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My first reaction is to go to another bank. If this fails and you can't show proof from your embassy of  ฿40 000 a month, go back to Immigration and ask what they suggest. You might try a visa agent also, plenty of those rapscallions about.

7 hours ago, Chris Daley said:

You ran 8 km?  Why would anyone do that?  It's too much to be daily exercise and a one-off marathon is dangerous.

 

Little but often is better than 8k once a year.

On what evidence do you base this statement? Most health specialists as well as WHO recommend daily exercise for a healthy longevity. Might do you good too.

Thai Beach Lover seems to think you can increase IQ through social engineering. IQ can be stimulated to some degree, but not much. This is where I (and many scientists) get accused of racism. To survive in Northern Europe you do need a certain amount of intelligence to survive the winters, planning ahead etc. Here, food is available all year round so even the less fit tend to survive.

On 11/29/2023 at 8:46 PM, richard_smith237 said:

 

Going to the airport and getting on a plane is stressful ???....   I just don't see how thats possibly stressful ??

What is there to stress about ?

 

It can be irritating having to queue - but thats about it, isn't it ?

Not really. I've been using airports for 57 years, and have seen all sorts of mishaps. even a bomb threat one time in London on the same day that my train was delayed by 5 hours, You want a list?

...  not forgetting any documents of course.....

1. Getting there on time, which in my case involves an 8 hour bus trip + taxi

2. Finding out how to check in. This seems to have changed again recently

3. getting through pass control

5. Walking, sometimes for what seems miles, to your departure lounge

6. By now you are pretty tired and even there isn't a flight delay, you have a long, boring wait ahead.

Of course, some adventure-fatigued, nonchalant James Bond types take all this in their strides and welcome just a bit more bureaucracy on their departure. 

12 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

They were banned from putting up checkpoints during COVID. 

 

They are back now around the Pattaya area, but now have to be done more officially in most places. 

 

Tourists are still fair game for extortion in central Pattaya though.

Well, not quite, before Covid a communication went out that traffic check points couldn't just be set up on a whim by local, end of the month police, but needed authorisation. Around here at least, we noticed an immediate effect. I sort of missed those cops that got to know me and just waved me through. 

I once got stopped for 'weaving along the road' which I couldn't deny as that road was full of potholes. I gave him  ฿200 for creativity.

20 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Why do you expect to be stopped now.   Are you driving legally?  Then shouldn't be an issue, that's why you're waved through.

Why do you imagine that driving legally would prevent you from being stopped?

In a previous life I would speak German to my Swiss wife, she would reply in English. This is the way engineers do it when dealing with international partners. Without realising it, this affects the children that are passively listening, and learning. I remember coming home and moaning "where are my bloody slippers?" and my three year old went to get them. 

The worst example I saw was the brother-in-law, family real Swiss German farming stock, with his kids they decided to speak French and a pretty f**ed up version of French it was too. So they were deprived of the usage of their mother tongue, Swiss German. Result: both kids grew up with a communications impediment, due, as far as I can see, to this. Bil;ingual kids tend to start speaking later. My two sons grew up trilingual with a smattering of Spanish and Italian thrown in for good measure. 

I'm not sure what you intend to do with it but experience suggests that there will be a plant in the Thai Pharmacopoeia or Ayurvedic medicine that grows better here and is probably better at the job. 

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Have you considered raised beds?

 

You could fill those with the compost you make.

 

 

See Mark on the ‘self sufficient me’ YouTube channel, he has some very good ideas and experience to share.

 

 

Well after 40 years as a landscape gardener, maybe I did. In the tropics it takes about 6 months max for any pathogens to make their way through the new soil and establish itself. 

I now expect Drtreelove to come along telling people that they are indulging in poor soil management and advising the use of some obscure expensive product only to be found South of the Pecos.

A bit rude, sorry.

9 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

My figs fruit bit then the fruit drops before ripening,

We had figs, the first crop in the second year also dropped before ripening. We then had bumper crops for three years, the figs then all decided to die. 

The intense heat of Isaan, along with deficient soil riddled with pathogens, prevents me from growing a lot of stuff. I can just about get away with growing cherry tomatoes in pots on bought in soil. Otherwise, none of the members of that family (aubergines, peppers, etc) will grow here. Onions and garlic won't do much either, in fact many in the village have given up growing anything at all.  We do have an impressive chili pepper growing near the compost heap between paving stones.

These days I just let a lot of stuff grow wherever birds or my wife have scattered seeds, this includes papaya, pumpkins, basil, tomatoes, coriander, and thankfully I can't seem to get rid of ginger and turmeric.

I sow Pak Choi, increasingly rely on perennials, such as peppercorn, Ya Nang, Chai-ya, Moringa (an important veg, worth looking at), Pak bung as well as elephant foot yams and the like, a lot of which feeds the ducks. These can be a little difficult to grow well but I enjoy learning.

I got past the stage of trying to grow the stuff I was growing up in the Swiss mountains and will buy brocolli and red cabbage. 

I tried the online application right at the beginning. When I later went for a visa extension they told me I hadn't done my 90 days, despite my getting confirmation. Turned out that their internet was down, and eventually I got them to admit this. They told me that they prefer I turn up in person, which I now do, as local immigration is only 15 minutes away from the school I go to each day. 

I might try again but my wife is fearful of my being hung, drawn and quartered, or at least facing a heavy fine and deportation.

