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Xircal
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If they go ahead and introduce a law like that it'll kill off any hope Turkey has of joining the EU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Turkey_to_the_European_Union#Women.27s_rights
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4 hours ago, klauskunkel said:
once fluids turn to crystal by being frozen they will rupture cells...imo it is an expensive form of suicide
Apparently, they remove the water from your dead body and replace it with a chemical to prevent crystalization: http://zidbits.com/2011/02/can-a-human-be-frozen-and-brought-back-to-life/
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It sounds like it would have been a lot more sensible to wait until after he'd been to the Wat Klang Mai to withdraw that amount of cash.
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14 hours ago, Stargrazer9889 said:
It would seem this guy had depression problems and sleep issues as well,
Maybe even more health issues. At least he died in a nice hot place instead of
that cold damp and dreary country he came from,
Geezer
Germany 'cold and dreary'? Are you kidding me? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany#Climate
The Bavarian countryside is really beautiful too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berchtesgaden
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18 minutes ago, Anthony5 said:
This thread is about contaminated food at Siam square Bangkok, and particular the false accusation that Subway sold contaminated sandwiches at that location.
If you can find some reliable sources that show Subway Thailand sold contaminated food, please post them here, and I'm all ears.
So long, stop the drivel about Subway elsewhere in the world at one particular point in time, because most of the international food chains will at one point have been accused of selling contaminated food.
As I've been at pains to point out I wasn't disputing that Subway chicken sandwiches tested in Siam Square were found to be within food standards, but rather your description implying that Subway was a reputable company: it isn't.
I've also clearly demonstrated that in other parts of the world people have died from eating food bought from Subway. If you want to regard a person's life as "drivel' then I feel sorry for you. Maybe when one of your loved ones becomes violently ill or even dies from eating something bought from Subway you'll change your mind.
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Antiretroviral drugs are used in the treatment of HIV: http://www.fda.gov/ForPatients/Illness/HIVAIDS/Treatment/ucm118915.htm
Maybe both of them had just discovered they had developed AIDS and decided on suicide by cop rather than face a;slow death from the disease.
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Just now, Anthony5 said:
You can bury your head in the sand if you want to: it's no skin off my nose, but it doesn't change the fact that eating at Subway puts your health at risk.
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Just now, Anthony5 said:
Well, you believe wrong then, because if the chicken sandwich had contained 201 microgram of residues, they would be selling contaminated food.
But not at 10.73 microgram.
And this is about Subway in Thailand on siam square and not in the UK, US< canada or anywhere else in the world,.
So yes, your believe is completely wrong.
I'm not disputing that the chicken sandwich bought at Subway in Siam Square as part of an investigation into food standards was within the prescribed allowance for antibiotic residues.
What I am saying is that describing Subway as an "renowned international company" isn't appropriate due to the number of cases in other parts of the world where customers have fallen ill after eating contaminated food purchased in several of its shops. In the UK incident - Daily Mail link I posted above - one person died and 120 others were takwn ill. Here's an excerpt from the DM report:
QuoteThe world's biggest sandwich chain has been implicated in a food poisoning outbreak that has claimed 120 victims and left one person dead. It appears that meat contaminated with salmonella was used by Subway in its sub rolls, which were then served up in outlets across the UK and Ireland. But health officials have warned that the toll of those affected may be much higher because many did not go to their GP or public health authority after becoming ill.
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14 minutes ago, Anthony5 said:
I couldn't be bothered to google that, because when your food contains less than 10% residues of the government standard, you're clearly not selling contaminated food.
Your link by the way concerned a lawsuit filed by a few customers for food served at 1 particular location over a timespan of 3 days. Interesting enough the outcome of the lawsuit isn't published, so maybe it was just another attempt at defamation.
But I did the google you suggested for Mc Donalds, KFC and Burger King, and guess what, they all gave many positive results. Shall I do it for a hundred more companies?
This thread is about contanimated food being sold by Subway I believe. If it turns out that KFC, McDonalds and others are doing the same thing it'll no doubt be posted here and we'll discuss it when it happens no doubt.
But for now, let's talk about Subway's poor reputation. If you had googled the search string I provided in my previous post you would have noticed that many others have done similar searches (links at the foot of the first page). That implies that quite a large number of customers who have suffered food poisoning after eating at a Subway shop have been active on the Google site in connection with the restaurant chain. .
Therefore I think it's fair to say that Subway isn't the renowned company you seem to think it is.
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5 minutes ago, Anthony5 said:
No you're right, if I was subway I would sue them for defamation because, there food items didn't even contain 10% of the allowed government standard, so why tarnish the name of a international renowned company.
Actually, Subway already has a reputation for selling contaminated food products, so tarnishing their name a little more might prompt them to clean up their act: https://www.ft.com/content/27ebb6e6-8f3e-11e4-9ea4-00144feabdc0
Just do a Google search for: "Subway selling contaminated food" and you'll find many more.
