Lacessit

Cricket is well known for sledging. IMO this is the best one: Eddo Brandes v Glenn McGrath After Zimbabwean Brandes played and missed a Glenn McGrath delivery, the towering Aussie quick enquired: “Oi, Brandes, why are you so fat?” The immediacy of Brandes' reply had Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke in stitches in the slips: “Because every time I sleep with your wife, she gives me a biscuit”

Judging by the brain farts the Poms had on day 3, they may be hoping for more rain. The funniest one was Stuart Broad, yelling for a review of the umpire's decision ( a bad one ) when England had run out of reviews.

Outside banks, there still seems to be plenty of ATM's. I prefer those in case the ATM decides to swallow my card. I have yet to see a day market stall that is armed with an EFTPOS machine, so I think cash will be around for a while yet.

Start keeping falcons.

I stand corrected, but then I am more used to sheep and wheat.

There are clues in the OP, such as "test" , "bowling", and "Kevin Pieterson". The second post ( mine ) talks about batsmen, bowlers, fielding and dropped catches. It's a bit like golf, with talk of drivers and wedges. Like the English, the Scots have rarely been much good at the game they invented. The current world # 1 is either Irish or Spanish.

Both sides have good batsmen and bowlers, IMO the difference is fielding. The Poms are dropping more catches.

IME forcing a kid to do what they don't want to do is a waste of time and effort. The father presumably sets boundaries, the mother doesn't. Not hard to guess which mode of living is preferred. Perhaps a carrot and stick approach may work, for both child and mother. The best any father can do is be a role model. If the son of the OP does not want to follow up, the father is not to blame if things go pear-shaped. Bear in mind every son rebels in their teens, maybe he will grow up.

I can remember the words umbilical and architecture very easily. However, I always find myself casting about for the correct way to pronounce them.

If you go back to your original post, you typed ghg, not hgh. Which I took to mean Green House Gases. O my indeed. I am not even sure what you are trying to say in your posts. If you want to use the soubriquet "stoner" I consider I can draw conclusions from it. Draw your own conclusions from the complete Latin phrase " Nemo me impune lacessit".

Some water pumps have an internal air-filled rubber bladder. If said bladder develops a leak, the bladder fills with non-compressible water. If that is the case, a new bladder is required. IIRC they are filled with air at 30-50 psi.

I fail to see why I should go looking for links just to satisfy you. What did your last servant die of? If you want to conflate stem cells, greenhouse gases and testosterone treatment into some weird conspiracy theory, be my guest. Given your nom-de-plume, not surprising. https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/marijuana/there-link-between-marijuana-use-psychiatric-disorders

I am fond of words such as hermeneutics, thaumaturgy, and apodeictic, although they are difficult to work into normal conversation. I enjoy finding new obscure words, it's another form of mental exercise. I occasionally forget punctuation if I am in a hurry. IMO the brain is the same as controlling arthritis, use it or lose it.

One does not need a link. All anyone has to do is determine whether what has been published is peer-reviewed. If it's not....... The statistics on COVID say an unvaccinated person is six times more likely to be seriously ill or die, than someone who has been vaccinated. OTOH, anti-vaxxers routinely publish ridiculous claims, such as 19 Italian nuns dying of COVID after vaccination. If you are unable to detect the fatuity of said "research", I can't help you.

"A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits". ( Edith Sitwell )

Try Peera Pharmacy in Chiang Mai, they have an online shop. You can also talk to the owner on LINE, she speaks very good English. If she doesn't have it, probably no-one will.

My son is in a quandary. His father is compos mentis ( biased opinion ) and his mother has advanced Alzheimers, which started at 65. It's a genetic coin toss for him. Kraepelin's definition comes to mind: " Paranoia is the development of a lasting, immovable delusional system, which is accompanied by the complete retention of clearness in thinking, willing and acting". Of course I am crazy, I am responding to posters on ASEAN.

You'd be surprised how many dodgy papers are out there, masquerading as research. Academics use the phrase "publish or perish" for a reason.

IIRC, Dr. John Campbell also extolled the benefits of ivermectin as a COVID treatment without any peer-reviewed evidence, which makes him another ratbag IMO. I suppose if he proffers opinions on enough topics, statistically he should hit the target every so often. Thus it is with D3. Your family history is a guide. My mother and father still had all their marbles when they died, both at age 83. There is evidence coming out the brains of Alzheimer patients are deficient in magnesium, so I take magnesium supplements regularly.

I have made every effort to learn Thai, because mental exercise is one of the most recommended ways of warding off Alzheimers.

Then I have a problem which my GF will have to deal with. She knows to get me to a public hospital, as I have no desire to fill the pockets of a private one at her expense.

I self insure because I have to. 80 yo, pre-existing conditions. An application from me here would probably cause merriment among insurance writers.. I do, however, have top level private health cover in Australia. If I have a heart attack or stroke, so be it. Anything else requiring hospital, I am on a plane to Australia. I checked health insurance premiums here when I was 72. IIRC it was 300,000 baht/year with no pre-existing conditions.

I really don't think that will happen, because it is not sustainable. The average lifespan is increasing. IMO Labor and the Coalition would combine to defeat the bill. The Greens can put forward initiatives like these, such as the recent housing bill. They know they won't have to actually implement the policy, but it does garner them votes from the two major parties from people who are too stupid to see it's political cynicism.

Some day, you might meet someone who is quicker, stronger and more skilled than you. What will you do then?

Someone has been reading Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night". The best thing IMO the OP can do is breathing exercises, plenty of Quigong clips on Youtube. Plus walking, push for a bit more distance each day.