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Well, at least they are letting People that already have their TP's, ... and flights booked, and the 24hr Hotel and test booking required to get it, in. .... ... Though the TP only lasts 3 days that have told me !!! ..... So SIA Cancels ADL to BKK ??? ..... Well then just move to the next available Flight !!! ??? ... and keep my Fingers crossed that my Pre Flight test come back in Negative !!! ... ( Well just at the moment just Post opening up around here, .... Lets hope that I do not Die in the que, waiting to be tested !!! ... and then it does COMES BACK !!! in time ... ) ... And I wonder what the requirements would be just to do the Extended Quarantine ??? ... After just a Brief look at the Thai Embassy site in Canberra it does not look to bad ! ... ? ... https://canberra.thaiembassy.org/ ... ... ??? Reviewed by 4th Jan ??? ... If you already have a TP ... then You just have to take an extra PT-PCR test some time after the first one and it says for free at a government facility. ... ??? So it says ? And you can rebook ? ... Well submit an application ? if you just apply for one using the required stay in an ASQ Hotel ??? ... and it looks like 10 days required ? .... ... Though keep your fingers crossed it gets changed to only 7 for fully vaccinated People ??? ... Maybe I guess ??? So, ... Good luck with it. If you want to come back, ... Well I would still book the pass with the 10 days ASQ. ??? So, ... ... .... Still Coming !!!! ... And Wish Me Luck !!!!!! ... Mark mark

Yes, looks like someone wants to win an Election ? or even the Leadership !!! .... No wars to start ? So just lock down the country again ??? ... ??? ... ... Yes, my Plans will be buggered again !!! .... But well, I just hope that they can give us the chance to extend our 1 day stay in AQ, into, just a bit more ! ? Say 7 days, if triple jabbed, like if you have had a booster shot, with in the last 5 months ??? ... Like technically cutting the chase, ... this IS the most positive way of trying to avoid Crashing the Hospital system I think ??? .. And like the guy who said that Tourism will be also buggered d/t the Uncertainty introduced, he was pretty much right on also ... The just total Uncertainty, is what is the real Killer when you get old, and realize that you ARE going to die some times !!! Right ??? And what are the statistics ? ... Not many Tourists ? ... and a LOT of Long stayers .. (Like me and some unfortunate others on this post) !!! coming back to their Families !!! ... So well, they probably are seeing this, so are just turning the handle again !!! .... In search of that elusive ... Golden "Sophisticated Traveler" ... (Who spends a REAL LOT of money !!! Right ???) ... ... Well I will come any way, ... if I still can, ... and just do the extra Quetenite. ... I am going to go Stire Crazy if I stay here in Gods Own Waiting room (SA) in Australia, much longer !!! ... Wish me Luck. ... And good luck to the rest of you also. ...

What about natural selection ? Like the variants, that let their hosts Live, and do not kill them, ... So it will have more chance of Reproducing, ... and then Infecting more People ! ? So it will become the dominant strain ! ? .... Where as the ones that Kill their hosts, will not ??? ... Just in Interest ??? ... Like I did hear that the Flu Virus started off VERY bad, but has just Mutated down to it's present less deadly State ??? (Like really only a threat to Old people whose Bodies are just about at the end any way ???) ... ... Like if CV 19 does this that WOULD be very Good ? (Not kill Old people but Mutate down in to a lot less deadly Disease ???? I would hope !!! ??? .... And also a better way of looking at it all also ???? ... JFTQI ??? .. Like cultivate the less deadly Strains, ... and then open our societies all back up !!!

