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Hands up everyone who knew the The Battle at Border Post 9631 in 2001:  https://burmanewsandarticles.blogspot.com/2007/12/burma-air-force-jet-fighters.html 

15 hours ago, webfact said:

The school was not named as they never are in defamation crazy Thailand. 

Gutty play! Might that not be construed as defaming of the entire country?

10 hours ago, Sheryl said:

There is a  nice place (and affordable) to stay right opposite Rutnin Hospital, Asok residence3 Sukhumvit.

What a splendid suggestion! (Agoda says 21 people booked already today! I wonder what they will say tomorrow?)

You are quite correct about the initial exam being the no-no for driving afterwards. My eyes ache already from the thought of dilated exposure to the tropical sun. 

Thanks ever so!

6 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

More! More! I'm  a masochist...????

Since you ask, less ambiguous than "cuboid" is "rectangular cuboid", or, better, because more syllables, rectangular or  orthogonal  parallelepiped. ???? 

Thanks all, you've given me much to think on. Needing a driver for return is a bit scary since I was always able to drive myself after eye injections back home.

Thanks for the valuable info. It's interesting that Thais suffer less from the disease than Caucasians. I have reason to visit Bangkok and will check on both possibilities, but am prejudiced in favor the US-trained doctor.

Especially somewhere in Pattaya. I am just wondering if the injection treatments are available (and affordable),

Thanks

12 hours ago, Dmaxdan said:

I think the author needs to learn what a bikini is.... 

Not to mention brushing up on the meaning of "begs the question" as well as realizing that the sports team is the "Indiana Pacers", not "Indian". But then, the fight for the "proper" use of "begs the question" is long lost, and the profile of the Pacers here is a lot lower than that of most equally good football (in Pacerland soccer) clubs on this site.

14 hours ago, MrJ2U said:

Here's an example from Amazon USA to Thailand.

You may already know this, but others on this thread might not: the Amazon example lights you showed are not what most people would consider 100 watt equivalents. Incandescent 100W lights produce about 1600 lumens and these bulbs put out only 1450.

Since we're on the subject of eyes, anyone have the experience of treatment for wet macular degeneration while they were in Thailand? Which clinics have the instruments to detect it? And then there are the injections for treatment. If you have had it done, what were the costs? 

Reading about the Novak Djokovic visa kerfuffle in Australia I found striking the contrast with similar discussions about denied entry in these forums.

In particular, in these forums  one often reads in relation to such cases that entry to the country is entirely at the discretion of the relevant immigration officer and that being granted a visa is no guarantee of being allowed entry into a country. I don't deny either of these, but I find it interesting that neither comment has appeared in news/opinion articles (that I have read) in relation to this case.

Bing tells us "Djokovic’s legal team argued that border officials . . .  he did everything asked of him for quarantine-free travel." This sounds suspiciously like "you gave him the visa, so you have to let him in". Anyone one have an insight into how this claim could have prevailed? Or was typical lawyerly throwing as much as possible against the wall to see what sticks? Or is Australia just plain different in regard to letting folks in on visas?

3 hours ago, RobU said:

He probably  worked his way up to the naval rank of Captain (equivalent to the Army rank of Major)

As lopburi3 said, and Wikipedia confirms, in Thailand (as in many countries) the naval rank of captain is the equivalent of the army rank of colonel, one step below flag rank.

Since we are Asean Now, I can relate what I heard when I first went to work in Malaysia last century was that their naval ranks used the same nomenclature as the army, so then a naval captain was the rank between lieutenant and major. This came to an end after a Malaysian naval captain went on an official mission to England and was greeted at on arrival, as was appropriate by military custom, by a British naval captain. Shock, horror! Red faces all around. Malaysia adopted the more "normal" naval ranking system thereafter.

14 hours ago, MuuDaeng said:

Hardly any person under the age of 60 in normal condition has so far contracted a serious illness due to omicron.

"Fast-spreading omicron variant drives up pediatric hospitalizations in parts of U.S." (Headline from CBS News two days ago) seems to suggest differently. Such hospitals are finding a 400-500% increase in cases so far this winter. 

10 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Thailand doesn’t seem out of step with the Omicron madness! Epsilon will surely be next

The epsilon strain already exists. Nine letters follow omicron; the next up is pi. Might it be skipped as being too frivolous? Corona virus pie, yum yum. 

On 12/25/2021 at 7:59 AM, Jingthing said:

Well most small cities anyway.

Of course with no definition of "small" the statement is irrefutable. In my small city there no Thai restaurant but we do have two Chinese eateries and one Japanese. The nearest larger city also has no place to buy somtam. I doubt that they know what they are missing. 

https://medicpole.com/side-effects-of-longan-fruit-for-health

A few years ago I met a guy over 70 who was teaching two courses at AIT and two courses at nearby U, whose name I have forgotten. His specialty was aviation engineering. He said his monthly living expenses were covered by doing these jobs, leaving his pension for all the extras in his life. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

7 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

They only had 1300 odd responses, not reliable data from a population 54 million over 18 yr olds

 

A sample size of only 1068 from a population of 54 million is sufficient to produce results with a 3% error rate with 95% confidence.  See https://www.checkmarket.com/sample-size-calculator/ Large samples are not necessary. The only ways to question such a poll is to call into question the way the sample was selected and the way the questions were asked. For the small sample to provide reliable results, respondents must be chosen randomly. That's not trivial, especially when sampling a national population.

Thanks to all for the very illuminating discussion!

Having just received my first APEC card, it struck me that if I use it at arriving immigration, they might expect me to have a non-B visa, whereas I will be entering either visa-exempt or with a tourist visa. More generally are there any other consequences of entering using the card that one should be aware of? 

Thanks!

19 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Maybe we should make ASEAN NOW t-shirts emblazoned with “We Love You Yutthasak”

Luckily for potential members of a Yutthasak fan club, there is a ready made song (aplogies to any Bye, Bye Birdie" lovers out there):

We love you Yutthasak, oh yes we do;
We love you Yutthasak, and we'll be true;
When you don't speak to us, we're blue.
Oh Yutthasak we love you

15 hours ago, vandeventer said:

In my area a man in his 40's just died from the AZ vaccine.

That he died after getting the vaccine one can believe. That it was "from the AZ vaccine" is a claim that needs a lot of support. Consider the  article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc that talks about the relevant logical fallacy.