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Alternatively, drink the vodka yourself and marvel at your newfound tolerance for pigeon poop.

Should also include the advisory that rain is wet, and that mud can occur when rain meets dirt, and so individuals need to take care where they step.

Meanwhile, you can get a 10-pack of box cutters from Amazon delivered to your door for $9.99. Is it also because of the PATRIOT Act that I have to have the U.S.-based phone number to access the mySSN portal? That in the end was the show-stopper for me. I maintain a U.S. based mailing address for a reason, as a place where important and sensitive documents can be sent to me regardless of where in the world I happen to be at the moment. Forcing me to use a Thai address (or Mexico if/when that happens again) essentially forces me to see information I want to see stay secure, like my SSN, available to any individual with the motive and opportunity to acccess it. For instance, while we can say good things about the Thai postal service, my last notice from Social Security was just left sitting there in my condo inbox. Anybody at all could see it, know what it was, and take advantage of the situation. And what then when I return to Mexico? As much as I love Mexico, their postal system is famously unreliable. Will they also be sending my SSN in the mail to me there? Whereas, if I were allowed to use my U.S. mailing address, I could use a service like DHL to have the document delivered to me securely.

I'd like to believe that. In any case, and as a general comment, I desperately wanted to use my U.S. address, simply because that's the one I use for IRS stuff already, and because I will likely be changing residences in the future and then have to go through all of this all over again. The fear there is should you slip through a crack in the process it is tantamount to potentially losing your benefit. That said, I also had reservations about dealing with Manila. But those turned out to be unfounded. My application process went about as smoothly as could be hoped for. One final comment: they will send mail to your Thai address that contains your SSN. So if you have identity vulnerabilities, it's something to factor into your decision I think.

This is actually brilliant.

The only contribution I would deign to make on Thai culture is that western feminism should be kept as far away from it as possible. Let the west collapse under the weight of it and let the rest of the world see with their own eyes just how valuable their own cultures are without it.

Your recourse when overcharged for goods and services is to pay the bill and then never return.

It's mostly for show. They get away with it because pigeons can't swim.

It's called planned obsolescence, and its new champion is the lithium battery. The obvious course would be to make products that require the use of batteries to use AA, AAA, AAAA, etc. But then we wouldn't ever be in OP's predicament where faced with a dead battery we must resort to purchasing a whole new product.

But what, normal lions are okey dokey and let's have one over for beer? Pass.

Don't see weed grows exploding or spontaneously-combusting. Dude needs to 420.

Bank letter at the BKK branch is more painless than in the past.

People feed them on the beach, then they fly up to my balcony to poop. Can't explain that! The building across from mine has a balcony where they keep a full-size model of an eagle or whatever. I'm guessing it's effective only because it isn't covered in pigeon poop. Building doesn't allow cats.

Whatever you do OP, keep your friend away from Fresnel lenses. Get one that's large enough and you can melt metal.

Some bad dudes in Nongprue district. I'm just going to stay here in Pattaya.

Do Myanmar citizens have special rights to own property in Thailand? Or are we just talking about condos?

Probably want to post this to the Marijuana forum too.

I absolutely guarantee you that in the word graph ChatGPT uses, the word that most frequently occurs following the word "crazy" is "b!tch."

Me, outside of Thailand, during Covid: please let tourists come back in! Me, now inside of Thailand, during Marburg: please keep everybody out! At least I admit my hypocrisy.

Plenty of crazy b!tches too.

When you first created the Google Authenticator code, you were given the opportunity to save a key that would allow you to restore access in the event the phone was lost or stolen. You probably didn't save the key, but there's a chance you did. Think about where you might have saved/put it.

3bb here, no VPN. Same deal. I had attributed this to my streaming from overseas, and that it was congestion over those links that was the cause, but maybe not. It's also possible in my case that it's a flaky streaming service provider.

Business is good. Thais are happy. Let it be.

I'm sorry, the double-standard in what is permissible and what isn't with regards to which covid cures we may talk about is infuriating beyond words.

Clown show.