JackGats

Can be done with only a strong tranquilizer, not really being "put to sleep". Less stressful than a gastroscopy where you need to swallow down the tube.

I didn't know it was something you subjected yourself to without probable cause.

On 2/29/2024 at 10:54 AM, Ben Zioner said:

Great to hear from the "Horse's" mouth that LTR holders are exempt from foreign sourced Income Tax.

Yeah, horse's mouth in the vid at 31:40, for those with a personal interest in the LTR visa.

Replace "kratom" with "cannabis" and you get the type of article that will get published soon after they pass the de-legalisation bill on cannabis. The arresting and jailing will reboot.

1 hour ago, scottiejohn said:

How do you know?

Question mark: punctuation mark indicating a question, used to express doubt or uncertainty about something.

Why would anyone want to access porn through a Torrent site? Is accessing sites behind a VPN not enough?

Could the so-called kratom tea be just dried up powdered leaves shaken with some orange juice to make it palatable? That's what it tastes like to me.

I fortunately have no acute pain to manage. I take kratom tea once a week when I'm in Thailand just for the hell of it. No more than once a week, at one-week intervals. I don't feel any kratom craving. I'm glad when I realise "hey today is my kratom day", that's all. Of course on other days cannabis may be what keeps my mind off the opiate kratom. So much for cannabis leading to stronger stuff.

57 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

Let them be what they want. You don't have to deal with anyone who is a narcissist, looney or a misogynist. You walk away. For what my ex wife did to me, and the mind of my daughter, she deserved to be decked, but if I did that, it would have proved to everyone around her that I'm just like other farangs who beat their wives. They all respect me and think she's nuts. If you hit a woman, you're not a man, period. That's a boy that was never taught respect for a woman.

No wonder women are on a rampage in the West. 

If you had "decked" your ex who deserved it, you would have gone to jail even if she started the hitting and was coming at you with a knife, that's what  prevailing white knight's double standards like yours have brought about.

If anyone or anything, human or animal hit you, you should be entitled to hit back, period.

8 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I was taught striking a woman is the act of a moral coward.

I have never hit a woman, never will.

Striking a man is ok though.

1 minute ago, john donson said:

keep me awake... paradoxical effect

 

same as l-tryptophan, precursor of serotonin...

 

hot room is a problem and I can't sleep with airco on, not even a fan

 

hyperaccusis

Do you take blood-pressure meds? Because I think there's some incompatibility between theanine and blood-pressure medications.

Are SMSs from Australia to Thailand free for the bank? If not that might be the issue. I keep an EU cellular number to which my bank can send free SMSs free of charge. 

2 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

.. Wifey mentioned that it makes people hyper, so I'm assuming the 'on street' potions are loaded with 'additional' stuff (i.e. highly caffeinated etc) which I don't want... 

 

... I don't mind a little buzz and pain relief, but don't want all the other stuff which may make me a little hyper.

Kratom is known to produce some stimulating euphoria right after it kicks in. Later on it makes you want to lie down. At 60 baht per bottle I don't think they would bother to add any "other stuff".

Markets where fresh food like vegies and fruit are sold will generally have someone selling kratom "tea" from an ice box. Just ask and they will point you to the general direction where that someone is sitting. It's good to stick to the same provider so you can rely on the brew's strength.

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

In reality, the problem with frozen accounts that happened to them was on the RuSSian side.

That's bad.

However it's all I can do to keep my EU accounts in Thailand. If I moved to Russia I'd keep them no more than a few weeks I guess.

Well, if they moved to Russia, then got all their Canadian bank accounts  cancelled because of sanctions, that's hardly Russia's fault is it?

UK banks paying 5%? Wow! EU-banks are already down to 3% most of them.

I used DHL recently to send a hearing aid from Portugal to Belgium. Got delivered the next day.

If I could answer that question with certainty and accuracy I'd be a rich man.

I've found Gaviscon to be more efficient than PPIs. Dunno if it's ok for diabetics since it tastes sweet. Besides, it is mighty expensive. It is based on alginate building a raft on top of stomach content to prevent it from soaring.

1 hour ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

Because nobody would read it... that's the media for you.

Exactly. And the media know that. They print the message they want to convey in the title and the first two paragraphs. Then they print the correcting facts and the balanced assessment right at the end, in order to hedge against any accusation of dishonesty like the one I'm levelling here.

Alas, it works only to well.

16 hours ago, bamnutsak said:

...

The effects of consuming drug products containing a combination of substances can be unpredictable and dangerous. Most overdoses, including fatal ones, involve use of more than one type of drug.

 

https://www.unodc.org/LSS/Announcement/Details/0f57ddbe-01dd-481c-af78-0bc494c84a53

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1294617-tourists-warned-against-taking-‘happy-water’-drug-in-thailand/

 

Happy Water, what a crappy cocktail again! The quality of drugs in this part of the world is on a par with the quality of food IMO.

6 minutes ago, Seppius said:

It's what these guys add to it, cough mixture being one

It doesn't say so in the article. It says "kratom juice" which I take to mean "kratom tea".