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How old is your daughter and how is she feeling about all this? That's critical. Some girls will be traumatised, others can be tough as nails and shrug it off. Does she want to be pulled out of the trip or - now the boys in question have been sent home - does she prefer to stay with her friend group? To play devil's advocate, you don't appear to have all the facts yet. Before getting lawyers / cops / NGOs involved, DEMAND a meeting with the headmaster TODAY and make clear that you want to know exactly what happened and what the school is going to do. Take things from there.

Hmm. "By agreement with the family of the officer". You think they had any real choice in the matter?

If you use the card 'enough' then you can just ask them to cancel the membership fee. I don't know what 'enough' is but I get the fee cancelled every time I ask. However it irritates me that I have to waste my time to ask, given that every year for more than 10 years I spend about the same on that UOB card and always get the fee cancelled. UOB generally are pretty hopeless. My wife is going to ditch her Citi card because of the crap 'service' during this transition period.

There's a dedicated Grab Meeting Point being constructed at Suvarnabhumi as well - scheduled to open next month. Down at street level in front of the main terminal building.

Perhaps not a sniffle, but why is Covid nowadays worthy of any more focus -from a societal health / economic impact perspective - than any of the many other diseases or activities that also kill thousands annually and destroy lives and opportunity in Thailand? Road deaths, for instance? 20,000 a year or so. https://www.who.int/thailand/news/detail/03-01-2023-a-new-year-s-resolution--for-life Covid has become an obsession for some. It's truly bizarre.

Neeranam's post addresses costs/time/lawyers. What's your "large and genuine contribution to Thai society"? Married for how long? Having kids also helps. Good if you can speak some Thai but not (for the moment) any formal assessment of your language skills. PS - your later comment "no financial benefit to learning Thai" - if you get Thai nationality, you can be much more easily employed; having some reasonable Thai language ability could help in that respect, so does have potential financial benefit.

I guess this is all rubbish, then? Wearing face masks did not reduce risk of Covid infection after first Omicron wave, research shows Thursday 16 May 2024 New research from the University of East Anglia has found that wearing face masks did not lower the risk of Covid infection following the initial surge of the Omicron variant. The analysis of official data found that several risk factors for infection altered significantly as the dominant variant in the UK changed from Delta to Omicron in December 2021 ... ... This latest research found that prior to Omicron BA.2, never wearing a mask was associated with an increased risk of around 30pc in adults and 10pc in children. But by the second Omicron wave (mid to late February 2022 onwards) there was no protective effect from mask wearing in adults and possibly an increased risk of infection in children ... [emphasis added] https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/article/wearing-face-masks-did-not-reduce-risk-of-covid-infection-after-first-omicron-wave-research-shows

Essentially meaningless data without proper context. "82% more likely ..." - does that mean instead of 2 in 10 chance of dying within 1 year, vaccination brings that down to nearer 1 in 10? That would be a definite benefit. But what if it's 2 in 100, dropping to 1 in 100? Less so. "live longer ..." - how much longer? On average 5 years? Again a definite benefit. But on average 5 months? Again less so. Nothing to do with vax / anti-vax, all to do with FACTS.

"Hey Somchai - want the tranq gun?" "Nah mate - I've got this" [takes off sarong]

I had this a couple of years back. Woke up deaf in one ear the day before a flight to UK during height of Covid (remember how complex any travel was). Went to a well-known hospital in BKK to see if ear was blocked and flying would be a bad idea. Doctor said no blockages etc and wanted to admit me and inject steroids into my ear for a week. I declined and was instead given a sack of steroids and other pills to alleviate side-effects of said steroids. By next morning - without taking any steroids - hearing almost back to normal and recovered to normal within another day. A week or so later had another episode which also self-resolved in a day. No recurrence since then. Steroid treatment does seem to be the common course of action but I believe needs to start within a couple of weeks in order to be most effective. Injecting into affected ear is also a treatment option. Some useful general background here - bottom line is try to to get it checked out as soon as you can. https://www.hearingloss.org/hearing-help/hearing-loss-basics/sudden-deafness/ Maybe you could also try lying down on side with deaf ear down and see if that makes any difference?

It's been erratic (at best) for ages. Use Windy. Also free (and better).

