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mfd101

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  1. 1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

    Sometimes but rarely, it's usually easier to just choose another hotel.

    I would just say no.

     

    The last 30-40 hotels I stayed at with Booking.com, Agoda, AirBnB haven't asked, and wouldn't have got.

    I doubt the entire door in a Thai 3* hotel would be worth 600bht.

    At my hotel in Asoke they ask for 1000฿ deposit, which they hand back to me when I check out a day or 5 later ... And the problem is ... ?

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  2. 25 minutes ago, toolpush said:

    I finished building my house in 1999 and installed a 80,000 baht Aussie solar water heater. It bit the dust in about 8 years. I bought and installed a local product for 55,000 baht and it lasted about 5 years. I did the same again for another 55,000 baht. Total = 190,000 baht for intermittent hot water and no hot water on rainy/cloudy days or Dec, Jan and Feb. Basically, I was an idiot. I now have an electric tank heater that has 24/7/365 hot water. I could have bought a lot of electricity for 190,000 baht.

    But for your calculation & comparison to be accurate you need to factor in your electricity costs for your traditional-style hot water  - so the answer comes out: 190K - X

  3. 48 minutes ago, MichelleRawai said:

    Oh yes that's what I'm afraid of!... What were you taxed on though? Aus income or foreign income? And what rate? Had you been filling out tax returns?

    My income is and always has been entirely Australian (super + investments) paid in Oz. So no escaping the ATO.

     

    I have been doing Oz tax returns every year of my adult life, including the last 4 years from here in Thailand but the 1st 3 were as 'Resident for Tax Purposes'. And obviously I'm not about to revise those 3 returns!

  4. Fingers crossed. Quite apart from health matters, the whole world economy and supply trains of all kinds in all directions and in just about all countries are grinding to a halt.

     

    We may yet have a new generation - well, several actually - who will have to learn from their grand- and great-grand parents how to raise spuds, carrots, lettuce, tomatoes, beans, chooks, apples, oranges ... how to milk a cow, ride a horse ... Heavens, I feel exhausted already.

  5. 32 minutes ago, mercman24 said:

    wow a brain dead idiot, his thinking, * i am an army deserter, keeping low profile under the radar, i know, let me post some utter rubbish about me wanting to be a mass murderer* (and he gets LIKES?) yep, that will work. this clown needs serious jail time, not just back to barracks, to deter any other idiots who think it is a good thing to post this sort of stuff on social media

    A half-decent NCO will take care of him.

  6. (1) Any masks available in Surin? None that I can find, not that I propose to wear one for the moment but I guess the time is not far off ...

     

    (2) I assume that the falangs who refused the 'Health' Minister's offerings at Siam BTS thought he was just a no-good salesman trying to make a quick buck off others' sickness.

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  7. It would be reassuring to hear from the Thai Government on a number of issues:

    - What is their plan for stopping the inflow of tourists and other visitors from China once even the government is convinced of the need?

    - What is their plan for supplying high-quality and middling-quality face masks at reasonable prices to ALL the peoples of Thailand, not just central Bangkok?

    - What is their plan for increasing the testing-for-contamination capability of the Thai laboratories from the present half-a-dozen a day to 1000 or 5000 or 10,000 a day if required in the next 3 or 4 weeks?

     

    Still dreaming.

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  8. 1 hour ago, micmichd said:

    Maybe he survived a couple of virus attacks before and now has a strong immune system. 

    Yes, hard to be a taxi driver anywhere in the world if you don't have a well-functioning immune system!

     

    People who catch influenza can carry on much as usual, with just a sore throat and feeling a bit low, or they can die from it if already unhealthy, or anywhere in between.

     

    Nothing unusual about this taxi driver, and not surprising that the Thai authorities make the most of him to reassure the populace. But of course cynicism and conspiracy theories are the default mechanism to reassure elderly falangs of their superiority ...

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  9. 12 minutes ago, WaveHunter said:

    A lot of credible sources believe that the "Spanish" Flu actually originated in China.  China sure has quite a track record for bringing the world such gifts !

    And one of the reasons - perhaps the main one, for ought I know - is the large number of people there living cheek by jowl with large numbers of domesticated animals. The animals are the source of the virus or bacteria which then gets transmitted to humans & thence from human to human ...

     

    Which I am reminded of every day here in south Surin as I observe my Khmer family living amongst cattle, chooks, dogs, fish, and insects of all kinds, with little distinction between 'inside' and 'outside' the house and little evidence ever of handwashing. And my b/f is much the same with his children-I-mean-roosters, injected fed and washed lovingly every day ...

  10. As the situation worsens (assuming it does - which, for now, looks likely), and with Thailand generally and Bangkok in particular at the top of official lists of places outside China exposed to the threat, it will be fascinating to watch the Thai 'government's' actions (if any).

     

    Other countries - Europeans, Oz - are already closing down as much travel contact with China as possible, but Thailand is still welcoming planeloads from China every day ...

     

    As road safety here shows us daily, risk management is not a strength.

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