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12 minutes ago, connda said:

Calling this powdered milk is appalling media sensationalism. 
Highly irresponsible.

It's not the media that gave the concoction the name.  I think it's appropriate for the media to repeat that given name so that when potential users hear of it on the streets, they might make the connection with the risk because they heard about "powdered milk deaths."

7 hours ago, webfact said:

...it could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 1,650 tonnes of carbon dioxide.

Per day?  Per month?  Per year?  Per their expected useful life?

Aren't there ASQ hotels in the Pattaya area?  I guess they could be excluded, but once you start exclusions, it could be a leaky thing.

12 hours ago, Jeffr2 said:

Time for Pattaya to implement a proper mass transport system.  Worst case, some nice buses with regular routes and proper bus stops.  Kinda like what Bangkok has.

It was tried before:

Didn't last very long.  ISTR the baht bus "mafia" was instrumental in killing it?

Is there a dead body in the pool?

Pretty clean for a gas station toilet.  Even for Singapore.

8 hours ago, coops said:

'Monovision' is the term for correcting one eye for distance vision (so correct it to '20/20') and the other eye is deliberately corrected to be short sighted... It's an older and common method... and i tried it - but the issue is intermediate vision is not so good- i.e. around computer screen distance....

I didn't have any problem with intermediate vision with monovision (I had forgotten the term) so that's probably another thing to be alert for if she wants to do a trial of monovision.

On 11/14/2020 at 2:43 AM, JAS21 said:

I think dry eyes rules those out 

Sorry to come in on this so late, but I did the contact lens version of short-sighted in one eye and long-sighted in the other for a number of years, and it was no problem for me at all.  BUT, as mentioned above not everybody can adapt to that.

I know she's having problems with glasses, but if she can't experiment with contact lenses, how about getting glasses with two different lenses just long enough to see if her brain can handle the one short/one long eye method?  It would just be short term - maybe a week or so? - just to see if she can handle two different eye corrections without dizziness, headaches, eyestrain, etc.

Is the problem with glasses that they don't stay up on her nose?  If so, there are elastic bands that go behind the head to hold the glasses up.  Again, just short-term to see if the long/short-sight eye thing works for her.

12 hours ago, webfact said:

... naked from the waist down on a sofa. 

12 hours ago, webfact said:

The body was clad in only a shirt...

12 hours ago, webfact said:

Thep had taken some Viagra before going off to one of the bedrooms with a young woman. 

 

He emerged after an hour to rejoin his friends saying he was exhausted and needed to sleep

So, he had sex (with his shirt on?) then returned to the main room to see his friends while still wearing no pants?

Don't look now but:

and *possibly* after that:

Has this been a record year for tropical storm systems?

Got a chuckle out of "Trat in the East."  

Any idea on the price of the quarantine packages on Samui vs those offered in Bangkok hotels?

6 hours ago, essox essox said:

you do not know what your talling about......BUSES DO NOT STOP EVERY 20 minutes....where did you get your info from ???????????????????????????????

6 hours ago, steven100 said:

it was called the milk run in the old days .....

At least pre-Covid there were two bus routes from the Ekkamai bus station to Pattaya.

One was an "express" (my term) usually (but not always) with a stop at a small bus terminal just before heading out of Bangkok, and maybe a stop or two just before, or just inside of, Pattaya.

Then there was the "milk run" bus that made stops "every 20 minutes" or so, and it took a long time to get to Pattaya.  Actually, I think the stops may have been more frequent than every 20 minutes. 

4 hours ago, YT3k72Em said:

Do you have a reference to this? It doesn't sound right. I think there is one state, Pennsylvania that on rare occasions can seek costs for care homes. But it's almost unheard of.

A friend of the family alerted me to the possibility because she knew somebody to whom it happened.  It was in California, but my mother recently died in Nevada, so we're not sure if it applies to us or not.  I think this may be what she was referencing.  It seems to be an article from 2014, so not sure if it's currently true or not:

Close to 30 states have what's known as "filial responsibility" statutes. Those require adult children to pay for a deceased parent's unpaid medical debts, such as those to hospitals or nursing homes, when the estate cannot.

source:  https://money.cnn.com/2014/06/19/pf/inherited-debt-adult-children/

It looks like the original roof was slanted toward the rear to channel off the rain away from passengers.  The new (lower) roof has a nice downward curve at the front to channel rain into an nice line of dripping water which passengers will pass through?

And, in the "civilized world," I just found out that in most U.S. states, adult children are personally liable for any and all unpaid medical bills from a deceased parent -- not limited by the amount of assets in the parent's estate.  Apparently those are used first, and then the personal assets of the children are pursued.  At least it sounds like that in Thailand heirs are clear once the assets in the deceased estate are depleted.

Isn't that a contraction, rather than an abbreviation?

1 hour ago, CLW said:

Sorry for misunderstanding.

I would like to know your or anyone favorite type of hammock.

Because there are two types.

The one just from fabric with those two narrow ends and another type with that wooden bar at the ends to keep the hammock fabric open.

It's a matter of preference and varies, I think.  I don't like he ones with the wooden bars at the top and bottom.  (a) I prefer the mesh/fabric to mold more to my body, even toward my head and fet and (b) I tried one with wooden supports and realized sometimes I refer to lay higher in the hammock than most people, and the wood was uncomfortable.

6 hours ago, Grumpy John said:

Good of you to add a link to Google....pity it doesn't work!

Works fine for me, too.  What device are you using?

Maybe copy/paste into a browser?  <shrug>

https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Riviera+Jomtien/@12.8826,100.8839203,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x3102969e9ffc8bbf:0x9e8b8fa4a712101f!8m2!3d12.8826!4d100.886109

6 hours ago, CLW said:

What kind of hammock and where did you buy it? Thx

It's some type of macramé-looking weave and it was in the house when I rented it in Mexico.  Now that I think about it, I'm not sure where you'd get a decent one in Thailand.

This place in Mérida (where I now live) is considered to be a seller of high quality hammocks (hamacas in Spanish) and they do deliver abroad.

I would suspect the best kind for Thailand might be a free-standing one, since I don't know if wall hooks in the typical brick-and-render walls here would support a more hefty farang's body (unless you could somehow anchor it into support columns?)

1 hour ago, Gandtee said:

Where is the Riviera?????

I had to Google it, too, to find where on Jomtien Sai 2 this park was: Google map

Have you tried a hammock?  I ruptured a disk in my lower back over ten years ago and off and on have had back pain.  I lived in Mexico in 2014, and again now since February, and sleep in a hammock and haven't had a bit of back pain.

There is an art to getting out of the hammock and you have to be careful in the beginning, but now that I'm used to it, I'm sold on hammocks.

That said, I'm a huge fan of La-Z-Boy and Barcolounger recliners, too.