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That's been my modus operandi to prevent illness from the age of 17. Never been sick a day in my life, but for some strange reason I always wake up with a headache.

This may not still be accurate, but years ago all the airport booths had the same rate (by agreement) and it was not flash. As stated earlier just exchange enough for your first day or two at the airport.

For want of a "d" as a final consonant the journalist has errantly transformed what should have been a transitive verb into a noun. It could have been worse - he could have phrased it as an intransitive verb and then we'd all be wondering where the pirate's ship was and where did he do his pirating.

I find this ironic. Technically (pre-fiat money when gold was the standard), the reason for gold actually being the standard was because to find gold and increase the currency supply meant that an enormous amount of time, energy, expense, capital investment, and human input went into the process. Nowadays fiat money is created with zero expense by adding a few zeroes on a computer keyboard. So as these ladies put in quite a bit of effort and expense to create their "fake" money, technically it probably has a greater economic value than the real fiat money - please excuse the oxymoron.

Note to journalist: Who, Why, What, When, Where.

As it appears every politician and "health expert" is operating under the kindergarten teacher mentality, it's surely only a matter of time before they tell us to cease and desist from eating our crayons at playtime.

Not a hundred percent sure what he means, but if the quality of the gogo girls improves at the expense of quantity, I won't be too perturbed.

After every copper involved flogs a duvet and a stuffed toy or two for their Mia Noi, the balance will probably get sold back to the original owners after a "bond" has exchanged hands.

She was masquerading as such, but as stated she officially came from Planet Psycho. You too?

But where is the piece of cheese?

Questions such as this are somewhat rhetorically antithetical in their purpose.

Let's face it - U-turns are extremely hazardous. But if they didn't have as many u-turns as they have then the alternative is to have 50% (as opposed to the current 5%) of the traffic reversing in the wrong direction to get back to the u-turn they missed. A dilemma of neo-classical proportions.

TAT don't realise it yet, but they are in the process of discovering the Thai version of the solution to quadratic and cubic equations. The solution to these equations rely on the acceptance of negative numbers which often in mathematical circles (pun intended) are referred to as "imaginary numbers". Very soon, TAT will announce that the number of foreign tourists expected next year will be five minus the square root of negative 15 to the power of the square root of negative one, and nobody will be able to prove them wrong.

I was married to a rottweiller once - she could go from extremely placid and playful to the Bitch from Planet Psycho in less than the blink of an eye. Given the choice of mistakenly meeting her in a dark alley one night, or a pack of actual rottweillers, I'd choose the latter.

I wonder how many world leaders and self-appointed climate czars comprehend the basics of such things as the Milankovitch Cycles, the earth's orbital precession with regard to eccentricity and obliquity, solar maximum and minimum, solar winds, or even the Savanna Hypothesis? Why does mankind believe they can beneficially or detrimentally affect the future behavior of the climate on a speck of dust revolving around a small ball of gas in a small galaxy that is 53 thousand light years in size and consists of 100 thousand million stars, in an infinite universe that contains 125 billion observable galaxies and has no theoretical limit to its size? For clarity, infinity is a pretty big number. Sure, it's our obligation to keep our room clean and tidy (apologies to JDP). But when the vain attempts to out maneuver the overwhelming forces of an infinite universe are all about transfer of wealth and power on the aforesaid speck of dust with no possibility whatsoever of changing the inevitable outcome, it all seems somewhat machiavellian.

It begs the question - was it a spark of life or the splutter of a dying flame?

If every self-important politician and environmental terrorists stopped harping on about ozone layer depletion, global warming, climate change, extreme weather, and now the apparent existential threat of a climate emergency crisis, the severe lack of hot air and CO2 being released would probably result in an immediate ice-age.

While not specifically cogent to the OP, some might find the below legal opinion regarding foreign language and Thai language contracts in Thailand of some value. Most lease/rental agreements I've seen for casual residential accommodation are either written in Thinglish or are so basic in their terms and conditions that 95% of eventualities are not even covered or are so vague as to be largely unenforecable. "A contract in another language in Thailand is legally binding provided that both parties understand the content of the contract and the contract is not in conflict with Thai law. They should at least be able to read, write and speak the language fluently or they could argue in a later stage that they did not understand what they signed and therefore there was no meeting of minds on details and the contract does not meet the requirements under Thai law of a valid contract. When a contract is in Thai and another language the basic principle under Thai law (section 14 of the Civil and Commercial Code) is that the Thai version of a contract shall govern if it is not possible to ascertain which language was intended to govern. Any contract that must be registered with the government must be in Thai language, when it has to go through court is must also be a certified translation when a foreign language has been used in the contract."

I doubt the Pattaya mayor would comprehend the phrase "beam me up Scottie".

A one armed tallyman could count the arrivals on his one hand and he wouldn't run out of fingers.

Pantomime season is definitely upon us.

They have dermatologists at BPH. I know somebody with psoriasis who consulted with them and he was reasonably impressed with their knowledge. He himself is a bit of an expert on his condition having had it much of his life and it can be quite severe, so he knows virtually everything about treating it. I can't give you any specific names of the doctors but as I said, he was suitably impressed and compared their knowledge favorably to his dermatologist back home.

It's a government guarantee of 1M Baht for bank accounts only. Assuming they have to actually pay out the 1M Baht when a large bank crashes, the 1M Baht will probably have enough value to purchase a cup of coffee.

Depending on your country, many banks now request information relating to your offshore tax status if they are aware of your non-residence in that home country. Of course the immigration and tax arms of your government exchange information, so they assume that if you're out of the country for too long, you are on a personal mission to defraud your government of their pound of flesh in some devious manner. In NZ for example, I had to sign a declaration stating that I was (or was not) a resident for tax purposes in any other country and if so, advise them of my registered tax number/s with supporting doc's from the relevant country. I strongly suspect this may be what your friend is experiencing. If he is a tax payer in Thailand then any official document with his tax number on it will probably suffice. If he's not a tax-payer I would have thought him simply declaring himself as such would be sufficient for his home country bank.

This is what happens when you let inept bureaucrats drink too much coffee.