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1 minute ago, wensiensheng said:

 

 

just yesterday you were boasting about Thailand vaccinating so many leisure staff in Phuket and doing such a fantastic job of it. Now here you are ridiculing with misinformation the very vaccines used on those leisure staff.

 

Unfortunately yet another, a retired policeman, died in Thailand from it yesterday. 

There is a risk with it, as j said I hope the Thais, or anyone else, can come up with something better that people don't die from.

Wouldn't that be good?

17 hours ago, webfact said:

with more than 7,100 cases across 11 provinces

7,742 infections in the UK just yesterday for a bit of perspective. And nearly 10,000 in the USA, 62,000 in India.

Before this wave appeared a few months ago most Thai factories has stayed open after the initial lockdown last year.

 The measures they implemented were working well, but this highly contagious UK strain has ended that and has caused an economic bloodbath when coupled with the tourism industry being effectively shut down again to local tourism which has been helping many survive.

It is tragic for so many.

7 hours ago, Pedrogaz said:

Didn't Prayut recently take direct responsibility for all things COVID and CSSA?

Where is the apology? I'm guessing there won't be one, other than a phone call at midnight.

You guess wrong.

https://www.thailandnews.co/2021/06/prayut-apologizes-for-vaccine-allotment-hiccups/

7 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

(......sounds of retching.......)

It is more of a gasping sound that people dying from it make.

13 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

I'm patient, I'll wait, may have to wait a long while though. I look forward seeing your false claims of what I posted.

 

You are very entitled to your own opinion but when you start making unfounded accusations then you are being inflammatory and promoting false accusations all of which are against the  forum rules.

Hold on mate, give me until tomorrow. 

Just to be clear, you are claiming  you and others were predicting these low numbers of deaths 6-8 weeks ago?

2 hours ago, RR2020 said:

Time for mass testing now

Have you gone and got tested yet? 

Or do you just expect everyone else to go and get tested?

Because according to you, you should really be tested to stop hiding it.

Australia will be celebrating and I would be having BBQ party with many beers and watching the Queen's Birthday AFL game played in her her honour.

Unfortunately the covid situation in Thailand prevents that currently.

 So I will enjoy watching the last game of Nathan Buckley as coach alone today as he was sacked during the week after 26 years with Collingwood without a single premiership.

A very sad year for the Queen with her husband passing away. It would nice if after she finishes grieving she finds love again.

God save the Queen

4 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

I think we are in for a period of somewhat higher daily case numbers. 

I hope you are wrong and it is the death count that is all important.

I don't think any of us one month ago would have predicted so a low death number.

32 minutes ago, mikebell said:

Pattaya Plod don't work nights.

Was there a solar eclipse yesterday in Pattaya?

I can assure the the Pattaya police work at night. They definately were the night they arrested me.

23 minutes ago, Keith5588 said:

I am curious where you would prefer to live and why ……. Thanks.

 

I thought you might have been a relatively new to Thailand person and just think the HH is ok, but there is a lot better further south that you might not have seen.

However considering your interests and situation HH appears to be a perfect match for you.

Good luck mate.

Your girlfriend sounds like she is a real diamond.

Big day tomorrow with the Queen's birthday celebrations. Not the Thai queen that was celebrated a couple of weeks ago with a national public holiday but our beloved Queen Elizabeth. 

What do you do to celebrate her birthday?

God save the Queen.

This is Thailand.

It isn't so much as the cars, it is the attitude of the mechanics.

A lot of them would rather do a "modify" than actually bother to find the correct part. Which is often cheaper, often a failure, usually doesn't last and can also lead to other modifications.

I had a Chev sold in Thailand, but it was made abroad. 

The local Pattaya dealership told me I had to get it services in BKk which was a major hassle.

I arrived one day to pick it up and the oil change light was still coming on dispite that they changed the oil. I watched them stuff around with the buttons for ages and told them to get the mechanics manual. They were shocked that I would ask for something like it, and they couldn't find one, so obviously never referred to it despite not having a clue. 

While I was waiting stressing thinking I was going to get stuck in Bangkok peak hour I searched it on the internet, found a YouTube video showing how to do it myself. It was as simple as pushing two buttons together at the same time for 4 seconds. 

<deleted> useless.

Chev have since left the country. 

Most cars will  so 500,00kms plus a if they are services by a good mechanic who actually knows what he is doing. 

3 hours ago, Keith5588 said:

I am age 68 

Well you are the spot on Farang demographic for HH.

I wouldn't put of moving locations because of covid. The numbers in Thailand are still comparitivly low, especially compared to your home country. Very low risk if you take precautions.

