JackGats

No COPD. My breathing is normal. It's just pflegm building up in my throat. I've started on anti-acids in case it was reflux this time. But if feels identical to what I felt whenever I got episodes of bronchitis. I'm not sure reflux can mimic that 100%. Tends to be worse when lying down though.

What I find noteworthy in this high-profile case is that he is not being forced to resign following some feminist voodoo sexual assault accusation, like "fondling the breast of a 19-year-old child thirty years ago". That is new and unprecedented, especially in the UK.

Ok, so there's that possibility too. I'll shop around for such a device. Would it then still fall under the vaping ban?

The TH in THC was for "tetrahydro", not for "Thailand". Vaping is, as you rightly point out, illegal in Thailand.

I'd say he is right from the point of view of economics. Besides, I am an staunch opponent of hand-outs and free lunches in which I cannot partake.

For decades I have had outbreaks of chronic bronchitis at regular intervals. Usually the symtoms (having to clear my throat all the time) go away after a few days' use of a Symbicort turbohaler. This time the turbohaler seems hardly to work at all. The only thing I've been doing new of late is taking a puff at a Ghost Jack Herer vaping pen. I've been doing so 4 or 5 days a week, taking a single puff each time. I feel no burning nor bronchitis symptoms right after puffing. In fact the symtoms tend to come later in the day or at night. Question: could this modest vaping habit be the cause of my lung condition? I've read horror story about how harmful, even lethal, vitamin E acetate (a common additive in THC oil vaping) can be.

I see. That is what I have always got with my AIS number. When I am outside Thailand I set my phone to search for a local partner network. I never subscribed to any roaming package though.

What is meant by "switching on global roaming"? Is it sufficient to turn on data usage while out of Thailand? I remember receiving messages from Bangkok Bank in Europe. They would not always come through but sometimes they did. I don't remember what I did or didn't do for this to happen or not.

Your embassy may be one that stopped issuing the so-called "embassy letter" regarding the transfer from old to new passport. I'll know by the end of next week whether this is a major snag, but Yaivisa Pass agency right next to Chonburi IO told me this would not be a problem for passports from my country. Said agency quoted me 2.5 Baht for the transfer which would take 3 working days.

Santander have an account called "Cuenta Mundo" directed at people who are not resident in Spain. https://www.bancosantander.es/en/particulares/cuentas-tarjetas/cuentas-corrientes/cuenta-no-residentes I could find no list of countries where you can reside and apply for such an account though. I fear it will be "one of the EU countries" as always, excluding we wretched souls who most need such an account.

Both apps have different ergonomics. Neither seems to have the edge regarding translation accuracy. However, and this is big news if you are learning Thai at a fairly advanced level, voice-to-text is much better in SayHi. Where Google Translate all too often contrives to freeze after just one word, or to truncate the beginning of a sentence, SayHi does a good job. I will from now on be using SayHi to decipher Thai vids in Youtube.

Somewhere a screenshot was posted of a subsequent page in the e-visa application. Some proof of residence was required and it said "pdf".

I think you can prove you are infertile but not that you've had a vasectomy, except maybe produce the paperwork dating back to the procedure (doctor's or hospital's invoice). Regrowth is rare, but the courts in the West use it as a pretext to make non biological fathers pay child support. This is outrageous because it only takes a few years before your body's immune system turns against sperms. In the West mothers who get child support will not allow a single hair of the baby to be collected for DNA testing. It's a violation of the baby's human rights you see. Having a man pay all his life for raising another man's child is not a violation of human rights though. I've read that in some cases the courts have sentenced a man for not telling the woman beforehand he was infertile. Damned if you do, damned if you don't

Except if you apply for a visa at some point in the future?

Mesterolone (Proviron) and Andractim Gel increase DHT rather than testosterone. If I understand right they are more for enchancing sex-drive than for building muscle mass, and they don't require also taking an aromatase inhibitor like testosterone does. I have no idea whether they are equal to the hype. They'd be the ones I'd try out if and when I did take the plunge into TRT.

I think I remember putting the question to Siam Legal and they replied they could do it. I didn't pursue the matter though. I might have needed to had I gone ahead with the retirement visa in Peru. Note that if the recipient of the police clearance "doesn't need to know" you were technically a resident of Thailand, simply getting one from your own country may turn out more expedient.

Next: "Tucker Carlson accused of paying sexual assault hush money to several women over the years".

Wait in the scorching heat, and mind you not in shorts because even being allowed to dress as lightly as you can is too much to ask. Nope, you are requied to dress "properly" so as to maximise discomfort.

Why do they call it "Jasmin" anyway? I was expecting flavoured rice, much like basmati rice, but it's only plain boring white rice.

I live in hotels as long as I can in Thailand, only taking refuge in a condo when the high season drive hotel prices too high. There are major advantages to living in hotels: 1) Cleaning. Thailand is a dusty place. Balconies get covered in soot within hours. I was told in Pattaya no cleaning woman is going to come to my condo for less than 600 Baht. That's more expensive than the hourly rate of cleaning in Paris. The cleaning lady in question worked for 50 minutes, didn't bring a vacuum cleaner (the small carpet remained unspeakably dirty), and didn't bother about cleaning the balcony. I ended up buying some tackle to do the cleaning myself. Talk of posh lifestyle. 2) Mobility. Switching hotels is a way of moving around and explore new surroundings if you want no parts in the killing fields, ie don't ride a motorbike. 3) Breakfast. It's not so much that breakfasts in Thai hotels are delicious, it's that you don't have to go out, buy things for breakfast and do the washing up afterwards. 4) Change of bed sheets and towels every day. 5) Removal of garbage and change of garbage plastic bag every day. 6) Two complementary small bottles of water every day. No lugging of water bottles from the 7/11. 7) Aircon or toilet flush malfunctioning? No problem, you're out of the room and into another in no time. 8) Three weeks to Ko Chang? Suitcase in storage and off you go, paying only for the place you sleep in. My being able to live mostly in hotels was one main incentive for retiring in Thailand. No longer being able to do so would be a game changer as far as I'm concerned.

I understand, but if you don't spend the whole year in TH, not having to be in TH each year around the same time of year for renewal is a mighty thorn off your side. I'll give the LTR a try before I go for the Elite of course.

Planning to make just that move ahead of the next renewal.

Yes I did, in order to apply for a new one asap. As far as I know, once there's a police report on a passport, its cancellation cannot be reversed. I guess the passport gets flagged internationally.

Yeah, I've even though shelling out one million baht for a 20-year Elite Visa might be a better deal overall than having 800k rotting in the bank. Besides, if I'm not mistaken they might refuse to recognise your 800k if it is not obvious the money came from abroad. So what if you get dividends from your broker paid onto the same account? Which money was from abroad and which from Thailand? It's a can of worms either way you look at it.

Did a 1st unsuccessful attempt at DIY, which I described in another thread on this forum. I was confronted with a requirement regarding a long-term renting contract I couldn't produce since I was to leave Thailand end of April (ie just after renewal).