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I haven't been 'home' for some years but I understand that now some UK High Streets have many 'Turkish' Barber Shops, Nail Salons and Vape Shops..and the layman's suspicion is that, although they may actually do a little business, their main role is to launder money for various criminal activities. Secondly, and please put me straight if my thinking is wrong...is it possible that someone with a thriving business can perhaps start a duff business which loses money but can somehow put the losses against the successful business' tax liability? 

Yes, Dr Jack54, that's the one! Many thanks.

The post I was searching for was by 'Crossy' in August last year. I found it but have lost it again, and can't remember the title. My memory at fault....he bought the 'kit' from Ali Express not Lazada...that's where he bought the wider frame thingys from.
I'll find it again I'm sure, but in the meantime my thanks to those who responded.

Thanks guys.
'One more Farang'...yes, it was partly about the search both on this site and on Lazada, but what I was hoping for was the actual post  info, or indeed a link to the actual post regarding the 'equipment' where the poster bought it, and his assessment of it. Further, I have visited a 'real' optician in Vietnam and more recently here in Thailand within the last 12 months and the results, let me be kind here, have failed to meet my needs. In short.......they were, oh, what's a common British adjective for 'not very good?' Begins with the letter C and ends in the letter P.
'Charlie H' so my memory was at fault...'Zenni' it is, thanks for that. But they make the spectacles to an instruction and I want to be able to give them that instruction....hence the search for the post which described buying the  self testing/prescribing kit on Lazada. Thanks for your response....I had a feeling that you were the poster I was searching for...obviously I was wrong!
'Scubascuba3', thanks for your input but it was the specific post I was trying to find. rather than a more general search.
Is anyone else able to throw  light on the post I'm searching for?
With hope, thanks in advance.
 

I've tried several times to locate a post I remember reading several? months ago regarding spectacles and Thai Opticians, Optometrists et al. The specific post gave details of a Lazada purchase of a kit, which I've also been unable to find on Lazada, whereby one could try different 'strength' lenses in the supplied eye piece frame until it was just right.  The poster then went on to say he had also bought a different, wider, eyepiece frame as the one supplied was too narrow for his face/ head. He then bought his spectacles from Zizzi? based on his own results with the kit and is very happy with the finished spectacles. If anyone can point me in the right direction I'll be grateful. Thanks.

13 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Cook a deep pan boiling oil at the side of the football pitch and then blame the footballer for the ‘errant ball’ ???....   

... thats a pretty stupid outlook.....

 

Of course, blame the organisers for having the stall with boiling oil in a really dumb location... 

Did she speak up at the start of the day ? did anyone recognise the risk ??

 

I see an incredible amount of stupidity here in Thailand on a daily basis and when something happens the wrong people are always blamed.  Everything seems reactive, there is little proactive thinking.

Anyone with a brain could identify the risk here (boiling oil at the side of a football pitch).

 

The organisers are at fault for allowing this - this is nothing to do with any of those playing football. 

 

I see dumb stuff like this all the time...  At a recent football tournament I saw a lady playing with her baby very close to the goal... It was concerning enough for me to mention something and point out that a wide shot could her her or her baby, or worse.....  I was then the ayhole for suggesting she moved, she was dumb enough to have no idea at all.

I'm reminded of an incident in either 1960 or '61 when Everton came to the Boleyn to play West Ham. Pre match 'goalkeepers catching practice' and  Roy Vernon ( Everton) let a thunderous shot go, it went wide and completely sparked out a poor guy standing in the front row of the crowd. So, his fault for standing there or Vernon's fault for kicking the ball wide? I'm sure if the guy's mates had told him not to stand there he would have considered them ayholes too.

Thanks guys, I'll investigate the Rungart and Lanko products. Thanks also Gsxrnz, but I don't want to repair , although there is a different texture on the more recent rendering, I want to do the whole wall to a smooth finish.

