BKKBike09

If you mean Suvarnabhumi, then no, based on direct personal experience most recently 2 weeks ago. Can't speak for Don Muang but would assume it's the same.

Hmmm, my comment "That's a rather binary choice: if your child doesn't study online, someone you love will die?" was based exactly on what you said: "You're entitled to your opinion, but most people were OK with kids having a year of studying online if it meant their mother, father, husband, wife, etc., didn't die." That seems pretty binary to me. Nothing about reducing chances. But I do find it pleasantly refreshing that you argue your position in a reasoned and reasonable manner.

That's a rather binary choice: if your child doesn't study online, someone you love will die? I suspect the people who were okay with kids having a year of studying online were nice middle-class folk with the infrastructure to let their children study at home (dedicated space, a laptop/Ipad, high speed internet), likely with their children attending a private school. I can assure you that the home learning experience for many poorer pupils at state schools was not a good one [my sister being a teacher at an inner city primary]. If not studying online for a year = someone in your house will die, then of course that's a pretty clear cut choice. However the reality was study online for a year = potentially long-term and significant impacts to your child's educational progress, and a mildly enhanced risk that someone in your house might get sick.

I had to give both passports at LAX when checking in but I don't know what airline put on their system. I used ESTA to enter the USA so that was tied to my former passport (in the ESTA application I did state that I also had a Thai passport). I asked several IOs on my way back in: answer was still that the new 10-year passports (unless serial begins with AA - mine is AB) don't work but 5-year passports do. However a friend told me that his (Thai) wife got a new passport some weeks after me and it works fine. I think next trip out I will try it just to see ...

Curiously when I came back in a couple of weeks ago from the US the immigration officer asked me if I still had my foreign passport. Naturally I said no. Not sure why she asked, and my answer seemed to satisfy her. It was slightly odd only because I flew in from Taipei, rather than direct from a country that would have required a visa in a Thai passport. I've been in a couple of times before that on direct flights from Europe and never had the question. I wonder if the Immigration system now receives passenger information direct from the airlines showing where a passenger's journey first originated. If you flew Airline A from Europe all the way to Thailand but with a transit stop in say Singapore, the info would show the origin as Europe. Whereas Airline A to Singapore and Airline B SIN-BKK would show a Singapore origin.

That would be good. In the past the show has been criticised for having mostly repro art. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/seoul-banksy-show-complaint-fake-art-2002916? That said, I bought a Banksy T-Shirt in MBK a few years back: bloke selling it assured me it was an original ...

Since when?

People who mask toddlers deserve a good slap. As do people who wear masks on the beach.

Depends where you live. Bangkok is much easier for permits than upcountry. Regardless, if a gun is registered to someone else and you get caught with it (like going to a range to practise) and the registered owner is not present, big problem.

Airguns (.22 / .177) need a firearms permit here to own legally. The same permit / hassle as required for a small bore/fullbore rifle or pistol. BB guns don't need a permit.

Leaving the medical stuff to one side, there has been (unfortunately) a 'need' to be vaccinated, until very recently, in order to travel internationally with any degree of ease. I just went to the US and 'being vaccinated' was mandatory and checked rigorously by the airline here at check-in (but not, of course, on arrival in the US). Of course, the fact that my vaccination was a year ago and so unlikely to be of any use to anyone was irrelevant as far as the CDC criteria are concerned.