retarius

I am no longer young. I no longer enjoy doing what younger people do. I am happy to go when my time comes. In general I have had a healthy and enjoyable life with enough of everything, and I have little desire to stagger on to the bitter end. Indeed, if I were to have, or develop cancer, I would want it over quickly before the painful metastases begin. If my time were close, I would be tempted to arrange a holiday with my close family in Canada, Switzerland or Belgium and see if I could arrange a nice cosy euthansia party there.

I have never had an accurate prescription test on my eyes since living in Thailand for about 14 years. This includes having expensive diabetic eye checks in swanky Bangkok hospitals. What follows, is my story about what I do to get a good pair of glasses and why I think I cannot get a good prescription in the shops. Other people may well have had totally different and superior experiences and good luck to you if you did. I have taken to rifling through my collection of old, sometimes very old, prescription glasses, and finding a pair that feel good to my eyes. I then go to one of the big brand name chains and tell them to give me prescription lenses the same strength as the ones in the old glasses. This causes immense confusion among the poor staff, but my wife sorts it out. I always pick cheap frames, because why am I going to pay 20X as much for a pair of frames with some stupid brand on....anyway, it works every time. What do I think the problem with the one stop big brand shops in the high street is? I think the problem with these high street and mall brand shops is that their staff are not trained to a high enough standard do accurate testing. If you go back to the same store, or pass one in a mall, check out the staff and see how many staff last a month. In my experience this is almost none, all the staff are almost always knew to me. This may mean that most of the staff who waltz you through the array of testing machines have less than one months' experience.

Sorry, yes. Well I did.

Is this to replace the frigate that sank in the tragedy off Sattahip? Did we ever get a reason why it sank? I imagine it's easier to steer a frigate (in daylight anyway) because you can see all around you, whereas in a submarine there are no windows to look out of, so it might be a bit risky.

In my experience, you will get a visa stamp for a total of 15 months.....what's left of your current 90 days and the 1 year extension. The caution is that I did mine in 2009, so things may have changed since.

Yes I have an unusual and often misunderstood sense of humour. Sorry. For several years....about 10, I took my mother to here local teaching hospital amongst other places. They had a permanent (supposedly temporary) sign saying "Please excuse the delays we're re-organising." The NHS spends about 300 million a year (pounds not baht) on management consultants. I worked as a level 3 manager in a large US corporation for 20 odd years.....our CEO used to say, "if I have to employ the <deleteds> to make this decision then why should I continue to keep you lot employed, that's what you're paid for." I agree with him. My mother died a few years back, but I guess the sign is still there along with the army of dim-witted and witless management consultants.

But if Chinese investors pay to build it, won't they own it and all the farangs will be up in arms about Chinese owning things?

It's certainly quicker to see doctors and get tests and MRIs and stuff. And the people look healthier and stay young looking. What's 30 baht? About 60 pee? I support a point of care fee, but something more like 15 pounds or so (not to be paid to over paid doctors) but to be paid to the excellent managers and Minister's of Health who have done such a wonderful job with the NHS since I left UK's shores.

I didn't contribute to her GoFunMe (sic) Pages. They seemed kinda expensive and the language wasn't exactly edifying. I'm not sure who would pay good money for Instacrap.

Wow a totally unbiased piece by a totally unbiased man who knows intimate details about what a large construction magnate did back in the 80s and 90s. Who on earth would publish such crap....oops. I here I was thinking it was a survey of a couple of thousand people giving thoughtful answers to thoughtful questions.

My thoughts exactly. All theses jokers thinking they can get hot tips off a website, are losers and not too bright either.....

Do what you like with your own money. The best strategy is to keep it under the mattress so that when the phone rings and a man you don't know, from a company you never heard of asks you 'Do you want to make a fortune today, send me 10 million baht" Then you can do it immediately from the post office. I know loads of people who have made a fortune this way, I haven't made a fortune because I didn't follow their advice.

Funny it has a lot of graph filled analysts reports from Goldman Sachs, Merrill Streep and other luminaries.

Slap 'em Bob, that will put a cheery smile on their faces until they see the tip.

Ugh! and fill it with lies, graphs, hearsay and nonsense. Anyway, one already exists it's called ZeroHedge. and it has loads of graphs you can't actually see, and graphs without the axes marked as to what they are referring to. You would love it,

Joshua Slocum might have been working with real wood grown on actual trees and stuff and oils made from. actual fruit, not drilled from the wells in the ground then refined. Who knows. I know it doesn't sound believable but it used to happen....people chopped trees down with axes and made garden furniture with them. I remember going to Muir Woods once and they have 2000 year old redwood trees there..... I couldn't believe that loggers wanted to fell the trees and make decking from it. Barbarians in my opinion. In my own experience I could never do jobs around the house because all jobs turned out <deleted>ty because your eye goes immediately to the flaw. At least when a "craftsman" has screwed a job up, say with a glaring sludge of oil dripping all the way down to the carpet, you only look at it once. When you do it yourself you are condemned to looking at it every time you use the door.

How on earth did he change the world? He made computers ands phones like tens of other people.

Which people on here are in denial about their own death?

My time is limited yes, but I have done way more than I ever expected to do, and have nothing I want to do but to enjoy a nice quiet life until the end. Who cares, he made a difference and had the guts to stand uo too the small minded biogots win this board.

Captopril is from the early 80s, it was the first ACE inhibitor and a major innovation back then. It is not really known as low side effects, but you doctor was comparing, at the time, to beta blockers which were the main form of hypertension medicine. Beta blockers make, you tired, give you erection problems etc. A product from the same line as captopril is called enalapril and is widely available in Thailand. Loranta is a later type of compound, an ACE II inhibitor. Generally with very mild efficacy and mild side-effects. Finding a good regimen for your hypertension can involve a bit of trial and error. I tend to use the smallest doses of combinations of different classes of agents, that way the efficacy is often addition (from different mechanisms) but the side effects are minimised by the small does. You should get some medical help to get you on a dose that brings your HT to normal levels and has acceptable side effects. As I say, in my case this involves using the tiniest doses of the more than one drug. Most of the drugs are very cheap as almost all are generic so cost is not an issue.

I can't help thinking you are overthinking this. Take it to a carpenter and ask him to finish it.

Yeah I'm thinking about becoming a bigamist. It has lots of advantages, but only one disadvantage....it's illegal. Now don't get me wrong, I am a strictly law abiding guy....but if someone doesn't find out about something, has it really happened? (straight out of Orwell that, and recent too, 1984). So to continue the rhetorical debate....if I happened to be married, and also happened to have a girl friend, then married her, she should change her passport to married, and I could leave mine as married because it doesn't give the name of the person I'm married to. This is all hypothetical you understand. What is the chance that someone in the immigration or pisspot office would notice that anything was amiss? And then what is the chance they would do anything about it, like arresting my ex-wife (because I'd blame her).

Brilliant post. Yes your feet change shape don't they; and they react violently to being imprisoned in shoes. Shorts, tee-shirt and croc style shoes, and underpants of course, I haven't gone that native.

Over the years we have found an excellent, small electrical repair shop. They come and pick pop and deliver and seem very good price wise. We have a Japanese brand of refrigerators (we have more than one) and the ice maker packed up on one of them. The sorted it out in a jiffy. But it is a bout a million miles from Pattaya so I don't expect it's much use to you.

I say deport him to Ukraine. That'll teach the bastard to seal laundry. Not much delectable laundry on the Southern Front there, and you have to act fast as the life expectancy is only 4 hours.