We had an internal window removed and the opening blocked up, then the sand/cement render applied. Unfortunately it's very obvious where the window used to be. In the past in the U.K I've skimmed ceilings and walls, always (except once) using 'Thistle Multi-Finish'. The one time I used Knauf plaster was a disaster and I ended up skimming over the skim with the Multi-Finish. Does anyone have any knowledge of what to use here for skimming and how to 'finish' it satisfactorily? That was the problem for me with the Knauf plaster....it didn't have the same finish method as the Multi-Finish. Global House, Thai Watsadu and HomePro are all within 25km if someone can point me in the right direction. Many thanks in advance.

3 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Sure, isolated cases, 1 or 2. 

 

Didn't see anyone talking about George Best 

 

Because it wasn't about George Best, who was possibly the biggest name in British Soccer. Anyhow, here's what google says about him....just compare that with what the star players get now.

'At the peak of his career in the late 60s, George was earning around $150 thousand per year which is the same as around $1 million per year from salary and endorsements, after adjusting for inflation'.

I reckon George Best and maybe one or two more were the 'isolated cases'.

20 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

I don't follow the European football (soccer), I'm NRL. 

 

I just regularly read the millions and millions of dollars these guys earn. 

 

There was a wage cap of £20 a week in British Soccer until 1961 and the then English captain, Johnny Haynes, was the first to hit £100 a week, probably a tidy sum back then. This footballer is 77 now so would have been playing after the wage cap was lifted but although Coventry City were a First Division team back in 1967 (no Premiership back then) he wasn't a star name and Shrewsbury Town were minnows. So, the idea that as an ex Pro Footballer he should be 'cashed up' and 'something fishy' is afoot is wrong. He may well be 'cashed up' but if he is it didn't come from his footballing talent.

Man takes found wallet to police station. Policeman takes wallet into another room, phones his wife, girlfriend, tells her the id of the owner, coaches her on what to say when she arrives at the police station and they pocket the 6000baht. Not a regular scam just a lucky break for the cop on duty.

Ha ha ha, well, it's a theory anyway.

On 9/13/2021 at 11:43 PM, mahtin said:

Take vit d? Not enough sun for you here?

I take your point but I'm a pale Brit so I'm never outside without a broad brimmed hat for my balding pate and to shade my face, short sleeved shirt and shorts. I don't know whether that is enough exposed flesh to get enough vit d from the sun, which is the best source, so I take a vit d supplement daily.Theres's a very big difference between a British summer day and the sun in Thailand.

57 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

If your conspiracy were real, then Dexamethasone would not be approved for use as a Covid treatment. Since your simple explanation doesn’t work for Dexamethesone, let me suggest another, even simpler explanation:

 

Ivermectin doesn’t work.

BTW, there was a lockdown imposed in Utter Pradesh which accounts for the reduction in new infections.

 

Oh why, why, why didn't anyone else lockdown? Are they all stupid?

Overall, the death rate in Uttar Pradesh was roughly 95 per million people, roughly 1/20 the death rate of the U.S. More importantly, despite being the largest state in India, it incurred one-third the death rate of the country as a whole. (Newsrescue.com)

On 9/18/2021 at 3:37 PM, heybruce said:

The Gates' money came from a software/OS company, not a pharmaceutical company.  With that in mind, what reason would the Gates have in paying to discredit ivermectin?

The Gates money came from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation....a software company?
A possible reason COULD be that should Ivermectin be proven to work all the money Gates has poured into Pharma, Universities, Research Labs etc. will go up in smoke as Ivermectin is out of patent and dirt cheap. I replied at length here to Danderman but conflicts of interest concern me. On a happier note I'm pleased to be able to say that yesterday I saw that the CEO's of both Moderna and BioNTech have just become billionaires. I obviously cannot confirm this, but isn't it nice of them to produce all these vaccines for us.

On 9/18/2021 at 3:25 PM, Danderman123 said:

So, in your world, there is some sort of vast conspiracy to suppress the use of Ivermectin to treat Covid-19, with international health agencies, Bill Gates, foreign universities, and the scientific community working together.

