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Without hesitation? Surely you jest, there would have to be some sort of investigation if for no other reason than to confirm the perp was not working with the cooperation of the victims. I don't think we know with any level of certainty that bank equipment nor official bank documents (other than perhaps letterhead) were used. Do you know differently? If they have passbooks updated on bank equipment, it's a good be the bank will have to pay. Indeed

Has anyone seen a photo of one one the phony pass-books that were issued and updated by the bank?

I was talking about “Wall Street financial analysts in general, not you. Sorry if that was not clear. I did not mean to hurt your feelings. I was on call 24/7 for twenty years, and it seems to me that connectivity did nothing but make it easier year after year. And I bet you would not make it to lunch doing at least five of the jobs I’ve had, but that really does not have anything to do with what we are discussing. Yeah, I did not appreciate you claiming most of the AseanNow forum members were below average intelligence, but you did. Your post was weak, I called it weak, whatever. Yes, the old “dog ate my homework”. I think this excuse may speak to your "strongly external locus of control". Hey, perhaps you can use “posting on a chat-board” as one of the things you find so challenging and stressful in this “new” world. Indeed. I understand completely how much more valuable your time is than mine. Again, I understand. People with your vastly superior intellect are in high demand and every moment you spend here is a moment the world is deprived of your vital contributions. But enough about you and how great you are, I am willing to bow to your greatness. Let’s just get back to what we were discussing before we got sidetracked. I think in the post that got deleted, you had explained: 1. What is difficult about getting a college degree? 2. Why is life more stressful now than it was for previous generations? 3. What are a few of the many material things past generations enjoyed that your generation does not enjoy? 4. What are a few of the many political privilege's I have enjoyed that was not, or is not available to everyone? 5. What policies tend to be favorable to my demographic that do not favor everyone’s? If you could just go back over those when you get a chance it would be great.

You found me out. Yes, I am funding my retirement by promoting dental tourism. I have never used them, so I cannot comment on the quality of their work, but others rave about them. BHDC has a website that includes the prices for most services. I have been using them for about 20 years. My wife and boy use them as well, and I really have nothing but good things to say about them, but I would like to know if there price is competitive as far as the implants go, and it looks like they are. (remember, as a shill I'm being paid millions to say that, so I am a little biased.) Incidentally, the first 18 years I used BHDC it was all covered by insurance, so I was less concerned about the cost, and could go pretty much anywhere I wanted, including the US. Sorry, my mistake.I meant to say that one can get an implant and crown at BIDC (per them) for THB28,000 (US$835) all in or get and implant and crown in the US (per your mother, yes?) for US$1,700 (THB56,990). So right at half-price comparing the two. (they pay to shill for them as well) You should probably holiday in Texas, pretty cheap there. Indeed

I have to say I think it's that they can't seem to come up with anything that doesn't involve a litany of links to other people's thinking. Think about how much easier being a Wall Street investment analyst became when spreadsheets came into being, and then again once everything went online. Yet with all that, even though the funds are managed "experts" with advanced degrees and all the information in the world at their fingertips, still half of them don't out perform index funds. How funny is that? It's still a monkey with a handful of darts, but now there are more monkeys and they're paid a lot more.

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Implant and crown at BIDC is 28,000 all-in, that compares pretty favorably to $56,815 in the US. Virtually all elective surgeries not covered by insurance are cheaper in the US than they are here, and as I understand it, much/most of the cost of an implant is the is the appliance itself, which the dentist has little control over. Correct me if I am wrong, but the cost of an implant seems to be the same regardless of the nationality. When I am at Bangkok Hospital Dental Center, there is the occasional foreigner, but by and large, their bread and butter clients are Thai. Finally, the service I receive for general dentistry at BHDC far exceeds any dental service I have received in the US, where the dentist has six chairs going....

