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Thank heavens I don't need to worry about this ban - no one is going to ban drinking healthy fruit juice ????

I'm also interested in a booster jab in Pattaya - anyone know?

Maybe also 'gin kao laeo?', and 'bpai nai?' will assure them that you are fully assimilated into Thai culture!:)

I can't complain. Excellent and fast service for my suspected prostate cancer (happily diagnosed as benign prostate stones).

Huh, 'standard' medicine for parasites like this is Mebendazole, available OTC for about 60 baht.... trade name Bender 500

Yes, I designed all 4 of them from scratch. The 1st hotel (Phuket Airport Hotel) was financed by me as I was married at the time. After we divorced, we sold that hotel and split the profit and then my ex paid me to build a little airport hotel for her to manage (which she did very badly lol!).

I won't accept anything because it's not my business to sell ???? I'm sure the ex will accept any currency that can easily be converted into Thai baht.

Well, not my hotel but one of the small airport hotels that I built about 12 years ago for my hareem of ex-wives... I built 4 such hotels since about 2002: - 1 was sold - 1 was 'crashed' by crazy ex-wife #2 (it was built with her money...) - 1 was 'stolen' by drug-dealers, aided by the local police (that was my own little business, not happy about these events!) - 1 continues to operate, owned by ex-wife #3 who has worked hard to create a profitable business with a good reputation. During Covid, her business was very quiet, but it has now bounced back and bookings are rolling in. It occurred to me that her business might be attractive to Russians seeking an established business in Phuket. To test out this idea, I need to advertise on a website that targets Russians living in Thailand/Phuket or seeking to move their. Does anyone have suggestions about such a website? Thanks!

Not just problems with words at the airport. I knew the daughter of a Thai woman in Phuket who found a puppy after the 2004 tsunami and so named it 'tsunami'. The dog often got lost on Nai Yang beach and so the young girl would run onto the beach (busy with local and foreign tourists) and scream out "TSUNAMI!" at the top of her voice...

The woman of course, should pay for this test...

I read that Britain is now evacuating about 4,000 British citizens from Sudan. I'm amazed that some many Brits are actually in Sudan, which AFAIK was never in the British Commonwealth. Is there some special reason why so many Brits live there?

There is a credible and popular government in Myanmar. It is the NLD, voted into power by the vast majority of the voters, thrown out of power by the military junta and now operating as the National Unity Government (NUG). Did you know that according to independent sources, the junta control no more than 17% of the country? We certainly won't see any intervention by western countries. The power that can remove the illegal junta is China, who has strong interests in Myanmar. IMHO, the NUG should warn China that unless it ceases its support for the junta, it will see its oil pipelines regularly blown up. Only the 'people' can protect those pipelines from damage, not the junta.

Forgive my maths, but I think that makes 6 dead people. This French guy was found dead 120 km away from Koh Tao. Does that cast suspicion on Koh Tao? Alan and Michael dies in a motorbike crash. Are you suggesting they were murdered? Hiroshi died after a snorkel test. Well, I think diving is a risky occupation wherever you are. Yoshie presumably murdered. Why 'presumably'? What are the facts? Just to add that I have never visited Koh Tao and have no plans to do so.

Right, he wasn't even on Koh Tao and was found dead 120 km away.........

Correct. I have a low T level which is a genetic condtion in my family. My father had low T. my brothers do and my sons do. One effect of low T is lack of upper body muscle mass. So even 25 years ago I had slow-releasing testosterone implants in my side muscle of my abdomen. When I started injecting Bayer testosterone, indeed I increased my libido, but the desired effect of increased upper body muscle mass came through, so long of course as I did exercises for those muscles. I stopped injecting testosterone about 6 months before my prostate cancer 'scare'. I won't go back onto testosterone. So I guess I'll soon look like a skinny old man!!

[quote] But don't you envy those old farangs 60plus who actually go out to be involved in things like songkran or dance parties ,etc [/quote] Why would one envy them, unless it's something you want to do, but are unable to do so because of a disability etc? Everyone finds happiness in different ways. I am at my happiest when I'm on my own, doing my hobbies. Do you need to mix with others to be happy? Everyone is different.

You mean 'Finnish'? or maybe 'Farang'? ????

[quote] Are you scared of prostrate cancer? [/quote] You cannot get prostate cancer from an increased testosterone level. But if there are cancer cells present in your prostate, an increased testosterone level can encourage those cells to grow/replicate. Recently I had a prostate cancer 'scare' which luckily turned out to be benign nodules in my prostate. But prior to that diagnosis I did wonder if my use of injectable testosterone over the past few years had caused cancer cells to multiply/grow in my prostate.

No, because I would be on a tourist visa and so I would have to exit Myanmar to then return on the business visa. Penang seems a better idea.

Thanks for all the advice. My new employer has told me that I can't arrive before July 25th (no idea why, not important). So maybe I will do a nice day trip to Penang by plane from Bangkok and then re-enter on a visa exemption, giving me an extra up to 30 days in Thailand.

You really are famous! I snapped this huge photo of you at Manchester airport yesterday:)

My O visa expires on July 3rd and I start a new job outside Thailand about 10 days later. Is there any option to extend my O visa by a week or two? Or is the only option to leave Thailand on the 3rd? Thanks

Hmm, if your name is 'Stevey', why do you upload a photo of male model David Gandy? (Google Image Search is wonderful isn't it?)

Can I politely ask if you are on any form of medication? Because your comments suggest to me that you might have forgotten to take them!

I would suggest the real reason why they look at you and then rapidly look away is because they look at you and then immediately think "Oh no, a nutter!" and then look away quickly ????