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You wont get this from the "Quality" Chinese Tourist.............
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The person from the country that heads "The Tokay Everest Mountain climbers chart-- for measuring a country's competitiveness". is-after reaching the summit 20 times in 2010 (21 times now he climbed last year) & now lives in the USA is named
Lhakpa Tenzing Sherpa--his last name might give you a small clue.......
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No offense to Thais, but very few Thais ever shine on the world stage or do anything of note outside of Thailand. They just had their first (and only) Mt. Everest climber a few years ago.---Tokay
Wow countries to be judged in their competitiveness by climbing Mt Everest---that's a newie...... I take it we overlook a few points on the way Tokay...Like Malaysia being number 4 on the list -- and Everest mountain climbers, that will be none then.
But the most competitive country by far-measured by "The Tokay Everest Mountain climbers chart--for measuring a country's competitiveness". didn't even make the IMD. list let alone the top 60 of it, and this country had sent a group of 25 climb to the summit in one go---& 16 year old boy being the youngest ever climber, They also have had more people climb to the summit then any other country, & in 2010 one of their citizens had climbed to the summit 20 times.
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I wonder if we could start a competition name it-- "Ways we can give Thailand a good kicking"--- Did they make the Cricket world cup ?? how are they at Domino's & Darts, when did they produce the last great American football Player--Who was the last Thai to score in the FA cup.
Wow -- I think your right Tokay---just a bunch of losers.
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I've complete sympathy for the latest victims of to Bill Cosby have come forward.
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It must have been terrible living with amnesia until now............................
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Any one had the Hernia op lately....or know of someone who has had a good experience in this area?
I usually head down to BKK when ever there is the possibility of going under the knife, but maybe would stay in Udon for this.My wife phone BKK/Udon hospital to see if they had anyone who has done a larger number of them---the answer from the switchboard was --don't know, but we have one Doctor from from Mon-Thursday...then 1 Doctor here Fri & Sat, and 1 Doctor for Sunday.
I just don't think I will be beating my way to their door.
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When I met my Thai wife 9 years ago she was working in a farang owned restaurant, 3,000 baht and 2 days off per month. That is pretty damn close to slavery as far as I'm concerned.
And tips ramrod711 And tips................. ................................
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Just joking---yes its quite bad....
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Twiggy -Andrew-Forest. ( Twiggy, named by the Australians as he is anything but) .. an ardent christen & one of the top 5 riches people in Australia who was found guilty of misleading & deceptive conduct by the Australian Federal courts, usually spends his time , energy (& considerable amounts of money) ranting against any government that would have the temerity to tax his mining empire.
Forrest has also been publicly accused of engaging in questionable methods of land acquisition, and has also had accusations leveled at his company for failing indigenous trainees at FMG's vocational training center in Port Hedland.
Its not to say that slavery isn't a problem in Thailand or around the world--- I just wish someone other than Twiggy & his bible bashing daughter would take up the banner...............
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shes not going to pay him a satang
he has no claim to the house as he does not own the land
she can call the police and have him removed from her land
no court in the Land of Scams is going to make her sell the house and give him his money back
never put more into Lieland than you can afford to lose
Your obviously bitter from your own experience Hughjass--however because of it you are giving completely wrong advice, The courts will indeed order her to sell or come to an agreement re the house (if it was purchased after marriage) --in 18 years living here I have seen it time & time again, I have also seen some complete idiots--listen to bar advice from the bitter & twisted, & never try , Hence-- they walked away with nothing.
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So Glad we can only post things pertinent to Thailand...............
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Wow. You've overstayed more than 3 years, on 4 separate instances. And you 'lost' your passport every time? That's certainly a suspicious pattern that, if I were a judge, would make me inclined to discourage your return to the scene of your repeated offenses.---garryinhuahin.
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Yes Garry & add on to that, the fact that the OP has just 7 post, & you may get a clearer picture...... its not April already is it.....
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*The 1 April 1992 broadcast of National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation revealed that Richard Nixon, in a surprise move, was running for President again.
His new campaign slogan was, "I didn't do anything wrong, and I won't do it again." Accompanying this announcement were audio clips of Nixon delivering his candidacy speech.
Listeners responded viscerally to the announcement, flooding the show with calls expressing shock and outrage.
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Hi Sigurris
Someone sent this article to me quite some time ago---"I am not in any way saying you should take this path"------its always a personal choice, but if the article is helpful good--if its not then just discard.
But whatever good luck in your choices
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How Doctors Die
It’s Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should Be
Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. He had a surgeon explore the area, and the diagnosis was pancreatic cancer. This surgeon was one of the best in the country. He had even invented a new procedure for this exact cancer that could triple a patient’s five-year-survival odds—from 5 percent to 15 percent—albeit with a poor quality of life. Charlie was uninterested. He went home the next day, closed his practice, and never set foot in a hospital again. He focused on spending time with family and feeling as good as possible. Several months later, he died at home. He got no chemotherapy, radiation, or surgical treatment. Medicare didn’t spend much on him.