Social disparity has existed under every government. When Labour form the next government, it won't get any better. In the late 1990s I lived on an estate in 'North Camden' (Kentish Town) for several years. Crime was rampant. The only police we ever saw were blue lighting it somewhere - never saw them on foot. That was under a Labour government. The fall in the number of 'Bobbies on the beat' is not so much due to funding as to statistic driven policing. If Constable A is pounding the streets for 8 hours he (or she) may well have a deterrent effect on crime and provide a reassuring presence to residents, but they're not closing cases. However it's very hard to quantify the 'value' of that sort of policing. Forces want to look good so they now prioritise activities that can be statistically measured: so more paperwork and less pavement pounding.

In London blame Sadiq Khan for expanding ULEZ and nonsensical 20 mph speed limits, raising millions in fines, but then spending millions on DEI appointments as opposed to more police. He is responsible for policing in the capital. That said, doesn't help to have a woke police force with officers seemingly more concerned about investigating "hate crime" than stopping actual crime. 18 teenagers stabbed to death in London alone in 2023.. Knife crime has risen each year since the pandemic, with 13,503 incidents incidents recorded in the capital between July 2022 and June 2023, a 21% increase on the previous 12-month period. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-67863910

Doesn't say. I don't think it matters for a plug and play LED light. But I'm not an electrician,

He says there are two ways to connect. The first is simply to swap the old tube for the new LED one. Plug in the new tube but remove the starter otherwise the light will flicker. The second way is to disconnect the ballast and wire the new tube direct to the wires that were going to the ballast. First option seems much easier. Plug n play. PS - when I changed old starter/ballast lights for LED I just bought new LED complete sets and got rid of the old ones completely.

You might also choose to include from that same CDC assessment: "During the first seven months of 2023, adults 65 years and older accounted for 63% of hospitalizations and 88% of in-hospital deaths from COVID-19. Of this group, 90% of those hospitalized had multiple pre-existing medical conditions." [emphasis added] https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-new/changing-threat-covid-19.html

The economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. will reach $14 trillion by the end of 2023, our team of economists, public policy researchers and other experts have estimated. https://fortune.com/well/2023/05/16/how-much-did-covid-19-pandemic-coronavirus-cost-economy-14-trillion/

In their lather of indignation, 'residents' missed an opportunity to promote the impressive size of their coconut trees. What a monster! (The tree, not the tranny).

Sketchy web site with free use stock images and zero detail about the people behind the firm. Privacy Policy has info saying they work with St. James's Place (which has had a lot of issues over high commissions). No company called 'Horizon Wealth' something registered in Thailand. UK entity looks to be run by a husband / wife duo.

Sorry for mentioning a fact that YOU don’t like.

Ah. The 'genocide' card. The Israelis aren't doing a very good job at that. Gaza has a population of more than 2 million. Estimates of those killed in Gaza since 7 October are around 35,000, according to Al Jazeera. So that's just over 1%. The situation in Gaza is appalling and I am for a ceasefire; Israel will never fully eradicate Hamas and the ongoing action is doubtless now an effective recruiting tool for Hamas and its evil objectives. If the ICJ (which BTW didn't call for a ceasefire when it said Israel might be guilty of acts against the Genocide Convention) is going to level allegations of such acts against Israel, then sure as eggs are eggs it should be levelling them at Hamas too. In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/genocide-conv-1948

Er, a sentence constructed in that manner unequivocally states that Thailand is a Commonwealth country. It's included in a list consisting solely of other Commonwealth countries, preceded by the statements "Most Commonwealth countries are included ... these include ... such as ..." In this example, a tangerine is clearly categorised as a vegetable. "Most vegetables are included in the frozen list; these include vegetables such as aubergine, carrots, swedes, new potatoes, Tangerines ..."

That would be Newcastle Brown ...

Can any AN members see the resemblance between these images? 1. A kindly gentleman hosing down an elephant. 2. A kindly gentleman hosing down an elephant.

Come on Bob. Unlike in Monte Carlo or Geneva, this chap had plenty of opportunities, in the delightful Nana area, to purchase a garishly coloured di1do and literally 'put a plug in it' until he could find a more suitable venue for relief. Although on Monte Carlo - As I walk along, in Soi Nana With an independent air You can hear the girls declare "He must be a Millionaire." You can hear them sigh and wish to die, You can see them wink the other eye At the man who took a dump in Monte Carlo who cares, I gotta go.