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Your opinion. Personally, I totally dislike silicon and I don't believe for one second that you can succeed in competitive body building with "hard work and right food" only. As for being an air hostess, if they mean a flight attendant I have never seen one below 155cm. She wouldn't even reach the overhead luggage bins. I also do not quite understand how she could be 2nd overall, but 4th in her age category, defies logic.

Amazing the number of people commenting here, who think that porn is seeing a woman in underwear or naked.

Then try this for size.

Hope the folks in England can survive one afternoon at 40C, I see highs predicted to drop by more than 10C from tomorrow.

You are right, the persons that found the body should be blamed for not checking his age first with a quick visit to his home and looking at his passport, then consult you on the correct adjective to use, then finally inform the police.

Agree about obesity - it's punches you in the eye the moment you set foot in the USA. About "many Europeans... for surgery" I don't know, do you have numbers to prove it? Because I have the impression that on average other countries are equally good or, dollar for dollar, better; e.g. Thailand. One thing about getting the best in the US, is that you pay through your nose. Now, if you have that kind of money, I assure you that you don't need to wait over a year in the public health system in Europe.

Sorry if I have no idea of who CY is, and why we should listen to his opinion in matters of Covid. So I looked him up, found that he is a journalist not a virologist, and that his "opinion piece" is a sorry attempt to get some attention by mixing apples and oranges. Sad that you fall for that. As for the OP, if you mean the Nikkei journalist, she has said absolutely nothing except repeating the rather obvious notion that there is a very large number of unreported infections that do not need to be treated.

Far from me to enter the debate about masks, I do what I think is right for me and I am happy with whatever others choose to do. But to imagine that companies that manufacture masks would/would not fund research to influence sales, I find that hard to believe. I buy masks for a pittance, when you deduct costs of packaging and shipping and retail commission I doubt that even by selling a few millions masks a company makes enough money to fund researchers... maybe they pay them with masks?

"Create"... what does it mean? Microsoft did not become what it is today (btw, its CEO is an indian-born person) in one day, by one individual. Hats off to Bill Gates, who certainly never shied away from employing the best regardless of nationality. Google was co-founded by Sergey Brin, again a russian-born person. If I had enough patience to look up the others, I am sure I would find foreign-born individuals in key posisitons. In my experience of a few years working at a major science institution in the US, I would say that a lot of the work in research and development was carried out by foreigners, often from India and China and Russia as well as from Europe. Kudos to the USA for an excellent policy of attracting such people with proper work visas and good salaries, unlike some countries in the EU where science is still considerd a low priority. Some of them would stay on and become american citizens, good for them and good for USA. To think that Microsoft, e.g., is the product of "american innovation" only is ridiculous. As for being loyal to the home country, it is natural at least in the first generation to feel close ties of language, culture, food. The same happens on this forum, where Brits and Americans and everybody else are constantly bitching about their host country Thailand. A lot of native english speakers, primarily US and UK, earn their bread in China as language teachers, do you think they love China more than home?

I have used Ram for many years, no more. What annoyed me there was the inefficiency. I would spend 1+ hour to see my specialist for 2 minutes, with appointment. The rest of the time was the "vital signs", and check out/payment. Incredibly inefficient service, maybe 15 nurses at the internal medicine outpatient counter, all running around like headless flies or sitting idle with their phones. But we are spoiled, back in Europe that would be considered quick. I did like my specialist there, until the day he actually got seriously sick and I had to change. Now I use the new Sriphat OPD, and BKK Hospital CM. Much better organization IMO, as for the doctor it depends of course on the specialist and on your specific case, it has to be tried.

Pantip Plaza has a couple of shops that repair laptops (english spoken), I used Godspeed in the past quite ok, they should be on the 2nd floor. If you don't know, easily found on google maps 18:46:54N, 98:59:58E

Very tragic, especially when one of them was on honeymoon and the other a husband and father. About lifeguards and red flags on Phuket west coast beaches, I have to say that they are often a joke - though of course I cannot say in the specific case not having been present. e.g., at Nai Harn beach that I frequent regularly, the red flags are often there for no real reason, and the "swim here" red/yellow flags are always just in front of the lifeguards stations. Nothing to do with the real sea/beach conditions. As for the lifeguards, instead of monitoring closely the swimmers, they are more often than not sitting at the back of the beach in the shade playing with their phones. As a result, people are swimming everywhere and ignore the red flags. The lifeguards do nothing about that. This said, I have also seen a few cases of people being "saved" - though in many cases the first responders were other swimmers. The lifeguard presence is useful as a whole, but it should be better organized.

From the headline I thought she had come to his rescue. Also, 2AM is not "early morning" for me.

Eh eh, this time I spotted the name after "Opinion" and I saved myself the effort of reading even just one sentence. Proud of myself.

To criticize US international politics and to be anti-Western is an equation that exists in your mind, not in mine.

Agreed. The problem is what comes after.

OP, don't you have a friend who can go to your Immigration and ask them the best course of action?

Your set of "easy rules" apply in a large majority of cases, but Nature is more complicated than that. For example: -how does your "male has penis..." easy rule work for ermaphrodites? -according to your easy rule, then a man who has congenital infertility is not a male? -do you really believe that the mind (=brain) is not part of a person's biology? About your last paragraph, I agree that in many languages it is impossible or it becomes ridiculous to include more than two genders in the grammar. There are languages with three genders, or even more, but still it can be confusing. However, languages evolve with societies. I am old and on the way out, but when I look at the young people around me, especially in Thailand, I have the impression that they are more ready to shed the "binarity". Also, they seem to give a lot of importance to their lives in the virtual world of social media, where genders are whatever you want.

To give fractions with 4 digits on a sample of 13 serious cases shows that Dr. Supakit doesn't have a clue about statistics. He "admitted... number of cases... not enough" so he should simply shut up.

The fact that you keep posting your imaginations as facts, and that people keep liking them, speaks volumes about the quality of this forum. Malaysians do not migrate to Thailand, they have a higher standard of living there, and those are indeeed "tourists" for a weekend or so - away from the imam's eyes.

Here's the Navy in 1978...

It is no coincidence, in my opinion, that CCSA is now, ONLY now, claiming numbers like 29,000/day, just as they have extended their own role in charge. Two things matter: 1) consistency. Take e.g. the official figure published every day by the unlinkable national newspaper, it doesn't matter if it refers to hospitalizations only: it shows numbers of order 2000 since weeks. No increase, if anything a down trend. 2) fatalities. These are of order 20/day, also in a down trend, and most interestingly they never tell us the age, conditions, vaccination status. I think those not too old, fit, vaccinated who succumb to Covid ONLY are very very few. Wear your mask if you have a reason to (I do), don't wear it if you have no reason, do home testing regularly, ditch the CCSA, and stop the fear mongering.

@Woof999already explained. FYI, it is in the owner's manual, page 7-8 and page 7-11. (bbr-f8199-e0-all-new-aerox.pdf)

See here

There has been no need to arrive pre-dawn since many years. If you arrive very early (like 7am) you will be sure to be processed on the same day, but you may have a longer wait. Some prefer to arrive late, and have a shorter wait but also the risk that they run out of numbers. They start giving queue numbers at 8am (btw, not exactly in the order of arrival but in order of seating place). This said, the last two years I have used the online appointment system, works nicely but you many need to book well in advance. In general, note that the satellite office is open at Central Festival, for a number of services - however not for the extension that OP needs. There was a topic on that.