Daily Moan

[BLD]

My experience of Europe was limited to the UK, Scotland Wales etc with forays into France. Belgium amsterdam. I was about 20

[BLD]

It left a lasting impression, that's why I Still prefer Asia to the west. Unfortunately I'm.having to do a bit 0f both for a while
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[cyrille]

Hang on.

You're in Australia, but you stll prefer life in Laos to life in 'the west' (in your case Australia) because of...trips to the UK and Europe decades ago?

It looks like you're just not that keen on Aus.

[BLD]

Hang on.

You're in Australia, but you stll prefer life in Laos to life in 'the west' (in your case Australia) because of...trips to the UK and Europe decades ago?

It looks like you're just not that keen on Aus.

Exactly.i find it good in some ways especially for the kids but I'm having trouble re adapting . Mrs bld hasn't fared to well either. I'm lucky in some respects as I own the house here and if I didn't I would be fucked. Food is expensive, fuels expensive seems like there's a lot of fuckos taking the piss. In Laos we had a good lifestyle because I has some good jobs but when it became apparent that my options were Sudan or Australia. So I moved back with my family. Just in time as it turned out because covid struck. I was gone for a long time and didn't miss it. Now I'm here for the duration to get my kids squared. That's my priority I'm approaching 60 so my earning power is diminishing, that's OK. I have no dept but raising a family isn't cheap but it's not something I will skimp on. I want the best for them. Yes I think Australia is not so good for me but it's good for my kids. I was gone for a long time . I've also travelled the world and have a lot to compare australia with.

As a communist country Laos seemed to me to be more relaxed than Australia. It's a live and let live society. Here the bullshits never ending you turn on the radio you get some kunt telling you what to think. You turn on the TV it's the same. Just media horseshit via Murdoch. Maybe they had that in lao to but I never had it rammed down my throat like it is here. Plus it very authoritarian. Go 4kms over the speed limit a $100 fine arrives in the mail. Much prefer a bit of old fashioned corruption
So there you have it cyrille you asked. And that's about the extent of it

[hallelujah]

Exactly.i find it good in some ways especially for the kids but I'm having trouble re adapting . Mrs bld hasn't fared to well either. I'm lucky in some respects as I own the house here and if I didn't I would be fucked. Food is expensive, fuels expensive seems like there's a lot of fuckos taking the piss. In Laos we had a good lifestyle because I has some good jobs but when it became apparent that my options were Sudan or Australia. So I moved back with my family. Just in time as it turned out because covid struck. I was gone for a long time and didn't miss it. Now I'm here for the duration to get my kids squared. That's my priority I'm approaching 60 so my earning power is diminishing, that's OK. I have no dept but raising a family isn't cheap but it's not something I will skimp on. I want the best for them. Yes I think Australia is not so good for me but it's good for my kids. I was gone for a long time . I've also travelled the world and have a lot to compare australia with.

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Makes sense.

Are the shark biscuits happy in Oz too?

[Stumpy]

As a communist country Laos seemed to me to be more relaxed than Australia. It's a live and let live society. Here the bullshits never ending you turn on the radio you get some kunt telling you what to think. You turn on the TV it's the same. Just media horseshit via Murdoch. Maybe they had that in lao to but I never had it rammed down my throat like it is here. Plus it very authoritarian. Go 4kms over the speed limit a $100 fine arrives in the mail. Much prefer a bit of old fashioned corruption

I agree BLD. Fair and honest post. While I feel blessed to have been raised in the US, I got tired of the same things you mentioned and more.

If I had to move back to the US I would definitely struggle trying to acclimate. It's expensive and heavily governed. I enjoy visiting now but Thailand is my home with my wife and we like it. But to your point, Australia is likely a much better option for your children and their future.

[BLD]

The kids are great. My oldest just turned 16 and I'm.giving him driving lessons he can get a licence in about 6 months. He's super switched on in school and get consistent good grades I'm guessing and hoping he will go on to uni. His little bro is 13 and on the autism spectrum so requires a special class. This is one aspect of Australia I like
The education system is fair and at this Point mostly free. Of course that all changes if uni enters the equation and if that's the case I will make it happen

[BLD]

It's actually sometimes amusing when my wife meets Australian women and they ask her. How do you like australia and she answers, oh. Not so much. The look on there faces is like she just slapped them..OK.i get it wasn't the answer they wanted but she's not trained in bullshit and just speaks her mind. Aussies are very patriotic but very parochial to if they have never travelled beyond bali.

[hallelujah]

The education system is fair and at this Point mostly free.

Well, that's your whole point, innit?

Good plan.

Get him a decent education and then send him to England to a proper university and to be among civilised people.

[helge]

It's actually sometimes amusing when my wife meets Australian women and they ask her. How do you like australia and she answers, oh. Not so much. The look on there faces is like she just slapped them..OK.i get it wasn't the answer they wanted but she's not trained in bullshit and just speaks her mind. Aussies are very patriotic but very parochial to if they have never travelled beyond bali.

I don't think that many thais or lao or anyone else for that matter, is prefering the "west" to their home.

They are there for a reason

And the "funny faces" when told that, would be the same here.

My wife is here for the kids too, but this isn't her home.


Good post up there ^^^^^

[BLD]

Well, that's your whole point, innit?

Good plan.

Get him a decent education and then send him to England to a proper university and to be among civilised people.

