ChasingTheSun

2 minutes ago, Baron Samedi said:

Ive been chatting and reading a bit on the Bangkok and Pattaya forums. Its more or less the same everywhere. Pattaya might be better off.... kinda. I don't know what to do. My initial plan was to go to Patong but I feel like I'll get bored after a week ????

There is still no where better in SE Asia than Phuket/Thailand.

No touristy place in the world is really back to “normal”.

Some would argue that Phuket s much better with less tourists. 
 

You can make your own fun anywhere, if you are willing and creative.

Do you really need swarms of tourists to make it fun?

Bangla/Phuket/Thailand may not be as fun as it used to be due to various short/long term factors, but can anyone name another place which has become more fun than Bangla/Phuket/Thailand over the same time period? 
 

Do you have any opinion on the Darasamuth Phuket School English Programme (EP)?

Hello all,

My friend from Canada is planning to retire in Phuket soon. He has an english speaking 4 year old kid that will need to go to school here in Phuket..

As per the title, is it possible to  recommend a good quality english-program primary school for around 150k baht or less in Phuket?

cheers.

51 minutes ago, Oxx said:

If money's no object, then consider Thailand Elite.  They have a special option for family members of a main member.  It will cut down on the Immigration department hassle significantly.

 

https://www.thailandelite.com/at-your-service/card/elite-family-premium-membership

Didn’t they recently double or triple the prices of the “Elite” card?

Hello all,

My friend is a Canadian of 52 years old and he wants to retire in Thailand. His Canadian wife is 30 years old, and their Canadian son is 4 years old.

Can his wife and child get some sort of dependent visa to live with him in Thailand if I he gets a retirement visa for Thailand? 

His wife does not intend to work in Thailand. He does intend to send his son to a private international school in Thailand.

If yes, what are the visa(s) called?

5 hours ago, Odysseus123 said:

I must correct you there-Xylophone is certainly not a troll and has made many fine posts on this forum.His points, vis a vis, your posts are certainly worth considering. 

His spreading of mis-information and propaganda about experimental vaccines is certainly trollish.  Using multiple accounts to post the misinformation and propaganda is also trollish.

1 minute ago, VBF said:

I can assure you that I am not "the xylophone guy"  and your description of my opinions is, frankly, risible.

The very use of the term "pro-experimental vaxxers" exposes your lack of accurate information - once again Conspiracy Theory dogma.

 

Let the educated, intelligent members of the forum be the judges - I shall no longer respond to you Sir, Madam or whatever you may be. If you wish to have the last word, have at it.  Good Day.

Hello Xylophone.

We knew you would be back lol!!!????????????????

6 minutes ago, VBF said:

No I don't - I share my "uninformed opinions" with more educated and competent people than you will ever know.

Furthermore your reference to "big pharma propaganda" comes straight out the Conspiracy Theory dogma generally supported by those blinded by the light emitted from the bottoms of people like David Icke and so-called "Forbidden Knowledge" 

 

"Big Pharma", so-called, is keeping me alive and healthy as are the real, educated and competent people to whom I refer.

Now kindly go away and play with the other impressionable children.

Meh.

Again, another hysterical 

pro-experimental vaxxer troll with nothing but his own hysterical opinions(likely taken verbatim from CNN and BBC), seemingly old and having a bunch of co-morbilities, and with no actual facts to counter the science.

These pro-experimental vaxxers need to come up with some new material. ????

Ps- highly suspect it may actually be the xylophone guy on a second account. ????

12 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Actually, not true.

You are obviously a science denier:

11 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

We don’t need people here posting misinformation about vaccines here. If I wanted misinformation about vaccines, I would just talk to Nick Minaj.

Just because you don’t agree with something doesn’t mean it is misinformation or untrue.
 

Its the conformist pro-experimental vaccine sheep like you who are uninformed, don’t believe in the science, and are the most dangerous spreaders of the false propaganda.

19 minutes ago, xylophone said:

I don't need logical reasoning to see that this person is probably all that I said he was, although he won't admit it, and this next small paragraph of his should give you a clue, and if you cannot see that there is an element of "conspiracy theorist" in this, then you are probably in the same camp.

 

The only person who "lost" was the poster who included this paragraph, because he gave himself away, as no such thing is happening and it is pure nonsense...............

 

"It is also very odd to most people as to why vigourous public debate is being denied/outlawed in regard to these experimental vaccines. What could they possibly be trying to hide?".

Toomuchtime,

Good to see there are informed open-minded folks like yourself on here. ????

Ps- Trust me on this….it’s best to just ignore Xylophone’s nonsensical trolling. For whatever reason, trolling is his thing.

44 minutes ago, TooMuchTime said:

You know he is lost since he immediately brings up fox news and "trumpies".  People with no logical reasoning usually bring this up as a way to immediately discredit someone, even if that person showed no indication of watching news or being a "trumpie".  Same way people used to and actually still call  people a certain "1940's German" word to try and shut down discussion.

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????Yup.

He was another typical hysterical troll.

Hopefully he will self-reflect and come back to the forums as a more thoughtful person after the smackdown he received.

9 hours ago, xylophone said:

So many assumptions and so much nonsense, hard to know where to begin, but let's start with this – – I rarely watch BBC and I never watch CNN, but I would take a good bet that you watch other right wing outlets (Fox News for example)!

 

There are many people out there who are anti-vaccination, some of them because they are right wing, some trumpies and others just people who want to follow something which supposedly shows they have "freedom of choice" – – yeah right.

