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Piggybacking on this….. If I go to USA for two weeks do I need health insurance to get back in? I am on married retirement extension presently. Thank you.

Just the heat alone would do me in. I would look at Phuket around Ao Yong beach area looking across the bay to the lighthouse. Beautiful clean beach with not many tourists….now probably none….I rented a house on the beach for 12,000 baht. I would swim every morning and evening in very clean water. Being illuminated by the full moon across the bay was exquisite, and dramatic lightening and rain storms were fun. At your age you would have more options with the sea all around, and some pretty cool places off island to visit. Hot, dry, and flat sounds like an early death to me. After Chiang Mai it would be edging towards boring…..unless you are trying to hide out. Good luck.

Vietnam made helmets mandatory and only two on a motorbike, and it works because the enforced it. The biggest issue here is the motorbike riders, they seem completely oblivious to anybody else on the road. The rule of the road in Thailand is “Its your job to avoid me.” And that pretty well sums it up. The fine for no helmet should be 2,500 baht, the 500 baht is for the policeman. This would change the country in a month. Most people cannot afford a fine of this amount, so they’ll buy and wear a helmet. And the police would love upping their income, so they’ll be enforcing it with alacrity and happy doing it. Drastic actions are needed to get the stupid to comply. if the Vietnamese can be brought into line, then Thailand can do the same. After that stopping crazy motorbike riders zipping through traffic by hitting them with large fines needs to be enforced.

Anybody know where the Pfizer booster is available in Pattaya?

Connect to a library in your home country and you can download books for free….you may need help from a friend in your hometown, but pretty easy.

I have been dealing with Omnicron and it’s no walk in the park. Not like any flu I’ve ever had, in fact I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, except Putin. I was at BKK Hospital Pattaya yesterday, and Covid is far from over. All the Covid wards in all the hospitals in Pattaya are full….if you get full blown Covid you are in big trouble as they have no room for you. At the dedicated Covid building yesterday there was a steady stream of new patients arriving at the rate of four a minute…..that’s 240 an hour, and I was there three hours. Staff never stopping and all completely covered from head to toe and working continuously. If you think it’s time to dump masks you are deluded, this is far from over. Be smart and protect yourself, the other choice is not good.

Both my boys got Omnicron fro their school. It took me 8 days to get it from them. For me it’s like a very bad flu with a sore throat and a cough…no temperature now. But I do feel pretty tired at points in the day. I’ll just ride it out at home even though I have the Covid insurance. The oldest boy receives food delivered each day from the hospital that the government pays for….I believe it’s for the folks with Covid. Seems like a good idea for the poorer people. Personally the sore throat is the worst part, as I cannot remember the last time I had a sore throat. This too shall pass.

The cop is nearly a dollar billionaire…..nobody see anything wrong with that? This was a frontal hit on the car, airbag is designed to deploy at that type of impact. Something wrong with this cars features.

I support a family of four on 70,000 baht a month, including renting a big house, and payments on a car. Maybe your lifestyle is more luxurious than you think.

Some of these teachers are complete idiots. My younger boy tells me absolute nonsense his teacher told him, which I then correct him on. He came home one day and told me that Pablo Escobar was a wonderful person. I was surprised he even knew this man’s name, and asked him where he got it from……his teacher. I asked what did he say about Escobar? “That he is rich, and helps people, and is a good man.” I proceeded to inform him he was a drug dealer who had many people killed, and wasn’t a good person. He informed his teacher of what I said, and the teacher was shocked. Escobar did help many poor people, but it was on the back of his drug dealing, and the lives of those he killed or had killed. With the availability of the internet it wouldn’t take much to find out some facts etc. Scary misinformation and telling eleven year olds this <deleted>.

Totally disagree with you. The onus is on the person passing to be aware what is happening in front of him. Whether signals are used is another issue, did the moto rider signal he was going to pass the golf buggy?. I have no control over a person coming up behind and what speed they are doing.

