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Segregating prison population due to severity of the crimes seems perfectly logical to me.

Why give hardcore criminals easy access to vulnerable, desperate people to lure or force them into doing their bidding?

Locking up users who may be victims themselves is inhuman.

I doubt the majority of people in jail for using yaba to stay awake to study or go to school after they worked all night at a market selling clothes or food went into it deciding to become a drug addict. Many probably took a "caffeine " pull or "vitamin " on a "friend's" suggestion and ended up hooked on meth.

Most logical idea I've heard on this subject from the government ever. Kudos.

Just because they don't have enough (or any) qualified counslors right now, that doesn't mean they couldn't train or import enough to cover the need.

I wonder what the senior police officials who are taking money under the table to allow illegal activities to go on in their territories are thinking?

Do they think they're too smart or too well-connected to get caught?

Are they crossing their fingers and hoping the army never finds out? Or at least the army doesn't find out until after the elections and the coup is over?

Are they making so much money that they just keep doing it anyway and socking the cash away in a safe buried in their backyard and hoping when they do eventually do get found out that they'll have enough money that they don't care if they're fired and their pension is taken away?

An illegal casino or whorehouse or umbrella rental business in your territory is hard to disavow knowledge of if they people busted say they were allowed to do it because they were paying off the local police. It's like having a meth lab or counterfeiting setup in your house, a chop shop in your garage or a pot farm in your yard, it's difficult to claim it's not yours and that you knew nothing about it.

I have a tambien ban so I'm not sure that would be required. For some reason on this extension, they asked for her tambien ban, copy of her passport and aked her what day she returned to Thailand from holiday with me. This was for an Non-O retirement. Perhaps it's because I'd moved since my last 90 day report?

At the end, right before I finally got my passport back, the officer asked where I'd last worked and in which country. I think that was after he'd filed everything in so I'm not sure why the curiosity.

My last extension I handed my passport, copies and one or two papers to my lawyer when we were at Chaengwattana and paid the fee and was out in 30 minutes, including waiting time. No questions about my wife or I.

I swear I posted this question a few days ago but I can't see it anywhere.

I was at Ubon immigration on Thursday and they officer told my wife, not me, that the next time I returned to Thailand from abroad via BKK that I needed to go report to the immigration office in Phibun, show them my arrival stamp and say "Honey, I'm home" to the immigration officer.

I've never heard of this. Is this a new requirement, something unique to Phibun or a misunderstanding?

I read everything on their walls and only saw that I could do 90 day reporting my mail. I was the only one there but all five employees were busy with papers and it took over 90 minutes to get an extension and multiple entry. All my papers were in order, I only had to sign a couple stacks of copies I'd made of my passport pages. I don't know what took so long.

I did see a couple Lao hookers come in though, show their passport, answer a couple questions and were out in a matter of minutes and it seemed like they were reporting arrival back into the country.

The article says "teachers" yet every other comment is about teaching English. Are there no foreign teachers in Thailand who teach subjects other than English language?

Seven pages of posts and I've yet to read one cogent argument against a country requiring teachers to be familiar with the culture in the country they're teaching in.

The government as good as said the integration courses and tests weren't for university educated westerners brought up in a first world country and yet it was a requirement just to live there, not to work there, not to teach children, just to not get kicked out of the country or fined for not complying.

Like I said, it seems perfectly reasonable for the government to expect teachers to know a little about the culture they're working in. Just because you have a Thai wife or girlfriend or go to gogo bars and shop at Top Market it doesn't mean you have the same cultural awareness as a native.

Seems reasonable to me. I lived in the Netherlands almost 20 years and last November I had to go back to take 7 hours worth of cultural integration tests to prove I knew I wasn't supposed to park my camel in the front lawn, slaughter goats in the house, shoot guns in the air to celebrate weddings or New Years , let religious leaders mutilate my daughters genitals and that I knew the proper way to cut in line.

Yep, nothing racist, bigoted or marginal in that comment

Did they specify "teaching English" in the article?

I thought it said "teachers".

I sure slept better these past six months knowing that an other-wise law-abiding Chinese citizen was in jail for smoking weed in his apartment, instead of say, not locked up in jail and smoking weed in his apartment or something.

Seems reasonable to me. I lived in the Netherlands almost 20 years and last November I had to go back to take 7 hours worth of cultural integration tests to prove I knew I wasn't supposed to park my camel in the front lawn, slaughter goats in the house, shoot guns in the air to celebrate weddings or New Years , let religious leaders mutilate my daughters genitals and that I knew the proper way to cut in line.

I ordered a couple water hammer, arrester tees off Amazon to put on the washing machine and dishwasher. All the toilets turn off gradually and the RO machine has a very low flow rate so I'm not concerned about them.

I built an air chamber as described above but popped the inner tube filling it up the first time, before it even moved the pressure gauge because part of the tube from the 3" pipe developed a hemorrhoid trying to excrete itself through the 3/4" reducer. I built a new one and didn't inflate it as much. I thought of putting that one by the pump outside but I've read that it should be installed as close as possible to the devices with the solenoid operated valves. I'm not sure how much good it would do if it was next to the pump and the furthest away.

