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  1. Andrew65
    Back during the COVID (vaccine) years I heard some younger people state that they didn't want the vaccine cos they were choosey about what they put into their bodies. But I suspected not so choosey as to not buy (dodgy) drugs from dodgy people in nightclubs or on the street.
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    Many years ago it was found that a surprisingly high %'age of £20 notes had a trace of cocaine on them in London.
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    I believe that when we die we just go back to how we were before we were born, back to nothing. Also, who would want to spend eternity (>trillions of years) with the human race anyway? Especially with some of the people who claim to be religious.
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    About 20 years ago in Bangkok there was a timeshare scam that seemed to have some connection with the Taipan Hotel there.
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    On my first visit to Pattaya in '85 it became apparent that the beach and the sidewalk along it was best avoided after dark, if you wanted to avoid unwanted attention. It does look like the lighting has been improved there though since then.
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    Something that I noticed when farang friends arrived in BKK after several months in the boonies, Buri Ram or where ever. They couldn't stop talking. I suspected that when they were at home conversation was at a premium.
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    For many years most emigres to Israel came from E Europe, Russia especially.
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    Yes, but it ain't just folks from those countries, people from the Anglo countries & western Europe too.
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    Maybe back then Thailand didn't have the horrendous drugs problem that it does today?
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    In years to come, due to 'overtourism', I suspect that Thailand will start to require a visa before travel for many nationalities. It's very easy to run criminal record checks on someone in the UK (DBS). They've long talked about wanting 'quality' high-spending tourists anyway, rather than kee nok farang. Because of it's geographic location there's a risk that Thailand could be overwhelmed by numbers.
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    According to Peter it's somewhere that they tend to go after finishing their military service.
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    One thing that I found with talking to Thai ladies was that good conversation could be hard to come by because we didn't really have any kind of common knowledge. Chit chat about things from our home countries etc. Beyond "What's your name, where you come from..."
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    In my case it would've been "When was the last time you spoke to a Thai?!" I only used to hang-out with falang there, and in the last 5 years or so didn't really bother with relationships/screwing around either.
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    An old Thailand friend had lived in Goa for many years, he said that Israelis had the illicit drugs trade sewn-up there (He himself was a bit of a junkie).
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    A nightclub, a stabbing. A wild guess is that maybe illicit drugs were also in the mix?
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    Up until a certain time people from the former Soviet Union made up the biggest numbers of inward migration to Israel.
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    In the UK, Bromsgrove, Davenal Surgery. They actually contacted me and asked if I wanted them.
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    A police spokesman stated that amongst the items discovered were 40 bottles of beer, and 250 straws.😁
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    Over the counter/self test, but my GP gave me a free COVID jab in November (and a conventional Flu jab).
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    I doubt that he spent even one second anywhere near a real prison cell either.
  21. Andrew65
    I'm pretty sure that we now have to pay for the test kits in the UK, they were free during the pandemic.
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    Many years ago an old Scottish friend nearly died of bacterial meningitis, having first showed symptoms about a week after arriving in Thailand. I suspected that he might have caught it on the aeroplane on the journey from Scotland. He nearly died but Bumrungrad saved him. (Travel insurance paid). Thailand has a large 'transient-population'.
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    When I used to do that stuff a lot, a long time ago, my golden rule was to always undress in the bathroom before showering, for this very reason.
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    Between 2006-2011 I lived in a condo in Bangkok. There was a landline telephone there which I never once used in 5 years. There would always be a 117 Baht (something like that) charge on my room rent for it. When I enquired about having it removed I was told that this wasn't possible because of the cost of reconnection.
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    Most students start university after their 18th birthday, as they are then legally able to enter into contracts with the university and other organizations like student finance.

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