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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.

My regular Thai massage woman is quite gentle, it is possible to train them. She says I am a holiday from the Japanese and Koreans, who exhaust her with their demands for strong massage.

Now you've reminded me of the Flanders and Swann song, "The Reluctant Cannibal". IIRC, the preceding dialogue contained the line " Always be sincere,whether you mean it or not."

IMO a gentle Thai massage would be helpful, also try hot showers.

23.37 is not a collapse, even if you would like it to be. No need to trim my budget, I have enough in Thai baht to last for the next two years without touching my pension income. Also heavy weighting in gold and silver. Which both go up as currencies are crunched. IIRC, I saw the AUD briefly below 20 baht about two years ago. It came back then, it will come back again. It's called a cycle.

I love my scooter, so much more convenient for short trips round town and shopping. Hate to think what life would be without it. I can drive manual and automatic cars. Good luck to those who can drive bikes with a clutch and gears, that is too complicated for me. I guess the manual versions mean one can do wheelstands, not interested. Tough enough surviving on Thai roads as it is.

I am 79. I have a regime of cardio, stretching and swimming. Pushups. Climbing stairs, golf walking. Unfortunately, I find when I start pushing on the weights side, I tend to injure myself, which defeats the purpose of the training. I will give the super slow hint a try.

BMI is in normal range. My guess is your personal trainer will slowly increase the weight regime.

Agree with the "local" recommendation. I also look hard at supplier ratings, and feedback. I prefer payment in advance, as I don't want to have to wait around for deliveries.

At some point, does he not have to get his virgin passport stamped with a transferred visa? Or does he continue to carry his old passport around with him for the next ten years? I can understand what you are saying with a freshly minted passport, not one that is six or twelve months old.

I have 11 pages of orders with Lazada. I have had only one problem, with a non-functioning heater where I got a refund in about a week after sending the item back. It does baffle me why people have problems with Lazada. I am in my late seventies too. I would suggest to the OP he is never too old to learn. Life is easier when one can utilize some of the technology available.

I am somewhat confused by your statement, why would I cart an old passport around with me if I have visa stamps in the new one? I last entered Thailand in February 2020, with the new passport. From that, I am assuming the visa was transferred to the new passport, otherwise I would have been refused entry.

I have never had the situations you quote arise in Thailand. IME if women are treated with consideration, they will respond favorably. I always tried to put them at ease. If a woman was reluctant, I would let it go. So many options available. As several posters have said, sometimes we don't pay for sex, we pay them to leave.

What's astounding is you can make these claims without any way for other posters to verify what you say is true. Apart from dubious anecdotal evidence, is there any empirical data you can cite?

3 hours driving is a pretty long jump.

The right are intelligent? IIRC, it's the Republican states who have the higher COVID death rates. A $99 NFT is worth nothing, except to Trump. One has to buy a slew of them to get invited to a dinner with him catered by Maccas, assuming he honors that promise.

So are your put-downs, very unoriginal. Goodbye.

I order supplements online. I would never buy meds online, too risky. Some antibiotics can become quite dangerous past their use-by date.