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Had a Staffie that had skin issues.  The vet told me I could spend a fortune on creams and pills.  His recommendation was to stop feeding him any form of processed food and leftovers of any kind. and only feed raw or cooked meat.

It did work and the frequency of outbreaks became more scarce. 

Trouble was that Staffies are food-sluts so got a bit expensive, he could wolf down a kilo of raw beef before you could close the fridge door.

5 minutes ago, transam said:

Aaaah, the German BMW .....????

55555.  Got a mate with a newish Merc.  He gets very annoyed when I refer to it as a German Taxi.

Don't worry.  This is Thailand. A knockoff will be available very quickly.

12 minutes ago, Orinoco said:

Have you considered,  if you were not in the car with her, she may behave differently.

Thais don't like going against the Teacher.

TIT.

 

My daughter assures me her mother drives more like me when I'm not in the car.  Not sure if that's a compliment or not.

"The sex life of a ping pong Ball"

"Big time game fishing in the Sahara Desert".

"The subtle art of artificially inseminating Great White Sharks"

I bet none of them have cut their maintenance expenses and routines, and they are as safe as they ever were even before the pandemic.

Read the above carefully.

3 minutes ago, piston broke said:

 

Just ordered 2 (one for each leg) ..

You need to think more laterally.

The reason this sort of poor performance with bank and gold shop robbers is patently obvious.

They haven't translated "The dummies guide to robbing a Bank" into Thai yet.

31 minutes ago, John Drake said:

Not necessarily a requirement for an extension. But maybe a requirement in order to get into the immigration offices. No green check  on the app means you can't enter immigration buildings.

No problems - I'll just wear a green dot on my sleeve that I'll purloin from the golf course. That'll confuse the muggers!

Take a seat at the closes restaurant to the incident and drink copious coffee.  Eventually you'll see the vehicle as he/she no doubt will pass again.

Follow said vehicle to determine it's place of overnight residence.

Extract your pound of flesh from the vehicle ensuring you are suitably disguised to avoid detection (limp and wear a wig).

Revenge is wonderfully satisfying. Don't ask me how I know.

Oh I see - the final solution to the question of life, the universe, and everything.

Idiots that make these statements are also unaware that it's a mathematical requirement that approximately 50% of the population have a lower than average IQ,

And guess which part of the distribution curve they come from.

Thanks to all the posters and their recommendations.  I've tried almost all of them with the exception of three so my sausage hunt begins today.

If all else fails I'll import my favorites from NZ.  Probably cost 1,000B per snag but I'm suffering withdrawal symptoms so the hell with the cost.

Cheers.

I have a theory about Thai driving attitudes.  I taught my missus to drive at the age of 30. She'd never driven a car and strangely couldn't even ride a scooter.

She is now an excellent driver as a 5 foot nothing driving a Toyota Revo. Quick to spot issues requiring change in speed direction, lane changes etc., takes bends at speed and stays in the lane, indicates correctly, even raises the middle finger at road idiots (knowing they can't see her through the dark glass). In summary I find her more safe and competent a driver in Thailand than many Farang I know.

When I take her to NZ she only drove once briefly and then point blank refused.  Her explanation was basically that she was as scared as hell because everything was so formal and structured that she felt she was unable to drive safely and actually believed the NZ roads and drivers were more dangerous than Thailand.

I probably didn't help by pushing my invisible brake pedal and clenching my buttocks frequently - not because she was driving badly for the road conditions she was familiar with, but because she was driving as though the Thai "rules" prevailed and the obnoxious territorial Kiwi drivers were not very adaptive to her style.

She further clarified - having to always watch the speedo, not able to take obvious advantages of lane splitting and gaps in traffic that "made sense" but were prohibited, traffic lights that had to be obeyed, and you can imagine the rest.

So in short, I think Thais just in general have a problem with what I would call order and structure.  Their adaptiveness to the SE Asian vagaries of life, money, the lottery, the government, political chaos, familial chaos, bureaucratic disorder, police corruption, flooding. ad infinitum, and this seems to spread to their driving and general laissez faire attitudes.

They believe rules and regulations that govern their life from bureaucrats, the police, government etc are transient, changeable, corrupt and variable, are forever changing and therefore not real, or only real until they change.

If you take this attitude towards driving, the results are probably to be expected. Thai society is structured in general for the survival of the fittest,  The road carnage simply highlights this.

The good doctor is obviously confusing N₂O with He.

Not surprising really.  Show a periodic table to a Thai (even an alleged doctor) and he'll probably order pad-gap-pow gap kai-daow.

4 hours ago, Denim said:

Going berserk ..................... present continuous tense.

 

went beserk ................. past tense.

 

Looks like he went berserk a long long time ago.

 

 

But it begs the question does he have an alibi or indeed, an excuse for his alleged berserkness, or should I say, his state of being or going berserk, present continuous tenses exempted.  English can be so wonderfully concise or devilishly imprecise in usage, it just depends on whether one is aware of parsing in the use of syntax. On that matter I claim not to be an expert.

An alibi is a special kind of excuse and to use it for "excuse" is to introduce ambiguity, and to diminish precision. If a man says, "I have an alibi ", one does not now know whether he means that he has an excuse or that he was elsewhere when the act attributed to him took place.

Other examples of ambiguous English are the use of "anticipate" to mean "expect"; of "disinterested" to mean "uninterested" and a more recent neologism of this kind is the use of "hopefully" to mean "hope". To say, "I am hopefully going to Timbuctoo", used to mean, quite certainly, "I am going to Timbuctoo in a spirit of hope". Now it can also mean "I hope I am going to Timbuctoo".

Mayhap this Swiss gentleman now wishes he holidayed in Timbuctoo, and hopefully so.