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I had to look up this reverse Polish notation on Google and discovered that it's nothing to do with music notation. Ah. Well. Such is life...........

I have annual blood and urine tests at my local government hospital. Time taken is about ten minutes but need to wait an hour or so for the results. My routine is. No food for twelve hours before test. Give your blood sample at about 08:00. Go home for breakfast. Back to the hospital to discuss results with my doctor (I live five minutes from the hospital). Cost is 1000 baht for the test and 50 baht for consultation. I am, like many others, on the list of elderly patients who get a checkup every three months.

Posters are focussing on the financials of this thread. Part of the headline is about Assets held in foreign countries. How many Thais have houses in places like London and Dubai? These are not so easy to hide or move around as cash.

Not quite sure what is meant by a, b, and c. Clarification below. a. Flagellation = whipping. b. Flatulence = farting. I guess penis size might vary a bit when these things happen.

Yeah. We might well be referring to him as president elect soon.

Public welfare comes off second best again.

When are these measurements done? Before, During or after gratification?

He might be leaving Thailand but I bet we will still have to "enjoy" his postings on AN

Many years ago I used to have to travel to Kap Choeng from Buriram for my extensions. The "under consideration" wait was as short as 10 - 14 days then. One would think that long term marriages would be processed quicker. The home visits for marriage verification stopped after the first two visits for me. I guess this must also be the reason why staff are shuffled around to different offices on a regular basis.

There is indeed lots of useful information in this thread, for what to do in the event of an accident. Getting insured would be a good idea for the under 75's. If you are over 75 then things get a bit tricky. If you want an insurance company, there are plenty to choose from by Googling "personal accident insurance in thailand"

This is scary stuff for governments worldwide because it reduces tax income which is needed to support an increasing aging population. It's rather like an inverted boomer time.

that's a very long advertisement.

I think it might not. Thaksin is cleared of punishment by his royal pardon. However the same cannot be said about the officials in charge of his "treatment". The problem is getting hold of the related health records which will by under the control of the said officials.

Yeah. Don't fall for a woman who is 23 years older than you but, more importantly, don't pee in the garden.

No. She doesn't.

Mine is more like 3M and 10mm² and I am happy with that. Yours is even better..........🙂 The fly in my particular ointment is the grounding of the solar array. My solar MOV's are inside the combiner box which is on my car port roof. The MOV earth is bonded locally to the stainless frame of the panels which is then bonded to the concrete carport. That should give a reasonable sort of earth connection, but in addition to that I have a 10mm² connection between the solar panel mounting frame and it's own dedicated ground rod length about 7 Metres. I think there must be ways of testing these ground connections but, cheap charles that I am, I don't fee any urge to go out and buy the kit to do it.

As far as I am aware those MOVs actually do protect the neutral also. However the earth and neural are connected together outside the house at regular intervals. Something like every third or fifth pole I believe. However, the EMP is very fast. In vacuum it travels at the speed of light. It's a bit slower in air and a lot slower in electrical conductors. Also the further away you are from it's generation, the less it's effect. It obeys the inverse square law in that respect. But the speed of the rising edge or start of this pulse is, for all intents and purposes, instantaneous. Conductors that carry electricity to your house have this thing called resistance which will attenuate the voltage of the EMP. These conductors also have something else call impedance which will slow down the speed of the rising edge of the EMP but it is still very very fast. So the longer the conductor, the less effective is the speed of the rising pulse. What I am leading up to is the length and thickness of the earth wire from the MOV to the ground rod. this needs to be as short and direct as possible to minimise the EMP voltage drop.

That's cheap. My ampher hospital dentist charges 100 Baht plus whatever the work comes too. I generally use them but sometimes sitting around waiting for a couple of hours is a less attractive option. The private dental clinics are staffed by hospital dentists who can therefore only see private patients evenings and weekends.

"Even in the provinces"? Not quite sure what you mean by that. I recently had a filling done at a private clinic in Buriram and the X ray alone came to 1,500 baht. This was a stop gap (pun?) filling. I have a choice of extraction or crown to complete the job. A crown is quoted at about 13,000 baht and no price quoted for the extraction. The tooth in question is an upper molar. Cost of filling was 300 baht with no anaesthetic.

That picture doesn't look right. In the event of a lightning strike nearby, The resulting EMP (electromagnetic pulse) would trip the 20A thingy but maybe not the 63A one which would result in the EMP having fun around the house wiring. Maybe the drawing is not quite right?

Yeah. A few years ago they used to do that here too but now it's all mechanised. But whatever, it's the leaves that are burnt which causes the pollution

A bit of enlightenment is due here. Almost all sugarcane is now harvested using a combined harvester which strips the leaves and chops the cane into small pieces. The stripped leaves are dumped on the field. It is this residue that is burned. Some years ago, the leaves were harvested and rolled up into big rolls then wrapped in plastic and taken to a bio mass factory for energy production. Good idea but way to costly so it is no longer done.

I doubt that it was opportunist. All the attackers were wearing crash helmets making it virtually impossible to identify any of them which, to my mind, makes it premeditated. I rather suspect the attackers were out looking for any lone walkers in quieter areas.

Only 2 million tax on 21 million income? Wish my uk tax was that low when I was working.

That has a familiar ring to it