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IMO that is a holdover from the attributes of sexual fidelity, responsibility, and duty that are incorporated into family and education systems in the West. I've said before, Thais are the most cheerfully promiscuous nationality on the planet. Every major city has brothels masquerading as karaokes, massage parlors, night clubs and bars, and the clientele is 95% Thai. Mia nois and giks are an accepted part of life. A couple of well-educated Thai guys I used to know in CM each had a stable of three or four women. That promiscuity also gives rise to almost total lack of inhibition. When the average Western male, complete with inhibitions that have been drummed into him since birth, suddenly finds himself in a world of beautiful and seductive women who have no holds barred in the bedroom, it's no wonder many are like a deer in the headlights.

You mean objective, don't you?

Six months or a year, depending on what frequency I went there. What data do you want? What I did worked for about ten years. After the station was sold, I gave the Ford to a kid on another station, who drove it off as I had been doing each time I restarted for that ten years. Yes, 2T oil is simpler. What I read of its composition says to me it has none of the rust prevention or dewatering properties of BDNS, which makes your suggestion worse than mine. "Worse" was the adjective you applied to my first post, right?

Fuel tank of a 1973 Ford I used as a paddock vehicle when I would go shooting in the backblocks of New South Wales about once every six months. I left it mothballed on the station property in the meantime. I'm assuming the fuel tanks of cars and motorcycles are the same metal, unless two-wheeled transport has started using plastic in place of steel.

IMO these types of accidents will continue until Thais are taught threat awareness during the qualification process. I'm assuming the young woman even had a license, quite a few don't. Many Thais live in a bubble, completely oblivious to their surroundings. On scooters, they also seem to drive on the assumption anyone in a larger vehicle has a responsibility not to hit them. I check my mirrors constantly, for threats coming from behind. It's very rare for me to see a Thai doing that, some even remove the mirrors as unnecessary accessories.

While the elimination of PCR testing and the use of ATK in its stead is welcome, there is still no clarity about quarantine requirements. I would suggest enabling self-isolation, and scrapping the haphazard quarantine system, would go a long way to eliminating tourist hesitancy.

Using my knowledge of rust preventive/dewatering compounds acquired in my years of being a research scientist. Manufacturers don't necessarily know all the applications their products can be used for, Viagra was originally developed to treat hypertension.

You have some facts to support that assertion, or is that an opinion?

Welcome to my world. Gave up beer recently going on to a low carb diet, stuff is packed with carbs. Oddly enough, whisky is OK. Sorry, getting off topic.

As I said before, perhaps your palate is more refined than mine. As I like a ploughman's sandwich of sharp cheese, rosemary ham and hot English mustard, washed down with a beer, it's more than likely.

Perhaps you would be so kind as to provide a capital cost of this combination, as well as the ongoing maintenance cost. Also read my post on water treatment processes for the production of drinking water. Are you getting commissions to promote all these unnecessary treatments?

I would agree if we are talking about bore water, which has not been treated to the health standards applied by water authorities in almost every country. That was India, this is now. BTW, when you buy RO treated water, you are not buying it for its taste, but for the absence of taste. Water treatment usually consists of sand bed filtration to remove solids, followed by flocculation with either aluminium chloride or ferric chloride, and lime or magnesium oxide. That process knocks out virtually all heavy metals present. Polyelectrolyte is added to polish the floc, the final stage of treatment is the addition of chlorine and chloramines to kill off any bacteria or viruses that have survived the journey. That's what comes out of a domestic tap. I don't like the taste of chlorine, which is why I boil tap water. Perhaps your palate is more refined than mine, but I can't pick the difference between boiled water here, and RO water. The US derives nearly all its water for cities from groundwater and recycling. It's no accident giardia is rife there, 1 million cases a year. Personally, I found the taste of US water disgusting, but that may have been a psychological inhibition stemming from the knowledge I was tasting someone else's recycled pee and poo. Yes, I do pay for the electricity to boil the water. That's picking nits.

It is absolute rubbish to state: "Filtration, as has been pointed out, in fact does remove virtually every contaminant." It depends on what kind of filter it is. Activated carbon will remove organics, it does diddly squat in terms of removing soluble ions such as fluoride. RO does a good job on most soluble ions, organics foul it up pretty quickly. If one really wants to get rid of all ionic species, ion exchange columns are the ticket. For your statement to be true, you would need a grand combination of basic filter, activated carbon, reverse osmosis and a final polish of ion exchange to get rid of everything, but you didn't say that either.

