simon43

Mods - please move this trash post to the politics forum. GG, stop polluting the Community Pub with your politics rubbish!

I had a prostate MRI scan at Bumrungrad (about 55,000 baht), then returned to the UK with the detailed scan files which were then analysed by the UK doctors, prior to a prostate biopsy. Having the scans meant that they were able to perform the biopsy (24 samples) in both general areas and specific regions where the MRI showed growths. Happily, those growths turned out to be benign prostate stones. My investigation and treatment was fast-tracked in the UK NHS system: Register with GP within 3 days of arrival, see GP 2 days later, hospital first appointment the following week, biopsy soon after (delayed a few weeks purely for medical reasons - UTIs).

I've asked (in Thai) on that FB page how to donate to help him and his daughter. I'll post back if I get more details

Was he just off to the beach when the filth arrived?

Do a 'Sycamore Gap' on it in the middle of the night! 🙂

Anyone who stores confidential data in the Cloud must be as dumb as a bunch of rocks!!

Reply to an old post, but to clarify that photo - it is the car that is disabled, not the passengers!

Also, as to why I don't use my physical address, the answer is simple! To reach my physical address requires the driver to use a 4-wheel drive vehicle to drive into the hills on a muddy track for about 20 minutes. My house is definitely 'ban nork'. I opened the box at the post office in the town to make it easy for the delivery company 🙂

Update: Well I spoke to a nice lady at Lazada customer service. She confirmed that it is perfectly acceptable to use a post office box at the local post office to receive deliveries, and the post office staff have also confirmed this directly with me, (they will sign for the parcel and keep it safe inside their office if it's too big to place in the p o box. Lazada also said that they have received numerous complaints about Flash Express (the delivery company). Both missing orders should have been delivered to the post office by the same delivery driver, and Lazada spoke with Flash Express while I waited online. It seems that particular driver is pocketing parcels!! Further investigations are underway... In other words, most of the above comments from posters are bollo x 🙂

Having a bad day?

You're re-quoting my quote from the article, not my own views or opinion 🙂

[quote] ... The killers are suspected of murdering his wife and child later to eliminate any witnesses. ... [/quote] That doesn't make any sense. The man was killed in the plantation and the woman and child were killed at their home. More likely is that the woman knew the men, and so she was killed to ensure that she didn't give the names to the police.

I mean your comment about metres and cm. You comment about GBP, so I assume you're British, like me. The UK changed over to the metric system when I was about 5 years old (mid 1960's).

Surely this must be a troll/wind-up?

Planes usually can accept oversize luggage (surf boards, golf bags etc). I often fly with my ham radio antennas, and those are definitely oversized!

I wonder if the department responsible for maintaining the soil sensor (is there such a department?), will now be sued for millions by the families of those who died..... (not holding out much hope here that this will happen)

Lol, this is Thailand 🙂 You're thinking with a 'western' hat on your head!

Not proud of this, but I remember driving my car in south-west France at night all the way home from a bar when I was blind-drunk. I drove about 10km on the left side of the road (wrong side of the road), and never encountered any other vehicles, (as far as I can recall!!).

But my office delivery address is the same as the post office address. Surely Kerry etc will simply deliver the parcel to the stated address. The fact that that address is the local post office should make no difference.

That's why I use a p o box, so no-one knows where I really am 🙂

Good question! Flash Courier just replied to my email (I asked them where was my parcel which they claimed to have delivered). They now say that the parcel is 'lost'. WTF???

When I lived in Laos, I had a P O Box number at the local post office. Any orders from Aliexpress etc were delivered to the post office and I'd pick up the letter or parcel. Easy! Now I'm back in Thailand and renting a house in the middle of nowhere 🙂 To make it easy for postal deliveries I rented a P O Box at the local post office. So as with Laos, all parcels and letters should simply be delivered to that post office. Well, that doesn't seem to work with the likes of Kerry and Flash delivery companies. They keep calling me when trying to deliver my Lazada orders. "Where is your house? what's the address? etc. I tell them that I use a P O box number at the local post office, so just drop the parcel off there. This completely throws them!! They don't understand that the post office will take receipt of the parcel. So far, both Kerry and Flash have confirmed delivery of my orders, but they certainly haven't been delivered to the post office! Now I need to try to get a refund from Lazada for these fake 'delivered' orders. What's up with these delivery companies? Why don't they understand something as simple as a post office box number at the local post office? 🙂

Lesotho must be a god-awful depressing place.....

This is very true. When I go to a Thai restaurant and speak in Thai, then I can't stop the Thai men chatting away with me. To be honest, I have never had a problem with unfriendly/shy Thai males, so long as they are speaking in Thai to me. I think any person, Thai or not, male or female, will always be more confident to chat in their mother tongue.

If the oil is particularly rancid and old, you can give it to the street fried food sellers....