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2 minutes ago, pdtokyo said:

I'm not trying to be smart ... simply helpful ... but do you have a Plan B for the surgery? Even if the virus (as i expect) eventually fizzles and herd immunity kicks in, imo it's likely the Oz health system will be gasping to catch up for the rest of the year ... 

Plan B is to reschedule. My urologist's surgery list expands and contracts on a daily basis. I have top level private health cover in Oz, and his receptionists are always helpful.

Thanks for your concern, it's nice to see a poster who is not smartarse. Although I've been guilty many times.

This is a great thread, as I'm a Chiang Rai newbie. Living at the Chiang Rai Condotel.

Two inexpensive restaurants close by, on Baanpapragarn Road past the Clock Tower. Soodkhed Steak, free salad bar. Timothy's, just past the curve in the road. A fraction more upmarket. Chicken in pepper sauce, Canadian ham steak. My GF likes Soodkhed Steak, and she is a fierce food critic.

3 hours ago, madmen said:

How do you eat? 

I normally use a knife and fork.

3 hours ago, UbonThani said:

What if someone has 5 kids? They supposed to pay for hotel costing $1500?

 

This is madness

Hire a caravan, and stay on the Rosebud foreshore. Plenty of vacancies now.

2 hours ago, Don Mega said:

is the ability to buy toilet paper online really an issue for someone self isolating.... am sure they can come up with other means to clean their behinds.

Australia is well behind Thailand ( double entendre fully intended ). Plumbers won't install bum washers without extra incentive. They claim cunning bacteria can swim backwards into mains water.

2 hours ago, Don Mega said:

Drink beer and masturbate furiously.

I abstain in Oz, and catch up with my GF when I get back to Thailand.

3 hours ago, madmen said:

Well unfortunately I fly in on the 20th , however as part of the stimulus package all pensioners get $750 if in the country on 31st march so I get paid $375 A WEEK to stay home and watch netflix an 0rder woolworths home delivery ( if there is anything left to deliver) and drink superb wine with superb cheeses?. I can live with that

$375 a week doesn't go far in Oz unless you have a roof over your head as well.

Woolworths? Aldi is much better value, although possibly they don't deliver.

I'm returning in August, surgical procedure scheduled a week later. Hoping it's all blown over by then.

25 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

As a married couple, with the property being purchased by mortgage during the marriage it's already 50% yours.

With no will you would automatically inherit 1/2 of her share on death.

 

So you'd be 75% owner by doing nothing.

Thailand has no time limit on probate, if you're executor, just do nothing and leave the house in her name.

I'm confused, because how can the OP be an executor if there is no will?

Just now, thainet said:

Bit hard to rent from a deceased person.

He can rent from the family. It all depends on what his wife's will says. She can will the property to the family, with the stipulation he can stay there until he dies or leaves.

43 minutes ago, sceadugenga said:

The peanut lady around in the Western entrance seals her wares with rubberbands.

Can't eat peanuts, mild diverticulitis.

1 hour ago, saengd said:

It's classic that you're attacking the poster rather than attacking (or even commenting on) the reports and studies which form the basis of the posters comments! That suggests you have no interest in discovery or any argument apart from what is at the end of your nose, the same one you have always owned. That's all too bad, the Greenpeace report is revealing and the accompanying study fascinating, the structure of ownership and trade the author uncovered was insightful.

 

And I make to hint about changing the culture or the need for education, I I have no interest and make no recommendation about those things. At this stage in the proceedings I'm solely interested in establishing cause and that's been 100% of what I've written about, actually, it seems as though you've not understood much of what has been said and have assumed what the arguments might be, may I suggest you go back and re-read.  

It's not hard to understand the two causes of LOCAL air pollution in Chiang Mai are burning off, and vehicular emissions. It's a matter of using eyes on the ground. You think Chiang Mai is somehow a magnet for the smoke from Shan State and Laos?

 I am attacking thinking which addresses causes without providing solutions. That's lazy and facile. Bear in mind your first response was to say my solution was simplistic. Cet animal est tres mechant, qu'on l'attaque il se defend. In other words, you started down the ad hominem path.

I can agree to disagree with you quite comfortably.

I'm staying. No point in going back to Oz now, Melbourne will be heading into winter and Thailand is heading into summer.

Due to go back to Oz in August, hopefully it will have run its course by then.

6 minutes ago, sceadugenga said:

All of the local markets I go to still seal plastic bags with rubber bands unless they have built in handles then they just tie them off.

