BritManToo

Yeah but that quote was 4x the normal price for a 5kW system. I paid 100kbht for mine, the batteries being 1/2 the total cost.

I don't know, I don't live in Petchabun. But there's very little farmers burning around CM, and there's a lot of forest on fire every year.

Do they mean crabs? Thought they were gone from Thailand due to 'deforestation'.

Not true IMHO. My Thai woman is small, came from a rural family where all they had to eat was rice and what they could find in the fields. Her daughter, raised by me, is tall, same size as my western children, fridge full of meat and milk. If you look back to the middle ages, Europeans were small due to lack of nutrition. Plenty of tall Thai kids to be seen around these days.

Go to Hanoi, Food walking tour Cultural walking tour Halong Bay cruise Ninh Binh, Tam Coc and Mua Cave Plenty of stuff to see and do, and not expensive.

The smog comes from the burning forests on the mountains surrounding Chiang Mai. It's not from the farmers, diesel vehicles or foreign countries. The villagers are out burning vast areas of forest every year, and nobody stops them.

I always ended up with having sex with an attractive woman! Obviously not free.

My misses used to run a bar/restaurant scam in BK, she said almost every bar or restaurant would participate. She'd enter alone, sit at a table alone with a new bottle of whiskey from the bar. Along would come a Thai guy and ask through a waiter if he could buy her a drink. She'd reply, can he pay for my bottle .......... which would disappear back behind the bar. Then she'd eat and drink at his expense all evening, and the waiter would give her half the cost of the bottle which the bar would then sell again.

I've got a thousand baht for a date, they can eat it in the evening, or take it home with them in the morning.

Rule is ............ fun first, pay later.

Completely wrong. Children are treated free at all government hospitals, no need to be registered.

300-500bht at a clinic. Kids are free at ALL government hospitals, no need to be registered. I think it's up to age 15, but it might be only to age 12.

Don't do it, or you'll be sorry!

Ah yes, believe your government and it's agencies!

Fingers, from riding a m/c a lot in UK winters. Before cannabis they were too swollen to wear a wedding ring, too weak to open twist top bottles and the pain kept me awake most of the night. Surprisingly the swelling and weakness went as well as the pain.

As far as I know there are no withdrawal symptoms when you stop so it can't be addictive! Been using 0.5gm every night for the past 2 years to stop joint pain. If I miss a night or 2 there is no downside apart from the joint pain creeping back. Your 'reefer madness' topic title is misleading, if not misinformation.

I lost all appetite 6-12 months back. I have to force myself to eat 3x a day or I lose weight very quickly. I frequently forget to eat as I'm never hungry.

Would have thought job losses more to do with COVID restrictions that lasted 2 years. Don't see how Brexit split any families. Brit economy seems stronger than most of the EU countries. Inflation is rampant everywhere. Interest rates have always been 6-8%, if you were stupid enough to buy a house believing 1-2% would continue, I don't have much sympathy. As far as I can see the only negative effect of Brexit (for the general Brit population) is it's harder to retire to Spain or France. PS. I'm not a Brexit supporter as I wanted to live in France, and now I can't.

Why would the money run out? Only those western guys fully funded should live in foreign countries.

Most women have the new bf before they jump ship.

Resort = short time motel.

They don't like carrots that much, rabbit pellets and what they find in the garden + farmhouse wholewheat bread for treats, or a bit of apple. But they're terrific cure for loneliness, and you don't have to take them out for walks.

Nah, I had a Brit pal that spent a year in the Bangkok Hilton (heroin), and came out speaking incredibly good (if low class) Thai. The ability to pick up a language is down to no distractions, stick yourself in a room with 20 Thais and no other entertainment 24/7 for a year, and you'll come out speaking Thai.

You only hear that from the idiot posters.

I thought you were on your 4th?