Butch
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The bar is now open apparently.
I'll post the youtube URL on the bar and nicks ideas about the coronavirus going on.:
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Boreholes are a good idea and are used almost everywhere in the RP for private houses. No idea of cost but they're usually sunk, cemented in, pump fitted and linked to the tank within a day or two. Now we have mains in our area, I'm going to re engineer the former tank for rainwater collection, but will leave the lift pump attached and plumbed in as a back up. All I need to do is install a cut off valve.
It's probably feasible to run the pump off a solar set up as well, (although I know nothing about solar set ups lol) so for a one off investment it could give free water.
City hall don't seem too concerned about it though.
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I've seen less rebar in WW2 fortifications!!
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23 hours ago, jacko said:
How about SpiceJet??
Saying that I once flew Air India from Saudi to Delhi... in Maharaja Class, I was the only customer up front and well taken care of!
I flew Muscat - Bombay in air India economy once. I escaped with a fresh set of head lice and a peculiar eye infection. Never again, ever in a million years.
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I wouldn't relish the thought of stepping off a Virgin flight and onto an Air India one for the second half of the journey to BKK !
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3 hours ago, jacko said:
That is cheap, more familiar with closer to 4000 baht. Too many bends near the pump isn't great but I appreciate space is usually the issue with these fittings. I often find teflon taped screw fittings leak for a while then seem to improve, providing enough tape is there. My pump is getting old and I have already sourced exactly the same model, meaning I can unscrew the bolts on the pump inlet and outlet flanges, replace the rubber rings and reuse flanges... ie a drop in. Making up new piping is much too much work.
Yep, that blue nylon pipe isn't the best stuff to work with I've found, and the bloody glue gets everywhere, it rips through surgical gloves as well, it must have some pretty aggressive solvent. I also tend to add a smear of silicone grouting around any joints which overlap, whether or not it does any good is anyone's guess.
3 hours ago, forcebwithu said:The house water supply has a more expensive Hitachi water booster pump. I went cheap on the rainwater system as it's low use, intended only for watering the garden.
In the RP we had an external steel tank for the house water supply, it was fed by a lift pump via a borehole and gravity fed into the house water system, however, in Bacoor, (Manila outskirts) we now have pressurised mains water, so the tank will be re configured as a rainwater collection system which will be used for doing the laundry, watering the garden and washing the car which I purchased but never get the chance to drive. I'm intending to put a pump in and will try to orientate it to reduce the bends as much as possible and possibly put a basic filtration system in to catch debris, but not sure if this should go in before or after the pump itself.
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Great pics FBWU, thanks for taking the time to post them. It is pretty concerning given how it has dropped so much recently, there's probably a good few months of heavy rain needed to get it out of the danger zone.
Your rainwater system, is it basically intercepting one of the gutter downpipes on the house?.
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Thanks for the update and the pics. Looking at all the exposed rebar sends shudders down my spine. Any poor sod who slips and falls onto that is in some serious trouble, or worse still, a motorbike hitting it, it's a modern day equivalent of a punji pit.
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22 hours ago, midlifecrisis said:
How far back was that? I flew on many EVA 747s but never realized they did this.
If I'm not mistaken their entire 747 fleet were Combi's, or at least the majority of them were, easily identified by the rear economy cabin ending rather abruptly and being sealed off with a bulkhead. It was to do with their Cargo product which was one of the foundations of their success in N America. not the kind of thing you'd notice unless you actually were looking for it.
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The old EVA 747-400's were Combi's, part passenger and part cargo, if you managed to get a flight in one of these then you have some bragging rights. I've been lucky enough to fly on a 747 SP a few times as well. My best trip though was business on one of EVA's 747's to BKK, upstairs with awesome service and mega comfy seats. That is also ironic as my worst ever flight was on an SAA 747 in economy.
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I am 1000% with you on that irritating, dense, stroppy, untalented and self opinionated ginger cow. She's not a patch on Sarah Jane Mee or Anna Jones, but none of them will ever compare to Angela Rippon !.
