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2 minutes ago, HOAX said:

What a difference from last time I looked. If that continues you will most likely be able to come months before that.

All people over the age of 50 now had one jab everyone over 40 by the end of next month i'm 58 and get my second in one month about 15% of the country already had second jab. i would of come earlier but daughter is having a baby in September and wants me here. Haven't seen my son in Thailand for 18 months so stuck in the middle really. Extension is now expired obviously so will have to get a new one on my return. I intend to get a non-o retirement visa rather than OA this time while in Thailand as it will be a lot simpler. I could of come back sooner albeit with all the hassle it would of been, Also have an aging parent who thought that because she wore a mask was invincible.Being her only sibling,  worried she would catch it and i would then be stuck in Thailand. Anyway at least it looks like there is light at the end of the tunnel

14 minutes ago, HOAX said:

I read that yesterday somewhere, but if I'm not mistaken it's only in Bangkok

All i can say is that is what my partner told me and she is in Surin. Unfortunately i'm stuck in the UK at the moment looking to be back in October one way or the other.

53 minutes ago, Kenneth White said:

Were I live I would say that 99% of the people ware their masks most all the time while in the stores or markets. We do have, like in most all of Thailand, inconsiderate people that don't think rules or law apply to them so target them. Who will enforce this rule at the stores and markets?

this was very much the same in the UK except it was more like 90% wearing a mask with stores refusing to enforce it. Not until the the second lockdown did the government force the stores to enforce it or face fines themselves. Still you had people just claiming they had an exception from the doctor, from the type of people i mainly saw claiming this (likely unemployed wasters from their appearance) just didn't care as their finances weren't affected 

On 4/24/2021 at 5:17 AM, HOAX said:

When they say "when you leave home", does that mean you have to wear a mask in your car too?

i have been informed its ok not to have one if driving alone but if more than one person in  the car masks must be worn

5 hours ago, Thomas J said:

I thought Great Britain was one of those panacea health care for everyone countries?  Oh wait, it says the NHS doesn't cover the drug for his type of cancer.  

The average life span of patients diagnosed with stage 4 Pancreatic cancer is 2 -6 months so this guy is already on borrowed time. The drug is probably experimental or as mentioned so expensive that the NHS are not prepared to pay it just to increase life for such a small amount of time.

A heart breaking scenario caused by the pandemic. He has been hospitalised for 12 months that's not exactly living.

If he had been Thai he would of been discharged from the hospital 6 months ago at least.I suspect that only the insurance is keeping him there on a morphine drip which is exactly what he would be on in the UK but possibly set up in his own home. Maybe better if any money raised was spent on bringing his immediate family to see him in Thailand before he passes

5 hours ago, Eindhoven said:

Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine...

Chernobyl disaster 1986. Ukraine gained independence from Russia in 1991. Just saying.

53 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

It has been stated already for annual CV-19 shots. But problem is there will be mutations that the standard CV-19 vaccine is ineffective on and you might just end up looking like you rolled over on a porcupine. 

I read some time ago that it would not be too difficult to tweak the vaccine to cater for the mutations, however, they didn't have the multitudes of mutations that we are now experiencing so you may well be correct

14 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

takes 3 jabs so not many. 2 then 6 months later 1, and then they say every year an additional jab. This BS is a lifetime thing.

when i went to get my flu jab, last year, for the first time, the nurse stated that in the future the covid vaccine will be Incorporated into it each year.

17 hours ago, polpott said:

Full protection 7-10 days after second jab. Even after one jab you have a good level of protection, hence new cases and deaths dropping like a stone in UK.

whilst i don't disagree with your initial statements  you must remember we are also in lockdown, so just as before,, cases and deaths are obviously going to drop drastically. When children started school recently there was an immediate increase in cases. Children have not been vaccinated and have probably been the most prevalent of carriers and most likely to infect others spreading the virus to parents and thus further to others

40 minutes ago, Venom said:

Impossible to do 120 most of the time anyway. The passing lane is always blocked by overloaded pick-up trucks

I agree but that's why there are stating a minimum of 100kph in the outside lane. However in light of any accident, your overloaded pick up will simply declare they were doing a u turn irrespective of the distance away.

120kph is quite normal for many countries around the world that have a populous with adequate training and a traffic control system to control it . 

