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4 hours ago, billsmart said:

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY THE WRONG SUGGESTION!! ????

If you want to improve your golf game, choose the least attractive caddy you can find. That way, you'll be better able to keep your mind on the game and your eye on your ball... ????

I look at it another way. Having a bad day on the golf course, combined with a butt-ugly caddie, is going to be depressing. At least with a pretty one, I can forget about how I butchered the eighth hole.

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

I have very white skin, sadly beyond 10 minutes beaches are a no go for me.

Even if I sit in the shade the sun reflected from the sea will burn me just as badly.

I'd like to, but I can't.

Celtic genes, probably. They have the highest incidence of melanoma in the world. Australia runs second.

8 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Thailand is an excellent choice for those of us who are getting up there in years. As long as you have money, or a good pension or income. The quality of life is quite good here, things are still quite reasonable, labor is inexpensive, and even at 60 or 70, you can find a relationship with a pretty, charming woman who is quite a bit younger. In the US, you need to be a centimillionaire to do that. 

 

For those of us who do not own property back in our home countries, Thailand is a great option. For the same home I rent here, I would have to pay $3,500 a month in many larger cities in the US. That is 120,000 baht a month, which represents the very definition of insanity, and an economy that is out of control. A bag of groceries back there is $100 and up. Anything labor related is out of control.

 

Health care? Even without insurance here it is affordable. I visit the emergency room here to visit a specialist, and with x-rays I am out the door for 2000 baht, at a private hospital. In the US? $300-2000. An anecdote on this subject. A good friend of mine got in a bad motorcycle accident some time ago. He almost lost his leg. He got his first of 11 operations at Bangkok Hospital Samui. It costs him over a million baht. They wanted to do a second procedure. They quoted him 1,400,000 baht. He decided to transfer to Bangkok. He was quoted 460,000 baht for the same procedure, at a top private hospital there. The surgeon told him that he worked at a public hospital too, and could do the same operation there, for alot less money. He told him he would get him a quote. In the interim, my friend called a good friend of his, in San Diego, who is an orthopedic surgeon. Since my friend is a retired chiropractor, he knew all the terminology, and explained what he needed, and asked for the best price. His friend called him back the next day, and quoted him $960,000, with cash discounts! The local surgeon here got back to him, and told him he could do it for 46,000 baht. He transferred, and they did all the rest of his procedures. So, 1,400,000 at Bangkok Hospital, 460,000 at Vejthani Hospital, and 46,000 at the public hospital, with an excellent surgeon. VS. 31,000,000 baht in the US. Again, no complaints from this peanut gallery!

It does pay to shop around.

I've had two warts removed from my head, no comments about the one on my shoulders, please.

The first was in Chiang Mai at a well-known private hospital, 9000 baht, although that did include pathology.

The second was at a skin clinic in Chiang Rai, 500 baht.

4 hours ago, JayBird said:

You may need to adjust where and when you live to account for burning season.  I hear it gets quite bad in the North for a part of the year.

Surprisingly, the burning season this year has been very muted, possibly due to unseasonal rains. I don't think the API in Chiang Rai got above 80, the year before it was up to 500.

I just crank up the aircon and two air purifiers, and pay an extra 300 baht/ month on my electricity bill.

48 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

But I bet you would still like to share your bed with some of those beautiful Thai women if you could, I do, I mean, I do, but not my bed, when the occasion arises, pre-pandemic of course ????

Alas, age and the medication I take to ward off age reduce my libido. The desire is still there, the capability is not.

What pandemic? There's still lots of totty about in Thailand, it's a matter of knowing where to look.

6 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Never tell anyone in the west where you are, or what you're doing.

I'm enjoying my last years much more than I even anticipated.

Surprisingly, I'm enjoying them more than my younger years.

Thailand has been the best days of my life.

I don't really care, the male reaction is not-so-well hidden envy.

My only regret with Thailand is I did not come here sooner.

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

More to do with devaluing the product they are selling.

Nobody would buy old soft apples if they were offered fresh crisp apples.

Love the analogy.

It's age dependent, 20 years ago I would have liked to live in a spacious beach condo with an abundant supply of beautiful Thai women who wanted to share my bed for some consideration.

Nowadays, Chiang Rai with one GF is all I need.

4 minutes ago, Dmaxdan said:

That's a bit like saying that if you want to meet a Thai girl who is a nurse, hang out at your local hospital!

Er - golf courses are places where I can enjoy myself, hospitals are places where they hurt me.

I know several guys who have ended up either marrying their caddies, or entered into long term relationships with them.

Even if I am having a bad day on the golf course, a pretty caddie can still brighten things up for me.

Having been a caddie myself when I was a kid, I tip generously.

7 minutes ago, Kiwithl said:

We use tap water for cleaning teeth too. When my brother visited pre covid he always used bottled water as his dr told him to and as I sometimes did when travelling, a long time ago.