On 9/13/2023 at 10:36 AM, fredwiggy said:

I said BASICALLY, meaning how the body breaks them down. Fact,not a guess. Sugar, meaning refined, table, whatever, is not good for a body. Small amounts here and there , aren't going to hurt. Large amounts, meaning what people add, PLUS what they get from all food that contains sugar, and those that have hidden amounts, WILL hurt a body eventually. Please try not to assume what I do or don't know.I can look up links as easy as anyone else. Difference being, I've been into nutrition and working out, what to eat and what not to, for over 50 years. You think I don't understand what goes on nutrition wise? Anything you can read, I did all along those 50 years. Some is bu**<deleted>,meaning opinions, and a lot is studies. I never said they chemically are the same. they are close, and break down about the same. You can believe sugar is okay for you. I prefer to do what I've always done, and maintain low bodyfat, low resting pulse and blood pressure, and low cholesterol, for all my life. How? By reading all I can about what food does and doesn't do. You can quote all you want and post links, many of which are opinions, and it doesn't matter. The post is about difficulty in avoiding sugar here. It is hard, because, not only here but everywhere else, companies add sugar and salt to most everything, because people aren't all reading what happens with sugar in your body, don't care, or like it too much to change. Picking apart what others write and not fully understanding what is written doesn't work. Here's another for your sake...............https://kansasfarmfoodconnection.org/spotlights/which-is-better-sugar-or-high-fructose-corn-syrup

Sigh, so you know it all and will never take a step back to examine arguments. This is easy: the aptly named SAD diet (Standard American Diet) recommends you get 43 - 50 % of your caloric needs from carbohydrates. Apart from the small part that will be fibre and pass on through without being digested, this will ALL be transformed into some form of sugar, which your liver and pancreas will work overtime to get out of your blood. If it doesn't get used immediately for energy it gets transformed into fat. To avoid this ( as diabetics do need to) many go on a Keto diet, which has great success in reversing (impossible) diabetes or at least reducing meds.. It keeps being attacked as a weight loss diet not much better than others, and therefore a fad diet, but it improves health enormously. This isn't a N+1 story: I lost 13 Kg, stopped taking meds for blood pressure and sugar, no more acid reflux, no more joint pains, run 35 - 50 K weekly, I'm 75 and ran a marathon last year. I was  wreck before I started Keto. Keto comprises 5 - 10% carbs (sugar) not 45% +. Plenty more stories like this, and none of them involve claims that sugar is healthy in certain forms. 

Just now, fredwiggy said:

Yes, they are. Look up links, like the one I provided, on reputable sites, instead of going by what one person might have told you, who wasn't in the game.

I beg your pardon? Healthline will give you results stating anything you want if you care to look. Fructose is a part of sugar and does harm in one way (most important of which, for some people, is that it feeds cancer cells. It also negatively affects mitochondrial activity). Sugar contains fructose AND glucose. Glucose, if present in more quantities than can immediately be used for energy, rapidly go to increasing the size of the adipose fat tissues. You get fat, which causes a host of other metabolic problems. 

I don't go by what somebody in a bar told me, thanks, I actually go to and read the scientific reports themselves, and have become quite good at working out which ones have been sponsored by processed food (sugar) corporations. 

Finding out that they have been lied to all their lives quite upsets some people and they turn their ire towards the messenger. Try: https://usrtk.org/ultra-processed-foods/academy-of-nutrition-and-dietetics-corporate-capture-of-the-nutrition-profession/

13 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

They are basically the same

Basically, no they certainly aren't the same.

19 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Am I suppose to list every website and or vid I watched about sugar ?

 

Over my adult lifetime.  Did I read a study, research paper ... NO, as those results end up satisfying the folks that funded the research.

 

Then someone will fund another research study a year later, and counter the previous one.  We've all seen that over & over.

 

I did post a most informative vid about sugar, and if anyone watched that, that pretty much explains most things.  I even noted many would probably want to skip through to the more pertinent stuff that might interest them. 

 

Explains all types of sugars and how used, and with that info, you can make an informed decision to eat, or not. 

 

If watched ... Explains why I pretty much stick to good ol' white table sugar.  Most foods we eat are home cooked from scratch, so we get to control all the ingredients.  

 

'L' follows (trolls) me enough to know that.  

So you can't even give us a link to your 'most informative vid about sugar'. Doesn't sound like a scientific approach. I suggest: people that are addicted to sugar will avidly go through Google until they find stuff that confirms their reluctance to give it up. I do watch a lot of Youtube stuff but I would say that at least half of it is clickbait and unless it is a serious discussion of a recent research paper I don't bother. You must have worked quite assiduously to find a vid that claimed that sugar is good for you.

1 hour ago, transam said:

Sugar has been around for many decades, the West probably uses it more than LOS, yet the World's populous is living longer, so much so that pension ages have been increased in some..........????

 

Of course the Muesli munchers will go on about everything you shouldn't eat, with their boring carrot existence, but the fact remains, us humans are living longer.....????

Living longer, but how? The last 10 years of your life spent in a wheelchair or in bed? Costing the health service a fortune.. My plan is to stay healthy until the day I die.. I don't est muesli either.

7 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Reading comprehension of my post would avoid you asking for research.  Obviously many, most don't read or watch what I link, and I'm not going to waste time repeating myself.

 

Re-read what I've posted slowly & carefully, as I don't think I need to add any more to be understood.

 

I'll do me, which seems to work just fine, you do you ... ENJOY

Yes, agreed. But you said you had done research, let's see it.