retarius

I'm 70 and have had doctors regularly urging me to get a colonoscopy done since I was 50. It is recommended by the AMA that you get one done every 5 years after age 50. A mate of mine got one done and was told he had polyps (which is very common indeed) and the surgeon recommended that he have a section of bowel removed, have a temporary stoma bag, and then after 3 months have his bowel reattached to his anus. He had to have a blood drive as US hospitals were short of blood at the time. Now the guy didn't even have cancerous lesions. I am sure the chances of dying from a birth field post surgical infection are far higher than dying of a potential cancer. I have not had a colonoscopy, nor will I have one, and if I die for bowel cancer then so be it, you have too die of something don't you?

Enjoy your eternal afterlife in Hell.

Easy choice for me, the mountains: lower humidity, slightly cooler, less traffic, fewer farangs and easier to live. Downsides, fewer shops selling farang food.

Yes I have a re-entry permit. Just to clarify, does this mean I don't have to go to immigration within 24 hours or on the next business day? When we asked at immigration (Korat) they said we had to come to immigration and file??????

I'm flying into Suvarnabhumi.....if I stay in a hotel for one or two nights in Bangkok before returning home, and they register me as a guest, do I still need to file a TM30 when I arrive home in Korat?

I have been trying to get one for years and years....

I certainly hope so. He terrifies the establishment, all those toady gray faced and grey haired people that fill the green benches. I hope George gives them an enema.

I don't much care about his policies which are socialist and align closely with those of Jeremy Corbyn. I want men of iron who will stand up to the Israeli lobby and highlight this massacre. You know nothing about politics do you? Individual MPs have no choice but to follow the economic policies of their party. George will generally follow for left wing policies and vote against capitalist/imperialist projects. Remember Galloway stood up and yelled about the Iraq war ands he was right....the reason for the war was totally false, and everyone knew it was false. Only one Cabinet Minister resign on his principles, the great, Robin Cook. And he was right too. Did you support the Iraq war? It is now difficult to find anyone who admits they supported it.

No way is Galloway anti-semitic.....you are spreading lies.

No sadly I'm not a fan of Nick Griffin. But ion he endorsed Galloway he made a good call there. Perfectly normal we all make good call and bad calls, except for you of course, Wobbly, who have been right all your life.

Brilliant stuff from George there.....brilliant.

As I say I like what he says, whether you consider him anti-semitic or not. The charge of anti-Semite is levelled at anyone who criticised the inhumane behaviour of Israel. In my book you can legitimately and loudly criticise evil behaviour of the Israelis government and war crimes carried out by the IDF, and not be an anti-semitic.

This sums up my experience, but property values also go down. I had my primary residence valued in. 2005 at $425,000 and was going to sell it when I moved to Japan. Instead I rented it out, and in 2019 got $250000 for it....and I had property taxes (high in my town of $13000 a year in 2006). The issue is that in the US with property taxes being so high, property is expensive to own. I rented out my house and was taxed on the 'profits' and all repairs I did were counted as profits...I never made a nickel, then when I sold the damned house I got stung for capital gains. I also had 6 acres of land....a wood on high ground near the Delaware water gap....$7000 a year property taxes and no one even lived there.....daylight robbery, I sold at a huge loss after holding for 12 years. But you win some and lose some. I had very comfortable savings and a large cushion plus a healthy pension private and SS. But the private pension is not index linked. Stock market investments have done very well from 2009 onward and I'm a 'buy and holder' with Vanguard which do compensate for the negatives in the property market I experienced. The other thing is that I have 'given' children sums of money to start businesses etc. They are doing well now but I wouldn't want to rely on them if I were to get short of cash. The bright spot is health issues. I self insure and last year was an expensive year with over 1.2 million baht in health expenses. The good news is that I would be here all that long and won't get chance to spend all the money.

There are people traffickers all over the world making vast sums of money from the misery of others. It is a human activity that has been going on since the Dawn of history....part and parcel of the humanity that we are famous for. The veneer of civilisation is very thin.

