BritManToo

I'm not sure Thais have friends as we know it. They have people they borrow money from, and they have family. Mostly they have family in place of friends. Not suitable friends for us anyway, too lacking in education and general knowledge of the world while thinking they are much better/important than they really are, and at the same time being extremely sensitive and touchy, likely to try and kill you at any moment. Just my opinion, maybe they aren't like that at all and the problem is me.

I'm a bored wife!

I think many people are using to make edibles and extracts. Brick is currently selling for 400bht/100gm or less.

I would suggest clean water and plentiful food would be more likely to have reduced the number of deaths more than any other factor. Starving people have little resistance to disease.

Yeah, it's amazing how a common childhood disease that almost everyone caught 60 years back is now reclassified as a life threatening disease ready to kill the entire world (even though the USA only had 60 cases). Is it just me that thinks 60 cases isn't really worth talking about? @simon43 did you miss Chicken Pox?

I don't think the vaccinations made any difference, apart from corporate profits.

Mainland Vintage (in Thailand) is way better than Cathedral (that I would regularly eat in the UK). Stronger taste, and slightly crumbly

In western countries almost no personal debt (outside mortgages) is secured against property.

Didn't we just have a news story stating long COVID was no more dangerous then the after effects of normal flu?

Brit here, eaten cheese all my life, and agree Mainland Vintage Cheddar is as good as any I've had. 265 for 500gm in Makro, or 250bht for 250gm everywhere else.

Had measles as a kid, along with everyone else, don't know anyone that was harmed, so it can't be that serious. Bit itchy for a week and then it was gone.

Polio is unlikely as it's spread mainly through sharing untreated water.

It's more likely the Laos woman is lying to the OP about everything.

I think EVs are a fad that will soon pass.

I prefer to drink alone than with foreigners!

now you've made me have a wine cooler ....... wasn't even thinking of alcohol until this thread.

Looking at places I stayed at or previously visited, Viking Resort, Johans Dive Resort, Harley's pub (Baloy Long Beach, Barretto) ......... all around 700-800bht/night on Agoda. Doesn't seem any more expensive than when I was last there pre-COVID. Harley's .......... 850bht/night https://www.agoda.com/en-gb/harleys-pub-and-hotel/hotel/subic-zambales-ph.html?ds=SNF38M5CKr2b%2BxO4 The Pub Hotel ..... 600bht/night https://www.agoda.com/en-gb/the-pub-hotel/hotel/subic-zambales-ph.html?ds=SNF38M5CKr2b%2BxO4

I'd ask him to buy me a drink!

At 30bht/gm (inc CoD delivery) I've stopped growing my own as it isn't worth the effort. The days of gangsters with secret grow houses is over.

Suspect only one, posting under different accounts.

Just pick it off with your fingernail.

I don't believe Laos people are required to have a passport to work in Thailand. Just a letter from immigration seems to be enough for all citizens of the neighbouring countries.

No, it's really good, plenty of nice hotels and resorts. Great beaches and restaurants. I would say the beaches are nicer than Thailand. Vietnam beaches also nicer that Thailand.

That's sad, I used to have a pot of tea there every morning.

Mae Wang and Ob Khan are about the best. Then there's a couple of swimming spots on Doi Suthep, car park 2km above the Zoo and walk 100m downhill. Not to forget Sticky Waterfalls 50Km up the 1001, North of CM. Mae Wang Ob Khan