huumlaar Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 That video cannot be Bangkok in the 1970s, since the pedal samlor was outlawed in 1968 (I think). When that happened, the samlor drivers began a procession heading north, and most of them went all the way to Chiang Mai. I never saw a single samlor in use in Bangkok. It could be a suburb, such as Nonthaburi. But it definitely is not downtown Bangkok. It looks like any small city in Thailand in the 1970s, or even today. Bangkok's traffic in the 70s had plenty of cars and moved fast! You had to do the Bangkok shuffle to cross the street, crossing a lane or two and waiting until you could get across another lane. No pedestrian crossovers in those days. But Bangkok 30+ years ago had everything you could want. It was a modern city with all conveniences. It didn't look like that video, except for the outer fringes. That is an upcountry town. Notice the rural roads and the "tham boon" ceremony in the pickups. My link Samlor's still in use in Nonthaburi, which I find odd, and Udon Thani, I had the driver race a mate in another recently, my driver was smoking a ciggie, he was breathing so fast through clenched teeth and ciggie, I thought the smoke was going to combust into flames, In Tamworth even in the 70's we had aircon in the Header's and most tractor's. Dryer's didn't have anything, no shelter even, I ran one of the first dryers used in the area, which mean we could head wheat a few hours before anyone else and a few hours later at night, running headers nearly 24 hours a day. But I had to run careful on the flames in the dryers, using a high tech samples of random wheat grains and whatever else we headed. Using electrical high tech testers, the basic concept, more water, more electricity, we could measure the water content, was expensive to buy that stuff! To test the grain I had to grind it to an exact per-determined exact fine grain then press it with and exact amount of pressure in the test equipment. Using a $5 coffee grinder! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobbledonk Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 coss, did you have your MLG emails removed from Relationships ?? That, or I'm somehow blocked from seeing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redbaron Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 they're in the board sponsors bit now gobble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkley Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 Is that private? Like a guy said in another post those were a a jewel here in the rough, though a bit long winded sometimes. Can understand wanting to be protective though on a public forum, too bad, some of us were interested in hearing about real life in Laos instead of backpacker tall tales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elef Posted March 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 Is that private? Like a guy said in another post those were a a jewel here in the rough, though a bit long winded sometimes. Can understand wanting to be protective though on a public forum, too bad, some of us were interested in hearing about real life in Laos instead of backpacker tall tales. You can donate to the board and it's "Open Sesame"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 How do we know that Barkley is not in fact a Laos Government official sat in VTE here to spy on Coss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elef Posted March 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 How do we know that Barkley is not in fact a Laos Government official sat in VTE here to spy on Coss? Correct, but KS can see his IP... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 Correct, but KS can see his IP... Not if using a proxy or VPN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dddave Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 I've been sick for almost 4 years but now start to recover. I think I had 1 post in Board Sponsor forum 2010. So what happened here those years? Instead of reading 200 000 posts I'm asking you. Some old members are still here: KS (of course), Flashermac, Limbo, Mekong, coss, Cent, BB, HH and some more - but not many. I miss SD, OH, ND.... Even LHL (RIP), P127 and WA! ELEF: Great to see your Boardname back up, especially considering the many exaggerated reports of your demise and to which I admit to being a contributor. I'm in the US just now, this is the first time I've logged on to 360 in a while but I'll try to be a bit more attentive in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 He had explained his health situation and why he wasn't posting some time ago. No idea why folks were so anxious to say the Grim Reaper had got him. p.s. On second thought, I think he told me in a PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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