I was walking on the sidewalk in BKK and narrowly avoided being hit by two cops riding on the sidewalk……I guess it was my fault for being alive according to one poster on here BritManToo.

Yeah, it was all the victims fault…..NOT. If you actually looked at the video he was on the sidewalk for around two or three seconds before the moron hit him. Why would you put it all on the innocent guy?

I drove this when it was a dirt road back in 1974……first and second gear the whole way. When we reached the paved road way above Oaxaca I thought the engine had dropped out of the car as it was so quiet. I got out and looked under the car, and was happy to see it was okay. Oaxaca was a pretty sleepy town back then, and was really on the road to Guatemala. Mex 200 the coast road that supposedly went south to Guatemala ended with a sign pointing into the jungle…..and that is why we drove over the mountains.

What level did she play at when she was playing? A lot of people here play doubles. Can she play doubles reasonably competitively? How long since she last played regularly? I didn’t play for seven years and it took me a while to get back to a decent level again. Also what is her age range, that can influence who she would be playing with here?

How insulting to the Thai people that the police have the title Royal in their name. Corruption is Corruption and these people should have that in their title. The Corrupt Thai Police.

Vietnam managed to overhaul their system and riders. Used to be many riders on bikes, now only two. No helmets, now most are wearing them. Just increase the fines until they hurt, really hurt. As for bikes turning left onto any road…..ridiculously dangerous. Remember a few years ago a guy turned without looking into the path of a truck…..that was a quick bye bye. When I rode my Kawasaki I would always stop at an intersection before merging into traffic. It just takes “common sense” which is a misnomer, it should be called “uncommon sense” which is seriously lacking with many riders and drivers in this country.

If you want to learn Thai, good luck to you. My wife sent me to buy cooked Moo (pork) from a street vendor. After a full minute of saying Moo to this man with absolutely nil comprehension from him, I decided I’ll pass on a language even Thais don’t understand. I had a few other experiences of this type….so I’ll pass on learning a language nobody speaks in other countries. French is useful, Spanish is spoken in many countries, but Thai, no thanks. I find Thais when asked if they speak English say Nit Noi, but usually they speak quite a bit and I praise them for their knowledge. Upon that their faces light up and their confidence is lifted. English is the universal language. Though I’ve had a few moments in some countries small towns where nobody spoke a lick…..in Mongolia asking for a hotel for the night, where buildings built in the Russian style, a concrete box with no signs and very very cold weather was pretty difficult. We all need a pill we take before we sleep, and in the morning we have a working knowledge of the local language. So if you create this pill, please make another to eliminate jet lag….you will be a billionaire in five minutes.

Siam Pharmacy in Korat and BKK is the cheapest I have found. There is a pretty good pharmacy up the street from Terminal 21, but on one thing it was 700 baht more than Siam. You can order with them on LINE, but you need to be accurate on what you want, good to have a Thai wife/girlfriend helping you. Delivered in a few days. The things I buy are not prescription things, mainly supplements. Hospital charged me 1,200 baht for a special shampoo, at Siam it was 150 baht…yikes!

It would be a publicity nightmare for any airline that charged for transporting a wheelchair. Used to give them away in foreign countries for free, so we would have friends take them on the plane for us…..transported many like that.

I bought one on Lazada….check them out, pretty cheap, and delivered in a box on the back of a motorbike.

Polio was mandatory back in the day…..I guess they were nuts also. May have saved you having a short and miserable life.

The only TV show that makes me laugh out loud is Would I Lie To You. Funniest thing on television. It is a BBC show, but there are repeats on DAVE which only shows repeats of many different shows.

“Jailed in a hotel!” Obviously you’ve never been in a jail or you wouldn’t make such an asinine comment.

I commend the Thai police for tracking this guy down, especially as he was moving around quite a bit…..also the hotel that refused to take him…..they followed the rules rather than grabbing for the money…..maybe saved their lives.