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Tell me it ain't so! Please tell me Thailand has not been enabling scammers with electric and internet. How silly can you be?

Shows you what a woman of principle she is.

Asinine. More lunacy from the corrupt leadership.

I put yes because it was my dream to move abroad. But I have really no idea what others feel. I have two sons, I moved abroad 20 years ago and has never been back. The other is happy 'living the dream'. So 50:50 perhaps might have been a better pick. I moved to the US 40 years ago and did well.....able to retire at 55 which was also my dream. Looking back, apart from the money, I didn't enjoy the job, the way of living or the people (nearly all were GOPers) and I left during the Iraq war that made me feel very isolated at work as NO-ONE I worked with shared my views that it was a huge mistake (and totally illegal) made by the lying Bush and Blair, even I knew there were no WMDs in Iraq.

Take it back to the retailer and demand your money back. I'm sure they will be very helpful....I hope you kept the receipt.

I'm struggling with the same issue. How long do implants last anyway? I know 2 people who have had theirs' removed (very painfully). My own dentist is pressing me to restore my bite on one side where I had an extraction, but I had a second opinion, who advised against it because the bone is thin. My dentist said "Oh don't worry I'll use a shorter implant"......what????? Isn't this going to wiggle out of the bone when I eat?????? My dentist is nice looking, but very young, and I wonder if she has the real world experience and has done many implants by herself...."hundreds" she told me....but I am a bit doubtful and looking for an old hag who really might have done hundreds of implants.

Sorry, but this isn't rocket science. All you have to do is copy the way they do things in successful countries like Scandinavia in the west or Singapore, Japan or China here in the East. But to be honest, it always starts with a number of competent, able teachers. These able and competent teachers hardly exist here in Thailand. The English teachers I meet (and I have met a lot) very often cannot communicate in English....what is this all about? How can you qualify as an English teacher and be unable to communicate in English? We all say this but until this gaping hole in the middle of the education system is addressed Thailand will simply fall further are further behind as the masses here lose out on the information age. And I wonder how many maths teachers here can do basic algebra or geometry....I think it is likely that if it is ever addressed we will find that the head mathematics teachers here bought his/her posts in 1950's or 60s and can't add 2 + 2. FFS. I have send two kids here to university. The first one did a teaching degree (five years....in the UK after 5 years you would have a master's degree) here I got a girl who was supposed to be doing English but changed (covertly) to Home Economics because she could understand any English. The other is a boy who has done marvellously, has a really good job in Bangkok, and is making his way in life...the lad was an practically an orphan (well his father was in jail when he was born and his mother didn't want him) BUT he's a grafter and applies himself....I am as pleased with my investment in him as I am disappointed with the investment I made in the girl. Changing the education system to compete in the 2030s and 2040s requires a lot of effort and chucking out old ways of thinking. I am not hopeful from what I have seen in Thailand in the last 15 years that the type of people who get into power positions here are capable or interested in solving this problem.

Am I glad I am out of the country when this vile travesty takes place? I won't have to see it on the TV, or see the smiling diId@ himself, our PM, being a prIck marching in a parade; read about it gay exploits; or have anything to do with this.

People who support the genocide have truly warped moral senses.

Why didn't the nuns that taught me a Series 7 Bimmer?

Of course not. They have indicted a murderous and evil war pig.....and rightly so.

Wonderful news, now let's see this evil war pig behind bars for life.

Food seems very cheap in the UK. We need Aldi and Lidl over here. But what you don't have here are huge property taxes like the US and to a certain extent the UK. If you own a home here you might have to pay a little tax when you buy, but then it is pretty much no bills. I have one monthly bill, electric. Water is from a well. Of course I have diesel and petrol to buy for the cars, and we have a small staff of 3 to pay each month....but I am miles ahead of the UK or US......plus my house cost a fraction of what it would have cost overseas....and its custom built. What I feel is missing in Thailand is any sort of price competition and/or discounters like TKMaxx, Marshalls and the like. Every shop sells the same <deleted> for the same price and is located next door. My heart sinks as I see the aim in business here is to be the same as the guy next door and not to differentiate your brand/product. I also realise that if you do discount here, you might get your shop burned down by the competition. I find car insurance quite expensive here now when it was very cheap when I first came over. I self insure for health....I had 14 years of no medical expenses then about 1 million baht last year so it has annualised out so far at about 70,000 a year fully paid up....no deductibles, exclusions or other insurance crap and small print. I figure I am ahead. Of course, I might have a heart attack or stroke tomorrow and spend 2 or 3 million....who knows?

Thank you Sheryl, good luck with your Mohs procedure tomorrow. I'll look into the IOD when I get back from my holiday. I leave on Wednesday and took the decision to wait until I came back before moving on the lesion. 1000 baht represents quite a saving over what I have discussed. Once again, Thanks for your help.

why not sell as animal feed?

