Bugsy777

My Thai wife and I live in Perth. Shopping at the local supermarket we had a problem with the automated checkout. There was a fifty something woman working there. She came over and fixed the problem. As she left she said to me, "your daughter was leaning on the scales." Normally I would laugh it off but she said it with such an unpleasant sneer that I kneed her in the groin.

Well, not really. But it was a near thing.

In countries that are taking swift action, the rate of infection  doubles every 8 to 10 days and it can be longer. In countries doing virtually nothing, infections will double every 4 to 6 days. This means that in Thailand, virtually all citizens will have the virus within about 8 weeks.

Most people won't be too bothered. However the numbers of vulnerable people will be about 3 to 4 million. Without hospitalisation a large proportion will die. The idea of drastic action is to stop a big number being seriously ill at the same time, as the health system cannot cope with hundreds of thousands needing intensive care and ventilators. There is just not enough critical care beds or ventilators to go around.

Your health insurance won't save you if there are no available beds. 

Take vitamin C at the rate of 40mg per kilo of body weight and spread the dose over the day. Take about 4000/5000 of vitamin D daily. Various mushrooms have anti viral properties. Build up your immune system. Avoid crowds. Wash your hands carefully and often.

High dose vitamin C helps in resisting viral infections. Don't wait till you are ill. Vitamin C passes through the body quite quickly so you need to take it regularly. Say 3 or 4 times per day. 2 or 3 grams over the day should be enough. In some people it can cause your bowels to flush. Not such a bad thing. Your body will adapt and that will pass. If you do get sick, try increasing the dose. During normal times, 1 gram ( 1000mg) per day should be enough. 

Years ago I caught an old rattle trap from Hua Lamphong to Surin. We clunked and creaked and banged throughout the night then stopped in the middle of nowhere. Nobody seemed to know what was going on and cared less. I finally got up and went to get off and have a look around and a train guard stopped me and said in quite good English, "sorry sir, not long. Man sleep on line and we just clean up.".  All this with a big smile as he motioned me back to my rock hard seat. A minor inconvenience apparently, going by the lack of concern by all except me.

18 hours ago, emptypockets said:

Why did you cancel the trip to Bali?

I agree Bali is nothing like it used to be in the 1970's.

We would have been going in June and we figured that corona virus would be there by then. Also, the Indonesian Government is is not averse to hiding the truth when it comes to possibly reducing their tourism income.

In 2016, 1.25 million Australians visited Bali. That's thousands per day returning. So maybe I'm wasting my time avoiding infection. Might just be best to get it and either cark it or recover. lol.

It's a risk. You could die. How is your health right now? Are you past middle age? Put $1000 USD on one side of the ledger and your life on the other side. Does it balance?

"Giving human characteristics to animals, inanimate objects or natural phenomena is a human trait called “to anthropomorphize.” Sadly, as in the tragic Sea World attack the proclivity is forgotten as we wonder why the animal behaved as an animal."

We do much the same with so called, heartless killers. There is a wide range of psychopaths. Feelings of empathy, compassion and pity are mostly alien to them. Very clever psychopaths realise that their feelings and behaviour are not the norm and so they do their best to adapt and try to, at least, display normal human feeling.

Then there are psychopaths that have not had that realisation. They just assume that everyone feels the same as they do. Shooting an innocent two year old is an emotionless action similar to moving an inanimate object out of their way. They cannot comprehend the misery and grief that they have inflicted on the boys Mother and Father and beside that, they don't have the capacity to care.

There are lots of psychopaths. Many millions of them with varying degrees of psychopathy. They are not all crazed killers. Certain occupations draw them like flies. They are often very clever and unburdened with ethics and the like. The medical profession and police are just a few.

On 1/4/2020 at 12:13 PM, Just Weird said:

"How's that?"

My money's on it being total nonsense.

A guy in Victoria (Australia) got fined by the local council for making his firebreaks wider than allowed. His house is still there but his neighbours homes are gone.

New years in Pattya about 10 years ago. This drunk put a huge firework in the street and tried to light it. The second time he tried it fell over and went off. The projectile took off at a slight upward angle, hit a pole and ricocheted straight up into the air where it exploded. There was more than a few shocked looks. It could easily have killed more than one person. Crazy stuff.

Well, it can happen. You are far more likely to fall in love than she is. When that happens, and it will if you pursue this, she will be in control. Control means access to money, your money. You may think not but you ignore the power of the p#**y at your peril. When she has completely drained you of cash, you will be discarded to become one of the many sad destitute characters hanging around Pattaya or you'll go home with your tail between your legs.

Having said all that, I personally know guys who have taken the girl out of the bar and are still going strong 11 years later and living in another country. Take care, keep your wits about you. But if you give yourself completely over to 'true love' then heaven help you.

The pre existing condition clause refers to your knowledge of any pre existing condition. For example, if you take out travel insurance but you don't know that you have a serious medical problem, then you are covered on the balance of probabilities. If you knew that you had a brain tumour, would you really risk an overseas holiday? Seems improbable.

Can you imagine going to the doctor suffering from flu like symptoms and a headache and asking the doctor if he thinks you have a brain tumour? He would laugh at you and tell you to go to bed, take paracetamol, get plenty of fluids and ride it out.

So, to the point. What is the likelihood that symptoms of the flu would lead you to honestly believe that you may have a brain tumour?

The insurance company's very loose interpretation of 'pre existing condition' is not reasonable.

My wife and I have been together for 8 years. In the beginning she spoke fairly broken English. We live in Australia. She now speaks quite good English, passed her driving exam and has her own car. She is no longer reserved at speaking in public. She did a one year course and I have also spent a lot of time helping her. 

However, despite our efforts, she still mixes up 'L' and 'R'. She also sounds an 'S' at the end of many words that don't have an 'S'.

In my research on this problem I have found that once this 'l,R' phenomena is in place, it is almost impossible to shift. Children who emigrate to English speaking countries under the age of about 10 do not have this issue.

Therefore, it seems that teaching English must start when they are very young. This is going to cost a huge amount of money and take many years to see results. I just can't see a Thai government treating this seriously because it interferes with the massive corruption that is endemic there.

All signs, rules, laws and advertising in Thailand are placed simply to give the impression of normalcy.

Nothing is normal in Thailand. Where else in the world can you be assured of being run over on a pedestrian crossing, attacked and robbed by men dressed as women, severely beaten for questioning your bar bill and refused entry to the country on the whim of a local immigration officer? So exciting. Adventure tourism at its best.

It certainly wouldn't hurt the Thai economy to introduce a modest age pension. One thing you can guarantee with the poor is that they will spend it immediately. Money makes the world go around, as they say.

But in all seriousness, it'll never happen because the government is so ignorant that the thought of 'giving money away' is abhorent to them.

The amazing thing about this matter is this. If you are a single aged pensioner, you get the single pension. If you are a couple of aged pensioners, you get the couples pension. All fine so far. But as a single pensioner, if you hook up with lady who has nothing and doesn't work, Centrelink will reduce your pension to half the couples rate. A substantial drop. Why? If you were deemed eligible to get the singles pension in the first place and the lady makes no financial contribution, then why are you being penalised?

Typical Australian government. Anyhow, this snippett froma Centrelink employee. If people don't tell us about overseas relationships then we're not going to know, unless, they slip up with another department (eg Immigration) travelling into Australia together etc

I wouldn't be basing my decisions on what I read here.

Maj-Gen Jetsada Yaisun was at pains to explain that the vast majority of expatriates were law abiding and contributed in a positive way to Thailand's economy.

I can dream.