[Buying a house adjacent to a mounted transformer]

 

10 hours ago, impulse said:

Old timey oil filled transformers used PCB's as a cooling/insulating fluid.  That's what causes cancer, but only if it's no longer sealed in the transformer.  Occasionally, transformers do leak or blow up and spew their die-electric fluid, but it's pretty easy to avoid contact.  And most transformers made in the past few decades have been PCB free, though someone else should be along soon with more details for Thailand.  Besides which, there are worse things very common to Thai construction and electrical installs.  But that's a whole 'nother thread.

 

EMF's at the 50 hz range aren't suspected to cause cancer as far as I know, otherwise you'd get it from your home wiring and appliances.  It's not as strong as the current in the transformer, but it's much closer- so the effects would be more profound by the inverse square rule.

 

Which leaves the aesthetics of having a transformer so close.  Along with a possible irritating hum for a transformer that's not in top condition.  Or a crackle for one in a very humid environment.  (I had both from transformers near my Asoke apartment in BKK, but not too irritating from 25 meters away)   Those are personal preference issues and not a cancer thing.

 

 Thanks for this kind reply, I appreciate the details

[Buying a house adjacent to a mounted transformer]

2 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

the frequency that transformer operates at is too low to be cause for concern and it is too far away. 

i would be far more concerned about cellphone towers, especially the ones you see mounted directly on top of office buildings. they can have microwave links that use high power to tie cell sites together. 

Thanks for the reply, out in Pathumthani they readily put mobile phone towers on the roof of residential apartment blocks as well.

[Buying a house adjacent to a mounted transformer]

Just now, onebir said:

You can get a EMF tester for <$20; maybe other people can advise you on which kind, what to look out for etc.

ah yea..nice, I may just do that, thank you for the link and speedy reply

[Buying a house adjacent to a mounted transformer]

Me & my better half considering buying a house in a lovely residential suburbian gated village in Bangkok. Wide roads between the houses and even a small man made pond in the vicinity.

Across the road, maybe 10 m there's a mounted transformer. Neighbors house in the picture, they're on the same side of the pole.

I googled and some oil cooled transformers are known to cause cancer but such systems have supposedly been replaced by improved technology in transformers in residential areas in the west.

I know google is my friend but I'm also valuing input from humans.
The concern being radiation and health hazards. I know there's other dangers mobile radiation etc etc, but I'm addressing the potential health hazards of the emissions of these particular transformers at the moment.
Has anyone got any input or thoughts on this?   grateful for any thoughts

 

[Immigration: Red Bull "Boss" removed from blacklist on July 14th - no record of him coming back to Thailand]

Leaked footage Boss talking to his lawyer!

 

 

[Immigration: Red Bull "Boss" removed from blacklist on July 14th - no record of him coming back to Thailand]

22 minutes ago, impulse said:

You're both confusing "have a clue" with "give a ****"

you're wrong, people always take interest in stories involving crime, corruption, money and the elite regardless of the locale.

[Immigration: Red Bull "Boss" removed from blacklist on July 14th - no record of him coming back to Thailand]

7 hours ago, Artisi said:

And, the whole world doesn't read CNN. 

Dude, I think it's pretty fair to say it's international news. The original post was 'outside of Thailand nobody would have a clue about "Boss" and his antics.'

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-redbull/thai-red-bull-distances-itself-from-hit-and-run-case-as-boycott-calls-grow-idUSKCN24R0BR

or maybe you like to read it in goblidigkok:

https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/4q5Lag/red-bull-arvinge-fri--atta-ar-efter-dodstur

[Immigration: Red Bull "Boss" removed from blacklist on July 14th - no record of him coming back to Thailand]

2 minutes ago, Artisi said:

nobody would have a clue about "Boss" and his antics. 

actually it was frontpage news on CNN 2 days ago.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/23/asia/red-bull-vorayud-yoovidhya-charges-dropped-intl/index.html

[Immigration: Red Bull "Boss" removed from blacklist on July 14th - no record of him coming back to Thailand]

Meanwhile, in TOTALLY unrelated news:

https://www.tcp.com/en/contribution-to-society

[Asked to Volunteer for Migration]

On 7/11/2020 at 4:59 PM, craighj said:

 The form had a number of activity types which you ticked if you wanted to do.  Things like driving some older people around, cleaning, English language etc.

yea exactly, same form. The form even had scuba diving on there (!) 