Hang In There Rooster !!! ... My People up country ... Well just a bit Up country, physically, … have parties now, and do not even seem to be wearing masks anymore !!! ??? ... (Though do not quote me on that one ??? –Right !!! ) ... but all are now looking very VERY Happy !!! … Like the War, is Really over !!! ??? … I think that things ARE improving just from the point that the Governments now know !!! that just closing the borders is NOT going to work !!! … And just make things Worse !!! ... Like even the thick as two short Planks, Dodge ex-convict, Bogan Australian political, so called Elite ? (Ex-used car salesmen who found a more lucrative scam !!! ??? ) are starting to realized that now. ... … So the general awakening that we basically are going to have to live with this ? ... … is a very good feeling, that I think is now just starting to settle in !!! … So well there ARE blue skies ahead I think. ... And the Virus itself is playing ball also I think, ... like the potential of a new Variation of it that is Much More infectious, … but a lot less Deadly !!! ...This is actually very good !!! … Like we now should just let it rip, … and have the less deadly strain take over the whole world !!! … And then we ALL will be a LOT better off. !!! … Like logically if you were a Virus ... that likes living, and transmitting between humans, … you would NOT really be a very intelligent one of you just killed you Host, the Human beings as fast as possible !!! ... Like the silly ? Ebola Virus ... which is easy to control as it kills it's host before they can spread it very far !!! Unlike clever HIV Aids, which is a much more smart Virus, as it lets it's host live on for years, …. and go on to infect millions more people with it's babies !!! ??? ... Right .... … So well also genetically and by Natural selection ... a very infectious Virus, that does NOT kill it's host !!! … Should be the Strain that becomes Universal ? ... Under natural selection also !!! … Right ??? So well the new strain, … if it IS more Infectious but les Deadly !!! Well Hoorahhh !!! this would be the best news we have actually got in nearly 2 years now I think !!! (Like … Thanks Rooster !!! as Always …. Mark mark ... Mm ... Motor Mouth !!! ... or key board Mm now !!! .... Might even be able to get back Home, to the land of Smiles again soon also !!!) ... With a good supply of Masks also, … and well triple jabbed as well !!! ... )

Yes, the Thais have ? I think, ? also made it OK, in this TP website also I think ? ... (If it works for ME ! any way, as I am still waiting) ... but to specify the Documentation to be in simple .jpg format, not only saves space, but also lets people who do not have any larger computing and scanning / Printing facilities, just to photograph their documents with their Phone ? ... and then submit them on that ??? I guess??? ... Like making it more accessible to people who have limited Computing facilities and those who are traveling also ??? I guess ???

Yes, we have had a LOT of those, short skirt Dancing Girls +++ now usually wearing a LOT of Feathers !!! … and tall head dresses ? … as well as Tights in their scanty areas, ... and well it never fails to impress me seeing them setting up the stage, that in Some of these troupes, the ? Dancing School girls ? making a bit of Cash, on the weekend ??? … Sometimes also build the stage ! and put up a lot of the Infrastructure !!! … Like Who needs Roadies, when you have a good and healthy Bunch of young Dancing Thai, Maidens, … who also can pick up and carry things, like trusses, and lighting booms amps and boxes around as well !!! ... … The men still do the Climbing though, and the Audio and Electrics I think. ... And well, they also dismantle and pack up the whole lot also ... a “Bump out” in theatrical terms !!! (Having done a few when I was young) … so well, I guess that "Bump In" is to set it up !!! Yes Funerals, very hands on so to speak in Thailand ... I often get to help put the Decrease in to the new Diesel fired crematoriums !!! … If I know them !!! ... and well once got to take the Body soaked favored positions of an old woman, that I also was quite close to (Yes her Daughter was a Real beautiful and Dark, Smasher !!! Who I never have forgotten !!! And well her Daughters also who both both in their 30’s now, still very beutifull !!! But with their own kids now !!! … Like Life does, Go On !!!) …... … Yes, I had to pick up their grandmothers body fluids soaked things !!! … After then had been in the coffin with her body for several days now !!! … from where they went Splat !!! as the Funeral Director ? ... Threw them out of the Coffin !!! before it went in to the fire box !!! ... … like to say that Young Warn was bloody minded and Really Really Focused with his cane knife, and coconuts, as he got the bodies ready and then burnt them, would be a great understatement !!! ... Like he once showed me how to manage the burning of a corps ... so that .. .well yes you get the whole lot to BE burnt !!! Right ? ... and well 2 bottles of Lao Cow ... and I asked him the Poignant Question ??? "So Warn, where do you think we go when we die" ??? … and I got an evil smile and a laugh !!! …. As he pointed over to the Crematorium, and then up at the Chimney !!! … And then replied with the obvious answer of course !!! …”Up the Chimney” !!! ... Well wan is Dead now also .... (God bless the Land and men of Low Cow" ???) ... And yes we got the old ladies Favorite thing around the back of the Crematorium, and on to the small fire that had been build there !!! In time, so that they could be burnt at the same time (Plenty of kerro needed here as they were so soaked with Body fluids ... ) … so that they would arrive in Heaven ? Well where ever she was going !!! ??? … at the same time as she would !!! ... Yes her family WERE very happy that I had helped !!! … And were kid to me !!! … As I scrubbed and Scrubbed and scrubbed !!! in the Watts primitive toilets !!! … to try to get her Body juices off of my Hands !!! ... Like they knew !!! … and well they were so happy that I had helped ..AND touched her Body Juices !!! …. Like,…. I had just become part of their family also !!! …. and On On !!! recovering from Australia High Tech now !!! … Yes ... TP ..the Thai Pass !!! Only about a third year Uni level of Computer operation required and about 10 years on the job experience to do it !!! … Like re scan all of your documents as they have to be in .jpg format and not .pdf like most business people use ??? Like .jpg's take up a LOT less room I guess !!! So maybe see you all soon some times !!! though !!! ??? Still Fingers crossed and may Be ??? as it always seems to go in TIT. Mark mark !!!