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8 hours ago, Anthony5 said:
So from the 7 checked shops the foreign run one is named while the other 6, which most probably tested identical but are Thai run, remain a secret.
My interpretation would be that only one shop was selling chicken sandwiches which contained antibiotic residues not the other six which were also inspected. No need to tar everyone with the same brush just because they were part of the inspection process which nabbed Subway.
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Once upon a time she was a really pretty girl - photos of her at the bottom of the Coconuts link in the OP - but for some inexplicable reason she decided to make herself ugly, and now she's a dog.
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23 hours ago, notmyself said:
What is the 700 Baht departure tax for?
It's the security service charge. It pays for the baggage check and staff to handle the equipment etc. Most airports worldwide charge something similar.
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7 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:
Yes, she's also on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/best_orapim/
It doesn't sound like it's very profitable though.
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8 hours ago, WaywardWind said:
I cannot believe that people actually believed him when he said he would build a wall and deport 11 million undocumented aliens.
Building a fence along the border has been estimated to cost between $15 and 25 billion USD; the cost for a wall would be substantially higher.
But that pales when alongside the cost of mass deportation. Deporting 11 million people has been estimated at between 400 and 600 billion USD. If his latest iteration is to be believed - between 2 and 3 million individuals - it would still cost over $100 billion dollars.
The effects on the US economy would be enormous.
Perhaps the 50 million plus who voted for Trump should pony up $2,000 each as a deposit on the cost, with a final bill to follow.
The BBC wrote an (amusing) article on the subject in April in fact: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36114246
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3 hours ago, tartempion said:
All Govt people on the list, no Mill owners, no rice exporters, no rice stockers?
See the second to last paragraph in the link included in the OP. Those individuals are mentioned in there.
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Well 30 baht won't break the bank and if they do use it to improve safety standards all well and good: https://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=19814
Let's hope funds intended to improve air safety won't be diverted to other projects like building a new road somewhere or something totally unrelated to air travel.
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I think the friend needs to be interrogated over this incident. After all, he's the one who has come up with this figure of 500 baht.
If the real figure is more like 50k then that raises questions about what that kind of money was being used for and might lead to the friend being arrested. So it's in his interest to tone it down as much as possible so that he can walk away.
In any event I just can't see a debt collector shooting somebody over a mere 500 baht somehow.
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10 hours ago, thai3 said:
what's not allowed, or chargeable as far as food stuff goes then?
It's not specific, but here's a list: http://www.customs.go.th:10039/wps/wcm/connect/custen/traders+and+business/prohibited+and+restricted+items/general+prohibitions+and+restrictions/generalprohibitionsandrestrictions
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I usually bring my GF some perfume which costs about a third of what it does in Jungceylon (which explains why the perfume counter is always empty in rhere) in spite of paying 21% VAT on it back home. I think Thai Customs levies about 35% import duty with 7% VAT over the top of that on cosmetics. Bad news if I'm going to be clobbered on arrival. Let's hope Phuket has one of its famous power cuts and the x-ray machine goes offline on the day I arrive.
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11 hours ago, pookiki said:
There is an allowable limit on items brought in -- I forget the amount. Just keep your receipts. IF the custom officials want to tally everything in a person's luggage, it will take hours to get out of the airport.
10k baht by the looks of it: http://internet1.customs.go.th/wps/wcm/connect/custen/travellers/allowance+and+relief/allowancerelief
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13 hours ago, curtklay said:
Thais are pill happy; they think there is a pill for anything and everything.
A Thai doctor told me, "If I don't prescribe some pills, my patients think I'm a lousy doctor".
Part of the problem is also that antibiotics have to be taken as a course over a period of between eight and 14 days usually, but Thais don't bother with them once they feel better and just throw the rest away.
I was able to buy Norfloxacin myself when I was in Thailand for a few months back in 2011 and that's an antibiotic of last resort. It had been prescribed to me some years earlier and I'd been a little hesitant at taking it due to its serious adverse side effects at the time but it did the job. But when I asked a Thai pharmacist if I needed a prescription he said no and just handed it to me.
One other thing I've noticed in Thailand is that if you buy medication like antibiotics they always take the pills out of the original packet before handing them to you. I was a bit suspicious of it at the time and carefully scrutinized the strip the pills were packed in to find the expiry date. That was OK as it turned out, but I wondered why the pharmacist didn't want to give me the original packet.
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13 hours ago, craigt3365 said:
This is eye opening. I find it crazy that many here say Russia isn't responsible for this. Proof positive:
It's just amazing that in spite of all the evidence that Trump is a lunatic, he still managed to get elected.
You have to ask yourself why Comey pulled that stunt about Clinton's private email server a second time just a week or so before the election. Without that I'm sure Trump wouldn't be sitting where he is right now.
Prawit Wants To Build A Wall Along Border With Malaysia
in Thailand News
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I can't see how they could construct a wall or a fence for that matter. Most of the border transverses mountainous countryside and rain forests with no roads or any means of ferrying materials to the construction team.