DrPhibes

20 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Coming to a town near you soon

 

You beat me to it!  Had already downloaded the same pic just from the post title!!! 

In BKK leaving in a few days for the US, live in CM.  Spent 2 days trying to find a booster here in BKK but because I had 2 Pfizer's, the hospitals and innoculation centers would not give me one but now I'm hearing people in CM with 2 Pfizers are getting boosters.  There is just no consistency in any of this. 

So I got my Chem Eng degree at UCSB after a previous Chem and Medical Techn degree at another college so old enough to go out by then while at UCSB.  I used to go to the local strip place (Spearmint Rhino) in Santa Barbara every once in a while and ran into this looker stripping to topless who said she was putting herself through Mechanical Eng Grad school at UCSB.  Ya, sure, I'm thinking until I actually ran into her at UCSB in the Mechanical Eng building, she recognized me but I did not her (I need to start looking up more often) and laughed.  I realized then who it was and we actually had a beer later (but that's it).  The best part was, there is a nude beach (More Mesa) not far from campus where I ran into her again au naturel and no <deleted> said, "well now I've seen everything!" without thinking and that led to a huge burst of laughter from both of us.  Had I not been seriously dating a Chinese girl that skipped 3 grades, had the nickname "wine vat", number 2 dancer at Cal Poly SLO, graduating a normally 6 yr program in 3.5 yrs, and was just as motivated between the sheets....

1 hour ago, mtls2005 said:

 Pfizer booster is +5 months now in the U.S.

 

Look up. Earlier post, QueQ, Vaccination Centers, big red arrow is Thai-Japan Stadium in Din Daeng.

 

 

 

 

Tough to keep up when things changing daily all over the world.  Thanks for the heads up!

Over a million Moderna doses just arrived a couple of days ago.  Anyone hear of walk in boosters in Bangkok?  Leaving to the US in 6 days and they have a 6mo policy before you can get a booster and I'm only 4 months in from my second Pfizer.  Thanks in advance!

Some of my friends are rocket scientists and more ????  Trying to get the skinny on what exactly is the bottleneck holding up Raptor engine production for Musk.  I think there is a design flaw in one of the pumps due to an alloy choice for the pressures involved but I'm still waiting to hear what exactly.  It might be the last straw for Raptor V1 and now just on to V2 which is easier to build but facilities not ramped up yet for it leading to costly delay.  No such thing as an ex-Marine or Engineer!

Wow, when the advertisements said Viagra could wake the dead, this is not what I thought they meant! I want to make sure that after all the defib attempts fail trying to save me, I want Viagra straight into the heart (and a bit left over for naughty bits should I survive).

'nuf said...

4 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

If I did not absolutely have to make this trip to the US to settle estate business and such I would be staying and not leaving next week with a return in February.

 

Hopefully I do not get stuck outside and can return, even if I have to quarantine here.  At least the US is not forcing me to isolate and quarantine upon arrival.

I'm right there with ya buddy, I leave in 9 days and come back beginning of May (US tax business) so hope all this sorted out by then.  Don't want to be shut out as I was a couple of years ago where I had to wait until the end of August to on a repatriation flight to get back to my family.

On 1/3/2022 at 11:09 AM, jacko45k said:

That is not a quote from me! Some other hound!

Sorry, bad copy and paste on my part.

17 hours ago, jacko45k said:

My story:

 

I had a lady friend over for drinks on 25 December. She is now in quarantine for Covid. 

 

I had a lady friend visit me at a pool villa on 27 December. She is now in the hospital for Covid. 

 

I guess my 5 vaccinations were effective. 

 

Dunno, sounds like you are a super spreader!

That's what the girls said with a glint in their eye!

10 minutes ago, HAPPYNUFF said:

Unless my Chinese calculator is wrong,  adding  up the  numbers given here comes to  109,801  arrivals..... What was the nationality of the missing  141,194   from the total of   251,00   quoted, or is  Tourism Thailand using an even  older  Chinese calculator??

Ya beat me to it.  So the top 10 countries were less than 43.82% of arrivals, who else?  If you take the roughly 90 (if that) other countries able to get in, that comes up with abut 1,500 per country.

7 hours ago, Gsxrnz said:

In another thread I offered to eat my flip-flops if 2022 incoming tourists reach 2 million.

