Bday Prang

I'd go along with that, pretty much like drunk drivers too, more accidents are caused by people who have not been drinking. Think about it, you may have had just "one to many" driving impeccably and stop at a red light, then some nutter ploughs into the back of you, not sure about here, but in the uk the breathalyser is used now in every incident, and guess who is going to take the rap in the above scenario. Life is so unfair sometimes. Not that I am condoning drunk driving of course, merely highlighting what could be considered an injustice

Rational discussion of cannabis on here is pretty much guaranteed to be impossible due to the brainwashed 70+ year olds that frequent this website, A generation that generally still dutifully believes all that people in authority tell them? Not their fault entirely I suppose, but I do find it a little surprising. Because travel is supposed to broaden the mind and I would therefore have expected that most pensioners that have managed to find their way here and succeeded in marrying a prostitute young enough to be their granddaughter would be a little bit more tolerant of other peoples "vices"

how much do you think ? go on take a guess how much would you consider to be ok and how much would you consider to be excessive? You have no idea do you, why not google it and see what the experts tell you

The war on drugs, waged, ostensibly in the name of public health, is almost universally accepted by anybody with a brain to have been a complete failure, at least in as far as preventing people using drugs is concerned. It has however, been extremely successful, almost the very definition of perfection, in ensuring that the price of drugs remains relatively high and that the huge proceeds from the sale of which very efficiently end up in the hands of organised criminal gangs It has brought absolutely no benefits to public health, which is pretty much its stated intent. in fact quite the opposite, as it invariably forces those who wish to use, to purchase potentially unclean and dangerous products and substances from unregulated sources This "failure" has been going on for a very long time Bearing in mind that the people who put this in place, and have overseen it for years, are supposed to be clever enough to govern the rest of us mere mortals, isn't it a bit strange, even a little suspicious, that what is generally perceived as a complete failure by the rest of society, has been allowed to continue by the so called authorities, pretty much unchallenged for decades. Now and again with great publicity they announce further huge sums of cash to be thrown at the problem, in the latest crackdowns, but that's about it Any attempt at change, for example the recent decriminalisation of cannabis here, invariably results in the much reduced proceeds of sales ending up in the hands of "others", and soon meets fierce opposition from some very concerned members of the authorities, who always use "public health concerns" as a reason for their objections, Occasionally a few drug seizures are announced to dupe the public into thinking they are achieving their stated objectives but the amounts seized are miniscule when one considers the phenomenal amount of drugs that are constantly in transit around the globe, is that really the best they can do, given the amount of money they allegedly spend on their so called "war" ? If they were really that bothered, surely the authorities with all the powers they have at their disposal, would be able to wage a war on drugs a little more effectively? They seemed to have no problem shutting down entire countries and bringing many industries to the point of bankruptcy virtually overnight in response to a virus with very low fatality rate, but stopping a minority people taking drugs seems to be completely beyond them. Or is it really? The cynic in me is thinking that this so called war on drugs has in fact been a total success, in term of its real aim, which is actually to ensure that the huge amounts of money involved, due to the illegality of the substances in question, end up exactly were they are supposed to, and eventually find their way into the hands of various corrupt "officials" at all levels. One would have to be totally naive to think, for example, that the proceeds from the sale of Ya-bah never benefit any corrupt police officers here in Thailand, where ever there are corrupt police officers there will always be others taking a cut, its like pyramid selling ,and goes all the way to the top. Same as with anything else, follow the money is a very appropriate term, what other excuse could there be for what could only otherwise be described as gross incompetence on a global scale at the highest level?

it was as question, easily identified by the "?"

Surely a simple sign explaining your house rules would alleviate whatever problems these people allegedly cause when they are as "high as kites" whatever that actually means. Why not get some printed out and leave them in the rooms to inform people of your prejudices. Do you have a website? you could mention it on there too. make it the next thing you do , once you have sobered up

Probably the biggest load of rubbish I have ever read in my life, you really need to be more selective when (mis)"informing" yourself

Alcohol does both, don't see many on here suggesting it should be banned or even questioning the ineffectiveness of the age limits regarding purchase and consumption. Have you ever used either alcohol or amphetamine ? no need to answer as you obviously haven't,

A link to a private and no doubt rather expensive clinic, well that just has to be true doesn't it? "addicts" ! you really have no idea at all do you, better to stick to commenting on subjects that you actually know something about, rather than spouting rubbish "supported" by spurious links

So illogical religious idealism and superstition are unique to Thailand ? what a bizarre statement millions of christians and muslims might not agree with you.

And would you also encourage drunken guests to drive off on their motorbikes too ? Very irresponsible behaviour indeed on your part, if it's even true. Please inform the name of your "resort" so that right minded people can avoid it

but with the return to illegality any form of education will stop, thats if it even started

