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1 hour ago, riclag said:Special treatment has been going on for centuries and it will continue for centuries . Nothing new here !
One day the revolution will come here in Thailand. I hope to be alive to see it, but probably won't be.
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Help! I've been infected with cautious optimism (Delta case).
Is there a vaccine against it?
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I'm about to turn 72 and I mostly feel about 40-50. Particularly good on the days I do my 40 minutes in the gym before brunch.
I remember a large organization I worked for a couple of decades ago in Oz. One year they held a birthday celebration for everyone who was turning 50 that year. There were about 30 or 40 of them all lined up. From their looks you would have thought they ranged in age from 30 to 70.
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I'm not sure why people are so surprised that up-and-coming Third World countries full of hard-working energetic people are not particularly interested in non-rich Western residents. If you look at your own home countries, you'll find that mostly they're not much different in attitude.
I'm not across the details of entry to Oz as I'm a citizen but basically if you're not in the main categories (family reunion, refugee (however defined), paying job in an area of skilled labour shortage, or minimum of something like $2 or more millions to invest) then your chances of getting in for more than a few weeks as a tourist are slight. If you announced that you wanted to retire there on nothing more than, say, a British pension, they wouldn't even give you the forms to fill in.
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An unusual situation in Thailand.
Usually the combination of complexity + ambiguity means that nothing is pinned down and there's noone to blame.
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Report in today's 'Australian' says tests are well under way with mixing vacs, but still early stages on results. Early indication is that AZ + Pfizer produces greatly improved protection against catching the virus.
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Flying ants, usually after a dry period then immediately after rain. Happens here several times a year.
We turn the lights on along the back fence & chookhouse about 20m from the house ... Next morning just a few inside the house to sweep up.
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Living as I do in the wilds of south Surin where noone I know knows anyone who has or has had the virus, and only one cousin has been vaccinated (company-organized in Buriram), I intend to protect my health and avoid crowds and raised blood pressure by doing nothing for at least 2 more months, possibly 3 or 4.
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20 minutes ago, xylophone said:What exactly is that? Wondering what a pink ID is?
Special ID for gays. Allows you in to certain discos after midnight.
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From Scots College to 'divemaster' ...
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If Don Muaeng is anything to go by over the last several years, they won't make a staff saving in any case.
They have to employ staff to man (and mostly woman) the machines for everyone who can't work out what to do.
In my case the trickiest bit is the last bit - getting the long sticky thingy you're supposed to wrap around your suitcase handle to come out right and then strip off the redundant bit and wrap it the right way round the handle. I've never managed it yet though my b/f does, about 50% of the time.
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29 minutes ago, Captain Monday said:
Passport stamps are behind the times.
Not in Thailand.
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Surely there must be thousands of junkies out there with both expertise and equipment?
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OK Everyone. Hurry up and get ready to wait!
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I'm not planning to crawl out from under the bed till July. At some time around then I will pressure my b/f into actually checking with our local (sth Surin/Prasat) clinic & public & private hospitals. Depending on the result I will then take action as appropriate.
Till then I'm relying on his village network for information, but the only thing that travels at lightening speed there is gossip about unmentionables. Anything important travels at snail pace with superstitious attachments.
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John Lynch's 'Simón Bolívar: A life'.
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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I'm sure this will have been done on professional advice from a Thai university.
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51 minutes ago, JonnyF said:I really don't understand the logic behind saying something that everyone who is listening knows is a complete lie. Must be a cultural thing...
Truth is not a cultural value here. Only status counts and the foundation on which it builds is appearances.
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And we Falangs think we're badly off ...
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Outcome of he day: So don't just do something, Stupid! Sit there!
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So, Sinovac it is. As the experts keep telling us, any vac is better than none. The risk to your well-being from the disease is far far far greater than the risk to your well-being from any vac.
Thank you benevolent Chinese Communist Party guvamint. We look forward to doing more business in the future.
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Tourism realism for 5 minutes, then back to the lazy man's path to bourgeois comfort: Dreams of more tourism!
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On 5/23/2021 at 1:00 PM, richard_smith237 said:
once it has confirmed that it has vaccinated >70% of its population.
ie well into 2022
Foreigners in Thailand can register for COVID-19 vaccine from June 14
in Thailand News
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Clearly plenty of job opportunities in Thailand for qualified programmers.