It’s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don’t die like the rest of us. What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little. For all the time they spend fending off the deaths of others, they tend to be fairly serene when faced with death themselves. They know exactly what is going to happen, they know the choices, and they generally have access to any sort of medical care they could want. But they go gently.
Of course, doctors don’t want to die; they want to live. But they know enough about modern medicine to know its limits. And they know enough about death to know what all people fear most: dying in pain, and dying alone. They’ve talked about this with their families. They want to be sure, when the time comes, that no heroic measures will happen—that they will never experience, during their last moments on earth, someone breaking their ribs in an attempt to resuscitate them with CPR (that’s what happens if CPR is done right).
Almost all medical professionals have seen what we call “futile care” being performed on people. That’s when doctors bring the cutting edge of technology to bear on a grievously ill person near the end of life. The patient will get cut open, perforated with tubes, hooked up to machines, and assaulted with drugs. All of this occurs in the Intensive Care Unit at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars a day. What it buys is misery we would not inflict on a terrorist. I cannot count the number of times fellow physicians have told me, in words that vary only slightly, “Promise me if you find me like this that you’ll kill me.” They mean it. Some medical personnel wear medallions stamped “NO CODE” to tell physicians not to perform CPR on them. I have even seen it as a tattoo.
To administer medical care that makes people suffer is anguishing. Physicians are trained to gather information without revealing any of their own feelings, but in private, among fellow doctors, they’ll vent. “How can anyone do that to their family members?” they’ll ask. I suspect it’s one reason physicians have higher rates of alcohol abuse and depression than professionals in most other fields. I know it’s one reason I stopped participating in hospital care for the last 10 years of my practice.
How has it come to this—that doctors administer so much care that they wouldn’t want for themselves? The simple, or not-so-simple, answer is this: patients, doctors, and the system.
To see how patients play a role, imagine a scenario in which someone has lost consciousness and been admitted to an emergency room. As is so often the case, no one has made a plan for this situation, and shocked and scared family members find themselves caught up in a maze of choices. They’re overwhelmed. When doctors ask if they want “everything” done, they answer yes. Then the nightmare begins. Sometimes, a family really means “do everything,” but often they just mean “do everything that’s reasonable.” The problem is that they may not know what’s reasonable, nor, in their confusion and sorrow, will they ask about it or hear what a physician may be telling them. For their part, doctors told to do “everything” will do it, whether it is reasonable or not.
The above scenario is a common one. Feeding into the problem are unrealistic expectations of what doctors can accomplish. Many people think of CPR as a reliable lifesaver when, in fact, the results are usually poor. I’ve had hundreds of people brought to me in the emergency room after getting CPR. Exactly one, a healthy man who’d had no heart troubles (for those who want specifics, he had a “tension pneumothorax”), walked out of the hospital. If a patient suffers from severe illness, old age, or a terminal disease, the odds of a good outcome from CPR are infinitesimal, while the odds of suffering are overwhelming. Poor knowledge and misguided expectations lead to a lot of bad decisions.
But of course it’s not just patients making these things happen. Doctors play an enabling role, too. The trouble is that even doctors who hate to administer futile care must find a way to address the wishes of patients and families. Imagine, once again, the emergency room with those grieving, possibly hysterical, family members. They do not know the doctor. Establishing trust and confidence under such circumstances is a very delicate thing. People are prepared to think the doctor is acting out of base motives, trying to save time, or money, or effort, especially if the doctor is advising against further treatment.
Some doctors are stronger communicators than others, and some doctors are more adamant, but the pressures they all face are similar. When I faced circumstances involving end-of-life choices, I adopted the approach of laying out only the options that I thought were reasonable (as I would in any situation) as early in the process as possible. When patients or families brought up unreasonable choices, I would discuss the issue in layman’s terms that portrayed the downsides clearly. If patients or families still insisted on treatments I considered pointless or harmful, I would offer to transfer their care to another doctor or hospital.
Should I have been more forceful at times? I know that some of those transfers still haunt me. One of the patients of whom I was most fond was an attorney from a famous political family. She had severe diabetes and terrible circulation, and, at one point, she developed a painful sore on her foot. Knowing the hazards of hospitals, I did everything I could to keep her from resorting to surgery. Still, she sought out outside experts with whom I had no relationship. Not knowing as much about her as I did, they decided to perform bypass surgery on her chronically clogged blood vessels in both legs. This didn’t restore her circulation, and the surgical wounds wouldn’t heal. Her feet became gangrenous, and she endured bilateral leg amputations. Two weeks later, in the famous medical center in which all this had occurred, she died.
It’s easy to find fault with both doctors and patients in such stories, but in many ways all the parties are simply victims of a larger system that encourages excessive treatment. In some unfortunate cases, doctors use the fee-for-service model to do everything they can, no matter how pointless, to make money. More commonly, though, doctors are fearful of litigation and do whatever they’re asked, with little feedback, to avoid getting in trouble.
