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17 hours ago, save the frogs said:

 

I don't categorically define McDonald's as junk food anymore.

When I'm on the go I will grab some burgers, remove the bread, avoid the fries and coke and just eat the meat. 

I don't consider ground beef on its own junk food. 

 

What makes you think that's ground beef?

On 12/5/2023 at 2:36 AM, Jingthing said:

Understood.

I considered putting this in the US forum, because for Americans estimating your life expectancy well is a really big deal (financially) in deciding what age to start your social security benefits.

The U.S. male life expectancy is low due to murders, suicides and accidents. So that if you can avoid the unusually high numbers of those 3 in America, your life expectancy will be considerably higher.

On 11/4/2023 at 12:51 AM, connda said:

Make sure to bring your Bluetooth speaker with you so you can drown out their puny little smartphone speakers.

I was thinking the same thing. They have small, powerful ones that can fit in your pocket.

1 hour ago, 1happykamper said:

Tragic and disturbing on many levels. 

 

I think it's a criminal offense in America to not help in such situation.... 

 

 

No, it is not. I've seen worse in America. Old man hit by a car and lay in the road dying. Not only did nobody help him, 3 guys robbed him. 

This is messed up politics but is this Pita guy so stupid that he is going to get disqualified for the same thing the last guy was disqualified for? He should have known not to have anything even remotely wrong with anything he is involved in so they couldn't do this to him. What could possibly have been so difficult that he couldn't SELL the shares before the deadline. 

On 5/20/2023 at 9:33 AM, Neeranam said:

Huh? 

I lived in the city, where most are well educated. 

If you have relatives in the poor countryside, you can listen to them if you want, they don't realize they were bought. 

Typical elitist comment who believe they are better than other people because they are poor. You should always keep an open mind to the fact that you could be wrong. 

I have a pool at my house just outside of Udon Thani and we put a roof over it and in the hot months it's perfect but a little cold in the cold months but I don't really need the pool in the cold months and it is only for a very short period of time. I can still swim okay in the cold months but the Thais cannot, they freeze. Even my granddaughter, who loves the pool, can't really go in. What I really like is, during the really hot months, when you really need the pool, the water is cool and refreshing.

I voted against but as far as Thailand is concerned there is no stopping cashless payments in Thailand. The general population in Thailand won't complain, they just don't have it in them, and the ones that do, well, they won't be able to buy anything. Thailand is not a democracy and it is not a free country so this will happen as long as the government of Thailand insists on following in the footsteps of China. 

Liberty and privacy has lost or is currently losing in every country around the world and people appear to, generally, be okay with it. You can see the defeat in a lot of these comments. Considering the horrific atrocities visited on humankind by governments and large corporations in history, the general acceptance is astonishing.

But the acceptance is there and it is real so good luck to everybody.

Are these the new boosters? The old shots are useless.

14 hours ago, Celsius said:

Worst value on the entire planet.

Agreed. When selling land or a house I think Thais just make up the price based on how much money they dream of having someday. 

10 hours ago, ozimoron said:

Here is a prediction for Darwin, Australia which is on a similar latitude as Bangkok. Bangkok can expect to same the same sort of changes.

 

Predictions for Darwin, in northern Australia, suggest an increase in days with temperatures above 35℃ from 11 days a year in 2015 to an average of 43 days under the mid-range emission scenario (IPCC’s RCP4.5 scenario) by 2030 and an average of 111 (range 54-211) days by 2090. Under the higher emission scenario (IPCC’s RCP8.5), an average of 265 days above 35℃ could be reached by 2090.

 

https://theconversation.com/climate-explained-will-the-tropics-eventually-become-uninhabitable-145174

 

Seriously ugly: here’s how Australia will look if the world heats by 3°C this century

 

At 3℃ of global warming, Australia’s present-day ecological systems would be unrecognisable.

 

https://theconversation.com/seriously-ugly-heres-how-australia-will-look-if-the-world-heats-by-3-c-this-century-157875

 

 

On a more positive note, 0% of predictions from these alarmists come true.

12 hours ago, Gecko123 said:

This isn't a debate about what is causing climate change. Irrespective of what you may or may not believe is causing it, the climate IS changing. The question is what impact this will have on inflation.

The problem isn't climate change, the problem is all of these supposedly advanced countries not transitioning to clean energy in a smart and efficient way. They all are trying to kill anything driven by fossil fuels way, way before the clean energy replacement is viable. This lack of an intelligent transition plan is causing problems world wide, one of which is inflation but it is and will continue to cause more short term and long term problem because these supposedly intelligent people, not, are going to continue with there slash and burn policies with regards to fossil fuels without any intelligent transition plans to renewable energy. 

This incredible stupidity is going to cause a lot of unnecessary pain and suffering worldwide but the advanced economies don't really care because most of the deadly pain suffering will happen in the less developed world. 

From the little details in the article it seems the parents were actually to blame for the whole fiasco. Too bad the poor kid has morons for parents.

12 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Keep on upping the prices without any modern infrastructure and you'll soon find yourselves priced out of the market you operate in. 

They are already priced way out of the market they operate in. There are many, many places nicer and just as beautiful that are either the same price to much cheaper to visit and enjoy. Thailands natural beauty has been nearly completely destroyed, so I am not sure what there is to see anymore.

Of course you can get that bottle filled. We do it all of the time in Udon Thani. The one we use is in the back of a gas station. They sell the gas for cars in front and they fill the gas bottles around the back. Just Google map it, should be able to find one.

The interval between second shot of Pfizer and first booster is 5 months in America. Just a guess but I think they are going to change that soon to only 4 months.

13 minutes ago, Pond Life said:

There should be a 4th option in the poll.

 

4. The governments of the world will continue to make it a problem long after the dangers have been proved to be overblown.

Yes, this one.

1 hour ago, GinBoy2 said:

Well we've been around and around on this one for years.

 

Tourist visas for single Thai women are notoriously hard.

 

The dirty rotten truth, often forgotten, is that the US is home to the largest Thai expat population, many of which come here on tourist or temporary work visas then never leave.

 

That very fact colors the CO's thinking when he/she is presented with an applicant.

 

I wish I knew what the triggers are, but none of us do for sure. 

 

Years ago my wife, then long time gf applied for a tourist visa to visit my daughter who had just had a baby. 

 

We're close in age, professional woman, letter from company granting leave, property, money in bank. I thought we checked all the boxes. Denied of course!

 

I rationalized it, that the CO thinking was that when we got to the US we'd marry then try to do an adjustment of status to bypass the normal immigrant process.

 

So no real constructive advice, since none of us really can advise, but many of us can appreciate the frustration.

My current wife was denied for the exact same reason before we were married. The CO flat told her that and that she needed to get the correct visa, which was a fiance visa, according to him. Perhaps if we, in the U.S., bothered to enforce the immigration laws that we have this wouldn't be a problem. 

On 11/19/2021 at 7:01 PM, Eric Loh said:

If she registered late, she in the back of the queue. That simple. My GF got her shot early Nov because she was diligent to register and pay early. Can’t keep blaming the system if you don’t do your part. 

A lot of places have just started giving out the Moderna shots and they will take a while to get to everyone who signed up. These people didn't register late that's just the way it is. I fully understand the restrictions in say, the U.S.A. because everybody could have gotten the vaccine by now but in Thailand that is just not true and would be completely unfair. Think of it this way, if those Pfizer doses hadn't been donated to Thailand with the stipulation that x number go to foreigners a whole lot of you all on this forum would not have gotten vaccinated either.