I had a NON - O visa after being stuck here in Australia last Year, and they said that I could not enter the country with a NON O visa (At that time, ???) ... Like they said something like "Now they are not accepting NON O visas for entry to Thailand" ... And I saw men from the UK, with the same problem commenting on TV. back then also !!! .... and I was forced to get 440,000 THB insurance Policy .... ad the another NON O-A !!! ... Which I did ... But well the lock down went on and it has expired, and I now need another NON O-A that Now required the new 3 Million THB Health Insurance Policy required !!! ??? ... (Yes I have been left with NO polite words at all to describe this !!!)

Yes, all pretty sad Really. .... Just a link to another guy, who was about the best and most famous Painter in New York (And probably the world ?) in the 80's ... but he never could come to grips with ... Just being ? ? ... or being Treated ? ... like a "Black" ... So thay said on the wall, next to his most great paintings, ... at the end of his Exhibition at the Guenhimer in Bilbao, Basque Spain, in about 2016 I think ? ... Like I have probably waisted my Whole Life !!!! ... But I did not waist that day, when I went there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDh9PIYXa40 and ... If the first Link survives ? ... Not really being a TV. or other sort of legal posting expert ? my self ??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6LDKLAHzR8

Sorry Mike KIWI I did not realize you were dealing with Specifics and also N. Z. ... Yes You and us Australians do have this problem of Traditional Owners ? Still I think that you guys over there have sorted it out better ... So Far. ... but yes, as the Indigenous community gets back up !!! In Every Country !!! ... Yes it will be a hard situation to manage ... like my Old Mother says "It is not the Aboriginals Country, we took it, ...and we are not giving it back" .... Like she is 90 so no one takes much notice of her thought on that. ... (She is of Scottish Ancestry) .... But yes ... they the Indigenous ? Original Owners ? ... are NOT going any where ..so well, WE will just have to start getting used to dealing with them !!! .... But as you say !!! This could be very VERY Difficult and with out a good ending ... Like it IS basically TOO many Rats in the Box" !!! Over crowding, ..and not enough land, really to share, .... given the Human beings ? ... usual pentive of Greed. ... (Is Pentive the right word for that ?)

Depends where you are Borne I guess ? In a country with a predominantly White Government ? or a Brown or black one ??? ... Like take you Thai girlfriend to Malaysia and she will have a nice time ? ... Probaby. ? ... But well ? Vietnam ???? ... ????

Thanks Brother !!! Yes I am glad that you are still around also !!! ... Leave the Real, war, Real Tragedy for Hollywood to work with now mate !!! ??? .... No Too Many Rats in the Box" ... Over Population. Like the fact that even only 200 Years ago ? well, maybe 3 or 400 ... there actually were empty places in the world !!! .... But now there is NOT !!! ... Every where is owned by some one !!! ??? Even Ant Arctica ??? Right ??? .... And the Epidemic !!! .... Over crowding made it so possible !!! ... Like it always does. .... ... So The Rats pushing the right button for the water !!! ... Well that IS here also !!! ... Every thing with People serving is closing ... and we all are being forced to Push Buttons, on line to live now !!! and well even get in to Thailand. ! ? Right .... Yes the "Too Many Rats in the Box" that I was talking about was Over Population !!! ... Where the Rats get born on top of each other, and just react badly, and start killing each other !!! ... And Or an epidemic like CV 19 Wipes them all out !!! ??? ??? ... Thanks Tunnelrat ... (I am ? well actually was, a more Peaceful Tunnel Ratt you know, when I was a speleologist !!! ... A Cave Explorer, like the guys that helped rescue those Boys from the Stream Passage cave in Chang Rai !!! - Only with out an aqualung !!! ) ... Thanks Mate !!! nd have a nice Week !!!

Wow !!! Nice Man !!! AND OK !!! Thanks. ... Like as long as I do not sound like a Dead Man Walking !!! Right !!! ... Like YES, Mark mark MARK !!!! "NO Negative Soap Boxes" !!! Right Mate !!! ... Listening to Jimmie Buffit !!! and Thanks !!! (No negative Soap boxes !!! But unfortunately just now ... A ??? ... "Just too many Rats In the Box" situation ???) ???? Right ???

