Krataiboy

Roll on brain transplants.

No drugs on my watch!

13 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

He's a what .! rice variety conservation advocate .. has he been experimenting a bit too much with his own formula .. 

 

You can make Phat Iris Ached out of his name .. If she is he wants to give her some of his maryjane medicine .. 

He should be congratulated for fighting to preserve rice varieties from monopolistic agricultural imperialists like Monsanto, and for promoting community medicine primarily based on natural, organic products - which was the norm around the world before the Big Oil gave birth to Big Pharma and ever bigger prescription bills.

16 hours ago, marcusarelus said:

Should be an opposing viewpoint. 

 

I've been here 20 years.  Nothing has changed for me.  Maybe it will.  Maybe it won't.  Things have changed in America and I've done better here with my cash as I moved it to baht 20 years ago and locked in my expenses.  I like governments less and less and America is no exception.  I'm a semi recluse.  I only talk to dogs, hookers and taxi drivers.  They don't seem to have changed much.  Motorcycle taxi rates have stayed the same for 20 years.  Song Tau rates have stayed the same for 20 years.  My doctor went from 500 baht to 600 baht a quarter. 

 

I put 16k USD in a Thai bank 20 years ago and withdraw the interest each year and give immigration 1900 baht.  A taxi driver does my 90 day reports.  My pension has increased so I've a bit more to spend.  My wife's house will be paid off in 2 years and that will be a big raise for me. 

 

I keep some money in gold and fixed deposits and regular savings accounts.  Wife has a good job with contracts for the next couple of years. 

 

My grandfather died at 90.  Spent a couple of days in the hospital and died.  That'll be OK for me too. 

 I only talk to dogs, hookers and taxi drivers. 

Magic! 

9 hours ago, Spidey said:

A right stitch up! Anyone surprised?

Your so right. The Thai version of Brexit.

A feature of the report is its conspicuous lack of any facts and figures to show the incidence of this very serious disease, which is making an unwelcome comeback in many parts of the world.

The new government needs to make tracking and treatment a priority, along with a public education campaign (including schools), with the focus on prevention.

The World Health Organisation warns: "Apart from being serious diseases in their own right, sexually transmitted infections increase the risk of contracting or transmitting HIV infection". 

17 hours ago, from the home of CC said:

yes people talk about slaps on the wrist here in Thailand for convictions, the Americans in this case received 6 months home arrest and a fine (after making over 10 million US on the deal)..

It's all about who you know, here and everywhere else. The higher up the feeding chain you happen to be, the more you can get away with. 

I blame his mother.

8 hours ago, wisperone said:

"No idea why HIV is more prevalent in the north of Thailand (looks like CM/CR)?"

 

I would guess non protection and perhaps drug/needle transmission

Unlikely. By far the largest proportion new HIV infections - around 70 percent if I remember rightly - result from men having sex with men. 

Maybe the outreach to gays, transexuals and transgender folk (the most vulnerable groups) is not as efficient "oop North" as it is in Bangkok which surely must have many more male sex workers than Chiang Mai and Chang Rai combined.

Or could it be that a lot of them have actually migrated to Big Mango but are included in the stats for CM/CR because they have home addresses there?

Either way, you would have thought some enterprising journalist would have got a whiff of a possible good story in the making.

One could be forgiven for doubting the reliability and objectivity of the IPCC, since it is was mandated by the UN only to focus on "a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate change variability".

Even more dubious, however, is the role of Al Gore and other members of the wealthy elite who, in the wake of the latest IPCC findings, are using their billions to exploit children's marches and other "save the planet" events designed to manufacture consent for a global “Green New Deal”.

Their intervention has nothing to do with saving the earth from the deliberately-created myth of imminent extinction. It is all about further lining their already-bulging pockets and rescuing a dying capitalist system with a fourth industrial revolution based on providing climate change “solutions".

The architects of this scheme - which, ultimately, will further degrade resources and exacerbate global warming - are seeking taxpayer funding, and even covertly lobbying for permission to plunder 100 trillion dollars tied up in our pension funds. 

For the full, inconvenient truth about the shady activities of Gore & Co: 

http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/01/17/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-political-economy-of-the-non-profit-industrial-complex/

23 hours ago, Isaanbiker said:

Some folks believe sex is love and love is sex. The perfect condition is to be loved and to have good sex.

 

    But you can't expect a bargirl loving you after she'd a few hundred meters of di... fferent ones. Unfortunately, do some people believe that you can buy love, but it's the sex you pay for.

 

    Love is in the air.....

 

   

I rather suspect the reverse is true. Bar girls get endless sex, whether they want it or not, but not love or security. This is why, apart from any other considerations (money to support their themselves and their families) they often end up marrying falangs much older than themselves. That way, they are more likely to get love and security and the sexual demands of their partner will be easier to cope with than those of a randy young stud. 

Sex has little to do with lasting love. The sexual side of all but the most physically intense relationships diminishes over time and often peters out completely. I well remember one of my pals and his wife making a no-sex pact in their seventies. It later turned out that for years (unbeknown to each other) they had both been going through the motions for the assumed gratification of their partner! Their relationship improved thereafter.

Generally speaking, men involved in long-term partnerships seem to miss sex more than women do, which may well be linked to the the biological itch we are blessed or cursed with (depending on your view), in the interests of keeping the species going. Sex is also, of course, a wonderful way to reinforce the intimacy that is so easily lost in long-term associations, the cement between the bricks as it were.

