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alien365

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  1. Were facemasks required at this event as I see several, including the winner, without? Either way, wearing a mask is surely not going to do you any favours in winning a race. I hate running on the treadmill with a mask on.
  2. Nobody ever said it did. We're simply giving our opinions on a forum. If nobody posted their opinions there would be no forums to read.
  3. My In-laws receive 600 and 700 per month each. All this talk about others getting more is great, but the fact remains that many get pretty much nothing. There's no way they could survive if the wife and I disowned them or got taken out in a road accident or something.
  4. Speed speed speed. The Grab driver in the opposite direction was riding at a suitable speed for the road giving perspective. Speedy Gonzalez was going way too quickly and got quite some air at the end because of it. I do wonder though why the golf buggies are left hand drive. Surely this is not suitable for places where we drive on the left.
  5. Once someone pours a drink over you from behind I think its fair game. Sure I think hospitalising him would be a bit excessive, but a proper smack round the chops is what he deserved. Obviously the rule of law and the rules on the street differ somewhat.
  6. I think she had every right to go after him after pouring a drink on her, but if the guy did engage she wouldn't have stood a chance. He wasn't fazed at all by her skills.
  7. Once he stops posting about what I consider irrelevant covid figures I'll probably start following him again.
  8. Take the PCR tests, test and go, and COVID insurance off the table and I'd be more than happy to take a trip home. My only time I'm really available to fly this year would be at the start of my extension of stay. 1 years COVID cover costs about the same as the flight I'd normally buy
  9. The video is incredibly boring. I didn't even finish watching it. No chance in a million years will this change anything.
  10. I've had the same phone for a while now and I'm very happy with it. I like the battery life, the size and the macro camera. My wife takes pictures of her cactus and small flowers with it all the time. I take pics of small insects or things like that. For a phone the quality is very impressive for the price. Portrait mode on the camera does let you choose the f stop but the brokeh (quality, not amount of blur) is not great in my mind. On another point, I know that some feel appearance is important and part of the reason they buy expensive phones, but I feel most put them in a case as soon as they get them anyway. A couple of days ago we bought an ipad. They didn't have the colour my wife wanted, but now it's in a case so we'll never see the colour again until we buy a new case
  11. Based on your description they think they are Max. Lewis is fair in his driving, Max deliberately collides or forces the other drivers off the road.
  12. In the voice of Mr Mackey from South Park, 'alcohol is bad, mkay.' The people in charge feel the general population in this Buddhist nation need to be reminded of that every day for some reason.
  13. It's a forum so deal with it. Based on our experience driving/riding on the roads here we face potential threats like this regularly. It's only natural we will say what we believe happened on a forum.
  14. I give it a month and this will have all blown over for normality to resume. I'd love to be wrong, but...
  15. One of the traffic lights I drive through regularly has a countdown of 300 seconds. I have the choice of a power nap, painstakingly watching the seconds count down, get out of the car and stretch my legs, or check my phone. I do what I expect any normal person here would do.
  16. Wow, those are strong words. I hope you at least spoke to the manager about her. We'd have stated we are closing our accounts because of that one person, unless something was done immediately. She should be on the ground kow-towing to you.
  17. The forest rangers I've met are very nice people and genuinely care about the land and animals living on it. Last time I was in Nan the rangers were discussing what to do with a king cobra nest that some tourists (Thai) wanted removing (I don't understand how people can travel to a national park and then complain when they meet nature). They were also concerned that a local bear was injured, which also presented a potential danger to us. They were inspecting faeces on the ground to monitor the movements of some rare to the area deer type animal. Snakes that had become roadkill were taken away for inspection if they looked unfamiliar. This is what we need more of: people who genuinely care for the environment around them rather than money. This is also one of the reasons I don't begrudge the entry fees so much.
  18. I can accept the sand being a contributing factor, but I think we all know the main reasons for the crash.
  19. I've only ever seen the tickets at 80 baht once, apart from that they are a minimum of 100 everywhere I go. Electronic and online sales are the only way this issue will ever be fixed.
  20. I couldn't imagine not having a car in my city close to Bangkok. A couple of weeks ago we were looking for a sofa meaning a trip to global, then home pro, then index. That would be a right PITA with taxis. I like to buy food from local sellers. Grab takes a lot of their profits and charges more so I drive to them. No bus comes to my side of Phet Kasem either. Same with trains, which never turn up on time. In bkk though I wouldn't need a car. When I go I normally park up at the hotel and use other forms of transport to get around.
  21. There is always someone bigger or better than you, unless you are the world number one in your field. Even then you have to accept you will not win every time. Unfortunately there are some out there that just can't face losing. If I play a better player at my sport (table tennis), I tell them to play properly. It helps me improve my game by identifying my unknown weaknesses.
  22. And what does this mean? Do we not pay enough in National park fees already?
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