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Sugar is a lot worse than it's made out to be. You might want to do some research first, but of course if you are so addicted to it that you can't imagine life without it, nothing will dissuade you from your unscientific opinion.

Thai street food is praised highly. However, it is a fact that sugar and sometimes salt is often surreptitiously scattered on food, obviously because people like it whether they know it or not. Then there is the use of vegetable oils (seed oils) just like in the West. Evidence is mounting that these are a major part of the diabetes (metabolic syndrome) epidemic that we have and didn't exist 100 years ago before the invention of seed oils. AND: used oil is sold, not to use in combustion motors but to be recycled, using bleach, and sold back to the restaurants. Most diabetics and pre-diabetics that take their diet seriously, as they should, cook at home, I can't remember the last time I went to a restaurant or ate street food.

What a silly thing, not to say rude, thing to say. I'm 75, running 40 +K (up to 70 K) weekly and only ever had one injury, off running for 10 days. "About one in every 3 recreational runners will have a running-related injury at some stage in their life." ... isn't the same as 79% every year. Your stat refers to beginner runners I think, that will just stop running thus augmenting the stats. As I was saying, I'm 75 and am taking NO meds, never have since I started running and I intend to continue running for as long as possible. To me, it looks like you just hate exercise and probably are fat and waiting for the onset (worsening) of diabetes, cardiac arrest, take your choice.

I run marathons and I still got gout.

If it's gout then you won't get rid of an accumulation of uric acid in the joint through exercise.

I'd rather drink camel urine than that muck.

I had an attack recently, realised I had been drinking too much beer and went teetotal. The pain went away after a week or so, but apparently as the crystals of uric acid start to dissolve, they take the form of tiny splinters which cause additional pain until they have disappeared. You might invest in a uric acid meter (Lazada) and take a look at that aspect.

Mostly it's about the gorgeous women (mostly) that I lusted after and that out of the blue made a proposition, which I was so astounded by that I went mute. Never cared much about money, did the job I wanted to do and was quite successful on the artistic side. 40 years younger, start again? Yes please.

Hi. I replaced all my fluorescent lamps (round) with LED's. I have noticed that about half seem to be faintly glowing when they are turned off. Recently I just touched a lamp and it weakly started glowing. What's happening? Polarity?

Really confusing. In October 2022 I got the following: "Dear Mr Plonker,, Thank you for your email. We have suspended the issuing of Life Certificates due to the ongoing global pandemic. This will not affect your UK State Pension." After spending an hour or two trying one number after another, being put on hold for 15 minutes, giving all my personal details, the lady told me she couldn't get through to Social Security to check up. The number was +44 8007 310341

Yeah. And you're next for saying that there are two genders.

I'm pretty sure that most Amphurs insist on the actual physical presence of the person that is requesting a Thai ID. Even Thais living in Thailand have to do this if they decide to change Amphur (which is why many don't bother)>

Eh? Having your bank account suspended means you can't carry out digital payments.

Oh boy. Did you read recently that 'PEP's' - Politically Exposed Persons - may not only have their bank accounts suspended but find it impossible to find another bank that will accept their account? https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/uk-banks-shun-farage-without-explanation/ This thanks to EU regulations. Have you forgotten that Trudeau summarily attacked those truck drivers that were demonstrating by locking their bank accounts? accounts? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-17/police-begin-financial-squeeze-trudeau-defends-emergency-edict#xj4y7vzkg But of course older people just can't keep up with the need for these new fangled ways of doing things, I must admit I can't work out how to tip the girl that washes my car windscreen yet, but we can look forward to implanting chips into people, just to make things easier. By the way, at age 75 I have absolutely no problem using electronic banking, and wish I could use my card at 7-11.

Did you listen to what he said? He's salivating at the thought of getting the world population thinking correctly. What's the opposite of a conspiracy theorist? Living in Cloud Cuckoo Land?

Of course, he wouldn't say it directly, but he wouldn't would he? Try not to use the words 'conspiracy theorist' in your eagerly awaited response.

SOOO sorry I got his name wrong. , that is a VERY important point, changes everything. I am 100% sure that that's what he said on a video, but of course if you think everything is a conspiracy theory then you''ll never watch unwoke news sources (Whoops, no such word, SOOO sorry).

OP here.... I might have mentioned that at one point there were SEVEN Amphur employees gathered around, they were very helpful, only took three hours. Plus the two guys that turned up for the 'Welcome to Thailand' foto. Can't complain, but still a bit mystified.

Anybody see the video where Kurt Schwab, president of the WEF, wants everyone to have a chip implanted in their brain? "Think of that".. he thinks it'll solve everything, can't even imagine that some may not want that. You'll be able to use it for getting social credit points, permission to travel abroad, to support the latest official line, spend money, say what you think. You can't change human nature, but you can change human behaviour. This isn't a conspiracy theory, they keep telling us what they want to do and nobody listens.

Well obviously things are different from one Amphur to the next and nobody seemed able to provide the correct information. They insisted on having a translation of my passport, which included making sure that our names on the marriage certificate would, in Thai, be the same as in the Tabien Baan. We met somebody else at Chaeng Wattana that was doing the same thing, they said we had to go to our embassy for a translation first. These were the only people giving out information apart from doubtful looking touts outside offering their services. We then paid a translation agency near the embassy to finish things for us, could have done it all by post really.

My wife recently decided to sort out various land ownership conflicts, coming from the fact that the land we live on was divided up between family members at the time of her father's death. We needed a lawyer for this, even though there is no contesting our intentions. He told us that it would be better if I got a yellow house book (Tabien baan), for reasons that still remain obscure to us. The general consensus amongst ex-pats seems to be that it isn't necessary. However we found that the local Amphur were very enthusiastic about me going forward with obtaining the book and when we finally got the book two senior officials appeared and a group foto was taken. "Welcome to Thailand" was written on a prepared sign behind us ... I've been here for 11 years. . anyway, I guess I will no longer need a residence certificate every time I buy a house, renew my driving licence or open a new bank account. It wasn't an easy process and mostly our fault, the visit to Chaeng Wattana was most frustrating and in the end unnecessary, also with hotel, travel, embassy and translation services kind of expensive. It is still a mystery to me why I need this book.

Thanks! I didn't realise that this was privileged information. Recommended dosage varies from situation to situation, took me some time to get it going.

I got my last certificate of residence at immigration, cost ฿500 and the place isn't a seven hours drive away, as is my embassy. I believe that having a yellow house book (Tabien baan) will do away with the need to get a certificate for most purposes. but is no longer as easy to obtain as in the past.

Just keep trying whatever takes your fancy, some stuff will work, some won't. I am particularly proud of growing peppercorn, always have Pak choi, Chinese cabbage and Pak bung going, I let pumpkins grow, cherry tomatoes (although they generally don't like having wet leaves). Papaya, chili, also volunteered themselves and I let them grow, dragon fruit and passion fruit, Moringa is a valuable source of nutrients, + various herbs like turmeric and ginger etc. The wife likes a few medicinal herbs ... the list goes on, I'm always trying new stuff, ordering... discovered long pepper , growing really well, kabuk, tara, elephant jams, occasionally get broccoli to grow in winter if I'm lucky. Plenty of cow manure and other soil improvement materials available.

I don't think many people bother. In Switzerland we had to contend with temperatures between -20°C and +40°C. That's a lot of expansion due to temperature. Much less here. Also although I have seen a lot of shoddy concreting jobs, none of the damage seemed to be caused by thermal expansion. I suppose you could buy asphalt in sacks and pack it in the day after concreting when you have removed the pieces of wood you thoughtfully put in every 5 - 8 metres.