JackGats

Yeah, that's the kind of games Agoda plays. It always tries to trick me into paying in euros. And when I force the payment in baht, Agoda jacks up the baht price without warning, so it tends to be a lose-lose situation for me. Apparently it does so because in their small print, there's a provision for a fee if the local price is in a currency different from your credit card currency. I've tried to circumvent all this by paying with my Thai debit card but - lo and behold - Agoda rejects my Thai credit card. So with Agoda I'm screwed whatever I do. That's why I've booked on Trip dot com more often of late. Although usually a tick more expensive than Agoda, Trip doesn't play games and is always cheaper than Booking dot com. Note that Booking dot com doesn't play games although the mother company is the same as Agoda's. From what I understood this is because Booking is subject to EU regulations while Agoda with head office in Singapore is not. EU regulations do not allow additional fees to be added at the last click.

Happens to men all the time. But only matters when it happens to a wymmyn. Worse even, when it happens to a man he will nonetheless get called a predator.

Approved at EU level then. Because if I remember right for example Sweden and Belgium don't recommend it for over 60. It might be difficult finding a physician willing to breach the party line in such countries. This disease is a new ballgame as getting it once does the reverse from giving immunity. We are not out of the woods yet.

Ok, anyway it seems it is not recommended for the over 60 years old who never had dengue. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1477893923000583

I never had much luck with Thai avocados. They never seem to ripen as they should. They grow darker and darker until they become pitch black and hard as stone. I don't see any other use for them except as cannon balls. Until such time as I purchase a cannon on Lazada I'll skip buying avocados in Thailand.

Qdenga is a vaccine for those without previous infections. I wonder if it's worth getting.

A "big" online escort service for foreigners worthy of the name has never existed in Thailand that I know of. Just a few websites with a handful of mostly 10 year-old pics. Funny how the police here is regularly reported to crack down on "notorious" outfits that no one has ever heard of.

Isn't the canal connecting two oceans? If so how can there be a lack of water? I thought that the ice caps were melting and the oceans were rising. Now the oceans are drying up.

The Shingrix vaccine is over 90% effective.

I could never finish a Dickens novel (not for want of trying). Dickens' characters are unconvincing, his children characters come across as though they were 60 years old. His writing is unwieldy. His humour is lame.

I assume this concerns State pensions. I find this refusal to transfer pensions to countries like Thailand an absolute scandal. What business is it of theirs where you choose do do your banking? I'm curious if they also refuse to pay pensions, say to women who settled in countries where women would settle, like Canada or Australia. I'm sure the State (ie the gynocracy) doesn't like pensioners to spend their money on Thai women.

That's alcohol for you. The drug that makes people incoherent and aggressive. Therefore, Society's drug of choice.

That maybe why some passports now have the data page made of plastic.

If the expiration date is 6 months away. I've never risked it though.

My Miles&More account has my middle name missing. I hope if ever I redeem a flight I can correct this in the booking.

So for example if you flew on a one-way ticket with at least six months remaining on your Thai visa, they would try to bump you for not having a return flight.

A girl who was studying for the bar was keen on me back then. Though not ugly, she was no looker either. I don't regret having passed.

Nazi = national socialism (Nationalsozialismus). So strictly speaking Hitler was a socialist.

Right-wing populist parties aren't fascists (why would they be?). They're anti-immigration, vaguely anti-EU and anti-NATO, opposed to climate hysteria and compulsory homosexuality, among other things. They gain traction, threatening the binary-trap monopoly of established parties. The latter then try every trick in the book to have them banned. Old guard clinging to power. Rings a bell.

She still has fifty times more chances of getting justice than disenfranchised men have in their Western home countries.

Indeed that was July 18th not August 18th!

I just got the mail stating my "qualifications for LTR have been endorsed". That's rather quick. I applied on August 18th with all required documents. Planning to fly to Thailand around August 20th. I'm confused about in which order I am to do things as of now. I am outside Thailand and I want the visa to be stamped in Bangkok. What I should do next is "choose the location for LTR issuance" (OSS Bangkok) on the LTR website. Should I do that right now OR after I've booked a flight to Thailand OR after I've landed in Thailand? There's also the termination of my present visa (non-O) that goes hand in hand with a form bearing the rambling title "CRITERIA AND CONDITIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FORM FOR PRE-APPROVAL PROCESS ...". At which point should I upload said form? Right now OR after I've booked a flight to Thailand OR after I've landed in Thailand? When I log in to my status page I don't see any button to "choose the location for LTR issuance". I only see "Please upload the remaining documents and update additional information in order to proceed with the visa issuance". Is that because I already chose the issuance in Bangkok right from the start of my application? I don't remember exactly what I did back then but I have a faint memory I was prompted for that choice already.

Theanine

Strictly speaking, the correct pronoun should be "it".

How would a virtual card work in case of a refund? Can the ticket be refunded on the virtual card? I thought virtual cards were burner cards, to be used only once (like in order to pay membership on a porn site lol).