Alas Thailand has neither

On 3/11/2021 at 6:08 AM, mancub said:

Ubon Tourist Police...( Immigration won't issue said form) insist there is a 'service charge' of 300 bt. 

500bht from Chom Chom and has been for years. and takes hour and half to get there if driving (all day if going by mini van/bus ). I might have to try the agent route next time. At !000bht it would save me money and time . who knows an agent in Surin ?

13 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

 

And those without a license need not apply .. or worry come to that .. 

Yes without a doubt, just another reason for Thais in the village to warrant not needing a driving licence.

As long as they continue to allow police to collect tea money for all concerned (not going to happen in my lifetime) this is a total waste of time    

12 hours ago, sherwood said:

Never had pocket money as a kid. Was working and living away from home at the age of 17. Toughen up.

Wife has not worked for seven years and I have paid the bills for her and my daughter but the gravey train has left the station.

She has a house, farm land and two younger sisters ( which I helped through school ) to help with the family. When is enough, enough.

 

Never understood this allowence caper.

So she doesn't need an allowance because you provide everything she asks you for ? looks to me like she gets a better allowance then most and the gravy train is still full steam ahead.  Maybe that was your point?

In the UK 20% of children are still living at home between the ages of 25-40, not out of choice but necessity but are still better off then kids here

Thailand by it's very nature is much harder in every sense (minimum 6 day week, living in <deleted> conditions while working in Bangkok. sending money back to aging parents/grandparents leaving them with very little.

The kid is working his socks off (for very little income) trying to keep afloat and you seem to think that he needs to toughen up because your life was so much harder.It's possible that's true but highly unlikely

He had come to rely on the income sent to him as anyone else would regardless of where and how they live.

15 minutes ago, Liverpoolfan said:

that dead fish stuff, bra ra or however you say it is the worst.

I can't eat that.

you have to be able to get near the stuff to eat it. . Better pronounced Pla Ra, when the gf's mother starts using it i have to leave the house before i'm sick.

52 minutes ago, rabas said:

I believe the others,  Pfizer and Moderna, were authorized before AstraZenica, so they have already been declared safe.

The testing of new drugs is a lot stricter in the UK then other countries which is why many drugs become available in other countries before the UK. Boris had to declare that  Phizer/Biotech could not be sued if anyone suffered adverse symptoms. It's mainly  about adverse symptoms at a far later date. This has led to many people/parents stating that they would refuse to be vaccinated or have their children vaccinated (especially as children are not/minimally at risk)

So we have a catch 22 situation where the children would continue to be carriers

19 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

They never miss an opportunity to profiteer do they?

The AstraZenica jabs will be 3 quid a pop in the UK.

£3 is the charge they are costing the hospitals/surgeries/NHS. the cost to UK residents is free and is now supposedly the safest and easiest to store (refrigerated at normal temperature)

The Phizer/biotech vaccine is being sold at £15 how surprising is it that once one was released all the others seem to also be available.

It brings into question, how safe are these others. Have they declared them safe, just so as not to miss the boat in the millions of sales to come

21 hours ago, Pilotman said:

its a business, so of course they are out to make money.  As to your insinuation that all agents are operating illegally, that is a commonly held myth among those who don't know the system that operates here . 

Even if you are correct. Nearly all agents will tell you they can get your visa with no charges if it is not possible However an upfront fee is payable and don't expect to get it back regardless.

They are a bunch of crooks and personally i would not want to give them my money

5 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

Are you suggesting that around 56% of the Scottish electorate is unable to make informed decisions for themselves? 

In reality yes, it is no different to any other country, it could be said the same of the Brexit vote. For the last 30 years a labour government has come into power under a thriving economy however a tory government has only come into power after a labour government has trashed our economy (this is a simple fact). This is because the general public want to believe the propaganda that is being feed to them ( i cannot perceive any other reason) A recent example being, in the last election, Jeremy Corbyn promised all the UK students free education even though he would of had to of borrowed billions and crippled the country, this resulted in him gaining the majority vote of the younger generation 

6 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

Remaining in the UK, with Brexit and our corrupt and incompetent Tory party leading us out of the mire they have partly created does not seem, to me, to be a more appealing alternative. 

