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12 minutes ago, Trip Hop said:

Exactly, you only have to ask yourself as to why Thailand, the so called champion of managing Covid is left off nearly, if not every travel bubble that I’m aware of? It’s simple, either the other countries believe that Thailand are carrying out too few tests to give a true accurate picture for them to make a fair assessment of the risk or they just don’t trust them to tell the truth altogether?

It's called reciprocation. If they (Thailand) won't let our people into their country, why should we let their people into ours?

Why are so many people desperate to believe Thailand is a hot-bed of Covid 19? Just be happy that we do not have the problems that others face.

(Sorry, forgot this is Thai Visa and everything to do with Thailand must be bad and must be moaned about!)

Be very careful with these hornets.

I was stung by one a number of years ago, a painful experience!

However when I was stung three years later by a regular bee I went into anaphylactic shock and had to be hospitalised. It transpires that in some cases the venom from these hornets can cause this long-term effect, particularly in allergy/hay-fever sufferers.

I now carry an epi-pen with me and have had to use it twice.

Very difficult to get an epi-pen in Thailand as the chemical ephedrine is a pre-cursor used to make Yaba. I have to bring mine from abroad.

5 hours ago, Kerryd said:

I lost a plate in a fire awhile ago. Same as the thread RichCor posted, I had to go to the police and file a report. As I still had the remains of the old plate, I was able to go to a local shop (that the police told me about) to get it remade.

Otherwise it would be off to the DLT to request a new one. Might be a good time to transfer the registration. Ask the DLT first because you may end up with a new plate anyways.

Strange the police would send you to a local shop to get a re-make. All number plates are required to carry certain markers to prove they are original and can only be provided by the Department of Transport; which is why we have to wait weeks for them, instead of popping to the local shop as we used to do.

I call bull**** on this one.

Look at the photo and you will see that the lead is not long enough for the dog to have been inside the car and to have jumped out of the open door.

Anyway if the dog is inside the car, why would you tie the other end of the leash to the bumper?

He tied the dog to the rear bumper and forgot about it! However, being a monk (and Thai) he would never admit that and made up a story to blame the dog.

If you list at a stupidly high price for a given period, then you can legitimately claim 80% off (or such like) even if you have never sold one at the original price. It has been standard in bricks and mortar retail for many years and was mostly well controlled.

Online, however, anything goes and many suppliers on platforms such as this use a scatter-gun approach with the same product at different prices and every one of them claiming to be discounted. Look at Agoda etc. in the online booking space - everything is on discount.

Since Thailand will not let anyone in from their country, why would they allow anyone in from Thailand? - Quid pro quo

19 hours ago, bitterbatter said:

I have watched those monkeys, they are way faster then people.  This isn't for show. And climbing those tall trees in incredibly dangerous. Also it is cheaper.  So if you get rid of the monkeys,  more people will fall, less people will pay to get their trees picked, and more coconuts will fall without warning also creating another danger.  This is pure BS, once again being pushed by leftists who want to regulate away every single freedom they can think of to satisfy their distorted beliefs. 

Everytime we give in to these control freaks, we lose more and more. 

 

Do this and watch the price of coconut products to go up, sales will go down.

And to top it off, if they go down this route, what is the first thing people who own these monkeys will do? 

They lost the money to feed them...  So there is a good chance that they will kill them.  How humane.

Read again! Humans do not climb the palms, they cut with blades on very long sticks. They pick faster than monkeys as they don't have to climb. Also humans don't come with all the obstinacy and difficulties that reluctant monkeys come with.

I despair of the large number of inmates who comment without reading and then fire out Trumpisms about imaginary conspiracies. 

13 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

There are still lots of questions.

I’m wondering if immunity from Covid-19 is a thing - can someone catch Covid-19 a second time within a couple of years and experience serious or life threatening symptoms ?

I’m wondering if most of the country (UK) have been exposed to Covid-19 or not, or if they will in the coming months. 

I’m wondering if Thailands numbers are real or if Covid-19 has not already spread through the nation and most were asymptotic.

I’m wondering if Thailands numbers are accurate, and if Covid-19 spreads through the nation once Thailand opens up if its not going to be hit incredibly hard. 

Wonder on - nobody is going to be wandering until this all settles down 4th quarter minimum. Next year likely (excluding EU and USA unless they get their act together)

I live in Krabi. My hotel is open, the beaches are empty (which is great), restaurants are open. Feels like it did when I moved here 14 years ago.

If I didn't need guests at my hotel I would certainly join many others in saying - "long may it stay this way"

2 hours ago, mrfill said:

KTM bikes are available in Thailand....

 

But where to get them serviced? They have come and gone and come again leaving large parts of Thailand with no service and few qualified mechanics. Pity or I would have bought one.

7 hours ago, mikemi said:

I guess I want something that can go more or less anywhere I want to, but not too fast, and not too slow.

 

If the CRF/KLX250 feel fast enough I might go for one just because its cheaper. But if they really do feel too slow, I might have to get something bigger/faster.

 

I want something nice and relaxed, but capable.

 

I will update when I have done some test rides.

 

ps I think I saw you on youtube, didnt I? I enjoyed watching that ????

Yup I was on the tube - hosting a friend from the UK - TMF; Andy The Missenden Flier

Consider the Yamaha MT03.

Fast (160km/hr) so no problem on the highway.

Much cheaper to buy and run than the Duc (Ducati are much more expensive to service and parts are premium priced)

A Yamaha can be serviced in every town.

I looked at and drove the Ducati but it felt cheaply made and a bit all or nothing in throttle action. Great for hooning about on - but not as good for day to day. I went with the Triumph Bonneville instead. (Unfortunately I wrote that off)

When I reach to the key rack now it's the MT03 I pick every time unless I'm planning a trip and need luggage.

Honda/Yamaha/Kawasaki are all much cheaper and easier to keep on the road also are easier to sell later.

I can't understand why you are comparing slow and relatively cheap bikes with the Duc, have you really thought through what you need as well as what you want?

53 minutes ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

how exactly ?

 

maybe in a few months or years, people like me will be vindicated that have been saying

 

it is the FREE vitamin D from the SUN that kept numbers low and the poor don't have money for airco rooms

Every day you go on and on about vitamin D being the miracle - you are starting to sound like Trump.

Show us any evidence!

Why have the Southern states in the USA (Texas, Florida or Southern California), which get lots of Sun and vitamin D got so many cases if vitamin D is the answer? What about the Middle East?

Show me any verifiable evidence and I will retract - if not please stop posting this nonsense.

Beaches in Krabi never closed.

1 hour ago, M71 said:

Success story ??  Any country can beat a common seasonal flu.  Ain't rocket science.  STUPID-19   ??

Pity Trump and his minions in the USA can't!

Buy a taser (they are illegal but are sold everywhere there are tourists) NOT to taser the dog but the sound is very scary to dogs and they will run from you.

I love dogs and have two of my own, but after 2 bites and one crash caused by dogs when I cycle every morning; I now carry a small one that is pretending to be a cigarette lighter and just press the button if dogs come near.

2 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

Trump farts and the libs have themselves a field day.  LOL

How dare you! Are you suggesting that that these "libs", whoever they are, would ever mock the orange panda?

33 minutes ago, rabas said:

Exactly how the CCP thinks and exactly opposite to how the real Free World operates. They, the CCP, not the Chinese people, have always misunderstood the noise of freedom. It will be their failing to the delight of the Free World and Chinese people everywhere.

 

Best start treating them like the really big third world thug they are. Demand they come clean on their dangerous biolab and military biological research. If not shut them down.

irony is way above many on this forum!