[Asked to Volunteer for Migration]

On 6/18/2020 at 10:26 AM, userabcd said:

Volunteer for migration, you should be asking where to.

Apparently to the Palace.????

I'm told I need to go there to pick up one blue hat.

I kid you not. Another TIT moment. 

[Asked to Volunteer for Migration]

1 hour ago, Bob A Kneale said:

Which "suburb to Bangkok" was this?  Presumably you mean Chaeng Wattana Immigration office which is the Bangkok IB's office, yes?

Pathumthani

[Asked to Volunteer for Migration]

52 minutes ago, checkered flag said:

Probably wanted to give you a special offer on a health insurance policy.

yea who knows. I'm starting to think they need extras for playing the farang villain in one of those migration videos showing what to do or not to do when entering Thailand or whatnot.  As per my profile image, my looks can be true burden sometimes.

[Asked to Volunteer for Migration]

1 hour ago, FritsSikkink said:

So why didn't you ask for what while you where there?

Yep, I tried asking them again and again both while I was in their office and when they called yesterday but the officer didn't know either. 
She was only the one rounding up the volunteers.

[Asked to Volunteer for Migration]

When I and my Thai wife visited our local migration office in a suburb to Bangkok for the annual renewal of my visa, the lady migration officer suddenly asked my wife:
 

"Does he want to volunteer ? "

 

Now, this wasn't pertaining to the renewal of the visa as we were just about finishing up, but she did ask me while I was yet to receive my new sticker and stamp so obviously I'm interested in keeping myself in their good books.

This is the local office so its the same staff each time.  My Mrs insisted it would be rude to decline so she said we'd be thrilled.

That was 6 months ago so I thought they probably got someone else.

 

But now they just called me today to lock us in and ofcourse my Mrs assured them we're still available.

I tried to ask again and again volunteer FOR WHAT? 

But there's not even a hint.  I tried to ask if it might have something to do with they're needing people who speak English for...speaking..to ...kids? But I received no information.
Then I just learned after my Mrs got off the phone 'IT WONT TAKE MORE THAN A DAY' .  

Has anyone else been asked to volunteer ?!   I mean , gee , what are we talking here, scraping chewing gum off the tollway in the burning sun or what?
Of course I don't want to volunteer if I don't know what it is, we only said yes out of fear getting in their bad books. Doubt anything would've changed if we said no, but now I'm on the hook.

not a big drama just kinda odd.

 

This is so Thailand btw haha

 

Any other volunteers out there?
 

 

 

 

[Thailand says it expects coronavirus vaccine next year after tests in mice]

"Drugmakers such as Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer Inc, which is working with Germany's BioNTech SE, are also working to develop vaccines for the novel coronavirus."

 

J&J would benefit humanity more if they just ceased n desisted.
Its cancer causing talcum powder will finally be stopped in the States but of course not here in Thailand.

 

https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/19/johnson-johnson-end-sales-talc-based-baby-powder-north-america-lawsuits-cancer-patients/

 

Boycott that <deleted> right now

 

 

 

 

 

 

[What have you learnt ??]

Shouldn't the question be what have the Chinese Government learnt? 

[Do you believe in God and why]

3 hours ago, Logosone said:

I didn't hear any divine voices. Despite years of sitting in silence. Very interesting altered states. Yes. Mysterious ones even. Were those divine experiences? Never occurred to me.

There's a youtube channel by a fella called Benjamin Bennett. 
He's using the technique sitting and smiling, each time he live streams it for 4 hrs. The live stream probably helps with the self-discipline to not quit the meditation session prematurely. 

Some 300+ sessions, each 4 hrs. (seems kinda crazy ha!)  impressive discipline. He rarely comments. From my limited knowledge of meditation is that you're unlikely to make progress without a mentor.
So you did reach some altered states then? 
 