 

I'm raising the stakes and am now offering to slam my personal appendage in a car door - repeatedly.

I usually just pop a Cialis or Viagra for that, but hey, to each his own!

25 minutes ago, kimamey said:

Much of what you say is true but the last time I wore a mask on a plane I don't remember anything like suffocation. A human will expel far more air than can be contained in a mask so most will exit the mask and air of similar composition to that which you would normally inhale if you weren't wearing a mask will pass through the fabric of the mask and into your lungs. It might be restricted compared to not wearing a mask  but you won't suffocate. The air in a plane is constantly changed and filtered as well.

There are recommendations now of wearing 3 masks now further restricting breathing.  The serious devices that cover your whole head and have breathing valves on them are banned on most flights.

I expect to get a rash of sh-t for what I'm going to say but stay with me please.  I do not condone kids being sold into sex.  Sex (especially in Thailand) is a very flexible thing.  Legal age of consent has fluctuated though out history for different countries but was generally accepted as when the young lady begins having her period in old and, only relatively recently in history, given an age.  In the US, in 1800, it was as low as 10yrs old in some states (7 in Delaware).  True, times were different as in not living longer than 50 yrs old probably played a part.  Even Romeo and Juliette was between a 16yr old boy an a 13yr old girl.  I had  3 girlfriends who were VERY together people who were jilling-off at 10 and giving B"J"s at 11/12 in the late 70's in the US (when social moral standards were much more lax despite the law- which was only used as last resort at that time).  Nobody forced them, it was just the way their libido developed and it was understood as such, it's not on a calendar everyone.  One of them still dances a bachelor party every now and then seeing it as well paying adult sexy fun and expected at such a gathering.  She is an aerospace engineer.  I have had several underage girls approach me for their first experience when I was younger but had to turn them down despite being a potentially healthy experience for them on their sexual journey to who they are, due the serious ramifications of the law (now even more potentially dangerous decades later, see all the US lawsuits for something that happened 40 years ago).   In the 50's and 60's in the US, it was expected that you drove off to "make out hill" with your BF in your middle teens as a girl, where every other teen couple was going to do the same in town.  The rule for most parents was, if she gets pregnant, you bought it, and the law would be called in only if you did not do the right thing.  Now, for the same behavior and caught, your branded as a sex criminal for the rest of your life (poor kid).  I don't write this to condone what this guy has done at all, I find it disgusting.  I am just putting out as an observation that the positive human developmental experience is not all about laws.

4 hours ago, giddyup said:

On 12/24/2021 at 10:03 PM, DrPhibes said:

About 9 inches worth...

 

Width or length?

It's not a traffic cone don'tcha know.   The old saying "Give her 10 inch, and she'll make ya smile!" comes to mind.

Any quarantine if coming from Chiang Mai to Samui if 2 vaccinations?  Thanks in advance.

On 12/14/2021 at 3:47 PM, KhunBENQ said:

And don't forget to have 250'000 Baht at hand.

(~6700 EUR, 7500 USD, 5700 GBP)

 

https://www.bumrungrad.com/en/packages/water-vapor-therapy

 

It's not quite easy to find prices for self paying patients in other countries.

In the US, Resume treatment is down to about $2000, reverse medical tourism?

2 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Not correct. Two months prior and one month after you apply, until you receive the extension (which might not be exactly a month and the date they give you - wait for their call to you). The latter is not, apparently, in the rule book but is required by many immigration offices.

I actually applied 45 days in advance (Chiang Mai) for my second extension based on a non-O marriage visa.  They still made me wait a month after the expiration of the 1st extension (when you can touch your money) so my 400,000 has now sat long enough to turn into Kim chi.

3 hours ago, Phil Wheal said:

I was just asked for passport and Thai Pass for my Air Asia flight from BKK to Phuket 10 days ago. 

I am assuming showing the Thai Pass was for the C-19 inoculation confimation?

4 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

The 60 day extension to visit wife would only take you through till ~ May 3.

You already have the non O.

Personally I would stick with your plan of 12 month extension.

Cost of extensions is 1900 baht.

Perhaps consider also obtaining a reentry permit. That way you could reentry Thailand in that 12 month extension period.

If timed correctly you could obtain another extension.

And the cost of the re-enty pemit?

About 9 inches worth...