According to sex "guru" Bettina Arndt, who used to run Forum magazine, most men eventually end up "negotiating" sex with a reluctant spouse to whom it has become a boring and unfulfilling routine. Hence all those lavish Valentine's day flowers and impromptu boxes of chocolates and sexy nighties/lingerie as birthday/Christmas gifts.

Women have the drop on men when it comes to feigning an interest in sex, which many of them do for a wide variety of reasons. Biologically, there is no obvious outward physical evidence that they are not prepared to mate, whereas with us men, once our pants are down so is any pretence!

PM reveals why Thailand is world's 'happiest country - headline, The Nation, 17 March 2017.

Seven million Thais at risk of severe stress: health chief - headline, The Nation, 3 May, 2019.

What have you been doing wrong, guvnor?

we should not. . . entirely replace conventional medicines with cannabinoid medicines. Otherwise, the very useful medical cannabis could also be harmful Big Pharma will go out of business.

Pass a hankie, someone.

5 hours ago, Dek Somboon said:

Climate change is humanity’s biggest and most pressing challenge. Even Brexit is a piece of cake compared to the destruction we are already and will increasingly face this century. Which is why ‘economy’ and ‘ecology’ share the very same Ancient Greek root oikos, or ‘management of our household’. Without a properly functioning ecology, there can be no decent economy. (Think arid dusty Issaan, where many women who normally would earn a living with 3 rice crops a year now have to screw ugly old western sex tourists in Pattaya, Bangkok and Phuket for a living...)

The climate is constantly changing, always has and - until an asteroid strikes or the sun swells into a super nova - always will. And, of course, scare stories about a world weather apocalypse are as old as the Earth itself.

Remember how, In the Seventies, an influential body of scientists warned of an approaching ice-age? Decades later, with the Gulf of Thailand still iceberg-free, their successors totally rewrote the script with dire predictions of an imminent global warming catastrophe.

Since this, too, has failed to meet their worst expectations, the existential threat of "climate change" has been taken up as the rallying cry of the technocracy driving the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution. Hi-tech businesses are falling over themselves to provide carbon capture and other costly "solutions" to unruly weather behavior.

Some sceptics say Silicon Valley's motivation is pecuniary rather than humanitarian, and that the technocrats are more interesting in reinvigorating the sclerotic capitalist system than rescuing the planet. 

Either way, who can blame them for making hay while the sun shines?

1 hour ago, Kieran00001 said:

 

That there will not be any THC.

The TMM spokesperson for the TTM wasn't definitive, describing this as "unlikely". 

Assuming no THC, how would ganga, as the article puts it, "find its way into cigarettes"? If only as CBD oil, of what could the bulk of the cigarette contain other than tobacco?

It is not made clear in this relevant extract from the Bangkok Post article:

If permission is granted then ganja will find its way into cigarettes. 

41 minutes ago, Kieran00001 said:

 

Nope, just your terrible reading skills.

OK. I obviously left school too early. What's your reading?

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I watched most of it on Al Jazeera and I don't remember any time that the US came out in support of the brotherhood. IMO they'd have preferred the incumbent, but he was probably too corrupt to support openly.

The US hot-and-cold relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood is well documented and summed up pretty cogently here: 

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2011/02/05/washingtons-secret-history-muslim-brotherhood/

We definitely need a bigger airport, if only for more planes to fly more climate change experts to more conferences to give us more warnings on the danger of building bigger airports.

2 hours ago, WeekendRaider said:

285 grams per pass./km. and most of us, at least I don't, even know how far we travel on most trips airwise.  at all.  and 6,400 million of us have yet to ever have been in an airplane once in their life yet, for any reason let alone traveling somewhere.  but we are changing that, albeit also building more rail (China is) at the same time which clocks in at 15 grams per pass./km. of something we can't see yet is so powerful we measure it in parts per million, by volume.

it even may account for why we left the trees 8 mya.  and today we have evidence from a jawbone that at one time, this is my 'crazy' theory, there were at lot more than only one other human like creature that could cook it's own food.... and something killed them off (ahem) so that today there is only one "blessed" (obviously somehow) survivor, plus a story that at one time there may have been (only) The Neanderthals.... that were very primitive and only we are blessed with "intelligence".  

another piece of evidence.  any story at all about an airplane or airport is really really big news.  instantly.  it just seems to be a bit more than just because it is 'scary' to fly or something like that.  its is why we love to deny that there are almost 8 billion of us to fed and take care of today, and everything we know says that the present concentration of GHG will throw us back to a point long before we left the trees, let alone had modern societies.  it takes a few decades because of how big the ocean is, but there are signs maybe that that latency could get shorter.  maybe 10 years, and we keep emitting GHG as if we want to make it even more horrific, we would face horrors without any solace that we would be leaving anyone behind, and it would be slow such as electrolyte imbalances... not enough food supplied to urban areas especially.  plenty of time to think of our ignorance.  one judge is just one judge, in the USA plenty have ruled the opposite on Julianna vs. the USA. 

all of this is what Elon Musk calls "insanity". he himself isn't always a nutter (the cave thing comments).  not at all. not on this thing. 

Well, at least you care.