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Agreed, but after 60 years (not counting childhood) I've enjoyed copious volumes af the amber fluid, but now the quacks have warned me off ANY alcohol on the fear of death (heart, liver etc, the usual suspects ). I'm just weighing up, at 75, is it worth the depravation for (possibly ) a couple more years alive ~ but not "living" !!

Thanks for that. Yes I do know that iHerb exists, but my post was about WHY Thailand severely restricts the local sale of Melatonin (it appears that, from other posters, even some online suppliers will not handle it to Thailand ) I think someone partially answered this by saying that its deemed a "party rape" drug!! Melatonin ??? Really ??

Yes, what is it with melatonin in Thailand ?? My local pharmacy can only sell "strips" of 10 tabs!! "That's all that we're allowed to sell in Thailand " says the lady..huh? Why ?? I go regularly to Hong Kong where I can buy (for example ) bottles of Jamieson brand Melatonin, 130 tabs, for about Thb400 equivalent. No problems, no restrictions, purchase 5 bottles if I wish!! So what's the problem here?

Google Translate. I've noticed more and more recently its use by car mechanics, computer and mobile phone people, aircon repair guys....even in pharmacies etc. EVERYONE (Thai) has a smart phone, either in their hand , or nearby. Yes, maybe some elderly Westerners or Asia folk are not so equipped or up to speed.

Yes but do they know the phonetic sound of the letters of the alphabet ? Just knowing the names of the letters is useless when it comes to tackling an English word ... ...take CAT for example ! From my travels (and having lived in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong ) , most ex British colonies /territories have residual spoken English skills (in the case of the Philippines it was/is the long time American influence. ) I believe that if a (foreign) language is not used regularly it gets lost. How many of us still remember our school boy French or Italian or Spanish ??? Where English is required, such as aviation, medicine, hospitality international business etc , it is usually quite proficient. My Thai wife only learnt to speak English fairly well because, when she was young, she worked here in the British Embassy for 10 years.

Who it not going to tell our wives about this "new" development? Mine is bad enough in Macao (bigger than Las Vegas). Last year we went over for some excellent Portuguese food and ended up in Wynn's Casino. She was dressed in a very sexy style with lots of breast showing. She was a bit merry on the free wine they dish out and after a couple of 'lucky' wins on roulette ( $HK10000 for a $100 bet) things got jubilant, attracting quite a crowd (she had to lean over and stretch to place her chips, which got firm approval from the onlookers). As the crowd grew and the cheering escalated, she continued an "amazing" winning streak. i dragged her off when she had $70,000 in her (my) pocket. As another poster mentioned they can, and do, let you win on such occasions.

As I recall, Airbus don't, Boeing do.

Agreed. the 777 is equipped to jettison fuel inflight the achieve correct landing weight. my guess is that they took a few hours trouble shooting the problem, communicating with their own home based maintenance team to try to sort it out before making a landing or continuing on.

Irwin....

It's all relative I guess, but Hong Kong's next Tuesday's Mark 6 lottery (drawn 3 times a week, not once or twice a month) first prize is ~THB566 million $hkd10 per line of 6 numbers purchased. And nobody EVER knows who the winner is !

One of the more interesting and technically informative topics and posts (apart from the totally avoidable back and forth bickering that occured at the end) that I have read in recent times RIP Udonjoe. Most enlightening for an old "baby boomer" , running Win 10 on a Lenovo laptop AND Win XP Pro on a desktop. Don't think any upgrades in hardware or Software are called for, because if Win 10 keeps working as long as Win XP has, then it'll probably outlive me !

I still have the original installation disks.( floppies and cd's) for Win 3.1, 3.11. Win 95, 98SE, XP Professional, Vista, etc. Still have XP on an old desktop....still runs fine, except for the various browser warnings to upgrade the OS ! Win 10 HOME (ver. 22H2), Avira anti virus and Surfshark VPN. Think I'll just stick with that. Too old to start learning Linux (tried it a couple of years ago....urghhhh.

It was great, but gave one of my kids (then) nightmares....so he was banned from playing it....but it didn't affect the girls who loved it!

I had the impression that changing the Constitution is not easy......even for an "Emperor" like Trump. Sufficient numbers in the Senate and House? Could be tricky I guess the poor old struggling tax payer would have to foot the bill of child custody /welfare. They'd love that!! By the way I'm not a Yank!

I could be wrong but I understand that a child born IN the United states or on US soil, has the automatic birth right to USA, citizenship . I think it's in an amendment to the Constitution. Correct ?