Not available here but when i'm in Hong Kong i can buy at under 50 baht per 500 ml a Danish beer, Bear Beer. I can choose, 5%, 7.7% or 12% alcohol beer for that price, lager or stout. 

Sound good to you?  look here  http://www.harboe.com/en/

I'm liking the Cheers Riceberry, blue label.  At 48 baht per 500 ml, not bad al all.

Ten year old news?  How utterly reliable. 

Only younger 'retired' folks can find reasonably priced health insurance.  If age 70+, cheaper to get sick and pay cash for treatment.

And regarding Malaysia, i would not care to live in a muslim country, not for one minute. 

Those filipina maids (domestic helpers) in Hong Kong love to go to Catholic church on their Sunday holiday, fill the closed off streets downtown after Mass, sit around with fellow filapinas eating and singing till late in the day.  They seem much more westernized than Thais and there are few Thai maids in HK. 

If you can read this, then you can read the label.  Every label says what you need to know.  If you care.

If cost is the primary concern, go with the cheapest which will be palm oil and a bit of milk protein. 

If pure butter fat is what you want (aka butter) then read the label and choose that product.

But butter does contain like 20% water, so to avoid the water choose ghee. Ghee an Indian product of butter fat minus the water. More calories per 100 gms, but also more taste.

My observations of tree trimming in T'land easily reveal massive ignorance of how to lop a limb correctly.  Most of correctness involves 'where to cut', less of which tool to use. Stubs left after the job, often 3 ft from the trunk, will lead to  tree decay.  

Cut close to the main trunk and the bark will heal over the wound.  And a saw is better than an axe or large knife.

Don't forget: 'a tree hurts too'. 

Many believe globalization//massive income inequaltiy//mcdonalds not noodles//99% of wealth in hands of 1% and worldwide internet coverage is grand and thank goodness Uber is a part of that. Yeah, i've criticized here for not going uber, not going facecrap, not going airbb, not going down the lane with my eyes glued to a 3 inch screen but i hear the birds sing,  see the beauty of the sunrise in person, and have felt the warm evening breeze in the seat of the tuk-tuk.

I've got bags of money but would prefer to share with local folks not mr uber nor his ilk.  Many here think saving a penny or two, sitting in air/con all the time, getting a cheap ride on the back of a poor person within minutes, buying the chinese smartphone, using credit cards to buy a 20 baht item, posting photos of daily meals on facecrap all make for a modern person and those not conforming are luddite jerkballs.  

I pity you. 

Recall that Miss Thailand, in recent beauty contest, dressed as a lovely Tuk-Tuk and won a big prize for 'outstanding national pride and local color'.  Who could dress as a Mazda and win a prize?

And, maybe more seriously, giving credit card, phone #, etc to online operators simply opens the door to misbehaviour, and eventual sorrow, to you.  I won't do it.

Additionally, returning late at night from a long air journey to CNX and hopping an open-air tuk-tuk home is way better than some common air con car.

Check FaceCrap, that's where the fake news lives.

Got a Garmin NUVI for my car a month ago and now want to carry it on my bike rides.  Need input 5V @ 1 amp.  I want to use common AA or AAA cells. How to do it?

Would only use occasionally, never more than a few minutes to learn current location and then ride towards the hiway.  Too often getting totally lost and with no idea how to get to any hiway.

Plz do not recommend buying the Garmin power bank, nor any other power bank.  I want toss away batts.

Good on ya, mrBrad.  When ketchup all out can wash and reuse container as condom.  A double win!!

did i not see various tins of traditional UK foods at Sausage King?  i won't be buying so help thyself.

My 2nd hand drill quit last week.  Was working ok, then not.  How can i check for faults and can i fix anything?

Sure, i could go buy a new one, 1000++ baht, but if avoidable...

I've used a bum-gun for a shower at the golf course.  They wanted 20baht for towel and shower, i couldn't see paying.  Tight quarters, bring own soap/towel but worked OK.

How u gonna bolt to the boot lid?  Punch holes in the boot lid seems very unwise, IMO.  Tell us more on how the thing stays in place, coz from the photo that is not evident. And what do u need to carry?  

Very widespread practice in China.  Univ students carry cases of beer into the restaurant, then order plates of food and drink their own.  Univ teachers carry in new bottles of 'bai jiu', (a white spirit, rather like kerosine) all wrapped up pretty, and drink thru the nite.  I have never seen a restaurant complain or attempt to deny these bottle carriers entrance.

The overriding thing about China is the population and competition for money.  If any restaurant denied alcohol carry-in they would soon be out of business.  Too many shops accepting the practice means all must comply, or go broke. 

Same goes for carry-in food, generally.  I have seen signs at MCD which tell us 'no outside food/drink' but this is ignored by all.

If you only want loads of food, the daily buffet at the Grandview Hotel is tops in CM.  199 baht and sitting from 11:45 to near 3pm. Probably no T-bone or turkey but you may eat till you bust.

I go to North Wheels, near the Tha Pae Gate.  Never a problem even when i had no Thai drivers license. Passport copy, cash...that's it.  No BS at return.

Have been to Angeles City only and won't be returning soon.  Grunge of immense proportions, kids sleeping rough on the walking street their bodies covered with sores and flies, local food of low quality/taste, old guys peddling single cigarettes on the walkway, trikes, driven by underemployed young men, cover every street corner hoping for a fare, teenage security guards at drugstores with big pistol on hip...but yes, the girls speak a bit more English than the Thais (in general) and  have  far greater desire to depart the PI so cuddle up closely and quickly to every farang.

I talked with a  OZ bloke who said getting long term  visa, or  90/180 day stamp  very easy with cash under the table so he had no interest in any discussions with local Immigration. 

Other regions may be much better and have heard Boracay very pleasant, as a holiday venue.

I applied last year at the consulate, in CM, and met a friendly counter chap who told me that i did not need a visa for a 3 day tour of Takilek, just across from Mae Sai.  So i went to Takilek, paid my US$10, in dirty old single notes, and took my tour of the casino etc.

I won't be back as i found the region expensive, rubbish filled, offering poor food, and outlandishly expensive hotel rooms and NO cute, nubile ding-dong girls.

This website contains information and inappropriate. 
Suspended by the digital economy and society.

Just turned to a USA newspaper web site, Chicago Tribune.  Banned by Thai govt for ???, what they say is 'inappropriate content'.

This Internet regulation of course is directly out of China game plan of controlling ALL internet, monitoring citizens email and web posts. 

Downhill from here, no doubt.  Bye-bye to freedom of expression, bye-bye to new ideas.

The tuk-tuk off the street has never let me down. Now, hi season, 150 baht.

Looks like chopped up weenies.   You know 'beanie/weanie'?