SeaBee

3 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Before you get your license to fly, you must prove that you can put the aircraft into a spin, and then recover.

 

I do not mean a slight spin.

 

I mean a FULL spin with several rotations.....and then a recover.

 

Try that on for size.

 

 

Uh in what country or age? In the US spin recovery training was dropped decades ago. Modern idea is to avoid getting into a spin in the first place, and it does make a lot of sense. Reality showed that if you're getting inadvertently into a spin, it's most probably at a low altitude which will not allow for recovery anyway.

Edit: apparently Canada still does spin recovery though. 

16 hours ago, save the frogs said:

one thing I have started doing recently is taking a couple of tablespoons of vinegar with meals because it apparently lowers blood sugar levels. i use balsamic vinegar because i like the taste better. maybe pickle juice might do the trick too. not sure. 

 

https://www.levelshealth.com/blog/does-vinegar-really-lower-blood-sugar#:~:text=It turns out even a,as much as 20 percent.

 

It turns out even a small amount of vinegar consumed with meals can help control blood sugar, too. One study found consuming two teaspoons of vinegar with carbs may reduce post-meal blood glucose levels as much as 20 percent.

 

 

You might want to look into the anti-diabetes properties of kratom, and use that too to control sugar level.

8 hours ago, mania said:

That is a oxymoron....In Thailand domestic Chicken or Pork only ????

Thai beef only good for retreading your shoes

Actually Thai beef can be quite good. The problem is it's usually sold too fresh, like killed at 3am and sold at market at 6-8am, that's what doesn't work. You need to either find a butcher who ages the meat for at least a few days, or do it yourself.

Just now, OJAS said:

The 6-month validity rule does, indeed, apply in the case of tourists planning to stay in Thailand visa-exempt for up to 30 days. However the OP is intending to re-enter Thailand on the basis of a non-immigrant extension of stay for retirement as supported by a re-entry permit, so this requirement would not apply in his case.

You're talking about something you don't know anything about. The requirement does apply in all cases. I personally learned that the hard way, trying to re-enter TH on a non-B with 5.5 months left on passport... I couldn't board my flight in KL and was only able to enter at land border after several hours of negotiation and a *big* fee.

10 minutes ago, Crossy said:

Yup, you will have no problem. Thailand's requirement is for the PP to be valid for the length of your stay.

 

Watch for restrictions on any transit countries if you are not flying direct.

 

"Passport validity

Your passport must have at least 6 months’ validity remaining from your date of entry into Thailand."

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/thailand/entry-requirements

^^

2 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Crossy and Sea Bee at odds with each other. Who to believe?

 

Neither, just verify. Call a couple airlines and they will all confirm they don't even let you board a flight with less than 6 months validity left.

1 minute ago, Crossy said:

Yup, you will have no problem. Thailand's requirement is for the PP to be valid for the length of your stay.

 

Watch for restrictions on any transit countries if you are not flying direct.

 

Why do you give so wrong an advice? Thailand's requirements for entry DOES include at least 6 months of validity in your passport. And that rule is strictly enforced.

/baffled

No. The 6-month validity is strictly enforced everywhere, including by the airlines. You will simply not be able to board your flight.

(1st hand experience)

23 minutes ago, still kicking said:

Poor you

You don't say

4 hours ago, Badger18 said:

I might do something like that later in the year. Why do you think the fact that a lot of Russians use the WP crossing makes that a better option?

It doesn't. The Russians come in large groups from Phuket, with a border run company, so WP is the closest option (and the visa run company most probably has got a global "smooth" deal for their clients, although most of them are within immigration rules and are entitled to that border run anyway). But if you're going by yourself you don't enjoy the same deal and they will charge you a (yet reasonable) extra fee to go/come back within same day, they say else you need to spend several days in Malaysia before entering back.

(in Sadao if you're expecting any kind of issue just make sure to deal with it with the guys at TH entry BEFORE exiting TH in order to not get stuck in Malaysia)

Abnormal heat in Thailand - how do you cope?

I don't. I'm a tropical boy but for the last couple months I've been fighting the urge to move to Alaska.

Wang Prachan is indeed usually an easy one... but it's not a 100% sure thing as there's one woman there who just likes to say "cannot". Then it's bad luck for you.

There's no public transport to the border, you need to get a taxi at least from main road.

If you don't have your own vehicle best is probably to go early and try the easiest way first (Sadao), there are very few reasons why they wouldn't sort you out there if you're ready to fork out the usually reasonable extra fee. Only time I saw a real problem there was with less than 6 months left on passport validity, which was a proper no-no, almost couldn't get in (after I was prevented to board KL-TH flight at airport so it was not a Sadao thing, it's just a tough rule). Then use Wang Prachan as plan B if you can't make it work in Sadao.

Incidentally, monitor lizards are a protected species in Thailand so that's another layer of illegality there.