Well yes !!! If it only was that easy !!! .... Here in Australia ... "The Lucky Country" ??? You would just get ramped !!! ... left in the ambulance on the drive through, for several Hours !!! ... and a Nurse to increase your medication !!! (Which I am not on) !!! ... Well do not even think about it .... mental health patients ! Like real ones !!! Just get told to go home, or back on to the street, ... and wait !!! ... Like for 3 days !!! ... As the mental health beds are ALL just totally and chockablock full here !!! ... Like well ... just go back out and die out in to the street somewhere !!! ??? .... Like it is 8 Months delay to see a government provided Councilor !!! .... So well, God ! I hope that there really is NOT something wrong with you !!!... Like and you wonder why I might be just a little bit Anxious !!! being 66, ... and not actually owning my own house !!! Yes it is easy when you are young, and are never going to die !!! ... Riding on the roof of Trains and busses, India !!! ... Old Kashmire ... Climbed up to 16,000 Ft with a broken pair of sunnies held on to my face with a boot lace !!! and 2 pairs of socks on my hands as gloves !!! .... Fell of the House boat in to the river Jelum and well lost the fellows Bucket !!! but was luckily rescued !!! Liek "Charos Man" !!! ??? And I did the Khmer rouge plagued Batembang to Phnom pen only 9 hrs. late train, with the flat cat in front of the Loco, to trigger all of the land mines without taking the engine out !!! ... and half of the illegally cut tropical rain forest in the Carriage, and much more on the totally destroyed roof, which let the tropical rain in … and in our back carriage ... a motorized Jinker deposited there, filling the isle up to about the top of all of the seats !!! after it caught us up on a straight !!! … … With these 2 synchronized old women, telling me that I really should have gone in a Taxi !!! and not on the train ... and why "Well maybe be danger” ... and no one would sit with me, just to prove that they thought this also !!! ... Like they quite obviously did not want to get shot as well if the good Old KR Boys paid us a visit en Transit !!! ... But an Old man sang a song that basically was saying "Thank You For Coming" !!! ... only ever repeated by a woman, on the Basque train in northern Spain for me !!! ... "Thanks for coming to see our land" !!! ... And then a guy caught my face with his torch when they were unloading the wood, just outside of Phnom Pen, and shouts out "SPY" … and well yes !!! I got my head back inside the carriage Quick smart !!! ... Check point Charlie ? ... The Old East, ... Chalchescos Communistic Romania, ... sleeping out in a tent, ... hitched a ride with an American guy in a beat up old BM, who had driven down there, to rescue his cousin who was on a fake tourist trip !!! from the Old East, before the wall had come down !!!... ... As so many other East Germans were doing at that time, to the point that it was debatable whether it was Them ? or the Polish Solidarity ? ... or the Old ladies that stood in front of the tanks out side the Vilnus TV station, as they announced their independence, and then the Russian tankies, realizing that they had just crushed 12 Old ladies with Pitch forks and bits of wood !!! ... All decided that they would not be very popular that day, !!! ... So they just all went home, ... and then left Lithuania permanently !!! ??? ... Like the best Tourist spot in Vilnus except for the Frak Zappa memorial I suppose ..... Yes I wonder if it was that, that actually DID bring that very VERY Inhumane wall down !!! ... Like I nearly cried when I saw that happening !!! AT LAST !!! Yes And from Kass Yougoslavia, ... take him back through Austria and in to Asylum in Germany !!! … And well all over the old east at that time,... the Securetate did not Really know we were there, as well, I was with a Japanese, so they all thought that we were Gypsies !!! ... Right !!! ... Like I did all of that !!! ... and never thought that I was going to die !!! But now, I know that yes, I AM going to die ... Skin Cancer ? Brain Cancer ? Or a heart attack ? ... I will go for cancer I think ! ??? ... Yes, how many Old men leave Thailand when they are old, and start losing their health ! ? … Like it DOES happen to you, you know !!! ... If you live long enough to lose it, just slowly, I suppose .... ... How many of then actually just go back home to their own Home countries !!! ??? Like the Go Fund me ... sorry but, ...“Life was NOT, always that much fun” brigade !!! ... ??? … I reckon about 80% from the ones that I have seen do go home eventually ... if they can !!! ??? … So well I am still here … back at Home ... not in a wheel chair yet !!! … But well I had to buy a walker, that I really did not need !!! in order to get them to let me out of Hospital, when I DID Unfortunately end up in there ... and cheers Fellas, and have another one !!! ... …. But well Yes ALSO watch it !!! ... But I still want to get back in to Thailand !!! and have another go at it !!! … Hitch Hike all the way from Singapore up to Bangkok ??? … Well not anymore !!! ... It is really hot if you have to walk over the causeway right !!! ... And through the now urban sprawl of Malaysian towns !!! … Mark mark MARK !!!