 

And your statement that there are "just as many doctors and scientists who don't recommend these vaccines be given to the entire public" is a play on words, mainly because in many cases these folk have said that care is needed when considering vaccinating very young children, but the VAST MAJORITY of the medical profession (yes read that again) are in favour of the vaccine.

 

Also you give yourself away as a "conspiracy theorist" when you state..................

 

 "It is also very odd to most people as to why vigourous public debate is being denied/outlawed in regard to these experimental vaccines. What could they possibly be trying to hide?".

 

There, true colours exposed because your statement is pure nonsense.

 

Just to add to your litany of inaccuracies, consider the following with regards to other vaccines, whereby the trials for the polio vaccine were conducted in a matter of a couple of years, and I quote:

 "On April 26, 1954, the Salk polio vaccine field trials, involving 1.8 million children, begin at the Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia. Children in the United States, Canada and Finland participated in the trials, which used for the first time the now-standard double-blind method, whereby neither the patient nor attending doctor knew if the inoculation was the vaccine or a placebo. 
One year later, on April 12, 1955, researchers announced the vaccine was safe and effective and it quickly became a standard part of childhood immunizations in America. In the ensuing decades, polio vaccines would all but wipe out the highly contagious disease in the Western Hemisphere".

Furthermore as regards the Yellow Fever vaccine...."The critical experiments that solved this problem were performed by Theiler and his collaborators during 1935–1937 and vaccination began in 1938".

AND, "Four years after discovering the hepatitis B virus, Drs. Blumberg and Millman developed the first hepatitis B vaccine, which was initially a heat-treated form of the virus". 

As I said, you have revealed your true colours, so no point in my answering any more of your posts, as I have no time for anti-vaccination (or anti-vaxxers if you prefer), conspiracy theorists, far right and whatever other camp you belong to, so have a good day and I will put you on ignore because I don't want to read any more of your nonsense.
 

Lolz!!! Such a typical triggered Karen response ???? 

As expected, you ran away when faced with facts, as you  couldn't  answer simple questions with reasonable arguments and timely relevant facts..

You inability to comprehend the current disregard for modern-medicine protocols, the abandonment of a logical targeted  risk/reward approach, and the obvious lack of full transparency and rigorous scientific debate, is shocking. This sadly explains why you are both a perfect target market for experimental meds and also an advocate for experimental medicines for all.

We can only assume that you are of advanced age and probably with co-morbilities, and have become hysterical with fear of covid. In that case, the risk/reward of the experimental prophylactic “vaccines” is probably right for you: It’s only a decision you can make for yourself.

However Karen, it is none of your business what others decide to do with their bodies. 

Users beware.

4 hours ago, xylophone said:

Another bunch of nonsense, and the link below will show those vaccines which have been authorised for use, and the countries in which they are used.

 

Also maybe useful to remember that the first vaccination was developed and administered well over a hundred years ago, so I think the process by which the vaccines are developed is pretty well sorted by now.

 

Vaccine Approvals/Authorizations Around the World
https://covid19.trackvaccines.org/trials-vaccines-by-country/ 
 

You obviously don’t understand how vaccines are normally developed using a time-tested approach. This link may help you better comprehend the way it normally works: https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=9877

I suspect you are watching too much CNN and BBC like allot of other sheep. Suggest you get off those propaganda machines asap to clear your mind and do a little research on your own.

The vaccines are indeed EXPERIMENTAL, but authorized.

The normal timeframe for a new medicine to be approved fully is seven years(rushed) to as much as 12 years. the reason for the long timeline is obvious to anyone with half a brain….they need to observe long term efficacy and side effects.

There are many examples of drugs in the past that ended-up having horrific medium or long-term side effects, and hence the need for long term studies.

The current covid meds are

rushed emergency use authorized, but still EXPERIMENTAL, because there is no medium or long-term trial results to observe yet.

User beware.

1 hour ago, KarenBravo said:

Well, well, well. It's TAT's Kamala representative.

You're nothing if not predictable. I just knew this would make you stick your head out.

Welcome back Ms. Gloom  n’ Doom!

On 8/11/2021 at 4:36 AM, KarenBravo said:

Yes, it is beautiful to be at sea and look at Kamala.

But, being on the beach and looking the other way is a bit ugly.

All those postage stamp villas crammed together on the southern headland is an eye-sore and the view of the northern headland isn't much better.

Kamala used to be lovely, but after all the ugly development near the beach, or in view of the beach, plus the ugly and dangerous racetrack that cuts through the centre of town, it's seen much better days. Then again, what beach hasn't.

I just think Kamala has been hit harder by excess development than other beaches.

 

Just my opinion. If you like it and can tolerate the <deleted> view from the beach, then good for you.

 

 

 

KB is the resident anti-Kamala hater on Phuket, so don’t pay much attention to her obvious overblown biases.

OVERALL, Kamala beach is probably the best beach and beach town on Phuket.

Kamala Bay offers a beautiful long stretch of beach, with a great selection of F&B and accommodation RIGHT ON THE BEACH, and still plenty of room to find a relatively quiet private spot to relax.  

in addition, you won’t need to worry about the big hassles and dangers of having a car or bike if you stay in a hotel in Kamala.

Yes, there are some smaller lovely secluded beaches on Phuket that are more natural, but they have few or zero amenities, and you will need a car/bike to get there, and may even need to hike up/down a jungle hill to find it. Those gems are definitely fun for tourists on a day trip if your up for a mini adventure.