those that had said it happens every so many years, now every one knows about El Nimo it seems to come more frequent now. ...................Explain.
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On 4/19/2024 at 2:57 PM, spidermike007 said:
I believe the Italian-Thai Development (ITD) Plc. is currently building the Rama 2 project leading out of Bangkok southbound. This overhead highway seems to have been under construction already for the last 10 or 15 years and considering that they're only a kilometer 36 it looks like they might have 10 to 30 years to go.
So this company obviously needs help, they are moving very slowly, the project is a disaster with constant construction going on, both in and out of Bangkok.
It's actually quite an abomination.
They is definitely sometime well wrong with the management/running of the company they have been the main contractors of Bangkok's BTS ,the sky train, since day one, over 25 years ago now. and it is still on going.
If they cannot make any money now, as I said something is well wrong.
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Have a look at your foot valve, if you are priming the pump all the time, that could be blocked or a weak spring /seal, I have had that problems with our pump, also check inlet pipe connections, any leaks in the suction pipe the water will not flow properly.
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This subject often comes up in the UK, get stuff off the road on to trains, very true.
But, more so here in Thailand than the Uk, you first have to get the said produce to a railway depo, that could imply a long road journey, if you live in a rural area like most farms are.
And what about the infrastructure at the depo, that will have to be upgraded, for loading, then unloading no single-track roads now.
Can not see it working.
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28 minutes ago, norbra said:
Around 4pm my dtac data Sim gave up, too busy with users chasing results for lucky numbers.
Funny you should say that, trying to listen to my radio vie AIS mobile sim and my Bluetooth speaker, it gave up at about the same time, did not think about the lottery.
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8 hours ago, Tom100 said:
The lottery in Thailand is hugely popular despite the low odds of winning and the unfavourable payout ratio. The payout ratio for the Thai lottery is 60%, as compared to worldwide averages of 74% for bingo, 81% for horse racing, 95% for Las Vegas slot machines, and 98% for blackjack.
When Covid was about no lottery tickets were sold, then we found out that the Thai lottery was the biggest sauce of income for the government.
With your 60% pay out that would be about right.
Another Thai oddity, most countries they biggest form of income would be income tax, but, anther counties do have the underground lottery, plans afoot for the government to sell two and three number ticket like the underground lottery does ,if they do and they is no underground lottery ,very unlikely, that could double they income ,as more than one person as said more money is spent on the underground lottery than on the official government lottery.
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interesting they went to the CEO of the Carabao group ,they beer sales I would say are not good, alcohols sales may double but not his that is when you can find it, I give they Bier Dum, the dark Larger, which is their best 6 months then it will be no more, not to the Thai pallet, not sweet enough.
Thailand Development Research Institute estimated that road accidents caused an economic loss of over 642 billion baht in 2019, with 19,904 fatalities.
The above figures are not good by anyone's reconning, but what percent where due to alcohol? but when governments work out ow much tax alcohol sales bring in, not a lot will change.
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Is It?, in my rural area, Lopburi, it has been one of the quietest Songkarn festivals for many a year, they are a few places where lots of people gathe,r but as a rule very quiet, I have been out on my motorbike and come home dry.
The reason, the very hot weather, or more likely the economy is not good, not that our intrepid government would say so, in so many words.
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6 hours ago, mfd101 said:
Just what the Ukrainians need. Now.
Did I read somewhere over the past 2 days?? they are going to send it to Ukraine, if they do it will be a good testing ground.
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I do not think Iran will attack, but they are losing face by not attacking, especially after the Israel attack on its consulate in Damascus.
But they know if they do attack, they must know they cannot win, if the West joins in which they will, Iran will get bombed, and they know which facilities to attack.
If Iran has the bomb, would they use it, again I would say no, but they could well use Hamas, Houthis, and Hezbollah to attack ...who knows what, which will cause chaos.
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Thailand Central Bank Blocks Additional 1% Fee on Credit Cards
in Thailand News
Posted
Long story short, for the first-time last week I had to use my UK bank cark to make a cash withdraw 5.1 % was Kasikorn charge, then UK bank charges.
Glad I am not a tourist here on holiday using a Uk bank card or any other bank card, to withdraw cash ... an expensive holiday.