tommy dee

no bans at all.. welcome back 🙂

Please dont turn this thread t a political one,   thanks

Suzi Quatro, still touring, currently in oz and playing to huge crowds.  its in their blood and they need it as much as the fans

HEADS UP.. the visa office in BKK is MOVING.  mid this month it leaves the "trendy" building for Rama 9.  check links on their website

as a result of a long talk decades ago with a pal who is a heating specialist in the UK.. I learned the timing heating is a mistake.  so coming on an hour before u get e etc etc.  the thing is its cheaper to MAINTAIN a temperature than slog a system to get there from cold, heating first the wals, floor, furniture air and then finally you

so as an experiment here, in a decent sized house with modern ac units.. i and two pals elsewhere tried the test for a month in the hot season.  my bills went DOWN with ac on 24/7  set at 25.  ( one pal went up as his house has crap insulation)

In the Uk hositpals  are told to heat at 22-23 degrees.  so when Mum was really fragile, I set her house to that.  Home until this past weekend I had the same there and was comfy, despite coming from here.  Here in Thailand, am happy with the cool house and best of all, of course, ac dehumidifies.  if you ever check the water output from a single ac unit you will be amazed.. pints and pints per day.  that otherwise is in the bedding, wardrobes etc.  

WARNING.. personal attacks onthis board will not be tolerated and, sadly, will lead to extended holidays.  thanks for understanding

i think you might be disappointed in this forum if you imagine that it is a place to look for sex.  

as you may know I am now in the UK, with my mother's funerl this friday and then some time sorting things out.  maybe its me, but I feel lik I am in a foreign country.  

Of course I know my way around, but many roads have changed.  but attitudes, people seem to have round shoulders and complain all the time about life.  the weather maybe doent help but its tough for positive people to deal with for sure.

I am staying in my mother's house,, which seemed to bother some but not me, and have a lot to do as am scanning a ton of photos to share PLUS working on the radio from here, but outside.. daunting.

anyone else find the same?

my wife is a language teacher, thai, English and German with qualifications.  she is a partner in the IPASA language school, north pattaya.  i think one on one is 500 baht an hour.  and she does online too.

12 hours ago, Stillearly said:

You can use Avios on Qatar , just set up an frequent flyer account with them and you can transfer Avios between the two 

tried that, then got a massive price from quatar.  any way now booked on el cheapo with plenty of curry..  will post the results :)...got a result onthe cr rental.  told them it was too dear, they came back 80 quid cheaper

this is one of the reasons I taught my kids, and grand children to take no punishment form others.  my memories of school are not good and I still have them, but block them.  5 horrible years .  what made it worse was that I was the nly local Kid in our school so when I got off the bus it was a run to escpe the local gang of wannabee hoods.  i had nearly forgotten that until now

same for me. was a huge bus eva fan, and BA too.  BA doesnt fy here any more, and I have a shed load of avios, and eva prices are silly.  flying next week to UK.. one stop.. adding just about 2 hrs to the non stop time.. will report on it later but will be interesting and at 78K baht.. affordable

the dep head was our worst, also he was the sport and physics/checm teacher.  a total wanker.  took pleasure in treating boys badly and was a snide little fucker, ex pupil of the school so failed everywhere and came back.  sadly after the HM reitred this bloke took over the school.  by then i was long gone.  he ran it into the ground.

ALSO  I was set to fail maths and phys chem thanks to him.  My dad was smart, took me out, put me in a crammer school, 6 hrs a week, in a week or so I was rocking with the best and passed with good grades.  that "man" is despised by numerous ex boys who to this day wish to read his obit with glee

i dont think he is a member on here

3 hours ago, Krapow said:

Thankfully this forum is not one for wild rumours, slagging people off, being vindictive or just downright nasty to anyone in general, but specifically board members of these types of forums, business owners in Thailand, just well known ex pats or the like, that can blight these forums. 

I used to be a member of a forum that was terrible for the above. Have no time for that sorta nastiness it in my life now.

I think it's why this forum has survived, while plenty other more established have not. I like to think we're all adults here, and decent people. I mean, it's very, very rare the Mods have to intervene in anything, bar the odd 'politics' related stuff. While we can still have a great laugh and take the piss outta eachother.  There's no malice.

Long may it continue ...

we are lucky in as much as on this board, being a mod is an encouragement to sleep.  very little to do in the work room.  the board and even new members, all settle in in a decent manner.  thx.  as to gossip,, well social media is awash with crap that is copied and pasted without checking.  the new world is here

chunkyGrain.bmp

if you bear in mind the average MP3 song file is about 2-3500 kb.. this silly background pic is twice the size of hotel california

so it still uploads, but in this case when you click the icon, it downloads to YOUR phone or PC, for you to see.

I cant fix that..  but can at least explain.  as someone here wise than me pointed out.  resisizng is the best way and save as JPG then you wont have a problem.  a a bitmap file is always massive

background_cli.bmpbackground_cli.bmp

the above alloaded v quickly, but are of course not huge files.  that the issue on all forums,  storage capacity management,  not b us but by the software

you can set the quality on your camera or phone.  most, like me, leave at the best of the best but thats also eating up phone memory.

this a far larger file so lets see what happens

background_cli.bmp

end of first gulf conflict, flew into bahrain and was picked up, to travel to SA via the causeway.  in the middle was an island affair with customs.  demanded to know why a brit had US Army ID, then took all bags from the boot and dropped them from a great height before going to make a phone call.  told later that was their trick, to see if any bottles smashed .. and nick you, as SA is almost a dry country ( minus local brew sadiki of course)

UK leaving on Eva, cops pulled me over, and asked questions I was kinda rude, they then stopped me and threatened to prevent me boarding.  meanwhile bloke cam back and had everything on me, told me I might have a problem renewing my shotgun licence next time.. cnut..  told he could keep it  ( I Was moving over here soon ).  needless to say, I made the flight

yes agree.  i have rediscovered the "nice to nice" attitude that had worn out.  i still tho am happy to rip to bits ( verbally) anyone who start a ruck but I wont be the one who starts it.  and now actually try to give them a chance to worm out of it

i am an awful lot more tolerant now, a lot thanks to working and living with Thais.  just the way it is

6 hours ago, ChiFlyer said:

No, I mean 1,000 kms.

 

I did an oil change every 6 months, even if the mileage did not warrant an oil change. I believe that even if it is just sitting the oil needs to be changed periodically.  

sounds good.  just a suggestion, location and photos might help boost sales

40 minutes ago, Bazle said:

I don't think I've noticed it worse than it has been here today. 😠

The Thai government is very keen to protect Thailand's image abroad. Don't they realise how bad an image the smog portrays?

i have had a sore throat from it for 2 days and today eyes were watering

today we had 165 at studio ffs