Are you sure it is a bunion, and not a plantar wart? The latter is easily treated by a chiropodist.

A description of any British food as a delicacy is the ultimate oxymoron.

I can't predict the future, so I never say never. I thought I would never be in a long-term relationship again, someone here changed my mind. On balance of probabilities, it is very likely I will not leave Thailand, and die here. I'm not fussed if I do. Sure, Thailand has its minuses. Some of the shop attendants have less attention span than a goldfish. I've learned viewing Thailand's foibles with amusement is preferable to going with frustration. OTOH, I got a fine for speeding last month in the mail recently. 500 baht. In Australia, that same level of offense would have cost me 14,000 baht, and a license suspension for 3 months. Other posters are correct, many of us could not afford to live in their country of origin. Here, I can live quite comfortably, and also enjoy freedoms that are no longer present in an increasingly restrictive country. During the height of the pandemic, I don't recall Thailand ever saying to its citizens abroad - you are not permitted to return home. Australia did.

It sounds to me the OP wants a rust inhibitor and dewatering agent, IMO barium dinonylnapthalene sulphonate may be what he is looking for. I don't know if it is available here, this is a link to a supplier: https://www.parchem.com/chemical-supplier-distributor/Barium-dinonylnaphthalene-sulfonate-039957.aspx It would need to be premixed with some gasoline, as it is quite viscous. Also drained and flushed, probably not too good if it gets into the combustion chamber.

The pioneer of developing antivenoms was Dr Struan Sutherland in Australia. I don't know if his work extended beyond Australia. There is a clinician's handbook on the subject, it may be worthwhile contacting CSL to find out if they have antivenoms for Asian snake species. https://biomedicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/3216739/A-Clinicians-Guide-to-Venomous-Bites-and-Stings-2013.pdf Otherwise, IMO you would need to do the legwork of going to each hospital and finding out what range of antivenoms they stock for the nasties here.

Show me anywhere in my post where I used the qualifying adjectives of RO or activated carbon to describe filtration. I was referring to simple filters, to remove suspended solids. Then show me how the cost of RO or activated carbon compares with a 500 baht kettle from Lazada, which can be used for many years without requiring regeneration or replacement.

True. One will usually find some of them are Thais, and earning a lot more than they would back here.

What you say may be true of some groundwater supply, and certainly I would wanting comprehensive testing before deciding if boiling was enough. Having said that, AFAIK the vast majority of water coming out of a domestic tap in Thailand is derived from rivers and dams, which are replenished by rainfall. In case you have not noticed, it does rain quite a lot here. Fluoride does not fall out of the sky with it. I've been here 12 years now. It's been my standard practice in any country, and even in my country of origin, to boil tap water for drinking, and use tap water for cooking. That's because chlorination does not kill intestinal parasites such as giardia and cryptosporidia. True, filtration works as well as boiling, but more expensively, and filtration does not remove chlorine or chloramines. I'd be more worried about the risk of soft tissue carcinomas arising from chloramine exposure. In that time, I have not grown two heads, my teeth are not mottled, and AFAIK I don't have skeletal fluorosis. IMO I've probably saved a lot of money, I can buy a kettle on Lazada for 500 baht.

I simply don't worry about it, the terms gaijin ( Japanese ) or gweiloh ( Chinese ) are far less complimentary. I'm usually addressed as Khun by the Thais that know me, if someone I don't know uses it I don't care.

True, permit me to doubt it has flowered fully in Thailand. It calls on financial institutions be be doing certain things in common, that does not mean they are.

If you just want drinking water, take what comes out of the tap, and boil it. That volatilizes chlorine and organochlorines. It also kills any bacteria, viruses or oocytes that may be lurking. Most water authorities here produce good quality water that has no suspended solids requiring filtration, they may occasionally get heavy-handed with lime, which will show up as calcium deposits in the kettle. Calcium is good for bones anyway. It kills me reading all the posts about reverse osmosis, filters, ozonation, ion exchange, and activated carbon. A complete waste of money, and it really is using a sledgehammer to crack a peanut. As for cooking water, use what comes out of the tap. You're going to boil it anyway, aren't you?

The TAT does not recognize Thailand has more than enough events to repel potential tourists. Thailand Pass, expensive hotels, potentially even more expensive quarantine with zero say in it by the tourists. There are plenty of things to attract visitors, the hurdles are the problem.