The big market up from the clock tower with a smaller white clock tower only seems to have the handle type.

When I lived in Chiang Mai, everything I bought in the local markets had rubber bands. I had a hook in my kitchen to hang them on, dozens of them.

Now I'm in Chiang Rai, there is a famine of rubber bands. Nary a one to be seen on anything I buy. I'm suffering from withdrawal symptoms.

Is this a cultural difference between the two cities? Is there a rubber-eating golem on the 118? Should I apply for a work permit to import them for obscene profits? Can some kind soul tell me why is it so?

3 hours ago, saengd said:

I think the Greenpeace report is pretty compelling, twice the number of hotspots. And the NASA firemaps are also pretty compelling, you should try looking at both and seeing just how unscientific those things are...NASA Firemaps unscientific, too funny.

You sound to me like the classic bureaucrat that delights in complexity, because it provides a good living.

Perhaps you have not heard the story of Alexander the Great, who solved the problem of the Gordian Knot by cutting it with his sword. Nowadays, I believe it's called thinking outside the square.

Go to Malaysia. In two weeks there, I didn't see a single fire. No trucks, buses, pickups or cars belching smoke. You think that's achieved by changing the culture? I'll bet there are some fairly stiff penalties.

Blathering about where the smoke is in the various nations is not solving the problem. I daresay I've solved more problems during my professional life than you ever have, so calling me simplistic illustrates your own lack of understanding.

4 minutes ago, saengd said:

You could try reading post number 40, OR, you could read the Greenpeace report that Sally posted earlier, OR, you could just look at the graphs I extracted and posted from it above, OR, you could just read the following. But if you want your very own personalized "better answer" described just for you, you're going to be SOL!

 

"I has always thought that blown in pollution was a lesser problem when compared to home grown pollution, I am now convinced the homegrown variety is dwarfed by what's happening in neighboring countries, possibly even as much as 70/30 but that's just a guess". 

Of course I'm SOL, because you don't have anything better, just unscientific guesses which are irrelevant to any solution. Thanks for stopping by.

2 minutes ago, saengd said:

What I get is that yet again TVF posters demonstrate their need for easy simple answers and most often don't look beyond the end of their nose, let alone read reports or studies, even when they do contain pretty pictures and easy to read graphs!

Ok, let's hear your better answer. Please, no BS about education. The Thai education system is dedicated to dumbing down the populace.

Are you mad? I would never hire a driver here, they are about as competent as I am at neurosurgery.

If they don't kill you, the odds are pretty good you'll have white hair at journey's end.

Oh please, those on thread bleating about Shan State and Laos just don't get it. Doi Suthep is on fire NOW. It's local action.

There is a fairly simple solution to the air pollution problem. Fine and jail the poo yais in any villages where the fires occur. Confiscate private property of any landowner burning off. Without compensation.

It wouldn't take long for the message to sink in.

Not that it's ever going to happen.

22 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Well actually not, he is correct in that Visas are never transferred. A VIsa can still be utilized in an old passport but not transferred to a new passport. It is the old Semantics and argument of what is a Visa, and of an Extension being called a Visa .

He's incorrect in saying you need both passports coming or going, yes?

The road  still has lots of roadworks between Doi Saket and Baan Narm Ronn - i.e. the mountain stretch. Adds about 20 minutes to the trip. IMO a dog's breakfast, why they can't finish one stretch before hacking up another is beyond me.

The other alternatives are going down to Lampang and hooking up through Highway 1, or out through Phrao and joining the 118 at Wiang Pa Pao. Both add about an hour to the journey. One rough stretch of about 2 km on the mountainside coming into the 118 from Phrao. It's the road much less travelled.

The regular 118 for me is about 4 hours, including a stop for coffee. I'm not a leadfoot, sit on 90 km/hr on the better bits.

4 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Local IOs can do this. 

Mine was done in Chiang Mai. Lady that did it had very neat writing.

On 3/15/2020 at 8:03 AM, jacko45k said:

It is more likely you had your entry stamp and EXTENSION transferred to the new passport. 

 

There are four stamps in the new passport. TR, July 2014. Non-O, August 2014. Non-RE, August 2019. Also a stamp which details the number of the old passport, and what I think was either my first entry into Thailand, or the commencement date of the old passport.  My extension was November 2019. Not sure if that addresses the point you are making.

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Why don't you try looking for another employer in the time you have?