Nice Rooster !!! You still can make a story out of Nothing !!! ... ... Like "Escape to South America" !!! What were you Thinking !!! ... They cut peoples hands off over there !!! Just to get their Watches !!! ... Like The American Dream !!! ... Gone Feral, out of control ! ... and just basically wrong !!! ... (With out even arriving at their religion !!!! ????) ... ... Yes and Good on you, for YES, once again finding something OK to say about and in Good Old Thailand. ... Good on you. ... And I would look forward to browsing you book ??? Still just loosing my mind, and out of control, ... and Patience !!! ... Stranded in Australia. ... Mark Mark ..MARK !!! .. (Like Hospital Cover to 3,000,000 THB !!! ... Yes the F' word !!! $2 or 3,000 ? AUD a year !!! if they will give it to you in the first Place !!! ... Like it makes 200B to see a Thai cave sound pretty cheap to me !!! !!!) ... I can just hear Bernard Trinks Ghost Laughing !!! as he roles over in his Grave !!! ... TIT !!! (If you have University qualifications, are a Computer Programmer, and top CEO, 35 and with a LOT of energy !!! ... So you can understand the Process and make the journey to be able to get back in there !!! .... The new Must have FUNDS !!! ... "Bogans, Exclusion" ??? ... (And Old People, who are not VERY Rich !) ... .... Erra has arrived ???

"In such situations I have always relied on my two serious advantages - firstly I am NOT Thai and secondly I can speak Thai quite well. I’ve read all the guidebooks about keeping your cool. But I always disagree in part because I am not Thai and never will be. The trick is to realise this is in your favor not detrimental to your righteous cause. Play up to it. I’m expected to lose my rag. When I do - in a controlled manner - and when I use language that is appropriate for the situation (okay a little fruity) I invariably get my own way. One of my favorites is to intimate that I am Thai (while obviously looking and sounding anything but) and claiming that "rao pen khon Thai duay gan" (we're all in this together). Thais in the vicinity are often on the verge of applause rather than critical. They won't actually clap by me! How they'd love to! They wish they could be me!! But they can’t, they have to be Thai. Poor old downtrodden them! Not my problem. Displaying a bit of controlled anger is a wonderful tactic and one that people expect of a foreigner. Don’t slip into the “it’s better where I come from” argument, however. Compare Thai with Thai. Like with like. No “Barclays is better than Bangkok Bank” or “Sainsbury’s is better than Lotus” - compare Thai banks with rivals and stores in Thailand with their competitors. Compare yesteryear's service with today's fiasco. Stick up for yourself. Even if your Thai language capability is not the best, that can actually be a side issue to insistence and good body language. " Yes ! Right on Rooster !!! ... Good Boots on the ground Common Sense here !!! and I will give Thanks from all those that might need a bit of advice like this !!! ... And have the humility to read and understand it. .... (Hopefully I will be able to get back in to the country a bit Easier pretty soon !!! ??? ... So that I then will be able to continue to use this approach my self.) ...