Adam Boulton is a good, but a bit gruff at times, but for me the best of the lot is Ian King.
Basic facts though which are easily researched which they got totally wrong is an annoyance.
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I saw this reported on the Sky headlines and the girl made a total hash of it, she said it was the fastest "supersonic" crossing with speeds in excess of 80 mph!. I did laugh.
The old record stood for 41 years (according to wiki) and was held by a VC-10 ,I may be wrong but there are claims that it was previously held by a Norwegian 787, they may be referring to planes currently in service however. Norwegian did it in 5hrs and 13 mins, the VC 10 in 5 hrs and 1 min.
I think it's a great, because Airlines are phasing out 747's, so with any luck this record will stand for a good time yet.
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On 2/7/2020 at 6:05 PM, Pabst said:
I have to really check myself when abroad with this kind of thing. I'm not a body builder but I play a lot of rugby and I'm not a small guy at all. Often when in Thailand, people (particularly groups of men of a certain ethnic persuasion, I'm not going to get racial) who are half my size will just keep walking towards me side by side when I have nowhere to go on a pavement but to step out on the street. I've been so tempted before to knock them over like skittles but I think it's a cultural thing, so will move out of the way even though at home I would never do that. I just don't think they realise how rude they're being.
would these be the same race of people where the men will hold hands while walking along, unaware of the connotations in our society?.
It is a cultural thing, in conversation they're very polite but their social skills and social manners really need a bit of polishing up. I do agree with you, the number of times I've been shoulder barged despite trying my best to get out of the way, but there's never been any kind of comeback, they just carry on walking as if it is normal.
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I used to stay on the Eastiny 10, it was a great place, nice pool, rake of bars opposite, good staff and clean. That was until the Indians started to stay there, spittle on the floor around the pool, they would be smoking in the lifts and the place went downhill very fast.
We moved to the Eastiny on 8 and as you say, it hadn't been there long when we stayed and it was awesome, but again, on the return trip it had gone downhill. I stopped staying on the Soi 8 area due to the noise. Those prices are really good for a well located hotel with a pool though, I guess if you could put up with the niggles it offers good value.
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Ok, I punted the baht at its lowest around 35 to the Sterling (I think). I was about a baht out if I remember ?
Going the other way, I'll put a virtual san mig light as a wager that we'll see 43 baht by the end of Feb.
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Many frequent visitors to 7 will remember Anna Jet bar, it's located near the second road end of Soi 7 on the right hand side as you face second rd. It's also frequently blasting out loud music, competing with Shooters and often has numerous "hello" girls out front.
Well, I saw on youtube the other day that Nick (NDTVi) has done a deal on it and will be taking it over soon. He agrees there will be some changes, noteably turning the music volume down!.
Now, I know Nick is sponsored or has a deal for advertising by the Nightwish Group (he has their icon on his channel) and also own the Acienda bar on pothole, but I'm not sure the level or involvement NW have with his projects.
Either way, I wish him the best of luck on his new venture on Soi 7.
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On 1/26/2020 at 7:48 PM, tombon said:
That Starbucks isn't that bad. But believe it or not I prefer the espresso ice coffee that they make in 7 eleven. Possibly a third of the price than Starbucks.
Now you're talking! My guilty pleasure is an Iced coffee and Hot dog from 7/11, I am ashamed to admit...
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1 hour ago, tombon said:
I visit the malls in pattaya mainly to eat at a restaurant or to watch a movie.
In general all the malls have the same franchised restaurants and play the same movies.
So I mainly visit the one mall which is central festival due to it being the closest mall to the hotel I tend to stay at.
In all my visits to central festival I have only bought 1 shirt from the Calvin Klein store.
I like the Starbucks in Central, also the Coffee and ice cream place upstairs. I was in Starbucks when that farang killed himself there the other year.
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On 1/15/2020 at 7:51 PM, Bazle said:
I had a 'phone call from EVA this afternoon to say that my flight from BKK to LHR on 19 May has been cancelled. I accepted the option of 18 May.