We're rural small town so not city cleanliness standards. Only 500m from the PWA. At yai's in the village we drilled a bore. The tap water there was visibly dirty coming out of the tap.

Our tap water is pumped from The Mekong.

Our blue bottled drinking water is pumped from The Mekong.

I doubt it's filtered sufficiently to get rid of all the pesticides etc from upstream...

But I am not convinced the supermarket water is much better.

Best way to get rid of pesticides is to install an activated carbon filter.

24 minutes ago, hioctane said:

Like all events it is a long term investment.

Long term loser, more like.

The Australian Grand Prix has been run at Albert Park in Victoria since 1996. Victorian taxpayers are still subsidizing it 26 years later.

It's been a great long-term investment for Bernie Ecclestone, he's made billions.

6 hours ago, rumak said:

THIS  "vaccine"   does not do what they told you .    If you believe it saved you then ok.    But that is not very "scientific" .      I have info for you any time you ask .    An open mind is best . why the name calling ?   Anti-vaxxers ?   Cmon, you are showing your bias.   We are discussing THESE covid concoctions which are anything BUT safe and effective.

well, all of you have already had your shots... and more shots.....     So too late to go back.   

There are anti-vaxxers, and pro-vaxxers. It's just a classification to me, although I can understand why the first group would regard it as a pejorative.

I don't care if people choose to reject vaccination. They are not a threat to me, and if they want to run the increased risk of death or serious debilitation, they can assume responsibility for that choice, as I have done with mine.

When I got COVID, I was mildly sick for three days, runny nose and sore throat. My GF, unvaccinated, is 23 years younger than me, had a runny nose, sore throat, fever, headache and nausea. She was seriously ill for at least ten days. It made her a fervent convert to vaccination.

I also have an unvaccinated friend in Chiang Rai. After getting COVID shortly after me, he had fatigue problems for several months. He still admits to problems with concentration, six months afterwards.

To me, that is all the scientific proof I need that vaccines work.

The problem here is that people who claim vaccines are unsafe can easily assemble data on a small proportion of deaths and severe adverse reactions after vaccination. OTOH, coming up with an experimental design that proves millions of vaccinated people did not die or become seriously incapacitated is a lot more difficult.

Unvaccinated people are the control group in that situation. The data is already in said people are statistically far more likely to be occupying a bed in an ICU, or require ventilation. They are also far more likely to develop "long COVID". It's your choice if you want to reject that data.

3 hours ago, StealthComms said:

If u think there was never vaccine scandal or fraud u got no clue. There was many.

There was 1 vaccine that they give to kids in Canada if I remember then ended up it was causing menengitis aka brain barier inflammation, so health departament banned it, so they renamed vaccine and sended to USA repeated then UK and Brazil from memory, there's documentary about it.

 

Beside that there was many

Gardasil is big one

Swine flu Pandemrix 

Thiomersal replaced by Phenol

Etc. Etc. 

 

Safe and effective ???? Trust the science

 

 

 

There will always be some adverse reactions to vaccines. That's what anti-vaxxers focus on, ignoring the many lives saved by vaccines, or the prevention of serious illness.

Given the literacy of your post, I think I can afford to ignore the statement I don't have a clue.

3 hours ago, rumak said:

there is a lot of "data"  and opinions from very respected Drs that you and others have not accessed. In other words you are hearing only one side of the story.     I will not debate anyone, as it is useless.

But as i know you,  i will send you sources to read if you desire

I am quite convinced if I had not already been vaccinated when I was infected with COVID, I might not be posting now. I am in the most vulnerable age cohort.

I do hope if you and yours are infected with COVID, which is almost inevitable, your immune systems can handle it successfully. Assuming you have not had it already.

I find the problem with many sources is they are expressing beliefs rather than hard evidence. We all tend to select for the data we prefer to believe in, it's called confirmation bias.

38 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

I haven't paid much attention to it  all really .

I haven't been vaccinated at all and I wont be getting vaccinated in the future 

So, I don't take much interest in the subject

I do fail to understand why people who have presumably been vaccinated against polio, typhoid, tetanus and hepatitis suddenly think COVID vaccines are a malign conspiracy of some kind.

The data is in, a small chance of dying, depending on age group, and a much bigger chance ( 10-20% in Australia ) of developing "long COVID", meaning months of recovery and remediation therapy. Why gamble, when the after-effects of infection are so easily avoidable?

37 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

Get as many jabs as you like as I'm sure your research, if any has convinced you to keep taking them, so why even bother posting ?

Proton's question is reasonable, social media is rife with charlatans making various claims. You or I could spout any BS we fancy, all that is needed is a desk, a shelf of books behind us , a teleprompter,and a sincere expression.

One of the funniest I saw was some pseudo-doctor who attempted to illustrate masks did not work. He was out by a factor of 10 on the diameter of coronavirus, and did not know water vapor is a gas, not a liquid.