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Not exactly a metre or two deep, is it?

Broke is when one does not have enough money to pay next month's rent. Broke is when one can't afford petrol for their car, or can only afford packaged noodles to put on the table. I have never been broke, and the last time I owed money on anything was 1974. Does the photo of a meal at Singha Park recently look like I am broke? Noted you still decline to state your nationality. Are you proud of your Chicken Little imitation?

The Queen was the glue holding the whole Royal shtick together, the rest are overprivileged and spoilt. At least Meghan is easy on the eye, YMMV. As an Australian, I just wish we would grow up. The Royals are about as relevant to us as snowshoes would be to an Ethiopian.

I did not say you were seeking my attention. I said you were attention-seeking, by which I meant as many of the posters as could be garnered from ASEAN. Your motivations for doing so are not really mine to analyze. I play and walk 9 holes of golf, starting at first light. Doing that, I can usually avoid the Thais, Koreans and Japanese, who seem to think playing as a 6-ball or 8-ball group, and taking 5 or 6 hours for 18 holes, is normal behavior. Last week, I politely asked a group of Thais if I could hit off first, saying I would probably be quicker as a single. I was teeing off on the eighth hole as they were putting out on the third green. I understand tokens are something Trump is selling at present. Have a nice afternoon, take care.

IMO the main reason you are here is attention-seeking.

Under the circumstances, I think a straitjacket is a better option.

Can we please stop giving this wretched, dysfunctional family oxygen? A king that wanted to be a tampon, a pedophile prince. I rest my case. Jeremy Clarkson gets up himself on a regular schedule, apart from that I have no opinion one way or the other on what he said.

Are you vaccinated?

IMO the IO saw something in the OP's passport that did not jibe with the OP's details on other documents. Perhaps he wanted the boarding pass to check if the OP was arriving from his country of birth. I've only encountered a rude IO once, IME most are courteous and helpful.

Therefore, you probably need to get that resolved before you can hope to get back on the rails in terms of eating.

Has that infection cleared now? It may be one of the possible causes.

26 sqm is going to be very small for fitting in a bathroom and kitchen, and I guess wall fittings would be the order of the day for things like a TV. I'd suggest it would suit a single person. A couple would be at each others' throats after a while. The swimming pool is a plus. IMO it would pay to check noise levels through the walls, and the reliability of water and electricity supply. The op is probably looking at a minimum budget of half a million baht, apart from the price itself, to make it livable.

Wondering if you have had COVID, might be one of the "long Covid" effects. I can't help with a specialist. According to Google: "Dysgeusia is a taste disorder. People with the condition feel that all foods taste sour, sweet, bitter or metallic. Dysgeusia can be caused by many different factors, including infection, some medications and vitamin deficiencies. Treatment involves addressing the underlying cause of dysgeusia" Other causes mentioned are dental hygiene, stress and brain trauma.

Perhaps the OP might consider going off the OMAD diet, and onto a reduced carb diet. I eat as much as I want, but only the right foods. Went from 93 kg to 77 kg, no loss of appetite. As Sheryl said, one meal a day does result in various deficiencies. I take zinc, Vitamin D, magnesium and Vitamin B complex regularly.

Really cold in Chiang Rai now, two blankets on the bed and a jacket on the scooter.

The last time I checked, the USA had more foreign owned assets in Australia than any other country. America has survellance bases in Australia that an Australian citizen cannot enter. It's a two-edged sword, because the US has a lot of incentive to protect its defense and commercial assets in Oz. We would be self-sufficient in everything if we shot all our politicians that flogged off Aussie assets to low bidders. I agree we should dump the guy who wanted to be a tampon; time we grew up.

You did say a fall of 10% in a week. Not a lot of point for me either. Currency is like the roof of a house, whether it is cold or hot one installs insulation.

Yes, in Australia and Thailand. AFAIK there is no requirement to be able to drive with gears and a clutch on two or four wheels anymore. Except heavy vehicles, perhaps.

You should brush up on your math. 24.5-23.3X100/24.5 = 4.89%

CM and CR are similar in terms of air pollution. I just fire up my air purifiers for a month, shut them down again when the API gets below 50.

It might be basically broke in Australia, but it's certainly not broke in Thailand. Perhaps you missed that point in your rush to judgment. Based on my monthly expenditure, capital depletion, and income from assets in said 850K, I will be reliant on the OAP only when I turn 104. That's not a frightening scenario for me. I really don't know why you have this fixation with the AUD, are you even Australian? Perhaps it's just a thread to troll other posters.

IME older women are better at massage, the younger ones usually try to talk the customer into chuk wow, BJ or boom boom. Oil is the preferred starting point for such activity. My current massage lady is 61 yo, I go to her 3 - 4 times a week. She knows what level of intensity I can take. She does not use oil, it is like a diluted form of DeepHeat or similar. I've tried oil massage a few times, it leaves me feeling greasy and does not seem to do anything better than traditional Thai massage. YMMV.

Perhaps he has ambitions of shorting the Australian dollar. Shorting is an activity that requires extremely deep pockets, if he had one of those I doubt he would waste his time posting on ASEAN. But then, there are some keyboard warriors who claim to be very wealthy.

Answer what I think is are simple questions, please. Where is my visa? Is it in the old passport, or the new one? Do I even need it in the new one? The Australian Consulate put a stamp in my old passport saying either "Cancelled" or "Void" , can't remember which. I don't even have the old passport now. I was under the impression a non-O visa based on retirement was valid for 1 year.

Read my original post again. I was granted a non-O visa based on retirement in 2014. I got my new passport in 2019, and a non-RE stamp was put in it by CM Immigration. I have only traveled in and out of Thailand since then with the new passport. If what you say is correct, I should not have been able to.