Daily Moan

[SKkin]

They probably don't know what it is.

I didn't even see it at first. Maybe a different color option to make it stand out more?

Same problem here. People banging on my door when there is a chime right there. But it's also white on a white door frame. Never bothered changing it...

[Bogon]

Installed a door chime on our front door about six weeks ago. Not a single Thai visitor (most being courier delivery drivers) has used it. I've no idea if they have an aversion to such things or just don't see it. Am actually thinking quite seriously if I need to put a sign highlighting it, particularly if we get Thai guests to our homestay

I can solve this mystery.

Thais won't enter the grounds of a property unless they are given permission. Due to the laws, this means you are well within your rights to shoot anyone who enters your property without consent.

You need to install the bell on your boundary wall next to the entrance.

If you look all around the moo baans, this is where the bell is normally located.

[jabir]

Pointless drying off after a shower when you're dripping 2 mins later!

Will it be aircon or some hastily concocted bike chores?

[nidhogg]

Thai immigration queue at swampypoom. Welcome back to Thailand.

Sigh.

[Switch]

Thai immigration queue at swampypoom. Welcome back to Thailand.

Sigh.

I've had too many similar experiences in asian countries, even Singapore queues are bad at times. Then again, it was the same in UK last time i went back in 2015. They had just installed the new biometric gates, so not too bad for natives.

My first time into Indonesia a few years ago, I was at he front of the plane and got my baggage first. Into the nuts and bolts department all smiles, and got searched for drugs, suitcase, washbag everything emptied. They even took one ibuprufen tablet and tested it in front of me because it wasn't labelled. Can't grumble too much, because they were actually quite civil about it. Just me not being prepared.

Left the scouts about 50 yeas ago.

[nidhogg]

Swampy is full fingerprints in and out now.

[Switch]

Swampy is full fingerprints in and out now.

Painfully slow too. Was in and out about a month ago.

[David48atTD]

Swampy is full fingerprints in and out now.

for Thai Nationals also?

for Kids?

[Luigi]

Whip out yer todge.


'Scan this bitch'.




Or maybe not. That's the TM69 requirement coming in next year.

[Chittychangchang]

Hot women at work flirting and giving me the eye.
My how times have changed.

[Bettyboo]

^ pictures or it never happened...

[Chittychangchang]

Etiquette my dear chap etiquette

You'd have to prise me off it with a crow bar

[docmartin]

Fuck apple and their fucking fuckitty fucked ifucking cloud upgrade your ifucking storage.
Fuck off.

[Chittychangchang]

Fvck the clock and time.

[Chittychangchang]

Neighbours roofers are gonna start cutting tiles and banging in 6 hours, my alarm call!
Cvnts!!!

[Latindancer]

^ Commiserations. I've had builders over the road with humming, buzzing and grinding machinery for a while now.

[jabir]

For 60bt a pop I expect a straw that reaches the bottom of the coke bottle!

[klong toey]

Blimey leave Gert at home alone think she tried to take a bath in the wet room basin. Yesterday video chat she mentioned a problem in the wet room video footage revealed the sink laying on the floor, luckily she didn't brake the water pipe to the tap.

[nidhogg]

for Thai Nationals also?

for Kids?

Cant say - coming in the Thais are separate. Did not pay that much attention going out. My guess would be kids also.

[docmartin]

Twas in Swampy and Changi yesterday going home.
So many space cadets standing in thoroughfares, phone-walking eyes down, crossing pedestrian traffic streams without a thought etc etc.
They don't establish the eye contact that enables inconvenience avoidance.
Do they drive this way ?
Are they responsible for the kamikaze scooter attacks experienced on Thailand roads every day ?
Can they be ground into nutritious meal for shrimp farms ?
So many questions, such little progress.

edit - upon reflection the above sounds a little rough.
The required grinding should be done in a caring, sensitive, culturally appropriate and environmentally sustainable manner.

[NamPikToot]

Well it's been hot here in the UK +30 Deg c, today its cooled somewhat but you still want your windows open and there i am sat with a cold one when me nose starts twitching. Is that Buttfly or The Gent practising tomorrows sausage oratory i smell? nay tiz the local salt of t'earth reinvesting the shite he's amassed during the winter and applying it to the fields up wind - so - cool and ingest shite particles or ..... the joys of cuntry life

[tomcat]

the joys of cuntry life

...count your blessings: fewer dangerous snakes stalking your pets...

[SKkin]

the local salt of t'earth reinvesting the shite he's amassed during the winter and applying it to the fields up wind

Organic farming. Better than all those chemical fertilizers...

What's always fun is when you're the one on the tractor spreading the shite on a windy day and you get into the wrong position with the wind behind you. Been there, done that.

[NamPikToot]

...count your blessings: fewer dangerous snakes stalking your pets...

correct but some woman had her prized puppy chihuahua pooch pinched by a seagull the other day

Organic farming. Better than all those chemical fertilizers...

not quite sure how organic the shite is.

There's still a certain miasma in the wind and thankfully the temp has dropped markedly.

[Mandaloopy]

Did the UK online identity check on gov.uk- a simple process according to the site, only 15 mins of my evening taken. Erm, the reality was success, but it took the best part of 2 hours. If anyone has to do the same thing, save yourself a headache and use the postoffice app