 

 

[Do you believe in God and why]

1 hour ago, mauGR1 said:

So in fact you clearly have a few clues that intelligent design must exist, but you last reference to God, implies that you'd never admit it "officially".

It seems a contradiction to me, although i am ready to admit that contradictions are signs of intelligence.

Paradox is the name of the game, I'd be weary of anyone who argues in absolute terms either way as all we have are our thoughts.

There definitely  seems to be a design behind it and therefore an intelligence, call it God or call it some force or underlying laws of the realm of reality we're yet to understand.
There's an increasing number of people who believe we live inside a computer program!  A guess good as any.

 

[Do you believe in God and why]

On 4/14/2019 at 9:25 PM, ivor bigun said:

It has fasinated me for years that people can believe in god and that Jesus was born to his virgin mother .

When you realize that there are so many billions of planets across hundreds of billions of light years.

It must be great to believe in a God and that one day you will be reunited with your loved ones a lady once said to me that she knows she will meet Jesus when she dies,i thought gosh he must be busy sitting down with the billions of people who die.

Do you really believe in him or any of the other Gods ?

 

Who the heck knows,  but one interesting things often brought up is the occurrence of the Fionacci sequence in nature.

Each number in the sequence is the sum of the two numbers that precede it.  The Fibonacci sequence appears in the smallest, to the largest objects in nature allowing symmetrical shapes in leaves and that famous 'spiral' 

If you as a programmer sit infront of a computer with a programming language available to you, no matter how long you wait, the program won't evolve and start write itself infront of your eyes without someone programming it.

 

One thing I do know, many people who grapple with the big questions gets sucked into a whirlpool of depression. 

If 'God' existed in the biblical sense, it's a complete sadist - needless to say. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Marriage visa: time to deposit 400,000 baht?]

19 hours ago, Falconator said:

1.5%, American Express

you can get pretty close to that at Krungsri, Im getting 1.2% or so. It's <deleted> but many are crappier.

[Thailand to allow alcohol sales after three-week ban: officials]

11 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Clearly you don't need booze. The Zen and weed working just fine.

Actually I found smoking weed is more of an English & American & Aussie (ofcourse) thing. As I'm not from there it was never my choice of poison son.

Toodle Pip

[Thailand to allow alcohol sales after three-week ban: officials]

3 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

No it's not rude. It's stupid. Right now I'm on an island. Rayong. Most likely stay till at least till June. Been here 2 months already. I can because I'm rich. My gf 7 yr does not "sell stuff" . Yes I live in Bangkok. 

I'm sorry if your northern suburbs folk can't get booze previously. Just means they are fools. Send me pm and I can hook you up with booze anywhere in bkk. Anytime

Did you arrive yesterday?

Your comment alluded to that only stupid farangs haven't understood that the alcohol ban means nothing.
The old TIT and you surely mustve rocked up yesterday doesn't ring true as many locals I've seen here are in fear of breaching the alcohol ban and mon n pop stores stopped selling too. Ofcourse everyone is a fool for complying but that's true for anyone living under an authoritarian regime, including peeps in the Evil Empire. I wish I rocked up yesterday seeing everything with fresh eyes, that would be been awesome, the mid 1990s here was mostly a haze anyway. ????️‍♀️

The gf comment was hypothetical, how could it not be!  All the best~

[Thailand to allow alcohol sales after three-week ban: officials]

29 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Ban alcohol mean nothing.

So a friend of your gf's managed to get some alcohol and the conclusion is only naive farangs thinks the alcohol ban means something?

I'm in a northern suburb and the locals have little choice but to comply. Of course if you're in condo on Sukumvit road and your gf is 'selling stuff in a stall around Nana as she's temp out of a job at the moment'  she may drop that comment as she always knows someone with a bottle of Jim Beam ready to party.  I'm sorry if this sounds rude. 

[Thailand to allow alcohol sales after three-week ban: officials]

8 hours ago, SiSePuede419 said:

Well, at least there's no alcohol in this drinkable Beglian style white beer with notes of orange peel and coriander. ????

 

where was that one bought? ????