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I tend to avoid knuckle-draggers wearing Chang t-shirts, covered in tasteless tattoos, often dribbling from the mouth who order a beer for themselves and their equally fashionably dressed mate in Thai by saying "send (the) elephant".

However I welcome a discussion with any reasonably presented individual. If they reveal their sole source of worldly knowledge is about football, or the only book they ever read started with "A is for Aardvark" and they still don't know what an aardvark is, I wish them a polite good-evening and move on.

5 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

And if somebody sneezed on you, what would you say?

Chock-Dee.

5 minutes ago, smedly said:

pratical - are you kidding, who is qualified to do the test - barcode linked to what exactly, most people don't spend all night in one venue - there is nothing remotely workable about this - it is pure nonsense

I'm only guessing, but I suspect that it may be linked to the mor-chana app.  So you'll do the test and then upload the QR code to the app, which will link to your passport and vaccination info etc.

Otherwise I see no way in which anybody can legitimately prove they have a valid get out of jail free card.

Let's hope somebody is brave enough to do it and report back accordingly.

If aliens arrived and kidnapped all the bureaucrats in the world, who would notice?

Check out this thread.

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

You sound like a

Only if he/she is cute/pretty/hot

Nuh - only of the "she" category, and cute/pretty/hot just doesn't cut the mustard in literary imaginary  descriptiveness. 

Dogs are cute, babies can be pretty.  Hot is just a lazy modern word that Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, or even Dickens would never use or even comprehend as an adjective to describe a woman's sensuality or even her sexuality.

But that's post-modernism for you.  Third rate architecture, unintelligible art, and a language that we use less and less of each year.

I have a few rhetorical questions.

Is the imaginary Grab or Panda rider a drop dead gorgeous girl of 22 with piercing eyes and a sultry smile,  wearing a spaghetti top and no bra beneath her jacket that she casually unzips as she makes the polite request to use the commode and commences to unbutton her ever so tight and brief jean shorts?

Or is the driver a smelly and dirty Somchai wearing a grubby jacket and gloves that haven't seen a washing machine for three years?

Either way, I'm sure I'd do the decent thing.  

After allowing for adjustment to the numbers for inflationary effects, plus the margin of error in their um......robust data collection process, the truth is probably closer to a 20% decline in the economy from 2019.

8 hours ago, Hamus Yaigh said:

I have a Wise account in GBP and USD. The web site says 'We’re sorry, cards haven’t reached Thailand yet' and has been like that for years.

I set up Wise while in NZ.  No problem getting a card. 

Try poison.  

A commercial tenant of mine back in NZ threw a ton of poisoned barley or wheat on the verandah roof above his shop to deal with pigeons.  Three days later there were hundreds of reports of dead birds all over the CBD - some literally falling out of the sky into traffic.  But the pigeons persisted.

Next he armed himself with a .22 pellet rifle with telescopic sight and rented a room on the first floor of the pub across the road.  Maybe it was because he chose a Friday night and had been drinking, or maybe he was hanging out the window too far, but somebody called the coppers and prompted an entire main street closure and Armed Offenders (SWAT Team) callout.

It was hilarious.

3 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

Off topic posts and replies have all been given the rocket...

The Red Dwarf?

It's called Liberalism - we all get a Participation Trophy.

An Actuary requires multiple years of accurate historical data to enable them to predictably forecast the risk and associated costs of any occurrences.

This is Thailand.  

1 hour ago, Crusader said:

These fights between vocational students are a regular ocurrance, and often there is death or serious injury. Ultimately, the schools must be held responsible for not doing enough to stop this happening. 

One of my P.E. teachers in school had the best idea - any issues between students (all boys school) it was into the gym, boxing gloves on and let the steam off...and parents were in favour of this too.

A 19th century Oxbridge solution, but the oldest ideas are usually the best.

54 minutes ago, Andre0720 said:

While I like my life here in Thailand as an adult, I would not want to raise a child here.

All about culture.

How could I teach a child here about being responsible, for his or her actions, for his or her son or daughter, for learning about science and arts?

How could I teach a child that there are laws and regulations when driving on these roads, when everything around teaches the opposite?

How could I teach a child that people should be able to enjoy peace and quietness in their own home, when everything around teaches the opposite?

How could I teach a child that tobacco is a slow poison, while most believe that it is just a prerequisite to being an adult??

How could I teach a child that sugar is a slow poison, when it is just impossible to find a meal that does not contain sugar.

How could I teach a child that garbage belongs in a garbage bin, when it is so easier to just drop it on the ground?

And so on...

Culture.

A poor parent will be a poor parent irrespective of their culture.