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On 3/26/2020 at 5:23 PM, Matzzon said:

How do you consult a dictionary? Does your books talk to you?

Just for comparison, "watch the sunrise" a fairly straight forward phrase, compared to "consult a dictionary" which apparently is in common use.  Just not by you.

On 3/27/2020 at 3:15 AM, BigStar said:

No, I don't think you really did, same as with that nonsense about coughing and sneezing, as you don't even buy in that area. I do and in decades have never seen such. Shops normally provide tongs or plastic gloves or plastic bags that people use for selecting their portions, or the vendor uses them. People really don't want to walk around with raw meat & fat all over their hands.

 

However, it's an Asian custom, snowflake. If you're too delicate, then just say so rather than spout the usual lies. No doubt we'll now have a series of testimonials: picked up off the floor & put back, blah blah.

You are gonna cook it anyway right?

As far as Asian markets and things picked up off the floor:

I was in a Chinese run market in the USA with a Chinese friend, the clerk took a fish from a live fish tank for my friend.  She complained that the fish was dead.  The clerk put the fish on the floor, fish flopped around, proof of life.  My friend was satisfied and accepted the fish.

Definite cultural difference, most lao wei/falang would not accept.

9 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

With "real" digital nomads that sounds right.

But I guess there are also lots of people here who stay(ed) with a tourist visa but worked (also) for Thai companies without paying taxes.

 

Correct me if I am wrong but I guess a good part of being a digital nomad is to not pay income taxes anywhere. And that is obviously something tax authorities don't like anywhere in this word.

I do online work and I am paid in the USA and it is taxable income in the USA.  They do not know or care where I work but I have to be paid by direct deposit to a US bank.  The company is headquartered in Beijing. I don't know about others, good question.  But it seems that you gotta be paid electronically and to a bank which is in some country and where you could be taxed?

For what it's worth (there's a man with a gun over there...) so if you can trust people who study this for a living to way "We don't know...".  Seems like there is still a lot to be learned about the virus.

But, at this point, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control isn’t sure the sun or heat will affect COVID-19 the same way. CDC physician and researcher Nancy Messionnier said on Feb. 12 that "it’s premature to assume" the heat and sunlight will temper the virus. "We haven’t been through even a single year with this pathogen," she told NPR.

10 hours ago, Logosone said:

Latest from the WHO: 

 

Self-isolation won't work.

 

The key is to test and identify the carriers and the sick, then to isolate THEM. Isolating the healthy and non-carriers from the healthy totally pointless.

 

"What we really need to focus on is finding those who are sick, those who have the virus, and isolate them, find their contacts and isolate them," Mike Ryan said in an interview on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/03/22/world/europe/22reuters-health-coronavirus-who-ryan.html

If I understand Ryan correctly he is saying that lockdowns alone are not enough.

'"Once we've suppressed the transmission, we have to go after the virus. We have to take the fight to the virus," Ryan said.'

So it seems he is saying that lockdowns will suppress the transmission and then mass testing and other measures will have to be done.

Isolating healthy and non-carriers would be totally pointless if we already knew who was infected.

There is a very interesting article on the web comparing the responses of St. Louis and Philadelphia to the 1918 flu that makes a strong case for social isolation.

5 hours ago, AlexRich said:

I used the dentist in Central Mall a few years back. It wasn’t cheap but the lady knew what she was doing and did a very good job.

I am in the middle of a "rebuild" from her.  Don't have anything in Thailand to compare to, but compared to the States it has been inexpensive. Less than a year old so can't speak to durability.  

She did extraction and prep for 4 implants and placed 5 crowns in visits spread over 1 week, in the US would have been stretched over months. Zero problems so far (as expected, or maybe as hoped) work was done in October 2019.  I can't claim "best in dentist in Pattaya", how could you know that?  But seems very competent.  "Dentist at the Beach" in Central Festival.

On 3/3/2020 at 6:42 PM, geriatrickid said:

I see.  what else?

That is what passes for wit among those who have achieved youth nowadays.

Futile to search for humor in it.

5 hours ago, White Christmas13 said:

You just gave your age away ????

Heard it yesterday on Mobituaries podcast, so no.

Congrats EVENKEEL! I am still 1 year 5 months away from full retirement age.  I have been wondering how accurate is the SSA website estimated benefit.  Do any of you who have begun to receive your benefits remember if the actual benefit is close to the estimated benefit that SSA gives a person on the website?

4 hours ago, sahibji said:

baffling for such elderly couple to be involved in such a violent incidence.

I'm guessing that alcohol explains a lot.  A cop in the US once told me that almost every domestic he had ever been called on involved alcohol.  I'm sure drugs enter in a lot of cases as well.

On 2/13/2020 at 10:39 PM, bbi1 said:

That's also what I'm wondering lol

The "children of god" was most definitely a cult, Christian???  Not really sure it it was.

Very strange and ultimately an ugly cult.  I don't think too many members remain in the cult.

On 2/12/2020 at 10:19 PM, deesquared said:

What does gun rights have anything to do with a soldier rading an armory? If anything gun rights could have helped this situation. We've seen this time and time again in the US when a private citizen stops a shooting with their own weapon. 

"We've seen this time and time again in the US when a private citizen stops a shooting with their own weapon. "

Huh, I guess I missed a few of those.

On 4/7/2019 at 3:45 PM, Yme said:

Don't feed the troll

Only 1 troll?

On 4/14/2019 at 10:22 AM, Elad said:

If God created the Universe then who or what created God?? ????

Exactly.