nanglong218

Sounds like esophageal varices (varicose veins on the wall of the food pipe) burst.  It's a major symptom of cirrhosis and a most distressing end.  My sympathies to this man and his loved ones.  RIP.

BTW is Sheryl still around?

Try soi 4, Moonshine Hotel

He could have survived that if his belt was worn properly.

I've seen quite a few lost semi-trailers in and around Melbourne. The drivers are not taught to tug test.

ie.   engage the fifth wheel, hear the release arm spring shut and, with brakes on the trailer,  jerk the unit/prime mover forward. If not properly engaged you'll lose it there with the legs down.

Thanks for the info Sheryl,   I've done more reading now. The difference in vaccines seems to be the choice of adjuvant. (A new word for me from Wiki which I shall drop into conversations whenever the opportunity arises.)????   I trust these three are easily available at reasonable cost.

I am also heeding your advice elsewhere that this is not a good time to visit LOS.   So, lots of food for thought.

I had a course of three Hep B jabs in Apr/May/ October 2019. Vax was Engerix-B (Adult dose).

In August  2021 general health blood tests revealed no Hep B infection, past or present. Most worrying it went on say "no evidence of immunity to HepB"

According to hepb.org I am a non-responder so should start another course with a different vaccine.       In Aug/Sept I had the first two jabs of HB-VAX 11 (Adult).   The third dose is due April 2022.       This vax has a short shelf life, must be kept refrigerated, not frozen, so you can't take it with you.  

Can I get this brand in Thailand?   I can wait a few extra weeks I suppose but after two years away stuck in Melbourne I really need a break.

I'm no builder so just  a straight answer please.   As nowadays there is no lime used in mortar or render is a mastic filled expansion gap necessary anywhere. It's just that SIL's house is 10 years old and badly cracked.

Going solely on what I would buy daily in the village.   Top is booze and cold drinks. Basic cooking stuff, fish oil etc.  3 in 1 coffee.  Sweets and crisps.  Soap and wash powder. Small selection of first aid stuff.

Some veggies, few are grown in the hard baked clay soil there.  Gas bottles.   Ice.

Perhaps that will get you going while you suss out your market, what  the locals want.  My village has three shops in 100 metres. They all sell the same stuff.

Good luck.

Suggest to a suitably qualified practitioner the use of Spironolactone.  It inhibits the body's use of testosterone so increasing the ratio of estrogen. Perhaps Sheryl has a view.  This is not a quick OTC remedy. a doctor would need to prescribe the correct dosage and supervise the course of treatment which reaches maximum effect after 3 months.  Google it for some initial knowledge.

OOps, eleven.  Never mind.  In no order.....

Excalibur

Casablanca

Saving Private Ryan

Paths of Glory

Michael Collins

Madagascar

The Hateful Eight

High Plains Drifter

Italian Job (1969)

Blues Brothers

A Bridge Too Far

Now I've started thinking about I could rack my brains for another eleven.

The fairies don't bring your favourite foods to the supermarket, a truck did it.

Remove them from the main roads and they will use the back roads.

Well, I saw this many times in my mechanic days.   The outer taper roller bearing on one of the rear axles has probably collapsed or its locking nuts come loose. This allows the hub, brake drum and wheels to slide off. This has caused many a fatality and that driver should buy a lottery ticket now.

I should add that if there is this risk the tow truck should lift the breakdown from the rear, tie off the steering axle wheels to keep it straight while towing.

I put in my application for extension due to Thai wife today at the Buriram IO.   Everything was in order. Next job is to turn up with a bank letter (100 baht last year, now 200) same as today's on 27th July to prove I still have the money, effectively tying up my cash for a total of 3 months, not 2.    I thought I had everything sorted but must now bring in more AUD at the current lousy rate.

51 minutes ago, ThaiFelix said:

$6,000?  Is this correct or do you mean 6,000 baht?

My wedding present to my stepson 18 months ago was AUD7000 to pay to bring his new bride to Australia.

I left UK in 2006, I drove for a living and would have gone mad without the BBC.    I am now officially one of Sir Tel's coffin dodgers, a resident in God's waiting room.  Even his traffic reports were hilarious from Bob Upandown and Les B. Avingyou.  Jeremy Vine at 12.   Radio 4,  Friday Night is Music Night, then the Now Show, then Any Questions.  Saturday morning, Any Answers.   Humphreys and Paxton,  tigers.

Historically, Kenneth Horne was a Sunday afternoon must.  I was much too young to understand Julian and Sandy, their Polari (bona palone?) and innuendos, only their catchphrase.  But now, as I try to grow veg on this Isaan clay I know that "the answer lies in the soil".

Try Victoria, Australia,   same lack of lane discipline but undertaking doesn't seem to be an offence there while  2km over the speed limit and you're nicked.   They don't signal OFF roundabouts either.  In France you'll be handed a big on-the-spot fine for lane hogging.  You've just got to go with the local flow or bust a blood vessel.

By page 20 this may have been covered,   but anyway.  In Oz before the last Ashes series the ABC wondered if it was racist to refer to the English as Poms/Pommies.     The response was "give them the full title,  Pommy Bastar ds"     And everybody fell about laughing.

I am talking about myself now, I have no criticism of anyone else's view of their old age.

My parents died aged 73 and 74. Both went out like lights, both mobile and knew nothing about it. 

In my town in Australia, similar UK, is an old folks home where people stare at the wall or sing 1930/40/50s songs from their youth. 

 I can't imagine my age group singing Rod Stewart's "Maggie May"  as a bunch of toothless oldies.

OK, I'm lucky, some loony in an SUV could mangle my legs tomorrow.  I am fully mobile, physically and mentally.

But now at 67 I have thought about the endgame very often.   

My Thai stepdaughter works in age care in that home. The thought of someone that age and beauty wiping my backside is not an option.   A friend's grandmother died one day after failing to climb the stairs to the loo and soiled herself in the hallway.  Although in reasonably good health the humiliation flicked the off switch in her head. 

I'm too bossy and in control to accept full time care.  When the time nears I'll have a plan.

As they say.........  old age is only for the brave.

1 hour ago, Dick Crank said:

this is a problem that requires solutions, not psychoanalysis.

Your solution being....?