Firstly, the so called idea behind Brexit was so that we could have control over our economy and not be controlled by people who had no interest in/or idea of our singular welfare. Now please tell me if i am wrong but isn't that exactly the same as what you are claiming. I did not want to leave the EU but due to their belligerent refusal to allow us to change the freedom of movement they forced our hand, believing Brexit would never happen. You do not live in the UK where, for lack of a better word, huge ghettos of migrants now exist in a lot of cities. The UK could not sustain the continued influx of so many migrants and it was my belief it was  a time bomb waiting to happen.

I don't know where your idea of corrupt comes from but i can certainly concur that the Tory party has turned us into the laughing stock of the world over the handling of Brexit

7 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

I struggle with this argument about an independent future leading to a poorer country.

I don't mean to suggest that independence will lead to a poorer country at all. In fact i believe Scotland would be fine. However there is likely to be a period of increased taxation if the oil subsidies continue to decline and to enact the policies that independence is suggesting. Even Nicola Sturgeon has had to admit that the decline of the oil industry has had a profound affect on the Scottish economy.(that is not implying that it is a reason why independence should not happen)

The Scottish people are being lead to believe that being in the EU is the Holy Grail but look at  Greece, Italy and more importantly Ireland and what happened there. i have friends in Ireland  and believe me they thought it was great for 18 months now they wish they could turn the clock back. Scotland should be looking at staying in the common market ,yes, and possibly a deal such as Norway has .

12 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

All very true, but you forget to mention that the Westminster overhead will be removed entirely, and that Scotland's budget can be set entirely by Scotland with the best interests of the country at the very heart of all decisions.  

4 hours ago, stevenl said:

No, they should not claim independence. But due to a drastically changed political and economical situation, they should have a right to determine what they want. Hence a referendum.

The idea of independence  is far more complex then people are made to believe. Using the pretext of Brexit should not be used to hoodwink the people of Scotland into leaving the UK.

That's not to say that they shouldn't but saying it could be a long and rocky road to get to where they need to be, under the present climate.

i read the SNP's claim for independence in  2016. It made some good arguments for independence but also made a lot of claims that would be very difficult to enact. 

If Scotland had made a claim for independence 20+ years ago i think they would be a thriving nation, however they may have missed the boat as the saying goes.

As RuamRudy has stated it would allow Scotland to allocate its budget where they perceive it to be required and there are numerous opportunities to be exploited such as the vast amount of hydroelectric resources that Scotland has at its disposal for which they seem to be at the forefront of, this being just one example.

A lot will probably depend on their ability to attract new investment/ interest from overseas (that's just my thinking)

Maybe i am playing devils advocate but the people of Scotland need to leave for the right reasons.

Will they be better off in the short term, highly unlikely, will they be better off in the future, who knows?. That's for the people of Scotland to decide

On 12/1/2020 at 12:58 AM, Surelynot said:

....and for those who claim they have already had a referendum.....Brexit changed everything!

So because the majority of Scotland did not want to leave the EU they should claim independence?

It could take up to 5 years to join the EU and to do so will mean they they will have to drastically reduce their deficit budget.Decreasing public spending or higher taxation are the most likely forms  to increase the government coffers . Either way the population are going to have to pay for it  so will they be better off?

In the claim for independence Nicola Sturgeon made claims of an oil boom that would overcome this problem ( in other words lied to the public) as did the opposition

The revenues of North sea oil have continued to decline over the last 5 years and  with the world looking at alternative means of power this looks likely to continue.

Scotland can have independence but just like Brexit it will probably come at a high price  

some years ago my g/f's 12 year old daughter brought her English homework  to me. It was so hard even i had to go online to make sure i was giving her the right answer and even then it was very speculative as the questions were so ambiguous.

No wonder they become bored and leave school unable to even communicate in the most basic of ways, in most cases not at all.

They were trying to teach them things before they could even master the basic's

I should note the English teacher was Nigerian, i believe.               

A very sad state of affairs when your consider they are taught from such a young age                                

On 11/17/2020 at 3:15 AM, webfact said:

A new Public Health Ministry regulation allows the sale and possession of category II narcotics under the Narcotic Act BE 2522 (1979).

Call me sceptical, but why do i think,ultimately,  that this is an attempt to change the course of justice in regards to a certain drink's tycoon