Surin town center is a lively place plenty of bars in the town center around the Tongtarin hotel which is only 5 min from the bus station Haven't had a night out their since before covid but there is a "tawandaeng" place with live music, always fun and often jam packed with totty many student types in there too. there's a whole strip of bars in the same area some are owned and frequented by westerners, there even used to be a couple of gogo bars too but I'm not sure if they reopened after covid You won't have to look hard to get a drink there's a Thai saying "bai surin gin surah tae mai dai gin surah mai dai bai surin" if you go to surin drink alcohol, if you didn't drink then you haven't really been to surin" there is a bit of a drinking culture in surin which is quite well known in Thailand I don't really know of any actual brothels as such, I'm sure they exist but will be set up to cater for Thais ask a tuk tuk guy if you are looking. They will probably be more expensive than Pattaya though! Plenty of "massage" parlours / karaoke type places but they tend to come and go just look for the usual flashing fairy lights On the way to the border and about 25km from surin center is Prasat, there's a few farang bars there and a few "happy endings to be had in the "meung mai" area, just outside the town center, which gets quite busy on a friday night And a bit of pay for play is available on the cambodian side of the border in O'smach just ask a taxi guy or one of the touts who will be offering to help you with your visa. They all speak pretty good english and will be only to willing to help, probably going to offer you some viagra anyway, they usually do There is also the casinos I never went in the casino but I've seen some nice looking girls going in there Cambodian by the look of them (slightly bigger tits) On the whole you can expect to have fun, and you may well get some more info if you start a new thread,

not sure if you have been and done it yet, I was there last week, 1500bt for cambodian visa and 300 baht to cambodian immigration for a same day return , you need 1 passport photo. You will get 30 days visa exempt. There are guys hanging round who will fill the forms in for you for 100 bt if you can't be bothered to fill them out yourself but to describe them as "agents" is stretching things a bit once you have left Thailand bear to the right hand side for your visa (ist window) and entry stamp with 300bt fee (second window) and then to the left hand side for the exit stamp When returning to Thailand bear left (when facing Thailand) for the way back in ( they still use the old tm6 forms) As another poster said its a really good border post, very laid back on both the Thai and Cambodian sides, I've also used it for years without any problems at all. Parking can be challenging, there is a carpark about 500m from the actual border and motorcycle taxis will take you up to the border, used to park in a carpark right at the checkpoint but they appear to have stopped that now. I get the mrs to drop me off there and phone her to pick me up when i return. Avoid weekends if possible as can be busy with casino visitors, but generally very quiet monday to friday

If all your beliefs are based on what governments tell you then you are somewhat naive. Did you try to combat covid simply by washing your hands as they recommended in the early days? Were you wearing your mask when travelling alone in your car lol Did you take off your bathroom door to make a shelter in the case of a nuclear attack? Like they were suggesting back in the late seventies / early eighties ? Did your wife take thalidomide for morning sickness as they suggested in the early sixties

what a ridiculous statement did you even read what he posted ..... "The way that it works is, if enough people are immunized, a disease effectively disappears. You know, like polio and smallpox." and "If enough people were to get annual boosters, Covid would effectively disappear." clearly if even "only" 1 in 1000 caught covid the disease has not effectively disappeared and even a "covid denier" would understand that in a population of 1 million that would equate to 1000 people infected many of whom may be asymptomatic and each of them would have the potential to infect many others. Looks to me like you are some sort of covid denier

I would not know very much about "covid denier talking points" as I am not a covid denier, how could I be , I have had it several times , despite being vaccinated so stop with the smarmy comments the poster i was replying to was claiming that covid would stop as in "cease to exist" if everybody was vaccinated. It clearly will not. Whether you choose to believe him or me is neither here nor there, and petty grammar policing comments like the one you have made are of no consequence whatsoever

from your 1st link..... Here’s what we know about the current variants circulating globally at the current time. I am looking for more than just the current variants circulating at present this bit is not exactly helpful either,,, " plus many others which have not yet been characterised". many others lol clear as mud from your second link ,,,, Below is a list of—and information about—some of the variants that have been top-of-mind. I'm not interested in "some" I am interested in the total number So despite what you say neither of these effectively useless links links gives a simple answer to my simple question. Th leads me to the conclusion that nobody, including you, has the faintest idea how many variants/ mutations actually exist That, so it would seem is the reason I cannot get a simple answer to a simple question All these so called experts and nobody knows, a very sad state of affairs in my very humble opinion

maybe it will but it will not stop either which was the original claim i was disputing

But they don't give the simple answer I'm looking for

I won't be totting anything up I really cant be bothered, I would have expected a simple answer to be easily found on google, but it is not, I have no idea why this is the case. Even asking how many stars are in the galaxy gets a figure given albeit an estimate I asked chat GPT which as expected was about as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike unless the answer really is 12 ! I'm starting to think that nobody actually knows, which is quite possible considering the number of lies told regarding this subject

I saw that article earlier but it also does not actually state words to the effect of " to date there have been x number of variants" that's kind of what I am looking for must exist somewhere surely? I am too lazy to sit there with a pen and paper totting them all up manually.I guess nobody actually knows a definitive number Also in view of the sentence " Studies have suggested the B.1.1.7 lineage was more likely to land infected people in the hospital and was deadlier than the original virus." I may have to amend the wording of my earlier post about which variants have been more deadlier than those that preceded them, as to be honest words like "studies have suggested" do not really cut it for me

not really clear enough for a thicko like me , I was looking for a simple number, I tried googling it but it does not appear to be quoted in simple terms anywhere

And why were they happy to name the variants after the countries in which they were 1st discovered , until they found a strain in India? Why was the original strain never referred to as the Chinese variant? There was no hesitation with the UK and South African Variants being named as such

Any advance on two? but ok in the interests of accuracy ... As far as I am currently now reliably informed each successive variant of covid has been less deadly than previous variants, apart from two, apparently. is that better? nobody has yet answered my question about how many variants there have been to date must be hundreds by now maybe?