Brothers are a huge downside to becoming involved with a Thai gf or wife. My gf has 2 brothers and 2 sisters. The sisters are ok. One lives with us and helps out in the garden and house. The other lives a long way away. Her brothers are pretty bad but not as bad as some I have seen. The youngest of the family is the most lazy person I have ever seen besides his son, my gf's nephew. The youngest's wife is a lazy fat pig, no other way to describe her. We have nothing to do with them, not even to say hello.

This is one of those subjects that usually generate a lot of heat but don't enlighten much. I'm sure that different land offices have different practices and that a small contribution to the 'tea money' fund of the land office will get you the result you desire. As for myself, I adopted the attitude when I came to live here, that whatever I brought to Thailand I could afford to lose, so I have had no interest in usufructs, bribes land ratings, chanotes the like. I am happy to live with my gf of 19 years and if she turns round and rips me off one day, then I figure she has earned by putting up with me all these years.

I've had a couple of lipomas over my lifetime. The first was in my thigh, and I was worried sick at the time thinking it was some kind of cancerous tumour. My US doctor told me it was just excess fat. I asked him if it was on his leg would he have it excised and he said no. So I left it...probably 35 years ago. It is still there unchanged. I also had one on my back, which just went away after a few years. On pricing. I had a couple of basal cell carcinomas cut out last year and biopsied at Bumrungrad.....about 15,000 baht each. Expensive but very good and professional. I now have another on my arm. I went this past week to Bangkok Hospital and was quoted 25,000 from a surgeon there. When I questioned the price, the surgeon explained to me that he was a surgeon and did excisions which were 0.5 cm beyond each side of the lesion and 0.2 cm deep and needed suturing (he made a big deal of suturing and the need for two appointments, with the second appt being to removed the sutures!). In the past I have been told (in the US) that biopsies are curative for all but extensive basal cell lesions, but the doctors here at Bumrungrad and BKK seem to dispute that, telling me that they may spread unless surgically excised. Like much in Thailand one is told things that do not jive with what people have told you previously or elsewhere, and you don't know whether medical practice has changed or people are trying to rob you. Since the current lesion on my arm I have decided to watch and wait and if it starts growing again I'll have it cut out (if it was near my eye or on my face I would have it cut out immediately). From my perspective as an elderly person with not too much longer to live, it seems logical to me to spend my healthcare dollars on interventions that will improve my quality of life now, rather than achieve a cosmetic result but not make me feel any better.

I think it is very difficult to eyeball a whole population. If you asked me I would say 15-20% are obese as a gross (sic) estimate. I'm sure it is somewhat less in Bangkok and Pattaya, and somewhat more in rural areas (where I live).....I put this down to people in cities walking more and riding on motorcycles or in cars in rural areas. What I will say is that (I think) I see waaaaaay more obesity now than when I arrived here 15 years or so ago.....and especially among school-aged children. This is ominous for the future because an epidemic of diabetes likely looms here.

Just thinking about this. Why is the country turning itself inside out to try to attract tourists when they could make money by allowing tourists or visitors to come here and stay as long as they like e.g. a year or six months. Take the hassle out of visas for everyone.

brilliant move by Trump. My hat off, sir. This drug addled fraud of a President needs taking down a few pegs. Biden is between a rock and a hard place....he cannot debate you if he is sober and not drugged up; and you can offer to be drug tested as well because you are clean, unlike dirty diaper poo-poo Biden.

In the year before COVID Thailand had 39 million visitors. Next year we are planning for 180 million arrivals by air. Where are these poor folk going to stay. They mention Suvarnabhumi Airport Hotel, and I have stayed there myself and like it, but with 140 million other people it might be a bit crowded. Ahhh you say, they'll expand the number of rooms next year (What to accomodate 40 million people? 60 million people? 100 million people?) Ahhhh but we are going to be the hub of family visitors we only so for 160 visitors we only need 40 million rooms. Less a 'plan' and more like wishful thinking. Who hires the people that create this nonsense? Fire them immediately....they are stupid.

This campaign event drew 'dozens' of attendees (literally).....this is a smallish tea shop and not even crowded. Trump pulled in an estimated 85,000 last week in Wildwood NJ. Nuff said.

It's just piggery.

Why do they call it a 10 year visa, when it is plainly only for 5 years? It is a 5 year visa with possibility of renewal. Not a breakthrough, not revolutionary. When I was head-hunted from the UK to the US, I didn't even ask how long the visa was for, let alone it being a factor of whether I should take the job or not; the company just said they would take care of it, and they did. It do know it was an H1-B visa and I still don't know how long it lasted...but I got a green card before it ran out.