I doubt very much they would give it to you. If you are able to find it I'm sure they would charge extra... (just kidding)

I'm sorry, but you do seem to be going on about how easy previous generations had it and how difficult your generation has it, yes? Why don't you answer a few questions rather than just asking more? What company did he retire from? Is there something difficult about getting a degree? So rather than going to work in a hot-a@@ factory after high school, you go to four more years of school. I really think going to school beats laboring. Yeah, and when my father retired his house was worth ten-times what he paid for it, ant it was worth sixty times more when he died. What does that have to do with anything? As long are we're cherry-picking, why don't you look at how growth in housing prices in Detroit compare to wage growth? Household incomes pay for homes, not individual incomes Again, the percentage of families that own their own homes is about the same as it was back in the sixties, is this not correct? What do people generally not have now that people generally did have sixty years ago? More education? Yes. Better education? No. Why all the newspaper articles, what happened to FRED? As a "...Wall Street investment analyst..." you should be able to do better than that. So you don't care about all the people dying? You claim the game is different, I as how, you ask "...how is it not different...", that is not an answer, it's just a dodge. A weak dodge. Sorry, I just don't see it. Yes, a lot of things are changing, and some things are changing quickly, but they idea that this is somehow unprecedented is ridiculous. Yeah, Tailor Mason's team will replace you any minute and you'll be on the street with a cup, yes? In ten years we went from almost no cars to Ford building a million a year. The guy that made buggy-whips learned how to upholster car seats. Clearly this never changes... I never said the rate and scale of change is the same. I think only a fool would say that. I believe the rate and scale of change changes continuously, such that it has never been the same, nor will it ever be the same, as it is right now. You said it was a "new world" and that is was a "challenging place" for you to "navigate successfully". What I said was that the the world did not seem new to me, nor did I have any difficulty making sense of it or navigating in it. Then I asked you what it is that you find so challenging about navigating the world successfully. You did not answer. So again, what is it you find so challenging about navigating the world successfully? I don't know of anyone that thinks nothing has changed, unless it was in regards to something very specific, like kids thinking have it harder than their parents or parents thinking their kids have it easy. You seem to have this idea that fifty years ago there was nothing but great jobs for everyone, and that it was easy for everyone to buy a home and everyone saved loads of money for retirement. I remember it differently. The big difference is that now there are a lot more people with with degrees looking for jobs than there are jobs that truly require a degree. Too many people get degrees that are largely useless. I doubt very much people with degrees in a STEM related discipline have significant difficulty finding a decent job. A job that will support buying a great home in a great area with a great car they can drive five minutes to a great office that has a free Starbucks in the lunch room? Perhaps not. And for kids that don't want to go to school, there is no shortage of good paying jobs in welding, auto repair, sales, roofing, plumbing, maintenance, manufacturing etc.

Yes, I had one in Miami but it took forever. He kept going in and out of the room and was laughing at everything.

Or if I could save a chunk I could holiday in Chiang Mai, nice up there this time of year.

Thanks for all the responses. I called BIDC, they were a little cheaper than BHDC but not enough to make me change, and they do not offer gold crowns. I have had a few implants, on in the US about 25 years ago and two here in Bangkok 15 & 20 years ago and they have all been great, although I did have to have the crown replaced on the one from the US a few years ago. I'll likely end up just going with my current dentist, but I can't see him until the 8th. Thanks Again!

Thanks, I called the number and the staff told me that they did not have a Bangkok office.

Drilling a small hole at the very end of a crack in sheet steel or aluminum will generally stop it from getting longer. The duct tape is a good idea after you drill the hole.

Anyone had an implant done in Bangkok recently? If so, how as the service and what was the price? I generally use Bangkok Hospital Dental, but would consider going somewhere else if significantly cheaper. Thanks!

