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Wow, Bangkok is expensive. 2-3K is all I have ever needed for a night out in Chiang Mai or Chiang Rai, and that includes someone to love me long time. Mind you, that was about 10 years ago. Ask BMT, he is au fait with the current COP.

Don't come to Chiang Rai, it's brass monkeys' weather. Stay in Bangkok with the wimps. Serious advice - don't get legless, and don't carry too much cash. 2-3K baht is all you should need for a night on the town.

Another example of American insanity. Insurers would never get away with that in Australia, the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission ( ACCC ) would drag them into court, and crucify them. Oh wait, the ACCC was founded by one of those nasty leftist governments.

Anyone who rebuilds in the area will do so at their own risk. Insurance companies won't insure the properties.

OP, learn to love it. Your finger pressure on the trigger determines the water pressure you get. Gently, a slow flow. More, you can give yourself a free enema if you so wish. You will learn how to point the nozzle in the correct direction. Practice makes perfect. So enjoy Thailand's greatest contribution to world civilization.

Which hospital did your endoscopy? Government or private?

The last couple of days, Chiang Rai has had jet aircraft screaming overhead, flying low. What's going on?

It's not just sugar cane, it's crop stubble and vegetation. Every year, villagers start fires in the forests, to stimulate the growth of edible fungi in the rainy season.

You got a bargain , then. Cystoscopy with local anesthesia, Bangkok Hospital, Chiang Mai, - 18,000 baht. Same put to sleep, 65,000 baht.

Lots of Republican losers too, they just haven't realized it yet.

The poster you are responding to did live in Thailand for an indeterminate period, then apparently lost all his money to a Thai woman. No doubt that tends to color his opinions on Thailand, and the rest of the world.

When things went pear-shaped on Trump's last watch, it was always someone else's fault. Expect blaming as one of his most visible attributes in the tears years to come.

Really. You are more intelligent and informed than the 95% of scientists who agree anthropomorphic emissions of carbon dioxide are causing climate change? I know who the ill informed idiot is. No point in asking a microcephaloid to use their head.

The price seems to depend on whether anesthetic is involved. Being put to sleep during the procedure IME hikes the price by about 50,000 baht.

They have all got much bigger.

Every village which burns off vegetation and crop stubble has a poo yai, or headman. Gather as many villagers as possible in a public place, and give the poo yai a flogging, explaining the reason. The poo yai will pass down the flogging he got to any villager who burns off from then on.

How about Black Valley Girls?

You have links proving they were Democrat-registered voters?

I can see Trump ordering the military to drop a nuke into a hurricane, not sure what he will do with a wildfire.

You are talking about events millions of years ago. It's another argument in the armory of deniers, "natural cycle". Blaming volcanoes is another. Prior to the Industrial revolution, CO2 levels were 280 ppm. The attached graph shows what has happened since 1960, when fossil fuel burning really took off. It is axiomatic we are generating CO2 faster than plants and trees can absorb it, otherwise the graph would be flat. Do you know how the laws of thermodynamics work? The second law says we are warming the planet. The first law says the consequences of the second law is more violent storms, i.e. climate change. Many have tried to beat the laws of thermodynamics, none have succeeded. You are welcome to try.

When I listen to Americans, it seems to me they are speaking through their noses. And they appear to be in competition with the British, in terms of regional accents. A Texan sounds nothing like a New Yorker.

Thailand is a very small proportion of the planet, a population of 72 million. News here is fairly banal, except when it affects expats and retirees. There are plenty of posters on ASEAN who support Trump. I can't say the same of Americans I have met in person, they are sheepish and apologetic. I am living in Thailand; however, I don't understand why posters outside it should be excluded. That's like saying only Americans can comment on events in the USA. You're right, it's going to be an exciting time full of surprises. I'm predicting some of them won't be pleasant.

Trump said he would end the war in 24 hours. Now he is saying months. Apparently his promises are elastic.

Are you a rich American? You had better be, otherwise Trump will throw you under a bus.