JackGats

The charade of medical use. Bloody medical establishment want to rule the world and have their cut in everything. Cannabis has always been about getting high. Same in the US. If all you want to legalise is CBD then you're not legalising anything. And if you want to criminalise "non-medical use" then you're (re)criminalising cannabis, period.

Ash settles quickly. Short-term effect. SO2 lingers. Silica-rich volcanic ash produces rocks like pumice and tuff. Anyway it's all CO2 these days. The rest of geology is only for college.

No. Sulfur dioxide. Silica get spewed by volcanos but t is not a gas.

Before the election most of the posters here vilified the previous government. They hailed "the will of the people". Well there you are folks. The will of the people: taxes on our pensions, cannabis recriminalised ... what next?

Previous vibrance? Do you mean Indian tailor shops or suitcase shops?

Stinking people too, apparently.

I have an update and this time lesson learnt! I wanted to give cashless a further try but today the Bolt driver said after the ride had started that he didn't accept cashless payment. I cancelled the ride (so that at least he wouldn't get paid twice) and paid him cash. Bolt will refund the card booking, but I'm done with trying to ride cashless in Thailand. I think it would be for Bolt to put pressure on drivers or provide them with an incentive.

Yeah, so cannabis will remain legal, as long as its content is below placebo. Great.

Epstein's victims were not even below the age of consent unless you manipulate and twist the latter. They were entirely consensual. Victims? I mean these girls, whom I take it were mostly from trashy backgrounds, got to meet royalty, billionaires, world famous celebrities, and work on a dream private Caribbean island. Yet we are supposed to believe they are victims of the most horrible crime imaginable and that Epstein ruined their lives.

Yeah, happened to me once. Friend of mine said "what did I tell you? you should have parked the 800k in a separate account".

Ok. So no ceiling for currencies to have to be declared?

Why does God [not exist]?

"Bringing into or taking out of Thailand baht banknotes in an amount exceeding THB 450,000 or foreign currency banknotes in an amount exceeding USD 15,000 or its equivalent requires a Customs declaration when entering or leaving the country."

Lots who look very young on Soi 6 ... yet turn out to be over 30. With ages of consent creeping upwards everywhere nobody knows a young 'un from a middle-aged 'un anymore.

Many beer bar MILFs in Thailand spend nights with young backpackers. I guess then not much money changes hands, if at all. Logically the guy, as the hotter of both, should be the one getting paid. Older women capitalizing on a booming tourism industry to get laid far above their sexual market value. A far cry from the stereotyped image of prostitution. Women are clever. They contrive to get the long end of the stick more often than not.

On the contrary, using credit cards for micro-amounts is very handy. I remember how handy it was with Uber in Brazil, where even drivers preferred cashless payments so as not to accumulate cash. Bookings for peanut amounts kept popping up in the bank app, so what? No more "no change" scam. No more foraging in pockets for dirty bills and coins.

So it would seem negative balances work, positive ones don't. That's daft.

Can't leave well enough alone.

I see. Savings book getting filled in no time. Note that Bolt offers the option of transferring a lump sum as "Bolt credit" (or "Bolt balance"). Then individual rides are subtracted from that. This is a way to limit the number of transactions on the bank account.

I've had a minor hassle with Bolt. Whenever I used Bolt in Thailand in the past I paid cash and hadn't any credit card registered as "payment method". Last month however I was in Portugal where Bolt required a credit card. Bolt worked smoothly with my credit card in Portugal. After landing in Thailand I forgot to reset the Bolt payment method to "cash" so when my first ride in Pattaya ended, the Bolt app said "ok, paid". However at the very same time my bank app generated a push notification to the tune of "Bolt 85 Baht payment rejected". For three days on end I got the same notification over and over from my bank app! Bolt was apparently trying to book the 85 Baht, to no avail. After some messaging with the Bolt support they recommended I delete the credit card, then register it again. I did so and Bolt successfully booked a token amount of 0.03 euros from my card. After that I successfully paid off my 85-Baht "Bolt balance". Now I'm in two minds as to whether to leave the credit card for payment in the Bolt app. It would be nice if I could go cashless with Bolt in Thailand, but will not the next ride end up in the same "payment rejected" charade? Any experiences with foreign credit card to pay for Bolt? Do you first transfer an amount ("Bolt balance") into the Bolt app to be tapped as you go or do you wait for the app to book each ride independently ?

In the 80's living and working in Germany for decades, never observed the same.

Car rentals in many countries don't accept prepaids.

To boost road carnage.

I used the fast track lane on my flight out of Bangkok in October on the strength of my LTR visa. A pillbox with my sleeping pills had remained in my trouser pocket so they had me hand it to them. They then went on to LOSE it for me. They must've thrown it into another passenger's basket, like staff at baggage check often casually throw things around without checking to whom it belongs. I walked back after realizing it was missing and found them putting into a lost item plastic bag. First time in my life I nearly lost an important item at any baggage check. I hope fast-tracking will bring me more luck in the future.

Motorbikes surge out of nowhere, including against the direction of traffic. To be safe you need your head to be replaced by a flight tower radar. Vehicles in Thailand ACCELERATE whenever they spot a pedestrian. That way it's a sure kill if the pedestrian trips or stumbles.