RamenRaven

1. Thai women don't care about sausage size at all unless they have been repeatedly exposed to the idea. It's just not that high up on their list of priorities. They're probably thinking, who cares how big the sink faucet or garden hose is? As long as it's strong. 2. Numerous studies have shown that sausage size very roughly correlates with height, not race or ethnic origin. It's like shoe size and height. Tall Asian guys will naturally have bigger sausages, like the occasional big, tall Thai men that you see with big, fat hands. But mostly like not the typical 165 cm tall Thai villagers.

What kinds of women do you hang out with? Many of them have short, fat strong fingers, especially the street vendors.

More like 200 to 300 baht in Western restaurants, and the portions often aren't that big either.

Open Google Play, which is a sideways triangle icon. Type "QR" or "QR scanner." You can check online sites too if you want to have an idea of what kinds of QR scanner apps are out there. https://uqr.me/best-qr-code-readers/ You can also ask people around you to help out with various steps of these confusing procedures.

It looks like this is meant to cater towards the mainland Chinese.

Not sure what you mean. Like you want to say that certain body parts are also smaller? ????

This means everyone will be required to have a smartphone in order to enter Thailand right, since QR codes are mandatory? What about old-fashioned people who don't use phones? Even right up to early 2020, no immigration officers anywhere in the world would even care if you had a smartphone or not. This means forcing phoneless elderly relatives and friends to use smartphones if they want to visit Thailand and having to budget around $100 more to get phones for them. And what happens if you have a laptop but no phone, or if your phone runs out of batteries and you have no power bank?

Everything is smaller in Thailand. The people are smaller. Houses are smaller. Roads are smaller. Food portions are smaller. Clothing is smaller. Even the cows are smaller. And so are the prices. Also the stress levels. Anything else you can think of?

How would you typically get that letter or certificate from the insurance company? Give them a call and they'll email you something, or the usual Thai bureaucracy with some actual visits and signatures on a few paper documents?

What about expats who already have annual health insurance from companies like BUPA and AXA? My insurance costs me about 20,000 per year. I'm not sure exactly how much is covered, but it would be accepted for the Thailand Pass in case I want to fly in and out of the country right?

Thailand has always been much, much safer than the US and UK, and continues to be. Since when are there dangerous Thai street gangs tagging graffiti, controlling entire city blocks, and shooting people everywhere?

Not just because of the overall air quality as reported on IQair, but mostly because of local agricultural and trash burning everywhere.

I still prefer to keep putting on an N95 mask because of the horrendous air pollution, not because of the virus.

If you need to travel because your COVID vaccination was over 270 days ago, then yes, because many countries now have this requirement for incoming travelers. If you're worried about the virus itself, then it's not necessary.

Smoke is fine as long as it's organic and not plastic or rubber, or insane amounts of smoke like when Thais burn down very large felled trees. My windows are all boarded up because of this.

I'm not one of the forum posters who complain about it and am actually used to it by now. N95 masks, which we're all used to by now (except if you're one of those anti-vaxxer activists) and air purifiers do the trick. It's like dealing with snow or rain, no big deal. Nanny state problems back in the West are much worse.

Doesn't the smoke seep into your own house though? How would you deal with the smoke that lingers around for about half an hour afterwards?

Rap music is not explicitly banned in any municipal code since minorities would sue for perceived discrimination. But in practice, neighbors are disproportionately likely to call the cops on you if dress in hip-hop clothing while blasting rap music out of a lowrider car in an exclusive suburban neighborhood. Similar to any other activity that middle-aged middle-class suburbanites perceive as a nuisance.

Thanks, now I understand my Thai neighbors better.

Wow, what an amazing custom built house! Love the large windows and beautiful garden. No one would let anyone build that in a US, UK, or Canadian suburb, where cookie-cutter homes are enforced by law.

Want to change your front door or paint your house purple? You'll be destroying the character of the neighborhood and will get lectured, fined, and forced to make your house exactly the same as every other McMansion. Some suburban homeowners have even been hassled for growing edible plants in their yards. No loitering in front of your own house in hip-hop attire, or else the paranoid neighbors would call the cops because of a neighborhood watch mandate. But in Thailand, you can burn all you want, let the dogs loose, dump Chang beer bottles all over your front yard, play loud music, park motorcycles anywhere. Your fence or house can be as weird as you want it to be. No one cares. "Free at last, thank God Almighty I'm free at last!"

Thanks for the explanation. I've never seen anyone burn leaves in the US because I've only seen suburbs where no one would even know that leaves can actually be burned. Neighbors would likely call the cops or firefighters at the slightest hint of any smoke. How does burning in Thailand differ from burning on US farms? Like what you would do with the burnt pile afterwards.

Be careful of what you wish for! If you go near that, you'll be knocking over street market umbrellas and breaking bathroom doorways.

But, what is the logic behind burning all of it? Not cricitizing anyone. Just trying to understand why.

What are some height differences between Thai vs. US/UK building standards? Particularly the kinds of height differences that we need to know so that taller Westerners would not be going to the hospital for head injuries and neck/back problems. Regular doorway height Bathroom doorway height Sink height Countertop height Toilet height/size Ceiling height Cabinet height And other heights Need a list of all the various height differences to tell Thai builders. If you just let them do everything according to Thai standards, they'll build something custom designed for tiny little Auntie Noi by default. For instance, Thais keep building countertops at 80 cm or bathroom doors at 180 cm, or cooking smoke ventilators below my eyes even in new homes. Too small and painful. My height: right at 6 feet, maybe a bit taller, pretty average for Westerners.