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All these polls are less than useless. The popular vote means nothing.

Nice living in an imaginary world, is it?

For me, he has way too many interviews with MMA fighters, comedians, sports figures, etc., so these I just skip. His interviews with people of some substance, though, can be ok. He comes across as not super well-informed and not super intelligent but not dumb either. A regular, straight-forward guy who has genuine curiosity and enjoys talking to people. Politically, he took what I consider an unfortunate turn during the pandemic and seems a bit audience-captured, but again, I just skip the interviews with politicians.

Which clinic or dentist, if you don't mind sharing?

Yeah, try buying a car with gold. This thread is funny for a number of reasons, first in that it claims to be about the value of money (various currencies) but the chart illustrates the value of gold. The price of gold in dollars, pounds, baht, etc., doesn't affect in any significant way the value of those currencies for purchasing everything that is not gold (i.e., almost everything). Rotating the graph is cute but pointless. And using the graph as a starting point for talking about "currencies with a value of zero) is especially funny. It would only be true if gold were the only thing that could be purchased with currency AND if gold could conceivably become infinitely valuable -- the former is of course never true and the latter is impossible.

The extraction itself was surprisingly cheap. Less than 25% what my dentist in the US would have charged. I guess that's one reason why the price quoted for the implant was more than I expected.

OP here. That is certainly an option. It is in fact what my dentist in the U.S. told me a year or so ago, before the problem became acute. Right now I (a couple of weeks after the extraction) I'm just seeing if I can get used to the hole there. As for having too many teeth. I had teeth extracted when young an only have two molars on the lower left side now. It is very weird, having a tooth above but nothing below. That said, given the location, if I decide to do the implant it would make sense to go with the lowest cost option as far as material goes, since no one will see it.

OP here. Sorry I wasn't more specific in my original post. I said only "well-known international hospital in Bangkok." It was in fact BHDC. They did a great job with my extraction and I'd definitely and happily go back for dental work, but the sticker shock of their quote for the implant threw me for a loop. I wanted to know what the options were in BKK and elsewhere in Thailand. (I live in Thailand.) One thing seems clear -- prices from a few years ago are hopelessly out of date. Inflation has really made its mark. Thanks for the many informative follow-up posts.

Thanks

Need to make a quick trip to the U.S. and just noticed my U.S. driver's license has expired. Obviously people with a Thai passport can rent cars with a Thai license. Anyone with experience (positive or negative) renting a car in the U.S. with U.S. passport but only Thai license? Thanks.

It is certainly possible at "the yellow bank" and at "the blue and orange" bank. 😉 Some say it's useful to go to branches that are used to dealing a lot with foreigners (e.g. Sukhumvit, Silom and Sathorn areas of BKK).

Had a back-most lower molar removed at a well-known international hospital in Bangkok. It went well and suprisingly didn't cost much. What they've quoted me as the cost of an implant, though, is outrageous -- 93,000 to 120,000 baht. Almost the same as in the U.S. Any recommendations for a good place in BKK to get a molar implant at a reasonable price? Preferably not at one of those factory-like clinics that specialize in up-selling to medical tourists. Thanks.

The wife and I loved our one visit there. Jay Fai was "only" 72 or 73 at the time, but even then I wondered how she did it.... standing and cooking over a large super-hot wok hours at a time. The food was great and the cook was inspiring. She's earned a peaceful retirement.

I've noticed in BKK lately that Chinese tourists (men especially) are really tending to wear all black.

True. But that kind of thinking would reduce the number of posts on this site by 90%.