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  1. 1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

    Drinking at work also common, my editor used to drink a bottle of whiskey every day, bottle always on his desk in the newsroom. Taking cocaine at work, also common.

    Way back when I worked overseas my boss would walk around at 6.45am at work with one of those big plastic mugs that had a sealable-top on. It was full of whisky & coke. Because he was the boss he could get away with it.

  2. Just now, Spock said:

    I get my medicinal weed in Australia through a pharmacy, but the scripts are for 5 or 6 lots of 10mg, with a 30 gm limit per month. I suspect the 30gm a month limit is what will apply in Thailand when weed goes medicinal. Forcing people to get a monthly prescription would be ridiculous as the condition for which it is being prescribed will not change month to month.

    I have to get a repeat prescription for my meds in the UK, and my medical condition hasn't changed.

  3. It would seem that many non-users don't like the smell of it wafting around public places. It's a 'pungent' and not very pleasant smell. In the UK recently a colleague complained that he could smell it when his neighbours were smoking it (in their back garden).

    (I'm not virulently anti-drugs, I've had a smoke a few times before, partly out of curiosity, quite pleasant).

  4. 27 minutes ago, loong said:

     

    I didn't say that I have never heard of them. I said that I didn't really know what they were. I see them referenced in stories such as when poor students survive on ramen noodles, Th's why I wondered if they were something like Mama noodles.

     

    The place, as well as the food that you show photos of does not appeal to me at all, so no, I would not pay 300 Baht for a bowl of noodles.

    Maggi brand noodles in S E Asia.

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  5. 4 hours ago, jaywalker-2 said:

    Come to Florida where there is a State 6% sales tax + a local 1% county tax, plus an "expected" 15-20% tip. If the bill is $20 USD...just call it $30.

     

    How do people afford a plane ticket if they are that cheap?

     

    Saving 20 baht on every meal????

     

     

    It's not really about the 20 Baht, but that it seems as though the advertised price is misleading.  In the UK it tends to be the price you see is the price you pay.

    I remember often seeing beer advertised as 99++ Baht in Bangkok.

  6. 11 minutes ago, Magictoad said:

    I lived on the Kao San Rd in 1990 for a year. 50 baht a week, no AC and the walls didn't reach the ceiling. It was a fun place then but I believe it's been sanitized now. In those days you could buy all sorts including H. The Hello bar was open all night till 4 or 5 in the morning; plus it was full of girls; Thai girls AND the peripatetic European and American girls. It was a rocking joint. I'm not surprised to hear of these unfortunate & sad deaths. In my day it was about 45 ODs a year on the KSR.  It just goes to show that things don't really change.

    Apparently nowadays some heroin is cut with Fentanyl.

  7. 1 hour ago, connda said:

    This is old news.  Seen it before.  Don't do drug cocktails.  If you die, it's your own stupidity.  

    Sorry mom.  At 36 your kids are full grown adults.  There are consequence to actions.  Like death. Your kid f'ed up.  Other 30 somethings will come to Thailand and do the same thing regardless of your dire warnings.  Nothing you say is gonna change the behavior of an adult who wants to walk on the wild side and ends up dead.  

     

    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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