To try to sort out my low pressure, low flow issue with the shower, jacuzzi and faucets for watering the lawn, I bought a Hitachi WM-P750GX750w constant pressure, inverter pump. It's supposed to have 20% higher output and constant pressure at all faucets. 40% more efficient and 280% more expensive so it's probably got a 50 year payback time so I hope it lives up to its promises and it give me the kind of shower experience I'm expecting. I'm bored with waiting a half hour to fill the bathtub.

It's being installed tomorrow so I shall soon know if it's going to blow my pipe fittings apart.

Next problem will be lower water heater temps with what I'm hoping will be a higher flow rate. At least it's heating up here so the well water in the tank is warmer going into the heater than it was a couple weeks ago.

Good riddance. Defunding it would be a step away from the fascist direction the country is headed.

The active analgesic in Tylenol PM is acetaminophen (Paracetamol, APAP marketed as Tylenol or Panadol depending on where you're located), the ingredient which makes you drowsy is diphenhydramine hydrochloride which is a first-generation antihistamine whose side effects include sedation.

Acetaminophen is hepatotoxic, easy to OD on and especially dangerous if used past it's expiry date.

Unless you need an NSAID, if you're going to use an antihistamine off label you're better off just buying some Benadryl. I still think melatonin is a better option.

I second the melatonin suggestion. Start off with 3 grams an hour before bed, increase to 6 or 9 if that doesn't work. Taking too much is said to cause nightmares but I've never experienced that side effect.

First time I took Xanax was on a 12 hour flight, I slept for 6-7 hours and missed the breakfast I ordered. The flight attendant woke me to put my seat up for landing. I've sporatically taken a total of 10-20 over the past three years or so and even with that very infrequent use I've developed a tolerance. I took two a few days ago and sat around for 3-4 hours before I decided to go to bed. A big meal would have made me drowsier than the two Xanax.

I can relate. I live in an upscale suburban area. No farms, no other livestock but <deleted>' roosters all over the place.

Are fireworks effective against roosters? I mean just the sound from the explosions, not as a means to incinerate them.

I was this close to buying a ferret I saw at a market today, at least with that running around the neighborhood the chickens would be feeding the ferret instead of making more damn roosters.

I wonder if foxes make good pets? My fox ate all your fowl again,... again? mai ben rai

I brought a couple bags of grass seed from the U.S. Primarily creeping red fescue and other full sun grasses and it worked well for filling in the gaps and some areas where the sod didn't take. Germinated in 3-4 days and looks great.

I ordered a bag of what was supposed to be the same strain as the sod I have from an online seller in Thailand and I don't think a single seed sprouted, it's been two weeks.

It costs considerably less in the Netherlands for euthanasia. A few hundred euros tops.

Cannabis oil is also readily available there.

I can't believe all the insurance companies that don't cover treatment for cancer. I must be lucky. I pay less than 2k a year and have very comprehensive coverage. Private hospital rooms, dental including crowns, bridges and cleaning 2x a year and medical insurance that covers conventional and alternative treatments for cancer.

Go back to Amsterdam and use Simpsons oil cannabis full extract. It's cured many friends of mine including one person with "terminal" lung cancer. She is now cancer-free.

Cool, I'll do that if they ask.

We went to the government office by Smile and my wife spoke with a woman there who knew her and said "no, problem, I,ll help you, you don't need the translation legalized at the embassy".

If your wife is Thai and has a house book for your house you can use it.

You will not be able to get a yellow book unless there has been a house book issued for the house and you need permission from the holder of the house book to get it.

I may still have a copy of the rental agreement but I haven't lived there for months and the lease expired in September 2014.

I've built a new house in Ubon, I built it, I'm not leasing it and without the yellow book for that address I don't have any current proof of my actual address.

I can go to Bkk later if that's what's required to get the yellow book but I'd prefer to avoid an unnecessary trip just to go visit the embassy again.

I just came back from there getting a withdrawal slip notarized and spent a long day and 5k so I could transfer my own damn money from the U.S. to Europe.

I moved to our new house since my last 90 day report and my visa expires is a few weeks.

I wanted to be prepared and bring a copy of the yellow book as proof of address.

I got a translation of my passport and when to ubon head office to get my passport legalized before we went to the other head office to apply for yellow book.

At the first office we went to they said that I need to go to the US consulate in Bangkok to legalize my passport and the go to the Thai government office to have that legalized.

Do I need a yellow book to show my address to get my extensions or can I give them something else?

Or my previous application I had a rental contract

That was the undocumented step that I figured out that allowed me to finally connect it.

That, and finding someone at Tesco of all places who knew what kind of connector that it was supposed to fit on.

The key to install the torturer device is to have it unscrewed a bit so after you tighten the holding screws you can tighten to make a good seal to the tap lip. They work great if installed correctly.

Why the difference in signal quality between morning and later in the day. Are there usually thick clouds between your dish and the satellite in the morning?

I had a dish that was worthless when it rained and seemed to be bothered by wet clouds in the path too.