Yes Rooster !!! … "Thermae Coffee Shop - the old one" ... Yes I remember that one, with the just Great entrance way, past the Urinals, with the Guys <pissing> ... and the Girls right behind them, doing their hair by the hand basins, in the Mirrors ? … (Or well looking at who ? Or what was the … ? “Status” of the fellows using urinals behind them ??? I guess ? ) .... Then walk on through, … then turn right, Down the stairs, … turn left again, … past the Kitchen with all the cooks Cooking !!! … And then burst out in to the totally, Packed, and smoke filled Underground Coffee shop !!! (A Bit like in the “Good Fellows” Movie)… … “Thermaes Coffee shop” !!! … (Under the massage Parlor of the same name) … … And with quite obviously very little Ventilation !!! ... Like it reminded me of doing Smoke Diver training for off shore !!!! ... In their fire filled building mockuped Containers !!! …. … So walk around the room on the narrow walk way ! ... The girls all occupying the Booths !!! … So you had to choose one if you wanted to sit down !!! (If you could see them through the smoke !!!) ... The Keener ladies, out in the Narrow Isle, Almost, blocking your way … hoping to make an earlier score !!! ... And well, by 2 am I reckon, back in those old days, there would have been about 250 Girls there ... ALL unattached !!! … And about 10 Blokes, mostly at the bar, of which 1 was high, and 8 were only drunks looking for more booze after closing time !!! (Hence nor really all that much use to the 250 Woman ???) ... Yes R, … and that Doctors Clinic ? … That was that the one just up from Cowboy on the Soi 21 end wasn’t it ? … In an old Thai house … then I am sure is not there now ! ? … ??? Which specialized for the working Girls !!! … And well I always liked it, as it WAS a REAL effort of helping the Poor, and QUITE obviously so .... 10B for a check if you were a working girl ? … And 30 if you were a foreign man ! ? ... Humorously explained to me by the very Good Nurse Secretary there, … with "Well you have More Fun getting it”, (So you can pay more for your check ! Right ?) ... And how about the Great "Blue" seafood Restaurant, “See Far”? … To the East of Cowboy out on Sukhumvit, just about opposite Soi 22 (Soy Yip Song) … Where they Wacked the bottom of the soda bottles, so the caps all flew off and over the fence ... … and where huge flames would come roaring out of the 3rd floor window, … where the Kitchen was !!! … As like the whole <Deleted> place was on Fire !!! ... But the best sea food and most reasonable in town !!! Right ! … … And back in Thurmos (Or “The Terminator” as my Swedish Buddies used to call it) ... The "Nice" Daughter, from the local family Thai food shop, in Soi 22 half way along, by Don Tong Larn ! ... Yes quietly and alone, standing down near the door, and the cigarette Machine (There obviously to help create more smoke in the unventilated place Right !!!) ... The Family Daughter, from where I used to eat when back at home there in Don Tong Larn, … Who well I always liked meeting her, as, as soon as she saw me coming, … she would run away … as well .. She was a “Nice” Girl !!! And was not supposed to be there right ! ? …. !!! … Like THIS sort of Local thing, was just Great Really … as it moved Sex … Out of the Prostitution category, for me … and in to the Just having fun one !!! ... Yes Cowboy, and the terminator in the 80's .... And do you remember Somboon in Thermaes ??? … The very kind Waiter, I knew him there in the 80's … and a very nice man ... AND I still saw him STILL working at the new Place, in about 2015 !!! … Like working every night in Thurmos … For 30 Years !!! ... And still sane !!! Like How many Cop Owned Underground bars anywhere in the world .... Would have waiters working for them … For 30 Years !!! .. Like this all really was ...."Only in Bangkok" Stuff !!! I thought ? .... (Well he probably was one of the owners of it by then right ??? TIT ??? … NO all, ..TIBKK ... This is Bangkok !!! … Like the second longest Time, that I have known another man in Bangkok … and he was a Waiter from Thermos !!! Har Har … … And also the nicest and best Value food after hours in the whole town also I think … like a real, ..”Well at least the Cops are good for something” Place !!! ..Though yes, now just a line up for the Japanese !!! … Still Somboon does not seem to be too worried about that … still looking almost the same as in 83 !!! Almost !!! Like it always makes me wonder how physically working nights only !!! In a place like that for 30 Years would do to you !!! But well Somboon looks just, Quite Normal !!! .. Like yes … Only a Thai !!! And a Bangkok, Bangkok, Bangkok One at that !!! … It makes me think of New York ??? … A little bit I guess …. Though I have never been there ???

Yes Rooster !!! Very Nice Parking !!! ... Lucky he did not hit any thing !!! ... Nice Vid !!!

Ptt used to have mostly Burmese working in it's drive way, but last time I was there it had swung back to more Thai, ... but our a bit more distant local Caltex, and a different new, Ptt near it ALWAYS has Burmese ??? ...

Well, politically any way ? ... Skin color equality, .... Like they might all want to be Light skinned, but well socially I think that they all know ... and think, ...and treat each other the same. ??? ... Yes I might be racist ? !!! as I dislike the Chinese and their White is Beautiful, and Black is bad attitude !!! ... And I live with a Dark Skinned woman, an Ahyuttahyan, and they all are pretty dark around there .... and I have traveled all across Asia with her ..so I do know. ... Malaysia Lao and Cambodia ...OK .... Vietnam and Singapore ? ??? Questionable re skin color, .... and Thailand yes ... So So ... Ok, as many of the so called upper class like running Down the poor, and calling them Prostitutes Right ??? Even if most of their men use them. ...

