Bday Prang

I was a little surprised when i went to my local immigration office to ask for a covid extension. My current permission to stay expires on June 23rd I went on June the 9th. However the extremely helpful officer suggested that I return nearer my current expiry date as according to him the 60 day covid extensions start from the day one applies and I therefore if he had processed the application there and then (which he was quite prepared to do ) I would have forfeited 14 days. I had assumed, obviously incorrectly that the 60 days would be added on to my current expiry date, so it was nice of them to help, and no problem for me as i live only 5 minutes from the office

Absolutely right, but to be honest I've always been of the opinion that the illegality of cannabis (or any other drug for that matter) had very little bearing on peoples inclination to indulge themselves. That's the main reason that the "war on drugs" has been such an abject failure. However I do find the thought of the Thai Visa anti drug stalwarts suddenly deciding to indulge themselves highly amusing. Can you imagine them "all fingers and thumbs" as they try to knock up a "3 skinner" Or even better, watching them fall off their barstools as they experience a "whitey" when smoking for the first time after 6 bottles of chang ! Unlike alcohol its pretty much unregulated (so far) so there are no standardised strengths or measures or opening hours to guide the "newbies" could be a lot of fun indeed. Best stock up on chocolate too as there may soon be a national shortage

The "brick" weed referred to tends to vary in quality, some of it can be very strong indeed and would hold its own against some of the modern strains in my opinion, particularly regarding the length of the high. Modern commercially produced strains seem to me to produce a rather short lasting high leaving the user wanting more, especially when grown hydroponically. Whereas I generally find traditionally grown brick weed produces a longer lasting more "rounded" high and without the desire to smoke one after the other, Although due to the inherently hermaphroditic nature of Thai "brick" weed there can often be problems regarding the excessive amount of seeds, so its best to find a regular supplier you can trust regarding quality A couple of years ago a kilo was available for 20k baht and we regularly scored smaller amounts of around 25 gram for 1000 baht

This seems to be a perfect example of (as the Thais say) "farang think too much" No Thai people that I have spoken to, including a couple of police, have gotten their knickers in such a twist over this. If you want to grow it , then grow it, If you want to smoke it then smoke it, just be discrete, there's no need, or reason to walk down the high street blazing away (and as such creating a public nuisance for which you may receive a small fine) Like wise if you grow it, how on earth will anybody know the % of THC with out carrying out a "mass gas spectrometry " test? Just behave "normally" use a bit of common sense and all will be fine Regular users know this already having smoked it for years regardless of its legality, it seems to be the "newbies" who are getting themselves all worked up.

I guess some people are really disappointed that is all over, The fear mongering has been on another level since day one, and not only from the authorities and the self professed "experts" One particular "tall" guy on here was posting every day , every time some official "statistics" were released he felt the need to dutifully publish them on here along with a few cut and pasted charts to verify his efforts, and the same terrified people dutifully "liked" his declarations. and often added a few of their own figures to further fan the flames of fear, I wonder if these people always blindly believe government statistics without question? It would appear that its not only the authorities that seek to control the behaviour of others. The same people also seemed to delight in vilifying anybody who dared to question the official "narrative" I also found it a bit strange that the death of 80+ year old people from covid was suddenly a "tragedy" whereas, a few years ago, if they had died from Flu, or anything else for that matter it wouldn't have raised an eyebrow. There's going to be a few people with nothing to talk about now, but then again there's still monkey pox........!

Thanks for the quick reply

Sorry, tried to upload a photo from the net but was somewhat unsuccessful, here is an actual photo of the unit in question.

My consumer unit is fitted with a RCBO as shown in the attached photo, my question is regarding the small on / off switch in the lower right hand corner, when I press the "test" button with the small switch set to "off" it appears to work normally I.E the breaker trips out However when I press the "test" button with the small switch set to "on" nothing happens ! To me this implies that the small switch should be normally be set to the "off" position for the RCBO to work normally. To my simple way of thinking this appears strange,and the more I think about it the more worried I get, can any of our sparkies shed any light on this ? Thanks in advance Ckle2p-65-Earth-Leakage-Circuit-Breaker-ELCB.webp

"My earlier moan"?? I wasn't moaning, why would I moan? I made a claim, and, contrary to my expectations, I got paid out, happy days. That was the fundamental message of my post. I was just a little surprised at the lack of communication who wouldn't be ? You obviously. The only thing shown in a "completely different light" was your sad little provocative attempt at being a keyboard warrior. I noticed that you've tried it half a dozen times with other peoples posts on this particular thread. The weather is a bit miserable today did you start drinking earlier than usual

just to put your mind at rest here is a copy of my quarantine bill

No I did not expect a "running commentary on the entire claim process" but as their claim form clearly states " Once your claim is registered, You will be updated through sms or email." I did expect some form of communication does that appear to be unreasonable to you?

