Farmerslife

3 minutes ago, MrJ2U said:

Welcome back to Thailand.

 

Despite closing early I bet your quite happy to be here.

 

Still plenty of places to grab a drink and lots of skirt everywhere!

Thanks, but I've not been away from the country. I'm just a straw sucking esaarn yokel on a business trip to Sin City.    

Yes, it's here now.

The Sukhumvit Hospital have been in touch today to advise that I can book my vaccination from 10:00 tomorrow onwards. 

 As I have now been vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine I will be transferring the doses to someone else.

Without giving out any names, I arrived in Bangkok on Wednesday last week  and a sports bar in the soi I am staying in the Thong Lo area was open in the evenings. Beer was being served in coffee mugs ???? until 11:00 pm.  

Something must have changed because the place was shuttered over the weekend and, although open last night, it promply closed at 9:00 pm 

Has anyone informed Pol Gen Aswin Kwanmuang yet? He appears to have a different view.

I suspect some of the bars along soi 4 might open but I'm guessing the plaza will remain closed.

On global level, the price of oil has risen as producers scaled back in line with demand from a covid shrunken economy and have currently not returned to pre-covid levels. 

On a local level, migrant workers are in short supply.

Seasonally, it is a difficult, and still largely, unrewarding time to grow vegetables, the increased prices profit those further along the supply chain than the farmer.

Lastly, no one will thank me for saying it but in general terms food prices are too low. Governments, particularly China and the USA, know this which is why they heavily subsidise them. A hungry population is an discontented one, which no government wants.   

Good - glad you like them. 

Are these the "plebein blossoms" that are "a dime a dozen that you refer to?

My wife will be most offended, she is very proud of her orchids and rightly so, I feel.

I've got a vacancy to fill on our farm anytime you want it. When I finally got out here after retiring I weighed 79.8kgs now after a couple of years hard labour a mere 62.4kgs.

It certainly worked for me, I feel a lot better for it but for all I know it could be killing me ???? feels like it sometimes. 

Because they can. ????

I know, I know - patience is a virtue - but let's be honest, how many tourists intend being virtuous for their entire stay here?

The software is a bit clunky. Try uninstalling it and then download the app again and reinstall. 

I had a similar problem and this cleared it for me. Worth a try?

I don't know if they have altered the process at all but when I received my first and second doses I was not given any paperwork other than a small card stating the vaccine administered and the dates.

If you want to access the Morprom site and get your vaccine certificate you need an ID number. At the last admin desk you visit prior to being vaccinated you are given a form to present to the nurse/doctor administering the vaccine. Your ID number is on this form. 13 digits beginning 600000------. Take a pen and a scrap of paper to scribble this number down, it saves some hassle later.

Have you tried accessing it through the LINE website? 

https://line.me/en/

 The link on the website takes you into the relevant google playstore page. 

"To prevent the corruption of minors." Online porn can be (and is ) viewed by children.  A quick look at Mum or Dad's search history, saved passwords etc and that's before we even get into using a parent's credit card.

Bars, by comparison, are easily policed and require a certain amount of disposable income. 

14 minutes ago, wprime said:

It's basically a blockchain ledger system that is used to identify ownership of particular things. The decentralised nature simplifies and cheapens selling the item, particularly for cross-border sales.

 

They can also be used to record shared ownership of expensive items allowing for people to invest in very expensive items like fine art by purchasing small shares of the item. This I particularly like because it makes investments typically only available to the rich, accessible to everyone. This could really push the prices for such investments up a lot as it'll increase the pool of money seeking to buy.

 

They're also being used to represent non-physical items. These sometimes come with an income from royalties for the use of the item it represents so they can have some underlying value. Usually NFTs for non-physical items are in my opinion a scam though. I can't imagine anyone paying for an NFT representing a Shakespeare quote 50 years from now when the fad has passed.

Thank you, seriously. You have taken the trouble of attempting to explain it to someone whose grasp of these matters is non-existent. ????

A valiant effort on your part and whilst I can understand what you have written I find it difficult to relate it to the OP.  NFT was the National Film Theatre in my day, what is it now?  "Drops" is this putting something up for sale?  OMI is this another cryptocurrency?  

Sorry, stoneage man here but this is all beyond me.  ????

"If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you." 

Groucho Marx