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Medical opinion is divided on the health benefits of fasting. As it is on keto dieting. I have never fasted. I reduced my body mass from 93 kg to 78 kg over about 6 months. Alcohol one drink a week, no sugar. I substituted low carb vegetables such as cauliflower, green beans, broccoli, bamboo and cabbage for rice, potatoes and pasta. Once slice of toast in the morning, eggs for breakfast every day. Yoghurt with no added sugar. The only processed food I eat in any quantity is cheese. IMO it's a matter of training one's liver to metabolize fat, by reducing sugar and carbohydrate intake. The gold standard for diagnosis of anything more sinister going on in the OP's liver is a PET scan, with contrast of radioactive sugar, as the uptake rate of cancer cells is faster than for healthy cells. The cheapest quote I could find in Thailand for a PET scan was USD 15,000.

No more. Millennials have been priced out of the housing market, the main beneficiaries are the Baby Boomers thanks to negative gearing, exemption of the family home in asset testing, and favorable treatment of capital gains. Try being in the public health system in Australia with an illness requiring a specialist. You'll be lucky to get the initial appointment after referral by a GP within 6 months. As an example, the reception staff of my urologist wanted a new referral because I have been away from Australia for 3 years. That was in February, the first appointment I could get to see him is in June. And I have top level private health cover.

It's also preferred by politicians currently in power, as it makes their spin look good.

IMO the key word here is soil. Igneous rock is not soil. The wells I see in Thai villages are on flat low-lying terrain. The water supply I see in the mountains comes from dams designed to capture runoff.

I am suggesting finding groundwater under igneous rock would be as rare as hen's teeth. How does water permeate through such rock to form an aquifer?

LOL, you trust everything a government website says? Bureaucrats rarely get out of their air-conditioned offices to obtain field experience, or to test their pre-conceived notions against reality. I don't disagree testing of groundwater from any depth should be done, although IMO I was more specific about what tests are required. That's because I have experience in water pollution chemistry, permit me to doubt you do. I'd like to know why anyone would drill for groundwater through igneous rock, IME percussion and diamond drilling are employed to evaluate orebodies.

I have noticed the same. I don't worry about it.

Your post contains several faulty assumptions. Birds do not normally perch on roofs, they prefer trees and shade. Compared to the volume of water stored, any bird poop present is infinitesimal. With no nutrients to grow in, bacteria die. Outside Thai cities, it is almost unknown for rural villages to have centralized sewage treatment plants. All the households I have seen have individual septic tanks, the overflow is frequently used for breeding frogs as a source of protein. It's a rich field for groundwater contamination. While your point regarding deep aquifers may be valid for bacteria, permit me to doubt deep drilling is standard practice in Thailand. It also ignores the potential presence of toxicants such as nitrates and heavy metals, none of which exist in rainwater. As I said before, I lived on rainwater without a problem for 20 years. I don't think my immune system is bulletproof against infection.

Unheard said: "IMO,rain water is almost always inferior to a deep bore well water due to atmospheric/collecting surface bacteria contamination, seasonal availability and problems related to storing it without making it even more contaminated with pathogens. On the other hand, deep well water is available on demand, sourced from the virtually bacteria-free environment and doesn't need to be stored." Disagree 100%. Pathogens are far more likely to be present in well water due to fecal contamination, and the presence of nutrients such as phosphorus, organics, and nitrates. Rain water does not contain these nutrients, hence bacteria are unable to multiply in their absence. I lived on rain water tanks for nearly 20 years without any problem, drank the water straight out of the tap. So has my son in his home. I would suggest the OP has his well water tested for Total Coliform and Fecal Coliform, the usual indicators of bacterial and possibly viral contamination.

I would suggest calling in a snake catcher, and showing them the skin. They are much more experienced at locating snakes, as well as catching them. If the snake has decamped, a few hundred baht will soothe the disappointment.

IIRC there is a formula put out by the CSIRO ( Australia ) which calculates the optimum tank storage capacity for a specified roof area, based on average annual rainfall.

I have often wondered whether the beauty of these participants is inversely correlated to their sexual lustiness, not that I will ever find out

I would suggest 10,000 litres of water storage is inadequate, IME 20,000 litres is a bare minimum. Many Thais shower twice a day. My son in Australia installed a 70,000 litre tank, he has never run out of water in 15 years.

I've found Google to be wrong on matters of fact on a couple of occasions. It's a useful tool when searching for services, locations etc. As far as posters on this forum go, there are those who post on the basis of facts and peer-reviewed data, and those that post on the basis of their beliefs. Science does not care what you believe.

Apps such as Zoom, Meet and Line were a boon during COVID. I revised my Australian will with a lawyer sitting at her home desk in Australia, from my condo in Thailand. Horses for courses, obviously it's a bit different integrating a manufacturing division with marketing etc. Having said that, the times they are a'changing.

So they do. However, I was making the point with fewer full-time jobs around, it is highly like the pool of permanently unemployed people will grow, because the casuals who pay tax may be getting less than if they were on the dole. COVID has brought about a change in attitude to work among the Millennials. Many worked from home, and found it was a lot easier than being in rush hour traffic or crowded public transport for several hours every day. They are saying to employers if I can't work from home, I am not interested in working for you.

Clean table/low bed and pillow linen, clean shirt and pants to change into. Certificates on the wall are usually a plus. I don't go back to any shop where they won't back off on their massage, when I tell them I want gentler manipulation. I tend to prefer women in their fifties and sixties as more experienced. The young ones are often just trying to sell sex, and their massage skills are usually inversely correlated to their beauty. Male masseurs working in temple precincts usually know what they are doing. I play music on my phone to Bluetooth earbuds during the massage, external chatter does not bother me.

There are about 200,000 Westerners in Thailand. The Thai population is approximately 72 million, with about 15,000 road deaths in 2022. At that rate, attrition would have seen most of us off, if we were worse drivers. We are way down the list - Canada, UK, USA, Australia, France etc. when it comes to road deaths per 100,000 population. https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/road-traffic-accidents/by-country/ No doubt some of us abandon sensible driving and copy Thai methods. IMO that's a minority.

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Agree.

Agree, my pension is assessed on deemed income.

Centrelink assesses either assets or income, your Comsuper probably is counted as income. I'm not getting into a debate on what is fair, I am content with my part pension. It would not even be needed if ASIC and the ACCC had not been asleep at the wheel before and during the GFC, I would be self-funding. What's unfair? In my book, lying incompetent toads such as Tudge, Morrison and Robert getting fat parliamentary pensions after wrecking the lives of so many people.

I have been following the Robodebt saga reasonably closely. IMO some of the people involved should be getting jail time, not that there is any hope of that.

A single person who rents can have just over half a million in assets, and still get the full age pension. Not much in Australia, more than enough in Thailand.

True. Having said that, I would suggest that cohort of people is a small minority, although it may get larger with the creeping casualization of work.