I bought insurance, as required for the Thailand pass, from AXA it was the cheapest I could find but I didn't really look very hard. I was PCR tested at the test and go hotel and it showed positive. I was totally asymptomatic . I was subsequently transferred to a quarantine hotel for 7 nights the total cost was 17,000 baht. so not really the end of the world. I had plenty of time to read through the small print and was pretty much convinced AXA was not going to pay anything. So with nothing to lose I completed the claim form and uploaded the required documents and e mailed in to AXA. Somewhere on the AXA website it said that e mailed claims would not be considered and that everything would need to be copied and sent by post to the Bangkok office, but to be honest I just couldn't be bothered , so I was further convinced that nothing was going to happen, and somewhat unsurprisingly, despite a follow-up email I received no correspondence whatsoever regarding my claim Fast forward a month and I was at the ATM withdrawing some cash and was somewhat surprised to notice that I had about 17,000 baht more in my account than there should have been ! So it would appear that they did in fact pay I would add that the cost of the policy was just over 9000 baht so even somebody as cynical as me would have to admit that as far as I am concerned I certainly haven't been scammed as such. But I am still surprised that I heard nothing at all from AXA regarding my claim

this one?

The title of this topic sounds like the words of the school tell tale as he runs to the teacher with his hand in the air "" Sir Sir , the politicians are joking about the gullible""

I would expect the increase in IQ is inversely proportional to the amount of time spent at school

They also contain toxins and pathogens, are you for real?

Oh dear sounds like one of the wokies getting themselves all offended over nothing again. That crazy old man should indeed be in some sort of psychiatric institution, and once incarcerated should be treated just like any other patient, does he deserve some sort of special "holy" status? I think not. I also find it difficult to believe the gullibility of of the people who consumed the bodily fluids and any right minded person would consider it disgusting Could somebody please enlighten me why these comments were in anyway crass or offhand? on second thoughts, don't bother I'm not in the least bit interested

I wonder when they will start investigating the financial affairs of this cult. There's probably a considerable amount of money somewhere. Can't see the boys in brown missing out on their share of that.

Be very careful if dealing with large amounts of pidgeon excrement, especially if dried, it has the potential to cause what can be a nasty and sometimes fatal lung infection. In the U.k the presence of it is treated with the same precautions afforded to asbestos

not much different to alcohol in that respect, many people enjoy the effects with no problems , whereas others..............

Indeed it would, every day we hear about horrendous violent crimes but we very seldom hear what punishments are handed out. The exception to this is when what would appear to be disproportionally severe sentences are handed out to anti-establishment / goverment types often using the "lese majeste" legislation

I assume that the teachers who have had to struggle on (just) their full salaries during the closures will be happy to return too, in order to recommence the usual supplementary salary enhancement schemes

If a drugged up halfwit can get through the so called security that easily., it makes one wonder what a more sophisticated and determined terrorist organisation could achieve

If you do manage to get the METV there may well be some "difficulties" in using it, if , for example you tried to do a quick in/out, you would need to get a new Thailand pass and arrange a test and go hotel, Also the <deleted>ty Thai insurance that I ended buying is cancelled when leaving the country so it would be best to check your policies terms and conditions in that respect Some land border crossings are still closed too. I don't think it would be impossible but somewhat more challenging than normal

I guess for two of you 50k or so would be in the right field, however if she's Thai she might get it at the Thai price, although I wouldn't count on it, as a "mia farang" she will probably get stung the full amount. I wouldn't worry too much about the cost of the para , (they only gave me 10 tablets) lol Not sure if they would let you quarantine at home, I think the problem would be actually getting home, you might need a private ambulance or similar. My insurance will only pay for the related medical treatment not the "hotel" costs. However it would have paid everything if I was hospitalised and for a few moments I actually considered feigning some symptoms to get admitted but on reflection for 17,000 I couldn't be bothered and I don't really trust the Thai insurance to pay up