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I have been having check cystoscopies for 16 years. Every six months. I have never had a post-operative UTI, either here or in Australia. I was never given antibiotics in Australia. Here, the antibiotic is part of the hospital package, not cheap at an itemized cost of 1000 baht. I assume you have heard hospitals do charge more for pharmacy medications. I wait for three days, then throw the antibiotic out. I've been doing that for three years without incident. The same with tooth extractions, all I need is salt water. I don't know why posters forget good manners when they disagree with another poster. I save myself further aggravation by putting them on my ignore list. Goodbye.

I remember a restaurant in California called ClaimJumpers. The challenge was to eat a 5 - gallon cake to get it free. I don't even go to buffets nowadays, I like to eat my food without having to watch people making pigs of themselves.

I was using an agent for some years, until I realised the agent was getting me to do all the paperwork, and merely assembling it, then holding my hand at CM Immigration. About 7000 baht IIRC. I consulted our resident oracle, UbonJoe, on what documents were needed and other details. Armed with that, I did my first extension on my own about 5 years ago. It is actually quite easy when the paperwork is in order. I usually apply about 2 weeks before due date, to allow for any glitches. Touch wood, so far I have had none. Thanks UbonJoe.

No. Wars are usually started by leaders who wish to distract their population from internal issues.

Doctors and dentists issuing fistfuls of antibiotics is classic CYA in Thailand. If the practitioners have followed proper sterile procedures, post-operative infection should not be a problem. My policy is to wait and see, if I start showing symptoms of infection, then it is time to use antibiotics. Having said that, once a course of antibiotics is commenced, it should be completed. Anything less runs the risk of creating antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. I only take antibiotics when absolutely necessary, as they suppress the immune system.

Yes, I got that. Apologies, not trying to derail the thread.

I am not a royalist, IMO it is long overdue for Australia to cast off an anachronism. Having said that, nothing but respect for someone who served her country beyond the call of duty, and also held together one of the most dysfunctional families around. RIP.

Not all vehicles have ABS, my Vios does not. Off topic perhaps; however, I do notice manual gearboxes are a rarity here. Personally, I feel drivers would be better everywhere if they were made to qualify for their licences without ABS, and with a manual gearbox.

Easy enough for anyone if they don't buy imported premium foods and any form of alcohol, although Lao Khao is pretty cheap. In my GF's village, there are people who are living on incomes of 2 - 2.5 K baht/month, they are not starving. They raise their own protein, grow their own vegetables. There's quite a lot of bartering. Personally, I don't believe in living frugally, just within my means.

Sorry to disappoint you. Peripheral vision actually is not all that necessary if one's eyes are put to full use, in preference to staring straight ahead. As for defensive driving, everyone who got a company car in the organization I worked for in Australia was required to pass a defensive driving test before they got the keys. That has stood the test of time and Thai incompetence for me.

Jetstar has form in defrauding customers. I have been issued a travel voucher in place of the refund I wanted after cancellation. In a message that is supposed to make me happy, they will be extending the validity of the voucher until 2023, after which it becomes void. They are in for a bit of a surprise, I have kept and printed every bit of correspondence I have had with them since the Bangkok floods of 2011, when they also dudded me on another voucher. It's going to the ACCC when the timing is right.

They gave you a freebie on STD's? Sorry, couldn't resist.

If you read under my nom-de-plume, you can work out where I renewed my five year scooter and car licences about two months ago. I am not sure I would pass a peripheral vision test. However, as I do not drive at night, and also drive defensively, it does not seem to be a problem.

I'm talking about people of our age who decide to give up driving because they know their reflexes and vision are not good enough anymore. I've been driving for over 60 years. I have never had a front-on accident, just T-boning and rear-ending by drunks and incompetents. Can't do much about such situations. I already have put restrictions on myself. I won't drive at night, and I won't drive any vehicle if I have consumed any alcohol at all. I will have to give up driving eventually, unless I cark it first. However, as I consider I am more competent than 95% of drivers on Thai roads, and have an accident-free record for over ten years here to prove it, not yet.

What reaction test? On my third Thai licence, the only thing I have had to do is identify colors. I would have thought sensible people here determine their own fitness to drive a vehicle.

You have a statistical sample of one, of which I was not aware. Given mass shootings in America seem to happen a couple of times a month, sometimes in schools, I doubt the two countries are comparable.

4 million years ago Homo Sapiens did not exist. Nothing is a disaster for the planet, it can get along fine with or without us. OTOH, it's not just people with a sea view. The conservative consensus is the Himalayan glaciers that feed the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Mekong rivers will be 50% of their current ice mass by 2050. The billion people with an increasing population that live on those rivers and depend on their waters will have to make do with half the current flows, even less if the Chinese keep building more dams.

A Beurer digital thermometer is based on infra-red sensing. It is intended for contact-less clinical measurement of body temperature. Thermocouple type digital thermometers have other functions, such as measuring the internal temperature of cooked meat. Or radiator coolant temperature in a vehicle. It depends on what the OP intends to use the thermometer for. QC means quality control, implying the device has been checked for accuracy against a reference temperature.

Let's see what he looks like at age 79, not 45. Honey is 40% fructose, 30% glucose. Fruit is mainly fructose. IMO it's a pretty good diet for developing Type 2 diabetes. And constipation, if his only source of fibre is fruit.

I get it. Climate deniers are rational people relying on facts and statistics against a tide of scientists who are all getting funding to spread fear of something that 1/ Isn't going to happen 2/ Is part of a natural cycle 3/ Will be beneficial as the extra CO2 is plant food. Please explain to me how that is not a religion of its own.

Ah, the plant food argument. I was wondering when that would come along. The world's vegetation has done quite well for itself on 280 ppm of carbon dioxide for 10,000 years, what makes you think it will turn up its toes in the unlikely event we managed to get back to that level? AFAIK no-one is proposing an atmosphere with zero CO2.

Since the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide levels have increased from 280 ppm to 421 ppm currently. That's about a 50% increase, your "96% is natural" does not stand up. The 280 ppm level has been around for about 10,000 years prior to the mid-18th century. Where else do you think the extra CO2 is coming from, if not from us?

I don't deny there will be advances in technology, even the smartphones we have were inconceivable 100 years ago. Whether those advances will be good enough, and how many will be stymied by political inertia, is a different question. In Australia, the CSIRO has already established the technology for converting hydrogen generated by solar power into ammonia for transportation, and reconstituting the hydrogen at the point of delivery. Proven at pilot plant stage. None of the politicians in Australia have the scientific background to realize we are sitting on a gold mine, all that is needed is the capital for mass production. They are all focused on how many staffing cutbacks they can make short of destroying CSIRO. Same same but different with Bangkok, when the Dutch came knocking with solutions to Bangkok's flooding, Thai politicians did not want to know. Face.

Any meteorologist worth their salt will tell you the warmer the ocean surface temperature is, the more intense a hurricane/typhoon/cyclone will be. It's a perfect example of the First Law of Thermodynamics in action.

The ozone holes over both poles did not go away on their own. They shrank and disappeared after 197 nations signed off on eliminating the production and use of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFC's ), which were proven ozone-depleting compounds. The 1987 Montreal Protocol, perhaps the only effective environmental treaty mankind has managed to develop.