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How very fortunate..bye-bye Biden, time to take a rest in the old people's home.....

Camera still not working.....

Would that 'Easy Off' work to clear constipation?

Seems to look exactly like the photo in the news report, but of course I could be wrong - I just spotted (and recognised) the restaurant as I walked to Tukcom today. Still, not important 🙂

Unlikely - the sheep has already died.... 🙂

I walked right past that restaurant just 1 hour ago as I went to Tukcom, and the restaurant is open for business! Very strange.

Great move Elon and Trump! Sick of the wokies and PC softies.... This is a 'hard' world and you need hard leaders who don't <deleted> about just to please the wokies....

Same problem for me with the smog in Laos from the tree burning. I decided that for the sake of my lungs I would move back to south Thailand (I used to live in Phuket 12 years ago). Phuket is too touristy/expensive for me now, so I'm renting a small house a few hundred metres from Khanom beach. The air quality is excellent, but actually the location is too dead! So in a week or two I'm going to move over to Koh Lanta which should be slightly more populated 🙂

Carbon Monoxide poisoning? Cooking BBQ inside the room?

Ugly fake boobs, make women look like ladyboys after the 'op'. Of course, if that is your thing, go ahead 🙂

[quote] ... They have said verbally, and in email, that disputes arise when foreign nationals don't reveal the whole truth and then try to claim for pre-existing conditions. ... [/quote] So did you disclose all pre-existing conditions (however minor), previous accidents, illnesses etc?

I get up at 6am because I have to teach Science online at 6.30am. These are Chinese students who have emigrated from China and now live in Vancouver, Canada. So the timezone is a bit of a problem, but at least it's not in the middle of the night. After teaching I fast-walk for about 2 hours, then have a light breakfast and then back to teaching students in the Asian time-zones. Various breaks throughout the day and last lessons around 11pm for emigrated Russian students who now live in the UK. Spain etc. Some day I'll retire, but I enjoy teaching, so retirement age will probably be around 99 years old 🙂

When my 2 Thai nieces 13/14 years old lived at my house in Phuket some years ago, (I was their legal guardian), it was almost impossible to stop them staying out late at night with the local lads on their motorbikes. I know this wasn't going to end well, so I would lock the doors of my house when the 2 girls were in their room and (theoretically) gone to bed. They would then climb out of the windows! So I bought superglue and glued all the window locks shut! They bought more superglue AND superglue solvent, then dissolved the glue after I was asleep, went out for fun with the local lads, came back in the small hours and glued the windows shut again.... Very resourceful of them, but it was doing my head in 🙂

I used to do Ranong visa runs many times. I took the public bus or drove up to the Ranong pier. Paid $10 for entry into Kawtaung, stamped out by the IO, walk down to the smaller boats and pay 100 baht each way, arrive in Kawtaung, walk 200 metres to the IO office, get stamped in and out, walk back to small boat, over the river mouth to Ranong, stamp in, go home.... A short video I took on the boat crossing to Kawtaung: Kawthaung - Crossing the Kyan river.mp4

Wow - some real nutjob comments in this thread!

The comments in this thread reassures me that I made the right decision a long time ago to stay well away from people from the USA... 🙂

Good idea! (I did...)

To be honest (for the sake of the USA), the best thing that could happen is for Biden to fall down the steps (as he often does), and break his neck.... Harsh but true.

The UK has too many people already and adding all these immigrants isn't going to help. There is a simple solution which will save a fortune in the long run. That is, courage the local population (ie people who in the main were born and raised in the UK), to bu-gger off to warmer climes.... Give sweeteners, such as paying their airfares, visa fees to live in other countries. Simple init?

You need some other animal to attract the flies, as opposed to your body. I keep a large water buffalo in my condo and it works very well to keep the flies off me 🙂

That's an expensive rental rate. I typically pay 2,000 baht per month!

I use Speedify VPN so that I can combine my internet connections while I use Zoom to teach online. You allocate priorities to each internet connection and Speedy then uses that internet connection, unless your meeting requires more bandwidth, in which case it adds on your second/third/fourth internet connection to achieve the required bandwidth. Additionally, if your primary internet connection drops out even for a fraction of a second, Speedify switches over to your secondary internet connection so you don't have a 'drop-out' in the lesson (well, I think some of my students are drop-outs lol!). I use USB tethering from my laptop to a 5G SIM (True) in 1 mobile phone and similar to a 4G SIM (AIS) in another phone. Then I use the laptop wi-fi to connect tothe hotel wi-fi and a wi-fi dongle to connect to a 4G DTAC SIM in a pocket wi-fi unit. For my students in China, making a Speedify connection to their node in Singapore works the best. It might seem 'overkill', but it's necessary if you want to ensure a reliable Zoom class. I don't need the extra bandwidth function, but automatic switchover during drop-outs is most definitely required. (Often the internet drop-out is somewhere down the line between Thailand and China, but using different internet providers helps to provide an alternative route). From the Speedify stats I could probably get away with combining just 2 internet connections...

To be correct, it wasn't hiding inside the ATM of course - it was hiding in the ATM booth 🙂

Everyone is responsible for their own decisions. If you choose to take illicit drugs, then the only person to blame for your ill health or death by overdose is yourself. As said in that video, if you want to avoid Fentanyl, then avoid taking all illicit drugs. It's not rocket science...

Off-topic, but actually I never verbally talk with other hams because I find them too boring!! I use a digital system a bit like text messaging to contact and exchange small talk, but most of my enjoyment of the hobby is the technical challenge of designing/building antennas to achieve the contact. It's a weird hobby...