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22 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Kayaking and snorkelling cheaper in Thailand by a mile. Dont drink wine. Aus food is expensive. 

 

 

In all the chat about how expensive Oz is, you & others fail to notice that (1) most people in Oz earn incomes multiples higher than most in Thailand (2) the spread of those incomes is way way more equitable across the population than in Thailand. That may make no difference to people living on, say, a UK pension, but of course the economy is designed by the locals for the locals ...

4 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Seafood way cheaper in Thailand. Sit on beach and eat. In Aus its not allowed.  Aus is very bogan. Wouldnt touch the women with a 40 foot pole.

No worries. The bogans still know their place. It's just that the place has moved to next-door to you.

1 hour ago, EricTh said:

I just noticed you are in Surin. So your hubby/boyfriend must be a Khmer Surin? I just watched this cool video on Khmer Surin people, you might be interested in knowing their origin.

 

 

 

Thanks. A nice clip. I love it when - usually 0600-0700 - they play Isaan music over the loudspeakers. Mostly Isaan Lao love songs. And yes, my family are 'Northern Khmer' or 'Khmer Surin'. I t was interesting taking b/f to Siem Reap ('victory over the Thais') for his first ever visit to Cambodia. First day he thought he couldn't understand a word (a bit like me in southern US) but, as his confidence rose, he started to speak to the locals amongst gales of laughter on both sides ... Nice to see. And not much different from his Lao - depending on context & accents he says he understands about 50%.

18 minutes ago, EricTh said:

Oz is a good place, why is it hard for him?

 

 

Remote from family was the main thing: Large Khmer peasant family here, everything revolves around it.

Then there was the language problem (particularly written). He has no education & barely literate in Thai. Result: He operates by the family 'n friends network. Everything is done in consultation with the network. Avoids having to read written texts and to deal with officialdom (whence the difficulty in getting action on vaccination) ... So he loved Oz and NZ but couldn't really live there longterm.

There's lots of Sinovac available and they need to use it up.

After reading all the above, I've decided to go and get my 1st jab (Sinovac) here in Prasat Surin. Will decide on S or AZ (probably AZ, I think) for the 2nd round.

And aim for an AZ (or P or M) booster down the track.

Today's Nouvel Obs says that over 8 out of 10 people hospitalized in France with the plague are non-vaccinated.

And in the period June-to-midJuly 78% of those who died in France with the plague were non-vaccinated.

1 hour ago, BTB1977 said:

Reading the post may answer your question.  

You might care to read the sequence of posts at the beginning. The answer to my question was NOT in the original OP.

18 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

 

 

Try reading the sequence (as explained above).

Chinese turning into Communists. I thought that was old news.

There are 2 kinds of anti-vaxers. The local variety can probably be helped with good & clear information.

The international breed however - mostly, I think, Usofan in origin but spreading throughout The West - are like racists & homophobes. Their views are emotionally-based. They did not get that way from lack of information or bad arguments. Better information & argument will not change their views.

You have to change their emotions. Which is hard to do. Fear & self-interest (eg no crossing borders, no public transport of any kind, no entry to department stores ... ) may well work in the present case.

8 hours ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

read the op

The op's added information at the bottom of his piece was NOT there when I made my comment, as his subsequent comment makes clear.

Try reading the sequence.

4 minutes ago, Scouse123 said:

I am a good reader but I find reading online a lot easier these days to get the type of reading we want and it is easier and faster. I binge on history channel TV, You tube documentaries and I read articles in Flipboard, Pinterest, Pocket and other publications.

 

Just very bored with it all at the minute, and I have been here a very long time now, not felt like this before.

 

Covid blues I think.

 

I have come up with ideas to develop the land but not of them are the slightest bit interested.

 

The mother talks about being terrified of Covid but rejected the chance of the vaccine in June!

Yes, I can share in just about all of that. Most of my reading is digital now, but easy to get bored.

As for projects for home or garden improvement, difficult to get the b/f interested and I'm certainly not allowed to do anything on my own (questions of status) ...

And stirring up action on vax is proving difficult. Even just to inquire at the local hospitals. Noone in the family interested in Sinovax (including mostly me but I'm willing to have one now if I can combine with AZ or P or M for the 2nd round).

On 7/27/2021 at 9:05 PM, WhiteBuffaloATM said:

The irrational vax fear in civilized countries like USA and France is quite shocking.........

I agree, but that doesn't mean we have to go overboard in the opposite direction.

The world is not black & white, it is grey, complex & difficult. There is little certainty. People who can't cope with complexity and uncertainty aren't living in the real world.

15 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

This imagined history is impressive. 

 

120 years ago someone who could afford a maid and a labourer had more than 1 or two roomed houses !!! 

 

 

I did say "Earlier still" ...

10 hours ago, canthai55 said:

 

Fascinating. Well worth watching.

(PS Forget the new Thai merchant marine.)

I used to have a boss who said: The verb 'coordinate' is the weakest verb in the English language.

Cocktails are fine, but remember: Shaken, not stirred.

51 minutes ago, Paul Henry said:

Our great journalist do it again with heading "BONE" of contention should be "BANE". Common mistake made by people Journos should know better.  

Don't think so. Grammar police who don't know what they're talking about are the bane of my life, scrapping over a bone and losing it.