JackGats

The Iranians working at the IDC are not per se gangsters. They do most of the leg-work. They even take care of some of the paperwork which should be the responsibility of Thai staff. I remember being grateful for an Iranian who spoke good English. He dug out the file of the detainee I'd come to help out so that, at last, something could be done. I remember his barely hiding his impatience at the lethargy of Thai staff around him. I surmise they're Iranians who are no longer wanted in their own country (refugees of sorts).

Write to driving licence agencies and ask them if they can help. My agency in Pattaya offered to secure a certificate of residence for a fee with a view to renewing the licence. You may have to do the hotel thing first so that you are "residing" within the constituency of the agency.

The death penalty for drugs (or blasphemy, or adultery, or prostitution ...) has never been a deterrent. It's a satanic cult that happens to be called "the law".

Ciclopirox and other pharmacy varnishes didn't work for me. What I found worked better was tea tree oil.

Seems your brains were blown out too.

Don't pharmacies in Thailand only sell delayed-onset Melatonin? I switched to Theanine as my soft, non-addictive sleeping aid. I noticed it worked much like Melatonin only much longer. While Melatonin only helped me to fall asleep, Theanine kept me sleeping for hours. P.S. Theanine is often not recommended for people who take blood pressure medication, but I don't know how stringent this contraindication is.

I certainly don't believe in ad hoc narratives from a scientific nomenklatura who keep changing the goal posts.

Yes but I don't believe in that narrative. They changed it to hedge their bets after the rate of global warming didn't materialise. Especially so after it turned out temperature measurements had been taken too close to cities as cities grew (urban heat islands). They stigmatised sceptics for refusing to believe in anthropic global warming, but they refused to recognise there was an "anthropic" bias with measurements being taken too close to modern cities. By definition the climate is that which changes. Throwing in rain, droughts, winds, coastal erosion, hurricanes just serves to allow cherry-picking events as they happen. The refusal to make allowances for population explosion whenever geohazards are being attributed to "climate change" is a scientific scandal. The world's population grew from an estimated 2.5 billion in 1950 to 7.9 billion in 2021!

When it turned out global warming was not clear-cut they renamed it "climate change". When it turned out climate change itself was not clear-cut they renamed it "rate of change". What next? Or maybe you thing you're the only one on this forum who understands secondary school maths?

Really? So it's alright to execute people for adultery or insulting Allah isn't it? Because those criminals knew the law. They knew there was a death penalty for blasphemy or adultery. Congratulations for your enlightened view!

Let out a stinker so that everybody rushes to open the windows?

I remember reading about a youngster who turned in his dad (who was dealing meth). Rarely happens though.

If it were up to me (and not up to the girl to accept me), I'd apply the following formula: Gap = [my age] - 18 The reason being you don't need females to be old already, they get old by themselves.

According to David Benatar, when people fall into depression it's because they suddenly see life for what it is, instead of through the lens of our hard-wired optimism bias. I've considered becoming a perpetual nomad but I'm scared. I've got so much running on my passport or smartphone these days. If I lose one of them I'll need six months to recover. So it's cannabis and Viagra for me.

If you're intelligent you're evidence-driven, not faith-driven.

Drugs is a choice, period.

Absolutely not, and you know it or you are ignorant or you're on a virtue-signalling trip like Trump. In the US, the feminist tradcons refer to prostitution as "human trafficking", also of course to boost the trafficking myth. If you watch news conferences from red state areas, all the corrupt feminist police refer to prostitution that way. So this is proposing the death penalty for actions related to prostitution, this is what is happening.

Could be from the genus Cortinarius (webcaps) if the gills are brown to reddish brown. Contains a few deadly species and no good edibles (in Europe at least). It is not realistic to diagnose mushrooms on the basis of only a pic of the caps. The smell is also diagnostic. Plus, the taste (a bit is placed on the tip of the tongue, then spat out!) provided notoriously deadly species have been ruled out.

"It only matters when it happens to women" I'm sure conditions are much worse in the building industry where (male) workers are kept like cattle on site and work accidents are rampant.

Israeli carriers too. Armed and in civvies. More for terrorism prevention though.

The only man who understands rate of change is Al Gore. In 2009 he predicted the ice cap would be gone by 2015.

The Earth had no ice at the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and it was probably a far better place to live judging by the fossil record.

If I enter Thailand with the LTR eVisa application in process, they would not be able to issue the LTR because I'd have to do it in Thailand. And an emphasized "fee is non-refundable". Am I right in taking "LTR eVisa application" here to mean "LTR-visa issuance at a consulate outside Thailand", as opposed to issuance at the one-stop center in Bangkok? So the take-home point is, if you opt to get your LTR stamp outside Thailand, do not travel to Thailand in the meantime lest by doing so you abort your LTR process. On the other hand, if you opted to get your LTR stamp in Bangkok, do travel to Thailand asap in order to be able to get your LTR stamp within 60 days of the notification of endorsement.

Trump is now pandering to the paedohisteric non-libertarian right. He'll do anything to get reelected. Disgusting. I've just listened to part of a speech by Putin sent to me by a Putin sympathiser. Much to my dismay, compared to Trump Putin comes across as rational, and often I can't help myself thinking "Putin has a point". I'd prefer it to be otherwise. I'd prefer Trump and other Western pundits to be rational and honest while Putin would be the malicious low-life he's made out to be. But it's not what it is and I don't like it.

Oh yeah? Like having a "child" girl-friend (17, 18, 21 years old?) over state borders? These days anything is human trafficking or raping, any grown-up woman is a child, can't you understand that?