Even when the right preparations have been made, the system can still swallow people up. One of my patients was a man named Jack, a 78-year-old who had been ill for years and undergone about 15 major surgical procedures. He explained to me that he never, under any circumstances, wanted to be placed on life support machines again. One Saturday, however, Jack suffered a massive stroke and got admitted to the emergency room unconscious, without his wife. Doctors did everything possible to resuscitate him and put him on life support in the ICU. This was Jack’s worst nightmare. When I arrived at the hospital and took over Jack’s care, I spoke to his wife and to hospital staff, bringing in my office notes with his care preferences. Then I turned off the life support machines and sat with him. He died two hours later.
Even with all his wishes documented, Jack hadn’t died as he’d hoped. The system had intervened. One of the nurses, I later found out, even reported my unplugging of Jack to the authorities as a possible homicide. Nothing came of it, of course; Jack’s wishes had been spelled out explicitly, and he’d left the paperwork to prove it. But the prospect of a police investigation is terrifying for any physician. I could far more easily have left Jack on life support against his stated wishes, prolonging his life, and his suffering, a few more weeks. I would even have made a little more money, and Medicare would have ended up with an additional $500,000 bill. It’s no wonder many doctors err on the side of over treatment.
But doctors still don’t over-treat themselves. They see the consequences of this constantly. Almost anyone can find a way to die in peace at home, and pain can be managed better than ever. Hospice care, which focuses on providing terminally ill patients with comfort and dignity rather than on futile cures, provides most people with much better final days. Amazingly, studies have found that people placed in hospice care often live longer than people with the same disease who are seeking active cures. I was struck to hear on the radio recently that the famous reporter Tom Wicker had “died peacefully at home, surrounded by his family.” Such stories are, thankfully, increasingly common.
If there is a state of the art of end-of-life care, it is this: death with dignity. As for me, my physician has my choices. They were easy to make, as they are for most physicians. There will be no heroics, and I will go gentle into that good night. Like my fellow doctors.
Ken Murray, MD, is Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at USC.-
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In Japan, suicide is often used as a revenge. The person who commits suicide names the person that drove them to suicide, and the named people are punished (often legally)----timmyp
Who do they call as a witness ..........................
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Thank you OxfordWill............................
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You don't have to get a multiple re-entry permit when you do your extension. You could get a single re-entry permit (1000 baht) that would be valid for the length of your extension or until you use it.
There are re-entry permit desks at both airports in Bangkok that are open 24 hours a day.
Thank you for that ubonjoe....(& all) I will be going through Suvarnabhumi in the next few weeks, can you or anyone tell me of the exact location of that desk---I would like to familiarize with the location in case I have to do a dash.
Thanks again for clarifying that
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I have been on a yearly extension of my Visa for about the last 10 years--("Retirement") & have always taken the Multiple entry option with this--my thinking being that as I have an aged parent in the UK, I may get that late night phone call on a Buddha holiday/weekend etc, But are the immigration people at the Airport always available?. I remember quite some years back that they had an office (don muang) but that office sometimes closed on holidays. I would not travel urgently outside of Thailand for any other reason, then this--I want to protect my Visa extension, but do I need to take the 3,900 baht M/Entry option or would I always be covered regardless of the time / date by an immigration officer being available to issue an on the spot re-entry stamp.?
Thanks.....
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Thanks for the feed back--- sorry for the delayed thanks..but I got the flu just after posting that, what a knockout, 10 days recovering-- Like most Thai Ladies, I think markets etc take my wife's fancy more then the beach.
But thanks for all the links suggestions & ideas..............................
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What is-- Srong K---??
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He'll find out that Thai prisoners know how to lay pipe.
We will just have to take your word on that noitom..........................
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" but hoping to find a Thai wife. " Best you start looking as soon as you can before there all gone ....
there's not that many available in thailand you know ......
So where would you suggest he looks then steven100....The Bronx
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Your right farang000999..............the whole post did all become very nauseating
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I used to sail with Filipino seamen. Whenever we hit port they'd sub the maximum amount they were allowed in US$ bills, wrap them in a parcel and post them home to the family.
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The Postman must have been the richest man in the village....................
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I need to go back to the UK in Feb 2015, & thought I would stop off at one of these places, with the wife for a week--then she could return to Thailand, I have never been to any of them before, looking at the hotels on some sites, I am quite amazed at how expensive they are. Be grateful for any tips on what place is the better/what hotel ...etc...etc
Thanks Guys
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When you get out of bed in the morning, can you count that as a sit-up?............................
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"After 7 years here...I'm leaving in 2 weeks. I'm laughing"-----Fullstop
So are we........................oh so are we...........
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She was heard to say to a complaint official “why couldn’t you help me” before taking out a bottle of gasoline from her handbag, poured it on her clothes and lit it afire with a lighter. "I reckon, she had it all planned. " -----bryanlunadelacruz
Many Thanks Sherlock.........................
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