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I'm safe, I never get invited to orgies.

Right, this is from fantasists, gun fondlers. I would like to see the average angry gun owner try and take on Seal Team 6.

I don't know about needing a vaccine, that's why I asked "Is it needed?". I saw a video of someone who had it and had terrible sores on face, neck, chest - I definitely don't want that.

Is monkeypox vaccination available in Thailand? Is it needed? In the US very restrictive eligibility.

'The site onwardflights.com has been "suspended" ' Seems to be accessible now.

Coffee?

Wow, that bugs you? I can't imagine that.

Actually, I have been wondering about BBC shows we get in the US. In those shows interracial couples are very common, much more common that what I think we see in the US. Does that reflect the reality in the UK?

" if your govt pension is approx $1150 or more you will get more baht in your acct if using the ACH method but as mentioned earlier only Bangkok Bank offers the ACH method which requires the special/restricted acct. But if you receive less than approx $1150 then you will be better off using the IDD method in terms of most baht in your acct." How much is the difference for greater than $1150? Is it in the less than 1% range or is it substantial?

There was no similar violent event that you can point to as a result of Obama's speech. The great Philly riot! I remember it well! Not.

Mr. Cat Stevens said it nicely.

The Boxtops "The Letter" was a little masterpiece. Oh the horn arrangements in that song. Thanks for that nugget about the length of the number one songs. Fun facts.

Talent is of course huge, essential. Some talented folks (musicians, athletes, whatever) practice hard and don't realize that for those of us without talent no amount of practice will do. But at the top level practice can give an edge, his opponents used to say about the hard-practicing Larry Bird "The more Bird practices the luckier he gets". Also Steve Nash who was an NBA great said "If every basketball player worked as hard as I did, I'd be out of a job." He was recognizing his level of talent needed hard work to stay at the top level. But you hear a lot of successful people who work hard (and have worked hard) who don't realize that without the talent that allows hard work to lead to progress, they would not have succeeded on hard work alone.

Well no, not compulsory. Even still...

Was a song by Bobby Bland in 1961, so was maybe current slang before Mr. T started saying it.

"You live in the U.S." That kind of sums it up.

"You must be the only farang who likes the music." I like Morlam and other traditional music. To me it isn't that different from western music, but I know it isn't for everybody. I guess I am sort of a world music dork, but I find a lot of different music interesting.

"There are 3 situations when Medicare may pay for certain types of health care services you get in a foreign hospital (a hospital outside the U.S.): You’re in the U.S. when you have a medical emergency, and the foreign hospital is closer than the nearest U.S. hospital that can treat your illness or injury. You’re traveling through Canada without unreasonable delay by the most direct route between Alaska and another state when a medical emergency occurs, and the Canadian hospital is closer than the nearest U.S. hospital that can treat your illness or injury. Medicare determines what qualifies as “without unreasonable delay” on a case-by-case basis. You live in the U.S. and the foreign hospital is closer to your home than the nearest U.S. hospital that can treat your medical condition, regardless of whether it’s an emergency." "Except in the limited situations described on page 1, Medicare doesn’t pay for health care services you get outside the U.S." Seems like care in Thailand is not one of these 3 situations.

I was at a beer bar off 2nd Road and an English speaking customer was complaining loudly to his pals about the beer price. A bar girl asked me "what's he saying?" I told her and her response was: "Can get at Family Mart instead." She was not being sarcastic or mean, she just felt like, "want cheaper beer? go to Family Mart" all sorted.

I was wondering, aren't Casios inexpensive watches? Maybe they have a deluxe line as well?

I gotta go with the poster who recommended the old "moderation in all things". So a little bit of exercise followed by "sitting on the sofa, drinking a beer, smoking a joint and posting on AN" is probably not so bad.

Yes, Fixx apparently ignored chest pain and other symptoms and "pushed through". Sad to die at 52 years old in any case.

First of all RIP Mr. Moorcroft. A famous case in the US of a guy who promoted running for health and fitness and died of a heart attack while running. "Running, heart disease, and the ironic death of Jim Fixx Jim Fixx was one of millions ofAmericans who started running in the 1 960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Unlike other runners, however, Fixx wrote a best-selling book about running and, ironically, died of a heart attack at the age of 52 years while running." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11926483/ As others have said, it happens. I would still guess that sitting on the couch is more dangerous all things considered.

Thank you Oprah. By the way, did you read what the OP posted? Nothing to do with the crossing of boundaries.

I was thinking that excessive tattoos used to be considered a psychiatric disorder. My thought was like pre 1950s. I googled and was surprised to find this: From 1990. "Psychiatric implications of tattoos Abstract Psychiatric disorders, such as antisocial personality disorder, drug or alcohol abuse and borderline personality disorder, are frequently associated with tattoos. Finding a tattoo on physical examination should alert the physician to the possibility of an underlying psychiatric condition." This was from "Am Fam Physician 1990 May;41(5):1481-6." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2333825/ How about from 2013: "Interactions between risky decisions, impulsiveness and smoking in young tattooed women Abstract Background: According to previous studies, one of the common problems of everyday life of persons with tattoos is risky behavior. However, direct examination of the decision making process, as well as factors which determine women's risk-taking decisions to get tattoos, have not been conducted. This study investigates whether risk taking decision-making is associated with the self-assessment impulsiveness in tattooed women." BMC Psychiatry 2013 Nov 1;13:278. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24180254/ Some doctors are reading a lot of significance into tattoos I think. Some shrinks say getting a tattoo is an indicator of "lack of foresight". This one I can see if you are only considering the foresight with respect to the tattoo. Like the example of the semi-famous American actor who got a "Keep on Trucking'" tattoo. Tattoos are like forever and what we think is cool, beautiful, or interesting today, may be less so in 5, 10, 20 years.