To be perfectly honest, I value bullies and murders lives less than those of innocent people. So if you want a ranking, October 7th innocents (those killed by both Hamas and the IDF) and current poor innocent Palestinians (joint #1) murdered by the IDF much more highly that the lives of IDF or supporters of those murdered by the IDF or zionist settlers that I don't value highly.

Can you read? I never said Obama took the guns. I said the price of weapons and ammo went up as political moves to restrict guns took effect. Read intsead on commenting, you might learn something.

Well, leave then, if you don't like it. Stop your whining and move somewhere that suits your delicate sensibilities. The most surveilled country is in fact the UK with most camera per head of population, although I read that some years ago and it might have changed. For what it is worth, there seem tome to be many fewer cameras here compared to the UK. Anyway, I quite like the cameras, I have many at my homes.

NATO isn't being drawn into anything. NATO is driving this war to its nuclear finale. Did Russia suggest sending NATO troop to Ukraine? No I think it was a NATO member floating a trial balloon. And now the same village idiot Macron is proposing sending French troops to Ukraine to give Putin a 'strategic dilemma'. I don't think it will be any sort of strategic dilemma to Putin, he will drop a bomb on then when get gets intelligence as to where they are lies the French troops that were killed in Ukraine recently, denied by France and labelled as mercenaries. WW3 is inevitable after Austin's comments yesterday. Thankfully I live here in Thailand and so may not be immediately killed in the inferno. My heart goes out to all the peaceniks in Europe and the US, the decent people who abhor war. It is time that warmongers were killed off and, ironically, a nuclear war seems appropriate.

Ezzra, we who do don't support Israel are not obliged to 'provide solutions'. If a man with a gun kills women and children in a massacre, we can be horrified by the massacre, we are not obliged to have a solution to the problem of gunmen roaming the streets (of America). I am horrified at Israel's massacring of women and children, unarmed women and children...end of story. There is no justification on earth that I will accept for this slaughter....and certainly not the canard that Israel is defending itself. The IDF are, at best, trigger happy animals. I hope they, along with their leaders, will be dragged into court by the ICJ and given very long sentences for this outrage to humanity.

Typical

I don't know about foreigners but Thais can get legal guns easily. They are expensive, though, a 9mm Block G9 is about $3000 (100k baht) with the paperwork vs around $500-600 in the US (although there has been inflation since and panic buying driving up the price as some political moves to restrict guns take effect). Ammo is cheap here and available.

I'm cheered by this, I must say, the largest turn-out for a by-election in Rochdale. Galloway is a controversial fellow, but I agree with much of what he says, and standing by the Palestinians is the right and moral thing to do. Well done George, hope you can shake up those evil people in Parliament.

You are right. It's a bit more complex than that, but westerners seem prone to the 'I am superior, have superior upbringing, superior morals, culture etc'. It is imbibed with mother's milk. But I lived in Japan and Japanese think they are superior to every other race or ethnic culture. A bit like religions where every religion claims to 'have and know' the 'truth'm and all the others are based on falsehoods.

I have an account and have been unable to log in for a few years.

Personally if I had cardiomyopathy I'd see a doctor before taking any supplement. I have never heard of Magnesium being taken as a sleep aid. My doctor here said magnesium doesn't work against night cramps. I take magnesium every night and have for the last few months, but I take it to prevent night cramps. I asked my doctor about magnesium for night cramps and she said it doesn't work. She recommended CoQ10 in stead. I was having good results with magnesium and so I kept on taking it and added CoQ10. I am have been prone to night cramps for several years and used to have a magical prescription for quinine sulphate, from my UK doctor for it but it is not available in Thailand, I was told because it causes arrhythmias. In any event, supplements don't generally come with much in the way of clinical studies for us to examine and pour over. I have had no night cramps since I started on the magnesium/CoQ10 regimen and so I will continue taking them until I keel over and die or they stop working. While you are at your doctor asking about the magnesium, why not ask for some sleeping pills as well. Most private hospitals will dole them out.