Well what a Nice Story of your times with your wives and Family in England Rooster !!! Nice one !!! … I am a bit late here, but I do try to read all of your Stories, ... me being an Antipodean, but well, following your life in BKK, … The Big Rotten, Apple ??? Right ... Has always been very poignant for me ! …. Though I never could have succeeded as you did, as a teacher, and then a writer. Yes, I went to England also when I was a lot younger, ... Eventually, after wearing myself out in Scandinavia, Germany, Greece, Romania Hungaria, and Eastern Europe, (Before the wall came down) and Turkey !!! … Like I was determined not to follow the "I Come from the Land Down Under" Lot, … as I saw it ... (You hardly ever saw them in Main land China right, on the way to Europe … but well Look down at foot level !!! … As a train speed past .... and Spot the Thongs!!! Right ?) ... … Yes, London WAS really good when I eventually got there !!! … And it was summer also which as I am sure you would agree WAS a very good Plus as well ! ... and I shared a Flat in the Worlds End Estate ? ... Down in Kings Road I think ? Chelsea ... Like watch it in the lifts, or getting to them !!! Right !!! … But well ... ??? UK, ... UK, ...UK, like the NEW UK ??? … Right ! ? ... … I was living with a Libyan, who I had picked up a connection to in the Grasshopper basement Hash Cafe in Amsterdam ... "Tell Hammed that he can send my Trunk Over now" ... Right ! ? That was the message that they had asked me to take to him, when they gave me his address and said that I could probably stay there !!! ... And all the Libyans in Amsterdam seemed to be working in the airport there, … with the Catering suppliers !!! ?? .. Very sues right ??? … But well ??? To be quite honest … and after some months in Amsterdam, … You know … drag yourself out of bed with bleary eyes at the old last watering hole ? … … at 11 a as the musical clocks all go off in turn !!!... And say ..."Oh well, … I will Leave Tomorrow" !!! … Like for a month or two. ... … (And Tricky Teddy, from Northern Ireland … with a Union Jack tattooed on his leg, .. and 13 or was it more ... Arrests and cups of tea in the Local Dutch police station !!! One while I watched them push him, cuffed out of the hostels door !!! ... Hunters Bar, and Jodie John, and his wife over at the squat, …. And Quiet honestly … as dodge as they ALL were .... I really would not like to say which side that they actually were all ON !!! ??? !!! (Like how could people that smart !!! be living in such <deleted>ty circumstances ??? Right ???) … (And possibly even Jordie John as well ???) … But well then I ended up in London !!! ... Living with Hammed ??? On Whistlers walk, in the worlds end estate, on Kings Road ? Chelsea isn't it ... "So therrrs Arrabs un tiss Towwwn" ... Yes we went to a lot of Pubs, and Hammed did his best ... though well, … he never was totally Ignored !!! .. Like he was a "Berber" he said,…... from West Libya ??? … And more related to the Moroccans, … than to Gadhafi’s Arab Buddies in the Centre and East ???? ... … Yes London !!! … And I loved it also !!! ... And Thanks Rooster, Once again. .. Your story is about as close to my Great experience there, in the sun !!! That I can remember also, and Thanks a lot for that Mate.

Yes ! at least they do not discriminate against Dark Skinned people in Thailand. ... ... Yet ??? .. The whole world changing pretty fast Now, and often not to the best just at the moment I think ??? ... Just verbally.? Right ??? or On Line !!! ???

Yes keep the Good Rambling coming Rooster !!! ... Things so bad that it is hard to give the usual awards out at the end of your Pieces !!! ??? ... Like "The Most Depressing" ? or "Most messed up" ? or "Biggest (But quite obvious) disasters this week !!! ... All very good Non Starters right !!! ??? ... I had better just ignore it all, .... and get back to the Thai Embassy web site, and just keep on drooling about NON O-X ... Five year Visas. ??? ... Less dramas with renewals ? .... of insurance ? ... Bank account statements, ? and at the Immigration Department ??? ... Every thing else being pretty handleably, and even the Epidemic I think ... ... Thai's still being pretty good at Dealing with these things I think ??? ... From a Local Point of View any way ??? ... There being a cluster <Deleted> all over the world just now, ... and it is STILL getting worse I think ??? Just about every where ! ... So would I get the "There is a Cluster <Deleted> all over the world ... If you had not noticed " award now ??? Still ... "We shall See" ... as the Russians would say. ( And I would be pretty Much More <Deleted> off with the Idiots cutting down those beautiful Old Trees In ??? Puke Et ? Or was it Pattaya ??? ... Both places Beaches, being Disasters waiting to happen so it would seem ???)

