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mfd101

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  1. Your eyes don't have to deteriorate with age, provided you look after your general health (80% what goes in your mouth - low low sugar, high on vegies & fruits ...) and 20% exercise.

     

    I'm about to turn 76 next month. A year ago I got a new pair of glasses in Thailand, with my first eye check since arriving here permanently in late 2015. My eyes hadn't changed since my last eye test in Canberra in 1998.

  2. About a year ago my Oz bank (NAB) froze my (Oz) accounts until I supplied them with a TIN. No argument from me (eg my entire income in Oz was covered by DTA & no Thai income) had any effect.

     

    So I had no choice but to go to the Revenue Office here in Surin & ask for a TIN. Took about an hour out of my life and all done. Apart from supplying it to NAB in Oz I've had no further use for it (no tax return lodged this March & no intention to do so while my income remains 100% compliant as I expect it will till my upcoming death some time later in the century).

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  3. 8 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

    there’s this magical invention called the AccuWeather app. It’ll gleefully vomit up every microscopic weather detail you could possibly want, hour by hour, day by day,

    I use them every day, multiple times, but here in the rain shadow that is south Surin, their predictions of rain or thunder storms are almost NEVER even remotely accurate ... often laughably so. eg They tell me we're having a downpour right now or for the next 1 hour but I look out the windows of the house in 4 directions and the sun is shining. Or vice versa.

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  4. Here in Prasat sth Surin we received this afternoon in 45 minutes more rain than we have had since last October. 

     

    So the monsoon has at last begun here. For the last month before this we have received an occasional few drops, a light & brief shower 2 or 3 times, but not enough to give more than a few patches of brown earth a slight greenish look. A kind of aspirational lawn. Here are 3 photos from my library:  P1130936.jpeg.dd3ac67d7d7aecfc33df1bfa6ac9ad03.jpegP1130937.jpeg.79e7f09656c895cca6a130fbc2eda7c8.jpegP1130941.jpeg.f2772aa585e6efd2e5d2a16cb78d8bc7.jpeg

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  5. 3 hours ago, jerrymahoney said:

    "If the United States wants to resolve the issue through negotiations,” the spokesperson added, “it must face up to the serious negative impact of unilateral tariff measures on itself and the world, face up to international economic and trade rules, fairness and justice, and rational voices from all walks of life, show sincerity in talks, correct its wrong practices, meet China halfway and resolve the concerns of both sides through equal consultation.”

    While the US Administration is clearly the source of the current round of self-defeating nonsense, any country - such as Oz - that has been the victim of Chinese trade bullying in recent years would laugh cynically at Chinese moral posturing.

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