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Someone should invent a way to look up things like that.

Indeed. Democracy is a threat to democracy.

Talks like them maybe but Trump went to Wharton.

The obvious problem with a "simple layman" videos like that for the benefit of other simple laymen is that you have no idea which parts of it, if any, are true. At least that guy isn't selling anything, but most of things that he's saying are misleading or downright false.

Perhaps not, but he pretty accurately described how Tuk Tuks operate

This is largely a generational thing. Older people have always complained about younger generations.

You must be on a very tight budget.

Another one that might qualify as home style (though not a hole in the wall) is Food4Thought. They have two branches now with identical menus and the same quality. However I'd recommended eating at one of those branches, at least the first time, rather than judging on the basis of a Grab Food delivery.

Part of the reason for the strange answers is that it's an unnatural setting, it's an ideologue with a TV crew accosting random people on the street and putting them on the spot. Do the same in anywhere in Europe and you'll get strange answers too.

Agree that Route 66 is Excellent. Currently the best option inCM for farang “comfort food".

Might as well recommend Mad Dogs too if you're going to recommend that place. Both offer inexpensive low quality food for people who drink too much to be able to recognize good food from bad.

The Service Charge doesn't necessarily go to the staff.

I spend a lot more than I expected but it doesn't matter. Even in the worst case it's still half the price of Singapore.

Why is he no longed asked to speak there?

FWIW, this thread from last December is about the same thing as in that video.

Maybe even more so. Rick Simpson Oil and similar oils are sold in some dispensaries in US states where weed has been legalized. In Thailand they specifically made concentrates illegal when they legalized cannabis. What’s legal are buds for smoking, edibles, and low-THC tinctures that might do something if you believe in them. That has always struck me as a bit strange because initially they said that the reasons for legalizing cannabis were medical.

That video is about Rick Simpson Oil, a high THC (about 80% THC) cannabis oil. It might be available in Thailand but it is illegal despite Thailand's marijuana legalization. Theoretically you could make it yourself using legally purchased weed but the process of brewing in your kitchen is rather dangerous.

No.

Suanprung Hospital will prescribe that or something in the same family drugs at a cheap price.

Is Google Maps reliable enough and 4G widespread enough in Laos that it can reliably be used for navigation during a car trip around the country?

Thanks for chiming in, this thread can be closed now. There’s a law that every pizza thread must have a an Italian, someone who “knows pizza” because they’re from New York, and someone who cooks their own pizza at home. Until your contribution we were lacking the last one.

No, they are not. This is just an attempt by political rivals to portray Move Forward as being puppets of the Americans.

In a social setting, I was told by a Thai doctor who works at a private hospital that the so-called “30 Baht” medical plan for Thais doesn’t cover MRIs for patients with known or suspected cases of cancer and that the plan only covers old generation chemo drugs because they are cheaper. He gave specific examples of limitations of the plan as being that since the only chemo drug available in Thailand that is applicable to brain cancer is Temozolomide, which is wildly expensive, that the only treatment offered under the 30 baht plan for patients with a brain tumor would be surgery and radiation. And in the case of a woman having breast cancer, he claims that the plan would pay for a mastectomy but not for reconstructive surgery. Overall he was painting a picture of the Standard Of Cancer Care under the 30 Baht plan being about on par Standard of Care in the West 50 years ago. That doctor clearly has a vested interest in discouraging people from going to a government hospital but he isn’t our doctor, we were just speaking in generalists about the healthcare systems of different countries. Is what he’s saying at all accurate?

I can’t at all agree that healthcare is a plus when retiring in Thailand, it's more of a reason to stay in farangland. Though it seems like most people on social media think that the medical care here is grand, I’ve had some alarming experiences with Thai hospitals. And since you’re not going to be able to take advantage of whatever healthcare plan your home country has for the elderly, you’re going to have to pay cash for your care and you’re likely to have trouble getting privately underwritten medical insurances after a certain age.

The underlying visa is not necessarily different, both an non-Imm O and an an non-Imm OA need to be renewed annually and can be renewed on either the basis of retirement or marriage. The difference is that when you renew on the basis on marriage you only need to have 400K Baht in a Thai bank instead of 800K, you can get work legally, and you don't have to buy medical insurance from a Thai insurance company. However there's a bit more red tape when renewing the marriage visa.