Yes !!! Good Brother Rooster ! … " It is doing my head in also !!! " …. This present very <deleted> situation World Wide also !!! (Germany … At the other end of the world is in their 4th wave also and so fed up they are not locking down again, so my friend there says !!! ??? And he is wondering what will happen this time ? … Like how long will the borders be closed again ? ... And how many Deaths included in that also I suspect ??? …. And I am still struggling, .... Outside the Country !!! ... Just what a Total tragedy for the whole world. Yes well R, you last week’s “Drugs Alcohol and LOL” was it ? Exposé was OK also … But well the Disaster WAS creeping in here ... as Disasters do, like they build up outside your door !!! … Like a Flood !!! ... And just start coming in, under the door, just to start off with !!! … And though I was going to comment on your “Alcohol is worse than the Drugs, that they are on about” (Or similar) comment as it IS true !!! I could not, as I WAS just too fried by it all. … And well I still am !!! ... But just soldiering on … As we ALL have to right R ??? … Like as Alcohol is so socially accepted to even revered !!! … So well you start losing control with it ... and well "Voom" as John Cleese says in the "Parrot" and other of his “True Life” sketches !!! ... … You are down. ... … Like an Anecdote on being an Alcoholic about to crash … but visiting a very good French friend’s house would have surfaced .... "So you’re a chronic Alcoholic, and about to Crash”, … “And quite obviously so” !!! …And riddled with OCD and increasing Anxiety And in your Good French Friends House (In Northern France Right ! NOT South) .... .... .... But at Lunch every day !!! … As you drag yourself out of bed, … and try to sake of the Anxiety of being about as far away from your home, and natural environment, as you ever have felt !!! … Like being in a house in Outer Mongolia would be more comforting, for me I think ? … ... And every day when you start trying to get back on to the road, of Life (Well ! ? trying a bit any way) ... and then they open another Bottle of Good Red wine for Lunch !!! ... … Like for a chronic alcoholic who is crashing !!! ... … THAT is what you were saying about Alcohol I think Roster !!! ??? .... It IS just TOO acceptable a Poison !!! ???... And it does irreparable damage also … In MANY areas of the world really … None the less of Thailand quite possibly also. So then you get cut off, ... for taking an extra beer out of the fridge without asking !!! … Like forever !!! … Like “What a disgusting sort of Human you are” !!! .... Like Yes !!! …. To be a good French man, you must be able to drink red wine all day ... and in to the evening, ... Every day of the week for 40 years of your life !!! .... Stop in between the sessions ….(To make a bit of money to pay for the wine right ???) ... And well not become an alcoholic !!! … Right ! … Or you’re OUT !!! … Right !!! ... … Though well ... When the Virus hit they say the alcohol consumption went up !!! (Some days of Fear in Australia, that they might even close the drive through Bottelo’s !!!) ... But well, now it is down apparently !!! … Alcohol consumption, …. Like a LOT of people obviously smartening up a bit ? Or just getting used to the just totally <deleted> situation ??? …. … Or maybe they got taken away in an Ambulance, and did 9 days in Hospital .. Mindfulness Bed sitting ??? … And bottle pissing, ? … with 3 days on the edge, 3 x 24 hr. days just blending in to one ??? ... Sorting out your bladder infection and blood poisoning ? In ICU also ??? ... ??? … Alcohol ! ? … … Yes your comments on Alcohol were right on last week R, and the main problem is as you say, … That it always has been so acceptable an Evil ??? Well Danger ! ... That quite often becomes Disaster ! Right ? ... But it is only how fast it happens right ??? … that varies the story I think. … (If This above is off topic, as it is about Roosters Last weeks Blog, then just remove it, and I will move it back there.) ... ... Yes ...This week as a glance ... Afgnistan ! ... Yes 20 Years waiting for the Inevitable !!! ... The man who runs the news paper there, now in the UK and was on ABC Australia last night, was right I think in the 3 phases to come up from now on. 1. the PR and gaining credibility phase ... No problems for most People, ... 2. the government building second Phase, ... Still no trouble fore most people but then 3. Power solidified, and taken. ... A LOT of Trouble for many ? .. or Most People !!! ... Possibly Very similar to before. ??? ... Like it probably only depends on weather the Political alit can colterol the Boots on the ground foot soldiers moat probably I think. ? ... Still, just look at Iran ??? .. I would REALLY like to think that they can do much better. .... But I doubt it.