simon43

This is the problem: I use different apps such as Zoom, Zhumu etc to teach online, and I share my computer screen with my students so that they can view the pdf of the text-book on my computer, or to view Google Search images etc. Zoom restricts free usage to 40 minutes for each lesson, although one can log straight back in again. Access to Zoom by my students in China seems to vary across regions/dates. Zhumu has been working fine, but they have now disabled the screen-share option for non-paying users. So here's an idea: My students can see me on my camera. If I were to redirect that camera to point at my computer screen with textbook pdf displayed on the screen, then they would see the book just fine without any need for screen-sharing. But is there a 'soft' way to achieve the same by somehow redirecting the camera input to the Zhumu app to a file or image on my computer? I sem to recall years ago that I used an application that allowed me to switch between different camera inputs, as well as file/image inputs. Thanks

I know that if you are employed in Thailand, you have to contribute to the social fund, and after leaving your employment you are entitled to government hospital health cover so long as you continue to pay about 450 baht/month into that fund. My Googling suggests that a foreigner may join the health fund (through their Thai employer) if they are not yet 60 years old. Is that correct and is that always correct? Are there any options for those age >60 years old to benefit from the Thai social fund health cover if they are employed in Thailand?

I think the 20 year olds are all at home finding punters using social media. Only the unwanted still do street-walking....

Go to Beach Road at the Walking Street end. Start walking towards the north end of Beach Road You will soon spot several ugly, fat, elderly women (they may actually be men), all 'waiting for a bus that never comes' Those are your freelancers. Good luck!

Happily I am still very fit and run every day ????. As yet, I have no outward cancer symptoms, but the MRI scan strongly suggests prostate cancer and I'm waiting on the biopsy results. At least prostate cancer is usually slow-growing.

I planned, thousands of USD on expat medical insurance over the years. I got sick (suspected prostate cancer) My medical insurance refused to cover the cost (long story, already covered in other posts) I had to return to the UK for treatment on the NHS The waiting times are not too bad (cancer treatment is prioritised), although I'm grateful that prostate cancer is usually a slow-growing cancer type. So.... you can make as many plans as you like, but 'bad luck' can scupper your well-thought out plans. Another example: A week before flying back to the UK I was stung by a box jellyfish on Koh Phangan. Totally unexpected event, most people die of heart failure within 10 minutes of the sting. I also 100% felt and thought that I was going to die (as I flailed around on the floor of a beach restaurant as locals frantically poured vinegar on me and commented in Thai that I would be dead in a few minutes). Amazingly I recovered..... These 2 recent events have changed my view on planning for the future, 'cos you never know what plans the Grim Reaper has!

AFAIK, a 'healthy' automatic transmission car cannot stall!

It is an ASEAN problem, but as most of us know (think of the civil war in Myanmar), ASEAN is weak as water and will not intervene in another member country's problems.

Thinking back, I was also arrested in The Netherlands! I was the temporary transmitter engineer and DJ on an offshore radio station in the 1970's called Radio Delmare. When I returned on the tender boat back to The Netherlands, we were all arrested by the Dutch police. The police took the Dutch and Belgian nationals off somewhere and they took me directly to the ferry to England at Hook of Holland, wished me a nice trip and that was that! In the past few years I have been 'hassled' by police/military in both Myanmar and Laos for my totally legal amateur radio activities. In Laos my house was raided 3 times by many police and I was taken against my will to the local police station where I was 'grilled' about my activities (they ignored the copy of my ham licence issued by their own government). In Myanmar, some senior military chaps visited me for a nice chat about how I could perhaps help them with developing satellite technology (I used to work as a satellite design engineer), in return for allowing me to do my ham radio hobby. Sorry, no can do!

If you look at the satellite fire map over the past 24 hours, it's clear that most of the fires are actually in Shan State (Myanmar) and Laos - the Golden Triangle region, which is probably better renamed as The Smoky Triangle. The likelyhood of Thai farmers not burning the stubble is almost zero and the likelyhood of Lao and Shan farmers not doing likewise is less than zero. In other words, if you don't like smoke pollution, don't visit or live in that region, because nothing will change.

Tamsulosin doesn't have a similar action to Finasteride. The latter is an 5-alpha reductase inhibitor which can lead to a reduction in the physical size of the prostate, whereas Tamsulosin is a Selective Alpha-1-Blocker which relaxes the muscle around your bladder. But Tamsulosin doesn't reduce the size of your prostate. (All according to my non-medical understanding of these 2 drugs!).

Duh! To all the outraged posters, check your calendar!!

I spent a day in the jail under Pattaya Courthouse, based on some trumped-up and fake charge that I refused to plead guilty to. I had my shoes and tie and belt taken away from me, but rather than being put in the 'cages', I was allowed to sit on a chair outside the cages. (Maybe because the police there knew that the charge was fake). I watched others come and go, all shackled with a heavy chain on their legs. Most were Thai, some were foreigners. I was lucky enough to get bail, but looking at some of those in shackles I wondered if they were innocent of the charges against them but didn't have the funds to pay for bail.

He was time-travelling... ????

When I lived in Myanmar and was paid in USD cash, I used to have to iron these notes at my hotel before they would be accepted! If it didn't look as if it were newly printed then nobody would accept it....

A question primarily for Sheryl: I have BPH and I also have 2 tumours inside my prostate (I will get the biopsy results soon as to whether they are benign or not. If I take Finasteride to reduce the size of my prostate could it cause those tumours to breach my prostate wall? (ie - as the prostate shrinks slightly and the tumours do not shrink, then maybe they will end up breaching my prostate - not a good scenario if they are canerous). I

Although Finasteride is often recommended to recover hair loss, medical research also indicates that it can reduce the prostate size in BPH. Does anyone have experience *(successful or not) of taking this drug to reduce their BPH symptoms/prostate size?

So how does that work when it says that you signed up just 3 hours ago and your member number is 368,477? Simon (member #174)

According to The Sun newspaper, he has died in the Thai hospital. Not sure if the link is allowed: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/21880896/brit-dad-dead-motorbike-crash-thai-holiday/

No... see my previous posts on this subject.

I know that it is only a library photo, but the maths on that board doesn't make sense! Does Pythagoras theorem work differently in Thailand?

The pandemic is over but not the air pollution...

In my recent prostate biopsy operation in the UK, as I was hoisted into the leg stirrups and bared my nether regions for all to see, I humourously reminded the young doctor that he was doing a prostate biopsy and not a gender reassignment operation ????

So the original risk was diddly-squat and now treble that risk is also diddly-squat! From the link: "It equates to six cardiac deaths per 100,000 females vaccinated with at least a first dose of a non-mRNA vaccine"

[quote] However it may be pot luck as to how much proof is required by individual NHS locations/overseas visitors officer/GP's WRT to "settle". [/quote] Indeed. In my case, absolutely no proof has ever been requested, neither from the GP with whom I registered, nor with the hospital. I stated that I have been living overseas for 21 years and have now returned to the UK. No-one questioned me whatsoever about this, other than an interest in what life was like in Myanmar and had things changed in the UK. contract of employment - I have none (I am self-employed, teaching online) tenancy agreement - I have none (I am staying in a hotel) evidence of mortgage repayments or of being in the process of purchasing a property - nope! evidence of utility/and or council tax bill payment - nope! evidence a child is enrolled in a school" - nope! Free NHS treatment is dependent on UK residency (more than 183 days/year in the UK). For this current year, although I have not yet been in the UK for 183 days, that will be the case later this year. I have also spent longer in the UK this year than overseas. Anyway, this is off-topic!