I pressed them as to the reason for the cancellation, and was told it is for maintenance. I find that surprising, and am wondering if EVA is consolidating again.
That's happened to me before, I think if they were consolidating there might be more changes to the schedule. I remember last year they cancelled the Tuesday flights for a couple of weeks, then reinstated one of them.
*Edit in, I just looked at the timetables, they've cancelled a few Tuesday flights during May it seems.
One extra day in LOS, can't be too bad ?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4t7L6p2Rug
Put it in as a link rather than a screenshot, take off at 1:07 or thereabouts.
I'm not getting into the whole Airbus vs Boeing thing, this is another great example of Engineering.
I read a claim (not sure if true) that the Engine diameter is larger or the same as a fuselage on a 737.
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16 hours ago, Pine Tree said:
Yes, I get the brand recognition , but how many big brand shops get the foot fall, especially in Pattaya with its visitor demographic? I don't think that I have set foot in a branded shop for many, many years and they always seem empty whenever I look in them here. So not sure that the branding argument is actually working in LOS, certainly not enough to justify the costs of maintaining mall outlets. Looking at what has happened to the older malls in Pattaya, I can't see them being sustainable.
I agree, probably not much foot fall, or not much in the grand scheme of things, but it is a strategy that many businesses use. The only "big name" brand I ever see busy is Starbucks, so I'm with you on that one ?, the branded stores are often empty or have attractive girls standing around looking less interested than the mannequins beside them!. However, saying that, that method of marketing does work, it works worldwide and it does work very well in SEA.
Maybe they see the visitor numbers into Pattaya and then surmise that building a Mall will automatically give them a share of that tourist spending? - could be a reason one may say, but the equation is much more complicated than that.
Like Jacko said, Pattaya traffic is bad enough, it also gets visibly worse near a Mall, the infrastructure is stretched enough as it is.
For myself though, a Mall does offer a respite from the heat of the day, and also an occasional break in the afternoon away from the bars. I do enjoy sitting in Starbucks, drinking an Earl Grey via osmosis and reading all the papers and perhaps watching the news on my phone (something I rarely, if ever get to do when not on my hols).
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14 hours ago, turbojoe said:
long time no post here anymore
so this big C bike/car auction still exists?
thank you for an answer
Hi Joe, welcome to the Board
Neither have I heard of it for ages and ages. I think the novelty soon wore off.
I am fairly certain there are vehicle auctions in Pattaya, but not sure where. Hopefully an Expat might be able to direct you into the right area for that, otherwise , maybe a more industrial area such as Laem Chabang might have auctions etc, but I'm only speculating.
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Sometimes it's not about making a profit in a specific Mall, it can also be about developing Brand awareness as a result of being associated with other larger brand names sharing the same space. A popular store chain in say, Bangkok might not have anything like the exposure as others do in Pattaya. As Pattaya has perhaps a wider , or more diverse audience (International tourists) then putting a small outlet into a big Mall, negotiating a cheap rent for being one of the first there can carry your brand exposure to a massive audience, from there it's a case of using that as a springboard to maybe another market or to expanding into the area.
As long as there is a demand, there will be Malls. They're seen by the City as another reason to attract tourists from BKK. I can remember when Mike's Mall, Big C and Royal Garden were the only 3 in Pattaya!.
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This one brought back some memories. I used to fly on their Tristars and VC-10's when they had this scheme.
The only thing missing is the clicking of 150 duty free Ronson lighters when the "no Smoking" sign goes out...
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Songkran in Pattaya "cancelled"
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More extreme measures, this is the Bangkok post reporting and they're usually pretty spot on.
Pattaya city hall have apparently cancelled the "Wan Lai" on the 18th-19th April, which is the big one when it gets even more mental than usual.
I think we all know the effect this is going to have on the bars, the local businesses, right down to the people at street level who rely on the influx of both Thais and farangs during this time of year. I know a few guys in town who run businesses, speaking to one today told me that this is going to decimate an already struggling industry,