1 hour ago, stoner said:

i dont think many people are selling hemp as high thc imports in thailand. 

 

 

Many online sellers have a couple CBD strains among their THCs, but forget to mention the difference, so if you don't ask...
In my experience they normally don't claim THC content, though.

4 hours ago, cncltd1973 said:

I've tried many strains of the top shelf stuff here, and they all gave me a headache. I suspect the local growers aren't paying attention to when to stop fertilizing or they aren't flushing the nutrients. it isn't as easy as nature to make great weed. my experience with thai workers is they feel they have succeeded when the work is good enough, without contemplating improvement for the future. that mindset works to stop competition instead of creating the best product

Headaches are a sign of PGRs... That stuff is not top shelf at all, it just kinda looks so, but it's shamelessly sold as such. It's mostly imported, not grown locally.

16 hours ago, SamuiGrower said:

As other posters have mentioned, the ‘medical loophole’ laws and imports to fill the nascent market still exist, have never been ended, and are widely exploited. Don’t know why you are soooo surprised! It’s the least of what’s concerning. But please, feel free to keep insisting it’s just not so. 

I've done a bit of homework and it looks like I'm standing corrected.

Thank you for the enlightenment, appreciated.

26 minutes ago, SamuiGrower said:

No, I can’t. Asking a business to copy their license and post it so you can see it? Slim to none. If you don’t believe there is a huge influx of USA/Canadian flower flooding the Thai market, don’t leave it to me to convince you, canvass the suppliers or better yet, enter the business. Clearly, ALL are welcome (by some) ????????????.

 

I am in the business. A commercial grow that sells cannabis and CBD (flower/extract) on a wholesale basis to dispensaries and wellness centers. They have shown us their import licenses and commercially imported flower and those are the prices that have established the AMR (average market rate) to which we compete against. Our company has a full time “admin”, well versed in licenses, permits and filling out countless forms. We are a straight up-and-down company that has  multiple licenses (a CBD export license is just one). A Ganja/Ganjo import license is just a matter of filing and paying.

 

As stated in previous posts, this business is a race to the bottom, complete with Darwinism - survival of the fittest. Prices will plummet, regulation will abound, and small players will evaporate. The weed business in Thailand is replete with the good, the bad and the really bad. It astounds me that it still operates on the least common denominator: “The Gram”. More weed spoils or its integrity diminished by oversupply than what is sold. Before anyone asks for proof of that, relax, it’s MY speculation from involvement in this business. I see a lot of “brown, everything looks a like, UV and humidity spoiled flower”. FYI for all you looking in from the outside - you can’t freeze it, refrigerate it, inert atmosphere package it and expect it to last until that last gram is sold, before it goes bad. Sad.

I'm fully aware of the imported weed, what I'm questioning is those "valid import licenses" you seem to be the only to have ever seen. The official stance of the Thai gvt. is that weed imports are illegal so you'd need better evidence than just words to claim the opposite. As another poster said above, seeds can be legally imported with a permit, buds can't.

16 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Hard to see how foreign grows paying staff $20/hour can compete with Thai grows paying staff 300bht/day.

Eventually, indeed, but for now big California growers benefit from scale economy, experience and better climate. Thai production is not stabilized yet, far from it, and farms are failing some harvests (which is expensive). Even for California experienced growers it takes several harvests to get the production right in any new operation, plus tropical climate creates some serious challenges many have yet to overcome.

1 hour ago, SamuiGrower said:

This is also NOT true. I have seen valid import licenses. Many. Yes, it is illegal export it out of the US and Canada. Trust me, that in and of itself will allow the US DEA to pressure And influence Thai legislation in the coming round of regulations, that you all know is coming.

Could you post a - names blurred - photo of any such valid import license?

45 minutes ago, rwill said:

It's just unfortunate they didn't catch her earlier.

 

The murder total could be even higher than this.

If there was indeed a case in 2015 already, the actual total might be staggering.

Nice change, all those non-violent fights and shootings were getting quite boring.

On 3/18/2023 at 12:00 PM, CG1 Blue said:

I tried that same climb 3 years ago (was 50 yrs old then). I gave up half way because it was too much and I actually thought it could kill me. I later regretted giving up - but reading this story I no longer regret that decision. 

 

I'm reasonably fit, but there's something about stairs that just saps everything out of me. I had a similar issue at the Great Wall, but managed to conquer that one. I don't think my ticker is designed to cope with steps. 

 

RIP sir - you lived life! 

 

Tiger Temple is all about pacing your effort, you have to take it slower than you feel like, in order to save your energy for the whole trip. People fail the climb because they go for it like they'd go on a couple stories' house stairs, but of course they run out of energy after a couple hundred steps. Then it does become difficult... Reasonable pace there is about 25 min for the climb which is just a bit slower than 1 step/second, so it's relatively easy to count. With the right pace you don't have to stop in the middle (because you don't run out of energy).