FrankCrank
Old layabout
Not a lot. May go some way explaining why Thailand has pretty much the worst accident/death ratio in the world, pro rata.
Pointless & impractical vehicles
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Not a lot. May go some way explaining why Thailand has pretty much the worst accident/death ratio in the world, pro rata.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Having been to Thailand, India and Nepal, I'm surprised at that.
I was in Bangkok last year and the driving standards were frightening especially the scooters
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
I was taught by locals in Thailand to just cross the road: cars would go around you, and it worked. I found this relatively benign compared to the "Move or die" attitude prevalent in Mumbai, and the "Any gap will do, including pavements" approach of drivers in Kathmandu.
FrankCrank
Old layabout
Zebra crossings catch a lot of visitors out. They assume approaching vehicles will slow down and stop, but for sure they don't.
Complete waste of paint really, most Thais have never seen a Zebra, so why would they stop to let one cross the road?
Up in Chiang Mai they've added stop lights to pedestrian crossings - only marginally better.
Thais are generally nice people, but something happens when they get behind a steering wheel, or on a motorbike, they seem to hate every other road user or pedestrian. Been here 20 years now, and asked many folk about this, and all I get is a shrug of the shoulders. Most strange.
Complete waste of paint really, most Thais have never seen a Zebra, so why would they stop to let one cross the road?
Up in Chiang Mai they've added stop lights to pedestrian crossings - only marginally better.
Thais are generally nice people, but something happens when they get behind a steering wheel, or on a motorbike, they seem to hate every other road user or pedestrian. Been here 20 years now, and asked many folk about this, and all I get is a shrug of the shoulders. Most strange.
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
On another site, a poster from Thailand said there were 321 deaths on the roads over 7 days of New Year and Songkran. This was only deaths at the scene. No numbers for deaths after the scene.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
I want to pick the grand-daughter up from school in that
she would be SO embarrassed!!!
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
In about 1983 it was pointed out to me by a friend who rode motorcycles that Judge Dredd's Lawmaster bike was impractical because the square tyres would have prevented him from banking into corners.
I don't know if this is true, and I don't understand why I can remember this, 40 years on, when I can't remember a password I changed 10 minutes ago.
I don't know if this is true, and I don't understand why I can remember this, 40 years on, when I can't remember a password I changed 10 minutes ago.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
To be fair I have trouble with passwords as well
I am fine at the ones I used on the computers I used in the 1980s
not so good at the ones I changed yesterday
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I can remember my first ever computer password, circa 1982. It only had five characters. None of this numbers and special characters malarkey. Eee passwords were easier to remember in the good old days.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
We had a security firm in once - they had just finished auditing the computer security of the company over the road
They were quite pleased that we generally welcomed them and were happy to listen and allow them to help
apparently their reception across the road had been different
the IT people considered them a threat and not necessary as their security was perfect and consultants were not needed
The consultants asked for basic access - not security or admin access and said that if they could not log in as 50% of the staff with 24 hours then they would go home
After 24 hours they had managed to log in as 90% of the IT staff
apparently well over 50% of them had their password as either
Liverpool
or
Everton
and this is the IT staff!!!
(guess which city this was in!!)
wiggydiggy
Guru
And if they tried Tranmere they'd have got the last 10% as well then lol.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
TBF at the time I was going to far more Tranmere matches than anything else!!!
although that was not my password - think of the shame if anyone found out!!!