Can you and chitty put him up? He will.require cooking lessons

[BLD]

In Lao I had the kids in an international school from the get go. You have to but that was costing me about $15000usd and I hadn't been working. I did fly back and forth from lao to west Oz to do a couple of contracts to keep the bank account topped up and we had already set a date to leave lao. It wasn't a sudden decision. The couple of months work in Sudan made me think to myself fuck this shit your getting to old for this. So here I am.in Oz. Not going to starve,I can't say I'm content. Because it hasn't been smooth sailing, landed in Perth,my mum died about 2 hours before, got a Joe job ( no offence joe) then covid struck and we all run around in face nappies and had brawls in the aisles of supermarkets. Mrs bld had mental health problems, it seemed like anything that can possibly go wrong will. Oz is OK but it's not the same place I grew up in. It's expensive and weird,chock full of bewildering/ bewildered Aussies.

[VocalNeal]

Frankfurt used to be horrendous. Coming out of the hauptbahnof and people shooting up on the street.

Go in a boozer near a station or in the red light and you'll see that a lot of em have UV lights for this reason. Lots of other places in Europe do the same too.

Must be the reason some taxis in Bangkok have them

[Backspin]

Plumbing experts

So the toilet water supply valve is letting water by even with the tap 100% closed. I worked it back and forth to free it up. Still doesn't work. So then I shut the main house water supply valve off so that I can replace the fucked supply valve. Even with the main water supply off, there is still water weeping through the valve. Fuck is this annoying. Maybe there is some head pressure from the water in the pipes upstairs or something. The hot water tank should not backfeed water and cause this. The main supply valve is not old and looks like new. Its not the problem. Fuck !

I bled the pressure off upstairs and downstairs by opening taps. And I shut the hot water tank supply off in case it was somehow giving the manifold some pressure. Nothing helped.

So, toilet supply off, house supply off, pressure bled down upstairs and down, hot water tank isolated. And.... I am sitting here watching the toilet tank slowly fill.

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Plumbing experts

So the toilet water supply valve is letting water by even with the tap 100% closed. I worked it back and forth to free it up. Still doesn't work. So then I shut the main house water supply valve off so that I can replace the fucked supply valve. Even with the main water supply off, there is still water weeping through the valve. Fuck is this annoying. Maybe there is some head pressure from the water in the pipes upstairs or something. The hot water tank should not backfeed water and cause this. The main supply valve is not old and looks like new. Its not the problem. Fuck !

I bled the pressure off upstairs and downstairs by opening taps. And I shut the hot water tank supply off in case it was somehow giving the manifold some pressure. Nothing helped.

So, toilet supply off, house supply off, pressure bled down upstairs and down, hot water tank isolated. And.... I am sitting here watching the toilet tank slowly fill.

According to you, cash is not a problem. Get someone who actually knows what they are doing to take a look at it!

Failing that, you could do what I did, and get a plumber veto do it properly. I used a bloke who has worked for me before, so I know he knows what he’s doing and he won’t rip me off.

The last job he did for me was paid for by the owner of the property.

[Backspin]

According to you, cash is not a problem. Get someone who actually knows what they are doing to take a look at it!

Failing that, you could do what I did, and get a plumber veto do it properly. I used a bloke who has worked for me before, so I know he knows what he’s doing and he won’t rip me off.

The last job he did for me was paid for by the owner of the property.

If I got a plumber, he would probably just swap the connections with the leaky valve in place. He will just sop up the spilled water with his rags and make it look dry. If I wanted to get my floor wet , I would just do that myself. Granted he would probably be able to do it faster and spill less water.

[Backspin]

All I ended up doing was adding another tap ontop of the old one. It looks a little hocus pocus to have 2 taps but nobody can see it. Doing it this way avoids all the other potential fuckups. Like fucking up the riser coming out of the floor when trying to replace the original. I highly recommend doing it this way

[BLD]

I highly recommend you keep your plumbing advice to yourself, your whole life's been a fuckup, why did you think plumbing would be any different? Dumb ass

[Reg Dingle]

^ So you have 2 isolating valves next to each other?

My Dimplex 2kw heater is blowing out cold air and it's fukkin 2 degrees. How would you fix that Socal. I guess by putting another heater next to it?

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^ So you have 2 isolating valves next to each other?

My Dimplex 2kw heater is blowing out cold air and it's fukkin 2 degrees. How would you fix that Socal. I guess by putting another heater next to it?

Don’t you know he’s rich?

He can afford to be stupid.

[Backspin]

^ So you have 2 isolating valves next to each other?

My Dimplex 2kw heater is blowing out cold air and it's fukkin 2 degrees. How would you fix that Socal. I guess by putting another heater next to it?

Well the 2nd one is small and inline and not a full size valve. Given all the factors at play , it was the right way to proceed. The iffy valve wasn't my primary concern. I was replacing the toilet.

If i tried ripping the guts out of the old tap and bent the riser over in the process or fuct up the threads (bc the connections are mostly seized) , you probably would have just laughed and said all i had to do was screw in a little $15 inline add-a-stop and I'd be done.

Have you tried resetting your heater yet ?

[Backspin]

H2S today fuck

[Switch]

H2S today fuck

Try using English, but also gain a reputation as a poster whose opinions are worth listening to.

[PAG]

Try using English, but also gain a reputation as a poster whose opinions are worth listening to.

Think he's referring to hydrogen sulphide, probably in the context of smell eminating from his toilet. All is perhaps not well in his DIY toilet installation.

Perhaps call David44 if something is rotten in the kingdom of Denmark.

[cyrille]

Try using English, but also gain a reputation as a poster whose opinions are worth listening to.

Umm…think you’ll find the phrase is ‘worth reading’, you silly prat.