JackGats

Unless you can get OTPs on your Thai mobile number?

I'm not surprised. Acquaintance of mine converted 30k euro worth of crypto into euros through transfer to his EU bank account. He'd given warning to the bank through his usual contact at the bank where he was well known and had been banking for 30 years. All the same, his account was rescinded overnight, no explanation given. They (banks, governments) don't want us to do crypto. Soon the only way will be to own private wallets, buy crypto from one another, never convert to fiat, pay only trustworthy merchands (eg porn website, escort girls, drug dealers) with crypto. If you have crypto on a crypto exchange, it's high time to transfer the lot to a private wallet IMO. The OP doesn't say from which crypto exchange he bought. From what I understand some exchanges are considered more legit than others. On the other hand, this might be a Thailand thing.

I've had more vaccines than you've had hot dinners. I should be long dead by now.

No, I wouldn't have said the same of course. Male sexual consent is worth nothing. Male prostitution is seldom an issue, even in the US. Pussy is what everyone gets hot under the collar about. I don't understand what "young enough to be my Great Granddaughters" has to to with the topic. I'm sure zillions of women are young enough to be my Great Grandaughters. It's not their fault, they'll get over it.

Sonetel call.com

What I'd like to know is the following: is the high protection (80%) against hospitalisation also valid for seronegative individuals, or does this figure conflate seronegatives with seropositives? If the vaccine does nothing to protect seronegatives from severe illness, or puts them at slightly more risks than non-vaccinated, better wait till you've had dengue once before getting vaccinated.

Sonetel might be worth looking at:

It's an unrewarding language to learn. The time you spend (waste) on learning Thai is time you could spend on lots on more rewarding things. I still can't follow the news headlines in Thai or read a Thai newspaper unaided after learning Thai for 5 years. The reason is 1) I'm getting older and my memory is no longer what it was 2) Thais don't answer me back in Thai never mind how better my Thai is compared to their "English".

I don't remember taking any test when I got my driving licence renewed. Did it through an agency though. It was just a question of getting photographed. Anyway, what does "digitally" mean here? If you have to travel down to the Dpt anyway to get photographed, it doesn't change much whether you need to take a test or two (or watch a video).

It seems now the Qdenga vaccine gets recommended by many countries even for seronegatives. Many countries still recommend against it for seronegatives though: https://academic.oup.com/jtm/article/32/3/taaf023/8064715 According to ChatGPT the vaccine affords low protection (something like 40%) against infection, but high protection (80%) against hospitalisation. This is reminiscent of the Covid vaccines (please no rant about the Covid vaccines!) I'm still sitting on the fence.

Why low? Because I'm mocking a nation that postures about LI-BER-TY like no other in History, while at the same time criminalizing such basic freedoms as that of walking up to a woman and telling her "I give you one hundred, let's have some fun together"?

Here's a slice of Thai life about the teaching of English in Thai schools: The Thai sub-titles are original (not auto-generated).

Could it be the girls were suspected of planning to trade sex for accomodation? Trading sex for material gain is PRA-STI-TU-TION !!! In the land of Liberty, that's a crime worse than terrorism.

Where can I buy a dry herb vaporizer in Pattaya? I asked around, they don't seem to even know what that is. They only have disposable vaping pens (with God knows what inside).

The toxic masculinity charade again. Male-bashing may have been why many men voted for Trump though having little to gain from most of his policies?