gawguy

OK sounds good. Looks like I will wait until I'm home in Dec so I can use my home phone number. It takes voice msgs and sends them as attachments to email.

I'm not sure this is "THE" solution to my original problem of Skype breaking down in bad weather. I don't have or want a smart phone so I can't download app, so I use my laptop via aircard connected to True.

I'm also not sure using a regular phone with a True SIM will overcome the weather problem. Those calls might get broken or dropped same as Skype was. I had a couple of business emergencies during that period of foul weather and had to use a "work around" to communicate. Thus my original post. When I saw info about LocalPhone I was interested because it served that other function of not showing my location and that is a step in the right direction.

Any comments regarding those issues would be much appreciated.

Thanks

GG

So..PM..What kind of info do I need to give to register. I'll give them USA phone #, address, bank acct or pay pal info. How do they verify my home phone if I'm not there? They can leave a message code or something. I get the messages via email. Do they need more than that?

I don't like giving personal info..

GG

I use localphone (https://www.localphone.com) - works just as good if not better than Skype.

Plus, can sign up for a USA number - cost just a dollar per month to have that.

I haven't heard of this service and it is very interesting. I've just read their web page now and I think it might fill a real need for me. I want to make calls to certain people in USA from LOS, but I don't want a LOS number to appear to them... I don't want +66 to show up anywhere and I don't want them to be able to search it out. I want my location to show as USA +1. Does this service work like that??

I can't call these people with Skype even when it's working well because +66 comes up at the beginning of the incoming number they see.

I'm really glad you responded and I hope you'll answer this question too.

Thanks,

Gaw Guy

I usually use Skype to deal with business in the US, but over the past weeks there has been a period when Skype was not functioning. I would call, but the person on the other end could not hear me. Sometimes their phone would not ring. Sometimes calls were dropped.

The weather was bad here - there was rain in my vicinity for days on end. If wasn't raining directly on my location, there was cloud cover and rain threatening.

I have a cheap Samsung phone available that needs a new SIM card as I am using that SIM card in a new phone. I don't want to use the old number for my business calls. Is there a service for international calls that is better than others. And more reliable? (I call USA exclusively)

When bad weather comes thru is international phone service affected like Skype was?

Thanks,

Gaw Guy

The sign translates: "Close - Close gently, gently"

May not be something one puts on a car. I guess it depends on what you would like the reader of the sign to do. I'm curious as to what you want to communicate? Maybe there is something more on point.

Gaw Guy

Okay. You guys are right. That's the name she uses for her email. I clicked "reply" and it came up in the address line.

But is it an actual name? Are you familiar with it as first name, last name. Both words have meanings. "อนุ" and "เผือà¸à¸œà¹ˆà¸­à¸‡"

I'm back home now so I'll ask her about her real name when I get back to LOS.

Thanks.

This woman doesn't exactly understand where to write what in an email. She writes the body in the Subject area. There she wrote in Thai: "Hello, I miss you a lot.

In the body she writes: อนุ เผือà¸à¸œà¹ˆà¸­à¸‡

The she closes with Love ... Lek

What does the part that I have left in Thai mean? Google translate says the last two words mean "Shiny white." Is this a metaphor, simile, idiom??

Thanks,

GG

I hear different opinions / rumors as to when the curfew will end. At one point I heard it would end today, Monday 26 May.

Does anyone know for sure? Is there any source of official information in English?

Thanks,

GG

KS is right.

Google translate says "ความคิดเห็น" - kwam khid hen

GG

On the other hand, you guys haven't been a lot of help on this one.

One of you married guys must know what little word play makes your wife laugh. Yes?

GG

Which rather begs the question as to what sort of wordplay would a Thai lady find amusing?

Which rather begs the question as to what sort of wordplay would a Thai lady find amusing?

When I send a txt to a lady who has come to my room a couple of time and I start out "Swasdeekahp TiRak" - that always gets a laugh.

You send text messages to different women and like to call them all by the name Lex ..

 

I put up a post on Thai smiles on this board, check it out. I'm sure the smiles you get are not because their happy.

I use her nickname and Khun. "Khun Lek" for girl a named Lek. "Khun Pah" for a girl named Pah.

I'm trying to be a little funny, excessively polite. My question is: Do you think a Thai woman would find it funny?

I send text msgs in Thai to women and I often like to call them "Miss Lek" - so I'll say "swasdiikhap khun Lek" in Thai. My intent is to be playful as it would be if I were writing or talking to a young farang woman friend in a casual way. It gets a smile.

I wondering if I'm totally off track trying to do this in Thai. Is there a better way to do it?

What do you think?

Thanks...GG

This is from a Thailand website called Coconuts. And these girls do have some coconuts.

http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2013/10/19/sex-bombs-10-thai-beauties-60s-and-70s

Tryting to put link in a post and when I click on the icon I get a big box with a lot of things I haven't encountered. I just put the url in its box and then clicked okay and nothing happened. What's with all the boxes to fill in? Like "email address" and a bunch of others. Surely you don't have to put in all that just for a link?

GG

How do you say, "I saw a missed call from you." Also, "I don't have that number." Then I ask "What is your name?" I know that one.

I looked at google translate for the first one and got: ผมเห็นสายจาà¸à¸„ุณ. Really? Is "Sai jak khun" a "call from you." What do Thai phones use where we have "missed call."

Thanks,

GG