Personally I wouldn't choose HH to live. In my opinion there are better places to live in Thailand but if you and your young girlfriend like it that is up to you.

26 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

I think he was a bit young for that, as was I at the time ????

My father and grandfather had/has prostate cancer so mum was always on me for years to go get a prostate examination. 

I always told her "When I see a petite nurse with very small hands I will get one"

About 5 years ago I was in Bangkok Pattaya Hospital for another minor issue and I saw one that looked perfect. From Issan, I can't remember the province, but about 40kgs with these tiny hands and we'll manicured but short fingernails.

So I garnered up some courage and ask her. She said "can" and asked me to follow her. I felt the same nervous excitement as the moments before I lost my virginity when I was a kid.

Unfortunately she lead me to another department that specialised in that sort of thing and I had to see a doctor and she then left me the there. I was disappointed but optimistic that the doctor would be beautiful anyway and maybe a Bangkok Hiso would be seeing to me.

But things got worse and when I was lead to the examination room there was an old male doctor who I suspected might have been a homosexual.

I was thinking to myself this is exactly why I kept putting it off, I was filthy on my mum for nagging me to do it and I was considering feigning having diareah or just bolting out of the room.

Anyway, as it turned out it was just a blood test which was a huge relief. 

I recommend all blokes to go and get them regularly. Because with Dad, he left it too late and now he can't get an erection anymore.

If he had of gone earlier they would have given him less invasive treatment and he would still be able to give mum a good seeing too.

3 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

The title might include the word Issan but I don't believe that makes it exclusively so.

Well not on page 129 anyway.

I like the people of Issan, but also wonder why they do things the way they do and it frustrates me the lack of motivation some have to do simple things that could really improve their lives.

That said, without a doubt Morlam Sing is by far the most entertaining and fun thing ever. They absolutely nail partying regardless of age, day of the week or even time of the day. Genuine fun.

I also find BangFai festivals amazing. That such a thing could even be legal astounds me. First one I went to in Nong Bua Lampoo I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Also spent a few Songkran festivals in numerous provinces over the years. I like to get in amongst it and is amazing how many girls have given me a fondle, sort of like walking down Soi 6 Pattaya but they are just normal girls having fun, not someone just trying to get a customer/money.

Other provinces they don't seem to go the nuts at all.

I have to have Issan food a couple of times per week. Kor Moo yang is my favourite meat dish in the world. I like a good gang hed often also. 

I wouldn't want to live there though and prefer coastal living like yourself, but if I had a choice between living in Issan or Australia I would go choose Issan.

12 hours ago, owl sees all said:

 

There was an older lady doctor there for years. No matter what you went in for she found a reason to fondle ya nuts.

 

Must have improved since the 1950s.

Was she any good with the prostate checks?

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

My GF had a guesthouse built, team of 15 people, finished in two months. The only power tool used was the welder for the roof frames, everything else done by hand. 300 baht/day/person, plus a small bottle of Lao Khao each.

I guess it depends on where one lives in Thailand.

Everyone was in 300? Even the boss of the group? 

They didn't have a drill? To mix the cement, render? Did they nail the ceiling in or screw it by hand.

Those seat benches out the front should have had steel rods drilled into the "sao" to support them.

I reckon the blokes I use with their own tools would get it done about 3 times faster to be honest. So 800 per day verses 300 per day works out probably about the same in the end. 

And the right power tools are needed to do a quality job on a house build. I reckon they would cut corners because without tools some jobs would be too hard to do properly. Mai bpen Rai.

I hope for your sake I am wrong.

56 minutes ago, polpott said:

You clearly have no experience of employing Thais. My bank manager doesn't get 800 baht day. 500 baht/day for a cleaner? You're having a laugh.

Sounds like you think everywhere is like your Issan village where you will find cheap labour.

I doubt you employ anyone. 

In Bangkok and in the south you won't get anyone decent for under 500 per day that will work consistently and stay. 

I am not arguing with you. I am telling you. 

And for your bank manager claim? To put it nicely, you don't have a clue. Looking at a 50,000 month minimum with health benefits, cheap loans etc.

You told me you can't read Thai, so you will have to get your wife to read it for you.

Link for bank managers wages for her to read to you.

https://pantip.com/topic/35998270

Please don't just make stuff up. If you need to know anything else, feel free to ask me.

2 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

Ain't that the truth, if I recall that was straight after you stole it from them black fella's.

And then they sold it to the Chinese etc and pocketed all the cash.

It isn't any wonder why the blackfellas have a bit of anti British bias.