Yes exactly. About the people that stood out to you sure, but the size of the sample makes no difference if the sample is not diverse. The idea that you've read and kept track of a diverse enough sample is ridiculous. What is "contextless" about the rates of unemployment, interest and inflation? Well, I won't speak to countries other than the US, but home ownership rates in the US are about the same as they were 50 years ago. Rather than comparing median incomes to house prices, why not compare what percentage of household income goes to paying for the house? Would that not be a more accurate comparison? You mean like steel & textile workers, electronic assemblers and what not? Sure, if you went to work for the post office in 1950, you could work there until you retired, but you can do that today as well. I lot of silly people getting generally useless degrees. In any event, yes, I can say that basically any career you chose will provide an immediate path to reliable stability for financially responsible people. You're right, it's a suckers game, they should be eliminated and people should learn to save their money. But we don't do that, we incentivize people to spend all their money and get on the public teat as soon as they can. It's easy to speak in generalities, but please explain one of the many political privilege's I have enjoyed that was not, or is not available to everyone. What policies tend to be favorable to my demographic that do not favor yours? Or anyone's for that matter? Well it sure sounds bitter, and I'm not seeing the facts. What does "hit stability" even mean? Poor dude, sitting in an air-conditioned office moaning about how hard he has it, and going on about how easy it was for me/us working in the sun or in some hot factory on my/our feet for 8-12 hours a day... Yeah, it really sounds like it's me/us that has "strongly external locus of control" Why not just explain how the game is different? It was not the singular event but rather the response to it that changed a lot of stuff. Which of those responses did you not support? So is this good or bad? Be specific about a few things. There is nothing new about things changing. And the world is not "advancing/changing" faster than it ever has. Some things are, some things aren't What is more stressful or challenging about life today than than it was 50, 100 or 200 years ago? Things today seem much easier and less stressful to me then they ever have.

Money does not necessarily make people happy, but it absolutely makes life easier. That said, guys that scrape by working forty-plus hours a week on their feet, aren't going out to protest white-privilege.,,

Or lack thereof. (I'm not taking about you) Clearly What comment? You made a number of comments based on what amount s to nothing more than your own guesses. I assume many members are, but don't doubt many are not. I feel that I'm incredibly fortunate from any perspective. Please explain the "easy mode". When I graduated high school in the US: Unemployment was over 9% Inflation was over 12% The interest rate was over 8% We had lost almost 60,000 (mostly kids) in Vietnam I went to work for $1.65 an hour at a machine shop. How is the game different? The world does not seem new to me, nor I have any difficulty making sense of it. What do find so challenging about navigating the world successfully? Seems easy enough to me.

Again, that's not an example of simple solution to a complex problem, that's claiming there is no problem. Why is this confusing to you? I gave you several examples of the left's simple solutions to complex problems, you can't do anything but regurgitate the same non-example over and over. Here's another one: Complex problem: A disproportionate number of black men in prison Simple solution: Defund the police

I provided you with several examples of the left trying to solve complex problems with simple solutions, yet you can't came up with even one example to support your own argument. Yes, there are no shortage of articles by "scholars" about how much smarter they are on the left than the right. It is amusing that you can link to a bunch of scholarly articles about it, but you can't come up with an example. The left: "Always hysterical, never empirical"

First, I did not say that I've never read or heard anyone claiming that climate change is a conspiracy theory. To be clear, you just made that up. What I said was: "I don't know anyone that thinks climate change is simple, nor do I know anyone that thinks it's a hoax. I know a lot of people that think eliminating the use of fossil fuels in first world countries will have a significant impact." See the difference? That said, I have not (as far as I know) heard or read anyone claiming climate change is a conspiracy theory. I have heard of people making the claim many times. Just now I heard you say people make the claim. I'm not familiar with all conspiracy theories, but if there were true, would they not then be conspiracies? Now would you please present a couple examples of simple solutions to complex problems ? Conspiracy theories are not simple solutions, they are complex excuses.

No need to apologize, I have skin like a rhino's a**. It's sticks and stones where I come from. In any event, you're not being difficult, but you seem to fancy yourself some sort of sage truth-teller, but all you are doing is making broad generalizations about a large group, based on your own limited exposure to a tiny sample. That's why I would not call you a liar, I'm sure you believe the generalization you make are true.

What common claim? I don't know anyone that thinks climate change is simple, nor do I know anyone that thinks it's a hoax. I know a lot of people that think eliminating the use of fossil fuels in first world countries will have a significant impact. Really? You can't come up with one example? Here's another: Complex problem: Inner city youths are unable do math at grade level Simple solution: Eliminate math as a requirement for graduation See? It's not that hard. Come-on, you can do it!