 

or, Ivermectin just doesn’t work.

 

Ever heard of Occam’s Razor?

My world is the same as yours buddy and yes I have heard of Ockhams Razor. To me the simplest explanation is that the Gates Foundation have invested HUGE amounts of money worldwide and they now have their vaccines which are being busily pumped into as many arms as possible as many times as possible. Now, they have invested what is a sizeable amount of money but not huge money for Ivermectin trials, which if proven to be efficacious will destroy the lucrative vaccine production, because Ivermectin is out of patent, cheap and could become readily available. (Have you checked the stats for the province of Uttar Pradesh in India? Ivermectin is the drug of choice, may also be of necessity and their covid is bumping along near the bottom of the graph).
My post was merely a comment on the certainty (which I concede may be in my mind alone) of a conflict of interest...I can neither endorse nor decry the efficacy of Ivermectin, but I do get concerned when I see

conflicts of interest....the FDA being funded by Pharma is another. To quote Shakespeare's Marcellus (Hamlet) 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark', meaning, (for those who don't know) there is moral and political corruption in (insert virtually any country you wish).

On 8/13/2021 at 5:11 PM, Tony125 said:

Column: Major study of Ivermectin, the anti-vaccine crowd's latest COVID drug, finds 'no effect whatsoever'

 

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/column-major-study-ivermectin-anti-222751048.html

So even after the $21 million dollar grant from Bill and Melinda to this Uni there's nothing to see here? OK, I can believe that.

I've been using Viber, usually for calling companies and 'non friends/ relatives'. Friends/ relatives are all on WhatsApp which of course is free mobile to mobile.
https://account.viber.com/en/call-united-kingdom

4 hours ago, Blumpie said:

Are foreigners doing this?  

Certainly not...it's only Thais who can be deported????

9 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

 

 

 

My best guess is that no orders have yet been placed.

 

Yes, negotiations have been on-going with a gaggle of parties:

 

Private hospital networks

the PHA

The GPO

Zuellig

Moderna

 

 

No one can pony up the cash, hence the bake-sale approach.

 

Once enough orders have been booked, and paid for, ~ 15 July? Then maybe an order can be placed.

 

Not sure 1 October is reasonable now.

 

 

This has got fornicatii clustericus written all over it. It will be messy.

 

 

 

 

Your Latin made me chuckle. Nice one, well done.

4 hours ago, Moonfire said:

Daily cases of Covid increasing. 

 

Doctors are going on the record against opening and continued lockdown.

 

The India killer Delta variant Covid has been found in Thailand:

The variant, first identified in India, is the most contagious yet and, among those not yet vaccinated, may trigger serious illness in more people than other variants do, say scientists tracking the spread of infection.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40002327

The fast-spreading Delta variant will become the dominant strain of Covid-19 in Thailand within four months, a leading virologist warned on Tuesday.

 

Thailand is about to open up.

 

The perfect storm! 

 

 

 

 

UK Govt stats appear to disagree with what the 'scientists tracking the spread of the infection' say MAY happen.
 

2 minutes ago, Susco said:

 

There seems to be a lot more beyond your grasp than mine.

 

I know you like to talk in percentages, so here is one for you.

 

0.4% of NON vaccinated people in the world has died from or with covid.

 

 

 

 

Big difference between 'with' or 'from', surely.

24 minutes ago, lks7689 said:

I agree. But looks like breakthrough cases are increasing so I guess booster shots are a given now. 

Yesssss, just what Bill's been after. A rolling income stream, forever.

3 hours ago, scoupeo said:

enough of this propaganda ! only weak and unhealthy people die, so why force anyone to inject a sshhiittt vaccine ? I am not a guinea-pig !

Speaking of guinea pigs.......On my walk this morning I heard two rats talking. One asked 'Have you had your 'jab' yet?' The other replied, 'No, I'm waiting until they finish the human trials'.