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MIL was bitten by a young kc and was in hospital for 3 weeks . Apparently adult kc can control the amount of venom they give but young ones cannot and give all .

I also migrated to Teams which has opened but it does not show my transferred funds . Contacted Microsoft chat page that said 5 minutes wait but 35 minutes later no reply . Not looking great . Surasak recommended Mytello which I have joined , easy to do . 1.5 baht a minute to UK mobiles is good .

It is scary when I think how my grandchildren will cope in the current state of the UK . The country is in a downward spiral . How can the illegal channel crossing invaders be allowed to remain ? Starmer has mentioned an amnesty . For the UK indigenous folks there is very little help . No wonder so many are emigrating .

Starmer & cabinet are hypocrites . In opposition at PMQT they heavily criticized Sunak on immigration numbers . In government Labour has no deterrent to halt the boat crossings , which are at record high numbers and give the impression that they are encouraging it . They plan to build 1.5 million new homes in the next 4 years and these will be used mostly by immigrants . Trades to build these homes will be sourced from the E.U. because there are not enough British tradesmen Last year 79,000 British citizens emigrated from the UK , comprising skilled trades and professional people . Indeed it is a brain drain . The UK state pension is the lowest of any developed country with 2 million living in poverty and equates to 29% of their wages when they were employed .

Not to mention that the UK crime rates are off the scale , shop lifting is out of control and not attended to by the undermanned police force , housing beyond the reach of most young people , uncontrolled illegal immigration allowing criminals and extremists into the country and sponging off the benefit system , cost of living spiraling , state pension equates to half the minimum wage levels , hospitals running at 100% capacity , NHS has all but collapsed , doctor appointments minimum 2 weeks wait , price of a beer at a pub is out of reach for many , pubs and night clubs closing down at a high rate weekly , dentist appointments very expensive etc etc . I am glad to be out of it cos its not the country that I grew up in .

I totally agree . You get what you pay for . In my ladies restaurant a small breakfast is 150 baht and large 200 . The large sets you up for the day . 80 or 99 baht breakfast ? how ridiculous . How can they be making a profit when you factor in the overheads ?

I was going past a building site recently and was happy to see the workers wearing high visibility tops and hard hats but then I looked again to see them all wearing flip flops . Another guy welding with sun glasses . Then there were 2 guys working off a scaffold with only a single plank to stand on and of course no harnesses . Such is the concern for safety in Thailand . In the Western world , a bidding contractors health and safety records will determine if they get the job . All because the buck stops at the top with the C.E.O. and h&s violations / non compliance can result in heavy fines , prison and even closure of the offending company . Thailand's safety at work is in the dark ages . Asian immigrant workers are cheaply replaced .

Gambling and booze are not a good combination . I would go to a Thai casino . I also pop over to Cambodian casinos occasionally . I generally stick to the slots because I do not understand most of the Khmer tables . MIL won 4.5 million baht on the slots about 15 years ago . I reckon she must have given it all back by now .She goes there at least 4 times a week . I would like to know if there will be any regulation on slots payouts in the new Thai casinos . Or throughout Asia nut I doubt if there is any regulators / inspectors .

I am surprised that you say drinks earn the profits . Maybe if the price is hiked up by 4 or 500 % , as is the case in some Thai tourist areas . For a business to survive on just wet sales is almost impossible , hence why most bars have some sort of catering . My ladies restaurant is 90% Thai customers and caters for mid range priced food . Cannot compete with low priced street vendor food . BTW our beer prices are , small bottle Chang / Leo etc is 45 baht . Large is 80 baht .When you factor in refrigeration costs there will be little if any profit

Totally agree . People who post anonymous emojis have little intelligence , otherwise they would leave their reasoning . Constructive criticism is fine but going incognito is gutless .

But not too many expenses for street vendors . Amazes me when they park their rig outside of a restaurant to sell their food . It seems to me that less wealthy Thais get by on eating noodles or rice alone . Very high rents in popular areas are the main cause of closures , IMO . A 500% mark up on say a small beer that costs 30 baht to the business to buy but retails in some tourist spots for 150 baht is astonishing but even a hike like that cannot always save a business in touristy areas .

very informative video , thanks for sharing

An investigation already ? I doubt it , probably an excuse by the builder . Unless you have a link ? The building design and specs would have taken the Thai climate into consideration but whether the specs were complied with is another doubt . I digress but road construction is a prime example of the low quality of some Thai construction with corruption as the main cause . Near where I live in the north east of Thailand the newly built roads have much resurfacing every year . I am not a civil engineer but in the UK construction , when structural concrete is poured , there will be a test cube taken . Do you think that happens in Thailand ?

Correct . If internal walls not built and no window casings = no bracing

Ordinary Thai domestic houses are mostly built with cheat building blocks and only a single wall . No double walls with a cavity . They will have little resistance to any earthquake . The high rise that collapsed looked to me , when I first saw the video , that it was built above a sink hole because it dropped vertically . Then I saw the support pillars which to me looked to be too small and certainly not earthquake resistant .